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LOCAL STATIONS SILENT OUT OF RESPECT FOR WOODROW WILSON
MAY OPEN
I AGAIN ON
FRIDAY
Plans for Broadcasting of
“Passing Show” Are Still
Uncertain.
Silence will be observed by both
the local stations tonight out
of respect for Woodrow Wilson.
It Is expected that the two stations
will remain silent until after the
funeral of the War Leader.
WRC Cancels Program.
The Radio Corporation station
WRC has announced that they win
, remain silent tonight and tomorrow
night, with plans for Thursday
night still unsettled. Tentative
plans have been made to broadcast
the features from the “Passing
- Show” on Friday night. This pro-
Sun was originally scheduled for
t night, but was canceled with
the rest of the program out of re
spect for the former President.
KSD Program Fine.
The headliner for out of town to
n|ght, is the special all-night pro
gram for greatest distance, from
KSD, St. Louis, with orchestras
galore, and about a score of artists
of every hue and color. The man
agement says no one but acknowl
edged stars will be admitted to the
studio tonight and the program al
most bears out the statement. This
program will start at 9 o’clock,
\ Eastern standard time.
' Over at New York; WEAF is
putting on the program which was
scheduled to corrie through WCAP
until Wilson’s death closed the
local station, featuring a Joint pro
gram with Oscar Stolberg, the fa
mous character comedian and the
Crescent Trio. On the same pro
gram is Brooke Johns, Washington
ian, who is now with the Ziegfeld
Follies, singing to his own accom
paniment on the banjo, with Ray
Perkins at the' piano. Charlotte
Lund, operatic soprano and lecturer,
Is returning to WEAF to give se
lections from “Thais,” "La Boheme,”
"Butterfly” and Cavalleria Rusti
mua.”
Electrical Engineers.
The midwinter meeting of the
American Institute of Electrical En
gineers, at Philadelphia, is to be
broadcast through several stations
tonight. It is on the program of
WEAF, WGY, Schenectady, WIP,
Philadelphia, KDKA, Pittsburgh and
other stations. This will start at
8:80 p. m.
Arthur Murray will give the sec
ond of a series of dancing lessons,
through WGY, before the meeting
of Electrical Engineers at 7:30.
Florence Moore, star of the Music
Box Revue, is leading the Newark,
WOR, program, being scheduled for
the afternoon, at 3. Halsey Miller
and his orchestra are slated for an
other of their “Music While You
Dine" programs at 6:15 and 7
o’clock, with the popular "Man in
the Moon Stories for Children” sand
wiched in between.
Two Plays Offered.
Two plays are offered for dra
matic fans this evening. WNAC,
Boston, is presenting “Zeta Follies
of 1924,” by the Somerville High
School, of the city, and the Straw
bridge and Clothier Players in Phila
delphia are offering “The Radio
Widow," to be broadcast through
WFI at 9 o’clock.
A program of “Snappy Jazz. ’ is
to be broadcast from WJAX, Cleve
land, starting at 7:30, featuring
George Warmack’s Singing Synco
pators and the Mozart Club in vocal
numbers. This is the station made
famous through leaving “Marchetta”
off the program.
Women will find particular in
terest in the Amrad Women’s Club
program, -through WGI at 3, and
“Topics for Women," at 5 through
WLW, Cincinnati. The popular
Big Brother Amrad Club program,
through WGI, is slated for 6:30 to
night, WMAQ, Chicago, has a pro
gram of "Items of Interest to Wom
an," at 5:20.
The best bets among the late
evening concerts are WJAZ, Chi
cago, with Oriole Orchestra and
vocal artists; WLW, Cincinnati,
with violin solos. Hawaiian enter-,
talners and the Merry Makers Or
chestra, and the Nighthawk Frolic
through WDAF, Kansas City, at
12:45 Eastern standard time.
BROADCASTING STATION
' SILENT DUE TO ILLNESS
The reason for the silence of the
well known experimental and broad
casting station of Mr. Horace A.
Beale, Jr., of Parkesburg, Pa., is
given in a letter recently received
from Mr. Beale’s secretary.
According to this statement, the
owner and operator has been seri
ously Hl for some time and at pres
ent Is recuperating in Florida. It
Is not known when WQAA and
IXW will again be on the air.
TINFOIL WILL PREVENT
CORROSION ON LEAD-IN
A little tinfoil wrapped around
the connection to where the lead-in
is Joined will prevent corrosion.
