Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-17

America, as one editor puts it, is
next door to everybody" through the
radiophone, successfully used recently
for a conversation between London
and New York. Far-reaching effects
upon international political and com.
merclal relations are foreseen by the
press generally, the Buffalo Evening
News declaring that History does
not record a development in science
that has moved as rapidly and as eff
ficiently to aid mankind in making
this world small as has radio"
One more tie among the accumula-
ton of ties binding the nations into a
single economic community has come
into being" says the Brooklyn Daily
Eagle. I'VE may we'll welcome the
advance that promises to render use
full communication between the ma
tions easier and more frequent. The
world, depleted as it is by the eco
nomic drain Of the war, looks with
eagerness to all such advances as
added means TO carry it forward on
the way to restoration"
This is not merely something at
which to marvel; it is something very
significant" observes the Lynchburg
Advance. Political conditions are
dependent upon conditions of trans
portation and communication. The re-
lations of one nation with another are
largely determined by how close one
nation lies to another, not in miles,
but in terms of the time it takes to
travel from one to the other and In
terms of the time it takes for one to
communicate with another" To the
Albany Evening News it appears that
! ''Radiotelephony may do much for the
| world; 1t may aid in stopping wars;
L. Ie 1f 20 %oII
| with one another; world conferences
may be held among conferees sepa.
rated by thousands of miles"
The Cincinnati Times.Star adds
| it's tribute to 1.-The triumph of ex-
| Fermentation and organization con-
| Quoted over a considerable period to
the end that the ether might become a
| highway of commercial communica,
| ton between the Old World and the
New Science and big business" con.
| tinues that paper, have worked to-
| gether to make the radiophone the
servant of commerce. Science and big
business, working together, will de-
velop its uses and bring its tolls nearer
! the reach of ordinary pocketbooks.
! X y X X
| Although Old Man Static, the pest
| of every radio fan. insisted on doing
I
City Journal, "the conversation across
! the seas was a success, nevertheless
From now on everybody who thinks
what he has to say is worth SIS d
minute can tell 1t to London, provided
he has the price" While the rate re-
quired is viewed as "a pretty sum for
| even a lovelorn swain to spend in
| telling a distant sweetheart how he
yearns to be at her side" the Min,
neapolis Tribune says there are many
"who can afford the price of such a
| luxury, and many other willing and
able to pay $25 a minute for a. bust
ness talk with London. 1t is not al
ways possible to distinguish a luxury
| from a necessity in a country like
ours Pointing to the fact that I'VE
now have had ships across the sea
airplanes across the sea, cablegrams
across the sea, photographs across the
sea, radio messages across the sea and
voices across the sea-" the Tribune
adds: "Metaphorically, we have lone
had hands across the sea. The one
thing that remains is to see one an
other across the sea, as we talk across
| the sea, and there are scientists bold
enough to tell us that accomplishment
| is only a matter of time"
| Described by the Binghamton Press
as zone of the greatest victories ever
achieved by the human race in its
ages.long battle for communication, .
the new world convenience is seen by
the Terre Haute Star az putting
Americans next door to everybody
while tia Paul Pioneer-Press, sug'