The New York herald., 1922-03-19
POLITICS BY RADIO
IN 1924 CAMPAIGN
Flatbush Club Prepares i'm Ad-
vance to Listen to Far Off
Speeches.

While Prof @. o. Aubrey OF Swarth-
more Preparatory School recently was
startling the political world by a pre-
diction that the next big campaign would
be fought largely by candidates for the
Presidency addressing millions OF voters
by radiol hone a group OF progressive
Republicans in Flatbush were already
planning victory via the wireless route.
Better acquaintance with the various
candidates for the Presidency in 1924 Is
almost assured with the increasing use
of the wireless telephone" Prof. Aubrey
told members OF a radio club at Swarth-
more. Voters, millions OF them. most
likely will hear the messages sent out
by the candidates by wireless, for re-
ceiving sets will be found In homes and
meeting places throughout the nation"
About the time that the professor was
making this prediction members Of the
Flatbush Republican Club. at 2431
Church avenue. which Is the headquar-
ters for both the Eighteenth and Twen-
ty-first Assembly district organizations.
were authorizing committee OF three
headed by Fred Merkle and including
NJ. H. Bryson and A. A. Haskell to go
ahead at once and install big radio
receiving set with a loud speaker which
would make any remarks made into the
ether within several hundred miles
clearly audible In every corner OF the
meeting hail.
Concerts In the Meantime.
Questioned about the radio set. Mr..
Rryson said the committee had gone
right ahead, but had discovered tha'
some thousands Of people were ALREADY
waiting patiently to get radio sets and
that some days would elapse before the
clubs aerial could be put UP on the
roof and the receiving set installed In
the hail. Edward Thayer. club mem-
Der, who Is also radio enthusiast. is
10 do the actual installation.
I'VE have two objects in view In put
| ting In this receiving set" Mr.. Bryson
said. THE first Is to hook UP with the
various concerts which are floating
nightly through the air IN this section
of the country so that our club mem
bers may enjoy them here when politics
Is not too engrossing. That Is the I'M
mediate reason.
"The second is that we fully believe
that before long candidates. besides
making long and somewhat wearisome
trips from hall to hall to put their case
before the people. viii adopt this new
method OF reaching the public ear.
am Informed that nv radiophone a
speaker can roach 80 o00 or 10000 people
at one time. which s far greater num-
her than candidate who denended On
the unassIsted power OF his voice could
address
"If In the campaign of 1925 President
Harding should make an address AZ
Washington BY radionhone the Renuh-
iicans OF F'latbush want to be ready 70
hear everything he has to say. That is
why we are getting ready now"
New Political Vocabulary.
The Democrats Of Flatbush have not
vet been heard from bu, political wise
acres pr adict that before long micro
farads. G. W.. static, WIZ. alternators
and ampllfiers will he lust as much
part OF the vocabulary of a politician
as the will OF the people. entangling
alliances. the bonus, the tariff and
taxes.
Flatbush. possibly becausa IL Is de-
pendent upon the Brooklyn Rapid Tran
sit for contact with the outer world, Is
taking to radio with more avidty than
most places in New York IN addition
10 the Fiatbush Republican Club. the
Union League Club Of Brooklyn, al ~
Kenmore place. Is also on the verge Of
putting In n radio set which Will link
II with Newark. schenectady. Bed'ces
Island. Pittsburgh, Springfield and Med
ford Hillside. Mass.
Fred arick J. RI Kracke. Appraiser or
the Port. the Republican leader OF Flat
BUSH Is president OF this cub. The
matter OF arranging for the installation
OF the set Is In the hands OF Col A. w.
J. Pohl chairman OF the house. COM
mittee