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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (June 8, 1919)
-v- v. THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND. JUNE 8, 1919. Pte lwllilkizAl is jf. Astonishing """J WBJtJ&uDl Advance of TAfireless by yVhich a Single Voice May Actually Be Heard in Every Corner of the Country , on Mountain Top or Coal ISIine at the Same Moment If W 0U ".f ti ! 4 X' A field wlrcleu station is operation WITH the aid of the long-aistance wireless telephone a single voice may address the population of 'the entire nation. A revolution in com munication will date from the installa tion of this marvelous new Instrument. In the not distant future the news papers may announce some day, for in stance, that the president of the United States will address the people the fol lowing morning at 10 o'clock. At the appointed hour 100,000,000 persons scat tered throughout the country may listen to his address without misslns a word j c n mo uuicuiiun oi mo speaKers voice. At a burst of eloquence a great .wave of applause will sweep the coun try and a joke will raise a laugh from Cea to sea. In some hour of great national peril uo enure population can thus De col- - lected and addressed in a few minutes. - If the wireless telephone were installed today it would be possible, for examnle. for President Wilson on his return from 1'rance to discuss the league of nations , In this way with every oitizen. It is prophesied with confidence by tele phone engineers that within a few years me president 3 message at his inaugural or before congress will be delivered directly in this way to the entire . people. lne wireless telephone promises to make the world safe for democracy as has no other agent. In the early days of the Greek republic It will be re membered. the1 populace was in the habit of meeting at noon every day be fore the tribune to be addressed by the orators and to determine affairs of government. The system Insured a pure democracy in which every citizen could take part and be represented. With the growth of population the daily meeting soon became unwieldly and a form of representative government was evolved. Centuries later the wireless telephone will make It possible to return In a measure to these primitive and ideal conditions. An entire people may be summoned to stand, as It were, in one vast audience and listen to their chief executive. The importance of this direct means of communicating with the population, no matter in what part of the United States It may be situated, can scarcely be measured. In the early days of the republic when communication was by stagecoach, days were required to carry the president's message from Washing ton to the principal cities of the coun try. The system was slow and awk ward to a degree, and national develop ment was correspondingly deliberate. The appearance of the railroad and the telegraph worked a revolution by cut ting the time between cities to perhaps one-tenth. The marvelous development of the United States In the past 70 years Is very largely due to improved means of communication. The wireless telephone annihilates space. It will work a revolution com parable to that of the railroad and the telegraph. No other country Is so well prepared as the United States to take advantage of the new invention. There are today about 175,000 wireless sta tions scattered far and wide through out the United States. A great many of these are amateur stations, equipped with receiving devices only. Such ap paratus may be adjusted readily to pick up the Invisible waves of the telephone messages. So numerous have these ama teur wireless stations become In all parts of the country that it became nec essary for the governmnt to regulate them by law to keep them from Inter fering with the sending of government and commercial messages. A receiving station, however, can do no harm. The cost of Installing such a station Is trifling. The wires which pick up the vibrations may be strung from the barn to the haystack of every farm or upon the roof of any city house. The cost of such an outfit need not exceed to. The cost of keeping up such a plant is trifling. The wireless telephone is, therefore, within the reach of all. The apparatus required for sending out mes sages, enabling the operator actually to talk through the air, is expensive at present and requires some technical experience to operate. But anyone with f7W .V j , f "V . : 'j nt J 1 ' v i BOX'S HOME WIRELESS STATION. WITH STJCH AJ OTJTTTtT AJTT POrSTT I3T THE COUSTBT WTXIa BE ABLK TO CATCH TH E "WIUELKSS VOICE." A tm iiuk ued as a an outlay of $S and a little time may be connected up with the great wireless telephone which will soon be extended far and wide over th United States. The efficiency of the wireless tele phone has been clearly shown by Its work with airplanes in flight. A small telephone set which works perfectly through a radius of 250 miles has been used repeatedly to signal to flying squadrons. The writer has "listened in" on many conversations between the ground stations and the air pilots. The human voice is transmitted much more clearly by the wireless system than by the copper wires which tend to distort it- Voices are perfectly reproduced and seem to be spoken Into one's ear al though the pilots may be miles away and often at great altitudes. To