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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-12-25
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the Chill
dren's Christ
mas tree
arrayed with
toys and filigree,
and brilliant gew-
gaws deftly hung,
that catch the eye of
old and young. With
fairies bright and tinted
birds call forth glad
enraptured words; and
merry eyes will greet the
sight when am viewed by
candle-light. Beneath my
boughs there lies a scene of
house and yard and village
green; with mimic railway
running through, as railroads
oft are wont to do. am,
alas, Christmas tree And
this will be the death for me;
for when the Yuletide sea-
sons past, upon the ash-heap I'll
be cast. However, while I'm stand Z
ing here, A host of children will
cheer, and cause their youthful
cheeks to glow, because of One
Child long ago, who came this wait
ing world to bless and fill our
hearts with happiness. And so, you
see I'm glad to be
the
lit
tie
Chill !
dren's
Christ
mas
tree.
BY Rev. H. C. Michael, B. D.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-12-25

Governor Richie has made public
a letter signed by the members OF
the Democratic State Central Com
mittee for Cecil county and 413 other
Democratic voters OF the county
urging him to become a candidate
for Governor to succeed himself.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-12-25

Ebenezer M. K. Sunday school
will hold their annual Christmas
entertainment and treat on Satur-
day evening, Dec. rs, at 1880
O'Clock. Silver offering at the door.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-12-25

Water Witch Fire Company, Of
Port Deposit, viii hold its annual
banquet on Thursday evening, De-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-12-25

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Evening star., 1925-01-02

THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK
holders of The District Title Insurance Com
pany for the election of directors for the en-
suing year. and for the transaction of such
other business as may be properly brought
before the meeting, will be held at the office
OF said company at ! o'clock pm, on Monday,
January II, 1925. The polls will be open be-
, tween 1 and O'Clock pm.
H NJ PACKARD. Secretary
Evening star., 1925-01-02

Year eve. and did not take into con-
sideration the fact that the paying
public might be a little resentful of
such treatment.
4. At the Department of Commerce,
which is a sort of clearing house for
complaints against the radio, 1t was
said today that the array of radio
1enemies" Is now a most imposing
one. 1t includes theatrical managers.
concert managers, actors and artists,
including the National Vaudeville As
sociation ard the Actors Equity AS
sociation; song writers, prize fight
promoters, base ball magnates, gem
eral sports promoters, moving picture
palaces and actors, street car COM
panies and photograph manufac-
turers Except those who are trying
to combine the two arts of reproduc-
tion), and other scattering interests.
including one of the big press asso-
Citations of the country.
Yet, despite this combating phalanx
the radio seems to be making steady
headway, and officials here are thor
oughly conscious of the fact that
there must be a new appraisal made
of the effect of this free entArtain-
ment every night of the year upon
the big amusement enterprises of the
country.
Inc MttTopOllldH opera 90. is ny
no means won over to the idea of
radio performances by the singers
under contract with it, although at
tendance at the opera thus far has
been in nowise affected by the broad
cast programs. The Metropolitan has
agreed tentatively to the experiments
now being made with performances
by grand opera stars, because it has
been represented that since radio
broadcasting began the royalties OF
some of the opera singers have been
Evening star., 1925-01-02

divine blessing upon the millions
listening to him.
Seated in a room with a group of
people, and, as he put it. enjoying a
free musical program over the radio
that could only be described as
gorgeous, Mr.. Brady said:
Why in the world should we go
TO the theater and pay money? Why
should any one be so foolish? The
trouble is not with the people who sit
home and hear Mccormack and Bori,
it is entirely the fault of the men who
control the theater."
Adding that I'VE of the theater are
headed straight for ruin" Mr.. Brady
made caustic comments about squab-
bling among theatrical managers and
referred to motion pictures having
Will Hays and base ball Judge
Landis to look out for their inter-
ests. while the theater. because it is
ramuses," has got nobody.
The theater is facing the greatest
crisis in its history he said. I'm
less a move of some sort is started
we all might as well quit"
Frank Gilmore, speaking for the
Actors Equity Association, of which
he is executive secretary, agreed with
Mr.. Brady that the theater is facing
a crisis, and said that the Equity was
doing all in its power to combat it.
Evening star., 1925-01-02

