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INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.
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Entered as Second Class Matter. July 25 1914, at Postoffice, Indianapolis, lnd.,
under act M arch 3, 18*9. .
PERHAPS the plesiosaurus was hatched from a cold storage egg.
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OKLAHOMA is running California a does race for front page mur
der records.
SOUTH BEND should be thankful, however, that it has other at
tributes aside from the fact that it once gave refuge to a countess.
Undermining Civil Service
The abrupt dismissal of thirty-two employes of the Government bureau
of printing and engraving by executive order without an opportunity to
defend themselves against ugly charges bruited about is the most serious
blow ever struck at the civil sendee system. The President’s order re
lieving these men summarily from their duties followed so closely Attor
ney General Daugherty’s attack on civil service that it leads to the belief
that an organized movement to restore the odious “spoils system Is re
ceiving Administration sanction in Washington without even observing
the customary political amenities,usual when lucrative appointments are
desired for “deserving” partisans.
The statutes explicitly provide that a person removed from the classi
fied service of the United States must have “notice of the charges against
him and be furnished with a copy thereof and also be allowed a reasonable
time to answer the same In writing and to file affidavits in support there
of," yet when the employes sought to learn the reasons for their dismissal
at the White House President Harding was golfing.
Secretary Mellon says no charges involving the honesty of the men
were made, yet the capital is full of rumors, emanating undoubtedly
from official sources assiduously endeavoring to find alibis for the un
precedented procedure, that there was laxness and even dishonesty in the
conduct of the bureau/ •
The ousted employes are entitled to a fair hearing and should be al
lowed in all fairness to answer the quasi-official Imputations cast against
their integrity. President Harding and Secretary Mellon, the two most
intimately connected with the affair, owe It to the public and to the .men
themselves the right to be heard, even if they have determined that this
incident is the opening wedge in a determined effort to break down ci\il
service and usher in the “spoils system” in all of Its tarnished glory.
There is another phase of the situation that also demands an explana
tion. The Washington Times declares the men were ousted after em
ployes of the bureau of printing and engraving had threatened to make
public serious charges involving the twenty-five who came under piesi
dential displeasure. If it is true that a little coterie of men in any de
partment of the Government have sufficient power to intimidate high
offL’als by the threat of an expose without due regard for the rights of
the Individuals concerned, it is time for the country to know it.
That the discharges were the culmination of a carefully studied
scheme to pave the way for men who are more deserving of plums at the
hands of the Harding Administration is evidenced by the fact that the
actual selection of the victims was left to Elmer Dover, Assistant Sec
retary of the Treasury and regional director for the Republican party on
the coast Dover has been Intrusted with the task of restoring the “spoils
system” to the Treasury Department and his first effort seems to have
been unusually successful.
Democrats and Republicans alike are aroused over the Incident, for
it was not Just a drive of the Administration to. oust Democrats. Eight
een of the employes are Republicans and eight are Democrats, the others
professing no political affiliations, thus giving unmistakable evidence that
the whole affair was a dfrect attack upon the civil service sj stem.
Passing +he Strike Buck
The miner passes the "buck" to the owners of the mines, tl>v pass it
on to the railroads, they pass It on to the dealer, and he passes it back to
the railroads, while the Uncle Sam public pays the bill.
The present peaceful, so-called, strike is more in the nature of a lock
out than a strike. The contract between the miners and owners of the
mines terminated March 31. The miners did not strike, they simply had
no jobs. They offered to go on at the old wages, but the operators re
fused to meet them to discuss anew scale. So the "buck" passed to the
owners of the mines, who claim the railroads are charging an increase of
300 per cent for hauling coal, and that the cost of coal to the public is so
high tbeir business has been practically ruined. The railroads say the re
tailers, often the mine owners themselves, operating under a different
name, are collecting too much profit from the public, thereby passing the
"buck" along once more. At this point the retailer of coal must either
keep it or pass it on, or back to the railroads, where, as a matter of fact,
it should remain.
Os course, the poor miner can only deal with the operator, and while
the wages of the miner, if he had steady work, would be too high, can only
be adjusted in connection with a reduction in freight rates, not only on
coal, but all other commodities, thereby reducing the cost of living. There
is no wage ton basis for miDing coal. There are thousands of mines and
hundreds of different working conditions which make a uniform ton scale
impossible.
