1924-02-27 — Page 9

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY

1934

RADIO NOTES AND NEWS:

FACTS THAT SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES

192,4

Four wheel

brakes

BUICKS

ON DRY ROADS

1924

OFFICIAL POLICE

BUTCH PERFORMANCE.

BUICK PERFORMANCE

BRAKING LIMITS (Tests always car- ried out dry roads!

ON WET ROADS

10 m.ph. took 2* 13 mph

[10 m.p.h. took $11

10*2*

15 m.p.b.

20 m.ph. 27

16 83'

20 m.ph.

11' 9' 20 S'

25 m.p.h...55

25 m.p.h.

25 m.p.b.

29 91

brakes

30 m.p.h. 83° 3°

30 mph

35 b.p.b. 113

ZIL" 41 3

30 m.p.b.

42*9*

"

10 m.p.b. D2* 13 m.p.h. 20" S

20 m.p.b.

35 m.p.h.

33 m.p.b. 39 L

Four wheel

(Speedamaters were tested before and after the test and BUICKS

were found to be registered correctly.)

THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON TAXI-CAB CO., LTD.

ARETTES

LIGEITE & MYERS TRAKTI IN

HESTERFIELD cigarettes are

possible quality at the lowest possible price.

We buy only the choicest and most expensive grades of Turkish and Ameri- can tobaccos. And then these fihe to- baccos are blended in just the right pro- portions for full flavor and pleasing taste. You can't buy such quality in any other cigarette at the price.

Try them today.

Il

"They Satisfy"

Chesterfield

CIGARETTES

of finest Turkish and American tobaccos-blended

LIGHT & MTIKA Tosacco Co., U. $. A., Manufacturer

A permanent roofing at a price competitive with corrugated iron.

"ITALIT

The perfected red and grey corrugated

- cement asbestos ROOFING «

The Inspecting Engineer to the Crown Agents for the Colonies

has conducted an in- conclu- teresting and sive series of tests on ** ITALIT" and a copy of his report, together with fall parti culars of "ITALIT," will be forwarded post free on request.

"ITALIT provides the mazi-. mum in durability and safely at a

minimum conf.

Delivered or fixed in any quantity anywhere.

Just ask fož a copy the "ITALIT" Bookle!..

STOCK CARRIED BY——

SHEWAN TOMES & CO.

HONGKONG 8.CANTON

SOLE AGENTS

TIME.

Disregard of time is commonly supposed to be a characteristic uf The newcomer the Orient.

from the scurry of the cities of Euorpe and America is certainly with the deeply impressed

no

Era of Ear Supplanting Era of Eye.

$

for

We have just arrived at the by which the radio waves are dis- era of the ear. Up to the present tributed over a specific electric we have got our education and lighting system. Any patron:

to wishes

cut in the who collare chiefly through medium of the eye-pictures, in on these programmes simply

month a sculptare, beautiful surroundings, pays the printed words of literature, the use of a receiving set which be can connect to any electric "Now, however, we have come lighting socket. He doesn't have to the era of the ear. The ear to brother with batteries, with out- and cot the eye is the mediumu side wires or other troublesome greatest equipment, and is absolutely un- through which the advance in knowledge, entertain disturbed by interference, condi-

ient and culture is to betions, et cetera. achieved Juture.

immediate in the

Such is the conclusion of Maj, Gen. George D. Squiar, recently setired as chief of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, one of the world's foremost authorities on wire and wireless communication.

"

Once broadcasting has been placed on a sound financial and dependable service basis, it will! be possible to improve the pro- grammes and to get the best artists to be found anywhere.

I look to see, at no distant day, the establishment of schools for "Radio," says Gen. Squier, is the training of broadcasting aasily the greatest potentiality entertainers. The stars of the in the world to-day. Its power ear, in the year 1935, will receive to reach all places simultaneous-salaries comparable to those the ly with any sort of message stars in the movies-the starsi staggers the imagination. And of the eye-receive in 1924. It it is through radio that the ear will be a real profession, ranking will become the medium of our at the top in pay and distinction, greatest futute devlopment.

Can't you imagine the cultural benefits that will come when we Although the youngest of the surround ourselves, in our homes, arts, the art of radio broadcasting with beautiful sound as we now has completely outstripped all

try to surround ourselves with others. But it is not near the beauties that appeal to the eye? peak of development. In fact, it

Take a nursery. We paper it is jus: beginning to reach the stage of service, instead of ex-in designs to please the child's In the immediate ere, to stir bis imagination, his periment. future we may expect the suc-ambition. his initiative.

"In addition to that physical cessful transmission of pictures

by radio-even radio vision, by background we can place in that| which we may witness, by nursery, by radio a background ceremonies of beautiful music, soft subdued, radio, impressive and scenes at the same time but strong enough to soothe and

to listening the charm and to shut-out the dis- cardant noises that swell up from the streets. That child would live in a background of beauty. One cannot estimate its cultural effect

we

are

That is just one of the suges- tions of what we are approaching in the development of radio-of the new era of the ear!

JAPAN AND CHINA.

