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THE LEXINGTON LEADER
MARCONI REALLY
FATHER OF RADIO
Story of the Gifted Italian's
Work In Development of Air
Communication.
While experiments along the line
of radio really started us far back as
1827 and hundreds of scientists were
interested in solving the problems in
" volved for many years, it was not un-
til 1890 when Senatore Guglielmo
Marconi took out his tirst patent that
the mastery of air communication got
ils first great impetus. His life his-
tory is to all practical intents the his -
tory of radio communication.
Senatore Guglielmo Marconi, G. C.
V. O., 1,. I,. f>„ I>-Sc. M. I. E. K„ was
horn in Bologna, Italy, April 25, 1874.
llis mother was Irish, while his father
was of a family whose mechanical
. ability was marked. After an edu-
* cation at Leghorn and Bologna, the
young man interested himself in the
prohleul of wireless telegraphy, starl-
ing his research in 1895. He went to
t England and in 1806 took out the first
patent ever granted for a practical
system of wireless telegraphy, by the
use of electric waves. Ills early ex-
periments in England were made at
Westbourne Park. Shortly afterward
Marconi saw VV. H. Preece and
at bis request made some experiments
for otlicial^ of the postoftice. Some
further experiments were made In
May. 1897. in the Bristol channel,
wireless communication being estab-
lished between Lavernock and Brean
Down, a distance of nine miles.
On the invitation of the Italian
government Marconi afterward went
to Spezia where a land station was
erected, which was kept in constant
communication with two Italian bat-
tleships working from a distance of
12 miles. For this success the Ital-
ian government conferred upon Mar-
coni the honor of knighthood. After
u return to England further experi-
ments were conducted and on July 20.
1897, the first radio company was
formed and two permanent stations
erected. In 1898 wireless reports of
yacht races in Kingston were made
and proved the usefulness and adapt-
ability to which the system lends it-
services at the disposal of Kin* Vic-
tor and was given the rank of lieu-
tenant in the Italian army. He was
employed on Important military mis-
sions to England by the Italian gov-
ernment and after this service was
transferred as temporary commander
In the Italian navy. Marconi visited
the United States in 1917 as member
of the official mission sent by Italy.
In 1919 Marconi was appointed pleni-
potentiary delegate to the peace
conference at Paris, and in this capac-
ity signed the peace treaties with
Austria and Bulgaria. He was after-
ward awarded the Italian military
cross.
This ve.ry Important figure in the
wireless world, who has received
about all the honors possible for the
scientific world to bestow unon liiin.
Guglielmo Marconi.
including the Nobel prize, has not
given up active work, but Is even now
engaged in radio telephone experi-
ments. •
Radio enthusiasts have Increased
tenfold within the last few months, it
appears from a survey conducted by
the Associated Press and covering the
central west, Kentucky and Texas. At
virtually all points from which re-
ports have been received, there are
thousands of radio sets, particularly
for purposes of telephony, where at
most there w ere hundreds before.
While the sets are used chiefly for
pleasure and experience, they are be-
ing put to practical uses in many
cases. Numerous farmers are recelv-
HOME
TOWN
HELPS
WOULD DIVIDE UP INDUSTRY
Prominent Manufacturer Believes Con-
gestion in Large Cities Is in
Nature of an Evil.
Hnve tin* gri'iit Imluwtriul Centers of
tin* Unitwl States reMt'heil their max-
imum growth? A lending manufacturer
believes that they have, that tlie time
lias come to break up the congestion
of workers in large eities, ami to get
back to the small communities with
industry. llis theory is that the
massing of industrial workers in h
large city is bad for the country, and
that anything which is bad for the
country is in the long run laid for
industry, lie announces that lie lias
demonstrated to his own satisfaction
that industries can he taken to the
people who live close to the soil, and
that he expects to expand his own
industrial activities along this line.
His idea is that instead f hous
Ing h large industry in a single large
plant or group of plants in a city it
can he broken up into small units, and
each unit can l e successfully operated
in a small town, where it will provide
employment for the class of people
who leave small towns for the indus-
trial opportunities of the cities, ami
also part-time employment for farmers
who are uuw unable to make a satis
factory living on small farms. The
water power available in niaiiv^ small
towns will provide Ho; power for the
factory, and the factory will provide
power for the town's utilities. In this
way, lie believes, the towns can In*
made attractive enough to hold the
workers, ami the whole scheme will
save them from the unwholesome life
in packed cities.
