Evening star., 1925-11-02
ADVENTURES OF A BROADCASTER
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE,
Radioscribe.
What Price Politics?

Suggestions and advice are con-
stantly reaching me as to the fire.
quency with which political reviews
should be broadcast. Some listeners
think my present pre-Congress sched-
ule of twice a month Is about right.
Others say that events crowd so fast
upon one another in Washington that
weekly talks are justifiable and pref
erable. My own judgment, for which
many friends ask. is that when the
political times are relatively normal
as they are Just nova semi-monthly
analysis of the situation ought to suf-
flee. When Congress Is in session 1
think the situation will bear discus
sion once a week.
X X +
AS nearly all Washington reads The
Evening Stars radio page. this Is the
best place / know Of in which TO plead
for mercy. Since, in a spirit of &C
commodation Of a friend, / recently
spoke before a mems club at a local
church, there has been a deluge OF
similar invitations. ! never realized
there were so many churches or so
many mems clubs I'm the District of
Columbia. To his regret, this radio
scribe Is obligated to sign off on these
occasions. He'd be busy doing moth
ing but fulfilling such engagements,
and talk (per radio and otherwise) is
not his regular job. He has decided,
therefore. to confine his verbal out
givings strictly TO the microphone.
X X X
All of which may make II appro-
pirate to explain that broadcasting
is not an eXtempore business. 1t
means preparation-in my own case
painstaking preparation. Tuesday
evening talks at WRC, although oc-
cupying only Is or is minutes in de-
livery. call for four or five hours of
intensive reading and writing They
require especially. intensive conden-
sation. Senator George II. Moses of
New Hampshire Is the only man I
ever saw with the courage to face
the microphone without notes But he
was talking on a political topic as IA
miliar TO him as his A-B-Cs, and could
let himself go.
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Never personally have ! had so i'm =
presSlVe Il demonstration of the far
flung radius of radio as the recent
Navy da1 talk has produced on my
desk, as these paragraphs are written
is stack of 10 or Il letters from
listeners many hundreds Of miles
away from Washington-in two or
three cases more than 1000 miles
away.
Milton a. Smith, Independence
Iowa, writes:
/ wish to congratulate you on
your speech last evening, to which
I listened over my radio. Your
comparison of preparedness to in
surance is the proper method of
presenting the subject. The con-
tiagration for which we are paying
today would never have occurred
had our Army and Navy been what
they should have been at the time
of the World War. You put it
delicately. but the meaning was
clear. i. g, If a fool Congress sees
fit gratuitously 10 insult a proud
nation, they should be prepared for
the consequences. Keep up your
line Of argument. We need 1t.
F. r. Purdy. 4246 Delaware street,
st. Louis, Mo, was on the air with
the Navy. too. He writes:
Wish to thank you for the fine
address given to us over the radio
on the Navy day program from
Washington, D. c. / know that
you gave some very good facts for
all Americans TO study about. and
wish you had about an hour to
talk over the radio. / am very
glad that the Hon. Curtis D. Will
bur, Secretary of the Navy, had
you on the program. Again thank
ing you, etc.
y Il x
There is bouquet that must come
from an insurance agent-he signs