Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 122, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 September 1925 — Page 27

At Last, We Can Attend Opera in Shirt Sleeves!

0. Francis Jenkins and his assistant, J„ \Y.. 'tuiiinaon, with lh Radio movie receiver .Jenkins invonted.

/?!/ SKA Srrrice WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—C. Francis Jenkins, famous radio inventor, will go down in history as both benefactor and malefactor of mankind. His radio-movie Invention will be the cause. Imagine one o t these inventions in your own home—and consider the probable results. Tune in and you could “attend" the opera in your shirt sleeves! Wonderful, Jenkins! But be sure and “attend” at home, or your wife may tune in on the prize fight you happen to attend in person, and see you by radio in the first row. Not so good, Jenkins.

Harmony Girls Open New Station

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Carpenter and Ingraham, the Harmony girls at radio, shown Imre, presented one of the many entertainin g features that started station WENR, at Chicago, on Its path of high poorer broadcasting. The station has been remodeled into one of 1,000 watts power. E. N. Kautuid, its owner, is shown in the inset, as he broadcast greetings to his fans.

YOUR .JOB IMSCUSSED “The Human Interest Part of Your Job,” is the title of a series of features to be presented from station WKRC on Monday and Thursday nights. A writer from the Staff of the Cincinnati Post has been assigned to cover the features iu regular newspaper style.

That’s the good and the bad of this radio-movie invention, it will keep us at home, or spy on us elsewhere. If it keeps us at home, we’ll become a race of loafers and lazybones. We may, as was suggested some years ago when automobiles first came into use, we raa;' even lose the use of our lower limbs after going to the theater, movies, opera, athletic events and other public entertainments, by just sitting in front of the radio-movie set. Compensating for this loss, we may become big-eared and bigeyed! Awful, Jenkins, awful!

GETS BOYS TO BED The Christian Brothers at St. Joseph's Academy have no trouble in getting seventy boys to bed. They put the youths to bed, giving them earphones to listen to KGO radio programs. After the boys have fallen asleep they take off the earphones.

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Radiograms

Broadcasting “direct from the stockyards” is now a daily event in Chicago. E. F. W. Alexanderson, an electrical engineer, has been working on anew horizontal polarized radio wave to eliminate static and fading. Ten examiners are now constantly employed in the United States Pat ent Office in considering and acting upon applications for further patents on improvements in the radio field. England is planning anew highpowef radio station at Winthorpe, near Skegness, on the east coast. This station, when completed, is expected to be used for communications with Australia and India. Gerald Marcuse, an amateur radio operator in Oaterham, England, says he has talked from his home with a radio operator on board the United States cruiser Seattle while the vessel was approaching Australia, virtually half way around the world. S. R. Kimball, a rancher in San Fernandino Valley, California, recently placed an order with an un dertaker in Los Angeles for a $1,200 steel coffin equipped with a radio receiving set. Kimball explained that he is convinced that the soul lingers near the body until thg_ day of judgment, and that he will be able to "hear what is going on in the world,” after he dies. Anew $8,000,000 hotel will be built in Atlantic City, N. J., with a radio in each of the 1,000 bedrooms. Esperanto has been adopted by the International Amateur Congress as the official international radio lan guage. Plans- have been completed to make the Daventry radio station in England the clearing houso for a great system of international broadcasting. Frank Stoop of Spokane, Was hr in looking for a house best suited for radio reception, searched more than a dozen neighborhoods before he found the right place. Receiving sets are to be distributed by a British missionary to natives in the South Sea Islands. Cocoanut palms, eighty to ninety feet high, are to l>e used for aerial masts. Anew insignia for United States naval ritdio electricians, until recently classified as gunners radio, in the form of "a jagged spark,” has been adopted for uniform wear. Canada has 56,063 licensed radio receiving sets. Ontario leads all the provinces with a total of 28,507. There are eighty-seven on Prince Edward Island: twenty-two in Yukon. and five in the Northwest territories. There are two microphones in the Vatican in Rome—one at the great altar where the Pope celebrates mass and another at the papal throne from which the Pope delivers the benediction. According to an American radio expert, radio may make English the language of the world. Six out of every ten music stores in the United States handle radio sets along with the musical instruments. Radio transmitting sets are to be installed on the motor lifeboats of all British liners. Within thirty miles of Chicago there are more radio stations than there are in the whole United Kingdom. One of the latest marvels of wireless is music played by a London orchestra crossing the Atlantic to Pittsburg, returning to England and heard again by the director of the orchestra standing near his bandsmen. Station WOMU is built on the rear of a passenger automobile and is sent to sporting events, where the announcer describes the race from his position a few feet from the finish line. The home of WGMU is Richmond Hill, N. Y. John P. Buckley, scientist of the ,IT. S. Bureau of Standards, has constructed a crystal radio set which he claims can be built for 60 cents. The set is principally composed of two small boards around which are wound the tuning coils. The new British radio station at Rugby has twelve masts with electric lifts to carry men to the tops in fifteen minutes. The masts are sup ported on porcelain insulators and can rock slightly on a joint at the base. In a high wind the top of the mast sways eight feet. Taxicags are now dispatched by radio in Birmingham, Ala. The Radio Corporation of America and its affiliated companies control about 2,000 radio patents. By the end of 1925 it is expected that 6,000,000 radio sets will be in use Jn the United States. An international radio exposition will be conducted at Atlantic City, N. J., during the week beginning Sept. 23. Jamaica, N. Y., has “curfew" for loudspeakers. A city ordinano* is violated if noise is loud enough to

