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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-21
ROMPING AROUND
RADIO j DIAL
BY Listener-In-

After touring the bedtime story
circuit last night, we returned to
our pipe and easy chair and took
our place as part of the community
of Bob Lawrence's community con.
cert.
Many years ago, in our youth,
Wednesday night was always as
ISOLATED in our mind with prayer
meeting. Now radio and Director
Lawrence have come along and
given the mid-week night another
meaning.
The audible community part of
the concert last night was almost
negligible. There seemed to be
few trained voices off in some
corner of the studio, but their ef-
forts were not impressive.
1t was therefore with a great
deal of interest that we heard the
Glee Club is to be formed of
twenty-eight voices from the radio
audience. Applications should be
submitted to Director Lawrence
who will arrange for try-outs during
the coming week.
Upon hearing the announcement
1--WE decided Immediately to get in
on the subject in the hope of sing.
ing our way to fame. But Mrs.
Listner-In so objected and laughed
at the proposition that we abandon
ed the idea. And we take pleasure
in announcing that we will not be
among those who will soon be heard
| singing under the name of the
WCAP Glee Club.
Among the feature numbers Of
| the concert we have chosen the
Lyric Trio to be the recipient of
our $4,000 award.
What's In the Name Roxy?
New York recently read in one
of its publications a rather bitter
letter requesting that Rothafel, the
artist, abandon the vulgar name
of Roxy"
For a man like you who once
was bartender" the letter stated,
ito step from those depths to the
high artistic field which you rep
resent today is most commendable.
1t is a tribute to yourself, your
family and friends, and a lesson to
all young men trying to achieve
fame"
1T is all right for you to be
democratic and have some of your
old pals call you Roxy, verbally.
But, to publish Roxy in connection
with the wonderful great big artistic
position you hold makes the title
vulgar. common, nauseating, disgust
ing, and not in accordance with the
position"
Roxy now has replied to the let
ter in typical Roxy style.
II wonder If you really know and
can understand why 1 am Roxy to
a great many people," he says.
"The name was coined back in
the days that you speak of, when
was compelled to dispense the
fiery liquid to the parched Threats
of the miners individually and the
public generally in the small town
from which 1 made my start. 1t
has always stuck to me.
ut was very rarely, if ever used
except by my most intimate friends
until / went on the air. And was
it bit of showmanship or an intui-
ton that made me say one night,
If you like, call me Roxy. That
is what my friends call me%"
Nov the name is known to
thousands Of invalids and to thou
sands of small children, and big
children, too, who write me thous-
ands of letters each week, and
invariably address me as Dear
Old Roxy Dear Roxy or Our
Roxy
"It. is that intimate something
that has gone across from us here
TO those out there"
In conclusion he says:
MAY / simply say that l would
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-21
CROWDED WATERS JAM
RADIO AROUND BRITAIN

The vast amount Of shipping con-
fined to the comparatively narrow
limits of the English Channel and
other waters near the British Isles
whose need for an unrestricted use
of radio is unquestioned by the Brit
ish admiralty has been the means
of retarding the development Of
radio program broadcasting in Eng
land more than all Of the other OBJ
stacles put together.
Hitherto the eight big stations
operated on wave lengths ranging
between $50 and AIS meters. The
range has been broadened so that
the stations now send on wave
lengths ranging from 3OS meters to
AGE meters
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-21
TRIED TO PROVE STILL
COIL WAS RADIO WIRE

KANSAS CITY. Mo-, Feb. q
Police generally are supposedly OF
moved by the frequent low estimates
of their ability and knowledge placed
by persons sometimes outside the
law.
The Kansas City police are no
exception, but even they remon-
strated when George Lear, alleged
bootlegger, recently attempted to
convince two city detectives that
the copper coil found in his base
ment was radio apparatus.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-21

not take anything L ever possessed
or ever hope to possess for chat
which comes to me from that great
audience out there that calls ME
Roxy | want td do my best at
all times to live up to what Roxy
means to them"
The Way 1t Happens.
Someone, evidently in the know,
sends US the following with regard
to Billie WPlking, of the Radio
Sales Studio.
billie is such a radio fan that
he often listens in all night long.
The other morning at about 8
a. m. he. got Oakland, Cal, clear
and distinct. He woke up his kid
brother to share his thrill, and in
his excitement treated him rather
roughly. Tom landed out on the
floor. Under the circumstances
Tom did not display much en-
thusiasm but climbed back into bed
saying, Holy mackerel; l hope you
don't get England
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-21
Local Broadcast
NAA-NavaI Radio Station.
Arlington.
$3.50 Meters, C. w. arc.)

