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The pioneer
settler in his
cabin in the
desert or the
city home
with kiddies
ready for
bed, alike
are reached
by the music
from the
clouds
OULD Nero haw: burned Rome had
\x’ he been able to send the music of
his fiddle broadcast to thousands
of fellow Romans daily? \Vould not. his in-
satiable vanity have been gratified by his
worldwide audience and their praises?
Would he not baVe saved for future genera-
tions the priceless treasures and architecture
or his world capital it he had been able to
give such daily concerts?
These questions are made iinlcly by the
wonderful development of the \K'li‘i,‘lzw‘\' tole-
phono or our present (lll)'—l[l22-nnil the
vast audience of more than :1 quarter of a
million persons in the Emil-rm Stun-s ulnnn
who listen to nightly concl-rts by {lllllOLlS Cir-
tints. They are even more pregnant when
one (onsidcrs the the
wirvh-ss telephone, were it utilized by tho
twentieth century Norris—the Bulshcvlsts
will) their ideas of
vast possibilities of
destroying civilization.
All Sending Stations Licensed.
But Any One May 'Listen In
Undér our laws any one may have a. wire-
less receiving set. But only those licensed
after careful ifihestigation may have the
"sending" apparatus. That accounts, per.
haps, for unusual Governmental vigilance
tor not long ago it was rumored that agents
of Lenine and 'I‘rotzky planned a nation-
wide propaganda by wireless telephone ser-
vice. Already they send daily bulletins from
a wireless telegrmph station at Moscow, 0.
service that reaches stations in Poland. Ger.
many and even France.
Wireless telephone experts say that were
‘1 the Reds to start a wireless telephone propa-
ganda. from a ship outside the three mile
limit of our coast the Government has
means at hand to “Jam" the aerial waves so
that it would be made futile. Be that as it
may, it is safe to say that radical Speeches
delivered by wirelesS phone would find any
but receptive audiences, because the wire-
less telephone devotees are of the most pro-
gressive and intelligent types or our citizens.
most of them ourning their own homes.
The thing that wasn't possible before the
great war has been made practical to-day.
.flmuih the smoke at a thousand battles
the wireless phone service for airplane and
signal, needs has emerged on a peace basis
scattering opera, concert, and all manner
of vocal entertainment. No use shaking
your head and looking “wise" because the
wireless phone service is now on a practical
working basis and it is providing a. regular
daily program—anything from grand opera.
and grand orations to a lullaby or a fairy
tale for the children.
Need Only a Receiving Set
To Get a Varied Program
Not the least attractive feature of this
wireless program is that it does not cost: you
a cent. You Just "listen in." There is no
bill at the and o: the month charging you
oo-much-per-ear-tull. No speculators. No
collectors. No war tax.
' All you have to do to get in on this, and '
bring the opera. the plattorm and the stage
tto your home by flicking a switch, is to
provide yam-sell with a wirelesa phone re-
fitting not. A compact little case weighing
five pounds. but a complete receiving
elation in every detail andsutomatic ln.op- .
oration. It is its easy teapot-ate as s
. phonos'nph And you don't have to run he)!
3..
to wind it. The antennae'are rigged on the
root and connected with your receiving set.
Thug you can hear any feature of vocal
entertainment issued by the great “broad-
casting" station in Newark. known to radio
fans as W—J-Z. \
And that is not all by any means. Y0u get
a lot of useful. handy information by wire-
less telephone in the bargain. Every hour
of every weekday, from 11 A. M. to 8 P. M..
you get a regular news service, advance data
on what’s happening in the world.
On Tuesdays and Fridays at 7 P. M. ”10
children have a. story told to them via the
wireless telephone by an expert raconteur
{OF Juveniles that it would cost you at least
$50 to call in person. Popular science night
is on Thursdays at 7 o'clock, and the
weather man descends from the clouds with
his official forecast every day at 11. A. M.
and 5 and 10 P. M. Besides, you will‘ also
get the "official time" every day‘in the week
at 9:52 P. M., direct from the United 3mm
Naval.0bssrvaiory at Arlington if you are
anxious to have the timepieces around the
house run like clockwork.
The great wireless telephone service sta-
tion established by the Westinghouse Elec-
tric and Manufacturing Company at New-
ark has a “listening audience” or close to a
quarter or a million people, amateurs mostlY.
