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The New York herald., 1922-06-25
By
GERTRUDE ROBINSON SMITH,
President of the American Woman 8
Association, Inc.

w IOMEN are to-day group to
wv be reckoned with in the body
polite, social and domestic.
Antagonism and prejudice which once
be self-supporting are to a wide ex-
tent overcome. Women are the first
to frankly admit that they have needed
the discipline of the business world
At the same time they have been able
means need lessen their femininity in
the best sense.
famous for getting what they want"
Women say it is their turn and in
these modern days they are beginning
TO get what they want. This last week
they have announced to the public
that they want n club house of their
own one that shall have all the adj
vantages of the most comfortable and
well appointed club for business men,
and just a little more. This is no
sudden notion or passing fancy. II
means the naturalization of the
dream and practical desires of thou
sands of women. The old reproaches
of the opposite sex that women never
pull together or accomplish harmoni
Gus group action is being disproved
again and again, perhaps nowhere
more notably than In the business
world.
These very reproaches Of men are
like the taunts of teasing brothers.
"You can't do 1t. so what's the use
of trying?" But sisters develop in
dependence under such Sibes, and
brothers. being rather nice people af-
ter ALL are pretty sure TO drawl out
bit Of commentator as success
greets their sisters. After a while their
enthusiasm over Sisters doings is huge
and they are the first ones to lend a
hand over rough places.
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
Shows That Communication
Is Not a Fair Weather Thing

On January 10. 1901, the Princesse
Clementine ran ashore in the North
Sea and her radio notified Ostend. On
February IL a Marconigram was
flashed from Nitron station. Isle OF
Wight, and the Lizard station, a asi'-
tance of 1876 miles. On December IL
and 13, Marconi standing on Signal
Hill. ST. Johns, Newfoundland. re-
ceived a series of the letter IS" from
his towers in Poldhu, Cornwall. Eng
land. In February. 1902, this italian
scientist, on board the first American
steamship to be equipped with the
wireless-the liner Philadelphia-re-
ceived readable message from the
Poldhu station up to distance of 1,551
statute miles, and clear signals over a
distance of 2,099 statute miles.
The critics were silenced. Theirs
was no further doubt about wireless
telegraphy. On December II, 1902, the
first complete readable message was
flashed across the Atlantic.
That which followed is OF such re-
cent date as to make the telling here
idle. The war may have hindered the
development of the radio a trife, but
not so much as 1t retarded growth in
other things. In 1920, you will re-
member, the great Lafayette radio
station at Bordeaux was completed by
the United States Government and
presented to France. From its peak
sprang the first radio message to be
heard around the world-a message
to the Secretary of the Navy in Wash
ington.
And now comes Marconi back TO
America to tell US that we are just
beginning 10 appreciate the possibili-
ties OF the radio. This time there are
no Scoffers
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
Messages From Ships in Distress
Caught Popular Mind

Nothing in autobiography caught
and fired popular imagination so
much as the messages from distressed
ships. It was the IS o. S." and the
&C. Q. D." OF those early days that had
singers singing songs about the new
sensation and dramatists making plays
around it. Remember the sensation
that followed the news that the mur-
derer Hawley Harvey Crippen was
apprehended on the American coast
by officials who had received the wire
less request from Scotland Yard men
on a plunging liner?
Dr. Crippen and his crime were
commonplace enough. He brutally
murdered a girl, but girls had been
murdered quite as brutally before and
have been since without attracting
half nor even hundredth the atten-
ton.
But the wireless sprang out from a
ships masthead and collared Crippen
as he landed in America. Columns of
newspaper space was devoted to that
incident alone. Masterful editorial
writer's wrote additional masterpieces.
The wireless flash that made a pris-
oner of Crippen znade prisoners OF
every American reader. Cartoons
showing the steamship ploving tArough
heavy seas at night oear4i.E tho awful
hand of the law from which radiated
Jagged streamers of lightning added
to the imaginings of the masses. One
of those hard. relentless flashes
stretched to a rocky coast. striking
down a covering wretch whose hands
dripped red.
To be sure, that occurred relatively
recently. But ii infamed the ready
imagination almost as much as the
rescues at sea. via wireless, did. So
far as the available records disclose,
the first threatened marine disaster
to be averted by wireless came to pass
in 1899. 1t was on March g. The
steamship r. F. Matthews ran into
the East Goodwin Lightship off the
British coast. The Matthew was not
| far off shore. 1t had been equipped
with wireless. Before it foundered
boats from the life saving station took
off the crew and passengers.
But it was the sinking of the steam
ship Republic, rammed by the steam
| ship Florida. in January, 1909, off
Nantucket Lightship, that caused the
/ American public to arise to real
appreciation of the wireless as a life
| saving device. The crash came al
night. Wireless Operator John F.
Binns was manning the radio key on
\ the Republic. There were 1900 per-
sons on the Republic. In the station
at Siasconset on Nantucket Island sa,
another operator. Jack Irwin. The
stricken Republic began to founder
and Binns began cracking forth the
/ &C. Q. D." that figuratively was
1 heard around the world.
He stuck to tis key, swapping his
call for help-"I am in distress;
want help" until help came and the
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
Business Woman States
Some of Present DISADVANTAGES