RELL. gardener. Line 964o. 726 10th st ne
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE AN
nual meeting of the shareholders of the Riggs
National Bank of Washington, ID. c.. for the
election of directors and the transaction of
such other business may come before the
meeting, will be held at the banking house on
Tuesday, January 13. 1925. The polls will
main open from II O'Clock al until u
o'clock noon
Evening star., 1925-01-02

seriously cut down by a falling off
in the sale of their phonograph
records. Tho new concert are ex-
pected to stimulate interest in the
singers and to result In a new demand
for their records. If the new broad
castings do not accomplish this end,
the concerts like that of New Year 8
night may cease. Mr.. Mccormack.
Miss Bori and their associates, who
have agreed to appear" in the near
future, certainly have started the
whole amusement pot to boiling
again-and the Government is ex-
pected to be asked to do something
about it. Just what, however, 1T does
not know.
Copyright, 1929
Evening star., 1925-01-02

FRUIT TREES, GRAPE VINES, HEDGES,
RELL. gardener. Line 964O. I2G 10Th ST 4. Q.
Evening star., 1925-01-02

THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK
holders of The Lawyers Title Insurance Com
pany for the election Of directors for the en-
suing year, and for the transaction Of such
other business may be properly brought
before the meeting. will be held at the office
of said company, at | o'clock pm, on Mon
day, January Il, 1925. The polls viii be
open between l ard o'clock pm.
Evening star., 1925-01-02
STAGE CRISIS FELT AS MILLIONS
HEAR MCCORMACK RADIO SONGS
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was no way of definitely determining
the number. One radio official said
that every one who had "A radio set
within the area reached by the sta
uons must have been listening.
Affair Strictly Formal.
The reception room at WEAF was
crowded. Everybody was in evening
dress. Mr.. Mccormack and Miss Bori
arrived early and rehearsed for nearly
an hour before the concert. Mr. Nc
Cormack sang first. He opened with
"Adeste Fideles," with quartet and
orchestra, and then sang the Der
ceuse,' from 'Jocelyn," with cello
obbligato. Miss Bori then sang La
Paloma,' when Love Is Kind" and
"Addio del Passato," from la Ira
viata." Then followed the duet PA
rfgt, Cara" from the same opera
After two orchestra numbers Mr. Nc
Cormack concluded his part of the
program with "Marcheta" Mother
Machree" and "All Alone"
Music critics who listened in on the
concert say that the most obviou.
thing is that something is lost when
singer is heard over the radio. AS
the voices came over the radio they
lacked the full resonance that is
heard in the concert room, and sub
tleties and nuances are lost to the
hearer. Comparison with records OF
the voices and the radio seems to de-
pend on types of machines and sets.
After the concert Mr.. Mccormack
said he enjoyed the experience.
I've had plenty of experience MAX
Ing records" he said, but this beats
1t. Somehow, you seem to be able to
visualize an audience better in broad
casting, and you can sing to them di-
rectly. After you get the hang of it
it's easy
Miss BOri Frightened.
Miss Bori said she was badly fright
ened at first
I just thought Of those 5000 ,0OO
people out somewhere listening to me
and l was scared to death" she said
Its odd what a feeling you have
when you see that little instrument
in front of you. 1 had to fight to
keep myself from Tightening all up
but after l got well started l for
got all about it"
Assertions were made that both
artists sang without compensation
but the financial aspect of the con-
cert was indicated when frequent
illusions were made to records OF
the singers voices.
Mr.. Mccormack made a little speech
after his singing was concluded, say
ing he wished his first radio audience
happy New Year and invoking
Evening star., 1925-01-02

TRADE against the new menace" of
this thing of air and ether which
takes entertainment into the homes
of the people and stops them from
venturing forth at night.
New Alliance Seen.
A new alliance is to be attempted
against the radio, but apparently no
one knows just how to go about 1t.
The consensus of opinion shows a
general belief that it is up to the
Government to do something. But
the Government cannot act. Secretary
Hoover, who presides over the destiny
of the radio as much as any Govern
ment official can, says 1T is not feas-
ible. nor is it desirable that the Gov
ernment should attempt to influence,
much less to regulate, the programs
that are broadcast free to all who
care to listen in.
The actors of the country are to
be appealed to once more to band
themselves against the radio by
swearing never, never, never to face
a microphone with the idea of giving
entertainment away for nothing.
Vaudeville artists have particularly
been adjured to keep clear of all
radio entanglements. They have
been warned that the radio is plan
nlng to take the bread and meat
from their mouths.
The tremendous impetus given to
the radio by the Mccormack Bori ap-
pearance of New Year night, through
series of stations in the Eastern
half of the country, has caused
theatrical managers and officials OF
actors organizations to declare anew
that a serious crisis is faced by the
amusement industry. Dispatches
from New York say that during the
Accommodation radio concert the
theaters of New York City were all but
empty-even the big hits of the sea-
son facing rows of vacant seats. The
managers said that while there
always was a falling off in attend
ance from New Year eve, the slump
this year was greater than ever, and
unquestionably was due to the strong
counter attraction of the radio pro-
gram.
High Prices React.
The managers overlooked the fact
that some of them charged their
public as high as s11 a seat on New
Evening star., 1925-01-02

