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Evening star., 1924-12-02

The applications from veterans so
far have been below the estimated
number, which the records indicate
as entitled to the benefits Of the act.
IF the two appropriations recon-
mende6 be made, 1t is estimated there
will be a sufficient amount in the
FUND on January I, 1925, to meet the
demands Of the act. Should the num-
Der Of applications increase beyond
what present experience indicates as
probable, there will be ample time to
submit q supplemental estimate for
the additional amount necessary be-
fore that date. -....
1.-THE estimates for salaries OF
civilian emloyes In the District of
Columbia are in accordance with the
provisions of the classification act
approved March 4, 1925. For the field
services the estimates for salaries
are based on rates comparable with
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
TRY TO PUZZLE OUT
THIS ONE, RADIoPHANS

If any Of you fans think you've
read technical articles that involved
1aW-breaking words, Just glance
over the following and realize that
you amt read nuthin' yet"
This extract is taken from the
official gazette of the Government
Patent Office. and the beauty of it
all Is that the article described is
just a slightly modified transmitter
mouthpiece. Qf any "hams' who
read this want a little code practice.
give this a whirl.)
"A sound-receiving and transmit
ting device of the character desig.
mated, formed with a plurality Of
conductive convergent concave
truncated conodial reflective zone
surfaces Of different degrees of
obtuse inclination as related. to
each other and of acute inclinatio
as related to common Longitude
nal axis, whereby sound waves i'm
pinging against said reflective sur.
faces will be concentrated within a
prescribed focal area, substantially
IN the manner and for the purpose
described"
Whew!
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horn. In this case can be included
the numerous loud speakers that in
corporate a telephone OF some sort
in the base of the horn.
3. The loud speakers constructed
on the solenoid principle. in which
the currents act on coil placed in
the field OF a strongly energized
magnet.
First Two Rattle.
The first and second types of loud
speakers are excellent, but there
are a few serious faults that pre-
vent them from being considered as
first-class loud speakers. One is
that they cannot be used on strong
signals without causing tine dia-
phram to strike the pole pieces Of
the small fixed magnet and produce
a rattle in the loud speaker.
Another serious limitation to this
class of loud speaker is that with
high B battery voltages. such as
are common in most audio fire.
quency amplifiers, direct current
flows through the windings of the
phone and exerts a strong down
ward pull on the diaphram. This
causes the metal disaphram to be
drawn out of shape and will cause
the loud speager to have hollow
or "tinny' sound.
The vibration of the metal dia-
phram toward and away from the
poles Of the magnet in the unit will
cause the air gap to vary. This,
in turn, will cause the impotence
alternating current resistance) of
the loud speaker to vary, and has
a great deal to do with the proper
operation of the receiving set itself
on weak or distant signals. The
impotence. of the loud speaker has
its function in the tuning and bal
anctng OF the receiver, and IL 1t is
tIuctuating will have its effect in
upsetting the accurate tuning of
receiver.
Will Not Freeze.
In the third type of loud speaker
the air gap is constant and fluctu-
atlons or current through the wind
Ings OF the loud speaker does not
cnange the impotence Of the cir.
cut. The current from the B bat.
terry does not act on the diaphram
ana less distortion may be ex-
AT the same time the third type
OF reproducer will not rattle or
freeze" on extremely loud signals,
yet Will give a greater amount of
sound on extremely weak or faint
signals. A mica diaphram, one of
the most perfect substances known
Tor sound reproduction, is often
USED, whereas in most. of the other
classes OF speakers a metal dia-
phram must be used.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
Local Broadcast
NAA-Naval Radio Station.
Arlington.
(435 Meters, Radiophone)

