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Show RADIO RECEIVING SETS JNSJALLED Beauty of Car WUI Not Be Marred by New Equipment. Motoring over smooth stretches of highway to th tun of your favorite Jass band Is dream which will be realized within th next 12 months, SI. Mayer, vie president of the American Amer-ican Motorists' association and president presi-dent of th Automobile club of Illinois, Illi-nois, predicted in Washington the other oth-er day. "A few months ago a prediction that automobile of the future will be equipped with radio receiving sets would have been considered extravagant," extrav-agant," Mr. Mayer declared. "At the present time, however, such la not th case, for already one company has announced an-nounced that It la ready to go Into the production of receiving sets specially constructed for automobile Instulla- truijairui'ieu lur auiuiuuuiiu lueiuuu- tlon. Many Uss of Radio. "The uses of radio seem to bo without with-out limit By signals, transmitted over radio waves, airplanes are dispatched, dis-patched, ships communicate with other ships and with the shore, passengers on moving railroad trains speak directly di-rectly with their homes or o dices, and policemen patrol lug large cities In moving cars ore given notice from their headquarters of the commission of crimes. These are actual accomplishments. accom-plishments. "Engineers have found a wny to shield the receiving set from the Interference In-terference of Ignition systems in automobile au-tomobile tmd airplane englues and bave also discovered a method of overcoming over-coming noliies generated by the moving mov-ing car or plane through the use of a filter. Not even the beauty of the car will suffer through the radio Installa- tion, for engineers have found that It Is possible to place tlie antenna In the roof of the car with the loud-speaker concealed In the framework of the body." Distract Driver's Attention. "Ther la one serious objection, however, to the Installation of radio receiving sets In automobiles," Vice Tresldent Mayer points out. "The driver might become engrossed In some entrancing melody or soothing lullaby and neglect his duties at the wheel. . It can hardly be expected that the Installation of radio sets In automobiles auto-mobiles will proceed unchallenged by law for this reason." |