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The March of
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been bothered by the ship traffic would put
in three stages of tuned radio frequency, the
interference problem would unquestionably
be solved, but the expense involved for the
listeners might in the aggregate be sufficient
to buy out the Steamship Company. An
easier and more equitable solution, which we
feel sure will more likely meet with commendation
from the broadcast listeners, is for Mr.
Parnell to order his ships to use their spark
sets no more than absolutely necessary during
broadcasting hours, and we are sure from the
tone of his letter that suggestions of this kind
will be complied with as much as possible.
Interesting Things Interestingly
Said
XAAJOR GENERAL GEORGE O. SQUIER
JYl (United States Army, retired; former Chief
Signal Officer): "A world-wide net of electrical
intercommunication linking together radio, land
lines, and submarine cables in a new-born spirit of
closest cooperation must be developed to the limit
of possible usefulness, both for the needs of peace
and as a powerful agency in preventing war."
E J. ELTZ, JR. (New York; Treasurer,
- Radio Apparatus Section, Associated Manufacturers
of Electrical Supplies): "A large number
of people who have been indifferent to the appeal
of radio have just awakened with a start to find that
the art has been making great forward strides.
Moreover, radio has taken on a new artistic nature.
When broadcasting first began, there was the attractive
novelty of drawing music and speech from
the air, and just what came mattered little, but
now the main interest is in the quality of the entertainment
and the perfection of its reproduction. A
critical interest is being taken in programs, which is
brought forcibly to the attention of broadcasters
by the thousands of letters they receive each day."
ARRY
|_I L. FOSTER (travel writer, in A Gringo in
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Mariana Land) tells of hearing a radio concert in
the Honduran wilderness at the house of a mine
superintendent at Rosarie): It was as clear as though
one listened-in from New York. Out there in the
wilderness, forty miles from the nearest town, and
many hundred miles from a railway, gringo energy
had produced all the comforts of home.
"That's Vincent Lopez in the Pennsylvania
Grill,' the superintendent informed me. 'Wait
until I
get Schenectady, and we'll have a bedtime
story.'"
\A7ILLIAM M. BUTLER (United States Sena-
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' tor from Massachusetts): "Citizens who heretofore
regarded politics as an incident in the life
of the nation have now,- thanks to radio, a keener
HERBERT H.
FROST
Chicago; President, Radio Manufacturers'
Association
" By next summer, the new 'high power broadcast
stations, authorised at the recent Washington
radio conference will be in operation and they
will make it possible for the farmer to receive
his market and weather reports during daylight
hours. Heretofore, such reception has been
difficult, which kept the farmer from buying
radio. Now, probably not more than fifteen
per cent, of the American and Canadian farmers
have receiving sets.
" The best engineers in the country are of the
opinion that there will be no fundamental
changes in radio receiving equipment in the next
few years. Development in this respect is bound
to be gradual and there is no danger that a person
will secure a good set to-day and to-morrow find
it obsolete.
"Radio has ceased to be a fad. It is the
greatest source of communication since the first
language was developed."
insight and a fuller appreciation of political activities.
I have been much impressed with the political
importance of radio as illustrated during the progress
of the national conventions. I think that those of
us who listened-in must have had sober moments
when from the convention hall, the actual voices
of the delegates came to our ears as well as the disturbances
and interruptions."
HP. DAVIS (Pittsburgh, vice-president, Westinghouse
Electric and Manufacturing Company):
" International broadcasting, as I have consistently
stated in the past year, must take its place
as a regular feature of broadcast programs, and
this may come in the very near future."
/CHILDREN Sing for WBZ," says
a headline in
>-* a Boston paper. Which goes Castoria one
better. Boston Transcript.