test the telephone an order would be given to the leader of the air squadron to torn his fleet to the" right or left, and a moment later the great fleets of air ships would obey the order. The transmitter of the wireless tel ephone may be readily equipped with an amplifier which will enable the voice to be heard by thousands of people. During the aeronautical exhibition in the Madison Square Garden in New York the voice of an airplane pilot, speaking from his machine a mile above the earth and many miles dis tant, was thus amplified and distinctly and mora people. An antenna, for ex ample, could be quickly and cheaply raised above the roof of a theater and the words of the president, for exam ple, thus picked out of the sky and amplified so that an audience of thou sands could hear every word. If all the moving-picture- theaters of the land were thus equipped, what an audience could be addressed nightly throughout the United States. Kvery section of the United States will thus be brought within touch of Washington or any other center. Every theater of a great city and the factory or office of every business could thus hear the voice. In remote parts or tne heard throughout the hall by 10,000 country, where even the malls reach wireless tawer Alaska. but once a day or at longer Intervals, the population assembled at the village school, store or church could listen In at the same time. The wireless telephone may also be connected up with the or dinary telephone system, which could thus be used to supplement it. Every telephone in the country could be con nected up with Washington at the ap pointed hour and the president's voice could be beard on mountain tops or in coal mines. There would be few people in the country who could not be brought within sound of it. No Invention In all history has so served to knit the world so closely together or seems destined to work such a revolution. DWARFS OF EARLY DAYS WIN FAME THROUGH ACHIEVEMENTS Jeffrey Hudson, 18 Inches High, Gained Introduction to Henrietta Maria, Consort of Charles I, When He Stepped Out of Big Venison Pie. JEFFREY HUDSON, the story runs, was introduced to Henrietta Maria, consort of Charles I., in a big veni son pie. When the pie was opened out stepped Jeffery in all the dignity of his '18 inches and made a courtley obeisance "to the astonished and delighted queen. he took the little man into her service. Now this Jeffrey Hudson was of stout heart and possessed an adventurous spirit despite his diminutive propor tions. He fought two duels, one with a turkey cock and one with a certain Crorts, who faced Hudson armed with a "squirt" and was forthwith "shot dead." Twice Jeffrey saw the inside f a prison; once when he was cap tured by the French on his way across the channel and again when he was . taken by Barbary coast corsairs. To round out his career of adventure he -an accused of complicity in the "Pop- . ish plot," and spent the last of his days in the Gate House in 1682. Another famous dwarf was Borul Vaski. the Pole, of whose debut an in teresting story is told. As a boy of 15, when he as just one inch higher than a two-foot rule, Borulwaski was -xiresented te the Empress Maria The .xesa, who was so charmed by his ap pearance that she seated him on her lap. To the queen's questions as to vt'hat he considered the most interest invr slht in Vienna the dwarf replied: "What I now behold, so little a man . en the lap of so great a lady." Xhis tyeech made, the little fellow most popular. He became a special favorite of Stanislaus IL. who took him to England and Introduced him to George IIL. and for more than half a century Borulwaski made his home at the English court. This dwarf, who at his tallest was a yard and three Inches, had a sister whose head just reached her brother's shoulders. Borulwaski was not only a handsome man and a courtier but a scholar of repute. He lived in five reigns and was laid to rest in Dunham in 1837. Richard Gibson and his wife, who lived in the 17th century, were a re markable pair, quite apart from, their inches, which combined barely made up seven feet. Both were clever painters of miniatures and Gibson was drawing master to the daughters of James II. At their wedding, which was arranged by Henrietta Maria, Charles 1. gave tne bride away, the queen placed a valuable diamond ring on her finger and Ed mund Waller, the court poet, wrote a poem in honor of the occasion. Among other dwarfs of interest was Philates. who acted as tutor to Ptolemy Philadelphus, and who wassaid to be so light as well as short that he car ried weights in his pockets to prevent hia being blown away. Then there were Coropas and Andromeda, two tiny handmaidens of Julia, niece of Augus tus, each of whom was but 2ft inches high. . Ricliebourg, who died, in Faris In 1S58, was just one Inch under two feet. It is a carious fact that most of the famous dwarfs attained ripe old age. Borulwaski was only two years short of the century when he died. Riche bourg was 90, Gibson was 74, while his widow died at 89 years. Among those in the service of the late Sultan of Turkey. Abdnl Hamld, who found themselves without a job upon the abdication of that ruler, was the clever dwarf, Mehemmed Sellm, who stands 28 Inches In his stockings. Me hemmed Selim is said to be a linguist of attainment and a musician of no mean ability. Armistice Comes Too