(435 Meters, Radiophone)
1915 p. m.-Live stock markets.
las p. m.-Fruits. and vegetable
markets.
3 p. m.-Live stock markets.
S:45 p. m.-Weather report.
4.05 p. INLAY and feed.
4:25 p. m.-Dairy products.
7:25 p. m.-U. s. Civil Service
Commission, broadcast on the sub
ject of Opportunities for Employ.
ment in tbs United States Civil
Service
(2,650 Meters, Spark
IL m. and &c p. m.-Time signals.
1901 p. m.-Weather report, ship
orders, naval press news.
WCAP-C. & p. 1852
7:25 p. m.-AnnoHncement of the
major league baseball results
1880 p. m.-Outdoor concert by
the U. S. Navy Band. Charles Bent.
err, director, broadcast direct from
the U. s. Navy Yard at Washing
ton.
9O0-9:45 o. m.-Joint program
from the studio of station WEAF,
New York. "Eveready Concert
Group" consisting of Alice Godillot,
soprano; Annie Louise David, harp.
list; Quinto Maganini, flutist; Harry
Hirt, pianist.
9:45-10:00 p. m.-Dr. Paul d.
Foote, physicist at the Bureau Of
Standards, will give a talk on THE
Atom" given under the auspices Of
the National Research Council AMI
Science Service.
Note-The program listed for
Monday, Wednesday. and Friday
evenings. this week, are subject to
change in order to accommodate
broadcasting the events from the
Republican convention at Cleveland.
Ohio.
WlAY-WOodwarif & L0throp (2t3)
2 p. m.-Program of current
events and music.
WMU-Doubleday EIec. Co!
1851 r8I A
4:30 to $50 p. m.-BasebalI
scores; agrilgrams; musical I, sel9,-
tons. GfT SWIt Nts.a-
WRC-Radio Corporation (469l
This station win broadcast the
proceedings OF the Republican con.
vention during the day direct from
Convention Hall, at Cleveland
Ohio. 5tt sfsNatss
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.BROADCASTERS
CROWD AIR
To LIMIT
All Wave Lengths Exhausted
and Government Divides
Time-List of Stations

The question OF the survival, Of
the fittest'' in broadcasting is again
before the Government, as radio
broadcasting stations are almost as
numerous as a year ago and still
increasing. Today there are $50
in operation, whereas the peak was
only sol. Practically all wave
lengths have been exhausted, neces-
stating division of time.
The State of Texas leads in
broadcasting. having forty-two radio
broadcasting stations; Pennsylvania
is second, with forty lone; California.
which used to be first, has thirty
nine, and Ohio is fourth with
thirty.
New York and Illinois are tied
with twenty-nine each; Missouri
has twenty-eight, Washington
twenty-four, and Iowa twenty-three.
Nevada, New Hampshire and Porto
Rico bring up the rear with one
each, but every State is supplied
with one or more stations.
Qwna Noa a&nva hw CkakAm
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
CALL UPON RADIO TO HELP
CONQUER HEART DISEASES

Medical science is turning t. radio
for assistance in it's attempt to con-
quer the diseases Of the heart. At
the convention Of the American
Medical Association in Chicago the
heart beats Of a patient suffering
from a disorder Of that organ are
to be amplified through a micro.
phone and audio frequency trans
formers and vacuum tubes and car.
ried through individual head phones
to the seven hundred and fifty
physicians in attendance at the SEES.
sion.
: The new system of presenting the
,peculiarities of heart case before
4 medical body gives everyone an
opportunity for personal observa.
lion, and the reasons for the speak.
er's diagnosis become instantly
available.
y characteristics of other diseases
made known by the stethoscope
an also be communicated to an au-
fence by means of this system.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
CHICAGO PLANS
MAGNIFICENT
NEWSTUD|0
Radio Laboratory Sells inter-
ests in Ex-WGN-yVJAZ to
Build New Station

CHICAGO, June 11.-Details of the
transaction by which the Chicago
Tribune has taken over the Drake
Hotel station WDAP. changing its
call to WGN and wave length to
$40 meters have just been made
public.
The Chicago Tribune has been
merely supervising the programs Of
the Zenith Edgewater Beach Hotel
station, formerly known as WAX,
and had not bought it. as was the
rumor at first.
But the real surprise is that the
Chicago Radio Laboratory has sold
its interests in the ex-WGN-WJAZ
station and plans to construct a
new plant. The Chicago Radio Lab.
oratory has announced that 1t, will
shortly begin the erection of a super
Lower broadcasting station on the
northwest outskirts of Chicago, far
enough removed from residential Sec
tons to prevent 1t from being tuned
out by Chicago fans. Elaborate
plans call for a magnificent studio
atop the Mccormick building, in Chi
cago's loop, where the Zenith offices
are now located.
The call letters "WJAZ" are still
held by the Zenith Company and
will be used for the new plant,
when operation begins. No definite
date has been set for the operation
of WDAP by the Tribune, however.
The new plant to be built by the
zenith Company conforms. with the
most modern ideas of radio broad.
casting, in that the studio will be
located in the heart of the city. but
the station itself will be in the out.
lying sections. This plan will make
1t convenient for artists to reach
the studio but the noise and rush
of the city will not disturb broad.
casting, and at the same time it
will be easier for local fans to tune
out the station If thew so desire
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
ADVERTISING VALUE OF
RADIO TO A CITY is SEEN

