Show radio Is greatest modern miracle by CALEB JOHNSON when you stop to think of it the most wonderful thing in the world radio communication young folks of today have grown up among so many modem miracles that they dont realize what the world was like only a few years ago before there was any such thing as electric lights and telephones end and phonographs and motion pictures and automobiles and airplanes and radio I 1 have seen all or of these things come com about in my own lifetime and to me the most miraculous of all of them is radio it Is literally true that there Is no place the human being can go and no not keep in touch with the rest of the world if he so BO desires few people outside of technical experts realla realise the strides stride a that have been made in the last two or three years in the so called short wave a ave radio broadcasting there la is literally no distance that cannot be spanned by the short waves tor for they completely around the earth without difficulty at all the radio short are not affected by atmospheric conditions to anything like the extent longer waves are and ingenious have been devised whereby short waves are picked up by radio stations consented dented into long waves and rebroadcast by the use of short waves any airplane can be equipped so that its and passengers can talk readily with earths surface receive communications weather reports and navigating instructions or listen to the few stations which are using short waves that purpose successful comma ni cation between submarines at the bottom of ocean and ships on the surface or points has been accomplished by ot of short waves the last application 0 the short wave broadcasting Is the accomplished a few days ago by the columbia broadcasting system in out a complete radio program of entertainment from a moving train of baltimore and ohio railroad I 1 was of the passengers on that special and have seldom beldom been present at anything more interesting it was barly interesting because of the possibilities bill which it opened up A good many years ago before the word radio was in use and before the human voice had ever been carried over the ether waves in other words when the words wireless telegraphy described everything that was known about this subject at that time the lackawanna rall railroad r oad tried the experiment of wireless com communication muni cation between a moving train and some ot of the stations along It with the idea that it might be possible to substitute for the telegraph wires in train dispatching the system worked pretty well under good weather conditions but the potency of the short I 1 wave had not yet been discovered so that communication was uncertain and sub I 1 eject to all sorts of interruptions moreover to operate a wireless telegraph system meant having a skilled telegraph operator on each train increasing the train crew and adding to operating expense it if it were possible to have a radio telephone system on every train with a lloud loud speaker receiving set which would always be in communication with some I 1 station along the line then train orders could be given direct to the conductor without his having to pick them up at stations and reports could be made direct from the train while still in motion of any trouble which might occur along the line and it if every passenger train I 1 were ere equipped to pick up radio broadcasts ra as so many automobiles are today passengers who find railroad travel monotonous would have something in the way 0 diversion to while away the time whether such developments and others can be brought about de depends of course on how successfully radio waves can be sent out from the moving train and picked up along the line the reception of broadcasts on a train Is a simple enough matter but the experiment which was carried out between washington and baltimore was to find out whether radio would work as well in the opposite direction by t the he use of short waves and it certainly worked A baltimore and ohio dining car was stripped of its tables and converted into a broadcasting studio heavy curtains were hung all around the car to absorb any echo two grand pianos were installed at one end and jack dennys twelve piece orchestra with belle baker as the vocal soloist put on a half hour short wave broadcast program the short waves were picked up at a temporarily equipped receiving station at laurel maryland from which they were transmitted to station where they were automatically mati cally rebroadcast and were picked up by folks who had their receiving sets tuned in for that station as readily as it if the program was being broadcast right there in the station studio not because it was necessary but tor for the sake of 0 impressing listeners with the tact fact that the program was coming from a moving train one of the microphones was hung out ot of the car window to pick up the noise of the wheels and the shriek of the locomotives whistle when that microphone was as silenced there was little if any train noise to muffle the broadcast it was an excellent experiment in entertainment but a good many people must have wondered what was the practical value of spending th the 3 0 0 which the experiment cost I 1 asked 1 that h at q question u e of officials of the broadcasting company and of the railroad any railroad man will tell you that nothing could be more useful in rall rail load operation than some simple means s whereby the train dispatchers at junction points along the line could always talk to the conductors conduct ois of all the trains in motion said one of the railroad men it Is one thing to give instructions to a train crew and another thing to be sure that they understand them with the conductor able to talk readily to the nearest station equipped for radio reception there would never be any question as to whether he be knew just what his orders were and that Is only one of 0 the many possibilities which this opens up in railroad operation we can think of a lot of practical applications in broadcasting of the possibility lity of equipping every importantly Import important antl train in this way said one of the radio men say that the trains on which the presidential can candidates didat es will wil 1 travel this coming coining summer and tall fall are equipped tor for broadcasting so that every speech the candidate makes at way stations along the line can be broadcast over the entire nation that would be valuable and interesting it or suppose I 1 as often happens that some broadcasting I 1 star is also traveling on a theatrical circuit or Is suddenly called to hollywood ile he or she could do the dally daily stunt at the same hour every day while traveling just as well as from a fixed point we dont know yet what nhat Is going to come out of it all but anyway answay it wp was 5 an interesting demonstration of some of the newer possibilities of radio NOTICE or OF SPECIAL stockholders j MEETING OF STAR OF UTAH MIXING MINING COMPANY A special meeting ot of the stockholders ot of the star of 0 utah mining lulng company so hereby called to be held at the office ot of the company first national bank building park city utah at ten a in m on saturday y the oth da day y of april 1932 2932 for the purpose ot of considering and ratifying and confirming a contract which was entered into by authority of a resolution ot of the board of directors of th ahr star of utah mining company with arthur thomas incorporated whereby the star of utah mining company agrees to convey and transfer all of its assets to anew corporation to be organized by arthur thomas incorporated under the laws of the state of utah to consist of shares non assessable of the par value of each which new corporation po ration Is to assume all the obligations of the star of utah mining company and it will issue to the stockholders of the star of utah mining company stock ot of its company in an amount equal to the stock owned by the stockholders of this company upon the stockholders of this company delivering their stock and paying to it ten cents loc a share tor for the stock so issued the purpose being that the said new company shall take over the properties of the star 0 of utah mining company the park galena mining company and tho the mayflower mines mince corporation po ration and the columbus group and a halt hall interest in the tug of war and park city mining claims owned by chas moore and which are contiguous to the properties owned by the mining companies and the said meeting may consider such other matters pertinent to said contract as the stockholders holders may deem expedient J P r PE rE ATHERSTONE secretary ecie tary CHAS MOORE president CHAS MOORE J r T L WALDEN direct TO first publication april 1st last publication april 1932 |