Judge — August 5, 1922 — page 33: what you’re looking at

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the of energy, or perhaps proof tence of a new world. THE ON there is, that curious phenom non, “fading Everyone who has listened to a distant broadcasting station knows of it. After the station is caught and tuned in, its messages come in clear and distinet for atime. ‘Then, as though a door were slowly closed. the idibility. sounds die After more, vut only a short interval, they well up onc as though the door were opene: ut the to fade again and rep process in- definit ‘teristic is this be- | havior of i that if one hears faint messages of unvarying in-| tensity, he é: sl sure that they come | from a weak, nearby station. Some en- | gineers claim fading is due to intervening electrical storms and others to the refri tive action of fog and clouds. But n one knows its true cause and out of the unknown anything may come, | We are, in . extraordinarily ignor- | ant of what lies around us. Sound, heat, | electricity, and light are all due to vibra- | tions of something, but each represents 4 simply a small set. of vibrations with enormous gaps in between where our | senses fail us. It is as though we could 1 notes on the hear a half dozen scatt piano but were utterly deaf to all the rest. | Radio opens up to us a whole block of vibrations; and if we remember that the Vibrations called “electricity” were un- known three centuries ago, the i bilities that may reside in a new set i obvious. | | AY ANY scientists believe that ins ts | | AV communicate with each other by | ' means of radio waves. If this is true, we may learn much that is curious, and p haps useful, about the habits of man- kind’s greatest enemies. But most inte esting of all is the suggestion that per: haps with the aid of radio we can come | into close touch with the psychic world One does not have to believe in the exis- tence of departed spirits, mediumistic communications, materializations, and the like, to recognize that sort of | abnormal mental forces surround us. It} seems quite certain that radio is our best | present means to penetrate this mystery | and perhaps determine definitely what is and what is n The radio receiv ‘fore, not merely a means for hearing music, speeches, and signals from certain trans- some mitting stations. It is a doorway into the unknown, Beyond all doubt, its ability to explore some of Nature's he tofore secret places will prove, in. the long run, the most important of its powers. Summer Time Reception ( N HUMID days and oppressive nights, when the heat lightning plays around the horizon or a full-blown thunderstorm is coming up, radio recep- tion is apt to be highly unsatisfactory. The rattle and crash of static interf in the most exasperating manner with the messages from nearby stations; while distant stations are quite blotted out. About the first. of October the worst of the de ys is over and there is plenty to hear in the ether, exis- | MAN /#& eS Alive. halt Are Yo alive Husband or st 0 ailsearde that Twill show you not 100", Manhood tive ttle ones a reproach Make Yourself Fit Before You 2 Marry You are not ft to marry t i want to help you STRONGFORTISM The Modern Science of Health Promotion Natu fare and rebulld you with Strongfortiam birt, Assistant —hay lifted thou met out of the bog of des Happiness and Subject in which 1 Successful Marr yereased Height LIONEL STRONGFORT —The Perfect Man Whose Feats of Strength Have Never Been Equalled Free sok Right Now TODAS LIONEL STRONGFORT Physical and Health Specialist Founded 1895 Newark, New Jersey RY face or body—Enlarged Pores, Dept. 944 -WATCHES:- CASH oR CREDIT Genuine Diamonds “4484"- TEED CERICES ARE DOWN. Everything full illustrations of ite merits in over 100,000 test cases. E. S. GIVENS, 224 Chemical Bidg., Kaasas City, quickly cleared of Pimples, Blackheads, Acne Eruptions on the Oily or Shiny Skin, CLEAR-ToNE has been Tried, Tested and Proven WRITE TODAY for my FreeBooklet—""A CLEAR- TONE SKIN"—telling how I cured myself after being afflicted fifteen years. iN IY caRTOONING, vay BIRTH send 6c in stamps. ZIM, Dept. R, ‘Write your name plainty comicbooks.com Correspondence Course Comic Art & Caricature Short Cur and Square Deal For illustrated catalog and testi- dres HORSEHEADS, N. Y.