II have tried all the ways of living
that are possible in New York with
my income" she writes Cheap
boarding houses, rooms where I cooked
all my meals and rooms where was
not allowed TO cook at ALL but must
cat in a restaurant.
My Office hours are from Q to :.
! reach home about 5 30 and am free
for the remainder OF the afternoon
and evening. New York Is fun OF
stimulating opp 7rtunities but mostly
they cost money Life soon becomes
very dreary--loneliness in crowd is
a special thing which / hope you'll
never know--sleep. work and food and
not much else and grew more and
more unhappy and depressed Soon I
realized that my total lack Of com
panionship and social intercourse of
any sort was one great cause Of my
discomfort and / tried to make ac-
quaintances But how to do II was
problem.
AT the Office my fellow workers
were nice. but they were mostly men,
and did not like the idea of meet
ing them on the street corners and
having no place to go aftcrward but
the movies or a dance hall. and. of
course. ] could not entertain them in
my room No matter how I tried 10
make the bedroom look like r sitting
room by putting q shawl over the bed
1T still looked like what IL was. and
anyway respectable landladies object
to their tenants taking man to their
rooms. The women at the Office hap
pened to live in Brooklyn. and al
though we occasionally met outside
the office we had little in common ex-
cept business. I longed for friends.
and having the standard Of a small
town, naturally expected to make
friends through my church. ! am a
Protestant and the denomination OF
which / am a member has not de-
veloped the soclability side Of its work.
In the country towns every stranger
is welcomed and put into any church
work she'll take.
II went regularly to church, usually
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
Grit Woman First Revealed
Is Still "On Tap

Grit is admired wherever it is seen.
The business woman has shown grit.
At last she has reached the point
where she is no longer fighting her
way step by step against prejudice,
unfair preference against her, refusal
20 take her interest in business seri-
ously. and the most vexatious cry of
oil. "Unwomanly!
Experience has taught her that she
Is respected in proportion as she shows
eef-respect. To-day the business
woman Is asserting her standards,
The New York herald., 1922-06-25

a great need" A girl in Manhattan
writes that she has been looking for
just such club for a long, long time,
and adds: II know of hundreds of
girls to whom IT will be a godsend."
Others indorse the club whole heart
edly, not because they themselves
have an immediate need of it, but be-
cause thev realize how greatly it will
benefit great numbers of other women.
One letter gives a colorful picture Of
a young woman who longs for the
companionship and pleasant surround
ings that gives life its rightful rosy
tinge. Coming from small town ir
Connecticut, where her father held
salaried position in a bank and her
mother taught in the local school, the
writer plunged bravely into the busi-
ness whirl of New York and soon OBJ
tanned a position as stenographer,
working up from SIS week to $40.
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
w THEN Guglielmo Marconi told
IA tha n-nrld In nacnna her

