Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-06-09 | Page 42 | Radio Removes World Barriers Official Says

Radio Re Removes iov s World Barriers Official Sa Says ys Radio Is playing an important part in bringing the peoples of the world worM more closely together r and will do more moro to bring about peace and understanding than han countless treaties or leagues of nations ac according according ao- ao cording to Oscar a Getz tz I o president president president dent of the Radio company of Chicago and Atchison Kan Ran With every Improvement In methods of or communication Mr bir Getz said a n barrier between the people of different regions has been removed When men depended depend d upon couriers to carry messages days or even weeks might pass before the news of one community filtered into tho the next This was WIlS especially true in largo larg countries such as the United States As a result e each ch cl city y was little a world In Itself almost completely from front outside Influences Under such condition It was natural natural natural nat nat- ural that each community should develop Its own customs and rr m n- n ners and even Its own type typo of ol speech And because men did not know who or what their neighbors were suspicion and distrust were easily aroused and a feeling of ill m will engendered Quick methods of transportation and communication have gone far farto farto to eliminate this condition Mr Getz went on to say Today roday the radio owner In Denver turns the dials of his set and listens to a concert concert concert con con- cert In Cleveland a football game in Chicago the tIle inauguration cere cere- me ko nI n t es In I. I Washington g h I I I me n es g radio d all Il men 1 in di different t parts of the country are In the same same- things All AH of us have come cometo to realize that the fellow across the way Is not a a. whole lot lott different ti from m o ourselves and It Is Is' Is therefore more difficult to pick a quarrel with him The radio is a a. great civilizing Influence