Mr. J. B Powell, staff corres pondent in Chins of the Chicago Tribune, cabled from Shanghai on February 11th-"The Federal Radio Corporation, now complet- ing surveys here for the erection of a high power wireless station. reports constant obstructions in! the purchase of suitable lands, due to activities of secret Japan- ese military agents in this district The Federal Radio Corporation California, in conjunction with the Radio Corporation of New York has been engaged in a diplomatic battle with the Japan services as they are broadcast, or ese since 1921, over the right

of American may even be able to see the man contract radio stations in China. at the other end of a radiophone The companies recently won out conversation."

and were granted the right to go

MAJOR GENERAL SQUIER, WHO RETIRES AS CHIEF U. S. SIGNAL OFFICER.

interests

to

A necessary part of radio pro-ahead by the Chinese cabinet at gress, Gen. Squier says, is the Peking. organization of broadcasting and Now, however when the Ameri- radio services on a systematic can interests seek to purchase business basis. To-day, broad-land for location of stations in casting stations are maintained the Shanghai district they find

over-run country chiefly as a matter of good will the

with or as a stimulus to the sale of secret Japanese military agents!

bv radio equipment

manu who are working with the

in a last] facturers. They cannot be main-Chinese military tained indefinitely on that basis, desperate effort to prevent the Squier holds, and it is not desir actual erection of stations. able that they should be, either from the viewpoint of the radio interests or the general public.

The difficulty is aggravated by the fact that much of the territory in the Shanghai territory is under the control of the military factions in rebellion against the Peking govemment, and, according

SYNCHRONOME

ELECTRIC CLOCKs:

THE

"SYNCHRONOME" System of Electrical Impulse Clocks

As

with

esasiats af

· Electrically-Drivan Padak's which operaian day manke of Dini

· Penduks

combined The

simpla swited 10 that both the (ime-keeping and switching Innaliuna performað automatically

ideally perfect MARKIN Each dial has, unly + ** gna-whaaž " movement bahind it, yet this simple machanism senoras uniform and

without finshaping

windiag atication

in"

"

'of Kay other

They are correct le within · half

minuta la six months. Let u

For

complete installation.

SHEWAN TOMES & CO.

Sola AgeniE.

Tal, 781

州

E. HING

& CO. SHIPBUILDING MATERIALS, SHIPCHANNDLERS &

HARDWARE MERCHANTS.

PHONE CENTRAL No. 1116.

25, WING WOO ST.

Central.

OKEH.

THE RECORD OF QUALITY.

FOX-TROTS, Waltzes. Songs, Instrumenta! Solos by the world's leading bands. orchestras and artists.

OKEH STUDIO

8. Des Vœux Road Central, (Corner of Ice House Street)

Tel. No. Central 4453.

RADIO.

-TUNE IN" "with a' RAY-O-VAC "B" Battery using at. the same time a RAY-OVAC"A" Dry Cell Battery for your Filaments. See how clearly the signals will come in.

The National Radio Engineering Company of Atlanta, Georgia, covering an investigation made by then in the interest of Railway Electrical Engineers, report that:---

"The Battery is the most important part of the radio apparatus, and many causes of trouble in instunments are We have found only one often caused by poor, batteries. make of Battery that is so constructed that satisfactory service con be obtained on heavy duty such as work of the class we are undertaking. The" RAY-O-VAC" Batteriss have stood all the tests and have proven their construction and material by actual use. They have proved ABSOLTE- LY SATISFACTORY IN EVERY WAY.”

These Batteries are now obtainable from:

DE SOUSA & CO., LTD. 2nd Floor, St. George's Bldg. Tel. No. Central 1264.

to the alle THE HUMAN ZOO

gation, they are glad of a chance; to co-operate with the Japanese in the embarrassment of the Chinese government and Ameri. can radio interests inco-operation.

The Federal Radio is planning the erection of wireless towers here 1,000 feet high, capable of communicating direct with all parts of America and Europe.

The enterprise has the active support of American commercial organizations here, owing to the hope that it will lead to improved communication between the Un- ited States and China for both commerical and news messages.

placidity with which people in the East wait half a day for. a train. For them time-tables If they attraction. have arrive ten minutes too late for a train which leaves but twice a day they settle down to the 11) hours odd wait with complacency, for to dream while the sun crosses the arch of heaven makes & perfect day. The European,

COL. SALTZMAN NEWLY with his foolhardy materialism,

has POINTED CHIEF . 3. SIGNAL oriental who and the

"DIXMUDE" VICTIM. been unwarily drawn into OFFICER emulation of hectic life, fly into Plans are being considered, he

Among the ill-fated passengers tampers over the loss of ten says, for getting radio distribution on the French, airship Dixmude, recently encounted minutes. The passive attitudel on a stable financial basis. We which

during

cruise bas beautiful logic. Life is a have got to decide who is going disaster

over the Mediterranean, was fraction of eternity, a day or tea to pay for radio broadcasting, and

de Fregate Hen- minutes are also minute fractions how. The five principal broadcast Capitaine

AP-

of eternity; so where is the needing stations are each spending nique, a brother-in law of Admi-

a day more than, a moment ?-

Ex.

to differentiate and worry about about $100,000 yearly in this work Iral Gilly, who was in command now. Suppose they should stop. of the French cruisers which Can't you hear the wail of protest visited Hongkong last year in that would go up?

the course of their extensive: One broadcasting business is trade tour. Capitaine de Fregate A referendum among Ameri- now being developed on Staten Hennique commanded the Miche- cans in China is being taken on Island, New York, by the use let, which was one of the vessels the Bok Peace Award. -

of my wired wireless invention of the squadron.

PEACE REFERENDUM,

ANTIQUES

ME!

G

Copyright 123 Publio Ledger Pr

"I swear I can't see how they make that place pay."

Well I think they had a customer last week