How beneficial and valuable for
dvertising purposes a radio broad.
asting station can be to munich
'ality was recently illustrated in
pringfield, Mass, in connection
18th a shipment of canoes from Old
own, Me-, to- Springfield hard.
ire establishment.
The shipping tag bore the name
the hardware store and nothing
sc but the inscription Spring
cid, the home OF WBZ." With
ne number of cities and towns
throughout the States with the
name Springfield, mail clerks might
have experienced some difficulty in
coating the consignee. But the ad.
'itional material on the tag refer.
ing to the Springfield radio sta.
on left little doubt as to where
'e canoes were going The stock
ERIK OF the Maine canoe manufac.
rers added TO the tag. Some sta.
Lion!'
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
STATION SENDS WORD
OF CHEER TO SHUT-INS

WINNIPEG, Man, June IL
Every lunch.hour, Station CKY of
this city asks for names to lie
added to its list Of shut.in listeners.
Several names are announced from
TINS list each day and suitable words
Oh cneer are spoken to the shut-ins.
~ Is surprising what joy the
messages bring to the recipients
especially to crippled children. Pa
ems OF some OF these have assure.
ChI that the mere mention OF
Gniius name has frightened
d.tie I'VE and proved more bee
ncial than weeks Of ''doctoring."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
ROMPING AROUND
RADIO > DIAL

BY >LiStener-In

The first act of the mammoth
drama of sounds of 1924 was broad
cast yesterday.
Every detail OF the manuscript
was strictly adhered to.
The $4,000 especially delegated
actors and stage hands were in their
places on the Cleveland stage play
ing to the gallery of 10000 900.
Theodore E. Burton, first in the
spotlight. read his lines like mas
ter. And the $4,000 cheered.
The gallery. as far as we have
been able to learn, remained silent,
not particularly impressed.
The Burton monologue already
had been used for advertising pur-
poses and was not rewritten to in
clude any surprising lines. Even
with the leather.lunged cheers of
the stage.hands it failed to evoke
more than patter of applause
from certain groups of friends
around widely scattered loud speak
ers.
Applause for Mellon.
ne entrance of Andrew w. Mel.
lon on the stage brought out the
first salvo of the $1,000 This was
little more like it. There was
a punch in this unexpected appear.
ance and the gallery experienced it's
first tense moment. But it soon
grew lax after the demonstration
as Mr.. Burton arose to swing the
play back into its ordered routine.
Uness the plot of this drama of
sounds grows deeper in a hurry,
the first act will find many from
it's audience walking out.
We heard the musical overture to
yesterdays performance as we hur-
ried to our office after completing
one of our newspaper chores. 1t
was coming from a loud speaker
poking out of a window of the Ma.
tional Electric Company building.
A sizeable crowd was collected in
the street-a crowd that seemed TO
us as though it would prefer to be
listening in to baseball game or
prize fight.
The crowd was silent, almost
glum.
We returned to the National Elec.
trio loud speaker a little later
while Mr.. Burton was reading his
lines. The crowd had become con.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
5RoADcAsTING STATIONS
IN COLLEGES FAVORED

MADISON, Wis, June 11.-Estab.
lishment of radio broadcasting sta.
lions by universities, for the dis
semination Of learning by wireless.
was recommended by Professor w.
81. Lightly, of the University of
wisconsin at the meeting of the
National University Extension AS.
ISOLATION just held here.
Radio communication constitutes
one OF the outstanding inventions
that is destined to profoundly
change our social institutions. !"
Lightly says. THE radio once
again. buttresses home and family
influences. In my boyhood the
fireside lure may have been
Arabian Nights, but now for nv
boy it is Radio nights.
1.-The public school system of a
great city, the municipal or the
State university and likewise all
national universities for service to
the times, should have the oppor.
tunity to serve their contemporary
constituencies with such light and
learning as the radio broadcast can
freely supply.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
WBZ TO BROADCAST
OLYMPIC TEST WINNERS

