SUN TO INSTALL WIRELESS SERVICE
The Vancouver Sun is completing arrangements for the installation of a
free wireless and radiophone service for the people of British
Columbia. Prompted by a desire to render the best newspaper
service to the public that science permits and radio activities having
progressed to that state where every home can now be equipped with an
efficient wireless set at a nominal cost. The Sun has taken the
opportunity of being the first paper in Canada to introduce this
advanced method of news distribution. While the general details
of the policy that will guide the operation of the service has all been
completed, it is the intention of the management to release a daily
news bulletin and entertainment programme.
Residents on Vancouver Island, the Prince
Rupert district and every remote corner of the interior will by this
means be brought into instantaneous and close communication with
Vancouver. The foremost features in the trend of events
throughout the world will in this manner be relayed throughout the
province hours ahead of The Sun itself, the present medium of latest
information. These bulletins will be supplemented by a more
detailed account in the following issue of The Sun.
The daily concert to be effected by the use of
radiophone will extend a continuous source of entertainment to families
in outlying districts that now forego these pleasures. Members of
households engaged in the development of British Columbia resources
will from time to time be permitte3d to sit by the family hearth and
listen to recitals by the many artists of renown that visit Vancouver
from time to time. Addresses by distinguished visitors will be
whisked to the four corners of the province concurrent with their
delivery before the Vancouver audience. Sermons by the leading
pastors of this city will in turn be extended to the thickly and
sparsely populated centres alike.
The benefits that may accrue from such a
service is beyond the realm of human conception. Vast stretches
of arable land that are now lying dormant might easily be converted
into regions of production by extension of social privileges to
settlers. Thousands of energetic beings who are today on the
verge of going back to the land, but who hesitate when faced with the
bogey of loneliness, will find a solution to that particular problem in
the radio service to be extended through the Vancouver Sun. The
system which The Sun intends to instal in conjunction with the
Trans-Canada Press Service will be the most complete set of its kind in
the province. It is being acquired at a heavy financial outlay,
but with a guarantee of maximum efficiency.
Watch the Vancouver Sun for further announcements of the
initiation of this the most revolutionary and progressive move ever
attempted in the annals of Canadian journalism.