The evening world. Newspaper, March 14, 1919, Page 20

FRIDAY, 1919 ‘Hello, Paris!—Hello, New York!’| Real Radio Phone Possibility, SAYS PROF. PUPIN, When We Have Overcome | That “Static Interference”, MARCH 14, | And That One Present Hindrance Will Be Overcome He Believes—Many Brains Already Working on the Solution—But He Warns That Talk to Paris By Radio Phone Will Not Be “Cheap.” By Zoe Beckley Copyright, 1919, by the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) OW that Secretary Danjels, at bis desk, and Ensign Harry Fagen N water in a vy flying boat have chatted comfortably by radio phone at a distance of 150 miles, bello-ing to Paris is but a question Prof. Michaal I, Pupin, head of the electro mechanics department of Columbia, says, “Certainly, certainly,” and wags his head as though 3,000 miles of space were negligible ‘Can it happen in your lifetime and mine? of time. Or will a Transport Gobs Edit Own Newspaper \ pe HE homeward bound movement of American troops has brought to ay light @n amazing amount of latent editorial and writing talent in the Army and Navy. The printing office of nearly every transport is a hive of industry, day and night, in the production of papers for circulation among the sailors or the soldiers. Small transports are not equipped with print shops, but the absence of type and presses does not discourage the amateur reporters, poets, humorists and editors who feak the impulse to spread their ideas, The crew of the transport Iowan, which di ed yesterday with 1,900 men from St. Nazaire, issues a little weekly called S O S, composed and printed on a typewriter and duplicated for circulation on a mimeo- Graph. It is edited by Watsizname, Hoovis & Co., the real name of Wat- sizname being R. M. Ransom and \ Hoozis being none other than K. V. Reed, both “gobs.” 8 0 S is a classy it be an experience only for future generations?” “That,” smiles the big professor, “is a question of how much we want it, and how great our invemtors are. ‘The space through which the Secretary of the Navy and the flying ensign spoke was easily possible; I mean 150 miles presents few’ difficulties. 1 should say it would Wt weextey— the instruments now at hand. “For the rest,” he made a gesture that said pouf-pouf, “it is simply a matter of overcoming electrical dis- | ~ turbances. There is no reason they f cannot be overcome. They will be. Is it not easy nowadays to talk with San Francisco? It will be quite as easy, once the present interferences are done away with, to talk to Paris, or even to Serbia ‘This famous Serbian scientist, Pu- pin, is the man who made it possible for us to 4o that pretty stunt, a few years since, of phoning Frisco and} hearing tho Pacific swish-swash against the Seal Rocks under the cnr House windows—remember? I call it a sale wager that he will point the way eostward over the sea. So that wome fine morning we shall lay firm hold of our telephone instrument with one hand and our French dictionary with the other and etart the struggle “Hello—say, operator—listen! Give me—wait @ second now—trois mille “why not from here to here~?" And he jumped his fingertip clear across. I could think of no reagon .““why not." For merely Pupin makes you feel that in his to eliminate practically all nots from the world He is too modest—and probably too busy—to remind a questioner that a far back as 1896, when wireless teles- raphy first became an ordinary fact, he invented a simple mothod of elec- trolytic rectification which promptly became standard practice and over- came many of the difficulties pre- viously experienced And that he was the first man in this country to repeat the Roentgen experiments and tho first to use the X-ray in curgery. His health suf- “why cing cents solxante dix-huit—now |fered from tho constant use of the| wait ti] I get the rest—quarante|X-ray, so he abandoned it for the eent—got it?” study of electrical transmission of It will probably not be half as hard | power. The “Pupin coll” soon became for Prot, Pupin to overcome the clec- | Universally used in telegraphy and trical disturbance of the atmoxphere| telephony, and is said to have done as for the average business man to|tore for the telephones perfection master the French system of calling/than any invention made since the phone numbers. ‘phone was originally contrived. It “There should be no difficulty,” says |18 this “Pupin coll” which enables us| fhe, “in hearing a voice distinctly by|to say “Hello, Fri * for less thaa fadto and wire from any point in the/a whole year's Just as soon, world to any other point, once the|then, as he ge dark we can static interference with wireless trans- Prepare to call up that dear Puree 8 around |if you find the money, some one will, sooner or later, find the way to perm you to do it. Thousands of electrical men are at work on it at this mo- ment, Who can say which of us will finaily succeed? Undoubtedly we shall talk to Europe by telephone—but not to-morrow!"