One West Virginia Pocahontas coal mine operator told me In Wash
ington last week that he was delivering his coal f. o. b. cars on side track
at his mines for $1.25 a ton. "We used to buy his coal In Chicago delivered
in our boiler room for $3.50 a ton. Now the freight alone is $3.50 a ton
and thic coal costs us $7.50 a ton, an Increase of SI.OO a ton. The operator
is getting 30 cents of that $4.00 Increase, while the railroads and retailer
get $3.70 I give you this concrete example in order to show you that
after a ! his so-called "strike" is not so much against the owners of the
mines as it is a combined strike of the miners and operators against the
railroads and middleman who have put up thejr prices until the public
is unable to buy coal and the miner is working less than half time, and
the mine owner’s sales have been cut in two with his overhead, taxes,
Investment, wear and tear remaining th§ same, or more. I will admit that
until I got all the figures together I blamed the coal mine owner for at
least one-half the trouble, but I have changed my mind as the public must
with the facts before it.
Where I say owner or operator of the mines I me'.n owners inde
pendent of the railroads or big fintn tial concerns that owl both the rail
roads and the mines.
Before the United States Government passed a law forbidding the
railroads to own coal mines, nearly 60 per cent of the mines w r ere owned
by the railroad companies, and whether coal cars were scarce, or not, they
would freeze out independent operators by not spotting cars at their
mines. While the law says the roads cannot own mines they have evaded
the letter of the law in many, many peases by organizing coal companies
and operating under a different name. I know this to be true. Even
sometimes they are so brazen as to use the same officers in both the rail
ed and coal companies.
1 Now, what’s the answer, is the question you and I are deeply inter
ested in. This ii a peaceful strike and there will be no trouble unless the
railroads attempt to open up some of their—under cover—mines. The
miners know that the cost of coal to the consumer must come down for
them'to have steady employment. How is this all to be brought about,
who is going to give way first? The railroad s believe that starvation will
force the miner to take less pay, especially as the country can keep going
for the next four months on the coal now in sight and the tonnage pro
duced by the non-union mines. If all the coal in the United States were
dug for nothing it would not take SI.OO a ton off the price. Suppose the
miners stood a 25 per cent cut in their wages, that -would only take 25
cents a ton off the retail price, and nobody asks this, not even the mine
owners. The "buck” must remain with the railroads until the game is
over. The delivered price of coal must come down before we reach a be
fore-the-war basis. Coal should be delivered, and will be some day, at
an average cost of SI.OO per ton above 1914 prices, but I do not expect this
price to be reached for a year or so.
Few people In this country realize that only IQ per cent of our manu
facturing in this country is done “on rop of the coal,” while 77 per cent of
British, 44 per cent of German.and 37 per cent of French factories are
located at the coal mines. Except for the fact that the countries named
have to import their raw stock we could not compete with them. Some
day our factories must locate "on top of the coal.”—W. D. Boyce, in the
Highways and By-Ways
of Lil’ OP New York
By RAYMOND CARROLL
N. (Copyright, 1922, by Public Ledger Company.) "
NEW YORK, April s.—Many of the big
hotels of New York City are closing off
entire floors because of the lack of pat
ronage and their proprietors ate issuing
statements ascribing their woe? to pro
hibition. Their contention is that people
ere going elsewhere afttir the theater to
supper, to places where they can
liquor.
To one who knows the metropolis that
contention is funny. Within the last six
mouths hundreds of small restaurants
have opened on Manhattan Island and
they are doing excellent business without
the sale of intoxicating liquors.
What happened was this: The public
finally awakened to the fact that It is
being outrageously mulcted for food in
the hotel restaurants and simply stayed
away, seeking out the small places in
the side streets. Even guests of the hotels
go elsewhere to eat.
Another sore point with the public Is
the knowledge that the hotel proprietors
sell the right co gouge tips for the care
of hats and coats while the guests eat.
•The hotels themselves killed the goose
that laid their golden eggs and they have
only themselves to blame for unoccupied
rooms and rows of empty tables with idle
waiters standing around. Os course there
are exceptions and from them v*e hear
no complaints.
To the southeast of Chatham Square,
along Madison street and adjacent cross
• treets Is the Greek quarter of the
lower east side. Th£ signs are all in
modern Greek and shops abound In
which Greek olives, tobacco and other
Near East imports may be procured.
For several blew 1- * in any direction the
impression is that of being in a Greek
city.
