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Show rogJU, , . . 1 RADIO HERE TO STAY, EXPERT BELIEVES 1 By PAUL P. (iODLEY. America's looremosl Radio kutbority, Is radio a passing craze? Broadly .speaking. . the answer to this question asked bv the thousands interested in wireless is, "No!" Any scientific development which i can lend Itself to the spread of timely intorinatlon In the way In which radio broadcasting has done, will never lose Its popularity. The greater portion of the population popula-tion of the earth is settled In Outly-lng Outly-lng districts Thesi places are totally total-ly dependent upon financial, market. Industrial and governmental centers for their dally progress It Is only natural thai they should desire up-Uy Uie-minute Information about whal going on In the rest of the world. ! Thus the dally press, the telegraph, and the tele-phone nave each con into their own as purveyors of Information, Infor-mation, Measured by the standards which broadcasting has set, all of thes. are found wanting they are too slow. ENTERTAINMENT WANTED. Furthermore, none of them enn provide pro-vide entertainment for those- who are1 isolated It Is tor this reason that tho phonograph hns proved so popular. popu-lar. Its "canned" music on nearer to providing worth -while entertainment entertain-ment for the largest group than anji other agency ever previously devised. de-vised. But the fact that it was "canned" made its loss of popularity certain as soon as some new IntproVement raiirlit be developed. This came with the ra d lophone Who would not prefer Ihe feeling that the famous artist herself even though unseen, wan performing for his particular benefit Instead of an old, cold record of her performance0 Tho phonograph is strictly an impersonal im-personal machine. The radio is th.' most fascinating appliance with which mankind has ever had to deal The annihilation of space in such an eas manner, In itself it-self is almost, uncanny while the ability abil-ity to choose that program or that station which one wills together with the ever-presenl expectation that one may at any moment pick up some station hundreds of miles away lends a fascination to radio that hns never been equaled before. SERE ti i STAY. Consider.'! Me discussion has appeared ap-peared In the newspapers and magazines maga-zines about the steps necessary to Insure a continuance of raik broadcasting. broad-casting. There seems to be an Impression Im-pression on the part of some, that the large manufacturing corporations now supplying the service gratis to say nothing of the artists themselves will soon tire of such benevolences M answer to this would be Lei them tire." Once the great public has sampled It, radio broadcui-ilng can never die. If no other way presents itself, this broadcasting Hl !"f- carried on by the muni, lpallty, tho state, or by the nation na-tion Itself no |