Os course it will be much better
to solder it. but this is not con
venient at dll times. If you want
to make a still better Job, you
might cover the tinfoil with reg
ular friction tape. t
RADIO WEATHER
TONIGHT
Reception from dis
tant stations will be
unusually good to
night, especially in
the direction of south
, west ,
DISTANT STATIONS
I Eastern Standard Time
12 to 2
,1-OQ—Amnicu in the Chickering, Bedford..... WGI 360
Luncheon Music, Philadelphia .•-* ....WOO 509
. 12.-05—Music, Baltimore WCAO 860
12:10—Organ Recital, Ritz Theater, Pittsburgh KDKA 326
12:15 —Service. King's Chapel, Boston WNAC 278
12:80—Organ, Hotel Statler, Buffalo .WGR 319
News, etc., Pittsburgh .......WCAE 462
12:35—Surprise Program, Minneapolis WLAG 417
' I:oo—Meyer Davis’ Bellevue Stratford Orchestra, Phila. .WFI 895
Chimes Concert, Davenport ..WOC 484
Organ, Karl Bonawitz, Philadelphia WIP 509
Shepard Colonial Orchestra, Boston WNAC 278
I:3o—Address, De Witt McMurray, Da11a5..... WFAA 476
- ■ Jto 4 .
2:oo—News, etc., Detr0it........ WCX 517
Music and Address, Schenectady .....WGY 880
2:3o—Contralto Solos, Mabel H. Schroeder, Newark WOR 405
2:4s—Estelle Furstenberg, violinist, Newark , WOR 405
3:oo—Women’s Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia WFI 395
“Anecdotes,” Florence Moore, star of Music 80x...W0R 405
Detroit News Orchestra, Detroit WWJ 517
Amrad Woman's Club, Medford... WGI 860
i ~ Max Essner and Orchestra, Philadelphia WIP 509
Woman’s Club, Minneapolis-St. Paul... WLAG 417
B:3o—Latest News, Pittsburgh WCAE 462
Controlto solos, Newark....... WOR 405
Studio Program, Chicago KYW 536
3:3s—Lyon and Healy Recital, Hall, Chicago..........WMAQ 448
B:4o—Daylight Concert, Minneapolis-St. Paul WLAG 417
B:4s—Tuesday Tea Talk, Medford WGI 860
Estelle Furstenburg, violinist, Newark ........WOR 405
4 to 6
4:oo—Tea Time Music, Hotel Statler, Buffalo ......WGR 819
News, etc., Montreal CKAC 425
Smith Or. and Hallie M. Hays, 'dram, sop., N. Y..WEAF 493
Shepard Colonial Orchestra, Boston WNAC 278
4:3o—Sunshine Girl and Uncle Kaybee, Pittsburgh WCAE 462
Educational Program, “Rheumatism,” Davenport. .WOC 484
Henry Mos* Elite Society. Orchestra, Kansas City.WDAF 411
4:4s—Musical Tea, Montreal CKAC 425
Grand Organ and Trumpets, Philadelphia WOO 509
s:oo—New Symphony Orchestra, Toronto CFCA 400
Topics for Women, Cincinnati ~.,.....WLW 809
Afternoon Program, Louisville WHAS 400
WLAG Players, Minneapolis-St. Paul WLAG 417
Sports,'etc., .Philadelphia. I WOO 509
s:2o—ltems of Interest to Women, Chicago WMAQ 448
s:3o—Pupils of Glenn Gunn School of Music, Chicago. .WMAQ 448
,5:55 —Short Stories for Small Children, Toronto; CFCA 400
6 to 7
6:oo——Bedtime Stories. Philadelphia.... WFI 395
Dinner Concert, Hotel Tuller, Detroit WCX 517
Weekly Child Life Talk for Children, Chicago....WMAQ 448
6:OS—WIP Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia WIP 509
6:ls—“Music While You Dine,” Halsey Miller, Newark. .WOR 405
Dinner Concert, Grand Symphony Orch,. Pitts....KDKA 326
6:3o—Vincent Lopez, Hotel Statler, Buffalo WGR 319
Meyer Davis’ Orchestra, Philadelphia WFI 395
Dinner Concert, William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh. .WCAE 462
"Man in the Moon Stories for Children,” Newark..WOß 405
String Trio, Ten Eyck Hotel, Schenectady WGY 380
Meeting of Big Brother Amrad Club, Bedford WGI 360
Children’s Stories, St. Paul-Minneapolis WLAG 417
Jay Riseman and Orchestra, Bostoii. WNAC 278
6:4s—Chimes Concert, Davenport WOC 484
7 to 8
7:00 World Market Survey, Farmer’s Period, Springfield.WßZ 337
“Music While You Dine," Newark .WOR 405
