Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-04-12
THE REFEREE
Radio
tBy Albert Apple,

Every owner of a radio receiving
set should pay a tax or license of,
say, SIS, to cover the cost of broad
| casting concerts and to compensate
music publishers and song writer's
! whose work Is used. You don't
agree. Neither do we. The sugges-
ton comes from j. G. Rosenthal,
representing the music industry,
| which finds it's income reduced by
radio. The sales of sheet music and
| phoncsraph records are falling OH
heavily.
Rosenthal would have the national
| government collect the tax That
! would put radio in politics and prob
| ably make the concerts low grade.
| The cost of radio should be footed
| by makers of radio apparatus and
by organizations using b~roadcasting
! stations for advertising purposes.
They couldn't make better invest
ments. Later, radio viii be endow-
ed by m~illionaires.
The music industry has grounds
+, for complaint. Nine-tenths of music
| broadcast by radio is said to be
copyrighted.
Laughing
In a London movie theatre, Joseph
! Chatfield starts laughing at the an
ties of an American movie comedian.
He laughs so violently that his heart
stops. He falls over into the lap OF
the woman sitting next to him. She
never forget it.
You've heard people talking about
Laughing themselves to death.
is the first time it yer really hap
pened, within our observation. IL
teaches the danger of doing anything
to extremes, especially letting so OF
the emotions. Attention. people who
allow themselves to blow up in fits
of anger.
Major Leo G. Heffernan, army
flier, read about other fliers break
ing speed records. 1t "got his goat"
So he climbed into his own plane at
columbus, n. NJ, and travelled 70
miles at an average speed of nearly
$50 miles an hour. That's the new
record, It'll be broken soon.
Again we emphasize that what
aviation needs is, not speed records
but fool-proof planes that can be
sold eheaply and used as safely as
autos. They're possible, inevitable.
The filters. in their enthusiasm, are
OH a sidetrack, delaying populariza-
ton of flying.
Prosperity
Men who W steel mills are inter-
viewed in their private offices. They
report capacity production. with "tlle
market getting stronger every week.
Premiums are ruling the steel mar
ket-which means, demand exceeds
supply and buyers are offering bon
uses in their bidding against each
other for deliveries.
IL you want to look ahead six
months, observe the nervousness In
the stock market. We hope pros
perity lasts forever. But the wise
are saving for a rainy day. 4 tenn
porary setback in business is sure to
some. When? Some experts ans
wer. not until 1924.
Devil
His Majesty the Devil is described
as a real personality. cunning and
enticing. rather than as a principle
of evil" This description is by DR..
j. w. Lawrence. preaching in Chat
tanooga. He thinks Satan has tie
power of masquerading as ian angel
of light" Accepting this explana-
ton, one would be apt to ponder that
Satan has his whole family-and a
largo meat work among US.
Man Is chiyalrous, since he has
never suggested that Satan may be
feminine. It's male acknowledgement
of woman's superiority.
Tut
King Tut's name as a trade mark
is valued at $4,000 in a court bat
tie between New York dress manu-
f~acturers, one trying TO restrain an
other from using the nane on it's
factory products,
As a matter of fact, King Tut's
name isn't worth a nickel. The
value is all in the advertising ii has
received. A tip to reluctant adver-
~tisers.