Milford chronicle., 1928-05-18
NATIONAL NEWS OF INTEREST
TO EVERYBODY WHO READS
Written for this Paper by
FRANK p. LITSCHERIT

We are living in what the current
historians call the scientific age"
The past few generations-wh
measure only day in history
have given more to the cause of
science than all of the preceding
generations combined. 1t is no long
er good policy to say that it can't
be done. The very next day some
enterprising American or European
is apt to come along and do it.
Present achievements and those
promised in the future would almost
justify the statement that no ac-
cOmplishment in the purely material
world is impossible to man once he
has set his hand to the task.
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We are told by the Scriptures that
man was made in the image of his
Creator. We know that man was
made different from the lower ami
mails in that he alone was given the
power to improve his condition by
changing the elements around him,
to build a civilization, to create
wealth and happiness, to relieve the
sick and comfort the distressed. To
the lower orders of life these Divine
and spiritual attributes were denied.
The beasts of the field and birds of
the air would have roamed around
for countless ages without convert
ing the great forests and the prod
ucts of the mines otheir own use.
The world would have been un-
changed in its physical aspects but
for the coming of man.
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But to get back to our text: The
of the radio and the trans
of sound by waves without
the medium of wires have been so
recent that we cannot yet realize
the tremendous possibilities which
these achievements have brought not
only to the scientific but to the every
da yworld. A generation ago the
idea that a band concert in London |
might have been heard in Chicago !
would have been regarded as almost |
beyond the realms of fantastic fic- |
ion. Yet here we are, and the !
scientists tell us that we have only |
the surface of the radios
Which recalls the fact !
hat there are many men yet living
Who can remember the time when
he transmitting of the voice by wire
vas regarded as fantastic and impos-
ible.
In a recent interesting well-writ-
en- article prepared by H. P. Davis,
ice president of the Westinghouse
company, on "The History of Broad
asting in the United States" the
ritter points out the fact that no
Onger than sixty-one years ago a
'oston newspaper published the fol-
owing article: I
"a man about 46 years of age, Civ {
lg the name of Joshua Coppersmith, ;
as been arrested in New York for I
tempting to extOrt funds from ig- :
GRANT and superstitious people by ,
a device which he says {
ill convey the human voice any dis +
lnce over metallic wires so that it 3
ill be heard by the listener at the '
ther end. He calls the instrument :
telephone which is obviously in 7
ended to initiate the word 'tele- +
raph' and win the confidence of f
lose who know of the success of 7
le latter instrument without under
landing the principles on which it f
based. 2
"Well-informed people know that a
is impossible to transmit the hu- e
ian voice over wires as may be 7
1ne with dots and dashes and sig r
ais of the Morse Code, and that, a
ere it possible to do so, the thing
ould be of no practical value. The +
lthorities who apprehended this a
riminal are to be congratulated, +
nd it is hoped that his punishment 4
ill be prompt and fitting, that it f
ay serve as an example to other !
schemers who enrich f
at the expense of their
llow creatures" n
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Yet the telephone was perfected
nd now has come its younger bro
Ter, the radio, who is still an infant,
belt a lusty growing one. And the i
Id is not yet. If you see some am 4
tious youth experimenting with t
le fantastic, don't tell him it can't n
; done. Tomorrow he may fool A