Detroit News Orchestra, Detroit WWJ 517
Kiddies’ Stories, Montreal CKAC 425
Evening Program, Bedford ■..................WG1 360
Uncle Wip’s Bedtime Stories, Philadelphia WIP 509
Smoker, Minneapolis-St. Paul WLAG 417
“School of the Air,” Kansas City WDAF 411
715—" Little Journey in Cuba,” Pittsburgh KDKA 826
Arthur Murray Dancing Lesson, Schenectady WGY 880
Minneapolis A. C. Orchestra, Minneapolis-St. PauI.WLAG 417
• :80 —Farm Lectures, Minneapolis-St. Paul WLAG 417
Digest of the Day’s News, Buffalo WGR 319
Bedtime Stories for Kiddies, Springfield WBZ 337
Uncle Kaybee, Pittsburgh WCAE 462
George Warmack’s Syncopators, Cleveland........WJAX 390
News, etc., Chicago ..KYW 536
Addresses, Pittsburgh KDKA 326
Mt. Royal Hotel Orchestra, Montreal CKAC 425
Evening Program, New York WEAF 492.
7:4s—Address, "Problems Disabled Amer. Vets,” Buffalo..WGß 319
Children’s Period, Pittsburgh KDKA 826
Forestry Talks, Schenectady WGY 880
7:so—Children’s Bedtime Stories, Chicago KYW 536
Sport News, Davenport.; WOC 484
8 to 9 *
8:00 Swarthmore Glee and Instrumental Club, Phila....WFl 895
Hotel Gibson Orchestra, Cincinnati WSAI 809
Edward Ballantine, piano recital, Springfield WBZ 337
George Warmick’s Syncopators, cont., Cleveland. .WJAX 390
Clyde Doerr’s Orchestra, Chicago KYW 536 .
National Stockman and Farmer Reports, Pitts... .KDKA 326
La Salle Extension University, Chicago....'. WMAQ 448
Evenihg Program, New York.. ...WEAF 492
Dramatic Review, Elliot Lester, Philadelphia..... .WIP 509
Boston American Band, Boston WNAC 278
8;15 —Musical Program, Toronto ; CFCA 400
"Frugality,” one of Franklin’s assets. Pittsburgh.KDKA 326
American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Schenec.WGY 380
American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Phila. .WIP 509
B:3o—Musical Program, Pittsburgh . WCAE 462
Mid-Wiifter Convention, Amer. Ins. Elec. Engs..KDKA 326
Out-of-Town Student Program, Louisville WHAS 400
All-French Entertainment, music, Montreal CKAC 425
8-45 American Institute of Banking, talk, Philadelphia. .WFI 395
9 to 10
9:oo—.“The Radio Window,” play by WFI Players, Phila..WFl 395
Address, “Birds,” solos, Cincinnati WSAI 309
American Farm Bureau Federation, Chicago KYW 536
Special All-Night Program for Distance ,St. Louis..KSD 546
Evening Program, New York WEAF 492
9:30 Request Numbers, Hotel Orchestra, Cincinnati.. .WSAI 309
Program from Osceola, Ark., Memphis WMC 600
Mozart Concert Club, Dallas WFAA 476
10 to 12
10:00—Lions Club Quartet, Cincinnati . WSAI 309
Red Apple Club, Detroit WCX 517
“Zeta Follies of 1924,” high school play, Boston..WNAC 278
10:15 —Lyon and Healy Program, Chicago WMAC 448
Ted Weems and Orch., Charlie Kerr and Orch., Phila. .WIP 509
10:30—Bush Conservatory of Music, Chicago KYW 586
Mt. Royal Hotel Orchestra, Montreal CKAC 425
11:00—Musical Program, Oakland, Calif KGO 312
Violin Solos, Mrs. Max R. Miller, Cincinnati WLW 309
11:00 to 3:00 —Oriole Orch. and artists, Chicago. .WJAZ 448
11:30 —Special Late Evening Concert, Pittsburgh KDKA 326
11:45—George Webb and Hawaiian Entertainers, CInn..WLW 309
12:00—Merry Makers Dance Orchestra, Cincinnati WLW 809
Special Jaxx Organ Recital, Memphis ..WMC 600
Edwin Lisman and others, quartet, Dallas WFAA 476
12:45—Nighthawk Frolic, Kansas City WDAF 411
BLIND PIANIST TO GIVE
WELCOME HOME RECITAL
One of the best known of radio
entertainers, Guy Hunter, the blind
pianist, singer and Jokester, will
give a “welcome home” rectlal from
station WJZ tomorrow, with a pro
gram of humorous and popular
songs of the day, ballads and char
acter songs, and a generous
sprinkling of stories and anecdotes.