w ts. '1Sas''' Tor'a in DsssnSsr:
1901, that he had snapped
the letter several times from Pold-
hu, Cornwall. England. to st. Johns,
Newfoundland, there was a consider
able number of folks on both sides of
the Atlantic who said that success had
turned the young Italians head.
They said that they had accepted
willingly enough the stories of his
previous experiments and triumphs.
In 1895 Mr.. Marconi and Sir William
Preece snapped electric vibrations
across a stretch Of a mile and a half
A year later Marconi showed the King
of Italy how to maintain wireless
communication with a warship ten
miles off shore. In 1899 he was
brought to America by THE NEW York
HERALD and with his wireless teleg-
raphy reported for this newspaper the
international yacht races. In the
same year he demonstrated the prac-
ticability of maintaining wireless
liaison between battleships nearly 100
miles apart.
Many Scientists at First
Doubted Marconi's Success
People were willing having been
forced. to accept all these things as
fact. Moreover. they had conceded
that Guglielmo Marconi was almost as
remarkable in the way of men as
radio communication Git was always
referred to as wireless in those days)
was as q scientific development. But
they baked when he told them he had
Tipped the equivalent of a message
right across the Atlantic Ocean, 500
miles, TO be exact.
That was twenty-one years ago.
To-day in the United States about
$4,000 boys and girls of high school
age are spending their spare time
dashing and dotting and speaking per-
sonal messages from their homes to
homes in Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Mem
phis, Chicago. San Francisco and so
on and on.
Time was-a mere ten years ago
when the painfully proud father was
wont to reSale other city bound COM
muters each morning with this:
Great kid, that boy of mine! Only
years old. b'gosh, and this morning
he says to me"
But to-day that father whose twelve
year-old offspring has not within the
preceding twelve hours discovered
something new about static elimina-
ton, impedance. inductance, audio fire.
quencies or cascade amplification
maintains an ashamed silence while
his fellow suburbanites hold forth with
vulgar pride in Willie's and Georgie's s.
miracles with home made grid leaks,
crystal detectors, choke coils and
transformers.
To-day the romance of the radio is
but an Introductory paragraph to the
story to-morrows historian will tell.
If you would care to get a suitable
perspective upon yourself and come
upon the knowledge of your real, ma
terial value in the scheme of the uni
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
IS SUPREME ROMANCE HEADS GREAT INVENTIONS

staged the first demonstration OF di-
rectional wireless, using reflectors, and
in 1897 he snapped his messages four
miles with the unerring aim of the
expert rifleman. 1t was during the
same month that Marconi went to
Spezia. Italy, and from the shore es-
Ia ablished continued wireless contact
with the warship San Martin. The dis
tance was ten miles. That set Amer
lea to talking about Marconi.
Marconi is quite candid in his state
ments that it was from America that
he received the most applause. the
greatest encouragement and the most
unfaltering support.
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
Working Out Communication
By Means of Induction

For the sake of brevity. let us pass
the important discoveries of Won Be-
zold, Henry Highton, Alexander
Graham Bell, David E. Hughes, John
Trowbridge and Willoughby Smith to
consider Thomas A. Edison, who, in
1885, with the assistance of Gilliland,
Phelps and Smith, worked out a sys-
tenn Of communication between rail-
way stations and moving trains by
means of induction and without the
use of conducting wires. Just why
Mr.. Edison did not continue his expert
ments and add practical radio teleg-
raphy to his many splendid achieve
ments remains to be told by him. Per-
haps he abandoned his wireless expert
ments in order to complete other
things. Certainly, however, he was
on the hight track. and it is acknowl-
edged by all the scientists that had he
pursued his inspiration it would have
been he and not Marconi whose name
would to-day be synonymous with
radio.
Came then with definite contribu-
tions to the science w. H. Preece, E.
A. Dolbear. Heinrich Rudolph Hertz,
who discovered the progressive propo-
cation of electromagnetic action
through space, and the Hertz resona-
tor. In 1895 Guglielmo Marconi, a
mere boy of Fl or so. appeared to make
Investigations that led him to the con-
The New York herald., 1922-06-25
Doubt and Encouragement
Could Not Dampen Mar
coni's S Jealous Search
BY WALTER A. DAVENPORT.