* _ $2 Enough on Which to Marry in Congo-Belge HEN an African boy in Congo flashes and cross-currents that do not devastate but merely interfere, It is God's way; He is a great electrician! But we are learning too. Some day and may be soon, we shall get one more of the Big Secrets, We are getting them every day, one by one he world is full of miracles which in a few months became common places. When we talk by telephone to Europe. people will ery that it marvellous—and promptly take it a matter of course “The world—how big is It after all Belge reaches the age of Only co big—" and the big man elghteen and has saved what} doubled a big fist and regarded it|in American money would be about| musingly. “If we can talk from here | two dollars, which is enough to buy a to there—" pointing with a fore-| piece of cloth for himself and his wife finger to the first and third knuckles proceeds to get married, he courtship period lasts only while EVENING WORLD the prospective bridegroom gives , presents to the girl’s parents. Then j PUZZLES the presents are considered large | enough the wedding day is set By Sam Loyd. In Kapanga in the Methodist Episco: Readi for Business. 1 Mission the ceremony takes place MERCHANT stocked his ittle| 220 bride walks with an umbretta over] Gaease aicklamors on cs | oA head to protect her from the sun investment of exactly $147, and | verrien re cnn ey, fo brideamald who | carries the garment the bride wore b he purchased 147 garments, For | Other bridesmaids fol vests he paid low, all walking sle fle 49 cents, for | After the ce ny the bridal pro. pents 98 cent tot brid 2om's hou and for coat ver walks with her ht $2.45. He in band, but follows } ae | vested his money ‘ ally conaiating| 60 @8 to have in mn \ Mish oO} stock the larg ae t | est possible number of suits, How SPEAKING TERMS. many pants, coats and vests did } eo te Answer to Speculating in Oil, 1 udd pointad ine The merchant sold the 13 and 15-|tady a ad and said gallop barrels of oj] at 50 cents per dh, tr I know that lady ove gallon. He also sold, 8 17 and Te eke ea speaks 19 is gallons of vinegar at cents p gélion, So he had the 19-galion bar- swered the she say?” “She—she—well, she usually si Dou'tyou dare to throw stones at mm you little wrete! mother, “And what does hot be hard to lengthen the distance to 600 or even 800 miles, even with | {s enlightening to landlubbers, 8 O 8 to look at Prof. AHEM massive body and brain lies energy) AHEM enough and scientific wisdom enough | — little sheet and was in great demand on the trip among the soldiers as well as the sailors. We are indebted to S O S for the most complete list we have seen of the slang of the transport service. It says. aval officers are designated b: their stripes: Ensign, “one striper; Jun Lieutenant, “striper and a The Mos¥ Pooyint MAW aboutda Ship How A 0G FEELS whee he GtTs BACK IW Civies L. wrote a poem which he called ‘Bul- |let Proof Percy.” Here is the poem: | You say he can't stand the Army; The life's too rough for him. | Do you think he's any better | ‘Than another mother’s Sam or Jim? | You raised him up like a girl; He doesn't smoke nor drink, you brag If the rest of the boys had been like him Could we still be proud of our flag? You say let the roughnecks do the fighting. They're used to the beans and the Pm, stew THAT WOUND I'm glad T am classed with the “rough STRIPE hocks! If they fight for the Red, White and half;" nior Lieutenant, “two|But Pershing’s pesky pellets had the Blue! striper;" Lieut. Commander, “2 1- Kaiser on the run; |2aybe we do sucks and gamble, striper;" Commander, “3 striper;"| The first on@ split the platter and the| _ But we fight as our forefathers did. GE BERA hd perioeele Glne Waerec} umpire yelled faa anattl So go warm the milk for his bott jHe looked the next one over as across] Thank God, we don't need your kid Officer, “broken striper.”