Show L i The Voice Across the Sea r rBy By DR FRANK CRANE It was a significant step in progress the other da day when telephonic conversation was held between I London and New ew York It was but a short time ago when a a message was delivered by cable across the Atlantic and this was thought to be a remarkable occurrence That the human voice can be carried immediately I over so wide a space is surely an achievement of science i It was not the result of the discovery of any anyone one I man but a gradual growth or of the efforts being put forth b by the English and American telephone cpm cpm- cpm cpm- In less than an hour business to the extent of more than transacted by bankers and anda a news agency had received the first commercial radio telephone from London to New York The service is not yet perfect but the progress that has been made has been remarkable u n. n snows ne lne ume we In are as Important as any past times and that we may expect inventions invention's inventions tion's that shall alter the course of destiny at an moment The pUblisher of the New Y York r Times talked with the pu of the London Times and exchanged views The effect of this invention it is hard to estimate but it all goes along with the railroads and the electric electric elec- elec telegraph and the radio to make the world smaller To talk over the trans Atlantic requires that people peo- peo pie speak the same language and naturally England and America will be brought closer together than America and any other nation for foi they are both speaking English peoples Whatever consolidates these peoples makes maes for the peace of the world The United States are both committed corn com to a policy of peace and they are both prosperous prosperous pros pros- nations Their pacifism does not spring from feebleness but from the triumph of reason over force Whatever fends to make tl the df brances ot of the speaking English ra race e one in thought and In feelIng feel feel- lag Ing is a guarantee of security It will not be long before an inhabitant or of the coast ill Ill be able to sake take down his telephone and have the telephone girl simply plug him in to London where he can be heard distinctly The which consists of oC a little box sitting anywhere in your our house capable of picking up sounds from a distant city is in itself a marvelous invention and this adaptation of the radio to telephonic corn com comi i is no less marvelous Dr Milliken of th the California Institute of Technology recently said that there had been greater Inventions sinde 1920 than in all of the nineteenth century and this step in progress that has been recently made is a vivid Illustration of Dr Millikens Milliken's statement Copyright 1927 by McClure Newspaper S Syndicate A |