$3.50 Meters, C. w. arc.)
1880 D. m.-Fruit and vegetable
shipments.
p. m.-Fruit and vegetable mar
kets.
2:45 %. m.-Closing live stock
d. INLAY and feed market
Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
$50 p. m.-Daily market, grain.
10 p. m.-Weather forecast.
ABS Meters, radiOphOne.)4
1915 D. m.-Live stock markets.
1:45 d. m.-Fruit and vegetable
2 p. m.-Live stock.
3:45 o. m.-Weather report.
4:O5 p. INLAY and feed.
AIS p. m.-Dairy products.
1900 Meters, sparkl
IL m. and 10 p. m.-Time signals.
1901 o. m.-Weather report, ship
orders. naval press news.
WCAP-C. & p. (469 meters.)
Silent night.
WRC-RadiO Corps. 1852
Sis p. m.-Instruction in Inter
national code.
6 p. m.-"The Bunny Tots and
Tommy Turtle" by Edward McCan-
dish, author and illustrator.
7:45 p. m.-Reading by Sarah
Deeds of "Our Country's Flag" by
Mary Stir Porter. chairman Of the
flag committee of the District Fed.
Grafton of Women's Clubs.
III $50 I P, m.-PianG recital by Har-
sos p. m.-"Development of the
West" by Mrs. r. E. Barrett, city
manager of Warrenton, Ore.
500 p. m.-Violin recital by a
member of Crandall's Metropolitan
Theater Orchestra.
1886 p. m.-Song recital by Grace
Washburn, coloratura soprano; Amy
Bowie Grant at the piano.
, $50 p. inflow Are You Think,
ing?" by Mabel Dill.
p. m.-"Tony the Barber" by
Ed Callow.
$40 p. m.-Rosey's concert trio,
under the direction of Sam Rosey,
now playing at the City Club.
$3.50 p. m. 1.-The PaStime OF
Stamp Collecting" by E. B. Power.
9:55 p. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of time
signals and weather forecasts.
10 p. m.-Concert of Hawaiian
music by the. Aloha players. under
the direction of Alma H. Wolking.
WMU-DOubleday-Hill 1855.
4:30 to $3.50 p. m.--Musical pro.
gram.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-21
Aerial Wires Often corrode.

Copper wire as used in an aerial
will soon corrode at the joints, and
many fading signals are blamed on
the transmitter when the real
trouble is in these faulty joints,
Every joint should be carefully
soldered inside of the set as well as
outside. Do not forget the ground
wire also.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-21
Air Force InstalIs Radio.

VANCOUVER, Feb. 21.-The first
step lin the erection of the radio
station at Vancouver, unit of the
Royal Canadian air force, has been
completed in the laying of cement
foundations for the masts. The
new station will be powerful enough
to communicate with High River,
Alta, nearly 500 miles east,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-21
Good Musical Feature.

A brilliant program is promised
WEAF's audience on the evening
of April 80, when a special concert
at Carnegie Hall by the Bridgeport
Oratorio Society will be broadcast.
The complete Philharmonic Society
Orchestra will accompany. tie Ora.
torio Society and the world famous
pianist, Percy Granger, also will
tako no Tf
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-21
FRANCE REGULATES
PRIVATE USE OF RADIO

French authorities have issued a
set of regulations intended to en-
courage broadcasting and the use
of radio equipment by amateurs
1t is provided that receiving sets
may be possessed by any citizen of
France who will sign formal
declaration, receivable at any post
office, stating the kind of equip.
ment used and agreeing that no
part shall be taken in the trans
mission of private correspondence.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-21
WAAM DIRECTOR ADDS
FIVE MORE INSTRUMENTS

i, NEWARK. N. j., Feb. 81. -. The
addition of I've instruments to the
already popular WAAM dance or
chestra was one of the first steps
taken by Marion X. Gillian, new
program director at WAAM, New
ark. N. j., in his efforts to re.
store the quality of the programs
and the standard Of the participat.
ing artists. Sea a&@ IN
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-21
Advice on AmpIification.