verse read such sketchy chronologies
as exist of the development of wireless
communication. Just to review the
statistical stuff, dry and correct and
colorless, in the radio year book is
sufficient to deflate the most gaseous
self-importauce.
There is something about radioteleg-
raphy and radiotelephony that instills
awe and even reverence. OF rourse to
the cold blooded man of science It is
nothing more than a matter of pro-
pelling and catching waves; but to
us non- scientific buffers there is
mighty and immovable mystery about
those tall. spidery towers and the un-
seen spark.
And even those cold blooded men of
science lin reality they are no more
cold blooded than the milkman) fall
victim of the mystery Regard, for
example. Sir William Crookes. whose
seemingly inspired articles in the Fort
nightly ReUieto spun the fantastic
dreams of radio that caught the imag-
ination of Guglielmo Marconi and set
him to work. Sir William Crookes
became one of the leading spiritualists.
And consider Sir Oliver Lodge, the
demonstration of the coherer receiver
Sir Oliver abandoned material science
to preach spiritualism.
OF course that Is merely incidental
to this article. The idea was to pro-
duce defense against the charge of
sentimentalism. The writer hereof
knows no more about spiritualism
than he does about radio. That should
defeat the charge propaganda"
Comprehensive Story of
Radio Yet to Be Fully Told
The comprehensive story of the radio
from it's mere suggestion back in 1927,
when Savary found that steel needle
could be magnetized by the discharge
from a Leyden jar, and 1881 when
Michael Faraday. the greatest of the
experimenting physicists, discovered
electro magnetic induction between
two entirely separate circuits, has not
been written. The principal reason
lies in the fact that the science of
radio transmission has far to 60 be-
i'it lit VI us can
be surmised. In other words, it is
an extremely unsatisfactory thing to
write the story of something that has
done nothing more than to gain a fair
start.
But it was Marconi that took the
mysteries that Savary Faraday. Lind
say, Maxwell. Hughes, Hertz, Thomp-
son. Lodge and Branly played with
and combined them with the practical
productions of Morse and Bell to create
the thing we have to-day. And before
going further 1t seems necessary to
be clear about radiotelephony. Mar
conf did little in radiotelephony. 1t
was Duddell and Poulsen who de-
veloped radiotelephony. 1t was not
until 1903 and 1904 that this offshoot
Of Marconi's work became a practical
thing. 1t is merely because OF the ex-
pense that the American business man
is not at this moment ringing up Lon
don, Paris and Berlin as he would call
Boston, Chicago and st. Louis. In a
The New York herald., 1922-06-25

year or so the cost of transatlantic
radiotelephony will be nominal.
1t is not generally known that Sam
uel +. B. Morse, the American scientist
who gave the world practical telegra-
ply. experimental with wireless teleg-
raphy in 1S42. He was able TO trans
NIT messages through water from
shore to shore of rivers. Twenty-fivN
years later London produced an eccen-
trio brilliant named James Clerk Max
well, whose biography has it that so
absorbed was he as a penniless but
persistent student that he couldn't
maintain a roof over his scientific
head.
1t tells Of Maxwell in a boarding
house where his fellow dodgers were
unimaginative shop assistants and the
like. The young man, churning with
the theory Of electro-magnetism which
he was to unfold to the Royal Society
later, thought nothing of lying awake
nights until he felt the imminence
of the solution of another Of the many
problems that fenced him from his
goal. AS though in physical pursuit
of his solution he would bound out of
bed and into the hallway. UP and
down the hallway would race the pos
sessed man and out Of their beds would
roll tke stodgy shop assistants to see
what the devil was up.
At first they insisted that Maxwell
be hustled to the asylum for the in
sane. When he explained they voted
to make it another boarding house.
From boarding house to boarding
house went Maxwell, only to take to
rushing up and down the hallway at
the most unexpected hours, in the
meantime chattering calculations and
dashing off hopeful formule on paper
They used to shy boots and bric-a-brac
at him. Naturally he couldn't dodge
everything. so it was somewhat bat
tie SCARED scientist who. in 1873, ap-
peared again before the Royal Society
with treatise on electricity and mag
netism that is still read by those who
desire sound information on the sub
ject. At that time. too. he predicted
and described the existence of the cleo
trio waves that now are used in radio
telegraphy.
The Washington herald., 1922-09-09
URGES FIREPROOF
GARAGE BUILDINGS
!. FOR PERMANENCY
Highly Combustible Con.
/. tents More Valuable
Than Structure.