HIGH-GRADE MAN DESIRES A POSITION
where legal training and executive experience
Of over twenty years standing will be Of
real service. and where ability and merit will
allow advancement. Best of references. Ad-
dress Box 3l2-J Star office
Evening star., 1925-01-02
OFFICIALS SEE APPEAL.
Expect Interest Fighting Radio to
Ask United States Curb.
BY ROBERT IT. SMALL.

Government officials were expecting
today that new appeals would be
made for them TO do something
about the radio" 1t seems that since
John Mccormack and Lucrezia Bori
two stars of the Metropolitan Opera
Company, actually have sung to a
radio audience estimated as high as
six or seven million persons, the
theater and amusement managers OF
the country have burst forth in a new
Evening star., 1925-01-02

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE AN
nual meeting of the stockholders of the Capt
tai Traction Company for the election OF
board of directors for the ensuing year and
the transaction of such other business as may
be brought before the meeting. will be held at
the office of the company, 36th and NJ SIS
NV. Washington. D. C., on Thursday JAN
nary 8, 1925, at 1O:4J o'clock a. m. The polls
will be open from IL O'Clock am. until IL
O'Clock noon. H. ID. CHAMPION. Secretary.
Evening star., 1925-01-02
SPECIAL NOTICES.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
Ambassador Theater Company has declared an
per cent dividend on their preferred stock.
payable January TO- 1929 to the stockholders
of record at the close OF business December
81. 1924. This payment being all accumulated
dividends in fun TO December 81. 1924.
OFFICE OF THE FIREMEN'S INSURANCE
Company of Washington and Georgetown,
Seventh street and Louisiana avenue north
west. The stockholders of the Firemen's In
surance Company Of Washing ton and George
town will meet at the office Monday, Jan.
uary 3, 1925, for the purpose OF electing
thirteen directors fol the ensuing year Polls
open from IL am. to l. noon. ALBERT W.
HOWARD, Secretary.
Evening star., 1925-01-02

The managers overlooked the fact
that some of them charged their
public as high as $11 a seat on New
Evening star., 1925-01-02
Watch Has Novel Prototypes.

Polite Rarisian society used the
watch in the sixteenth century, when
1t became bad form for the guest or
host to look at 1t to,pote the time. To
avoid this embarrassment, a watch
maker originated timepiece that
had raised hands, and time could be
told by feeling 1t inside the pocket.
Another ingenious device for telling
time in the dark was a clock that had
on its dial twelve small cups, each
filled with different spice. The one
seeking the time would feel around
the dial to where the hands were and
then taste the spice.
Evening star., 1925-01-02
ALLIES MEETING DELAYED

PARIS, January 2.-It was an
nounced today that the meeting of. the
allied finance ministers, to consider
division of the German reparatton
payments, has been postponed a day.
1t will begin January Z, instead of
January 6, as previously intended
Evening star., 1925-01-02
ROBERT V. FLEMING Cashier.

THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK
holders of The Washington Title Insurance
Company for the election of directors for the
ensuing year and for the transaction of such
other business may be properly brought
before the meeting. Will be held at the Office
of said company, at ! O'Clock pm. on Mon
day. January II. 1928. The polls will be
open between l and O'Clock pm.
H. NJ PACKARD Secretary
Evening star., 1925-01-02

THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SHARE
holders Of the Atlantic Building Company. for
the election of officers and directors for the
ensuing year, will be hed at the Office of the
company, 119 South Fairfax ST., Alexandria
Va, at II o'clock am. January 10. 1927.
Evening star., 1925-07-14
SECOND STADIUM
CONCERT TONIGHT
WRC to Broadcast Dance
Music of Philharmonic Or
cheStra at 7:25.

