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• Debating Club Henrietta-Caroleen High School . Transatlantic Commercial Telephone Service , __ To Pari? Had Its; Genesis Way Back in 1915 HBmi \ HM SPlt « m |g|§ > 9l I 1 nv can i*iii IVi■ c c sA " \L' p§ lii 1 IS*i fi i. [/f x\l n f BBSs m M J§ pps vi . H " «L .* 19SB} » t * ) Rftw»G/ ' />* r,c 8 I .KlilM ;Bl&%o||| J|t M; K j yv "| IMfllMiißmE]Bßjfc'%i!Sg%P3g^^ WffiKlgmftgaflßrajTO^ilßflgaaagHßßM PRESIDENT GIFFORD OPENING COMMERCIAL SERVICE TCi PARIS, MARCH 28, 1928 By JOHN B. O'BRIEM It was not in 1926 when trans oceanic telephony was first public ly demonstrated, nor even in 1923 when one-way transmission took place from a Bell telephone in New York City to a group of scientists in England, that the first words were spoken and heard across the Atlantic, but way back in 1915, when all Europe was ravaged by war, that the first intelligible words made their way across 3,800 miles of air waves, to be heard and understood on the other side of the Atlantic. Apropos of the exten sions of Tadio telephone service this year to Belgium, Holland, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and other countries and in particular to Paris, this fact is of special in terest, for it was in Paris, during those stirring days of 1915, when the French capital was being threatened and the war clouds hung so low and dark, that Amer ican engineers carried on the ex periments, the success of which . have made the transatlantic radio telephone service a success today. It in the famous Eiffel Tower that the first words spoken across the Atlantic were heard by two young American engineers after months of patient waiting and constant testing. How fitting, therefore, that when transatlantic service was opened to Paris on a commercial basis on March 28, 1928, one of the engineers who lieard the first words transmitted across the Atlantic should have been again on duty in Paris and should have heard once more and Irom the same engineer in this country the same words that he heard on that fateful day in Oc tober, 1915, when transoceanic _ telephony was born. The developments which ulti mately led to the linking of the old and the new world by telephone began some fifteen years ago. It had been realized for some time that the problems of wire telephony and radio telephony were col lateral, but it was the develop ment and the improvement of the vacuum tube repeater which Droved the keystone, early in 1915, to the success of transcontinental telephony in this country and made ' N Possible further experiments in radio telephony. It had been rec ognized that the important factor iff"l SSBfIB >' I! «♦' f I r"" ,\ A »" • WmLM IhK 2- { '^Ml.' v 1 :|- ■ ' h3E^£ in the march of radio telephony was an amplifier of telephone currents before being sent to an antenna, and when the American engineers who were conducting the experi ments had gained success towards the end of 1914 in making the vacuum tube more dependable and mors efficient, they were then ready to send the spoken word into space and to attempt to pick it up again at some distant point. Transmission of the human voice by radio telephone took place early in 1915 from Montauk Point at the extreme eastern end of Liong Island, and the voice was heard at Wilmington, Delaware, 300 miles away. Next a trial was made under similar conditions with a re ceiving station set up at St. Simon's Island, Ga., 800 miles from Mon tauk Point. It, too, was successful, after a few weeks trial, and then the decision was made that if a more powerful transmitting station could be designed, much greater distances could be spanned and that it might even be possible to throw the voice across the Atlan tic Ocean. , Through the co-operation of the United States Navy, the large an tenna at Arlington, Va., was ob tained for ~ experimental purposes and two Bell' System engineers— H. E. Shrfcfcve and A. M. Curtis — were sent to Paris. France was at war, but the French Military Authorities very generously gave permission to the Americans to set up their receiving apparatus in the Eiffel Tower which was t2ie very heart of the French military com munication system.. The French needed every minute_of the twenty four hours to use in sending out their own messages in their life and death struggle, but notwith standing, they granted to the Amer icans the use of the Eiffel Tower antenna for tan minutes of each day, and the