While application is desirable
to bring in signals from stations
within a hundred miles or SO in
order. to fill a room with music,
there is no advantage in trying to
hear a station thousand miles
away in this manner when a similar
program is rendered within reason.
able range
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-21
Radio In Alps.

Successful tests have been carried
out in Switzerland in sending radio
messages from the Alpine heights
at an altitude of 5000 feet to an
office in the valley six miles away.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-21
For Efficient Coils.

II is more efficient to rewind
coils to reach higher wave lengths,
or to purchase new units, than to
load" each circuit with extra coils.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-21
RADIO WEATHER

Reception from distant
stations tonight will be
unusually good through
out the Eastern States
and from the southwest.
The Denver Jewish news., 1924-01-17
NATIONAL COUNCIL JEWISH
WOMEN ANALYSES OUR
IMMIGRATION POLICY
National Officer Points Out Injusticcs
OF Proposed Bill

In an article on Legislative Pros
poets for 1924" contributed to the
STANDARD" the weekly bulletin of the
Department of immigration Aid, of
the National Council of Jewish Wom-
en-, Mrs. Samuel J. Rosensohn, nation
al chairman of this department, in
cludes an interesting analysis of the
dangers inherent in the proposed
johnson bill. Council sections are be-
ing urged to devote earnest attention
to the provisions of this bill, which
would discriminate against nation
ais" of southern and eastern Europe.
Mrs. Rosensohn writes, in part as
follows:
at is expected that much discus
sion will follow in the wake of the
presidents message and of the publ
cation of the various bills now before
congress, yet one thing is certain, even
in the present somewhat unprepared
state of public opinion, namely, that
powerful as the ultra-restrictionist
groups undoubtedly are, there exists
other groups both in and out of con-
gress, who will make every effort to
prevent the restrictionists from car
rying out their proposed policy of
practically shutting the door to im-
migration from southeastern Europe.
There will be strenuous times ahead
of us during the coming months, and
we must be prepared to defend our
views with well-thought out and rea-
soncd arguments based on wise and
humane study of the whole subject.
Meanwhile, the friends of more
liberal immigration policy than that
sponsored by the very important in
fluential chairman of the house COM
mittee have not been idle, as shown
by other bills introduced in the house,
several proposing retention of the
present three per cent law with i'm
provements in administration, others
demanding an even more liberal pol
icy, as for example, the bill being
fathered by Representative SABBATH, of
Illinois, favoring admission of immi-
grants on basis of two per cent of
the 1920 nationals. Even more i'm
portant is the fight now in progress
in congress by advocates of more
liberal immigration policy, to increase
the membership of the house commit
tee from fifteen to twentv-one mem
bers, so that u situation may be ere
The Denver Jewish news., 1924-01-17
"BLUE SUNDAY" LAWS
PASSED IN WILMA
Jews Decide to Observe Sabbath Never
tIl-less.
CJcwish Telegraph AgcncyJ

Wilma Notwithstanding all assur-
anccS TO the contrary. the law provid-
are to 20 into effect. In reality. this
means that in the future all Jewish
shops, stores, childreu's schools, etc.
etc, will have TO be closed two days
in the week saturday and Sunday.
The Jewish merchants association
has nevertheless decided to continue
strict observance of the Sabbath and
not permit themselves to he influenced
to dcsccratc the sabbath despite the
fact that they must keep their places
of business closed on Sunday as well.
The Denver Jewish news., 1924-01-17
DIR. WISE ATTACKS NEW
QUOTA BILL-CALLS 1T
UN-AMERICAN

New York.-More than a thousand
persons gathered January Z in the
Metropolitan auditorium in order to
voice their protest against the new i'm
migration laws proposed by Albert
johnson. DR.. Stephen S. Wise, pres
ident of the congress, in an impressive
speech emphasized that the fight
against the new immigration laws was
not a Jewish nor an Italian, but an
American fight.
"Were Jesus and his twelve discip-
les on earth today" said DR.. Wise,
"thcy would have to cast lots as to
which one of them would have the
privilege of coming to the United
States if the pending johnson two and
one-half quota bill were the law"
If restriction of immigration must
come, Dr.. Wise wanted it to come
without partially. He accused the au-
thors of the Johnson bill as being un-
American. He said he had been asked
last week at the congressional hear
The Denver Jewish news., 1924-01-17

