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Show 0 - --o j RADIO SPARKS . j In Seattle an appeal has been . broadcast to motorists for co- ' ! operation in preventing traffic accidents. t Doctor Mavconl recently stat- ed to an Interviewer that he be- f lleved radio atmospheric dis- J S turbances came from the land and not from the sea. f Radio was first installed in J China by the Germans some ten f years ago, consisting of obsolete J apparatus of a type that would i now be scorned by an American boy enthusiast. j Some of the youngsters are j getting the best of the landlord i by erecting clothesline antennae,' ' f where aerials are forbidden on 4 I the housetops. It is found that ' f even when the wire is hung with i drying clothes good results are J obtained through radio clothes- lines. The electric light socket aerial has appeared In Fiance and Is 1 becoming popular. A French en-J en-J glneer has Just turned out some i of these devices, which are he- lng purchased by the govern-! govern-! ment for distribution to the j farmers. When a steady hum is heard ! In the receivers after wiring up J a set, it may be understood that I there is an open circuit some- where. Trace out the wiring t carefully and some little fault i will present Itself. James H. Rogers, an Inventor ! of Maryland, claims that he has received radio messages from I distant stations through the j ground by simply burying a I wire. He says that not only do j radio waves travel through the I earth, but they meet with less T resistance than when going J through the air. I Hundreds of jewelers in Paris f have Installed radio sets for the J purpose of setting their clocks 4 t by Greenwich time. Heretofore ! the official time was obtained by ? telephoning the observatory. I Radio has taken Argentina by I storm. Many broadcasting sta- t J tlons have been opened and a multitude of shops for the sale of the equipment. French ma-! ma-! terial has had the call up to this j time, but the American manufac- i turers are now actively after I ( business. T A writer says, "With radio, Robinson Crusoe would have had j quite a 'Jazzy' time." We have t always thought that radio was . one of the tilings that Professor Nemo had 3,000 leagues under I the sea and that It was in daily I use on the Mysterious Island, f but that Verne failed to tell I about IL |