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Reverend Potter does not recommend, however, that the full paraphernalia of Japanese ancestor worship be adopted. An American touch is to be gained by substituting extensive use of the radio for periodical visits to tombs and shrines. And were only the Eastern mystery of an ancestral fetish to be considered, there could be no doubt as to the popularity of this new radio religion. Inasmuch as it may be interpreted as thinly disguised propaganda for the intensive study of American history it seems, at least among the "rising generation" foredoomed to failure...
...nominated Charles B. Warren to be Ambassador to Mexico, nominated William Phillips to be Ambassador to Belgium (see Page 2). ¶ Pugilist Dempsey called at the White House and was received by Mr. Coolidge as "one who has been before the public much longer than 1." ¶ In a radio address from the White House, President Coolidge said of George Washington: "After we have recounted his victories, after we have examined his record in public office, after we have recalled that he refused to be made King, we have not exhausted his greatness. We can best estimate...
Accordingly, he applied for a permit to erect a radio broadcasting station at his home in Los Angeles, from which he might speak by day or night and be heard throughout the country. The erection of such a radio station, it was estimated, would cost...
...Professor Vigard, of the University of Christiania, Norway, claims he has discovered another and better reason. Just outside the earth's atmosphere, he says, is a wall of crystalline particles of nitrogen. This is what makes the sky blue. It also explains, he thinks, why radio waves follow the contour of the earth, instead of flying off from it at a tangent. This would seem to indicate that radio communication with other planets will always be impossible...
...favorite pastime of German radio fans is listening to Deutsehland Uber A lies. It recently came to the notice of German newspapers that whenever their pet anthem is played "some one, somewhere, butts in." "Somewhere" was defined as "in the direction of the Eiffel Tower in Paris." The newspapers then chorused that playing the anthem is not a violation of the Treaty of Versailles and that Germans are entitled to play it as much as they like...