The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-10-22
RAY ). OWE TELLS
 EXPERIENCES OF THE OWE FAM|LY
They Have Learned to Tune, But Have to Call on Ray
 Frequently

All! Here we are! This is the thing
 you were looking for. That little
 write up" about Ray D. Owe.
 There are now five members in the
 Owe family, as we mentioned last Sunday. Lessee, there is Ray D. Owe, o. owe, Old Man owe. Mama owe or if you want to you can call her Owe Mama and then the new one is Ray s dog Eide Owe. Ray and the dog are the only ones that get along together
 and the only reason for that is that
 poor old Eide Owe can't work the set. Eide is the only one that Ray will trust.
 A night or two ago when Ray and the old Man had quit arguing long
 enough to listen they heard some fel- low say. er-ahem- lessee now what did he say? Oh! Yes, he said something like this: Este es Ha- bana, Cuba" er-aw shoot there isn't
 any use of my showing my ignorance
 of Spanish, but anyway they heard some bird say he was In Havana, in
 Spanish. and then he said it in Eng fish. That was the first time they had ever heard a station out of the United States and of course. they
 called on Mrs. owe to hear it. so
 they could have proof of the fact. One day last week when Ray for got to seal his bulbs up, the set was captured by his brother, O. Owe. and when Ray got there 0. was enjoying a distant concert but much to Rays
 amazement the old man was reading the paper. The little boy had played dirty trick on MT. Owe by discon- meeting his phones and the old man thought that when he listened and heard nothing that there was nothing doing. So o. had the set to himself. Ray hardly ever seals up the set
 at night and this is the time when
 Mir. Owe gets to listen in. While Ray is snoring peacefully the O. NJ. is lis tening in usually to WISE.
 Ray D. Owe thought the other
 night that he would fix the set so it wouldn't work and save the trou-
 ble of sealing up the bulbs. He took out one of the wires and felt per fectly safe while he was at Anne Tennas but when he got home he found that the set had been working fine, in spite of all the desperate plotting.
 I was with him this time and we started listening in to the late WISE concert, They had some woman sing and when she finished she told her 6oou HiSht' Wio WtiS ing in at Pittsburg. Ray remark ed that it was about time for her to tell them good night if they weren't in bed already, as it was 1 a. m. in Pittsburg.
 MT. Owe has really learned (much to Rays sorrow), how to operate the
 set and does alright when he is by himself. but when he tries to tune with the phones on a new listener the
 old thing won't work. The other night the owes had company and old
 Man Owe thought it would be a good
 chance to show his skill as an op-
 orator. He invited one of the des- perate sex to listen, and, although she did listen, she didn't hear any
 thing very pleasing to listen to- MT. | Owe finally gave up hope of tuning
 himself. but did not give mp the idea of hearing that late concert of WISE , He woke up Ray and told him to slip on something and come on down
 Ray slipped on the first step and came on down. Soon he had in At lanta pretty good. The other party who had on pair of phones was a little sleepy and would let her head nod while she was standing by 1 Ray would turn the old rheostat over a 1 couple of times and increase the plate voltage to make the tube howl Then the sleepy one would give 3 ! jump and wake up in time to hear |; that ding, dong. ding of the Atlanta
 Journal