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Show SHORT FLASHES The Pacific coast states claim more than 25,000 owners of receiving re-ceiving sets. Some estimate the number at 50,000. Dr. C. F. Jenkins, n Washington Washing-ton inventor, who holds the Cresson gold medal for originul-Ity originul-Ity In the field of Invention, Is ut work upon the transmission of moving pictures by radio. What the country will soon need is a radio census taker. "Some of our lads," says a Far Western enthusiast, "are picking pick-ing up messages from Japan." This should make any Easterner tune up. Doctor Marconi says present-day present-day radio sets will be Junk in ten years. So will be a typewriter, type-writer, an automobile and many other kinds of apparatus. The main thing Is to look out for the SPts that are Junk when you buy them. Union college, at Schenectady, N. Y., broadcast Ifs commencement commence-ment exercises, including the inusic of the graduation ball and baccalaureate sermon. The comments com-ments of the graduating class ! nfler the haccalaureale sermon, j however, were omitted. ! Radio enthusiasts of Clove- 1 land, O., must now pay a Hivum- I fee of 50 conts. both for j lug and receiving. The y j council recently passed ;m or,. i nance requiring licensing nu, J Inspectlan of all radio slat.'j.s, I professional as well ,IS amateur' j In flint e;ty. Stories are coming in from many directions of dog.v which have become confirmed radio en-Ihusiasts. en-Ihusiasts. We should think the ideal (jog would he n setter who curries his tail high for one pole of an antenna. We wonder how tlie cat's whiskers In the set nf. j fects the canine fan. |