Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-05-15

| Of them seems to postpone the gen
eral getting together on equal terms
which forwardlooking people now re-
gard as the most desirable way Of
handling international affairs.
BROADCASTING PROBLEMS.
A big increase in applications
| from amateurs for private broad
casting licenses is expected by the
Department of Commerce with the
esta blishment of definite radiophone
regulations. The law itself is ex-
pected to prevent filling the air with
chatter" but officials and licensed
amateurs are urged to proceed with
caution.
Broadcasting is a different bust
ness. The big stations, such as the
one at Pittsburgh, are especially
equipped for eliminating all sound
except that to be sent out through
the ether The room in which the
sender works is heavily padded.
| The generating motor is kept at a
distance, and everybody except the OPP
orator or performer must maintain
silence.
The amateur, working in his
office or home, will have his broad
casting somewhat interfered with
by the sound Of passing traffic, by
outside conversation, by clicking
typewriters, by the sound of the
generating motor, and so on. These
foreign noises, in addition to static
and fading two of the banes of the
Iradiophone-all help to make broad
casting difficult for the amateur.
They also make listening difficult
No doubt means of overcoming
these drawbacks will be discovered
eventually. For the present they
help to show that most persons are
inclined to forget, even this early
in the game, that radiophoning is a
very new and unfinished art.
1t is, in measure, unfortunate
that it has been deemed necessary
to resort to secret sessions, anony-
mously announced demonstrations
and such out of the ordinary tao
tics in order to create substantial
sentiment in favor of the support
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the very opposite. When it is con-
sidered how vastly important our
educational institutions are to the
basic operation of our government,
how essential they are to the per-
petuation of that government itself
with its blessings of freedom and
opportunities, it is surprising that
any patriotic citizen would or could
refrain from publicly and enthu-
siastically supporting every measure
that tends to their good, upbuilding
and general development. A citizen
who would, after giving due consd-
GRAFTON to the Importance of our
schools to society. decline to favor
adequate support of those institu-
tons is very sorry specimen of a
patriot. The demonstration of yes
terday. anonymously announced, par
sticipateas III, eby 1890 pupils and
witnessed by several thousand peos
pie, should cause the citizens of this
town to swing to the support of the
institution of learning Let the
next meeting be a public one, pub
licly announced and participated in
by every GOOD citizen of the COM
munity.
Teach the little Babe Ruths to
start swatting the flies.
Anyway, it's better to have the
nations scrapping at Genoa than
fighting all over Europe.
If the other nations are very,
very good, and will pay well for
the privilege, then Russia is willing
to borrow money from them.
That Gandhi is patient man.
Here he's been in Jail several weeks,
and hasn't yet picked up the Hima-
layas and dropped them down on the
British isles.
That Russian oil the English are
said to have acquired at Genoa
hasn't Gained the troubled waters
at all.
1t seems to be a tossup whether
Mexico or Russia will be recognized
first.