Evening star., 1926-01-23
ADVENTURES OF A BROADCASTER
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.
RGdioNribc.
Why [ Am 10 O'Clock Scholar.

Program commitments" at WIZ.
New York, am officially Informed, are
responsible for my being condemned
to appear before the microphone at
WRC at 10 pm. For more than three
weeks. as readers of these adventures
are aware. | have been stirring and
stewing about the lateness of that
hour. The WRC staff has been CO.
operating with me to the extent Of its
powers, but it appears to be helpless
to put me back TO $50 or 9. What
VIZ now says is that il | will keep on
talking at 10 o'clock for another
month that station will do its utmost
after that to assign me more rea-
sonable and seaSonable time. Super
power WIZ, of course, gives its num-
bers a tremendous audience. / have
had letters from northern Maine, from
Ohio. from numerous points in New
England, and as I recently indicated,
from as far south as Cuba.
* x x X
More than hundred letters and
post cards from nearby constituents
complain this week Of the complete
ness with which the weather fore
caster al Arlington now blots out The
Political Situation in Washington To
night" A lady who doesn't live far
from NAA, Mrs. Florence L. Cannon,
writing from Little Rock" Arlington.
sends the following screamingly funny
billet douX:
Your talk last Thursday was so
absolutely enjoyable and instruc-
tive that ! am attempting to re-
produce a small part of 1t below,
in the hope that this decidedly
unique form Of entertainment may
continue.
This is how you came through:
We do not need rain in south
ern Maryland and Pennsylvania
while there IS something radically
wrong with snow along the coast
Of New Eigfand. w hat the cuun-
try wants is sunshine along the
Great Lakes; what the country OBJ
iects to is storms off the New Jer-
sew coast For northern Virginia
and the District of Columbia Borah
and his friends are clearing and
colder. For Kentucky and South
Carolira the Nussolini government
is d lightly rising temperature. fol
lowed by rain Friday. Our con
servative Chief Executive must
step out of his safety zone of calm
and caution into hail and probably
colder, to keep the world safe for
took the field against snow for
West Virginia and Ohio. and the
agricultural convention reveals
rain tomorrow in southern Ten
nessee. For Chicago and the
Middle Western States Mr.. Cool
idgc is unatlerably opposed to
snow followed by clearing and
colder. Ambassador Berenger is
charged with hail and snow. Not
all Democrats are slightly cloudy
today, clearing tomorrow. Con
gres must ratify Northwest winds
over a large area before they be-
come valid.
William ]. Brophy, 843 Real Estate
Trust Building, Philadelphia. writes ::
I appreciated very much your
very interesting talk on what Is
going on in Congress. It is i'm
Dossible to get this information
in any other way. due to the fact.
I suppose, that the majority of
newspaper readers are more in
te~estad in Irving Berlin and his
bride than in the affairs of the
world. l was disappointed that you
did not touch on the disposition of
Muscle Shoals, which, in my Opin-
ion, is Of the most vital impor-
tance to the American people.
4 x y
One of the most plaintive appeals
| for an earlier hour for THE Political
Situation" comes from a milkman
who. of course. has to get up with
the cows. Marvin Perkins. Brook
side Dairy. Herndon. Va, writes: