CAMPAIGNING BY WIRELESS TELEPHONE
Crownhart, J. G.
Campaigning By Wireless Telephone Within Five Years Practically Every Home Will Have One; Music, Speeches and World News Free By J. G. CROWNHART THE world is little aware of the tremendous...
...Every noon he copies these reports on forms that are supplied free and then immediately turns them over to the local rural telephone exchange...
...Among newspaper men of Wisconsin he is probably the best equipped to furnish our readers with a statement of this character...
...Fall-ing temperature will bring heavy frost...
...Three weeks ago as I was listening to the Pittsburg concert the music stopped and the operator informed us in bell like tones that Congressman So and So was now about to speak at a large hotel in Pittsburg...
...Will you know at noon each day whether to cover your tomato plants that night to protect them from frost...
...The article which he has prepared for LA FOLLETTE'S has been stripped of all technicalities and written by him in an entertaining manner...
...They sat there for an hour and a quarter listening to the latest records, then they heard Pittsburg, and ended the evening at nine when they all set their watches by Washington time...
...With an election in Wisconsin next fall that will center the interest of the state, candidates of both parties will speak to you wherever you are...
...Few people realize that for the cost of from $15 to §35 they can buy a little box that with a turn of a switch will bring them concerts, weather reports, news, the latest phonograph records, and daily market reports...
...No license is necessary for receiving...
...I expect shortly to call up London as easily as I now call downtown New York...
...Cloudy and colder in northern Wisconsin, That's all...
...Farmers in rural communities will not have to drive ten or fifteen miles on cold nights to hear political addresses in which they are interested for the wireless telephone brings the speeches to the parlor table...
...Right now it will be of service to you, it will afford you entertainment, and it will keep you and your family and even your friends in a closer touch with the news of the world...
...How many have wished they might be in Madison to hear Ysaye and his famous Cincinnati Symphony orchestra...
...The cost of running wires ten or twenty miles has made it impossible for these people to keep in constant contact with the world...
...The clock is stopped—just turn the switch a few more points and hear the Arlington Naval station at Washington, D. C., give the time at nine each night, central time, to all the country...
...Once you listen you will want more for it is more than a hobby—it is a never-ceasing source of wonder...
...Take in Your Cabbages I HAD been a radio amateur before the war...
...Just a little box, less than a foot square and not half as high and a single piece of wire stretched from your barn to your house will bring the world to your ears...
...The radio waves ripple through the ether so fast that if the sending station were powerful enough they would go around the world nearly eight times in just one short second...
...John J. Blaine delivered an address at the home of Congressman J. D. Beck of Vir-oqua but by means of the wireless telephone thousands were able to hear the same speech at precisely the same moment in La Crosse...
...Weather for Wisconsin...
...He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin...
...By the time of the next campaign in Wisconsin audiences from one end of the state to the other will have the opportunity of hearing the candidates in their own homes if they so desire...
...Music, Speeches and World News Free By J. G. CROWNHART THE world is little aware of the tremendous strides that science has taken in the past five years...
...It must be understood that these low priced sets are for receiving only...
...In many communities in Wisconsin today there is but one wireless telephone receiving station, often operated by a young boy...
...Every noon at 12:45 you could hear Malcolm P. Hanson at the University of Wisconsin tell you what the weather would be for the next 24 hours...
...No longer will political campaigns to pacify one commun-ity because it was not possible for the candidate to deliver a speech there for no towns will be missed...
...The chances of your being in one are practically nil...
...In the last two years the radiophone has just started to become popular and to be developed...
...We are going to talk across the Atlantic," declares Peter Cooper Hewitt, grandson of Peter Cooper of New York, an inventor of renown in the electrical and mechanical world...
...With foci-proof receiving sets that a boy can operate costing only $15 to $35 you can listen to the messages the ether brings you...
...Holmes went home early that night and took in his cabbages and farmers throughout the state who received the same report heeded its timely warning and who shall say how much they saved by that one report...
...Will you hear concerts in your home...
...That is a present opportunity in all mid-western and eastern states today...
...That is now up to you for the little known strides of science have brought it , as close within your reach as a common Vic-trola, Grasp it and it will grasp you forever...
...Before the next Presidential election the methods of conducting political campaigns promise to change entirely...
...Stand by one minute for the daily weather report...
...Promptly at seven-thirty it began and as the first notes came into the room my audience looked at one another as much as to say, "Of course I knew it could be done but I wanted to see it...
...In Pennsylvania next year there is to be a congressional election...
...that they had arranged to hook him up to their set...
...Mr...
...1 strung fifty feet of copper wire from one chimney to another and then brought the freo end to my instrument I took another wirs and fastened it to the water pipe and then to my instruments and as I put on the phones I heard the University of Wisconsin saying: "9XM speaking, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin...
...One day, not over six weeks ago I told the Managing Editor of LA FOLLETTE'S MAGAZINE the wonders of the radio...
