The Developing of Communication 



for aught we know, flashing through space to the most dis- 

 tant star. It matters not how far you are removed from 

 civilization, for with the radio, the voices of speakers and the 

 dehghtful strains of music are brought to you wherever you 

 are. You may be flying through the air in a radio equipped 

 plane, or in the middle of the ocean, or in your car or In the 

 vastness of the mountains and you can hear the same voices 

 and the strains of music that are being heard by millions of 

 people — old and young, rich and poor, tradesmen and artist, 

 great and humble throughout the world. The soothing 

 lullabies that our grandmothers sang to our fathers and 

 mothers in tender childhood are again brought to us In the 

 nightly old-time programs. The old-time hymns that they 

 loved so well and that were Incarnated In their spirits are, 

 by the radio, being reincarnated in us. All that is holy, 

 sacred and good is again being brought to us without any 

 effort on our part except to listen. "What a comfort is this 

 heritage for the ages," to the sick and aflllcted and to the 

 ''shut-Ins!" 



The story of the mythical Orpheus with his entrancing 

 lyre Is dwarfed by the realities of fact. Like the develop- 

 ment of all forms of plant and animal life that have devel- 

 oped from the lower order to the higher under the direction 

 and guidance of the Universal Plan, so these methods of 

 communication have been developed from the primitive 

 ways of our primitive ancestors through the agency of the 

 human mind by the evolutionary process of change, modifi- 

 cation and growth. 



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