Since the motor car for pleasure
and business is here to stay. and
Increasing in use as to give city
authorities much concern as TO ade-
quate thoroughfares to minimize
congestion. the housing Of such
vehicles Is also giving more and
more Of problem TO solve.
Commercial garages have become
an established form OF Investment
The private garage serves Its pur-
pose. but there are not quite enough
to go around, although builders, es-
pecially in the outlying sections
when putting up houses, make pro-
visions for the housing of the cars
of the future occupants.
The larger side OF the question
is the business end Of motor hous-
ing. Buildings of this occupancy.
as is pointed out in the current
issue of Building. Management. II
they are to be successful from the
financial standpoint, must be built
Of a high order Of fireproof con-
struction. Otherwise the owner is
likely to find himself put out of
business overnight because q the
highly combustible nature of the
contents.
II usually is the case with garage
The Washington herald., 1922-09-09

ings, which has pleased many
housewives is the big, square floor
plan. with windows on two sides
and buffers pantry and closets on
the remaining two sides.
The walls are finished in a warm
buff enamel which may be washed
with soap and water. and which is
very cheerful, and the woodwork
Is the natural wood well .varnished.
The floor covering is a blue apd
buff linoleum. and the chairs and
tables are yellow pine painted a
soft blue, Little conventionalized
sprays of buttercupse decorate the
chair tops.
A buff enameled gas or electric
range is placed rather far out in
the room under its steam canopy.
which also is painted to match
the walls. and window boxes con-
tanning parsley. mint and what
ever savory herbs may be grown
in this way stand on the window
sills.
The sink is under one of the
windows and has both a right and
left drain, and the mixing table
is under. another.
The Washington herald., 1922-09-09
D. C. REALTORS URGE BETTER
KITCHENS FOR MODERN HOMES
Square-Floor Plan Proves Popular With Many
District Housewives.

The modern constructed kitchen
is a most important asset in the
present-day home. according to
realtors of the city. The kitchen
of the noderate-priced home, the
home where the mistress Is in real
truth the housewife, is the key to
domestic happiness, say these men,
and its appointments should be
considered as carefully and with
as much regard to beauty as those
of any other room in the home.
1t is a common practice among
architects to plan the rest of the
house, and utilize any waste space
there happens to be for the kitchen.
Sometimes architects, even the
best of them, actually design the
kitchen closets and the pantry be-
fore they turn any attention to-
ward the kitchen itself. This is
beginning the house backward
The kitchen space should be the
most carefully considered part OF
the ground plan of the house if a
real home Is to be produced.
Square Floor Popular.
design for kitchen. in
Guiding color scheme and furnish
The Washington herald., 1922-09-09

standing between owner and con-
tractor develops for casual direc-
tfons frequently given by the owner
to plumbers, electricians or carpen-
ters during course of construction.
to move a faucet here or a light
socket there. The result is most
likely an extra that costs money.
You will have avoided that II your
plans are carefully made but If
changes are necessary. be sure to
follow the provisions of your con-
tract as regards extras in order to
obviate MISUNDERSTANDING
"The wise course is to select your
architect and builder with care and
then within reasonable limits trust
them to perform according TO con-
tract. Insist on getting everything
the contract calls for by all means.
but remember that the contract
works both ways. Confidence and
good temper mean a great deal in
tbs very vital process of home
building.
Foresight is the best assurance
Of satisfaction"
The Washington herald., 1922-09-09
$50, 1000 IN Sales
Noted by Morgan
Secure Exclusive Agency for
Four Bungalows on Ninth
Street Northwest.

Announcement is made by the
Morgan e. Morgan Company that IL
has secured the exclusive agency
for four attractive bungalows. To-
Gated at ssos-1o-12-l4 Ninth street
northwest. The homes were built
by Charles e. Wire. Inc.
The following salea aggregating
a total of $4,000. were reported by
the Morgan e. Morgan Company
during the past week.
For Clarissa L. Ludlum. q six
room colonial house, corner Bradley
Lane and West avenue. Chevy
Chase, Nd. the purchasers name is
withheld for the present.
For A. ]. Baker to James A. Tay-
lor large lot on West Underwood
street. Chevy Chase. Md. Mr.. Tay-
lor intends building a residence on
this lot in the near future.
For II. NJ. Broadbent. a six-room
colonial residence located at No. s
Aspen street, to Wilbur d. Osgood.
who will occupy II as his reside nee.
The purchaser was represented by
Quinter Thomas Company.