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KEEP TOWN LOOKING RIGHT
Appearance l Inseparably Connected
With Business Success and Pros-
perity of Community.
| The physical appearance of a town
' lias much to do with its business sue-
| ccs and progress. People are not at-
1 traded to a disorderly town. It looks
like the kind of a place where iuelti-
I ciency is tiie rule. Visitors have the
feeling that that spirit would prevail
in the stores in ibeir dealing with the
public. But a town whose business
and home buildings are kept in good
repair and well painted, looks like a
winner. People l'eel that ihe same
spirit of order and system and en-
terprise, must make it a good place to
do business.
There are some folks everywhere
| whose instinct is to slip along as easily
as possible. They realize that their
real estate is getting to look a little
run down, but their motto Is. "Never
do today what you can put off until
tomorrow*
Every time anyone gets out and
straightens up a leaning fence, or re-
pairs some tumbledown building, or
paints a house that is getting to look
shabby, fie helps his home town take
a step toward progress, llis desire
for improvement spurs on his different
neighbors, and soon the whole street
begins to have a new air of alertness
and success. Louisville (Texas) En-
terprise.
Sinful.
"Do yon regard It as Klnfnl to play
cards?" asked the moralist.
"Yes," said Mr. Grumpson. "For r
man who can't play poker any better
than 1 io to sit In i game with a party
of expert pasteboard manipulators Is
little short of a crime."- itiriuingliam
Age-Herald.
Good Stores Sell Them!
There's a man in this town who sells KEY OVERALLS.
Ask him to show you a suit. Extra quality. Better workmanship. Costs
less per day to wear them. Buy them. If they
n't give full satisfaction, take them back and
get your money back or a new pair Free I
Don't worry because you have made
a mistake; you might have made a
worse one.
Constant nagging soon hardens, the
softest heart.
UNION MADE GUARANTEED
Taste is a matter of
tobacco quality
We ute it u our bonr«t
belief that the tobaccol u fd
In Chesterfield «re of finer
quality (and hence of better
taste) than in any other
cigarette at the price.
LlfPlti tit \{ytri Ttbacn C$.
"J
Chesterfield
CIGARETTE S
of Turkish and Domestic tobaccos—blended
20 for 18#
10 for 9c
Vacuum tint
of 50 - 45c
HAD TO. GO WITHOUT GAP
Mr. Johnson Really Had Good Excuse
for Not Joining Posse on Hunt
• for Robbers.
"Paw," excitedly exclaimed young
: Hunt, "Zeke Yuwkey and a passe I of
j fellers are out in front. They say the
| bank at Tmnllnville has been robbed,
! and they want you to grab your gun
and po with 'em to hunt tin* robbers!"
"Tell 'em I'm much oldeegcd and
powerful sorry," replied Gap Johnson
of Rumpus Kidge, "but 1 ain't in no
shape to j'ine em. (Jabe (Josnell
dropped in a spell ago and 'lowed that
as he was going to he married this af-
ternoon to the Widder McCorkendale
he'd like to borry my best britches to
wear during the anecdote, and as I felt
I'd just about as soon sleep today as
not 1 let him have em. And your maw
is Just sewing up the gable end of my
old ones whur the roan cow hooked
uie by mistake for her calf or some-
thing. So you tell the gents. Runt,
that if 'twas ury other time I'd be
tickled to go with 'em. but just at
present I'll have to lay out."—Kansas
City Star.
M. G. Corcoran of Washington, D. C., Needs No Aerial for His Radio Outfit,
Hia Receiving Wire Being Connected to the Wire Springs of Hi6 Bed.
self to commercial purposes. In De-
cember, 1898, Marconi installed ap-
paratus to provide communication be-
tween the South Foreland lighthouse
and a lighthouse on the south coast.
In 18119 Marconi rend a paper on
"Wireless Telegraphy" before the In-
stitution of Electrical Engineers In
London.
Early in 1901 telegraphic commu-
nication was established between two
points more than 250 miles distant
and at the end of that year Marconi
transmitted signals from Poldhu, in
Cornwall to St. Johns, Newfoundland.