Soon for Patterson. Few Soldiers la France More Disap pointed Than Hood River Boy. HOOD RIVER. Or., June 7. tspe clal.) It is unlikely that among all the 2,000,000 doughboys In France any one was more greatly disappointed when news of the armistice came than Glen Patterson, The Dalles soldier. And with good reason, for it had been Mr. Patterson's absorbing ambition from April 6, 1917. to take part In actual con flict against the bodies. Patterson, who was here recently visiting friends, said his ammunition train had lust received orders to move up to the front when news of the armis tice reached them. "Right then," he declared, "all of the 'pep' went out of me." Glen Patterson entered the first offi cers' training school at the Presidio In 1917 and received a second lieutenant's commission in infantry. However, he was placed on tbe reeecve list, and this was not at all to his liking. The army i had a need for artillery officers, and the young man sacrificed his infantry commission to enter an artillery offi cers' school. Here again he was disap pointed. Patterson was next tried out in a training school for aviation offi cers. "I de not blame anybody bnt myself for failure in aviation." said Mr.- Pat terson. I thought I knew everything about wireless, but I fell down. I couldn't receive fast enough." The draft was his last resort. Patterson and his ammunition train went across with 2000 negro stevedores. A U-boat attacked their transport and the panlo of the negroes, he says, was a spectacle not to be forgotten. That sub, coming up out of the deep and fir ing a torpedo at their ship, was more than they could stand. Destroyers drove the diver away after her shot had missed. "We arrived at Brest, and on disem barking were ordered to take the darkies and unload the transport," says Patterson, "and let me tell you we cer tainly grumbled. We thought we had been badly treated, but when our work was finished we discovered that our companion companies aboard the trans port had been taken direct from the boat to be Bent on a 14-mile hike, while moving pictures representing them as marines returning from the front were taken. "Grouching comes natural to the doughboy," eays Patterson, who re turned home with the two stripes of a corporal, 'but if he will Just look around he will always find some fel low who had a little bit worse time than himself." Sweden Has Bread a-PIenty. STOCKHOLM. Sweden's bread ra tlonlnr will be abandoned owing to tbe satisfactory importation. o cereals. LIFE ON ISLE OF UTILLA IS ONE OF UNBROKEN EASE Lazy Slan's Paradise Discovered in South Seas American Colony Finds Nature Provides All Wants and No Effort Is Required. -- LFE In the Isle of Utllla Is described ( I . as an existence of unbroken ease. There are no worries or ceaseless struggles for your dally oatflakea Nature takes care of all that. Utllla's place on the map would be hard to find. but It's worth discovering. Away off In southern sea, never heard from be fore and but little known, itt comes to the knowledge of tbe Pan-American Union that here have Americana found home that others enjuy when they are dead. "We call It a laxy man's paradise," says the message from this land of de light, "not that the Inhabitants are necessarily Indolent, but simply because a large amount of labor Is superfluous. Nature provides for nearly all our wants here as In most tropical coun tries. Farming is our principal occu pation, yet there is not a plow on the Island. Frost is unknown and extreme heat is never experienced. Ninety de grees in the shado would be an un usually high temperature. Our grade schools are of high standard, attendance being compulsory ten months in the year. American text-books exclusively are used and social life could not be distinguished from that of the United States." Utilla Is one of the Bay Islands, string of six verdant keys in tbe Bay of Honduras, an arm of the Caribbean sea, which were discovered by Colum bus In 1S02. They were then thickly populated by native Indians who be came slaves. The Islands now are In habited wholly by English-speaking people. "The first family to settle here. rAM on the letter, "was that of Joseph Cooper, who found upon landing two lone American young men. saamuei sua .Toxhnii Warren, bv name. A few years later came Mark G. Morgan, an Ameri can from Philadelphia. The descendants of these men now inhabit the islands. tv. ntnnAA n- r- r-.f Pnrltnn stock. all seafarers Imbued with the spirit of adventure who. though filled with wanderlust, found conditions on the island so ideal that they planted their takes deen and said. 'Alabama, here we rest.' " T Mma tiiat Athur mlrantS COT1 tinued to arrive until in 1852 there ... -a manv ttint Vl V Dfttitioned the Governor of Belize to administer them as a British colony. This was done until 1860, when the island was ceded to Honduras. "The change somewhat discouraged the people at first,". says the letter, "but they soon learned that the laws of Honduras were equally just a ..n .. 1 1 th, mT-fvHlAe-ea In the pursuit of life and happiness enjoyed uuaer iirllita rule. ae numiunuauuu of the present governor, R. Barahona Mejia, whose headquarters are at Roatan, the capital, is giving general satisfaction." Of the principal exports 10.000.000 eocoanuta are sent yearly to the United States. 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