1924-03-29 — Page 14

ONC

YOUR BEST

INSURANCE

··AGAINST FIRE

IS-

Foamite Firefoam

FURTHERMORE

You are not troubled with constantly recurring expenditure.

The initial outlay is negligible compared with the thousands of dollars you run the risk of losing should a fire break out in your home. Full Particulars From :

The United Asbestos Oriental Agency, Ltd.

2, Queen's Buildings

Tel. Central 236

GECOPHONE

A REVOLUTION IN WIRELESS VALVES

D.E.3

MARCONI VALVES.

MADE AT THE OSRAM LAMPWORKS

800 HOURS USE FROM ONE DRY CELL FILAMENT CURRENT 0.06 amps.

THE G. E. C. OF CHINA, LTD.

Telephone

"S18.

A real cigarette

When we made Chesterfield Cigarettes we tried to give smokers the highest pos sible quality at the lowest possible price, It didn't take smokers long to discover that Chesterfields had just what they wasted--

That quality taste of choicest Turkish and American tobaccos blended in ex- actly the right proportions..

You'll say

They Satisfy

Queen's Buildings,

Hongkong,

esterfield

IGARETTES

LOGITY AFTERS TOBACCÓ

Chesterfield

LTT & Mrs. TOBACCO Co., U. S. A. Manufacturer

RADIO NOTES AND NEWS.

The Newspapers and Wireless

good enough promise great volumes of wire for wireless. As a matter of copy through speedy radio tele-fact, only the highest quality of graph printers.

insulating materials are really What is the future of the radio, good enough for wireless, and far as newspapers are concer-certain cheap composition dials, ped. And, the average person | sockets, grid condensers, and so will be get ralio service as be on, that have sprung up and are now buys phones, water, electri selling for a fraction of the price! city, stc.? At present radio broad- of the genuine articles aftar casting is declared unprofitable by which they are modelled, should newspapers.

be acrupulously avoided if you The Detroit News spends $150,-†would avoid disappointment with 000 & year on its national your set. In many cases these broadcasting station and, accord- are nothing but various kinds of ing to ils report, gets little or noth-clay mixed with inferior shellac ing in return-that is, in so far för varnish and, if not actually as direct financial reward can be good conductors, are anything but considered. The public service good insulators. In America) is, of course, invaluable.

they have a special name fort Mr. Lee & White, of that components of this hind-they paper, has stated that the installa-call them."qud" parts? tion cost was $200,000 and the employment of six radio engineers is cecessary. He thinks news- papers should profit by, our experience and stay out." }

~News agencies are beginning to insulator was, but

AUTOMATIC WIRELESS ALARM.

There are many ships at sea which cannot maintain a wireless listener constantly in attendance

set. ID order that

Marlen Paw, writing in the at the Editor and Publisher, makes the $0.5: signal shall give alarm, however, A these interesting commentaries its

inventor has devised on other phases of the radio French

relay outlook:

apparatus,

"Radio experts are discussing inventions leading to a broadcast- ing service which could be so controlled as to make it tom- mercially profitable. Fog in- stance, use of phantom con- trol over great city's elec tric light system. Everyone who has electric light wires might have a receiving outfit which would operate when turned" by a key, furnished by the service, for a weekly or monthly charge. No one could listen in unless possessed of key. "One promising commercial venture of this sort is now being promoted.

"An interesting speculation is whether, if this scheme becomes scientifically sound. it is not something which newspapers themselves will sooner or later participate in as local auxiliaries of newspaper plants. The question also arises whather controlled radio will not be used in com- petition with newspapers, both on the editorial and advertising sides, if it is independent of estab- lished newspapers.

The organized press.has never showoexcitement over anythreat- Jening aspect of radio, because no matter how much it may be con trolled and commercialized, it pos- sesses physical difficulties which, in general teringi makout' a poor competitor for the established newspaper. These difficulties include the impossibilty of ex- ercise of the selective processes of the reader-be sits at his radio and takes what is being sent, whether he likes it or not, and he takes the full dosa.

THE DIFFERENCE

With a newspaper the eye skips around on printed pages, selecting that which it desires as food. Who will be willing to sit through a radio reading of crop reports to get a craved baseball tidbit? Will men retire when women's features are being read, and will women turn to the phonograph for relief when tomorrow's racing antries are flowing from the loud speaker? Furthermore, will transportation companies equip their cars with radio to entertain the morning and evening trippera?

*Broadcast radio news service is efficient when it deals with

fixed, scheduled events. There

is no question that radio raport-

a

IAO

special

FOR SWEETHEARTS TO LISTEN IN.

Listen, lovers! Hear that heart RO pit-a-pat This young lady is sending her heartbeats through broad- casting station WTAM in Cleveland to her sweetheart. It's the latest invention. of Dan Capld for bridging dis- tance. An ordinary micro- phone is enough to broadcast the heartbeats of an affection- are lover, but (as we recently showed in these columns) there is a new microphone so fine that it can broadcast the heartbeats even of a moth:

ONOME

ELECTRIC CLOCKS.

THE

SYNCHRONOME System of `· Electrical Impulse Clocks

põnsists of

As Clostrien.ily-Driven"

The Pradulum, in combined

switch" so that folk Da time-leeping and swicking fanathat Ciro....... performan

perlust

Each dal hat only a

-movenant kahind it, get this simple

mean time-harying without

They are correct to wilkin' half

1. minuta - ka Let

4

you for nompista Euska Ila tiene SHEWAN TOMES & CO. Sole Agents.

TOL TEL

TRADE MARKEROBES SOAP

MONKEY BRAND

MORISON PIANUS,

Specially built for this Climate, Cash or easy payments.

TSANG FOOK PIANO CO.,

Telephone 2121.

ing of a prize fight, ball game, which is only actuated on THE HUMAN ZOO president's speech, is in many the receipt of the wellknown respects superior to any reporting "three shorts three longs, three possible on the printed page. It shorts." This relay then ope is instantaneous. You feel in rates a bell or other alarm.| actual contact with the event. A by which the attention of the clever observer tells you more wireless operator or other officer doubt than a reporter could write or a may be attracted. No newspaper print. You get colour, other automatic wireless alarm atmosphere and a sense of mira-devices will follow, but of course culous presence.

it is comparatively easy to devise "It is in the field of pross a relay which will only be operated service that radio promises to by one particular and well-defined show early practical results. For Moise signal two years, and more, the old dream of automatic transmissión and reception of huge volumes of news without the use of wires (by Lee "De Forest of the three- electrode vacuum tube, there broadcast račió "Considering the huge costs of would be no leased telephone or telegraph reception today. wires for Morse transmission This is the conclusion made averaging perhaps from a statement by Charles Gil- $12 or $14 per mile per year, bert, vice president of the De for various hours of the Forest Radio Telegraph and Tele- day, and wages of sending and phone Company, to clear up points

has been a realty.

of Dews,

the highest ever paid, the relative

TUBE CONTROL. Were it not for the invention

receiving telegraph operators now in litigation between his company and the Radio Corporation of cost of installation and mainten-America. sace

of the automatic radio systema is amazingly small,”

DUD" INSULATORS,

Thero sems to have been an impression amongst a certain section of manufactures (happily not the responsible firms that anything that looked like an

According to Mr. Gilbert, the vacuum tubes sold today by the R. C.. A are licensed under. De Forest patents, and the litigation

marketing the tubes. The De Forest says, will continus facture ite own

348, Wanchal Road.·

Copyrigba 1923 by Pablle Ledger Cë

RAJ