Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-08
HOme-Made Radio Gets
Music All OUer Sphere
Then word From Australia
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Then Word From Australia
These are the features of his corre-
sp0ndence with Japanese stations, but
Hale also has some interesting con-
firmations from Australia On Novem-
Der 18, at Melbourne, the following
letter was written to Hale:
&C. Hale, Esq, 4
BOX 687,
Douglas, Arizona, U. S. A.
Dear Sir: With reference to yotr
letter of 18th ultimo, we have pleasure
in verifying your report of reception of
this station on the night in. question,
portion of program was provided by
the Melbourne Baptist church choir.
We congratulate you on the results you
are obtaining and trust that with the
approach of winter in the northern
hemisphere conditions for long distance
receptions will improve and that you
will be able to hear more clearly.
"Any further reports you care to
send us regarding our station will be
appreciated.
yours faithfully,
M. CONDT,
"Broadcasting Company of Australia,
Ply, Ltd"
Another letter from the Sydney sta
ton of the same company carried with
it one of their eauthentic reception
stamps which Hale holds very highly
as a souvenir.
He has cards or letters also from
Adelaide, Brisbane, and other points
on the s'baby' continent.
Radio an Education
Hale says that he. finds the radio a
great Stimulant to thought and effort
and while he did not specialize in that
work when he was in the Douglas high
school from which he graduated in the
class of 1920 nor during his two years
at the state university at Tucson, he
finds no trouble in developing his set
and following along with the radio de-
veIopmett. He reads widely in the
radio magazine and gathers the latest
in their thought and has been able to
apply it to his own set. He keeps his
set in the living room of his home
which, when the writer viewed it, was
one Of the toys in evidence, the others
being more easily understood by the
1aymen for they belonged to Junior
Hale, and instead of being those in
struments which pick poetry out of
the air. they were tin choo-choo cars,
teddy bears and such.
One of the things which Hale has
discovered is that Longfellow was talk
ing in terms of truth when, in his
"Outre- -AIar'' of his Ancient Spanish
Ballads he wrote Music is the univer-
sal language of mankind.'' When he
heard the Kiyonroto song by the or
chestra in Japan he says he found it
delightful as music and but for that
musical characteristic that is present
in the compositions of the orientalS,
he would not have known but it was
by a Douglas or a Los Angeles orcheS-
ira. But when the announcer at the
close began to tell what had been
heard he knew then it was of some
oriental race, but until the announcer
doubled his turn and made it English
he still did not know it was Japanese
Hale's results in getting radio pro-
grams over his set is but hint Of
what will eventually come to the race
from radio, in the opinion of radio
fans. It recalls the stories of Jules
Verne, as do all radio achievements, as
to that matter, where the inventor, in
the fertile mind Of the imaginative
Verne, stepped to the wall, pushed al
button and thrilled his guests with
music riyalling anything they had be-
fore known. Here is an example of
what all people of Douglas may be.
doing dozen years hence getting
musical programs from the four cor
nerS of the earth
It has been the argument of states
men for years that one of the forces
that will eventually outlaw war will be
a fuller understanding of each other
by the nations of the earth. To this
end, radio appears to offer the great
est single agency of any achievement !