• Hunter’s method is well known
to radio fans, and is a unique one,
for as he talks to the invisible
listeners he keeps up a soft patter
of pianoforte accompaniment,
which is as effective as a stage
setting.
Being blind, Mr. Hunter has to
learn all his songs by memory, and
has so developed that faculty that
he is able to listen to a new piece
only once before he Is able to play
it perfectly.
Mr. Hunter, in spite of his af
fliction, Is noted not only as a
pianist and singer, but as an
organist of remarkable ability, he
having played on some of the
largest theater organs In New York.
He is also a vaudeville headliner.
AD CLUB PAYS HONOR
TO WOODROW WILSON
Sidney M. Selinger, chairman of
the luncheon committee of the
Advertising Club of Washington an
nounced today tliat the regular
weekly luncheon of the club would
not be held thia week owing to the
flt WfNrtrdw Wtornk
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
First Ad Contract Is
Accepted By
Radio
What is .believed to be the first
advertising contract sold by ra
dio was reported Saturday when
E. H. Kluge, aboard the steamer
Empress of Canada, bound for
. a world cruise, accepted a partic
ipation on behalf of his company
in the $250,000 advertising cam
paign recently begun by the knit
underwear industry.
The ship had left New York
Wednesday and efforts to obtain
Kluge’s subscription up to that
time had proved unavailing. At
the eleventh hour when man
agers of the campaign were
about to close-their books a radio
was sent to Kluge to solicit his
subscription that the fund might
be swelled to its greatest total.
An answer stating “Thanks,
call office. Will wire them my
concent" was radioed back by
Kluge.
“In testimony of the respect in
which the memory of the late
Woodrow Wilson, former president
of the United States is held there
will be no meeting of the Advertit
Ing Club thia week,” Mr. Sellnget
• Tha National Dally
FANS MUST
SOON PAY
STUDIOS
Expense of Broadcasting
Cannot Go On As At Pres
ent, Experts Say.
Who is going to pay for broad
casting in the future ? This
potent question is in the minds
of many fans because it is ob
vious that broadcasting cannot
continue on the non-economic
bash upon which it now operates.
Many plans have been suggested
and a few tried out, but at this
time the majority of stations are
operating for one of three rea
sons—to create good will, to push
the sales of receiving sets, and
for experimental purposes.
Solid Support Needed.
Most electrical companies oper
ating stations do so to develop
trade, which is based upon the
quality of the programs broadcast;
and for experimental purposes.
Other stations almost universally
operate at a loss to the owners for
advertising and good win purposes.
So the fact remains that some
means of solid support must be
found. Many stations are ceasing
operations every month because
they find the expense too great to
warrant continuing.
That is one of the most evident
of the present-day movements in
radio. The number of broadcasting
stations is decreasing steadily and
probably will continue to do so for
some time.
There are now about fifty first
class stations in the United States.
Experts predict that before many
months have passed this number
will have decreased to about ten,
with these ten furnishing a brand
of entertainment and Instruction un
dreamed of today.
Curtailment Is Result.
This will lessen but not eliminate
the problem. Unless some solu
tion is found to check the move
ment a serious curtailment my be
expected in the amount of broad
casting. Some stations, realizing
the inevitable fact, have attempted
to establish themselves more firmly.
One of the most prominent of
these is WLAG, at Minneapolis and
St. Paul, which has established fi
nancial relations with the business
bodies of the cities.
Broadminded business men in the
Twin Cities realizing the great ad
vertising possibilities of the station,
in promotion of the best interests of
the cities, have taken over the sta
tion financially, through various
trade bodies and associations to in
sure its permanency.