I dropped into a nearby political club
and asked: "What is the Greek vote
of the assembly district The reply:
“Exactly ninety-six Greeks are on the
voting list, out of a total registration
of about 17.00) of all races In the First
assembly district.”
It cannot be estimated how many
Greeks live In this district, but there
Ye TOWNE GOSSIP
CnrrvtKht, 192*. by Star Company.
By fc. C. B
“IT MUST be.
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“THAT YOCR'E getting old.
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-AND A little crabby."
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I SAID to myself.
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JUST A moment ago.
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FOII SITTING here.
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IN THE sunny room.
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\TIIFRE I <so my work.
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I’VE HEKN disturbed.
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BT SOME little kids.
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WHO Are at play.
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IN THE court outside.
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AND I wls surprised.
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THEY SHOULD bother me.
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FOR YESTERDAY.
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AND TIIK day before.
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THEY PLAYED out there.
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AND YELLED a lot.
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AND LAUGHED a lot.
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AND I wasn’t disturbed.
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IN THE very least.
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AND I'VE wondered why.
I SHOULD have changed.
AND I’VE figured It out.
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AND TITE reason is.
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THAT TWO of the kids.
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SHOWED rr today,
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WITH SOME man-made things.
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THAT SOME one invented.
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TO ENRICH himself.
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AND PUT them in stores.
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AND PARENTS bought them
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AND TOOK fhem home.
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AND SHOWED the kids. *
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HOW TO rattle them.
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AND SCREECH with them.
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AND TURNED them loose.
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ON THE neighbors* ears.
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AND SO It Is.
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IF I*M disturbed.
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IT ISN'T the kids.
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WHO ARE doing It.
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NOT HALF ao much.
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AS THE grownups.
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BUT NEVERTHELESS.
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IT IS the kids.
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WHO GET the blame.
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AND IP I had the guy.
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WHO INVENTED the things.
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THEY’RE WHANGING on.
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THIS VERY minute^*
I'D MAKE him eat ’em.
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AND THEY'RE made of tin.
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AND PAINTED green.
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I THANK you.
BRINGING UP FATHER.
A, JURY 'I i TO KNOV/ ,FI K,M THEIRS REA*bON ] J
WOULDN'T THAT LZ *****> ON THEL SHOULD D>E J WILL NOT BE H Omp .
make vou WILD-* - l_y ,'<s& ■ ;=rl 43 FRO " OURV v HAVE TO t>ERV£ ON A j
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INDIANA DAILY TIMES.
are 25,000 in the entire city and their
chief center of trade on the east side is
back of Chatham Square.
The cross of war awarded by the gov
ernment of Czecho-Slovakia to Maj. Sher
man M v Cralger for services to the al
lied supplies mission in Trieste has been
presented to him by Maj. Gen. Robert
Lee Bullard, commanding headquarters
Second army corps area, Governor's
Island, with formal ceremony. Accom
panying the decoration was a diploma
from the minister of national defense
at Prague.
Major Cralger was decorated by the
French and Italian governments and Is
connected with the finance reserve corps,
United States Army. He also is engaged
in the investment banking business in
New York with the firm of W. A. Harrl
man Company, Incorporated.
Washington Briefs
WASHINGTON, April s.—President
Ilardlng's merchant marine subsidy pro
gram will be launched on Capitol Hill
with the opening of hearings before the
Joint committee created for the purpose
—the Senate Committee on Commerce
and the House Committee on Merchant
Marine nnd Fisheries. Senator Wesley L.
Jones of Washington, chairman of the
Senate committee and author of the 1920
merchant marine law which bears his
name, will preside over the hearings.
They are expected to last many weeks.
A vast variety of Interests Is to be given
successive days in court. Tomorrow Al
bert P Lasker, chairman of the United
States Shipping Board, will be the chief
and perhaps the only witness, for he
has prepared n voluminous statement on
beha." of the subsidy project. The Joint
committee will find Chairman Lacker a
well-posted enthusiast on the subject.
He is primed for hecklers.
Now if Is the speakership of the House
in the Sixty-Eighth Congress upon which
the ambitious farm bloc is said to have
designs. It is the name of Sydney An
derson, Republican representative from
the First Minnesota district, with which
report is busy. A brilliant young lawyer
and Spanish-American war veteran, Mr.
Anderson is chairman of the Joint con
gressional committee on inquiry Into
agricultural problems and on that ac
count Is one of the darlings of the farm
bloc gods. He presided with conspicuous
skill over last winter's national agri
cultural conference In Washington, and
is looked upon by many admirers as the
future generalissimo of the farming
forces in Congress.
