Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-12
THE REFEREE
Hertzian
tBy Albert Applet

HertZ1an
B~roadcasting station WGY (Sche-
nectady, N. W offers a prize of $500
for the best radio drama submitted
before Dec. 1. WGY has been feed
ing long-distance drama to the radio
bugs for a year. And has gotten a
big enough rise" out of it's listeners
to convince it that a new form oil
dramatic art is in the making.
All the worlds an audience. The
appeal so far is entirely to the ear.
Some experimenter one of these days
will blunder on a way to enable the
far-on audience to see, by radio, the
play being staged at the broadcast
ing station.
Our descendants, using radio, will
see ball games. battles and other i'm
portant news events as they occur.
Creodont
Wolves, tigers, bears, seals, cats,
dogs and all other intoxicating ami
mails had the same ancestor or orig
inal parent, long ago. The common
ancestor was creodont. SO claim
scientists.
The other day, in Asia, they dug
up a skull of a creodont, which APP
parently was twice as large as a
grizzly bear. If they can alGo find
the remains of a five-toed horse,
they say it'll prove that Asia was
the original home of animals is well
as man. Sherlock Holmes was an
amateur compared with the detec-
tives of science who are reconstruct
ing the past from faint clues.
Auto
A weather proof car that doesn't
need a garage will soon be put on
the market by General Motors, ac-
eording to word from Detroit. Saw
ing garage rent would be an attrac-
tive item for most motorists.
The idea of a weather-proof auto
is so practicable in principle that it's
q wonder no one ever thought OF 1t
before. Progress is the result of inn
agination and psychic driving forces.
Respect the Missionaries. Though
often crazy. they're at least not 60
ing to seed.
art
Our larger cities have quite a
flood Of immoral picture magazines
printed in Europe. Here and there
the various societies for the sup
preston of vice are causing the ar
rest of newsdealers selling these
wares.
As usual, the favorite defense is
that these immoral publications al
"art'-but few of the buyers are ar
tistic. We can be thankful that our
civilization is not old enough to pro-
duce much real art which in its
so-called higher forms Is next door
to decadency and a weathervane OF
social decay.
Nicotine
Prohibition of tobacco was
discussed privately and earnestly by
many of the delegates to the Anti.
Alcohol Congress in Denmark.
The rising generation will witness
a big campaign for the suppression
of Lady Nicotine. The idea of to-
baeco prohibition may seem impossi-
Bile of attainment. That vas the way
the public viewed the fight against
Demon Rum in its early days.
Night
Baseball games are being played
at night, under high-powcred flood
lights, Ii the new athletic field Of
the General Electric Co, at Wesi
Lynn. Mass. The illumination is Sc
cleverly arranged that players ane
audience never lose sight OF the ball
Ball games beginning at midnigh'
may be next on the program. Base
bali Ia a form of theatricals rather
than a, sport, since the audience par
ticipates no more than it does at
movie, and night may after all he 1T
logical environment. Night baseball
would be n great thing for fans whI
can't leave their jobs for Afternoon
games.