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Show ' RADIO FUTURE A New York City d partment stor a has just sold 350 "Western Electric receiving and broadcasting stations'' at $195 apiece. This was at a special sale. The outfits are described as "Built for the United States navy. Adopted by the United States government as standard. stand-ard. Now In successful use on government gov-ernment ships. Sets that have never been used " This sale is a hlston making event If Is the forerunner of best grade radio at a low price, j The ad offering these sets for $495 1 says "the estimated cost of produc-, produc-, ing these sets today in $1565, and : the estimate is conservative." The production cost, however, will ' bo reduced eventually. Cheap radio I of the best grade is inevitable. Renumber, Re-number, watches were almost prohibitive pro-hibitive in price to the average man until Ingeraoll set out to make them for a dollar. So were autos, until , Henry Ford put on his thinking cap. ' Another prophetic vision of radio's futuro comes from Wcllesley, Bfass., where Roger Babson business expert. I backs a movement to build a "v. ir--; less community church " j In this church, at different hours each Sunday, religious services for ! all denominations will b? conducted ' by radio. i For instance, Baptists would get j their service 10 to 11 in the morn-; morn-; Ing, then would follow hours for , Methodists, etc What Babson has iu mind is event -lually a national radio service by i which isolated communities will got the best music and the best pr EU . -Ing a ailublc. Man's greatest invention is the an I of communication. Its first form was I speech. People began coming out of their separate and individual cavee and congregated In small settlements as ; oon as they were able to trade ideas and disarm each other's suspicions sus-picions by exchanging words. Writing was the next great invention, inven-tion, enabling people to communicate over long distances, without coming face to face. Then came printing. With it. the germ of real civilization. Next was the telegraph, e volved I from the primitive . system -of com- municatlng long distances by relays of tom-toms or puffs from beacon fires. The telephone crowded close on tho ' heels of tho telegraph. Now it's radio. The next step may be mental telepathy tel-epathy n |