Senators of the United States often
sleep In their dignified but frequently
dreary chamber, so why shouldn't their
presiding officer, tho Vice President?
And what is more to the point of this
narrative, it is averred, affirmed and as
serted that Is exactly what Calvin Cool
ldge did last Friday afternoon. The
Department of Justice's Judges’ bill was
under discussion. The floor was nearly
empty. Senator Shields, Democrat, of
Tennessee argued logically on the sub
ject, but to somnolent colleague*. “Mr.
President," he said at one point of his
remarks. “I ask unanimous consent to
have this statement printed In tho Rec
ord.” He repeated his request. He
uttered It a third time. From tho Vice
President came no sign of life. A vigi
lant reading clerk turned toward Mr.
Coolidge. btl' did not Invade his slum
bers. Instead the elerk functioned for
him and announced that “it U’ so or
dered.”
Tho Government printing office In
Washington has Just Issued “u primer"
on radio communlentlon. It is elementary
in tone nnd entitled "The Principles Un
derlying Radio Communication." issued
by the United States signal corps ort„
liially In 1918, the present book Is a re
vised edition dealing interestingly with
latter-day developments, especially In the
realm of radio telephony. The price Is a
dollar and _.* be bad on application to
the superintendent of documents, Govern
ment printing office. Washington.
, Unusual Folk
CANTON, China, April s.—Dr. Charles
K. Edwards, president of the Canton
Christian College is milkman to 400,000,-
000 people!
He's trying to
teach the whole
Chinese nation to
drink milk and eat
W ■*•.. JB& iHB milk product*.
iff That’* * new thing
wrttn
8aw ’ mare or goat
lt to
, EDMUNDS the spread of the
Industry.
Edmunds Is, on his way back from
America now wltJj some choice Hol
stein cattle.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Am I my brother's keeper?—Genesis
4:9.
Let us reflect that the highest path
ts pointed out by the pure ideal of those
who look up to us, and who. If we tread
less loftily, may never look so high
again. Remembering this, let it suggest
one generous motive for walking heed
uilly amid tho defilements of. earthly
ways.—Nathaniel Hawthorne.
WOMAN SMOKES CALABASH.
NEW YORK, April 5. —Mrs. Elizabeth
Lentz created a sensation at the Toy Fair
in the Hotel Breslln by smoking a large
calabash while inspecting the exhibits.
PUSS IN BOOTS, JR.
By DAVID CORY.
Early the next morning Puss Junior
said good-by to s the fllnd farmer and
his daughter “so rosy and fair,” and
set off once more on his Journey of
adventure.
“Ah," thought Puss to himself, “It’s
one thing after another. I wonder what
will happen today?” And then he began
to sneeze.
“If you sneeze on Monday, you sneeze
for danger,” cried a voice.
"Sneeze on Tuesday, kiss a stranger;
Sneeze on Wednesday, sneeze for a
letter;
Sneeze on Thursday, something better;
Sneeze on Friday, sneeze for sorrow;
Sneeze on Saturday, see your sweetheart
tomorrow.”
“What is today?” asked Puss Junior,
The owner of the voice had turned out
to be a very pretty little girl.
"It's Wednesday," she said.
“Well, I've sneezed for a letter,” said
Puss, “but I guess tho postman . has
forgotten me.”
“I’ll send you one,” said the little girl,
and she sat down and wrote on a piece
of paper; "I like a Pussy Cat who
wears red-topped boots.”
“That's a very nice letter,” said Puss
Junior, “and I don’t know what I would
do if you hadn't written it, for I can't
take back my sneeze, you know.”
“Where are you going?” asked the
little girl.
"Oh, Just going," said Puss. “I'm a
traveler.”
‘‘l’d like it,” said the little girl, push
ing her band In his paw. “I know lots
of geography, and that would help.”
"Yes, it would,” he replied. “But,
you see, I Just go where the wind
blows. I don’t need any map.”
“I love the wind, even if It does mess
my curls. I'd like to be a little breeze
and go with the wind wherever he
went.”
"Ur a Utttle star and follow the moon,"
said Puss. “I wished that only last
night, for It wa sthe Twinkle-Twinkle
Star' that heiped save me from the rob
bers In the wood.”