Finds New Mental Reader

The sketches marked A were lira Until of mental tobpaUijr. The sk objects iwrtiaps attuned to the ra us tito experimenter**. I)r. Gardner shown in inset, has iteen interest By Israel Klein Moire Editor NRA Sorvlcr KNTAL telepathy has taken on a radio i&pect. Instead of dealing with this phenomenon as a psychic factor, scientists are coming to believe that the mysterious action of one mind on another is accomplished through the transmission of some sort of ether waves. The latest report of such theory is made by Ferdinando Cazzamali, professor of psychology and neurology at the University of Milan. Professor Cazzmali has formed the belief that the brain is capable of emitting certain radiographic waves which can cause a sensitive receiver, properly tuned to this wave, to whistle. He has experimented with subjects in various state of hypnotism, and others of nervous or excitable temperament. For the last, ten years scientists have been suggesting some such sort of brain activity, by means of which they tried to explain the mysteries of mental telepathy. In fact, the hypothetical rays emitted by the brain were even termed and all sorts of tests were conducted to locate them and learn their effects on sensitive instruments. Electrical Reactions The theory that nerve action and

disturb neighbors after 9 o’clock at night. Station WJZ receives more mail rom invalid persons and those afflicted with blindness than from any other class. It is estimated that 2,000,000 radio sets and parts, having a retail value of $500,000,000, will be produced iu. the United States this year. One of the smallest radio receiving sets in the world is mounted in a shirt button, five-sixteents of an inch in diameter. It is audible on a loud speaker nine feet distant. French ships with 2,000 gross tons or more, carrying fifty persons, including the crew, and ships having more than twelve passengers, must be equipped with a complete radio telegraphic installation. The new German radio station at Herzogsland, Bavaria, when comnleted, will be the most powerful broadcasting station in the world. It will use at least 100 kilowatts. The object is to have this station reach every listener in Germany using a crystal detector set. It is said that as many as 1,500 persons are engaged throughout the United States in the work of arranging radio programs for the various broadcastaing stations. During tests made in connection with the international convention of police chiefs in New York City, finger prints sent by wire from New York to Chicago 'were identified in one minute after being received by the bureau of identification of the police department. In response to the request of the department of education of the Mexicai government, the Governors of the respective States will erect radio stations which are to be used primarily for the purpose of broadcasting educational programs which are intended to reach the millions of natives who now live in ignorance in remote localities throughout the

n by scientists who tested the etelK marked B wcire drawn by dio waves broadcast by the minds Murplcy of Columbia University, od In such oxpwiimxits by radio. brain action is electrical in nature, Is almost generally accepted by tists. It is only another step belief that the process of the brain would also be the produSl of an electrical disturbance. If it could be established that thought is an electrical process in the brain, scientists would take it as merely the next step In finding a method by which this thought could be conveyed directly to other mnids, or to attuned receivers, without the aid of any of the known organs of sense. Mental telepathy Is just this, without reference to the electrical. It is the transference of thought from mind to mind without the apparent use of any of the known senses. But the theory has long been advanced that this may be the result of interaction by means of an unknown ether wave, just as it might be purely a psychic phenomenon. Fan Test Fails Professor Gardner Murphy of Columbia University. Professor Robert H. Gault of Northwestern University, and Professor 11. B. English of Antioch College have studied mental telepathy through the use of broadcasting. They made tests through Station WJAZ at Chicago and received replies from thousands of fans.

country. "The department of education has contracted for 1,000 receiving sets to be distributed to schools throughout the country. these schools will bo provided (fju a radio expert, whose duty it be to instruct pupils and other persons in the making of their own receiving sets. ltadio is recognized by British hospital authorities as a treatment for nerve cases and insomnia. WIIN, New York, is broadcasting the scores, inning by tnning, of the games played in the National, American and International Leagues. It has been proposed to organize a Nation-wide radio reserve force to the Army Air Service, made up of wireless amateurs throughout the United States. Because indoor aerials make it Impossible for the authorities to know if there are sets or not. alxmt 2,000,000 persons in England have unlicensed receivers in their homes. The Navy radio station in San Francisco now receives messages direct from the station at Cavite, in Manila Bay, Philippine Islands, twice each day. The distance is 6,221 miles, and, so far as is known, is the longest one-way radio circuit la the world. Fifty prisoners at Sing Sing, Ossining, N. Y., have installed radio receivers in their cells. There are sixty-two churches in the United States licensed to broadcast, as well as several stations operated privately by ministers and other religious organizations. TO TEST THINKING The International Broadcasting Bureau has the proposal to a world wide radio mental telepathy. By this rest, some 50,000,000 listeners would be asked to concentrate on one point at the sen e time. The effect of this thinking is sought.