Evening star., 1924-12-31
By Consolidated Press.

by GonsoIldated Press.
Radio telephony, international
broadcasting, television and the
transmission of light, heat and power
by wireless are forecast for the COM
ing year in radio by experts who
have surveyed past and present prog
ress and attempted to appraise pros
poets for the immediate future.
1t will not be long before 1t Is pos
sible, under favorable conditions. to
connect telephone subscribers in the
United States with telephone sub
scribers in European countries. per-
hitting them to talk with each other
as they would from San Francisco to
New York, in the opinion of ]. ID.
Ellsworth. vice president of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company
Through the cooperation of the
telephone company and the Radio
Corporation of America a group of
men in New York not long ago
answered. by radio, queries sent to
them by cable from London, England,
having no broadcasting station
equipped to answer back. With in
stallation. by the British post Office
Of a 200-kilowatt radio telephone
plant at its new station at Rugby,
England, expected to be completed
within six months. the first real step
will be taken in the direction of In
ternational telephony. The success of
the experiment between these two
countries, Mr.. Ellsworth predicts, will
be followed by other countries join
ing to organize a world-W wide system.
International Brondcastfng Succeeds.
International broadcasting, too, is
proving e success, and soon there
will be some progress planned for all
the world. International broadcast
ing of concerts and speeches received
a definite impetus within the past
month when the countries which have
developed radio to any degree-the
United States. Canada, England.
France, Germany. Belgium, Spain,
italy, Australia. Argentina, Brazil,
Chile, Japan and even China-hushed
their local sending to experiment
with long-distance reception. The
programs were heard clearly by sta
tions all over the world
A new champion for a universal
language Is this sending programs
round the world, thinks Gen. ]. G..
Harbord. president of the Radio Cor
poration. who points out the need Of
a tongue which will be understood
by the people Of all nations when
tainment only. but becomes the most
important medium of our educa
tional, commercial and political life.
Serious inventors today are work.
ing on radio vision sets" which will
bring in motion picture form the
likeness of the speaker or musician
who is broadcasting simultaneously
with his work. They have been dem
onstrated as perfect In laboratory
tests, and there remains only the
commercializinG of the idea.
Light. Heat and Power Plans.
One of Americas leading set manu-
facturers Is now developing system
of transmitting light. heat and power
by radio, which he expects to have
completed in time to introduce it at
the second radio worlds fair in New
York next Fall.
Developments of the radio Industry
in the past year have been astound-
ing Radio has become the infant
prodigy of trades. Following the au
tomobile. the motion picture and the
airplane, it has taken a chief place
in public interest. 1t has worked its
way into the center Of this Nations
commercial life, and estimates arc
that the radio industry has taken
more than s350.000, 600 out of the
pockets of the Nations spenders dur
Ing the past year. and that more than
80, 900, 900 persons listened in" by ra-
dio on the election campaigns. Man
ufacturers declare that within the
next year 100000 homes will be
equipped with sets of the more ex-
pensive type.
Scope of Infant Industry.
An idea of the hold radio has taken
on the country may be gained from
the fact that there are $500 manu-
facturers4 of radio supplies, 1.2e0
wholesale distributors and jobbers.
$4,000 retail dealers, 1850 newspapers
carrying columns of radio programs
and news, 80 periodicals devotine
their pages exclusively to radio and
SO magazines carrying radio sections.
The accomplishments of radio dur
Ing the past year have been apace
with it's growth in popularity, Per-
haps the most startling of them al
from London to New York early in
November by the Radio Corporal tion
and the transmission of handwriting
only few days back. Although pho
tographs had been sent by telephone
from Cleveland to New York during
the Republican national convention
and from New York to Chicago, thf
likenesses of President Coolidge Sec
retary Hughes and others sent by
wireless across the sea was an as
founding achievement reduction
OF the time required for transmission