Even here though, the income of
the station is apt to vary accord
ing to the policies of the men in
control of the business interests and
trade bodies of the city.
Some stations, notably those in
New York, are making a profit
today, by charging a heavy rate
to broadcast through their studios.
Economically this is a sound method,
because radio advertising has
proved its worth beyond a doubt.
Direct and complete advertising
such as is now practised in maga
zines and newspapers, will never be
possible over the radio, but names
alone can be advertised through
this means better than in any other
way. .
The number of orchestras and
quartets broadcasting under the
name of commercial enterprises is
increasing daily. Stores, national
Industries, and even non-commer
cial organizations are .paying or
chestras to play under their names
and in addition paying a premium
to the broadcasting station. This
seems to be the most logical and
practicable solution to the problem,
yet offered.
The suggestion has been made
that the Government operate all
stations, thus throwing the cost
back upon the taxpayer. This may
come some day, but certainly not
until the use of radio is far more
general than it is today.
BRAIDED WIRES FORM -
LOW CAPACITY CONDENSER
Two pieces of wire about six or
seven Inches long when braided
form an excellent low capacity con
denser. Lamp' cord is ideal. Two
ends should be well insulated from
each other, while the other ends
should be used as the two terminals
of a fixed condenser. A condenser
of this type is good when used as
a grid condenser or as a condenser
in series with the antenna to lower
the wave length of in shunt to
Increase the wave length. The ca
pacity of the condenser can be in
creased by braiding the wire to
gether for a greater distance.
RADIO BEAUTY CONTEST
ON ST. VALENTINE’S NIGHT
A radio beauty contest will be
conducted by WLW, of Cincinnati,
«t 10 p. m. on at. Valentine’s
Night, February 14.
The young ladies participating
will be Judged by persons living
hundreds and thousands of miles
away, for they are to be described
from the studio, where they will ac
tually be, and then each is to say
a few words to the radio audience.
Tn this way every auditor w|ll re
ceive a mental picture of the girls.
Voters are to voice their senti
ments by telegraph.
Damages to Batteries.
It is poor policy to connect large
and small size ”B” batteries In
senes, as they will run down quick
ly. This not only applies to dis
■ tonttories but to new and
°‘ a batteries, as the emperage
of one) is greater than the other,
consequently one battery will dis-
Into Um qUm»
RADIAC CONSTRUCTS MODEL SET
I Hi HUH HHHHHH iHBHHHI
* ■ ~ - " ' ' _ ***•
CLAUDE T. CLEMENTS
And the five-tube neutrodyne that he has constructed at his -home, 113 Ninth street northwest.
Both the set and the cabinet were built by Clements, who labored with painstaking care for twenty
hours to complete his masterpiece. The set to contained in a mahogany cabinet and all wiring and
mechanism is concealed.- ■
STILLANOTHER
SUCCUMBSTD
RADIO BUG
Edward Thomas, He Who Sits
in Judgment on Traffic
Violators, Bitten.
• «
The last of the mighty has fallen.
The high officials who promote
and maintain the laws and dignity
of the city have all become radio
bugs.
Judge John P. McMahon, after a
courageous fight against the terrible
germ, succumbed several weks ago
and now the well known and Rt.
Hon. Edward Thomas—better known
as "Chick”—has been bitten.
He’s the red-headed person who
presides at the preliminary hearings
of colliding cases and decides
whether you shall face Judge
Schuldt in Traffic Court or con
tinue upon your blissful way so,
the next time you appear in the
- well known office of the assistant
corporation counsel start talking
radio as soon as you enter the
door, and continue until he clasps
,your hand and fondly whispers in
‘your ear "Brother”
Just remember that he probably
sat up all last night trying to reach
the distant and remote polar reg
ions.
i It’ll work—Just try and get away
with it.
SNOWBOUND TRAIN USES
i RADIO TO SUMMON AID
CHICAGO, Feb. 5.—A train, snow
bound in Wisconsin, employed radio
yesterday to summon asistance for
the passengers.
While the train floundered tn
the snowbanks near Green Bay,
Wis., members of the crew trans
mitted an S. O. S. which was
i picked up in Toledo and relayed
. to the Chicago offices of the North
western Railroad. Arrangements
were made to rush food and com
forts for the stranded passengers.
