RADIO COMMUNICATION.
A UNIVERSAL FEATURE. ’ NETW YORK, Sept; 11. Radio communication has spread in America until it is almost as universal a feature of our homes as the telephone or the motor car. When President Coolidge made his acceptance speech it was estimated that as many as twenty-five million people, a quarter of the population, listened, and heard him as clearly as if they were in the same room with him. When the great political conventions, lasting for days, are in session millions of voters drop their: work to listen to the proceedings. It is said that the cotton crop would ,‘suffer by a million dollars in: consequence of farmers staying in their homes in order to listen on the radio to the convention. The radio is destined to have a marked effect on the politics of every country in which it comes into general use. It enables the people to be less dependent on newspapers for printed reports, and must cause partisan newspapers to be less successful in any effort to give a partisan account of public events;. It is anticipated that when Congress is in session it will he made available to the country directly by means of the radio.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 November 1924, Page 7
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202RADIO COMMUNICATION. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 November 1924, Page 7
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