ated making it possible to override
the present control and change the
undoubted restriction sentiment now
prevailing in the committee, at pres
ent dominated by congressman from
small cities in the south, the middle
and the far west"
Simultaneously, Miss Florina Lask-
er, who has been serving as vice
chairman, issued the following state
ment:
at is not enough for US to or yout
loudly against restrictive immigration
legislation, advocating the free ad-
mission into this country of the men
tally, morally and physically fit alien,
yet evincing no personal interest in
him after he has crossed the ferry
from Ellis Island.
"Surely most of US must admit our
failure to take advantage of such OPP
portunities as present themselves TO
hold out friendly hand of welcome
to the foreign born, inspiring them by
our own conduct with feeling of 10y
atty and of gratitude toward the coun-
try of their adoption, teaching them
by our own example what is meant by
a true American And let US so de
fine Americanism to those native-born
as we'll, who are ignorant of unmind-
full of the finest traditions OF their
own country"
The Denver Jewish news., 1924-01-17

ing on the bill whether he thought any
foreigners had vested right in
America. He replied in the negative,
but declared that he did not believe
that any man in Germany or England
had larger vested right in America
than any man in eastern or southern
Europe. He charged that the bill
aimed to fix status inferiority and
degradation on the people from south
ern and eastern Europe.
Representative Dickstein said that
in the last three weeks public hearings
on the two and one-half bill had not
heard one person Justify the attempt
to have new immigration measure
based on the 1890 census.
Representative Parlman declared
that to say that the present measure
would cut immigration from three per
cent to two per cent was totally CT
roDeous. In fact he declared it would
reduce the quota of 359,000 to 10000,
or less than half
The meeting was preceded by con-
ference of the American Jewish con-
gress devoted to the question of meas
ures to be adopted to fight the new i'm
migration legislation.
The Denver Jewish news., 1924-01-17
EDITORIALS
BRINGING JUDAISM TO THE COLLEGE
STUDENT.

In place things
Jewish than in American colleges living
muny could help activities and
the thoughts of his fellow Jews but to relate it has been
possible for Jewish boys and girls spend four uni
versites and be entirely divorced anything
cened with Jews Judaism All attempts heretofore
Jewish consciousness Jewish students in colleges
have resulted dismal failure The Jewish folk seemed
to shun activity that would identify them with
religion of may the
idea and than DID, the creation
of the Jewish fraternity which developed of snobbery
that regarded anything Jewish questionable Whatever the
the condition of the Jewish student from
Jewish standpoint has been nothing less than deplorabe
That this situation worried leaders without saying
They of the best type young
growing incapable ASSURING leadership their
muntes and whose shoulders rested the
of the Jewish faith and Jewish trad
ons Sad indeed the prospect of Jewish leadership with
out Jewish knowledge and Jewish understanding The Menorah
Society movement begun aupcousy at Harvard Unver
y and which attempted bring the purely cultured values of
Jewish life to the Jewish student become lost the
powerng of nderences and nsdous hostility The jew
collegiate Zionist organization and other attempts to inter-
est the Jewish student likewise oozed out for want of sufficiently
attractive force.
Now comes the Hlel Foundation recently begun at
University of Illinois with program of Jewish student activity
practical
the first has attractive quarters where Jewish and
girls meet 1t has always been difficult Jewish stu
dents together in ouofheway rented hall far from the
usual activities The Hlel Foundation appreciates the
fact that must offer something material value to the student
and allows for dances theaicals and other socas The
lel Foundation Champaign Illinois, out with able
rabbi complete charge director And is backed financially
by the Jews OF Chicago and other cities from which the Jewish
students This is important The financial burden of
bringing Judaism the Jewish student college be borne
by the jewish communities OF the entire country must not be
left to the student himself to beg for funds such nt
tutions He is busy and not sufficiently interested.
The le Foundation is good start We hope will spread
all other universities We certainly of such
at University of Wisconsin at Madison where
the of the Jewish student body dead
university the country because these Jewish boys
girls being better but because Mil
the of the them completely
congregations charities and drives
make them Jews and better Jews the
investment make for ourselves and poey for
responsibility hope all JewryWisconsin
Ieus
The Denver Jewish news., 1924-01-17

