The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-03-16

the use of wired wireless. Anyone
can now file message at better
rates any day in the week by calling
the New York office OF Radio cor
poration by telephone, and have 1T
delivered in London or Paris the FOL
lowing Monday at the extremely low
rate of six cents per word. You can
send one or a thousand words with
out limitation.
"The next possibility in Trans
Oceanic communication lies in the
direction of Radio Telephony. AL
ready the human voice has been sent
across the Atlantic and Pacific ocean.
At present experiments are being
carried on by the American Tele--
phone and Telegraph company and
the Radio corporations and predict
that within two years, possibly less.
you can pick up your telephone and
hurl your voice across the Atlantic
by way Of the wire system to New
York, thence by wireless to the Eur
opean shore, connecting again with
the wire system to the party you
wish to speak to.
"I approach the subject with the
feeling that perhaps I can tell you
little that you do not know your
Fselyes. No doubt most OF you have
listened to radio broadcast from
various stations. You have heard
musical selections the bed time
stories, the church services. the i'm
portant utterances Of public men.
Radio broadcasting has quickened
the imagination of the entire country
almost overnight. and stimulated the
interest Of the entire world.
"The question now is whether its
popularity Is merely passing phe
nomenon. Is it merely source OF
entertainment or will 1t serve a pur-
pose? My answer Is that broadcast
ing Is here to stay. That 1t has OPP
ened IN an almost unlimitable source
of influence and power. I say this
without ignoring the difficulties or
interference and atmospheric condi-
lions or necessary improvements In
the apparatus. These are only Infant
troubles of a growing child. The ART
itself can no more back up than can
the telephone, the telegraph or the
railroads. Radio broadcasting has
made it possible for single voice to
reach millions Of people simultane-
ously. This power alone challenges
the Imagination"
Centralized Broadcasting
To-day we have number of, sta
tons trying to communicate at the
same time and causing interference,
but can forsee the time when in
stead of multiplicity Of broadcast
ing stations throughout the United
States there being 900 stations now
broadcasting. there will be perhaps
dozen stations centrally and stra-
logically located and being conduct
ed under such an arrangement as to
power and wave lengths that there
will be no mutual interference. These
stations will give sufficient service
to cover every City and Village and
home in the United States. Later
may come the development of one
station centrally located in the
United States, with power so great
as to project the human voice into
every home in the United States.
Such a. station may develon into the
same character OF national institu
ton. as for instance the Metropoli-
tan Opera House capable Of providing
and recording only the best opera,
the most favored musical programs,
the best chosen news, the most pop,
ular entertainment, the most valuable
educational and cultural informa-
ton.
provided with an ample number
of wave lengths SO that those at
home who wanted to listen to opera
would not be annoyed by Jazz and
vice versa.
There are no Technical .limita.
tons visible now that would make
such a service impossible.
'The time may come, 1t surely
must come when great public met
will not care to address an audience
of merely two or three thousand
people. They will say, I'VE desire to
talk to the people and we see no
need of going from city to city to re-
peat our MESSAGE all over again"
"The wonderfully power of this new
means Of communication by no
means is limited to the political and
social fields, it has spiritual posi-
bilities.
"For the first time the church has
been hrnneht to the home. thOusa-"7
of bedridden people look upon this
service as a blessing, as it makes it
possible to hear the sermons of their
particular religious denominations.
Radio For the Individual
There is still another stage OF
Radio broadcast DEVELOPMENT. Radio
you will recall was first a means Of
communication between trained men
>. L utu TdulO
tered the home through wireless
telephony serving the entire family
with entertainment It's next aDpIi.
cation will be to the individual. Soon
it will be POSSIBLE to design a small
pocket radio set. possibly in wrist
watch form, which one may carry
and reserve broadcasting. within i
reasonable distance. Successful ex-
periments have made this statement
possible. When this new service Is
added. we will have been fitted with
a new organ of sense, or rather the
old organ Of hearing shall become
enormously extended in power. Our
ears will then become more than
mere collectors Of nearby vocal
sounds.
From a physical aspect, perhaps
can summarize all I have san Of
the present and future OF Radio. a
vast system which comprehends in
slant communication between con
tinent and continent. Walton and ma
ton, shin and shore, from broadcss:-
ing station tn the home, and finally
to the individual, by comparing the
central station to a huge electric
lamp. which sheds itr rays THROUGH
out the world. For after all the cleo
from agnetic waves ~ Redo trans
mission are sort of light, Identical
with the ordinary light from the fla
ment 1T IAN incandescent lamp. ey-
cept that the wave length is much
greater
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