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Show THE CITIZEN made in this country have been produced in this state. Located in Salt Lake City is America's, therefore the world's, largest producer of loud speakers, and supplying more than one quarter of the worlds demand for this fundamental accessory of radio sets is the Utah Radio Products Company, founded by David Neff, President of this organization and pioneer of Utah. From a humble beginning in November of 1924, scarcely five years ago, in a small plant first situated on Pierpont avenue, this company started operation with the manufacture of the old magnetic horn type unit. Their facilities of manufacture were stressed with the output of 250 speakers a day. Today their daily production fluctuates between 3,000 and 7,000 units including about 80 of the latest developed dynamic or moving coil type loud speaker. The growth of the Utah Radio Products Company has been mete- oric. In little more than one year's existence they had become the world's largest producers of the loud speaker unit and moved to their present large plant in Sugarhouse and for a period of four years have maintained this position in the industry. Units from this factory are exported to Australia, Denmark, France, England, Germany and in fact almost ev- ery foreign nation. New Steps Now It seems quite strange, however, that one of the smallest states in the Union so far as population is concerned, should gain such prominence in an industry for which practically all raw materials must be imported. The rapid changes in radio and radio appliances have been phenomenal and still new inventions and discoveries are pushing close upon the others in the march toward perfection. The movietone or photophone have made radical changes in the motion picture industry, and yet this is merely one phase of the potentialities of the photo-electr- ic cell. Television is rapidly developing from this discovery and though it is far. too costly at present for the individuals use it is making great strides toward an economical and practical goal. Another recent invention of note is the German condenser loud speaker which has been proven in the laboratory of the Utah Radio Products Company and will practically revolutionize the loud speaker industry. Through the medium of radio today We actually are enabled to hear a tonal sound a fraction of a second before the audience attending the recital although the song must travel the width of the continent. It is the firm belief and ambition of our radio producing scions that the time is not far distant when even the human voice will reproduce over the radio more effectively than it can with direct contact. This will also be true of all classes of music. Through the radio we will be able to filter out all of the overtones and undertones that are undesirable and unpleasing to the ear, and reproduce only those tones which will charm and soothe, and vibrate in harmony without higher state of being. This will be the millenium in music. 7 DYNAMIC DOLLARS SPENT BY TOURIST BOOST PROPERTY New and dynamic dollars flow to the tills of businessmen who support community advertising, according to F. S. McGinnis, passenger traffic manager for Southern Pacific, who says that tourist travel contributes much to the prosperity of the West. The dollar spent by the tourist, McGinnis said, is a most dynamic dollar. Quickly passing into circulation, it has a greater stimulus for business than the home town dollar which has been traveling the round of the city's cash registers and purses for a period of years. Recently, to show the work a dollar does, a new greenback was put into circulation attached to which was a note asking each spender to record thereon the transaction in which it played a part. The result showed that in 14 days the dollar changed hands 27 times, five times each for salary, tobacco, cigarettes; three times for candy ; twice each for mens furnishings and shaves; and once each for automobile accessories, bacon, garters and tooth paste. When the tourist puts a dollar into circulation it is a new dollar, an addition to the communitys ready cash, and of benefit to every business through which it passes. For this reason the tourist leaves permanent benefit in every community he visits. Considering Hot Weather An extra session of Congress is to begin just as early in April as practical in order that it may be finished just as early in the summer as possible. To prevent Congress remaining in session all summer long the leaders who will fix up the programs are taking pains to prevent a general This is not so flood of legislation. hard as it may seem. The Ways and Means Committee of the House expects to report a tariff bill soon after the opening of the extra session. Also, in the early days, a farm relief measure recommended by the new President will be submitted to Congress. These two items of legislation will naturally be given preference by Congress. By the time they are considered and enacted into laws and laid before the President the boiling will do the rest sun of in closing off further Congressional labors at the National Capital. Undoubtedly the official flocks from Washington will be bound for vacation spots of the mountains and the by July. - mid-summ- er sea-sho- re Punching in the Speaker Heads Suspenders and galoshes have come back. Next thing in order will be the old reliable moustache cup. I |