In order that the public all over
the country will be able to know
Immediately the results Of the final
tryouts Of the Olympic track and
field events held in the Harvard
stadium on June 10 and IA, Station
WBZ. Springfield, will broadcast the
names Of the winners. These re.
suits will be given at p. m. on
these two days.
Seventeen events will take place
in this meet, which will deciCe who
VIII represent the United States. in
France on track and field. The
preliminaries will be held the first
day, which is Friday. and the finals
Will take place on Saturday.
Athletes participating in the try.
outs will be the winners of the sec.
tional meets which have been held
during the past few weeks in va.
rlous places all over the United
States. so that every section of the
country will be represented.
In addition to giving the results
OF the meet. Station WBZ will fea.
ture addresses by coaches and ath.
letes on Thursday and Friday eve.
nings.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
LOUD SPEAKERS
DIVIDED INTO
3CLASSES
Those Constructed on Sole
mold Principle Will Not
Rattle or Freeze

In its present usage, the term
loud speaker Is applied generally to
electrophonic devices EMPLOYING
some means Of distributing sound
over an area. 1t is possible to
divide loud speakers into three
classes:
!. Those which make use of ex.
listing telephone receivers, with con.
nectors or clamps to attach a pair
Of phones to horn.
2. The type of speaker that uses
single telephone receiver equipped
with cap to permit its being fas-
tened to the small opening Of a
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siderably larger and was still un-
moved to any outbursts of enthu-
siasm or appreciation.
The remainder of the address we
heard through a pair of headphoncs
hltched to set in our office.
But as We had predicted our in.
terest in the opening scene of the
first act arose more from a desire
to see what broadcasting a Presi-
Dental nominating convention is
like than from a desire to hear the
lines to be read.
Coolidge Didn't Listen.
President Coolidge. author of the
first act of the drama of sounds,
the White House correspondents tell
US. did not bother to listen in to see
how his play was taking.
Assured of full house at the
opening performance, the President
went about his pressing official
business according to his regular
practice.
For an interlude last night WRC
presented very pleasing, Tuesday
night program, with Mr.. Navin
shouldering the burden laid down
temporarily by Frederick William
Vile, Arthur Mccormick" the
singing announcer of the Park road
station, and the Shoreham Quintet
In a series OF popular musical mum.
bers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-11
Cardinal Hayes to Tune In

His Eminence, Patrick Cardinal
Hayes, will be an interested listener.
in next Saturday when Master Ed.
ward Slattery, one of the most ex-
perienced and talented boy soloists
who has ever been a member of
Father Firms famous organization
of Paulist Choristers, will broadcast
a recital from WOR as a feature of
the Flag Day program.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-18
GETTING DOWN IN THE WORLD

A few days ago woman came to public notice because she was on the verge of suicide owing to having "sot. ten down in the world.' ..
 She is now employed, as matron. and the contrast was drawn as to how. once she was a great public favorite and that now she is catering to the wants of the passerby in a public place.
 r Of course our hearts go out to one who has held high place and has had to become lowly, but when all is said and done what is there 50 terrible about the menial, lowly jobs in the worlds work that one should be driven to want to die rather than go on with them as a means of living? If each person in the position of this | woman would analyze himself he would find that what he regards as pride is 1 rather a mixture of conceit and self pity-conceit that he is 'above" such things and self-pity that he has had to come to doing them.
 As to pride, if it is of the real stuff, it will stoop to anything with which to lift itself up. Pride-to be able to do something to help ones self, no matter what it is, is the finest, big gest and best kind and it never fails one. But the pride that has to be on the crest of the wave all the time is usually of the frothy variety that rests there only when one is on the high sea of life.
 What a terrible world it would be if the so-called stars in the public Armament in any line of endeavor would remain stars until the day they died. What hindrance to progress that would be. There would be no place fer the younger generation.
 They must give way for the con stantly coming youth, and usually those who have been on top find very useful niches, perhaps even more use full than when they were in the high light. They are found where they teach from their wealth of experience.
 Take, for example, the great singers and musicians of the world. Most of them are in very quiet places teaching or coaching the young that come to them. They do not sit down and weep that their names are no longer blazing on Broadway. They are doubtless giv- ing more today in perpetuating their work than when they were stars, which light very often fades with the change of the new electric sign.
 In lesser ways other stellar lights in various walks of life must learn the beauty and value of getting down to the modest scales of life and doing what they have to do without broken spirit and a constant retrospect of what they were, but rather in the light of new life that is open to them.
 On the other hand, what frightful state of affairs If everybody summed doing the seemingly sordid things. consider the sewer digger one of the greatest assets to the worlds work The man who goes down into the man. hole and suffers even momentary dis. comforts is a more useful and heroic
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-18

