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Show AERIAL PATRIOTISM. "Radio is king at the present moment," says a clothing "iLpublication, admiring yet envious of the immense, business "' being done in the radio industry. "'ip "The world is listening in. The air is charged with ser-"I ser-"I mons, vaudeville jokes, songs, ragtime, arias and funny , stories. Lightning rods carry a current of fun and harmony Vf. pours down the rain chute. Honest folks stick a wet finger t-ijin the air and pull down a Joe Miller dressed in a new bib. f. "The radio craze has New York all tangled up in its own Afiring. Men rush home from business at night and fuss l; cwith divers knobs and handles in a magnificent effort to get tcin touch with folks far away. The next-door neighbor has ,e ost his attraction people are making friends beyond the fi Rockies." Ui., That is very good for New York, and for the region to p! ';he east of it, both of which have sometimes been accused of placing oblivious of all things west of the Hudson river. They oiiUre learning more about America than they ever knew be-I be-I 'ic.tore its people, their speech, their interests, their harts, lyv" The middle west and south and far west are learning r ,-ikevi.sc many things about the east that they never knew, f'tu- had forgotten. All America is listening in to all the rest f America, and being entertained, instructed and delighted oi vith what i hears. Cities a thousand miles apart are sud- 5nly drawn close together by this aerial magic. People sun-eitem' sun-eitem' ky the width of a great continent become neighbors, j :L q Is not radio really the. most patriotic thing in America )0so?y ? Is it; llot tlle greatest power for genuine national - et't't w'" be so in many other countries soon. Eventually '1 se of Y. ke more tnan that, crossing frontiers and becoming a rf for intelligent internationalism, which is the patriotism (-mankind in general, enabling nationalities and races in ' Europe and Asia to hear and understand each other as they - Jo here. v" GOLDLESS MINES, i Recent court action in New York restraining certain ;old-mining companies from further activity in Yonkers ( omes very much like the time-honored custom of locking i1, he barn door after the horse is stolen. It is likely that the ' ! articular promoters in question considered further activity !j . ,.. ocessary, anyhow, since they had cleaned up about $800,- .tl'and had vanished from public and court view, "i'.v Apparently the promoters found plenty of gold in their V'onkers mining enterprise, but it came from the savings 'rccounts and the pockets of gullible fellow citizens and not jrorn the earth. It is just one more example of how easy it .;s to throw away money if one really tries. And among the fewest holes into which loose money may be thrown are tkjnM mines and oil wells. |