This enormous radiof congregation is not
confined to a few border ‘Staltea but extends
from Maine to Florida ‘and as far West-
ward as Kansas and Iowa;
Westinghouse talks have completed up to
date “broadcasting" wireless telephone ser-
vice stations at Pittsburgh :(K-DLK-A; 330
meters). at Springfield. Mass. (W—B-z. 376
meters). and at Chicago‘ s(K-Y-W. 880
meters). The normal operatingwa length
for “broadcasting" from. these stat ons is
380 meters. So that anywireles: telephone
receiver. ho miter where placed within the
January ot--the United ,Statl‘es and Canada,
can be‘certaln of; perfect connection iwith
its corresponding service-Italian, '
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“Music from the Clouds” for Those Who Can’t
., . Go tothe Opera or Theater---A nd Between the
ngs There Are Weather Reports and Speeches by Noted
Orators-«Thousanals Now Enjoy.These “Invisible
Concerts” Every Hour by Just Taking
4 Down a Receiver
Each of these "broadcasting" radio plants.
apart from the transmission equipment. has
an attractively furnished studio especially
designed for concert work where the singers
and the speakers perform. There is a com—
plete stock or musical instrumerits and de-
vices. The walls are draped in heavy cur-
ialns to eliminate the possibility 0: echo as
well as disturbing outside sound. There is
an assortment of microphones to meet the
varying needs of different forms of work—
lectures, quartets. solos. concerts, &c. This
producing studio is connected with the
transmission station on the roof by an im‘
Pomng system of interlocking light'signals
and switches. '
It has takenOabout eight years of unceu- .
ing experimental wprk and practice onythe
battlefield before the highly perfected and
practically automatic equipment of these
wireless telephone plants could be made to
work together in practical synchronisation.
Not one brain. but hundreds of diifcrent
brains attuned to the same purpose made
the wireless telephone service as practical
and only to use as the supply of water, gas
and electricity. :' '
What It Means to Live in . _
- ' 'Housc Equipped With Sci
Spend a day in a "radioiled" home! You
will and it more inspiring than tireless cook-
ers and reducingexercises. Start the week
like a respectable person and taxpayer on
a Sunday and see what you get for nothing
over the wireless. 0: course-for this 00-
casion you attach either the gratonola or.
the vocarola amplifying deVloos so that
every one in the room they bear with perfect
clarity without the use of. headgear.
SUNDAY: Well.. let's suppose they'll '
' open with an ecclesiastical piece of some
sort. . And sure enough at 8 P. ML. just- as
you were beginning togthink about the
movleo. the Rev. Strand-Go curnu out or
ppm with a sermon.— It youounit stand»
being preached“_lt-$|Ist m we switch;
' -‘ Communion. _w rhi-
then hook on again for the quartet and the
organ solo. This is followed by an mp1.
dose of sacred music. -
MONDAY: At 11 A- M., the weather
man starts his first bulletin. And every
hour tron: then on the New: Service tells
you, what the bondits or the bootleggera
are doing udtotber stairs or state. Hello!
here is a new tenor—a little orig it you
please. Monday in loan any and that's
all you get.’ omen: time at 9:52 P. M.
and goodnight.
TUESDAY: Hal we're beginning to
live. In addition to the new. And the
stock service we have on top tor in.
evening a. vocational snooker. two chumps
lug pianists. and Sophie Tucker with Mr
coon and dorky null. 82. the le. Miss
Lawmnce w tell you s. nun-in-the-moon
story at, 7 'P. . i! you have children. or
it you haven't maybe you ought to listen
anyhow. -
WEDNESDAY: About thee-sum. exo
cent for the evening when the bright lyric
soprano 0! Harriet Van Emden. or maybe
Boris Sundelius ot the Metropolitan Opera.
House will make you sit"up and listen
with a rest. -
THURSDAY: ,rou can coplaud if you
want so. but they can't hear you. tor here‘.
i. Mabel Rowland with a monologue and
Capt. Chapier making a speech on "Radio
Amateurs as Potflots"—all in addition to
the regular hourly newa service. Besides,
there‘s the popuhr science lecture. unions.
or course, you hate lectures.
‘ FRIDAY: 'Nother young 509er that
Thomas at. Edison thinks the “finest
dramatic voice in“ the United States” and
let‘s hope the mat ‘man u .uhdeeetved. or _
maybe unions May 135th
SATURDAY: ‘All. forms of news, if
wifey can’t wait ‘1‘? buy the miners. When
you come home you're likelyato got~ studs
for good in your Morris We): beanie
. nothing but popularimuuic and has; cemenr
.. "drooling. out of; the vocal-ole on that-Have»
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row York Herald. ‘3 ‘ . ’ , '
n
.. - taunt; and. counter-poise . on
changing—4nd
up a phone.
You are now posted on the kind or en-
tertainment you are facing when a modern
hostess rings you up and asks you to spend
a ‘u-adio" evening. A regular vvireléss tele-
phone concert program is furnished by the
Wuunghouse people so *4, possible to plan
your radio party in advance. These pro-
lrsml are constantly being extended andlm-
nrovsd. but even in their present shape. they
provide an astonishing amount of really on-
joyable entertainment. and much useful in-
i'ortnaUOn. '
It-one peeps into the future a bit and
. tries to visualize every home in the United
autos reached—what an audience for sim-
ultaneous appeal! Think of. the President or
or. United States making a speech direct
t0 every home ill the land! Consider the
vut'opportunities tor getting any important
.and urgent message across in the voice 0!
the. speaker. .
