Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-08

in recent years. When the voice either
IN the form of an address OF in song,
or the instrumental music Of another
race is heard, understood and enjoyed,
those who hear it are apt to find
elements akin to their own nature in
it that will cause them to study the
other fellow along new and more in
innate lines Without any question
the tendency will be to standardize the
habits OF the people of all sections of
the earth.
Not long since one of the great pro-
ducerS of wearing apparel with fac
tories scattered about over the conti-
nent declared in an address while on a
visit to the southwest that Joint forces
of the radio and the moving picture
had done more to standardize and to
stabilize styles than any force that had
ever entered into the problem. He
pointed out that the radio had fore
told the coming of styles and the GUS
toms and the moving picture had
given the people the correct notion of
how the garment ought to look and
that unless the product lived up to
the model it need not be offered. He
intimated that one of the old trade
tricks was to use lines in outlying ter
ritory that could not be put over near
the centerS of population and the ones
who got them thought they were get
ting reasonably late idea but with
the coming of the two forces men,
toned 1t was no longer possible to
shift the out-of-date articles to any
+o,4ttto,vy koooY,ca fJ,o 1anro,,r nj ~, cr;YI 0f
Podunk station had passed and the
girls of Podunk and other of the So
called former backwoods sections now
know what the style DEGREES are al
most as soon as the social leader. in
the busiest of the centers know it.
There is another phase of the radio
that did not follow when the inventors
reduced music to a disc and gave peo-
pie the so-called canned music" of
the talking machine. With the radio,
the only thing that is needed as was
the case Of Verne's music, is to press
button turning the machine on and
tuning in on the proper wave length
and then all that remains is to listen
to the features offered. In a way it
is pictured in Shakespeare's words from
Tanning the ShreW" when he said:
wilt thou have music? hark! Apollo
plays
And twenty Gagged nightingales do
sing"
Then, too, the effect of the work of
the artist has become so much more
powerful because Of the radio, because
with the more general use of the radio
which is bound to come, it will become
no uncommon thing for the artist of
world fame to be heard in the humber
homes because the youth of the homes,
as all youth is bound to do, is stirred
to have its radio, even if it be only
of cheaper construction that the boys
themselves may make. And SO when
that condition has been reached, it
will be quite possible that the words
Of Pollok in his fCourse of Time will
be literally true, for he put it:
"He touched his harp and nations
heard and stood entranced."
The foregoing aspects of the radio
have been largely the entertainment
side. But it undoubtedly has a larger
field in its utility uses than even that
Of the entertainment. Take the uses
in aviation which have already been
While only one easel
stands out as positive act of bringing
rescue. to the fliers, that one estab-
fishes the feasibility of it and in its
developed state that will be one of it's
major benefits. In industry, too, It'll
will command a large place. Not many
days ago one inventor announced that
he had developed device that would
operate by certain words being spoken
and that it would not perform unless
the specific syllables were enunciated |
If that shall come to be a reality, then
the future will see vast strides in the
development of machines that will
manual labor "a condition
that none need to regret.