* the plate it flew; | Sergt, Wellington Brink was a con- Wireless operator, “Sparks;" Elec-| ‘ Migsion is done away with, this be-|and ask the Rue de Ia Paix whether \trician, “Dynamo Buster: fgaai| ace SIRIt tay mtyie," aaéd 'Vilhelih ead | EevbuLor who Was looking ahead to his Inpat present the great drawback of they're wearing ‘em wide or narrow. |Quarter Master, “Flags” Warrant | {2° umpire said, “Strike two!” [arrival at home and greeting an in- Tides, communtontion and if bonnets will cohtinue to cover |Omcers, “Rolo men; Master at Arms, |THE third one fairly sizaed as it sped | fant born while he was’at the front You know what I mean, don't)the eyebrows or gradualty rise to the| jimmy ~ lege." Mail orderly, across the plate, His! mallitary (reining: prompted: Bim you?" he asked, so sudfenly that 1 | peak of the topknot amps; Gunner's Mate, “Gua oe. And Vilheim pounced upon it, but he|to formulate some rules for himself, had & distinct electric shock and) Prof. Pupin ts not optimistic about|tor;* Commissary steward, “Belly|,, SWUns & triffe late paraphrasing army orders, as fol could only shake a muddled head. |the cost, however, “It cannot over be} Robher;" Cook, “Grease Pot;" Baker, | '*® fem the maddened populace there | lows: “Well, do you know what lightning |Cheap.” he warns, “You can talk to | « Puncher;" Chaplain, “Fire| poe vinta oer net TWELVE GENPRAL ORDERS is? Very 004. Gaare. aro lte sy Tener, fer ree. eniitutes no or “Devil Teaser;* Doctor,| “struck oul and fost the wan FOB: ail degrees of lightnings. ‘There are |for $18.50, But you don't do it very Bones; Hospital steward,| : | INTERIOR GUARD DUTY (Adapted) the great lightnings, the vast dyna- /9ften, now, do you? I'm afraid it|«pilis;" Engineer's force, “black Ob! somewhere in the Fatherland there By Sergt. Wellington Brink. “y mos of God's fashioning. And the) Will, th Pavin sore ,feal_more to | gang,” a recruit x « “boob” or e Peep iA Gal je eee ee who! My general orders are little lightnings--the currents and |°)" th Paris. But I promise that] foot,” a sailor is a “gob;" a Marine a| peop | 1, To take charge of this kid whilo have sauerkraut and soap; Crossing Overseas Has Developed in Uncle Sam’s Sailors and | was too well reared to fight and M. A.| » O S, Edited, Written and Illustrated by Crew of the Transport Iowan, Some of Their Work Being Reprinted Here, Just a Sample of Talent joldiers f my monotonous footfails. hushes and there-there 4. 'To resume my at the first | hostilities. 6. To quit my post only when prop- jerly relieved | 6. To receive, absorb and put into |execution all orders of the command- ng officer, officer of the day and Corporal of the Guard. 7. To blasphome not, and to tatk to No one except in the line of duty. hu: puflage lullab: reopening « ofa | 8. In case of any exigency with which T am unable to cope, to give the alarm $. Not to allow the kid to become such an unadulterated nuisance as tu cause the neighbors to lay down a barrage against us 1 10. In any case not co ‘ed by in structions, to cal! the Corpora! of the | Guard 11. To salute the madam, whenever ohe passes, in my most & ous man | ner. 12. To be especially watch jnight and during the time for cha lenging, to challenge the first out- burst from the kid before it arrive: check it in its incipiency if in an way possible, and in case the possi- bilities be otherwise, |self up resignedly to the ignoble tank to deliver my of kee! wake at a time when all the w hould be in slumber. It 1s perhaps fitting to wind up with an acer of the sad ending of a "gob" who tried to leave the ship | without leave ‘This contribution, written by “H called “Tho Ballad of Liberty Bill." Pipe up all hands | “Give me liberty or give me death, | sald Liberty Bill one night | “1 gotta date I gotta keep or there's gonna bea fight.” | der to explain “Troubles of my in or- wn,” said Quarters ur plea is all in vain.” | He went to the 0. D. to & a little spiel The 0. D. shook his head, he did, deny | ing Bill's appeal lights on Riv Jane who waited 1 thought of the | Street, and his | __ there. | He went back aft with his liberty | blues and Bay Rum on his hair. “There's just one way.” Bill mure | mured, though not without @ shiver | Half way down the stern line he » church, BY LIEUT, EDWARD STREETER of. the 27th (N. ¥.) Division (Author of “Dere Mable’’) Illustrated by CORP. G, WILLIAM BRECK Second of a Series of Letters to “Dere Mable fron “Bil | Rookte, Describing His Further Adventures in the Army 1919, by Frederick A i” the (Conrright Stoke Compan know what r guns is shootin at them yet. tello like 1 dont beginnin to think nobody else does ether C pointed right at some woods. Weve been those woods now for a week and havent hit We always seem to go over them Theres a stands behind the guns and yells 11 day it was @ poker game. “Up five? up t thing seems like an awful waste of time to BRE MABLE Were still up at the artillery range shootin Im goin to suggest that we tie a couple of horse and shoot at them, The fellos would take more inter est in there work if there ws some reward, It wouldnt bother the horses much if we cant hit the woods I guess, ech, Mable? They can use my hors. If Im willin to take a chance he ought to be A fello told me the other day that these torpetors sliat we shcot cost as high as twenty dollarw apiece. 1 dont believe that though or theyd be | a law against it. I guess he was talking about the guns, Tm going to take a couple of torpetoes back to amp and sce how much the audience department will give me for them Thrifty. Thats me all over, Mable. Tbe mountin ears come over and watch us, I guess the moonshining business must be lax this time of year. A moonshiner makes whisky out of corn, Angus MacKenzie tried to make some by soaking a couple of jears in a bucket for almost a week It didn't taste ke much though an made us kind of stck. IT guess you |have to have a still like these fellos call it a still, Mable, have to use it on the They |have they Joause quiet The mountin ears are awful flerce |with big adams apples and round hair cuts when they have any. They lnave family foods. I guess they got ea eek |the idea from the movies, Mable For instance the Turners ve on the|"A BUNCH LYING UNDER THE one side of the mountin and the How- | ards on the other, That makes them | white a iee taihig aac eae sore so they shoot each other. AC-lwe were in it then. It isnt nothin cordin to the stories they only shoot jbut a big field without a blade of each other when they are goin to |srass or a tree and just the guns in From the looks of them I ling middie, I told hint if he thought Jguess they made that rule ta 88¥@linis was a park'he ot ht to see Weewillo Park home. [ guess you Angus and I went out last Sunday | ought to know, Mable, paid your looking for a still. We thought we had one onee and watched it most Jamunisbun way in often enough Its like those picturs you eee all day but it turned out to be Just stuck arougd Main Street about mem a little shack where they sell 86 | wanted for the army. Theres aly newtons and lemon pop to the fellos. ong fello playin tunes on a bugle You cant fool Angus, a lot of fellos playin Old Maid on a The more I see of the army, Mable, table. An off in the corner theres \the more I think its an awful bluff. /atways a bunch lyin under tho trees \T heard a lot of talk when I first |jjke the High School tennis team Jcame up about a gun park. I thought it would be a nice place to © Sundays and have some fun. I asked the Captin if there was a lake havin there pictur taken. Now that isnt the kind of thing we do at all, Mable. If the top sargent ever found us like that hed swallo his whissle. “Leatherne yeoman, either “Ping| And somewhere there is wienerwurst|52! tries to sleep. | slipped and fell into the river. jwhere a fello could get @ canoo and | I had a run in with the Captin last Pong” or “Quills;” a dirty sailor is a and lager beer and gheese, 2, To walk my post in a rhythmical| We hauled him out, and pumped Dis | nave a little paddle, He said no but|week, Mable. I cant seem to gc crumb; a religious sailor is a| But there is no. Jay in Potedam,|manner, keeping always on the alert, | ,,,, fms and before he died. say8 HY Jiney nad a fine collecshun of ani-|along with Captins, High strung, ‘Chaplin's mate;" a money lender,| mighty Vilhelm hit the breeze. ‘|doing my best to avoid upturned ae cia done with me. |mals, I didnt see nothin of no park|Thats me all over. Every week we “five and sixer;’ a Britishor is a/ One M, A. L. of the Motor Trans- | tacks and the corners of rockers. Waa Ba liberty lists, nor Navy clothes.