Evening star., 1924-10-05
Capital Sidelights

at-home, quiet-evening, recreational
and educational entertainment for
the American people by the millions
is Interestingly told by William p
Terrell, chief inspector OF radio for
Uncle Sam. 1t makes q timely intro
ductory sidelight for the third ma
tional radio conference. which opens
at the Department of Commerce to-
morrow, with Mr.. Terrell as the mas
ter OF ceremonies
The radio telephone had been in
use experimentally for several years
prior to the establishment of broad
casting stations in 1921.
In 1914 the American Marconi Com
pany conducted radio telephone ex-
periments from the Wanamaker sta.
ton. New York. An old-type Victor
gTamaphone was uesd in the trans
mission OF music In 1915 the voice
OF a person speaking through the
radio telephone at Arlington, Va, was
heard at Honolulu and Paris.
The files of the Department of Com
merce contain letter, the writer of
which claims that he carried on wire
less telephone experiments success
fully over distance OF miles dur
ing the period between 1898 and 1909
employing amplifers of the multi
audiphone type operating within a
vacuum.
We would probably not have broad
casting stations today. Chief. Terrell
points out, if musical instruments had
not been used In testing radio tele
phone transmitters. When the music
was sent for testing purposes it was
heard by the amateurs. and immedi-
ately requests were made for more
music. This was furnished and the
news spread. Immediately there was
a demand for receiving sets The
demand increased and with it more
radio telephone transmitting stations
were established.
Broadcasting was created. How it
has grown is told in terse figures
On June so. 1922, there We're 1882
licensed broadcasting stations; on the
same date the next year there were
oi3. BroadcaSting is now permanent
ly established, says Mr.. Terrell and
every effort should be made to in
crease the use and value of this in
comparable means of reaching the
public.
There are men in Congress who
know a particular part of the United
States Government service from the
ground up" and that's why although
there is n almost constant rumbling
against the class of individual con-
gressmen that happen in after almost
every election, yet by and large the
work of Congress is commendable
There are men there who are experts
on every question that comes before
Congress. and their counsel is Of
value in having the right sort of leg
islation passed.
BY way of illustration, there's Rep
TeSentlttSe I.ea ~
VINO has the unusual distinction Of
being forest ranger. familiar for
many years with the great outdoors
come to help make the Nations laws
Two years after he came out of the
Spanish War the wsnderIust got
good grip on Leavitt and he went to
make good on a squatter ella i'm in the
coast range mountains of Oregon, 20
miles from settlement and at the
back door OF the Grand Ronde Indian
reservation. His cabin was built of
shakes split from giant fir tree.
Winter and Summer for more than
three years he packed his grub on his
back from a foothill settlement He
would loose himself for DAYS alone in
the mountains where ferns grew to
his shoulders and frs reached aloft
hundred feet to the first limb.
His first job in the foothills was in
sawmill. where by main strength he
wrestled boards and edgings for SIS a
month, with pay out for any break
downs. Ultimately he had done
everything in the mill except run the
big saw and the engine.
The happy climax of those days was
that in the foothill town. where he
worked in the sawmill and later
taught school between trips into the
mountains, he found the Young
his wife. She was the daughter of
pioneers who had come to that sec
t1on in OK wagons over the Oregon
trail in 1S44. 1t was also this expert
ence that predisposed him sometime
afterward, in the COW country north
of Goose Lake. to become a forest
ranger and begin the work with sad
die horse and pack outfit. which
only ended in Montana in the days Of
the World War.
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If word gets around Of what DR..
Walter F. Taylor Of the biological
survey is up to at the United States
Forest Service experimental station
at Flagstaff. AriA, migration of
hungry porcupines may set in from
all parts of the country. Here likely
young 'porkies' are being fenced in
on forest areas, with nothing in the
world to do but gnaw bark from
succulent Western yellow pine seed
linGs and saplings.
From the porcupine's point of view
this is much the same as if small
boy were to be compelled to enter
a ie-eating contest at the Sunday
school picnic. The "porkie's" picnic
is however, of considerable scientific
interest to DR.. Taylor and the mem
berS of the southwestern lumber in
dustry. They want to find out who's
to blame for tree girdling by which
many young trees are killed each
year. One "porkie" has made rec
ord of 30 square inches of bark dav
to his discredit.
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When the State of New Mexico was
yet a Territory. there drifted into
that unexplored region a young man
whose mind was set on building
better educational tem-John Nor
row. He had been born on a farm in
Wisconsin and attended a little red
schoolhouse on muddy crossroads
He prepared himself to carry out his
ideal by a normal university training
and teaching school in Wisconsin,
Iowa Nebraska and Mexico. He was
superintendent of public schools from
1892 to 1896 and president of the
Board of Education. Ration, from 1909
to 1928. and regent of the New Mex
leo Normal University. Las Vegas.
Morrow is now the member of Con-
gress from New Mexico, and believes
he has found way to carry still fur
ther his work for higher education
by working for the preservation of
the scenic wonders of his home State
as vIsualiZed history.
Then one August day a fiat surface
rock sank into the ground opening UP