The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1922-03-02


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HRE you listening in?" Mol
n Then you'd better get
~ busy. Everybody's. doing
it. Put few dollars into
.sgs.fe receiving set, hitch
Ian wires to your radiator
Exg-fySA and bed springs and by
49, radlophone grab out of
h&fSNN24 the air news, the market
reports, the weather pre-
AZ vNA dictions, grand opera,
Ensit.s4 dance music, sermons,
and what not OF course,
II the radio bug bites you hard, and
you get radioitis. you can set up a
sending plant and put few things
into the air yourself. In the mean
time it'll pay you to listen in.
The wireless telephone all of n sud
den has entered a practical and in
tensely interesting field of usefulness.
incredible as it may seem, people now
adays may pick up q wireless tele-
phone outfit as nonchalantly rs they
would take the receiver from an ordi-
nary telephone instrument, and listen
to voices and sounds transmitted
through the ether over thousands of
miles of space. Out of the very air
they breathe comes the music Of far
distant orchestra. or the exhortation
of n man of God addressing his con-
gregation hundreds of miles away. 1t
is uncanny. incomprehenslble. unreal,
yet self-evident fact.
The performance that is now going
on began with the New Year.
90. s. To. S. Tin radio par
lance Everybody lsten"-followed by
the tones of a bell striking the sec
onds that marked the passing of 1921,
and the voice of minister invoking
Gods blessing on the new year fioated
through the air and into the ears of
more than $1,000 amateur radio oper-
atOrs in the vicinity of New York, at
midnight, December 81.
Now radio parties" are rapidly be-
coming the great firesIde pastime in
thousands upon thousands of Ameri-
can homes What would be more fas-
cinatlng than sitting in your own liv'
ing room while from horn in the cor
ner came the voice of the world talk.
ing to itself?
"Hello lisa this you. Roster" Tony,
the Italian chef at the largest hotel
In Avalon. Catalina island, 80 miles
or the coast of Long Beach. Cal, Is
talking to his sweetheart in Los An
geles.
'Good.a-by, Rosie murmurs the
iovelorn cook you are the one
sweet bamblnO. and il is n kiss fol-
you-smackl"
Rosie, in Los Angeles, wasn't the
only one who heard that ,resoundlne
message Of love.
In at least 10 radio receiving sta
lions in Denver, and nobody knows
how many more In other parts of the
country, laughing members of evening
radio parties heard Tony's lusty fare
| well. For weeks 1t was common ban
ter among Denver radio enthusiasts
to ask one another If they heard the
"bambino get kissed"
Popularity of these parties is spread
ing. In every city, In every vii
lage. in far-Of mountain cabins, IN
lonely desert dugouts. in isolated for
est huts, radio receiving outfits are
enabling more and more people to con
meet up with life outside.
Radio telephony extended the scope
OF the Chicago Grand Opera company
1900 miles north, east. south and
west. High up in the wings above
the stage a small instrument caught
the music and carried 1T by wire tC
the roof of the station from which
it was dispatched by radio to the
widespread audience.
Out In the little sod house on the
bleak, windswept prairie of Cohagen
Mont. lives Mike Weimer, home
steader, with his little family. Mike
is 65 long, wagoD-road miles from 1
railroad. A newspaper is like bool