ROYAL WIRELESS ENTHUSIAST

Evening Star, Issue 18139, 1 December 1922, Page 6

ROYAL WIRELESS ENTHUSIAST

THE PR! Is GITS INSTALLATION. 'Feom Our London ConmsfONDENT. j October 12. Among Mm. cnlliuf.iasls who arc going in for their own- broadcast installations must now bo reckoned the- Prince of Wales. As a result of his experiences with the Boy Scouts hist week-end, when the Prince thoroughly enjoved himself and’ delivered addresses to his young admirers, first through the magnavox instrument, and afterwards by broadcast wireless from St. James’s Palace, orders have now been given to establish a wireless set at the Princes room. This was not the Prince’s first experience of the magnavox ur mu instrument something like it, because he addressed a huge crowd at Han Diego, California, during his Western Lour, in the same • way. Perhaps this apprenticeship. and careful instructions from. the attentive experts, enabled the Prmcc so successfully to avoid “bluffing” the plate of the instrument-. Ho has had much talk on wireless, moreover, from his brother, Prince Henry, whose interest in the subject was first aroused by listening-in at concerts while with the ’regimental mess. An expert tells me that the Prince’s articulation is excellent for broadcasting purposes, though there was a slight sensation when ho pronounced “posse” with a silent “e.” This inadvertent error was promptly corrected by his brother on Saturday in thoroughly armyesque -phraseology, too!

SUICIDE'S JOKE IGNORED. Relatives, who did not trouble to attend to an old-age pensioner named Herbert Harrison after lie had told them ho had cut his throat, wore censured by the coroner at an inquest at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. It was staled that ns nothing unusual could lie seen, and as Harrison joked about the mutter, people in the house took no serious notice. George Musson, a son-in-law, said Harrison afterwards had breakfast, read a paper, had dinner, and was about to read again when a doctor arrived and dressed a deep wound and sent him to the infirmary, where he i died, .Filicide while temporarily insane was the verdict. AMBITION. Joe is in the fourth grade, and recently his teacher decided to try to find out the effect of her lessons in ethics; so she called for compositions from her pupils, telling what they hoped to do in life when they grew tip. Joe’s composition read : “When I grow up I want to b© a policeman or a soldier or a cowboy. When I am a policeman I’ll arrest everybody. When I'm a soldier I’ll tight the * whole world, and whan I’m a cowboy I’ll Jasso all the people. When I got through with these jobs, I want to bo an engineer, so ] can run over everybody. They will’say I am a. very desperate man.’’ Sir Ernest Rutherford, who has been chosen to preside over next year's meeting of the British Association at Liverpool, is the leading exponent of the now science of radio-activity, tin; foundations of which ha laid while working with Professor Soddy in the laboratories of M'Gill University, Montreal. Ho is a New Zealander by birth, a Cambridge man by education, a Canadian by reason of his professorship at M'Gill, and ho is known in England as director of the famous Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge, and (he successor of Davy, Tyndall, and J, J»” Thomson at tho Royal Institution*