...You do not have to learn any code, know anything about electricity, nor clutter up the house with wires...
...But perhaps the highest degree of practical benefit derived from the wireless telephone will come to those men and women who live and work in the country in comparative isolation...
...The simple wireless telephone receiving set promises to become as commonplace as the Victrola...
...You do not care for that concert, well turn that switch a little farther and hear the concert that the Westinghouse people send out for two hours each night from East Pittsburg, Penn...
...It is his belief that within a year the larger newspapers of Wisconsin will be receiving their news from the Capital City, minus heavy telephone charges—by wireless telephone...
...and within sixty seconds I heard the speaker of the evening and listened for twenty minutes to his address on "Labor and the Press...
...The second is a solution of the cause of "pockets"—some few localities like Saratoga, New York, where the ether waves fail to penetrate...
...Wireless transmitting sets are both more complicated and expensive...
...Some such similar pocket is existant near the great ore ranges but these so-called "pockets" are few and far between...
...Stand by three minutes for radiophone market report...
...Snow tonight and Friday with cold north winds...
...Will you know when to sell and when not to sell your farm produce and stock...
...The rapid development of the wireless telephone will give you everything but the personal presence of the candidate...
...Although that is months away the Westinghouse Electric company have already announced that the candidates will be brought in to East Pittsburg from time to time to address the state at large by means of the wireless telephone...
...Then if you had one of the "magic boxes" this is what you could hear in your own home by simply turning one switch...
...The market service reports come hot over the telegraph wires by government officials, the weather reports come direct from the U. S. Weather Bureau at Madison, and the music comes through the courtesy of another famous inventor, Thomas A. Edison...
...All this is but part of what yon in your home can hear today and the development has just started...
...That is the speed of transmitting and when you hear music come floating through the air you will know that you are getting it as fast as it is sent out...
...With the perfection of low priced receiving sets that anyone can operate there are just two problems that- remain to be solved in the radio world...
...If potatoes have gone up twenty-five cents today, you, the small producer, know it and you can sell intelligently to get top prices...
...He is the pioneer newspaperman of Wisconsin attempting to bring this result about.—MANAGING EDITOR'S NOTE...
...During the past five years he has devoted his spare time to a study of the development of radio and the wireless telephone...
...Like all others he was skeptical and then one Friday I brought my sim ple set to the office...
...Hearing Sets Cost $35 THE possibilities in this field have just begun to be developed...
...By the time you have had supper Friday night and the table is cleared, just turn that switch again and you will hear all the latest Edison records broadcasted by the University of Wisconsin...
...Music On Friday Night DO you live in Wisconsin...
...Will you hear them though you are many miles away...
...The great advantage of our broadcasting the latest market reports by the wireless telephone," said L. G. Foster, director of this work in Wisconsin, "is that it places the smallest producer, living in the most isolated places, on a bargaining par with the largest buyer with all his leased wires...
...The wireless telephone makes it possible for them to adjust a receiver and be in touch with any one, anywhere, so that isolation of human beings will be a matter of desire not of circumstance...
...System Not Complicated WHEN you read of President Harding sending out his Armistice Day address by means of the powerful radiophone station near Washington you think of a jungle of wires and complicated electrical instruments necessary to receive such messages...
...latest market reports from every large stock, grain and produce market center in the country...
...Well," said one friend, "I heard that 'wheeeee' that meant nine o'clock in Washington but how much later must I set my watch to allow for the sound traveling 750 miles to Madison...
...And then the friend was informed that inas much as the radio waves travel through the ether at a rate of 186,000 miles a second there would be no need of allowing for time taken by that sound en route...
...For many years we have had the wireless telegraph with the transmittal of messages from ship to ship and ship to shore and even shore station to shore station by means of the Morse Continental code...
...Can Hear Pittsburg Music AT seven thirty Friday night the office was filled with an "audience" who had come to hear the wonders of the wireless telephone and the weekly Friday night concert...
...Here Central calls all the subscribers at one time and reads the reports which have come "via Marconi" through the ether...
...Three minutes after that he would tell you exactly what are the J. G. Crownhart is one of the well known newspaper correspondents of Wisconsin...
...No need to go to Madison or Minneapolis or Chicago for everything fine in the musical way is broadcasted by the University and you and your friends can gather in the parlor to hear the orchestra playing in Madison perhaps 300 miles away...
...When the war came my set had to be dismantled by Uncle Sam's orders and then I neglected to erect it when I came home from the service...
...The Department of Commerce requires that each amateur radio transmitting station have a license and that each amateur so licensed is able to send and receive in the Continental code at a rate of ten words a minute...
...One is the elimination of occasional splashes of electricity that causes a buzzing in the phones that sometimes bothers when a storm is overhead...
...In Wisconsin recently Gov...
...Sending is a world in itself and we can afford to wait until the sending sets are reduced to the simplicity of the receiving sets for that is but a matter of time...
Vol. 13 • November 1921 • No. 11
