Judge — April 1, 1922 — page 2: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Hoover calls it Astounding! 7 days ago in Washingtdn Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, made a declaration that served to draw national attention to one of the. most extraordinary miracles of popular science in the world’s history. Mr. Hoover was discussing proposed Congressional legisla- tion to regulate wireless telephony. He declared that during the last five months he had observed the astounding growth in the use of radio telephones; that a year ago there were 50,000 persons in the United States who had radio telephone receiving sets and that now there are upward of 600,000 who have them. But that is not all. Radio telephony is sweeping the coun- try like a prairie fire. Thousands of receiving sets are being sold every day and the manufacturers literally are inundated with orders. Broadcasting stations are being installed at key points from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from them free radiophonic news —world and domestic—crop and weather reports, musical pro- grams, sermons, lectures and a variety of other intelligence and entertainment is disseminated through the air to millions of auditors far and near. Because of the remarkable growth and popularity of this innovation Leslie’s Weekly is inaugurating in its April 1 issue a new Radio Department, conducted by a well-known author- ity on the subject. This Department will contain the latest information in the field of radio telephony, presented in terse, reliable and interesting fashion—the style that has made the Automobile and Investment Departments such successful features in Leslie’s. If you have a radio telephone; if you contemplate getting one; if you want to get a lot of fascinating facts about this latest American furore—don’t miss the new Radio Depart- ment in Leslie’s Weekly.