The second of the Lewissohn Sta
dium concerts to he broadcast by WRC
is included in tonight's program. be-
ginning at 7:25 o'clock. The program
is made up entirely of dance music,
for which Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn
and the Denishawn Dancers will per-
form in the stadium The music for
this program will be played by the
augmented Philharmonic Orchestra
Of 110 musicians. conducted tonight by
Clifford Vaughan. musical director
for the DeniShawns. The program in
c1udeS dances to music by Beethoven.
GODDARD, Debussy, Gluck, Chopin, H.
genfritZ, Brahms. List. Schumann
and Richard Strauss, many divertisSe-
nentS and "Straussiana," choreo-
graphic work based on the music of
the three Strauss brothers, Johann,
Josef and Edouard.
.'WRC'S program also includes the
second presentation by the members
of the Theater Workshop. Immediate
ly following the Philharmonic concert,
the Theater Workshop will give a
special radio version of Floyd Dell's
one-aCt play, Sweet and Twenty"
The players will be remembered by
WRC's audience for their previous
presentation of The Maker of
Dreams" In the cast of Sweet and
twenty Will be Betty Clark, Zan
Sweeney, James Stevens and John
Sehallhaas. Other features of the
evening program will be the musical
travelogue, Over the Seven Seas, -
at 6:55 O'Clock, and the program of
dance music by w. Spencer Tupman
and his Hotel Mayfiower Orchestra
The traveiogue tonight will take
listeners on d visit to Port Said with
SIDE trips 10 the Suez Canal and the
Red Sea. Both the travelogue and the
dance concert will be broadcast
through a chain of stations that in
cludes, besides WRC, WIZ, New York,
and WGY, Schnectady. The program
will be opened at $50 with announce
ments of the base ball scores.
AT 3:55 play-by-play account will
be given of the Westinghouse. Louis
base ball game.
Evening star., 1925-07-14
YACHT TO BROADCAST
PROGRAMS FOR CAMPERS
Will Visit Georgian Bay Section of
Great Lakes-Summer Visitors
to Provide Numbers.

Summer campers and cottagers
along the Great Lakes. and especially
in the Georgian Bay region, will be
provided with radio programs broad
cast from the Muroma. Powell Crosley,
jr.'s, new 65-foot bridge-deck motor
yacht.
Special broadcasting equipment is
being prepared by radio engineers,
and will be installed aboard the yacht
before she leaves the Detroit Yacht
Club with her owner and guests for
a vacation trip. The call letters will
probably be WLW, Jr., which Will
serve TO identify the floating station
with that of it's owners super-power
broadcasting station WLW, Cincin-
natl. Storage battery equipment
will be used to supply current for the
transmitter.
Invitations will be extended to
campers to participate In the pro-
grams to be broadcast when the yacht
makes port for the night In addi-
ton to these impromptu programs,
schedule will be maintained, utilizing
phonograph music for the principal
entertainment.
Evening star., 1925-07-14
What You Should Know About
Vacuum Tubes-Part 2.

1t is difficult to judge the respective
or comparative merits OF various
types of tubes for specific uses in
particular circuit unless you know
something about the characteristics
which make for efficiency in using
tube for a specific function in cir
cult.
Radio tubes can perform four dis
tinct functions in a radio receiver:
they may be used as detectors, as
oscillators, as radio frequency ampli-
fiers and as audio frequency ampH-
iers. Some tubes may be used for
all of these functions while others
are strictly limited in their uses.
1t goes without saying that maxi
mum efficiency can only be obtained
when tubes are used for the purpose
for which they are best fitted.
In this discussion / will take up the
tubes most generally used: namely
the wv 200. wv POI, WD IL. WD II,
wv 201A, wv 1919 and the Cunning
ham equivalents of these tubes,
namely, the G 800, c 3D1. c II, c IL.
c 301A and c 299, respectively. l will
also give the De Forest DIV 1, DIV 2.
DIV and DIV GA. While there are
other tubes on the market the tubes
mentioned are more generally avail
able and are standard throughout the
country.
May Use Any as Detectors.
AS far as their uses in circuits are
concerned, Irrespective of efficiency,
any of the tubes in the series men
toned can be used as detectors with
good results, although the wv 200
and C 800 are best adapted for that
purpose. The capabilities of these last
two tubes, however, can only be
brought out through a critical ad-
justment Of plate and filament volt
ages, so that unless you are willing
to use a vernier rheostat and a
potentiometer for close adjustment of
the plate voltage very little is to be
gained by using this tube in prefer
ence to the others.
The selection of any of the other
Evening star., 1925-07-14
WRC-Radio Corporation of America
li6S5 MefPrSl

3:55 p.m.-Play-by-pla account of
the Westinghouse. Louis base bali
game.
$50 p.m.-Base ball scores.
1855 p.m.-"OYer the Seven Seas.
Port Said, Suez Canal and Red Sea, :"
broadcast with stations WIZ and
WGY from New York
7:25 p.m.-Concert from the Lewis
sohn stadium, conducted by Clifford
Vaughan, broadcast with stations
VIZ and WGY from New York.
$50 p.m.-"Sweet and Twenty" a
one-act play by Floyd Dell, presented
by members of the Theater Workshop.
10 p.m-W. Spencer Tupman and
his Hotel Mayfiower Orchestra, broad
cast with stations WIZ and WGY
from the presidential room of the
Hotel Mayflower.
Early Program Tomorrow.
3 to 10 a.m.-Women's hour, broad
cast with station WIZ.
y noon-Organ recital. broadcast
from First Congregational Church.
4 p.m-Concert by Irving Boern-
STEMS Hotel Washington Orchestra. :
Evening star., 1925-07-14
Mutual Conductance of Tube.

