He had to leave sometime, but he leaves
at a time with the
borders of his district, his constituents, in
peril.
But the
peril of the European War had meant Crosley crystal - receiver radio sets and quenched spark systems with an eight - hundred - mile range for all who lived and worked on the coastlines, and so, on Sunday, November 12, 1916, just below the Oregon
border,
at the St. George Reef Lighthouse, eight miles off the California coast, there began an explosion of radio, telephone, and telegraph operations unprecedented in American history.