New Britain herald., 1926-01-21
Through tie Static

By the invisibility of Perseus. Last night was far from worth while. An, me! Pity lis. 'tis true. There was a marked lack of volume, which gradually waXed and waxed until we slid off into q sea of inaudibility. And then we turned on the battery charger. Last night vas so much different from the night before that there was no fun in it. We didn't bring in one Chicago station. The New Workers helped us out, as did Schenectady and a few of the others which are noted for their volume at all times, but results weren't satis- factory, not by d long shot. There was static and fading too, although the former took pulverized form and just drifted in now and then, to make things interesting.
 
 The Old Fiddlers' contest at WBZ is beginning to assume such enor nous proportions that a recital of the names would read like the pub lished list of those who paid the largest income taxes. We won't bother to put down the names of those who took part last evening, be- cause there were several of them, and by next week there will be sev- eral more and, anyway, what do you care who they were? The affair took place at Cooks Butterfly ballroom, and we enjoyed hearing the various conceptions Of the old dance tunes as played by men who used to strut to them. Possibly strut isn't the proper word, but it will do, through our inability to think of q better one. Each contestant was required 10 play Turkey in The Straw" as one of his numbers.
 There was a great miXup at scy- aral places along the line of battle. KDKA and WJAR were fighting tooth and nail between their respec- tive wavelengths, and for a while we thought there would be someone hurt as WBZ and WMCA got into an argument over which one should monopolize the dial settings around S55 meters. Of course, the youngsters down around 269 meters were at it again last night as they always are.
 New Wearing Apparel For Men" vas the subject of a talk from 1 WCAU, Philadelphia, when we suc- cceded in untangling the station | from about S5 others We proceeded to tangle it right up again after hear l ing the subject Our NEW wearing l apparel for spring will consist of a pair of garters and the addition to our seedy suit Of several buttons ! which have disappeared mysterious l ly from the sleeves and from the vest. We've been planning to have 1 that done for almost six months, but we haven't got around to it, some. how or other.
 Deep River" a negro spiritual, with which you are all familiar came through from WIZ as a saxo- phone ensemble number. You heard 1t, you say? Oh, well, we won't say any more. But, say, did you notice now WIZ faded? That's fact. Well, we heard many other sta tions, more or less satisfactory WTIC, Of course, boomed in witt great gusto and we heard Dreams a composition of Wagner, as played by Miss Helen Wheeler direct iron the studio of the Austin Organ com pany. through WTIC, at Hartford Connecticut, The Insurance City Wonderful tone,
 WHN, Roseland orchestra playing "Who." in a roWdy manner.
 WEAF, Eoxy's Gang in regula
 weekly program stop Excerpts iron
 Hcrberts "Screnade" played sto, Very good.
 Well, We went from one-Of Dosh
 . That's all for today, thanks, p, E. L.