Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-04-25
RADIO AFFECTING
GEOGRAPHY Of WORLD
Continents Being Drawn Closer
Together by Hawsers Of
Ether Waves.

A dispatch from Washington asks
''iow far In -tDudon--Bcrlin'
Tho msn In tho street and the K~oe-
farhy class answers In miles today.
ssys n bulletin of tho National Geo
graphic Society. "But In = year. or
even IN n few months. the answers
may come In quarter turns OF 1T
tie black knob"
For radio affecting geography ns
n IL affecting many other nclds. II
YOU can hear voice. and music and
even tho hum o' trar,c In the streets
of a distant city, or hear rodents
walking ncross "a piece of brown
pnpcr--ycs. aud even 1ics sliding
down the forehead of one troubled
with hurdcnsome advolrdupois on a
rweltcrlng summer day, that city
must stralghtwny lose much Of Its
rcmntcnear
Even today when radio telephony
is I, its infancy and radio tclegraphy
IN merely n slightly older brother,
America seems 60 bc shrinking rapid
~ and nations seem 20 be gravitatins
closcr together. II II as though
America and Europe and presently
tho other continents. were being tow
vd toward one another by tightening
hawscrs OF ether waves. The caps'an
points for these ethereal cables the
Krcat radio telegraph s,ations-take
On new geographic Interest.
Wave lengths are not all lnfalliblc
Index 10 the power of = radio station
nor Co its sending range. but they tn
dlcatc comparative strength az least
roughly. Tho station which OF all
those In the world now regularly uses
the longest wsv~-as. 600 meters or
approximately IL milcs-is near
bordeaux. France. II IL the Lafayette
station. built hy the United States
Navy 20 facilitate Americas part IN
The World War. and since sold 60
France
The United states Navy has the
most powerful and complete land eta
tlon Tor radio telesrsphy OF all naval
establishments. These are tho sta
tions nj Annapolis. Md; at Cavite
Philippine lslinds: Cayey. Porto
Rico; Balboa. CANA Zone: san Diego
Cal; and many others
"W the twelve longest wave sta
tions which follow Annapolis. sever
nrs I'm the United States or its terri
toricr. They are commercial station,
AT barneSst. y. j.. l6 500 meters ~
Jam~~. Long Island. 1896 Kchuku
Hawaiian islands. l6.900: and Tucker
ton. n. j. 1890. the Navy station a
tavite. 4. u and commercial sta
iions ~ New Brunswick. y. j.. l3.
coo meters. and BoliBas. Cal. 1891
meters. Tho Ave foreign stations n
this group are British station. a
- ,~ld. near Cnfort England. Is,
300 meterw. ana CArnAxvon. wal~e
400 n,stcrs: Dutch station n
lava. rs roo meter; a JsrNneee sta
tton a. fwski. 1900 meters; spd
french station .; Nantes. France. IS,
500 mssess
There are Only ss~~n other I'm
rortant lcnG distance stations uslnl
v~vse a II 900 meters or more. The,
500 m~ser; Nauen. Germany. IL.
800: lyons. France. i2.5oo; Staven
ser. Norway. 10000: Marion Mass
1850; a station on the west coast {
India, 1890; and Rome. 1900.
The United Ststes Army ha
numerous sending stations az its fort
and posts scattered over the Unite
Ststca which operate on wave length
from a Few hundred 10 1000 meter
The rossofice Department AZ II
several stations. sends on waves Il
the most pArt between 1000 and l.OC
meters long"