AS oS too oihSuio q
task to raise the
necessary amount of money. Its
success-and it surely must be a
SUGGESTS every Jews concern
whether he is an Orthodox Jew,
a Reform Jew or whatever kind
of Jew he chooses to call HIM
self.
The aim of the Jewish The
illogical Seminary of America is
to serve every Jew in America.
1t is a Jewish institution and has
the right to appeal to every Jew
for the endowment fund of
81 100000, which it absolutely
must have if it is to render any
service.
A majority of the real leaders
in the different communities are
graduates of the Seminary. We
need not search far to find an eX-
ample of the kind of man the
Seminary produces. Our dearly
beloved rabbi, DIR. C. H. Kauvar,
is a product of the Theological
Seminary. Not every commun-
ity, though, is as privileged and
honored to have a spiritual lead
er such as our DR.. Kauvar. Hun
dreds of communities are with
out religious schools OF the SEM
blance of them. The children in
these communities will grow up
to manhood without Jewish
knowledge, without any under
standing of why they are Jews,
what it means to be Jews and
why it is worth while to be Jews.
And then again, in the few states
where there are schools, there
are not a sufficient number of
rabbis to make a definite impress
sion on the life of the people.
Considering that there are over
three and a half million Jews in
this country, there are very few
rabbis, hardly enough Of them
to hold our people firm to our
faith.
This appalling state of affairs
is due mainly to the sad manner
in which the Jews of America
have neglected that wonderful
institution which upholds tradi-
tional Judaism in America, the
Jewish Theological Seminary
founded by Sabato Morals and
glorified by Solomon Schechter.
This campaign, therefore, is
a challenge to American Jewry.
Do the Jews of America want to
be Jews? Yes, the Jews of
America want to be Jews, they
want their children to be Jews.
They want to be as nobly and
as truly Jewish as were the
Jews of olden days.
If the Jewish Theological
Seminary will be given the
means, it will be able to furnish
the necessary leaders, the rabbis
and teachers, who will show the
children of Israel the path
through the wilderness and
darkness of the clouds that are
gathering DER US, into a life of
true Judaism and contentedness.
And the light of the Torah will
not be extinguished.
AS the Torah is a tree Of life
to them that lay hold upon her,
And happy is every one that
holdeth her fast.
The Denver Jewish news., 1924-01-17
If the Jews Won't,
Who Will?
BY MORRIS SAREMSKY

Several d a y S
hence. the cam
paign for the
Theological Sem
mary W i'll be
launched. l am
certain that it
will not prove to
be too difficult a
task to raise the
The Denver Jewish news., 1924-01-17


probation of the motion picture
art.
We would resent it if a paint
er were to tell us his work OF
art which we so admired was
made of lot of smelly material
such as turpentine and oils. We
would be disgusted if the sculp-
tor called our attention to, the
fact that his original material
was nothing but a handful of
mud. The material which the
dramatist uses in the motion
picture art, altho of different
sort, is no more than the raw
material which has been pressed
into molds and shaped by the
master minds of the author and
the director.
There is no such thing as a
moral or immoral art. Either
all art is moral or all art is i'm
moral. To make or try to make
distinctions only reflects the very
attitude of the spectator who
sees suggestive pictures where,
in reality, a great lesson of life's
experience is intended.
The human being is different
from the animal in that he is
capable of more emotions to
which he adds constantly as he
develops a higher and more SEN
sitive nervous system. With
this higher development goes an
ever greater moral responsible
ity and it is this neglect or I'M
willingness on the part of those
who have been placed in the lime
light by fortune or fame that
brings about the tragic conflicts
the world is now experiencing.
AS long as the arts are con-
sidered pariahs by those who
have assumedour moral guidance,
conditions will not improve.
There must be established a
closer and more intimate rela-
tion between the church and the
theater. They have the same
aim-elevation of mankind.
There are many instances in
history where a great art work
has been created by men who
had led an immoral life. The
great American poet, Edgar
Allen Poe, for instance, and the
English poets-Lord Byron and
Oscar Wilde-were the victims
of their uncontrolled passions,
but their bad examples in life
surely do not endanger the NOR
ais of our youth who read their
work. On the other hand, they
act as a warning of the dangers
ahead.
Realizing this, the world did
not destroy their admirable
works. While it is well for us to
censure and to punish those
whom fortune has placed in ex-
alted positions when they fail to
meet their moral obligations, we
are furnishing the innocent when
we attempt to destroy the crea-
tions in which the unfit had only
part. 1t would be just as SEN
sible to tear down a great pub
lie building because one of the
bricklayers who worked on it
was a murderer.