The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-10-01

Anu yet, or 1JS kluu, IL Cne Iluel We do not need the salt, thank .
 For it's the new radio room whi
 Loveman's, at 1915 Third avenue.
 And the Johns-Mansville compai
 ing tomb has ever been built before Step Light
 O boy, you'd better step light and mind your ps and as and speak in l classic language as irreproachable as "Hark the Lark" when you're inside. Should you happen to fall over the piano stool or a wandering roach and swear
 Well, that mierophone--looks like a telephone--would grab your voice and have 1t scooting away off In Gourd Leaf. Ind. or galivanting among the Appalachian systems of the moon. And folks would be say ing, Tut, tut" and wondering what sort Of persons live in Birmingham, Earth. anyway.
 Gee. you'd better not seek out that room to tell any secrets in. or to ad
 vertise for "a cook-light work)). You'd have million witnesses against you. and trainloads of hired
 help coming in from as far north as Maine. Thered probably even be some Esquimau wives who would give their husbands back sass and tell them if they didn't quit hanging around tho north pole ice factory so much they knew where they could set a job, and mean to take 1t, too. and somebody else could cook their old biubberi
 I think if I had been given my choice of what I'd rather have seen or visited in this town, it'a that radio
 room.
 AwfuIIy stiil
 I felt like dead spirit wandering hither and thither. There was no sound from within or without, the
 reason being that the ceiling, the
 walls. the floor arc lined with felt. You could peep through the glass about outslde-but they, too, were
 soundless. Their lips moved, their NO. l0s beat upon a hard cement floor. But 1t was like the beating
 of bare hands upon the outside walls of dark and desperate dungeon. But beautiful And light. and all white insidei Fitted with perfect ap- pointments. even g color scheme car rfed out. And in the top. by punshing
 an electric button, Richard Johnston, Jr., flooded tho room yesterday with wonderful refreshing. enervating air. which Is forced In and elected by powerful fans.
 The reason behind all this room, all this expenditure of money, is just splendid serivce on the part of the Alabama Power company. It's for community pleasure and doesn't cost the consumer centi
 With this perfect sending station,
 and new and powerful broadcasting
 staton which will be built on top of the roof above the room, to be ready
 by November 1. 1t will be possible for
 the voices. lectures. speeches, music
 of Birmingham people to be sent to
 every quarter of America. Until that
 time, tho old broadcasting station
 will be used, but tho Improvement In
 the ability to radio owners to hear Will Do Increased an hundred fold. Room Main Thing For tho proper, quiet room In which the artists. orators and coon-shouters l can perform is the main necessity. | Up to now. Birminghammers have been heard in Canada and Maine. so after November l the Cubans can look out for no more dull evenings. The lame women of Madagascar, as we'll, | can settle themselves by the fire to
 have a good time.
 And while all this may sound like a | weird dream, it's you who are old ' foxy If you think so. Wake upl The world is reeling, reeking with space | gone. Everybody Is homo folks, even If he lives in an Arabs tent in the | middle of tho desert of California. l And little old Birmingham ahead of | 'em al1i Stand out of the way. New 1 York. and Chicago-and let some body in on tho game who is doing | things. Radio magaxines all over the country arc already keeping tho spe-
 cial delivery boys busy asking for pictures of this new shop. Big House Warming Now in order to celebrate the open ing of the new room and to give its patrons . treat commensurate with tho occasion, wSY will tomorrow night---Monday highland Wednes- day night. put on special programs from the new radio sending apart ment. Instead of . half hour pro- gram. as usual. Richard Johnson. Jr.,
 who is director of the studio. has been laboring overtime to crowd into
 an hour and half some of the pret- tiest things he ever has requested of Magic cittiers. And he knows roper toires of beautiful things-beins the son of Mrs. Richard F. Johnston. who i for years has made 1t her business,
 with Mrs. Orline Arnold Shipman, to
 bring to this town the "Ail Star con-
 certs" which each season presents
 only the worlds very best and high
 est priced artists.
 For this reason. Mrs. Shipman and
 Mrs. Johnston Wednesday night have agreed to take cere of the program. and will put on. for outside climes to hear, the "creme dementhe" of musical talent in Birmingham-ar- ranging tho program from beginning l to end.
 They plan to initiate it with little
 talk from the city's chief-D. ID. Me-
 Lendon, who will-literally tell Amer ica about sassy little old Miss Bir- AAAA A AA A "a