Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 23, 2014

COMMUNICATIONS ?

Well I guess, one can write off - the likely-hood of any melodramatic ‘mind sets’ in Mike’s Simmon’s Corners ! The ‘Belinda’ style - ‘mass’ hypnosis, takes care of that. Perfectly reasonable – assumption ! The residents so controlled, ploddingly believe, “every thing” that Axel tells them, coming (no matter how outrageously) through the radio voice of Belinda !

We can’t be sure, but the Village (seemingly?), gets it news from only a Weekly published Newspaper, and one local radio station ? The content in both, carefully Axel controlledBut there should be OTHER media around, and likely available ? Sources for ‘information transfer’ - to consider and evaluate ?

Alexander Graham Bell might have been disappointed, no one’s seen there to have a telephone (?) And back in 1944 there were TV sets in many a home, yet none have ‘popped up’ in a neighbors home in the Corners – to see and hear the voice of an Edward R. Armour or a then ‘wet’ behind the ‘ears’ - Dan Rather, Interesting sources for War time news up-dates, against the Nazis would likely be a MUST. And you pause, as you wonder how Tracy’s Nurse appeared so ‘well informed’ on his overseas war activity detail and his injuries ?

Not to stretch a point, but recent ‘big news’ then, was Spy Pruneface’s (1941) death – it’s cause) or the then – ‘current’ (June ‘44), “gored-on-the-flagpole” death of the Brow.As a n aside, you might suspect writer Max C as a boy lived there, got his ’news’ on Pruneface had a ‘frozen’ death – incorrectly ! Via Belinda ? So useless, for Cryonics machine use.

Axel’s seen (9-7-14) – using a Laptop (they didn’t exist in 1944?). No problem, could be ‘fudged off’ as part of printing equipment ? But with the importance of daily ‘Belinda’ broadcast’s, Having a Radio seemed “mandatory” for each location ?Short wave, was much in use back then, BBC War news, heard around the world ? Nearby, US Mainland – ‘alternative’ – TV/radio stations ? Would anyone have ‘tuned in’ to ABC, CBS or NBC news broadcast and hear the USA dropping Kenyon’s ‘EGGS’ on Syria ?

Then as noted yesterday, no one seems to have communicated the ‘odd job’ Axel LEASING of Thunder Island while Law Enforcement (i.e. FBI) some 2 years later, still had it listed as a - No Access, “Strictly Controlled” area ?