United States and Great In Manhattan's miniature motion picture are ‘‘fed” distant, the news land by the British company, and in Germany by the state. Each has accomplished something; massed together these accomplishments are tremendous. In the Western hemisphere great- est television experiments have been made by the Radio Corpora- tion of America and its subsidiary, the National Broadcasting com- pany. Each day in Radio City ex- perimental programs are televised to whoever might be ‘‘watching” within the 25 to 35-mile radius that present day television covers. The ‘“‘Bugs’’ Are Gone. Actually, RCA’s engineers have already ironed out most of the “bugs” in transmission and devel- oped several great improvements in reception. A studio technique has been devised for handling the icon- oscope, or televising camera. A larger cathode ray tube has been perfected to show a 7 by 10-inch image. Another tube projects it to a 3 by 4-foot screen. The sickly ‘green color that characterized ear- ly television receiving screens has been eliminated and changed to black and white. Today RCA is experimenting with portable transmitters which ‘‘shoot” street scenes, flash them by ultra ghort wave to the main transmitter in Radio City and "thence by re- broadcast to the receiving sets. Ul- timately, portable transmitters will be the heart of successful television, bringing all sorts of public events to the waiting world. RCA receivers now show an imuge clear as that of the average home movie projector, carrying 441 lines compared with last year's 343. Characters move without jerky mo- tions, more smoothly in fact than motion pictures, for the scene is tele- vised 30 times a second compared with 24 on the movie screen. RCA’s chief obstacle is distance. Radio television carries from 25 to 35 miles, depending on the trans- mitter's height. No commercial sponsor will use television when it covers such a small audience, but RCA is confident its engineers will eventually conquer distance. An equally likely development is that television will eventually be “piped” over the country just as today's chain radio broadcasts are carried to key points by wire. Telephone and Television. Working on that assumption Bell Telephone company engineers are experimenting with the ‘‘coaxial” cable, already laid between New York and Philadelphia at a cost of $5,000 a mile. The resultant trans- mission is even clearer than that of radio television, according to Bell engineers. “Fog” and “static” marks characterizing radio pictures are missing in the coaxial version, and a 480-line image is being per- fected to exceed RCA’'s 441-line re- production. Pi The possibilities of television via telephone are tremendous. It may develop into a two-way telephone conversation in which the speakers actually look at each other. The two-way stunt was tried success- fully with radio television in Lon- don, when two men seven miles apart saw and heard each other. Another telephone-television pos- sibility lies in a home-theater serv- ice by wire, paid for just as we pay our monthly telephone bill today. The coaxial cable's feasibility is exceeded only by its expense. Un- der radio television's present dis- tance handicap, it would require 2,000 transmitters to cover the Unit- ed States, necessitating 90,000 miles Battle Toraasioniin meanwhile hearing their | 90 miles in Eng- of coaxial cable at $5,000 a mile. Total cost would be almost $500,- 000,000. Besides RCA and Bell Telephone, other American experimenters with * At Radio City televised broadcasts are guided through the control room (right), out over the mammoth antenna far above Manhattan's streets, and into receivers such as that at the left, where the image is re- produced on a 7 by 10-inch screen. television include the Columbia Broadcasting system with a $2,500,- 000 experimentation program under Gilbert Seldes, former newspaper man, and the Don Lee-Mutual net- work on the Pacific coast. A prom- inent radio concern plans a trans- mitting station in Chicago. Great Britain at Work. Although Germany claims a radio television record of 300 miles, Great Britain readily admits she leads the world in experimentation with this amazing new child of science, For more than a year the British Broadcasting company has been televising daily programs to an audience of some 8,000 receivers in the London area. . Headquarters are at Alexandria palace and although television cov- ers but a 50-mile radius from that Here's the inside of an NBC tele- vision camera showing (center) the Iconoscope or “‘eye” of television. The camera’s work is to transform a pattern of lights and shadows to corresponding electrical impulses. center, officials say the area is be- ing increased steadily. They have already adoptgd coaxial cable in Great Britain; BBC's programs are now “piped” from London to Bir- mingham and the cable is being ex- tended to Manchester, Leeds and Newcastle. Like the radio, television is ex pected eventually to be invaluable for military use. Secret experiments are already being made with a French lightweight transmitter to be mounted in an airplane for spot ting the location of artillery fire. Another British accomplishment is the televising of color, Early in December John C. Baird, one of England's pioneers in the field, an- nounced he had transmitted a col- ored image of the Union Jack Baird's television system is one of two now in use across the sea, hav- ing been started in 1926, BBC be- gan its transmissions in 1932 and three ye later the government provided for a research commission to pave the way for general broad- casts. Movies See Possibilities. projection of televised en- movie theater 's greatest ac- The tertainment to a screen is one of BBC complishments to date. A British motion picture concern is already seeking permission to televise vari- ety programs exclusively to a group of theaters. Television may eventually fall di- rectly into the motion picture indus- try's lap, simply because no other entertainment field has perfected a studio technique comparable to that required for successful staging of ‘‘shows.’’ Several Hollywood studios ’ are already said to be investigating the possibilities. Government con- trol in England has placed a stum- bling block in the path of such de- velopments. BBC has a monopo ly on television broadcasts and Publi exhibition of television programs is barred. America's most popular television question today is: When do we get it?" Scientists claim the United State leads Great Britain in this devel ment, but that does not make com. mercial television practical. Though RCA has adopted a 441-line image, Bell Telephone will soon offer 480 lines. Receivers capable of handling one of thess images cannot accom- modate the other. In other words, definite transmission standards must be established by all partici- pants before television will become practical. Sending and receiving equipment must dovetail in every respect. America Proceeds Cautiously. Though Americans may envy the British their commercial television, the wise scientists guiding Amer- ican experiments have saved us mil- lions of dollars. Admitting the em- bryonic status of their plaything, these men have refused to sponsor receiving sets that would become obsolete almost immediately. Not a single receiver available 18 months ago could be used today! America’s second most popular television question is: “How will it affect the newspapers, magazines, motion pictures and other informa- tion-entertainment media?”’ Since television requires eye at- tention as well as ear attention, it cannot hope-—generally speaking— to win nation-wide audiences except in the evening recreation hours. When people watch and listen to news events their reactions will be much the same as under the present form of radio news coverage. Tele- vision will give only the highlights, as much as the ordinary person would see today when watching a big fire. And, as in the case of the fire, the average person will eagerly await his newspaper for complete details. If anything, television is apt to stimulate an interest in news- papers. Magazine, motion pictures and legitimate stage performances will zontinue in popularity because Americans are natural gadabouts, unwilling to devote all their recrea- tion time to one given entertain- ment. Television's biggest audience will come from our present radio listeners. The amount of time spent at receivers will be comparable to our present devotion to the radio. All we need, then, is greater transmission distance, cheaper “piping” facilities and standardized transmission and receiving equip- ment. Whether these developments are just around the corner or a few miles ahead, we can’t say for cer tain. But this much is true--no o is scoffing at the scientific inf: Some day it will grow up and =: us right in the eyes! Hight i the wapaper Union I EL 0, EVERYBODY: Well, by golly, chased old lady Adventure globe, John Dunker, and today he about the turn of the African Colonial cavalry in the John didn’t class the he crashes into the was all over. went up to Bulawayo—went br Gwelo, a hundred and fifteen mi Adventurers’ Oke have with us a guy who has of the farthest corners of the in Matabeleland, , N. Y. But along was fighting with the South war, The though. yarn he hearing of a job up in , trekked up there on foot. there and, such a thing. But all John John says that that adventure life, and I believe him. He says: every kink of it stood at attention after it happened. For actua ture until some two and John landed his job in Gwelo, that called bad walked more than a hun Also, it was a inter And it wa a half i for vals, 8s the ri single thrill of his and the thing happened-—or rather, was having an adven- all over.” biggest h was a job g—but that didn’t bc a guy who just to get the dozwone job. ng the Gwelo river at frequent y of adventure. The Gwelo river was one out. In the rainy season it other times of the year, it was streams you just c raging torre: nt. B. it at bed, cut through by a The little trickle of water that Zambesi, one of the biggest ri crocodiles, and queer fish, the African waters vers It ran and it was usually ge and awesome denizens of but in the dry season, That was easy, trunk lying on the other side. broad jump across the water, side. He did it again and ag: any danger in such a simple You never know where it's li Well, $e + sunt. for the river, take a 1 the tree trunk on the opt posite But that's the thing about danger. He started out He raced down dead tree as usual, wasn't as it should be. seemed to him that the doggone p, and landed on the And it It was shorter time than it takes to tell move faster than usual, The run down on the other side. to the top. But this time, he took his time about climbing way to the top, and had scram- at first, feeling altogether. The tree trunk he usu- downstream. the wrong place. from the top of the bank, When he turned to look It had its jaws wide open, Yep—you're right. EATING CROCODILE! “Well, at that moment, every The Deer's Leap The National Bureau of Standards gays that if the deer started his leap with sufficient force to com- plete it, he would complete the leap, alive or dead; that is, unless some force, such as a bullet striking him, decreased his speed, or he changed his position in such a way as to strike the far side in landing. Polar Eskimos Friendly Polar Eskimos are a friendly, happy people who live farther north than any other human beings. They rove the Arctic from Greenland to Alaska. Skin tents are their hab tation during the brief summer, snow igloos their winter homes Their food, save for a few birds eggs and berries, is exclusively flesh—the seal, bear, fox, whale walrus and reindeer being the prov ender. They are prodigious eaters hence their plumpness and perhaps their good nature Ship Route Is “Inside Passage” For about a thousand miles along the coast of British Columbia and Alaska there is a remarkable steam- er route known as the “Inside Pas- sage’ or “safe way.” A great sys- tem of islands, the exposed summits of the insular mountain range par- alleling the coast, gives shelter from the main ocean. Needle-Shedding Conifers The larch is the only tree in the North, and the cypress the only tree fy the South among our native con ifers which drop all of their needies each year. Most conifers lose only a fractional part of their needles during the fall season Brown coi oration and falling off of the white pine needles on last year's twigs a well known exampie of this par tial defoliation by natu.ai hab ' 'he larches produce an entre “up ply of bright =: “" spring All-Purpose Gloves Crocheted Lengthwise Nimble fingers are busily cro- cheting these lovely woolly gloves that so closely follows the vogue, They're quick to do—two flat iden. tical pieces whipped together— with a gusset for that wrist flare, Use either yarn or string for end- Pattern 5676. less durability. Just wait till you see how easy they are to do! In pattern 567 76 vou will find tions for making thes illustration of stitches ments. To obtain th is pail cents in stamps or ing preferred) to The Sewing Household Arts Dept., ? Street, New York, N. Please write you: dress and pat mber plainly. 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