Evening star., 1925-10-04
BY ROBERT MACK.
By Consolidated Press.

| By Consolidated Press.
Four years Of development with a
| speed and intensity unprecedented In
| the history of industry have entitled
radio to a season in which to pause
and catch its breath. From all ap
pearanceS that privilege will be ac
cepted this Winter.
For four years the bars have been
| down. Radio-which has come 10
mean the wireless transmission of all
human and mecha nical SoundS-haS
been allowed to follow its inclinations
almost as freely as gutter pup.
Except for the cry of monopoly. which
may or may not he true. but which
can nearly always be expected to
arise in connection with importa mt
and valuable patent rights, there have
been few restrictions on what radio
might not do and almost no limitations
on the extent to which il might de.
EelOp.
Fortunately, behind radio were the
vision and imagination of some rare
and unusual men. Ideas bred ideas
in an instant and there was the faith
to see them through.
Approaches to Maturity.
The result has been that in an
almost incredibly short time radio has
pa ssed through adolescence and ap.
proaches something like maturity.
The success of its progress is attested
In volumes of statistics on file at the
Department of Commerce and by the
loud speaker in nearly every one S
living room.
There has been some bunk, many
extravagant claims, but on the whole
radio has grown up gracefully. That
1t should pause to reflect and consider
,>lo t. l.,
the life of the world is not taken TO
mean that development will even
momentarily cease. But rather that
where in the past it always ran, for
while. at least, 1t will now proceed
more deliberately.
The industry itself-the manufac-
ture of radio transmitting and receiv-
ing apparatus-is fourishing, but
there are weeds that have grown up
In the business that must be pulled.
There hasn't been time 20 do this in
the hustle and hustle of the past four
years.
Will Stabilize Distribution.
That the business gardening job
will be attended to this Winter is fore
cast in the plans being made by nearly
all Of the leading radio manufacturers
10 stabilize the distribution of their
products and to eliminate those deal
ers whose sales methods have been
questionable. Stocks of old models of
apparatus are reported to be fairly
well liquidated. and there is little pos
Sibility that the radio rush" Of past
years, when set sellers appeared over
night. three or four to the city block
Will ever be repeated. The sellers who
were content to follow sound business
methods are doing nicely. Those who
hn0nl fn
also quit by order of the bankruptcy
courts.
In the radio factories engineers will
devote their time to perfecting. beau
tifying and otherwise improving the
instrument Of today. In the retail
world radio dealers will be fewer in
number, their establishments more
complete and In a healthier business
atmosphere. and their profits, it is
believed. sure and steady. AS in the
development of the automobile indus
try. there will grow up the filling sta
tionS of radio, with their lines of
tubes. batteries, wires, inSulators and
what-notS.
Inventors Still Busy.
Inventors can he expected to con-
tinue to dream and work for radio and
keep the patent inspectors in Wash
ington busy. AS to their discovering
or inventing anything startling, it
would take q whale of a theory or
product to surprise the thrilled
world of radio.
In the realm of broadcastinG-an
1t is there that radio really comes
home to the average citizen--tho
pause Nfor breath is perhaps more to
be desired than In the factory or in
the sales office.
For four years the air has been as
free as-well, as free as air. And AS
q consequence, it stands now in
danger of losing it's freedom for the
same reason that one can't eat ones
jam and have it,
In the course of the next few weeks