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The March of Radio
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On Thursday, December 6th, the people throughout the East and Middle West heard the President delivering his message to Congress. Country-wide reception of such an event can, of course, come about only when many stations all over our country are arranged for simultaneous transmission of one speaker's voice. But such a knitting together of the radio channels is rapidly taking place. Six stations broadcasted the President's recent message. By the use of high-quality cable and wire connection, or by inter-connecting radio channels, we shall soon have a dozen or more stations all operated by a single microphone.
The Long Arm of the Explorer
WE HAVE often stated that one of the most important services radio can perform is to help keep in touch with the rest of their race those intrepid investigators who feel, and follow, the urge to penetrate into distant and uninhabited parts of our world. We stay-at-homes can find entertainment at the theatre or the companionship of our acquaintances, for instance, and can use the wire service for communicating, but to the lonely explorer, with no wire connections and limited means of entertainment, radio is proving a great boon.
During the last month, two instances have forced us to notice this role which radio is playing. The daring engineers of the Government Geological Bureau, on their trip of exploration down the Colorado canon, many
times thought of as lost by those knowing the danger of this seldom attempted trip, informed us after they had successfully finished their long journey that radio kept them in continual touch with the ouside world. Two thousand feet down in a crack of the earth's crust, often so narrow that daylight scarcely penetrated, with the raging falls and rapids to tax to the utmost their ability and endurance, when a misstep or accident meant almost certain death, radio cheered and heartened them in the evening by bringing down into their camp, music, news, and entertainment. It is not impossible that a small transmitter might have kept them in continual communication with the outside world, in spite of the unfavorable conditions under which the transmitter would have had to work.
A still more striking instance of radio serving the explorer is seen in the MacMillan polar expedition, now ice-bound off the coast of Greenland. Instead of being cut ofT from us for a year or more, as would have been the case but for radio, this polar expedition is able to be practically in constant touch with the home land. Not only is the Bowdoin, MacMillan's ship, able to get messages from the more habitable portions of the earth, but it is able to transmit them to us with a reasonable certainty of coming through. Recently MacMillan actually dedicated, with his own voice, the new home of the Chicago Yacht Club, of which he is a member. From a microphone on board his ice-bound boat, his voice was able to leap across the vast spans of ice and
GRAND OPERA IN THE MEADOWS
This car of Lloyd's Sunday News, equipped with a receiver and loud speaker, brings the concerts of the British Broadcasting Company to those who would not otherwise hear them