The Poor Printer!

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 43, 10 May 1929, Page 13

The Poor Printer!

XPERIHNCE shows that it is a physical impossibility to avoid an occasional printer’s error. This is understandable in view of the pace and pressure under which most newspapers are evolved. Some of these errors contain a deal of unconscious humour. Some of the best that have come under our notice for some little while are contained in the following paragraph. Is it possible that the reward promised in the concluding sentence will act as a stimulus to original wireless research? "Wanted! The Benignant Beam. "Tf note a recrudescence of reports about alleged ‘death rays,’ and I see that our old friend who kills mice by radio has battered his way into the papers again. Why do men. dream so much about easier ways of killing when to kill is so much easier than to cure? I want to see the scientist begin the search for the benignant ray which will heal tissue, purify blood, destroy evil germs and arrest the progress of malignant growths. Immorality waits for its discoverer."