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-18
TIME FOR TURN

Some college presidents get their names in the papers t.-l -.. By attacking football; Others, by attacking the American Girl. #8 tt.t
 One Virginia gentleman has just demonstratedehis sunny Southern chiy. airy '>sf5 By chanting war-cry against the "army of hard drinking, cigarette putting, licentious amazons. Who invade college campuses today Daughters of the so-called. best people Attired scantily in clothing but
 abundantly in paint, ire With bottle of liquor in their hand
 bags = Who dance as voluptuously as possible, And with the man of their choice en-
 gage in violent betting parties" $. awful, says Dr. let's see, what Y IS his name?
 Instead of interviewing teachers,
 clregymen. social service workers and
 other purity propasandists About the decline and fall of the
 American Girl, We thought we'd interview HER.
 SELF r. And THIS is what she said :-' Il am so tired ss 4 Of being scolded and nsgged and de-
 nounced Because I drink, sometimes--as my
 father does, 'fs. Because I smoke, sometimes-as my
 mother dees,
 Because I pet, sometimes--as my father
 and mother, THEIR father and mother and all my 100 per cent Americna ancestors did (Only' THEY called it "spooning?) Why does nobody ever say anything About the OTHER things do? I hold down more jobs and earn more
 money
 Than any other girl at any other place
 or time in the world.
 I am better educated Than girls ever were before (poor
 dears, they hadn't a CHANGE I am stronger, healthier, more fit Than my tight-aced, chalk-eating, faint
 ing predecessors Who couldn't swim, or golf, or play
 tennis, or hike, or BREATHE. I wear fewer clOhtes than my mother
 did-and ever so much more sensible and beautiful ones.
 I do about as please, yes-but do SOMETHING,
 | Instead of waiting for something to be
 done to me, like the meek, good little | girls of yesterday.
 Moral: DON'T worry about me The only thing I, as an American girl | can NEVER do
 Is to live Up to the reputation given me by my critics | NOBODY eould!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-18

figure than the young man who does nothing but spend his fathers money
 If nobody wanted to dig sewers, clean streets or wash clothes or work in coal pits or keep up furnaces or attend to the helpless sick and weak what a tragic world this would be. No one would be happy.
 When we get down if we would realize that we are not out as long as each can help himself-therein lies the fine spirit of strength and pride. The true test of being a real star is when you can shine in small places under difficult circumstances-to do what is before you in the best possible way.
 Take comfort in the fact that you are contributing something in the way of service regardless of how small it may seem to be. In other words, ito thine ow- self be true.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-18
HOW DOCTORS TREAT COLDS
 AND TIE FLU
First Step In Treatment Is Calo- tabs, the Purified and Re- fined Calomel Tablets That Are Nausealess, Safe and Sure. <-@

Doctors have found bye experience that no medicine for. colds. couxhs. sore throat and ,iRfluenza can be de- pended upon for fuli erfectiveness ess Until the liver IS made thoroughly ac- tive. That IS why the first step in the treatment is the nausealess raiomeI tablets called Caiotabs. which are free from the sIckenIns and weakening ettects of the old style caiomeL. Doctors also point out the fact that an active liver may Ko d long way towards preventing influ- ehza and colds and is one of the most importan factors in enabling the pa- tient to successfully withstand an at. tack and ward off pneumonia,
 One or two Calotabs at bed time. with swallow of water-that's all, No salts, no nausea nor the slightest interference with your eittlng. pleas u.e or work. Neat nturaing yolr cod has vanished. your liver is aslisa yn..r syS :ein' is purified and yo. ar, ;seling fine, with a hearty appetite !Or Lfvas.tst. Genuine Calotars ala aoit os.y .a original seaied psckages, ps.ss ik:rry five cents for tAs large, f.miiy -EaekNec: ten cgnts for inc A1lAla, es: LU1a aek- sixe.-k