POOL ROOM MAN’S DEATH
SUICIDE, SAYS CORONER
Charles H. Morris, proprietor of
a pool room at 2029 K street north
west, Who was found with a bullet
through his head, several days ago,
committed suicide, according to a
verdict reached by the coroner’s
Jury yesterday afternoon.
Morris’ death was at first
thought to have been due to the
hand of another.
Call Letters for Stations.
Can No. Station. City. Wave.
CFCA....Toronto Star Toronto, Canada...«vo
CFCF.. ..Marconi Company Montreal, Canada...44o
CKAC....La Presse Montreal, Canada...42s
KDKA...Westinghouse Electric Co. Pittsburgh, Pa... 336
KGW....Oregonian Publishing Co Portland, 0re...492
KHJ C. R. Kierulff ft Co. •• Los Angeles, Ca1if...396
KSD Post-Dispatch St. Louis, M0...546
KYW... .Westinghouse Electric Co Chicago, 111...345
PWX....Cuban Telephone Company Havana, Cuba... 400
WBAP.. .Worthem-Cater Pub. Co Ft. Worth. Tex... 470
WBZ Westinghouse Electric Co Springfield, Ma55...387
WCAE. ..Pittsburgh Press Pittsburgh, Pa... 462
WCAO. ..Sanders ft Stay man Co Baltimore, Md.... 860
WCAP. ..Chesapeake ft Potomac Co.......‘..Washington, D. C... 469
WCX....Detroit Free Press .Detroit, Mich... 517
WDAF...Kansas City Star Kansas City, M0...411
WDAP. ..Drake Hotel Chicago, 111...860
WDAR...Lit Brothers /Philadelphia, Pa.. 895
WEAF. ..American Telephone ft Telegraph C0......New Y0rk...492
WFAA. ..Dallas Morning News Dallas, Tex... 476
WFI Strawbridge ft Clothier. Philadelphia, Pa... 395
WGI Amer. Radio and Res. Cor.,.Medford Hillside, Ma55...360
WHK... .Warren R. Cox 7 Cleveland, 0hi0...860
WGR Federal Telephone ft Telegraph Co. .' Buffalo.. .860
WGY.... .General Electric Co Schenectady, N. Y... 880
WHAS...Courier-Journal ft Times Co Louisville, Ky... 400
WHAZ...Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, N. Y... 380
WIP Glmbel Brothers Philadelphia, Pa... 509
WJAX.. .Union Trust Co Cleveland, Ohio.. .890
WJAZ.. .Chicago Radio Laboratory Chicago, 111...448
WJY Radio Corporation of America ......New Y0rk...405
WJZ Radio Corporation of America New York City... 455
WLAG.. .Cutting ft Wash. Radio Corp. .....Minneapolis,
WLW... .Crosley Mfg. Co ....Cincinnati, 0hi0...809
WMAQ. .Chicago Dally News Chicago, 111..,448
WMC... .Commercial Appeal Memphis, Tenn... 600
WNAC. ..Shepard Stores Boston, Ma55...860
WOC....Palmer School of Chiropractic..... Davenport, 10wa...484
WOO John Wanamaker Philadelphia, Pa... 509
WbR L. Bamberger ft .Co Newark, N. J. ..405
WRC Radio Corporation of America Washington.. .469
WSAl...United States Playing Cards Co .Cincinnati, 0hi0...309
WSB Atlanta Journal Atlanta, Ga..,439
WTAM. .Willard Storage Battery Co. Cleveland, 0hi0...890
WWJ....Detroit News Detroit, Mich... 117
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1924.
ROMPING AROUND
the
RADIO DIAL
——By Listener-In—
Radio’s Tribute.
Radio paid its respects to the
memory of Woodrow Wilson last
night.
With a service that was Impres
sive and an appeal that was univer
sal WRC commanded much of the
country’s wave area and hushed
many a home where its radio trib
ute entered.
As v far as can be learned, it was
the first time that a memorial
service has been held in a broad
casting studio. But it served well
its purpose and helped to allay a
nation’s sorrow over the loss of a
cherished citizen.
The eulogies spoken by Joseph
P. Tumulty, personal Secretary to
President Wilson; Bishop James
E. Freeman and Frederick William
Wile, who traveled with Wilson on
his European trips, brought back
vividly the memory of the man who
five years ago was “trying to wipe
away the tears of the world” and
whose appearances in the capitals
of Europe were signals for frenzied
tributes.