“Oh, tell me, dear pnssy cat,” cried
the little girl, nestling up to him as if
the robber* might cqme by any mo
ment
“ 'Twas this way: these bad men had
fled me fast to their hut, going to bed
and leaving me all alone. The little star
looked In through the window and told
me not to be afraid. And, after a lltttle,
the good sister of the robbers came and
set me free. And here I am.”
“Well, I'tn going to travel,” said the
little girl, "as soon as I get big enough,
even If I am only a girl."—Copyright,
1922.
(To Bo Continued.)
‘TIGER’ IS AN ACTOR ON THE STAGE
lint ‘Laddie Hoy* Lives at the White House -
$’ * Si. ' ' ...
£+ * %
At- -a***. f
It for two canines
A fodp-’t ' , Hero Is Tiger’s New Years greetln
■ j To the Honorable Laddie Boyt
>v bii- E .'. i .* • *•< j White House.
-v> - A V , My dear Laddie Boy: Happy Ni
■nHL f , R ( memborlng my very delightful vt
%Jk ” 1 to the White House, I have tho lion
t -i &•' I to extend a moat cordial Invitation to y
'■ if " -d t° bo the honored guest at the Plymou
•'• * ; JpSSpvflu ,j Theater, Boston, at auy performau
t matinee or evening, during the engai
Weft > me, tof Mr William Hodge lu Ins □
- Jaßwr' 1 I* would doom It n great pleasure
. BK'l j present you to the star, ns well as t
p)' , jjPrjtt ■> friend. Miuit, one of the distinguish
: members of fho cast, which Includes n
1 Yours faithfully. TIGER
: ■ ™’ j Mr Henri Gressltt, press representat
■ ® t for Mr. Hodge, has a copy of a lengt
•* ’ j “letter” received by Tiger from Lad,
-i ltoy acknowledging Tiger’s “wonder:
* 4 invitation.”
——Tiger will be In the enst of “Dog Lot
MWKWin ir nil lin ii iii xn -niayTftTaaMk at t [ lo Murat beginning Thursday ntg
Upper—William nodge and ‘‘Tiger,’ a
dog actor, as they appear in “Dog Love,”
anew comedy by Mr. Ilodge, to be at
the Murat Thursday for three days.
Lower—Laddie Boy, known as th P
White House dog, who “writes” letters to
Tiger and receives New Years greetings
from tile dog actor.
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EVEN DOGS WRITE
LETTERS THESE DAYS.
Even dogs have their obligations.
Tiger, a dog who appears with Bill
Hodge 1b "Dog Love,” has called upon
Laddie Boy at the White House. Sec
rotaries to these two high society dogs
Installing Vacuum Tube Detector
BY R. L. DUNCAN,
Director, Radio Institute of America-
No sooner is the radio fan s t Trill* his
crystal detector receiver than he starts
thinking about Improvements. He wants
to cover a greater range with hi* little
instrument. He wants to hear more
clearly.
He finds the way out—
By substituting a vacuum tube and. tector
for the galena. This gives approximately
three times the receiving distance and a
much greater audibility.
| But the amateur cannot make the
vacuum tube. It is too complicated, con-
Yjn AERIAL |_ *
-st // \IJCy
Diagram No. 1.
sisting of a tungsten or tantulum fila
j ment, tugsten or copper grid and an
i aluminum or nickel plate enclosed in a
j highly vacuumed glass tube or bulb.
To change over from tho crystal re
i reiving set tho following are necessary:
! A specially made socket for the tube’s
! mounting.
| Two batteries.
, A rheostat.
HOW TO CONNECT.
The connection should be according to
| diagram No. 1.
A is the filament battery—a *lx-volt
do to 120 ampere hour battery which is
regulated by a small one and one-half
■ ampere rheostat—a little Instrument that
regulates the flow of current from the
1 battery.
B Is the plate battery—a dry battery—
supplying twenty-two volts. It Is best
to have the plate battery variable on ac-
PENCIL OR IHPIA INKUMtjJ
BINDING RO*STJ
Diagram No. t.
count of the characteristics of tho tubes.
The flow of current should be regulated
from seventeen one-half volts to twenty
two volts.
It should be noted that the negative
make It possible for the two canines to
write letters. *
Here Is Tiger's New Years greeMngff*
to Iniddle Boy:
To the Honorable Laddie Boyt
White House.
My dear Laddie Boy: Happy New
A' en r.
