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RADIO TOPICS

INVISIBLE RAY.

ROARS BY WIRELESS MENACE TO SANITY”

TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1927.

DAILY CROSS WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expèrt: but our readers, are warned to look out for 'occasional phonetic spellings, such as: harbor, plow, and altho.)

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PENETRATION OF FOG AT SEA.

CIRCUS LIONS ILLUSTRATE A STORY,

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To illustrate the story of The GAMBLING WITH HEADPHONES. Lied with a Squeaky Volca" the " massed roaring of the lions now at the Olympia Circus, Kensington.

The benefits, or otherwise, of was broadcast during the children's wireless were debated by members hour.

of the Cambridge Union on the Though some fine full-throated motion "Is the listening habit "Blue, or ultra-violet rays," he work was done there were intervals menace to the sunity of England? explained to a representative of when the chorus died into Insigni- The "House" was packed, and, the "The Observer," will hardly peno ficance. Then Hsteners could hear battle centred largely on the quality trate fog at all: yellow penetrate the voices of the trainers inciting of the ·B.B.C. programmes. it a little, and red still more, but the animals to "speak,up.” Once Speeches were full of bantering the afra-red rays are very much or twice this dramatic wireless humour. better than any.

Illustration to a story for children. Mr. R. Er Stevenson (St. John's "At the present time we are work was on the point of being "faded College), proposing the motion, ing in conjunction with experts on out" by the B.B.C engineers began by opening a copy of the lighting for the application of the having passed its climax, but the official weekly publication of the infra-red rays to lighthouses, so four-legged performers were per B.B.C. and criticising its contents. that it will be possible to signal to suaded in the nick of time to "come Brightness, vigcur, and continuity ships in times of fog. It might be up to the scratchin one sense of architecture were aimed at in possible, also, though it is clincult at least and butdo their previous the programmes, he said, but none and sometimes' unwise to prophesy, best.

of these qualities was achieved,

Appalled Nightly. " real roars difficult to guarantee every night by strings of curious Who la there who is not appalled when working to a time-schedula. tema ho asked. "Wa first hear Those at the London Zoo would Little Wille being told to look be- have been broadcast before now hind: the Beer-barrel, for his birth-

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to apply these rays, with a develop You can always rely on lions to ment of the televisor, to the penetra-grunt, cough, or growl, but the tion of fog on railroads.”

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a succession of bumps and jars as "Then in alleged music we hear if someone has fallen down stairs.

ture."

The Living Face Complete. In the meantime Mr. Baird le con- tinuing his work with television.

At the present moment," he said, if only they would roar at the word day present (Laughter). discussing the progress that has of command been made with his televisor, the, The sudden production of a man machine for seeing by electricity, of colour is one of the best recipes "we can see the living face of a for securing an impressive chorus. Maybe that has something to do person sitting in darkness, which is The best effort in the Zoo Lion with the continuity, of architec abeolitely complete, the face being House happened when the Emir of seen on the receiving acreen, not as Katsina paid a visit there."

When went on:

(Laughter). Mr. Stevenson outline on a silhouette, but a true told that his reception by the lions living image, by diffusely reflected was astonishing, he remarked that morning papers, and the wag of the There are read extracts from the light. This is an important polat "They always do that for me."

.studio calls them "news bulletins." as it has been stated erroneously

We are told that the weather will that we transmit outlines only."

WIRELESS LISTENERS. Birmingham University is to have

Be fair to fairly fair with the-in- a fecture from Mr. Baird on January

evitable depression over feeland. Figures for Australian: States. 28, and; also,, he said.. “ʼn demonstra-

On the educational ide there la a mania for evolution, which must bion of the peculiar phenomenon

be the subject of conversation in. which occurs in television, namely,

Melbourne, March 7. the fact that every scene has its

At the end of February there the studio. corresponding sound, when the relicences in operation throughout ducing a monstrous national in-. 197.872 wireless listeners" Wireless is a stratagem for pro- ceiving televisor is replaced by the Commonwealth, or an average activity. Instead of going to good of 3.2. for every hundred of the po- concerta or to the university people Sounds of the Face. "For example, one face may make number of 1,188 were issued during thing is a suspension of enterprise pulation. New licences to the turn on the wireless, The whole noise like the hum of a bee, athe month, and 10,002 renewals and everything worth living for. It other like an aeroplane flying high In the sky; a third will be heard were granted. Cancellations in the law colossal scheme leading up to like a circular-saw, and, fourth same period numbered 2,808. an arm-chair millenium. like the purr of a cat, and so on number of licences in operation in Victoria still has the largest

Broadcast Drinking. the sound changing with every

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we shall have "Every object. also. has its cor-average of 6.1 per cent of the po broadcast the sound of someone During February 3.930 imbibing liquid, and that as a sub- responding sound, and I hope to let Pulation. the audience at Birmingham Uniew licences were issued in Vic-stitute for drinking (Laughter), versity hear characteristic image made. There were 1,137 cancella-s. C. Roberts said the loud speaker toria, and 6,860 renewals were Facing a big wireless set, Mr. sounds, mude" by such common ob- jects as matchboxes, inkpots, pocket new licences, and 2.116 renewals, town crier into a little room and tions. In New South Wales 2.037 was the equivalent of turning the knives, pencils, and so on. Every object has its own sound, even when were taken out during the month, keeping him there.

and 1,187 licences cancelled, The

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SUGGESTIONS; FÖR SOLVING CROSS-WORD. PUZZLES

Start out by Alling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. These will give you a clue to other words crossing: them, and they in burn to still others. A letter belongs in sach white space, words starting at the numbered squares and ruming either horfiontally or vertically or both.

