The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-03-16
Telling the World by Radio
BY FREDERICK ). HAsKiN

NEW YORK CITY, March 16.-New
York is under the spell of a new fas-
cination these days. 1t has gone in
for radio phoning. Suddenly every
body has begun to talk radio, play
with radio and invite you to studio
ether-tapping parties. The once so
popular ouija board is now back
number when it comes to receiving
weird and amusing messages. Instead
the family gathers about its little ra-
dio receiving apparatus and nstens to
the varied program of music, lectures,
news dispatches and children's bed
time stories nightly broadcasted by
the large commercial radio companies.
Although this ETHEREAL entertainment
has been popular for some time, 1t is
! only within the last two or three
months that the passion for radio has
/ become acute, 100000 new receiving
sets, it is said, having been installed
| in that time Recent estimates show
| that approximately 100000 American
homes. schools, churches, halls and Of
! flee buildings are now equipped as re-
/ ceiying stations, while the federal gov
eminent has licensed more than $4,000
stations for transmitting messages of
one kind and another.
Every evening at s o'clock thou
sands of amateur radio operators,
scattered all over New York City, New
Jersey, Long Island and up through
New York state start twirling the curl
Gus knobs on top of their radio boxes:
adjusting their headpieces, and listen
ing to the loud, clear sounds of a pho
nograph record which is being played
l many miles away. They continue to
listen intensely and rapturously, not
! because they find the record so edify-
! ing Git would sound much better
played on their own phonographs) but
because it is so delightfully."- uncanny
to hear it from such distance over
| the radio-telephone.
Static Mars the Music
"Oh!" exclaimed young woman
| breathlessly, the other evening as she
sat for the first time with the receiv-
ers in her ears, "it's quite clear, and |
can even hear the scraping sound of
the record It's Caruso. He's sing
| ing Ave Maria Where is it coming
| from? Trenton? Think of that
Trenton! And he's been dead all
these months, yet here is his voice
/! singing to us and perhaps to thou
sands of others way out there in the
night. Perhaps his voice can be heard
all the way over in Italy, where he
lies buried-do you suppose so!
/ eyes" said the owner of the radio
box, perhaps it could, if sent from
one of the big broadcasting stations
81 wish the sound of the record were
not so terribly loud, though com
planned the young woman. some
times it browns out the song.
THAT is not the sound of the record
YOU hear" the owner laughed. That
is what we call old Man Static. II
sounds like frying bacon on a red-ho'
fire. doesn't it? Sometimes it's worse
than it is tonight, but it's always pref
ty bad. One of the mean features the
radio inventors have not succeeded III
overcoming
Hes finished" interrupted the
Young woman Now they're putting
something else on. A mans voice
He is giving the letters of his station
l-KG. something can't quite heal
the last letter. He's reading some
news, all about Lloyd George in Eng
land. and now it's about a rum schoon
er found off the coast of didn't gel
that. Oh. yes. he says it will be
cloudy, with easterly winds, tomorrow
Goodness, there's your friend, Static
j again-it's quite deafening. isn't it
1 All. here's some more music, but nov
they are playing two records at once
and it sounds frightful. One is JAZZ
record, and the other is Tosti's Good
bye It's all right; the jazz has stop
, ped / suppose the Goodbye sons
, ends this particular program, doesnr
i. it?"
Probably" assented the owner o
! the apparatus, taking the headpiec'
: from the young woman's head, "bu
: something else from some other quar-
ter will doubtless start up in few
minutes The broadcasting goes OF
all evening. The most interesting
thing, though, is to get on the higl