Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-24
United States Shy
In Matter of Friends
View of Cong. White

Lewiston, July 70 - speaking
broadly in conclusion of a talk on In
ternational issues relative to inter-
communication by wire and by radio,
Congressman Wallace Fl. White, Jr..
said to the Rotary club Friday noon
in Lewiston:
out of all my experience in for
iSen convention and conference over
this important world-matter l am
profoundly impressed by the atti-
tude of the world toward the United
States
I'VE have hardly a friend in all
the world. Look about you. To the
south, in South America we are
viewed with envy and mistrust. To
the east, the same feeling; the same
attitude toward us. To Europe u
distrust and dislike that amounts al
most to hate.
What is the cause? ] am hardly
prepared to say. | will not enter
upon a discussion of that phase of
this situation. The fact remains
And quite apart from the cause;
quite apart from the justice of that
occasion, the situation itself has
most important bearings on this ma
ilOu. lis SldlP OIL IIdu6, It's prospects
for the future"
In our trade, to bring it down to
an important matter Look to the
east and see great markets, open to
our products. The possibilities are
vast. But l believe that he have lost
that trade unless we can create a
different sentiment among those peo-
pies. We can never sell an eX-
portable surplus in those lands. We
can never sell our goods to reluct-
ant buyers. The stagnation of mar
ketS of our eXportable surplus has
most important bearing on our
mills
1T seems to me that all that
have said about intercommunication
about our proper place as signatory
to conventions of nations in the mat
ter of communication has it's relation
to this problem and that such rela-
ton is significant and vital.
1t behooves us to give serious
thought to this problem. Communica-
ton of intelligence: news; informa-
ton: knowledge of international sub
jects will affect the future of the
world. 1t behooves us to take cogni-
zance of our position. 1t behooves US
to become part and a vital part of
the coming great conference and the
convention of nations on this subject
Our undertaking above all else, is to
comport ourselves as a nation, so
that we shall gain the good will, the
cooperation and the favor of other
peoples, and thereby establish the
basis of harmony that shall work to
our welfare as a nation in all that
pertains to commerce; education; in
ternational peace and brotherhood"
Congressman White spoke for
about 80 minutes after a reception
by Rotarians that was most enthus-
iastic and impressive.
His subject was Problems of Inter-
communication by Wire and Radio.
He began with a brief resume of
Radio discoveries and their develop
ment. He said one most suggestive
thing in the opening viz: that in a
talk with Charles Steinmetz, the wiz
ard of the General Electric a few
years ago, Mr.. Steinmetz remarked
that while radio was marvellous yet,
to him, as an electrician is was not
SO remarkable that electricity could
be projected thru the air as that the
electric waves could be confined to a
single wire and sent speeding over
the face of the earth.
Radio travels 10000 miles in a
second. In lis of a second it would
travel as far as the human voice GO
ing forth on the open air would travel
in l 7hours. In 1912, after the years
that had followed radio-iDvention.
about 500 vessels on the ocean carried
radio-outflts. Even then, it was ap-