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Show MORE WIRELESS OPERATORS NEEDED! Tho inestimable service which the wireless rendered in the res-1 cue of the 4Titanic" survivors is alone sufficient to immortalize ' the name of Marconi; in the confusion con-fusion and excitement of events J the daily press paid scant praise to tho greqt inventor, who already al-ready has saved, nearly 5,000 ' lives. It is very apparent, how- ever, that tho continued employ-, ment of beardless youths in tho wireless stationUof passenger liners lin-ers must cease. Positions in- ( volving so momentous responsi-; bilities are not in die nature of things fully. realized by boys in their teens.1 This is one of the; reformsjnternational conference j must secure, and should require not only examination as to wire-; less ability, but even more as to' fitness of operators. That the mere sending or receiv.ng of' wireless is anything but difficult is attested &V the thouasnds of grammar and high-school boys who arc already operating for 'pleasure, but tho qualities of mature ma-ture judgment and endurance arc a prime necessity. Moreov- ( i er, a reasonable number of At-. ilantic steamers should, when, crossing, be required to maintain unbroken attendance in the I "spark house," not fortheirown. I advantage, but to provide for the J l receiving of distress messages from other vessels. If governments should now impose upon ship stations condi-, tions which seem onerous to steamship companies, the penal- ( ty is not undeserved. Hereafter it must be Impossible for even ; the president of a steamship line to absolutely throttle the voice of wireless. Imagine a city of 2,500 souls swept with sudden disaster, with 1,800 residents dead or dying, and the mayor of the town or the president of the telegraph company controlling the one telegraph wire and withholding with-holding all details for four days! Since the above lines were written the Senate of the United States passed a bill, without discussion dis-cussion and without one dissenting dissent-ing vote, requiring two or more wireless operators on every vessel ves-sel carrying 100 or more persons crew or passengers landing at our ports. One operator to be always on duty, night or day. Other countries will doubtless soon enforce the same requirement require-ment H. H. Windsor in the July Popular Mechanics Magazine. Maga-zine. c |