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DAY, DECEMBER

THE WORLD OF RADIO.

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Rangoon, Oct. 20-A most re- markable case, in which it is mag- gested slave traffic is going on in Burma, was brought to light by the arrest on the steamer Taros. A fine tribute to the work of items, it is quite possible that on October 11th., of Mg Pyu and amateurs 'Was paid by Dr.It will become as necessary to his wife, who are charged with Eccles in his Presidential ad-the community; as the Press kidnapping and habitual dealing dress to the Radio Society of If that is so, it may become even in slaves..

Great Britain. In the course of more influential than the Press, Ma Thein, a school teacher of jhis remarks, ha said before because hearing is very much the Mission School, who was wireless became commercial all easier to most people thatbread- travelling by the same steamer, the workers in it were amateurs; ing, and because the qu had a suspicion that two children they were experimenting in igno- | personality. travelling with the accused bad rance of the vast commercial In future, too, the barn kidnapped, and she confided future before it, and were study-gramma may be vergilent. in Inspector Moung Moung, who ing it without thought of and the kind of prograzlike" will| was also a passenger.

gain. Sir Oliver Lodge's work have a considerable effect upon It is stated that the accused with the short serial, an relations between broadcasting couple have also admitted bring waves a few matres long, using as an industry or as part of social four young people from Tavoy, the filings coherer with the tap-life, and the amateur. Up to the and selling them as "servants." per, back in 1894, constituted the present the Broadcasting Com- The police bold that there is a first complete wireless receiving pang has maintained a very high regular traffic in slave children sot ever assembled, and was standard, and has broadcast the from Tavoy, the buyers being certainly done "for fun." It was bighest class of music and very

and China Town families.- Rangook an aside from his laborious interesting

instructive Guzeltr..

scientific work in the laboratory literature. The items are greatly and in the study; in fact, he appreciated by

the present probably set it up to amuse clientele, but the future clientcie people.

may be very diferent. It may One may say also that until be more numerous; if it is more about 1897 Marconi was An numerous it will be more humble amateur making experiments on the average. A foretaste of with Hertzian waves, as were a the kind of comment that will great many people in the various come when things too good for laboratories and lecture-rooms average life are put on the broad- throughout the world, and Ruthar-cast was given us the other day.. ford's open-air experiments with whenthe British Association Pre- his own magnetic detector in sidential address was sent forth 1896, when he received signals all over the country. According across Cambridge, a distance of to some of the newspapers, the

mile and a half. were done complaint in nearly every home] without thought of pecuniary was that there was too mach recompense. It was the amateur Rutherford; but it is a fact, and' who brought forward the crystal we must admit it, that you can- detector. who found out the best not run a daily paper on choice combinations, who introduced extracts from the poets and eszay- i: into our subject. It Was ists. Bach and Beethoven will some time after this work not suit everybody. In fact, I can by the amateur that the imagine that. rather than hear crystal detector came gradually | Bach and Beethoren, many pec-| into practical commercial tole-ple will prefer constant repati- graphy,

tions, with strong affirmation, of Again, in 1913, young the fact that we have no bananas. American student, EH. Arm-

CONGESTION OF THE ETHER. strong, working with wireless

Probably the most immediate circuits because be loved them,

problem that the amateurs have! produced the first anto-heterodyne receiver using the andion, and to think about is the allocation of staggered all the professionals the wave baads. The increase in and commercial experts of the the number of broadcasting sta- world by demonstrating in Yew tions will be set aside for broad--

casting. York the reception of Iran- satlantic signals, inaudible other-will be less space left in the wise. Finally, when the war spectrum for the amateur, and came, the amateurs penetrated Re, as amateurs, ought to take on in their hosts into the armies, the whole problem of preparing a and turned their wireless ex case to be put before the authori- perience and their talents to the ties, whenever they require to design, constraction. operation, hear us, in order that we may and improvement of apparatus set forth our views and put them for use in war.

in proper form for exerting due Broadcasting as it is to-day is weight. It is conceivable that in indebted to the amateur for its default of some such preparation existence. In America the broad-df the part of the amateur fratern casting movement was started by ity, the allocation of wavelengths amateurs and their clubs and to them for their use in trans- societies giving gramophone con- mission experiments may be too certs and other entertainments to their fellow amateurs. In this country a similar movergent took place, but was limited to smaller dimensions by the restrictions which were an aftermath of the war. It is not unreasonable, how- ever. "for the amateurs to claim that their previous presentation of the case smoothed the way for the inauguration of the British Broadcasting Company and its large scheme of eight powerful

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In what I said earlier I pointed out that wireless telegraphy was originated by amateurs who were neither engineers nor telegra- phists, and that wireless develop- ment since then has owed as the amateur much at least to

to the trained experimenter as technician. The presence of a; large amateur wireless section If we try to see what the: a population ensures that future contains, by looking at that community will be recep America. France. Germany, the tive to new ideas in wireless Argentine and other countries and produces an environment in where broadcasting is in oper- which the highest form of tech- ation, we find that sometime in nician can flourish. As a conse- one country, and sometimes in quence, men of special ability are another, there are commercial ex-afforded adequate scope, and change prices being broadcasted, genius is discovered and given its stock quotations, in some cases opportunity. When it is remem sporting and general news and bored that one inventor or genius. THE racing results, and in other cases like James Watt, may be worth political orations in addition to untold millions to the world, we entertainments. If broadcasting feel the importance of encourag develops in this country from the ing to the utmost the spread of entertainment or instructional the amateur-spirit in wireless as side which it exhibits at the pre-in other branches of our modern sent time, and takes up all these electrial civilisation.

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The Links

Question. Please explain a "threesome" in golf?

A 43 MILES SWIM.

A remarkable feat of endurance has just been accomplished by a member of the Hindustan Swimm- ing Association, named Robin Chatterjee according to a message from Allahabad. Chatterjee is Answer. In a threesome, one reported to have swum 43 miles player plays his own ball against of the Ganges in 19 hours 15 mins, two playing one ball, as in a He entered the water to test his foursome.

powers of endurance against Question. A player after tee-those of Rams Mullah, the latter ing his ball reaches the con- giving up after covering 31 miles. clusion that the sand box on the Chatterjee, who was swimming toeing ground interferes with his strongly, carried on gamely until sighting his ball. He con-1-20 a.m., when cramp and cold tends that since he is of such compelled him to retire.. opinion that he has a perfect

right to remove the sand box,

who

since he desires to tee off at that Answer The player particular spot. His opponent believes that the sand box is in- claims that he has no such right, terfering with his play has a per- and that if he feels the sand box fect right to remove same. A interferes with his sighting the sand bor on the teeing ground is ball, he should re-tee his ball at a regarded as loose impediment different spot. Who is right?

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