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Show OUR NEWEST MIRACLE. s'v- y- Of A few days ago we read a New York dispatch to the effect that a number of persons engaged in digging the new tunnel under the Hudson to connect New York City with Jersey City had heard a concert over a radio instrument placed in the tunnel 90 feet under the bed of the river and 1,000 feet from the opening. open-ing. Concerts were heard from broadcasting stations as far away as Pittsburgh. It was more proof that we are living in a day of modern miracles. Many of the older residents of Delta recall when the first telephone came to their atteneion. For years they had scoffed at'the idea of carrying on a conversation over an ordinary piece of wire stretched .across a distance of several hundred miles. They also remember when they laughed at the idea that a man named Edison had invented a machine that would record and then reproduce the human voice. But these same people are not scoffing and laughing at the wireless at radio. They have come to realize that few things are impossible in this day and age. Radio may never supplant the telephone, and it will never take the place of the newspaper. But it is going to become of common use in this country, in fact all over the world, and that before many years. It is going to help the newspaper in carrying carry-ing information of value into the rural districts. It is, like the telephone and the auto, going to bring the people of our farms into much closer touch with the people of our towns and cities-Radio cities-Radio has hardly scratched the surface so far, and it is almost impossible to list the many benefits that mankind is going to get out of it. So, if you find a fellow who scoffs at it, just save this little article and read it to him' in a few years. -;- The doctors can cut out your tonsils and your appendix for you tut you have to cut out your own foolishness. !i -if Two men can live together for a year and remain good friends. Why can't a man and a woman do the same thing? |