(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

BAGS OF GOLD.

who was a native of Rathfriland. When Jefferson Doyle, a bachelor,

the telephone by the electrical im month was 51,154, or an average of iphonee,, for man is a gambler and Co. Down, died intestate at Farmer i

pulses which give the image in the televisor, and if a gramophone re cord is played into a microphone the sounds are converted into elec tricity. If in turn this electricn] current is supplied to the televisor

cancellations made.

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the noblest, has already fallen on "The art of conversations one of

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2.2 per cent of the population.There is always a hundred to one Queensland, with 783 new issues, chance that there will be something Ing over £80,000, no fewer than 600 323 renewals, and 288 cancellations, worth listening to

City Illinois. U.S.A., in 1923, leav had at the end of the month a total of 20,425, or 2.3 per cent." In South

claimants to his wealth arose.

His estate included a large sum Australia 389 new issues were

in gold, some of which he had coupled with the phonograph the granted, and 743 renewals, and 33 days and will lose. its last hoarded in old tobacco sacks.

shreds of support if the wireless image reappears on the screen.

Now, after three years of inquiry, "In other words, the sound of the number of licences ir operation, habits of those who listen are de-settlement has been reached.

listening habit is encouraged." The in which: 100 lawyers were engaged, living face can be recorded on the 15,773, represented 2.1 per cent. In phonograph record, and on playing Western Australia 80 new licences Priving them of the power of voll-cording to the Newry Telegraph. under which eleven people, nine of this record again the moving face were. Issued, and renewals and enn is.reproduced on

cellations numbered 28 and 112

whom live at Cross, Rathfriland, the televisor screen, so that we have here a

will benefit. respectively. The total was 4,014. method of storing living scenes on were 69 new issues, but there were or 1 per cent. In Tasmania there phonograph records."

no renewals or cagcellations. The total at the end of the month was! 12,078, or I per cent.

CHILDREN'S RADIO TASTES,

In an effort to discover their pre- ferences with regard to wireless.

WORLD TO BEDSIDE,

The Duke of Portland, speaking broadcast programmes, Mr. D. H. at the sixty-sixth annual meeting of McCurtain, of Crewe, took a canads the British Home for Incurables, of 6,000 school children.

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One Hope of Sanity, "The one hope of saving the fragments of private thought and national sanity to rescue what

conversation still remain.

Mr. Gerald Sparrow, who appear- ed for "the cultured, respectable, middle class," said their sanity was based on understanding Wireless afforded recreation for their wives, the contended, and was a retreat for

their husbands and a solace their spinsters.

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The division resulted in 39 votes

RADIO HOAX.

He told the annual, conference of of wireless, had brought the multi-for the motion and 218 against, the Incorporated Association of farious activities of the outside Headmasters at the Guildhall, EC.world to the bedside of lifelong in- that the result showed that 63 per valids. Through the generosity of cent. perferred music (including Mrs. Smyth wireless had been fixed dance bands);

Commander Laakes, a former cent, at every bedside in the home, each humorists; 9 per cent, miscellaneous patient being supplied with a pair aide-de-camp to General Pangalos, itema: 8 per cent. drama; and 8 perlof headphones. Loid speakers. ex-Prime Minister of Greece, has cent. educational subjects..

had been fitted in the sitting-rooms, been arrested following the dis in addition to headphones, and they covery that while he was studying. found the installation a great Boonwireless at a naval station he seized to the patients.

the opportunity to broadcast a re- volutionary message during the strike on March 11.

HALF ACROSS WORLD.

An octogenarian, Mrs. Hodgkins,

of Birmingham, conversed, via the trans-Atlantic radio telephone,

HOW IT GAINED A GOOD REPUTATION.

with her four sons in Stockton, Cali Tis web to gain a good reputation to be what you appear. That fornia, whom she had not seen for is precisely how Chamberlain's Cough 16 years.

Remedy has gained its reputation as

The message was to the effect that a revolution had broken out; and it is balleved to have been

broadcast for the purpose of pro- voking a Pangalist rising.

Laskos asya.it was a joke." Nevertheless, the guards

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The reception was so good that care for cough, colds, croup and charge of Pangalos at his island

bronchial trouble. Every battle of this valued medicine is fully up to the high prison have been doubled, and it is standard of excellence claimed fo

for It probable that the trial of the former

Prime Minister will be expedited.

the old lady recognised the different speakers by their voices, and cor- rectly named each of them.

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