VOICES FROM PERPETUAL ICE

LilLIIII oS s S ra v l rilir EARS ago a fanciful writer took his readers on an expedition to the north pole. The ex plorer had been pre ceded to the region of 4 perpetual ice by a party that had perished there. The hero of the story learned this one day when a torch that he was holding thawed part of a large shaft of ice and there came from this icy pris on the voices of the men who had perished there rears before. Today the fancy of the novelist has become t fact of science.

The air is filled with messages hat may be heard by any one who has the simple aeans that are requisite. The man who stands. In the noisy crowd of the city and the lonely sheep herder on a fenceless Australian prairie are alike surrounded by them and it is possible for each to be made conscious of their presence. This is the accomplishment of wireless.

The system of communication without the use of wires to carry the electrical impulses has grown so intimately into the wprlds business that it takes something out of the ordinary to bring a realiza tion.