tests began. They started in June, but it was a long and discouraging vigil. Night after night the engineers were on duty but nothing but static and inter ference from high-powered tele graph stations in England and else where resulted. Here is a typical entry in their journal which is the first one that even remotely sug gested sifccess. "At 4:48 got ; signals we thought were Arlington but THE FOREST CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1928. could not read, interference and static being bad." The tests continued, but under the most trying conditions, for as the military situation along the en tire French front became increas ingly more serious, every minuta of antenna time was precious and to make matters worse the Amer icans were notified that there would be a forty-eight hour delay on all outgoing cable messages to this country. Finally in October, just at the time that it began to appear that the experiments would have to be discontinued because of the war activities, a signal from the Arlington station came through and fragments of words were heard —counting 1, 2, 3, This was on October 9? On Oc tober 11 a few other fragments of speech were static interference rendered them prac tically unintelligible. Finally, on Thursday, October 21, came the unmistakable reception of a phrase of connected speech," including "Good night, Shreeve,"several times repeated, and on October 23, after two more days of silence, this tri umphal entry is noted in the engi neers' journal: "At 5:37 heard the phrase 'Hello Shreeve! How is thfc weather this morning?"* Thus, speech leaped across the Atlantic and history was mads. Viewed in the light of the remark able accomplishtaents in the realm of radio today, these few sentences, picked up between long intervals of silence, may not seem impres sive, but to the two engineers after months of waiting these first trans oceanic radio messages, received so faintly and so uncertainly, hold the greatest significance. Accordingly, when radio tele phone service was opmjsd between this country and Pari 5 in March of this year, it was particularly fitting that Colonel H. E. Shreeve should again be on duty in the French capital, and B. B. Webb, experimental engineer of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, should once more send his voice across the Atlantic and say, "Good night, Shreeve." Only, this time Shreeve's reply was received immediately, where as. thirteen years ago it took twen ty-four hours to get word to this country by cable. OAK GROVE NEWS Bostic, R-3, June 11.—Miss Clara Randall is sick at this writing. Hope she will soon be better. Little Ruby Magness has whooping cough. Mr. W. T. Harrill and family at tended the birthday dinner at Mrs. Harrill's grandfather, Mr. Aaron Wall. It was Mr. Walls 90th birth day. . Kir- Masters Paul and Thurman Tate and Miss Ruby Tate of Leicester, are visiting their grandparents Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Tate. Those visiting Mr. M. E. Hawkins Thursday night were: Mrs. J. M. Ran dall and Miss Ollierea Randall and Mr. and Mrs. David Hawkins and little daughter, Marjorie. Mr. and Mrs. Orell Wright spent the week end at Ellenboro with Mrs. Wright's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Elliott. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Harrill spent Sunday at Mrs. Harrill's parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Harrill. Mrs. Edgar Beam has been right sick we are sorry to note. Mrs. Arthur Adams, of near Shel by, was a visitor at Mr. L. B. Low ery's one day last week. Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Wilkie, Miss Belle Wilkie and Mr. Thurman Low ery spent Sunday at Mr. W. P. Wi!- kie's, in Polk county. Mrs. Wilkie re mained for a week's visit. Mr. Z. A. Bedford, of near Lan caster, S. C., spent Saturday night at the home of his father, Mr. i. S. Bedford. Those visiting Mr. C. B. Harrill's Sunday were: Mr. Odell Harrill and i family of Spindale, Mr. C. M. Har rill and family of Henrietta and Miss Attie Bailey. Mrs. J. W. Grose, of Weaver ville is visiting her parents this week. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Tate. Little Miss Lenora and Marlam Randall, of Gastonia, spent last week with her grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Green. Miss Maude Harrill spent Monday with her cousin Miss Belle Wilkie. Mr. E. E. Bedford, of Tirzah, S. C., was a visitor at Mr. J. S. Bed ford's Sunday. Master Woodrow James who has been very ill with pneumonia is improving we are glad to note. Mr. Odell Tate spent the week end in Avondale with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Harrill were visitors at' Mr. A. B. Bailey's Sun day night. Mr. Clifton Bostic and Mr. Durham Digh of near Salem were pleasant visitors in this community Sunday night. Mr. Washburn of Bostic visited Mr. Carmel Cooper Sunday night. The Y. W. A. and W. M. U. soci eties of Concord Baptist church held NEW SERIES NOW OF?EISI \ i I , » 1 I 0 I 1 v ^ —" *r **' If it's a rent proposition you wish to figure out against ownership come in We will give you our best efforts. If it s a Savings Account—again we will ex tend our efforts to serve you. If you are interested in an investment of a laree or small amount of money, we know you will profit bv lealizing the facts. Our Association wishes to serve all and the twenty-five cents a week depositors are wel come along with the twenty-five dollar a week ones. . New Series, No. 57 open now. -COME IN- Forest City B. & L Association R. L. Reinhardt, Pres. , W. L. BROWN, Sec'y-Treas. i » - their monthly meeting at Mrs. D. H. Kendrick's Thursday night. Mrs. J. M. Randall and Miss Ollie rea' Randall spent Sunday night at Mr. L. D. Wilkie's. Mrs. Mae Goode of Marion s>pant "Sunday with her sister, Mrs. L. B. Lowery and Mr. Lowery. Those visiting Mrs. Delia Randall Friday night were: Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Harrill, Mr, and Mrs. L. D. Wilkie and Misses Maude and Pauline Har rill and Belle Wilkie. U. S. SHOWS WAY IN NEW FIELD OF EDUCATION Home Study Method of Training Adult Work' ers Gains Universal Acceptance. Washington, D. C. —America leads the world In adult education with more than 200 international home study schools within its borders and tens of thousands of students scat tered in every civilized country of the globe. The idea of education by corre spondence, which originated in the United States thirty-five years ago, has gained such universal acceptance that today the enrollment in this coun try alone In home-study schools is equal to three times the combined ros ters of the nation's colleges and uni versities. Men and women students taking home-study courses in business, the arts, sciences, trades and professions now number more than 2,000,000, It is shown in a survey made public by Dr. John S. Noffsinger, secretary of the National Home Study Council, 839 Seventeenth St., Washington, D. C., while the number of college and uni versity students total only 6G4,000. The home-study movement, with its more than 200 correspondence schools, is one of the nation's major indus tries today, not only from the stand point of numbers but from the tuition fees received. Home-study courses are one of the big factors in the spread of knowledge of the English tongue. One correspondence school alone has on Its books students from 65 coun tries, including 3,841 students in the Philippines, 500 in Alaska, 130 on the Isle of Cypress, 1,200 In Mexico and Central America, 300 in China and Japan, and 900 in Australia and New Zealand. The home-study movement is slow ly changing the handicap of lack of adult education in the past. The Na tional Home-Study Council, composed of the leading correspondence schools, has instilled a new ideal into home study education by the adoption of a rigid code of business ethics. B> bringing education into the home, It is making it possible for the man with but a few years of schooling to ad vance in his work by study after work ing hours, with the expectation that he will get his marks on his pay en velope. It is a new era of education. USED CARS FOR SALE L I have the following cars for sale: 1 !27 Oldsmobile Sport Roadster. 1 '26 Hudson 2 '26 Essex Coach 1 Special Six Studebaker. 1 '27 Ford Roadster. - uLJ. 1 '27 Ford Pick-up 1 '24 Dodge Coupe \ 3 Ford Tourings 1 '27 Chevrolet Co^pe. 1 '27 Chevrolet Truck. \ J. T. CAMP Phone 107 Moss Bldg. FOREST CITY _ Acme Battery and Vnlcaniziig . Shop * .We do Vulcanizing, Bat tery Charging and general repair work. Have a good line of tires and auto accessories. 30x31-2 Cord Batteries Charged SI.OO to $1.25. Red Inner Tubes, 30x31-2 $1.25 j AUTO REPAIRING - We sell Motor Oil and Ac cessories. Located Back of Farmers Hardware Co. 4 Acme Vulcanizing and Battery Shop Forest City, N. C.
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