|when we came up. I spent a whole Ihave an inspecshun a 1 ar “ime Juicer;" a foreigner is “spig;"|Portation Corps developed a grouch| 3. To report in @ triumphant whis-| jor chow. Sunday afternoon lookin for it. One ‘clean th Hine ote eee ae a sailors pal ts his “buddy” or |one day against tho patriot who was | per all signs that the dastardly infant | 1 may go to hell for ages to come, bu eh ebere ° ean the whole gun myself. They bunkie."”” Food is “chow;" bread is| kept home by his mother because he is beginning to succumb to the charms| I'm out of the Navy now!” day [ asked the sargent where it was |send the whole bunch down but I die rermaae repre et [guess its just to hand me things, beet ple, “double dackeri” stew, “Ob ° ° 99 e “ec 99 \Like nurses in an operation. It aint hooner on the rocks;"" hash, ‘bal- t Wi I D S l G ii, saueetepe 7 ation Tt Aine nce, eying macarot, servatoire Wilson rew Special German VATE \rucn ton 1 tet you. Wuen te Ma ext day he opened Italy;" beans, “Boston cherries “tender;” salt, “sea dust; pepper, Be ; ; re A iHler; leun anc e C the anchor is the “mud ’hooki” the Observation Post Had Been Named After President Wilson His Artillery Never Let It Rest Abd Eman be san how aay ship's prison ts the “brig;” water B J hA B Al Germans for the Americans and|carefully arranged his telephone at {Parts there was to keep clean cause cool scuttle butt; a four-year ser- y osep f taay | Wilson were thrown into the shell-|the side of the bur When you|he says “My, what an awful bore.”* vice term ia a “hitch: a destroyer Former First TAeutenant, Fifth U. 8. Marines. ng of the trench leading into it.| sleep at the front you sleep with one|The Major is all right, Mable, He i Sievers! and ® depth bomb an “a fori 1010, by the Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Broning World.) I went to it one day with two Am-|eye open, so the slightest Unkle of |likes a fello to have a little fun once ‘ash can.” ON after the United States en-] A hole cut into the solid rock and] oycans, We had to pass an open|the telephone bell would arouse lin @ while. I guess he tered the war a remarkable |lined with steel was the construction re ‘ , >| him i equtgalheed’ A contributor named L. C. Favis change came over one feature of jof this important observation post,|2Pec® Knows ea Death Valley. a piss jfeen'e: Ceptin, I ayn *¥es, Malory contributes to S O 8, @ parody on ‘ A UME ae ie me ces ation post-| year an the enemy view. ‘The About 1 o'clock in the morning Tit certainly is, an nobo the western front. The chauge first |Two thin slits through the steel and] ly knows it Casey at the Bat" which, %o far as/ gy, . ) , ae oe : “) observers must have picked up the heard the bell of the telephone. |better than me cause I " i ; evidenced itself in the names given |rock gave the observers a view of all Mn ihe, kosericas uniform, £0) She Intelligence Omear cause I cleaned the the knowledge’ of this reviewer! tg new trenches, observatories, posts| before them, Two men were sta-|™en in Sie Aine . t igor 4 *|whole thing myself.” Ho says “Well, extends, ix a maiden in the field of . 4 a A | they started shelling, They threw over and sleepingly called, |i | command and other important] tioned there, one for general observa- : if, “peta ad if you dont do somethin about it war poetry. Anyhow, it ts worth ; 5 ae PeHene @ltour before Licut, Johnson, my Allo.” 1 Nemrd a few words in { jpoints in the trench sectors, Then,!tion and artillery direction and the i Nast 3 next week then you won! h while, It is entitled “Vilhelm at the] just as in Paris and other citien, the {other an artint who every day drew a [2d the other Heutenant, whose name) French, | rir ang of and then|)°%. | ) nt have no- rst AWA road ee ae Pa by Satan ei ing Gene *!1 have fo en, gained the Iter) immediately rang up the artillery |>dY to blame but yourself names « vets were being given to |landscape sketch of the German lines | pits " | A teow I took the hint 1 VILHELM AT THE nous Americans, so, too, the old|in front of him, Kach day the draw. |of & dugout, and then they peppered) commander, A few more moments if int right off and when F ‘ | 4 A 80 100 ERO OIG) pene - over rapnel fe nu dhe hung up and call y came D € a The outlook wasn't” bril the] trench tines and places of importance | ing was compared with the sketch or|over Us with shrapnel for a half/and ho hung up and called sleepily up me time to clean guns for the German troops (Ht dayue began to take on American names. |the preceding day, and although | hour. tomes next inspecshun J got a horse and Bulgaria and Turkey had struck out | ee ene van seinen along {artist himself would hardly notice| We finatly made tho observatory | “Wilson reports that the Roches are |Tode down to town and took @ bath, oie fray. ving faded to} the whole front was Craonne Obsory- |lt No would invariably draw in some| Aid Ws ed out over the German making a relief in Corbeny, They can|I told the Captin afterwards what ven Austria ret ne faRed (0) cry, which @ few days afier wo en|ncw feature of the cnemy line, re-|!Inos, while the shells tore up ¢ see 4 few moving lights over there, I/the Major had told me but I dont J " 3 Np »| ready splintered rock which surrounded have te he ope . 2 The eves of all the Fatherland were| tered the war was changed to the|veding in this way much valuable Ns Meee en ta wa len oe T hope they |think he would care if General turned on Kaiser Bill Wilson Observatory jinformation to the intelligence ofM- malted ae eter tre HE peesne Perishing had asked me home to ha’ aired ‘ataat roa] Cors. spotted cne battery “g He had hardly finished talking when ts what : He goose stepped to the rubber with a * s SBEAR ee ee ane "he Germans accepted the Cra-|and the French artillery officer di- |, MR inna ait Mea ne Pete igen i 8 what he wants. To tell proud and haughty nee rock 800 feet high which marks : ste: s The r ony (lt shook with the roar o the tru k Lab ¢ haughty slanes, k of the Chemin des Dames.{Onne Observatory as a fact after|Tected fire on it, 7 neh inten- ‘opening batteries. Mor twenty min- ruth I think he was sore I got Resolved to knock the pellet. from nn Sikh 1 sified their tire until Germans de . a bath an he didnt Reet tania erate Over It the tide of battle had changea|!f¥ins in vain to © molish it and} r , mans d- utes they thundered and roared and Ler prussitna wiidiy cheered him ax he| during four years and when we en- (appeared content to walt until they'| ded t vd enough and quit both. |, { hear the whine and explo-| 1 think when the wars over M1 twisted his mustach tered the war the French front line] Were ready to launch the great of-[ering us, We had ample revenge A)sion of the answering German shells |Marry you an be a mountin ear, A der Kaiser!” when|ran across the crest of it and the|fensive before starting in eurnost,| few nights later, A 4 time we 1 fell asleep. In| They dont seem to have nothin to do © Krabbed hty aah Jnorth side of No Man's Land, Phe| but when throush spies and pr s| Our revenge came on one of those the morning we report. Day-|but stand round with there hands Ten million eves were on him as he |Cermana were in the 1 wand|they learned it had been quiet nights whon the helling light showed t ects of Corbeny lin there pockets and watch us work, aipned lie handw in bleed | their lines were vis to the Wilson Observatory — well! |is desultory fire on the roads ove ewn with dead men and horses and| ‘Thats a nice life ‘ Ten million hands applauded ‘sl miles as far back ag Laon Vhe Cra It toe all the Prench nerve and|which the supplies are coming up ved automobiles and wagons. yours till the s rubbed them in the mud onne Observatory commanded a view] bravery to continue the name. Day|and on which the Colonel decides he |The had been caught in POUER ehh baea And, when upon the umpire he con-| of this ground and the keen observers | after day they shelled and hammered |can turn in and sleep, I went to ajtheir relief and had been terribly bat- BILL, temptuously spat, caused much destruction in the Ger-[at it and life was far from a joy|dugout bunk over the bunk of the|tered. The sharp eye of Mr. Wilson’s| ie gett e ~No person in the crowd could doubt lines by their observation and|for the artist and the observer, Regimental Intelligence Officer, Wel observatory had put over another ova, cine et re A7'8, NE a directions tq the artillery, BERET T in netr y Saar itis 4 Pte ed bate of the! both gurned in early, but It Was Just a Steel Lined Hole Cut in the Solid Rock, but When the Boche Learned This very the little door in the hack of the fipe piece of work oc, Hew i's 0 all bookgellers,