RADIO MARVELS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19035, 12 June 1924, Page 4

RADIO MARVELS

Wilitiii the next few weeks the radio “fans” of Hawaii may be listening to the hitherto unheard voices of the insects. The noises made by a worm in a tree-top may be no longer a mere jest. The Pan-Pacific Food Conservation Confcernco to be held in Honolulu in August may provide this canny radio entertainment as a side issue. Dr. F. E. Lutz, chief entomologist of the Musehm of Natural History in New York, hopes to attend the conference and have with him his radio broadcasting microphone that will magnify and broadcast the unsuspected song of the caterpillar and the jazz music of the Japanese beetle. The Pan-Pacific Union Bulletin reports that the research work in radio towards perfecting this wonderful contrivance has been completed, and Dr. Lutz has been promised the perfected instruments. Should ho take part in the conference, he hopes that all may listen to the sounds of the insects that are diseussel by the entomologists and cussed by the sugar planters. Alexander Hume Ford, directing executive of the Pan-Pacifie, writing from Now York late in March, informed the PanPacific trustees of the hope that Dr. Lutz will be able to visit Honolulu for the conference. He adds: “Interest of the scientific and radio bodies is begining to centre on the possibilities of Hawaii as a central radio service station in the Pacific. It is safe to say that the Pan-Pacifie Union as a neutral organisation with no axe to grind, and merely in the field to promote education in the Pacific by ether waves, is having most generous offers of co-oper-ation from quarters and directions that are surprising, but most welcome. I earnestly hope that Dr. Lutz can attend our food conference, and that he may be able to demonstrate his wonderful new improvement of the radio microphone, and, perhaps, there are those coming from other Pacific lands who will have just as startling developments to announce in radio work.”