Even his enemies must have re
membered upon hearing the remini
sciences of Mr. Wile, the days
when the whole world saw Wood
row Wilson “every inch a man,
every inch an American, every inch
a statesman and every inch a
patriot.”
"The hopes that were his at
Brest were dashed at ' Versailles,
and what was left of them shatter
ed at Washington,” Wile declared.
But there reverberated through
the statement the earlier words of
Mr. Tumulty that "the spirit still
is triumphant in death.”
Before and after the eulogies
appropriate songs were sung. Espe
cially fitting and beautiful was the
“Flanders Requiem” sung by Her
man Fackler. His other selection
were “Invictus” and “One Sweetly
Solemn Thought.”
"Angels Ever Bright and Fair,"
“Crossing the Bar” and "Some
Sweet Day," were sung by Ruth
Peter and “Let Not Your Heart
Be Troubled,” and "Homing,” by
Flora McGill Kelfer.
The Bok Award.
‘ Coincident with the memorial
service at WRC, WDAR was broad
casting from the Academy of Music
in Philadelphia, the exercises at
which the Bok peace prize was
awarded to Charles Herbert Liver
more, of New York, a classmate ot
Woodrow Wilson at Johns Hopkins
University.
The presentation was made by
John W. Davis, ambassador to the
Court of St. James under Mr. Wil
son. -
“The plan," Mr. Davis said, "was
conceived with a clear conception
of condltons both at . home and
abroad.
“Realizing that five nations of
the world were already organized
for the purpose of peace, be brushed
aside as belonging to the sphere of
pure fancy and not of practical
politics any effort to induce them
to abandon the structure they had
built and start afresh from a new
foundation.”
Others who spoke at the exercises
were Miss Esther Lape, member in
charge of : the policy committee of
the award, Henry L. Stimson, for
mer Secretary of War, and Mel
ville E. Stone, counsellor of the
Associated Press.
Bedtime Stories.
With nothing demanding our im
mediate attention early in the eve
ning, we settled back in our easy
chair and hunted out some bedtime
stories.
The first story-teller discovered
was the "Dream Lady" at KDKA
relating a really delightful story of
'General Miles,” a great, lovable
goose. The time or the story was
a few days before Christmas and
the plot easily imagined.
“The Dream Lady” has an excep
tional manner before the micro
phone, and whenever Mr. or Miss
“Five-year-old” is not content with
having heard our own Peggy Al
bion, it might not be amiss occa
sionally to tune in Pittsburgh and
let the honored gentleman or lady
hear Just one more bedtime story.
Even that statistically minded
announcer of markets at KDKA
must have got a kick from the
"General Miles” story. When he
followed "The Dream Lady" to the
microphone he explained that a
substitute for the Christmas goose
could have been bought yesterday
for from 18 to 20 cents a pound.
Turning the dial we were ad
mitted to a kiddies’ birthday party
“somewhere.” It must have been
good fun for the tiny listeners-in,
and we would like to have discov
ered just where we were. The sig
nature was logt in a barrage of
“squeals” which probably emanated
from a hundred dials being handled*
by youthful fingers trying to get
in on the party.
Tonight is the night that KSD,
St. Louis, plans an all-night pro
gram of stars, in an attempt to
chalk up new distance tests for
the station. The program is not
expected to close until the sun has
climbed over the horizon.
Among other numbers that we
heard and liked last night was
“Beautiful Isle of Somewhere” as
sung at KDKA.
LECTURER WILL DESCRIBE
TRIP OVER HINIAt
Dr. William Montgomery McGov
ern, Ph. D. (Oxom, uieuii.e/
Royal Geographical and Royal
Asiatic Societies and lecturer at the
University of London, who is at
present on a tour of the Unitea
States, will broadcast from WOR
tomorrow afternoon what promises
to be a highly interesting travel
talk describing an adventurous trip
to Lhasa, over the Himalayan
passes, 18,000 feet high.
This trip was made by Dr. Mc-
Govern in January, 1923, at which
time the only motion pictures ever
made in the Forbidden City were
taken. Unaided and even hampered
by the British authorities, after
much suffering and in peril of his
life, he penetrated to Lhasa in dis
guise.
