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Radio Broadcast
war in Morocco, but it always wants to know whether Babe Ruth has knocked another homer and if it really is true that poor old Ty Cobb has a "charlie horse" and must quit the game.
If the moralist wished to seek a lesson from the example the preponderance of sports news over other kinds, as broadcasted in the great radio press, he might find a number of interesting suggestions. For one thing, Americans are a vigorous people, with a strong leaning to the dramatic. Since Mr. Ruth and Mr. Cobb are the very essence of our national drama, the average radio user is deeply interested in their home runs and "charlie horses."
NEWS FROM AIRPLANES
Is being forwarded by radio. Both means have been most successful in impressing the present generation with the speed with which news is gathered and disseminated. The photograph shows a radio transmitter and receiver installed aboard one of the latest types of British airplanes belonging to the British Imperial Air-ways and used in cross-channel passenger and freight flights. This is the first photograph to reach this country of the interior of the control equipment of these planes, and is one of the few good photographs in existence of an airplane interior
Another thing worth considering is the fact that sports news was the first of any kind to be sent out by radio. Baseball, football, and the prize ring lead where the serious figures of news and editorials are now beginning to follow.
It does not take much imagination to call up the day when we shall get a complete newspaper by radio read to us by a specially trained voice. Life is to be made a little simpler for the man who works all day and says he is "too tired to read the paper tonight." Before long he may have it read for him by a man who knows how, a man who will study his tastes and reactions with the skill of an actor.
Doubtless, our mentor not only will read us the news and the editorials and all about the baseball team, but maybe he will have a comic strip of his own, and we can imagine the funny little figures while he reads the captions. Then we also may expect a column of wit, written to order every day, never repeating a joke older than that one about the Irishman who carried bricks up the ladder while the man on top did the work.
Such is to be the radio newspaper of to-morrow, or something approximating this brief glimpse. Perhaps it will have a fashion column and the busy housewife can note down the sizes and descriptions of new dresses. Conceivably the cross word puzzle will be a feature if the fad lasts much longer. We could draw our own squares and spend the rest of the night happily, after the announcer gave us a few instructions. In fact, the radio newspaper may be made almost anything that the public wants. Whatever this evolution is destined to be, the radio newspaper has become an accomplished fact. And certainly there is the call now for the latest bit of news.