LONG ARM OF RADIO.

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 59, 1 June 1927, Page 11

LONG ARM OF RADIO.

ENGLISH FANS HEAR AMERICA. IMQI’E RECEPTION OX CRYSTAL. English listeners on crystal and tube sets distinctly heard the recent congratulatory address of Owen D. Young, chairman of the Board of the Radio Corporation, to the British Broadcasting Company on its fourth birthday. It was broadcast over a short-wave station at Schenectady at 3 o’clock in the afternoon and rebroadcast in England at S o’clock in the evening, their time. “Radio not only recognises no nationality of birth.’’ said Young, “hut it admits no national limitation of performance. It brazenly passes through all ports of entry: it pays no customs duties; it defies fortresses and frontiers. Only the barriers of language prevent its universal application. ‘‘True it is that the physical agencies of transmission must be physically located and therefore they are subject to uationa! control. Like lighthouses, these breadcasting antennae lift their heads in every land, and their business truly is to enlighten and make more easy the ways of the people whom they serve. They throw out ideas and information for education. They scatter music and sports for entertainment. Like all instruments of groat power, they must he wisely and conscientiously used. To turn them to wrong purposes would make them engines of destruction.**