In 1902 he received on board the
• steamship Philadelphia In the pres-
ence of the officers, good messages
on the tape when at a distance of
over 1,500 miles from the transmit-
ting station and signals at over 2,000
. miles. In December, 1902, the station
established at Cape Breton, Nova
Scotia, under a contract with the Ca-
, nadian government for transatlantic
wireless telegraphy, was put into
communication with the Cornwall sta-
tion at Poldhu and inaugural messages
were transmitted to the King of
England, the King of Italy and to
the London Times. In October, 1903,
the steamship Lucanla published a
daily wireless bulletin from messages
received from the Marconi stations.
A powerful station at Clifden on the
west coast of Ireland Was opened
early In 1907 for the establishment
of commercial relations with th«
American continent at Glace Bay.
Mr. Marconi's work has been rec-
ognized by many governments and
seats of learning; be has been dec-
- orated by the King of Italy and the
late ex-Czar of Russia as an honor-
ary doctor of many universities, in-
eluding Oxford, Glasgow, Aberdeen,
Liverpool and Pennsylvania, besides
• having received the freedom of the
principal Italian cities. In 1914 he
was elected a senator in the Italian
parliament. He also holds many sci-
entific awards panted by various so-
'cietles and institutions
ing market and weather reports, iwul
police are receiving bulletins. Ser-
mons, concerts, health talks and style
talks are transmitted. Universities
and professional operators are co-op-
erating.
Approximate figures are reported
from various states and centers in-
dicating the present number of radio
sets. According to A. I. Benson of
St. Louis, division manager of the
American Itadio ltelay league, about
90,000 radiophones are used in four
states as follows: Iowa, 23,000; Mis-
souri, 25,000; Nebraska, 22.000;
Kansas, 20,000. In St. Louis alone
there are some 2.200. The radiophones
chiefly carry concert music, but in
many localities farmers have installed
them to receive market reports.
Correspondence from Texas reports
203 stations In Dallas, ranging in size
from V* K. W. to 20 watts, and almost
equal numbers in other cities of the
state.
Cleveland, Ohio, reports probably 15-
000 radio enthusiasts, 1,000 sending
stations in greater Cleveland, virtually
all amateur, and 10,000 receiving sets
used almost nightly. These estimates
exclude commercial sets. Cincinnati
reports 500 sets.
Indiana has 4,500 amateur radio sets
and Indianapolis 1,000 radiophones.
Wisconsin has nearly 1,500 stations,
and the number is said by Malcomb P.
Hanson, University of Wisconsin opera-
tor, to be Increasing at the rate of five
a day. Nearly 1,000 sets are reported
In Milwaukee and vicinity.
North Dakota has a number of re-
ceiving stations and a few fairly
powerful telegraph and telephone send-
ing stations. The North Dakota Agri-
cultural college is planning to install
a 100-watt service for farmers. The
vacuum tube is displacing older equip-
ment In Ihe state.
Marked growth Is reported at
Omaha, Neb., by two radio clubs,
which have been In existence only six
months. The University of Nebraska
i arid Nebraska Wesleynn, co-operating,
i send to amateurs In Nebraska,
What Zoning Does.
Some of the things that foiling laws
do for a city are summarized by
Charles H. Ball:
Zoning substitutes method for
chance, symmetry for confusion, pro-
gression for patch work, and order for
chaos in city development.
Zoning affords for the poor man
such security from nuisances and In-
vasion as the rich may provbfc> at
great expense.
Zoning is a flexible harness In which
city expansion works; it may be ad-
justed In case it galls or frets at any
point.'
Zoning will flatten out the human
pyramid which congestion has created
in a crowded portion of Ihe city.
Zoning sells a town. An unzoned
town is like a dead stock of goods on
the shelves.
Nothing to Forget.
Bess A wife makes a man forget
whole lot of trouble.
Bob—That a bachelor never has.
Wolves "Rushed" Train.
Wolves attacked a train in Bosnia
It bad just been learned. A train
from Dublca for Agraui was traveling
slowly soon after leaving the station
! on account of the snow when it was
attacked by a large pack of wolves
who were maddened by hunger. The
animals jumped on the engine and in
to the coaches, howling desperately.
! The frightened passengers barricaded
i and defended themselves with rifles
and revolvers. .Many wolves were run
over and killed, and finally the train,
i putting on speed, succeeded In getting
away from tlie pack. It arrived at
j Agrain covered with bloodstains and
! pieces of wolves' llesty.
His Wit Rewarded.
