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RADIO BROADCAST
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ing in New York, for example, within eight hours, if you have to and hump yourself sufficiently.
On this Coast, to the contrary, four fifths of our area and probably two fifths of our people live beyond the range of easy communication. Mountain ranges, unfordable and unbridged rivers, and desert wastes intervene. You have to go around where you can't go across. If a political candidate, to take an example, wanted to communicate with every voter in the three Coast states, it would take him ten years to do it and by that time so many youngsters would have come to the voting age that some galoot in Woodland or Bellingham would probably have been elected by a plurality of thirty thousand and would have given away all the post-offices and made himself solid with the constituency and good for four terms.
Along comes radio. And I have made up my mind, since pursuing this elusive and mystic subject for the kind editor of this publication, that inside of a year there will not be a person in the Pacific Coast states who will not
have or be within easy reach of a receiving station that will give him the hot stuff just as it comes from the old griddle. 1 mean that — no less.
Taking only the matter of our mines, oil fields, and scattered ranches. To-day the men on some of these properties and places are about three weeks behind the rest of civilization — and in that length of time, as life moves to-day, you could kill off a couple of foreign potentates, divorce the country's best-known actress and marry her again, drive copper up to twelve cents or wheat down to sixty, and develop nineteen brand-new movie colony scandals in Hollywood. To-morrow — or the next day, at latest — the mine owner can order a new tunnel driven or two hundred men fired in half an hour, from his city office or club; the petroleum operator can take options at the rate of one a minute or can receive hourly reports of progress on a deep hole; the commission man can buy eggs or barley or cotton at one and the same time in Astoria, the Walker Lake reservation in Nevada, or in the heart of the Colorado
Here's a boy who has done it. George Frost, 18 years old, president of the Lane High School Radio Club, Chicago, has equipped his Ford automobile with a radio receiving set
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