MRS. VAN WINKLE PLEADS
JUSTIFICATION IN ARREST
Liet; Mina C. Van Winkle, in
charge of the Women’s Bureau of
the Police Department who was
sued for 35,000 damages by Mildred
Taylor, a minor, for alleged false
arrest and imprisonment, yesterday
filed a plea of Justification in the
District Supreme Court. Miss Tay
lor was detained as a witness in
the case against Speros Demos, who
had been charged with keeping a
disorderly house, but who was ex
onerated. The woman police offi
cial declares that she only did her
duty, and that she was not actuated
by malice. Miss Taylor was re
leased because her paranta could
not bo found.
MODEL SET
WORK OF
ART
C. T. Clements Erects Five-
Tube Neutrodyne That’s Ex- ,
ample of Efficiency.
Having progressed step by
step through the several ages
of radio sets, Claude T.' Clem
enti), 113 Ninth street northwest, <
has erected a monumental five
tube neutrodyne on a. heap of .
abandoned crystals and one
lungers.
Model of Efficiency.
The set as It stands today is an
excellent example of art and ef
ficiency in receiving apparatus, and
it summons up distant stations with
the loudness and clarity of a local
‘lt took twenty-odd hours of the
most careful and painstaking work
I have ever done,” Clements says
of his set. “But it is worth every
minute of it.”
Last week the set was the hon
ored guest andVentertainer at a
christening party attended by
Listner-In.
The receiver is a five-tube new- i
trodyne assembled in a mahogany
cabinet—entirely constructed at
home. One UV 200 tube is used
as a .detector and four UV 201-A ’
tubes employed as amplifiers. The
storage battery is charged from
110-volt direct current through a
200-watt lamp and the charging
process is left connected while the
set is operating. Confuting many
theories there is no “power-house
hum” resultant from the process.
Mechanism Concealed.
All of the mechanism of the set
is concealed, only the three dials
appearing when the set is opened.
Clements employs both a loud
speaking horn and a phonograph
attachment. A wire is conducted
(out of sight) to a Victrola several
feet from the cabinet and by throw
ing a # switch the sound can be
directed either into the horn hr
the upper part of the cabinet or to
the phonograph.
With the simplicity that mark*
the tuning, Clements seldom us*
headphones for this work.
EERWILIEF*
WORK AIDED
B! AIR
More Than a Million Listen In
on Pittsburgh Concert
for Children.
PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 5.
Owners of radio receiving sets in ,
the District of Columbia, Maryland,
Virginia, southern Pennsylvania
and West Virginia comprised the
bald-head row in the audience of
more than 1,000,000 who heard the
international radio benefit held Fri
day evening by the Pittsburgh com- /
mlttee for relief of German chil- J
dron. Thousands of dollars for*
suffering German children were
subscribed from all parts of North
America and hundreds of telegrams
were received.
The concert was heard' from ths
Hawaiian islands to Asia Minor by
the system of relays instituted by
the Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Company. A corps
of clerks was pressed into service
at midnight to register the dona
tions. Among the contributors
were:
Maurey Herman, Seymour Levy,
Howard J. Marshall, William
Smith, Arthur Browne, the St. Ste
phen’s Club and the Capitol News
Company, Washington; Mrs. and
Y- Pa *® and Mr - and
Mrs. Charles E. Dietrich, Rich
m°nd Va.; W.A. Bodell and Mrs.
A. Effron, Bluefield, W. Va.*
< .’ Hampton, Va.;
P r - Harman Evans, Lynch
burg, Va.; Edith D. Bramble and
Shaw and Wilson, Baltimore, and
Meyer Kaplon, Frederick, Md.
On the night of the benefit 129.50
was received by wire from Wash-1
ington donors and contributions
have been pouring in since that
time. The money is immediately
turned over to American Quakers
who are supervising the feeding
man?. starvin ® children in Ge*
“RAPID FIRE” ADDRESS
ON SALESMANSHIP WINS
Station WAAM, Newark, N J
has a strong feature in the weekly
talks on salesmanship delivered by
Joseph G. Wood. His rapid-fins
delivery, and,the humorous busi
ness. stories he uses to point his
addresses, have won him a large
and appreciative audience, if the
number of commendatory telegrams
and letters pouring into the studio
may be taken as an indication of
his popularity.
“If It’s Electrical We De IK"
IF IT’S RADIO V K HAVE ITJ*
J. C. Harding & Co.,
720 12th St. N. W. A
Franklin 7SM.