Remembering my very delightful visit
to the White House, I have tho honor
to extend a most cordial Invitation to you
to be the honored guest at tho Plymouth
Theater, Boston, at auy performance,
mntlnee or evening, during the engage
ment of Mr. William Hodge la his new
piny, “Dog Love.”
I would deem It R great pleasure to
present you to the star, ns well as my
friend, Mitnl, one of the distinguished
members of the cast, which includes me.
Yours faithfully. TIGER.
Mr Henri Gressltt, press representative
for Mr Hodge, has a copy of a lengthy
“letter” received by Tiger from Laddie
Boy acknowledging Tiger's “wonderful
Invitation.”
Tiger will be in tbe cast of “Dog Love”
at the Murat beginning Thursday night
and closing with a Saturday night per
formance.
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---OX VIEW TODAY.
The following attractions are on view
today: Harry Watson, Jr., at B. F.
Keith's: “Polly's Pearls,” at tho Lyric;
Tokio Girls in "The Charming Widow,”
at tlie Rialto; “Peek-a-Boo,” a Jean
Bedini show, at the Park; “Turn to the
Right,” at tho Ohio; "Gas, Oil, Water,”
at the Circle; Monte Bluo in person and
‘•Footfalls,” at Loew's State; “Our Mu
tual Friend,” at tho Alhambra; "Moran
of tho Lady Letty,” at Mister SruitlCs,
and “Shadows of Conscience," at the Isis.
Sy GEORGE McMANTTS.
DAILY RADIO FEATURES
TONIGHT’S PROGRAM
INDIANAFOLIS STATION WLK—
-9:30 p. in., weather report.
INDIANAFOLIS STATION WOH—
-8:30 p. m., Carl Schay’s orchestra.
CHICAGO STATION KYW—
-9:35 p, m., opening market quota
tions, Chii-ago Board of Trade, every
half-hour thereafter until 1 p. m.
6:30 p. m., new*, final market and
financial report.
7:30 p. m., children’s bedtime story.
8:00 p. in., musical program.
9:00 p. m., news and reports.
SCHENECTADY IN". Y.) STATION WGY
(Eastern time) —
7:00 p. m., market quotations supplied
by New York State department of
farms and markets, aid v.eather re
ports.
SPRINGFIELD (MASS.) STATION WBZ
(Eastern time)—
7:30 p. m., bedtime story.
7:45 p. in., special business review.
8:00 p. m., musical program.
PITTSBURGH STATION L-DKA (East-
time)—
8:00 p. m., "Pittsburgh—lts Railroad
Problems," by J. A. McCrea.
8:00 and. in., “Helping the Poor to Help
Thnmselves,’ by J. H. Flaherty, sec
retary and general manager iPtts
burgh .Association for tho Improve
ment of the Poor.
8:30 p. m.. Instrumental and vocal se
lections by Hanna Davis Shorthouwe,
lyric soprano, accompanied by Anga
Mae Hardy; Cyi-ti* A. Davis, tenor,
accompanied by Mrs. Cyrus A. Davis.
9:00-9:05 p. m., news (United Press).
9:03 p. m., music.
9:55 p. m., Arlington time signals.
NEWARK (N. J.) STATION WJZ (East
ern tlms)—
7:00 p. m., “Animal Stories," by Flor
ence Smith Vincent.
7:45 p. m., “How Much Meat New York
Consumes,” by John H. Dohonoy, bu
reau of markets.
8:00 p. m.. "Making Optical Lenses,” by
J. C. Reiss.
8:30 p. m., concert by the Arlon Sing
ing Society of Newark; sixty voices;
Otto Wick, director.
9:30 p. m., recital by the Fleming Sis
ters Trio; Miss Marie, pianist; Miss
Ethel, violinist, and Miss Florence,
cellist.
DETROIT (MICH.) STATION WWJ—
-7:00-8:80 p. m., regular musical pro-
gram.
lead of the B battery 1* Joined to the
negative lead of the A battery through
the bead receivers, forming the'tommon
negative. This is essential for receiving
the incoming oscillations.
No. 1 represents the vacuum tube.
No. 2 is the A battery rheostat.
No. 3ls the prid condenser—the fixed
condenser of the crystal set.
No. 4 Is the grid leak —the construction
of which Is explained below.
No. s—the head receivers.
THE GRID LEAK.
To make a grid leak take a piece of
stiff cardboard about one inch wide by
two inches long. On this mount two
small binding posts about inches
long.
On this mount two small binding posts
about inches apart. Take a very
soft lead pencil and draw two or three
lines between the posts and also around
them.
Grid leak 1* shown In diagram No.
2; a is the plate; b the filament and c
the grid.
The pencil lines act ns a conductor of
current.
The purpose is to allow the negative
charge to leak off the grid so that it may
not become clogged up with chargings
that will reduce the audibility of the
signals.
RADIO PRIMER
Circuit —The complete path of an
electric current, Including the generating
device and all points through which the
current passes.
If the path Is complete and uninter
rupted, the circuit is called a closed
circuit. When the continuity of the
circuit is broken so that the current no
longer can pass, it Is called an open or
broken circuit.
QUESTION BOX
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ART, Tipton, lnd:
Question —My vario-conpler Is wound
with No. IS wire and the windings are so
crowded In order to get on the re
quired number of turns that some of the
windings over lap. Should I rewind it
with No. 22. If so, how many turns?
Aiiswer—Your vario-coupler should be
rewound with No. 22. The exact number
of turns is not a specific factor to con
sider. Put on as many turns as your
coupler will conveniently hold. You
should use shellac to hold the coils In
place after they are wound.
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APRIL 5, 1522.
By E. C. HENNAS.
We are Indebted to the April issue of
Radio for the following concise descrip
tion of ether waves:
“There seems to be a general impres
sion among people who are not ac
quainted with the principles of wireless
communication that the air is the me
dium by which wireless signals are
transmitted. They hear the received sig
nals as sound and naturally assume that
the receiving instrument has the faculty
for picking up sound waves sent out
from the transmitting ,statiou. This is,
of course, not so. *
“The medium of transmission of wire
less signals is the so-called ether, a
‘something’ which is believed to exist
throughout all space. Scientists cannot
describe it with certainty nor give defi
nite proof of its existence,, but they as
sume that it must exist in order to ac
count for the phenomena of light, heat
and certain electrical effects. For in
-1 stance, we receive light and heat from
the sun, a distance of some 93,000,090
miles. Now those light and heat rays
must be carried by the air. Several hun
dred miles a6ove the surface of the earth
there is no air. Therefore light and
heat waves from the sun must be car
ried by some other medium, which is
called the ether. Observations show that
the ether must exist between the mole
cules of ail matter; in fact, the earth
rushing through it at a velocity of thou
sands of miles an hour causes no dis
placement of the ether; in other words,
the ether passes through the earth like
air through a sieve; further, that it is
of an extremely elastic nature, so much
so that a disturbance of the ether at
any point immediately spreads out in
ail directions just as the sound waves
spread out when a gun is fired.
“Air waves travel about 1,100 feet per
second while ether waves have a velocity
of about 180,000 miles miles per second.
This terrific velocity, which according to
the Einstein theory is the greatest that
can be attained in the universe can be
quite accurately measured. Light, heat
and wireless waves are all forms of
ether waves. You can create sound
waves by making a ‘noise.’ You can
create water waves by tossing a stone
into water. The function of the wire
less receiver is to detect those ether
waves and change them to sound waves
which can be heard and understood.”
Harrison Durant of the Hatfield Elec
tric Company, addressing a meeting of
tho Indiana Society of Radio Engineers,
advocated close cooperation between the
Indianapolis broadcasting . stations so
that there would be no interference when
one or the other of the stations are
broadcasting its program. Mr. Durant
urged a very careful study and co
operation by the junior and senior or
ganizations ,of the society and several
very commendable suggestions for carry
ing on the junior branch were made both
by Mr. Durant and T. B. Hatfield. Mr.
Hamilton, president of the senior or
ganization, requests that all Junior mem
bers and thoge who wish to become Ju
nior members, should follow the radio
columns of the daily papers very care
fuly for information regarding the nest
Junior meeting.
Mary Says She'll
Wed Allister , hut
Only Time'll Tell
CHICAGO, April s.—Mary Langdon
Baker reiterated today her intention of
sailing for Europe Saturday to marry
Allister McCormick, whom she left wait
ing at the altar last January on 'their
schedule wedding.
But society gossip declared she never
would marry the millionaire. They point
ed to the fact on Mary's return from
California, where she spent the last
two month, she was met at the train
by Barry Baxter, English actor. Bax
ter’s name was mentioned in connect
tion with Miss Baker's when she failed
lo keep the wedding date.
Miss Baker also spent theafternoon and
evening with Baxter, after escaping from
the crowd of reporters.
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