Evening star., 1924-01-02
IN TODAY'S SPOTLIGHT
BY PAUL y. COLLINS

I 100000. I believe the industry will
| go on for the next few years In
doubling it's volume each year.
Two years ago I made the predics,
tion that the radio industry would
be equal in q few years to the
phonograph industry, which in nor
NAL times reaches s400, 100000 year.
Today 1 say that the radio industry
will be worth within the next few
years a half billion dollars year,
lin consumers prices"
The sale Of radio vacuum tubes
in 1923 was equal. to 20 per n cent OF OF
the entire electric light business OF
America.
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| 1t is not from a commercial stand
point that radio is the most signifi-
cant, but because of its power in
irevolutionizing Observation-Disclosures
ling all the world, civilized and bar
barous. No longer will there be
Ihinterland; no longer can there be
"gentiles" of civilization, or ''barba-
rians," when all humanity speaks to
!another. The vibrating ether is go
ing to make all languages the
familiar speech of all men, and the
brotherhood of man will come into
sympathetic communion.
DAY unto day uttereth speech, ana
might unto night showeth knowledge.
There is no speech nor language
where their voice is not heard. =,
Their line is gone out through all
| the earth. and their words to the enc
| of the world"
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The softening of race prejudice
wrought by travel has long been
recognized But few can afford to
travel the world over, so national
1 ia; ell
from heart-understanding Wars
come because men do not know each
other All men do not read the daily
press, but time is coming when all
will hear the voices of the ether, ana,
hearing, will learn the Languages
they hear, as infants acquire the
lvocabularies of their environment.
| 1t is still a mooted question as 10
what effect the radio broadcasting OF
church services, music ana sermons
will have on church attendance, but,
| on the whole, opinion seems to be
that it increases the number reached
MANIFOLD, and that its decreasing g
| Of personal attendance of the habit
! ual is offset by the awakening or In
out Of touch with church influences.
| The popularizing OF hlgh-graae
music is multiplying the effect OF the
! iphonograph in bringing. classic
standards into the very slums, Tor
while Jazz" may still be called for,
the control of supply will be in the
| hands of central powers OF distribu-
ton, whose cultivated taste may be
relied upon to elevate the masses,
through cultivation of what is pure
and truly beautiful.
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The most radical effect of the radio
broadcasting will be developed dur
ing the 1924 presidential campaign,
when it is certain to substitute front
porch" campaigning, in place of the
travelling of candidates and orators,
from point to point, to address few
thousands where radio audiences or
the worth while speakers Will num-
ber millions.
There is no limit to the radio for
propaganda, when all the ether Of the
world becomes the medium. with a
circulation" of a billion and a half.
What abuses will develop? What in
| ternational complications of control
will arise? What nation or league of
republics will be mistress of the
ether?" What world wide campaigns
will be captained through wireless
commands?
Already, the wireless makes audible
the voices of microscopic creatures
invisible to the naked eye, and tunes
in on the music OF stars. Using the
immortal quotation which constituted
the first words of the Atlantic cable:
What hath God wrought"
tCopyriEht, 1928 by Paul v Collins)