Another very important considera-
ton in determining the efficiency of
a tube irrespective of filament or
plate current requirements is the
mutual conductance" of tube. This
term is a measure of the controlling
effect of the grid potential on the
plate current. Since the action of a
vacuum tube, regardless of its use as
detector. oscillator, radio or audio
frequency amplifier, is based on the
controlling effect of the grid potentials
on the plate current, this factor is
very important one in determining
the efficiency of a tube. The higher
the value of the mutual conduCtance
of a tube the higher will be the eff
cheney of the tube, because a high mu-
tual conductance means that very
slight grid potential variations will
produce rather high variations of
plate current. Conductance being the
opposite of resistance, the unit used
for this factor is the 'mho." which, if
you will notice, is ''ohm" spelled back
wards. The mho being too large for
ordinary figuring, smaller unit. the
'micromho," is used for calculations.
micromho is equal to nemillionth
of a mho.
The mutual conductance in mi
cromhos of tube can be figured
directly from the plate to filament
| impedance and the amplification con-
stant of the tube. 1t is equal to the
amplification constant of the tube
multiplied by 100000 and divided by
| the value of the plate to filament i'm
| pedance.
The amplification constant varies
slightly while the impedance varies
considerably with changes in grid
potential and plate voltage, so that
the mutual conductance of a tube
must be given under certain condi-
tons of plate voltage, grid potential
and filament voltage
Evening star., 1925-07-14
PLAN BASTILE PROGRAM.
WIZ to Aid French in America
Celebrate Independence.

Bastile day, the French independ-
ance day. will be observed tonight by
WIZ. 4 special program has been
arranged. starting at 9:20 o'clock.
The musical setting Will be furnish
ed by the Lafayette Hotel Orches-
ira of New York. M. Mongendre,
French consul general, will broadcast
II greeting to all French people in the
United States in their native tongue.
The "Marseillaise," the national an
them of France, will be sung by M
Jean Waller, noted tenor of the Paris
Opera
Evening star., 1925-07-14
Worlds Southernmost Station.

Radio fans who pick up the signal
LRT will be in communication with
the worlds southernmost radio sta
ton, which is about to be set up in
the South Orkney Islands, where the
Argentine government maintains
meteorological observatory.
Evening star., 1925-07-14

6:45 to 7:45 a.m.-Morning setting
up" exercises by the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Co., direct from the
Metropolitan Tower, l Madison ave
n4Ie, New York City.
Evening star., 1925-07-14
Sour Stomach
Phillips Milk of Magnesia"
Better than Soda


Instead Of soda hereafter take
little "Philips Milk of Masnesia" in
water any time for indigestion or
sour, acid, sassy stomach and relief
will come instantly.
For fifty years genuine "PhiIiips
Milk of Magnesia" has been pre-
soribed by physicians, because it
overcomes three times as much acid
in the stomach as a saturated solu-
ton of bicarbonate of soda, leaving
the stomach sweet and free from all
gases. 1t neutralizes acid fermenta-
tions in the bowels and gently urges
the sourina waste from the system,
without pursins. Besides, it is more
pleasant to take than soda. Insist
upon "Phillips." Twenty five cent
bottles, any drug store: '
Evening star., 1925-07-14
FIFTEEN MINUTES OF RADIO EACH DAY
BY JOSEPH CALCATERRA.
Noted Authority on Radio.
All Rights Reserved. Reproduction Prohibited.

tubes as a detector VIII be determined
largely by the filament current char
asteristics, as will be explained later
The reason for the limited use of
the Nv 200 and c 800 tubes is due to
the fact that the tube is not highly
evacuated, but contains a gas which
permits the tube to respond to a criti-
cal adjustment in both it's filament
and plate voltage characteristics.
One of the most important char
acteriSticS of a vacuum tube is it's
"amplification constant" This is a
term which expresses the maximum
voltage amplification which it is pos
sible to obtain when the tube is used
as an amplifier. 1t is an indicator of
the efficiency of the tube in amplify-
ing or strengthening a received cur
rent