What 3 Wireless Receiving Set
‘ *Looks‘Liflke cud Howl: ‘Worh
A receiving set is a compact puma.
a case about the also a: a. large camera.
The outfit is o: ths~ Iimplost‘ and has
only two adjustments. You operate aislngie.
am “over a graduated dial.» “dimensions
ally you adaust the crystal demtor. That‘s
all. The machine and the central station
do the rest. -_ , , ,
No additional equipment is needed. The
set includes all
dfijer, a. variable tune. a supersensitive
crystal-i detector, a high grade set or head~
phones. .and the antenna outfit. ‘
This set will tune accurately, upward of
"500~'moters-wuve icngtirtor any central sta-
tionwithin range. It is the easiest set to
operpteend is muchJavdred by amateurs.
. These radio econ-sis aremfimarvel‘s or con-'
'gtructive ingenuity. They "consist of fins
the. root... The
aerial has four ,wires. equally; spaced. on
twenty-.800: . spreader-s. '
the essentials—a fixed con-'-
T-he' counterpoise is,
Miss May Peterson, the famous
primal dome of the Metropolitan
Opera Company, singing “Annie _
Laurie” in her studio. When she
stops another singer will take
her place, the program: always
the audience
doesn’t “buy tickets”—just picks
identical, but instead of swindtc an M
top or the mast it is mounted 2220:: twenty
feet above the root. 3
: zine complete radio transmitter is ezczosef
ili‘igetal screening and glass 3;: a blow?
holds the tube temperature at :2-3 East optic-é
Eggs value. A switchboard Ls :nslzted . '
_ transmitter. One switch corn-=3 2g
83; to the station mitrophone :1.- s;' unga—
slants and the like. Another 5m”; ~‘ .
la “39 DleUp device emploi cl
graph reproductions. .3, third :
nects it with the “concert Studio" t...
bowel-floor of the building. .
I: the great war had not been f. .33: to
suflifin overmastering extent ir. il‘e‘ Gr. 364
‘ improvements in wire. 5 ;
on guy on a tremendous scar, we might
have had to wait for another generatian rm-
9 present highly eificient ‘bmsl‘oasfms‘f
service or wireless phone equip:..r.t.
Behind that little five-pound flux of your.
receiving set looms more than a b""'\n dol-
lars in experimentation cost and ' mill
éon human lives were lost before the cons
cuts of that box could do What it Csfi 10-
day—one of the great technical mi..- .
our time.
“'1- .
Use for Explosives
' HE destruction of Vegetati“: by et-
T plosives has always been the result
~ of war. but a new phase of the sub-
ject has recently come to light—{he con-
version of explosives into fertilizt's. The
problem of disposing of the large stock.
of explosives left on the hands of tr.- bellit‘:
erent Powers at the end Offie war has been
OCOUDYlng the attention of experts in the
various countries for some time NFL 58”
a British writer. Great umlfi‘di-‘iS " f“:
compounds as trinitrotoluol are F3”
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have been buried or dumped into
as there was no possibllitiy of utilizi' E the!“
(or peace purposes on economic IinPS- TD"
enormous stocks 0! propellant enabling
and of amount and other mixtures at tri-
nitrotoluol with ammonium nitrate, how-
.- fit“ 0:
ever represented an important an” -
' unable in
nitro 'en in a form particularly vm «- _
Viewgot its application for fertilizing DU?
ass: in agriculture. _ _
P 50mg under orders from the lwdzréngzc
"fluent experiments have been car a view
by Signcr F. Gmlli 0t Turin. with ‘ sur-
to converting the ammonium nitrate 23. use
plus explosives into a form suitab 811;!“ e 0:
in agriculture. In separating the n" 8 ad-
nmmonla'rrbm the oxplmive mute: Wu-
vantage has been taken 0! the mead-per-
billty b: the former in water. A (“the ex-
contago 01- water was added to “towed to
Diosive mixture, which was then it mm!“
“and in special receptaclea. A Lone:s mus
solutmn oi nitrate of ammonia “Swan's-v
Obtained, which was separated by as then
tlon. A quantity of powdered peat “driving.
mixed With the solution. which. after “gm”.
takes the. form of a. fertilizing mGamm.
”which. has been called by Signorcompofl‘
“nitric peat." It has the follows: 188 W
tion: Water. 17.8 per cent; 83 . r cent-i
cent; nitrate of ammonia. 42.8 be mm“
organic matter. 20.6 per cent Thad; and
-'}n appearance is a blackish powtoglethfll
- contains 16.4 per cent1 of nitrogen. ”an“;
- with 0.06 per cent. of phosphorus an
, tud 1,8 per. cent. of potash.
Norwalk Chronicler