Is the wireless telephone of real value to tle citizen of to-day? The answer is self-evident. The taumer may receive the latest quotation at ten in the morning instead of waiting for the evening or weekly paper, the traveller crossing the ocean can carry on a conversation with the present instruments with the office on the shore, after he has left port 72 to 84 hours, the stockbroker connects direct with his client, informs him of the market and closes the deal, all will be using the telephone without wires, in addition to the wired instruments.
Only last week despatches from London indicate the beginnings of broadcasting in England, the first permit having been granted The Continent will follow closely. A warful station for this city would just what Shanghai needs. Lectures for the Chinese. student could be offered. The man of the world could confer with his up-river agents. The government could facility its departmental activities by word of mouth. People in their homes might listen in to a concert, to a lecture, to a warning of danger, could have the station's orchestra play dance music on a cold winter's night, could receive any and all messages the station had on its programms. China will not be far behind the world io taking up broadcasting.
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