Article July 16, 1927 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Edward Shillito, Willis Bergen

[From an editorial in the Boston Traveler, Massachusetts]

In the next fifty years the world is to witness many changes due to radio. One of these changes will be the development of an international over-language. For, as radio transmits human speech across boundaries, people in one country are going to desire eagerly to know what is coming through the ether from another country having a different language. The demand for a common language will become more insistent than it has ever been. What the universal language of radio will be or how it will come into existence, no one can foretell. There is some reason for the belief that, given time enough, English will become the prevailing language of mankind. More people in more parts of the world are able to communicate in English than in any other tongue.

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