The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02
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Senator Dunn Sees no Hope for Candidates
 Who Make Radio Speeches

Who Make Radio Speeches
 Dear Dummer: The annouheesnent by all the other candidates that they intend to make their campaign appeals over the radio this year is great news to us. It means our chances of election on fourth ticket will be bigger than ever. All we can hope for is that the other candidates won't change their minds Nobody ever made speech by radio and became any more popular for it.
 If the candidates depend on the radio more political address will be made to people who are not listening than in any campaign in history.
 When a candidate begins with that stereo- typed Good evening, my great unseen au- dience," the audience will come right back at him with Good night, my, great unheard speaker 'and switch into a song by Sophie Tucker or sumpin'. am
 ask you, Drummer, who is going to listen to arguments about the tariff on vest but tons since the Cleveland administration or the wide damage done to pink geraniums by, the boil weevil under Republican regimes since the Civil War when lot of good jazz music can be obtained by turning the little black dial a hundredth of an inch?
 None of the candidates is equipped to get a single vote out of radio audience. General Dawes wrote violin solo. once. but he can't play it. President Coolidge. John NV. Davis. Charlie Bryan and LaFOllette and Wheeler are no good on any musical instrument and can't sing anything and get away with it.
 When Mir. Davis was nominated the news papers emphasized the fact he owned 2S walking sticks. What good are 2S walking sticks in a radio campaign? You can't broad cast them. Harry Lauder had only one walk ing stick and always held his radio audiences, but he was natural entertainer.
 I understand Mir. Butler is urging Mir. Coolidge to take up saxaphone-in-ten-lesso course, so Calvin can go to any brOadcasting station and knock the radio fans dead but Cal is backward about doing it. He still has the foolish notion a president should be seen and not heard.
 Where all the parties made their big mis- take is that they didn't have common sense enongh to put good jazz band leader on the ticket either for president or vice president. The minute they failed to do that they lost any chance of getting the radio vote.
 No, Drummer, if these candidates want to get anywhere over the radio they will have to do what the big business houses do when they want wide publicity, viz; hire some good snappy jazz bands to represent them. The Republicans could hire Vincent Lopez and his orchestra and bill them like this:
 STATION XYZ
 8 p. m.-The Calvin Coolidge Harmony Boys, broadcasting direct from the White House grill room.
 Then Mfr. Davis could hire Paul White man sband and bill it this way:
 STATION KAIW
 10 to P p. m.-John ". Davis Syncopa- tion Kings, by courtesy of the Democratic national committee.
 That's the only way they could appeal to a radio audience and get any results. Nobody ever sent In an applause card as yet to any radio. station reading Candidate ...'s speech coming over great. Please have him do it over again v
 But it isn't up to us to warn them. You and I will announce our fourth party soon. We will edme out with positive guarantee not to make any political speeches by radio. and we'll sweep the country. Regards to everybody I don't know.
 SENATOR O. HOWE DUAIAI.
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