Evening star., 1925-05-30


Santelmann, Stannard and Benter
can be comfortably accommodated.
I've been very much interested in
watching how a radio studio is sound
proofed. First the brick walls are
coated with heavy felt nearly two
inches thick. The ceiling is likewise
treated. Then they are covered with
muslin, and to the muslin a special
brand of paint. giving wallpaper
effect, is applied. The windows fac
ing the street are soundproofed by
means of double heavy draperies. The
floor is carpeted merely with rugs of
more than ordinary thickness. The
net effect is mouse-like quiet.
Undoubtedly the air armament has
acquired a new star in the person of
Mai. Gen. Charles p. Summerall, COM
manding our military forces at Gov
ernors Island, New York. All Of us
in attendance at the Cantigny day
dinner of the 1st Division Society
were thrilled by the unusual clear
ness with which the general addressed
us from his headquarters more than
200 miles away. OF course, there's
nothing unusual in a transmission of
that distance. But 1t is uncommon
to hear a voice that carries so Splen-
didly as Gen. Summerall's does. When
he retires from the Army, l predict a
future for him on the air, if he has
ambitions in that direction. Most of
ALL think / liked the generals fare
we'll sally to the men of the 1st
Di, ision, which he once commanded.
"And now, my comrades" he said,
good night and good fortune"
An anonymous and entertaining
radio correspondent, who writes me
occasional postcards signed "Borah"
in a handwriting astonishingly like
that of the celebrated Senator from
Idaho, has just taken another crack
at me. This week he wrote me as fol-
lows: "If you are the notable you
think you are, the post office ought to
be able to deliver this card with no
address except what you see on the
other side" On the address side was
pasted a clipping of the picture OF my
self that sometimes appears in this
column. The postcard was delivered
at my residence the next morning
after it was mailed. This information
is published for the benefit of my un-
known mentor.
iAppended is a sample of the Sc
ductive invitations which l am side
stepping these days. 1t comes from
somewhere in Maryland" not far
from Sandy Spring:
The - Club Is holding its early
Summer meeting on Thursday,
June II. / am asked to furnish
Commute program and I am hop
ing that you will be "it." 1t would
be all / would ask if you would
lust repeat the talk you expect to
give on the radio on the evening of
June 9.
p. L. Kicker of the Department of
Agriculture. who is president of the
Wild Flower Preservation Society,"
sends me the pleasant word that the
society plans to issue as a pamphlet
my recent radio appeal to spare the
dogwood" 1t is also to be reproduced
in the society's quarterly periodical,
Wild Flower.
My colleague, Pioneer" of the New
York Herald Tribune, who really de-
serves that title as Americas first
radio columnist, has launched a dis
cussion which ought to interest people
hereabouts as well as on Manhattan
Island This is what's on his mind:
We've had a question in psy
chology, or rather in the application
of psychology. buzzing around the
neither portions of our question
hive for several weeks. Maybe 1t
isn't question in psychology at
all. but at least we're sure It's
question. Or rather il Il series Of