An honest rustic went Into the shop
of a Quaker to buy a hat, for which
i 15 shillings were demanded. He of-
j fered 12.
"As I live," said the Quaker, "I can-
not afford to sell it to tlice at that
price."
"As you live!" exclaimed the coun-
tryman "Then live more moderately
and lie hanged to you."
"Friend," said the Quaker, "I have
sold bats for 2U years, and iny 'As I
live' trick has never been found out
till dow ; thou shalt have the hat for
nothing."—Boston Transcript.
Just So.
"Money talks."
"And yet a bank seems unusually
quiet."
STIRRED UP THE COMMUNITY
Gap Johnson's Good Reasons for
Thinking Confessions Can Be
a Little Too Public.
"They've been carrying on a revival
over luther side of Mount Pizgy for
i quite a spell," related Gap Johnson of
Uumpus Ridge, "and a pleasant time
was hud till the converts took to'con-
[ testing in meeting. A sister riz up
i and let it be known that she and a cer-
i lain brother had been flggerlng on
j eloping, and two or three brothers foi-
iered with remarks about the sius of
themselves and other gents. Next
day the lady's husband hunted up
the feller she said she'd been going
to elope with, and although be swore
he'd never even heerd of, the plan,
whipped him to a custard. And quite
a pussel of gents left in the next few
days, claiming that if everybody was
going to tell everything they knowed
they didn't feel like waiting till the
grand jury set. Religion is all right,
but 1 sorter 'low it ort to be a pri-
vate matter—every feller thai feels
like he'd got to confess go ahead
and do , but Wave other folks out
of it."—Kansas City Star. ..
Safety first—a conspiracy to rob the
doctor, hospital and undertaker.—
Hoover.
Enthusiasm Is contagious.
If you would have a faithful servant
and one that you like, serve your-
self.
Odd Coincidence.
After the war, while hunting son-
venins in a deserted village in Lor-
raine, I found a billfold, evidently
lost by a German soldier, with a pic-
ture taken somewhere in Lincoln
park. In the foreground was a girl,
and in the background sitting on a
bench were my mother and sister, both
looking on.—Chicago Journal.
Restorer of Cemeteries.
Xllss Marlon Eaton of Old Sudbury,
Mass., has succeeded in an unusual
field for a college woman, that of re-
storing old graveyards. She Is also
a garden planner.
"To city people graveyards do not
mean much," stated Miss Baton, "but
to the countryman—it holds his loved
ones. It Is where he goes for his
Sunday afternoon stroll, or his after-
church smoke, and it should be beau-
tiful. That is what I mean to make it."
Building Up a City.
Build the bungalows, boys, and fill
tile back yards with chickens and the
front yards with flowers and children.
The skyscrapers will take cure of
themselves.—Houston Post.
Carlyle's Estimate of Painting.
It was only by the expenditure of
much tact and trouble that Lord
llougbton Induced Carlyle to give sit-
tings for the fine portrait by Millals
which Is now in the National por-
trait gallery. When be went to Palace
Gate for the first sitting Millals
showed him over the house. "How
did you manage to get so many ex-
pensive things?" asked Carlyle. "They
were all earned by my brush," re-
plied the artist. "Then there are more
fools In the world than I Imagined."
—Manchester Guardian.
Mr. Jenkins Took a Cracked
Club To Tame Lions
K
The exhibition ended rather badly. It
very nearly was a big day for the lions
and a sad day for Mr. Jenkins—all for
want of proper care in getting ready.
Many a man who has business to do and
a living to make and a job to fill is as care-
less how he feeds his body as Mr. Jenkins
was in picking out a club.
Some foods are too heavy, some
are too starchy, many lack neces-
sary elements a ,d so starve the
body — and many load the system
down with fermentation and auto-
intoxication.
Grape-Nuts helps build health
and strength. It contains the full
richness of wheat and malted bar-
ley, including the vital mineral
elements, without which the body
cannot be fully sustained. Grape-
Nuts digests quickly and whole-
somely. Served with cream or
good milk, it is a complete food —
crisp and delicious.
Grape-Nuts is just the food for
those who care to meet life's situa-
tions well prepared in health.
Order Grape-Nuts from your
grocer today. Try it with cream
or milk for breakfast or lunch, or
made into a delightful pudding
for dinner.
Grape-Nuts—the Body Builder
"There's a Reason"
Made by Postum Cereal Co., Inc., Battle Creek, Mich.
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