Evening star., 1926-05-23

them for service from American YES
sells. 1t is interesting to note that
for. this particular class of traffic
alone. nearly 1000 accounts. each
covering periods Of from one to six
months and aggregating in total we'll
over 100000, were handled by 1.-The
United States for the various foreign
nations during the fiscal year 1925,
not only for those signatory to the
radio convention but for others as
well. These accounts were each seq
regated and sent out to the various
American ship owners and radio oper-
ating companies. over $4,000 individ-
ual accounts being collected from
American companies during the period
mentioned.
In general, each nation maintains a
clearing house which cares for it's
mobile or ship stations, and it is to
those clearing houses that each COM
pany operating coastal stations sub
mits its radio accounts for settlement.
1t is estimated that American ves.
sells during the course of a year send
to foreign coastal stations in excess of
one million messages. Without taking
into consideration the various point
to-point radio services involved. such
as transmissions between fixed points
in different countries, the growth of
maritime radio from 1912 to the pres
ent date can be more readily visual
lied by the fact that the amounts paid
to the foreign administrations in the
fiscal year 1918. were but $500 as
compared with an amount 100 times
greater during the fiscal year 1925.
Stations Reduce Interference.
Six broadcasters located in and
around Chicago have equipped their
transmitters with pieZo crystal oscil-
lators calibrated to their assigned
wave lengths. in an effort to decrease
the interference among the many
neighboring stations. These devices
tend to keep a station in it's assigned
channel and make for sharper and
standard transmission. The stations
so equipped are: WEBQ. John Tate:
WENR, All-American Radio Corpora
ton; WGN, Chicago Tribune; WHO.
Nelson Brothers; WLIB, Liberty
Weekly; and woo, Palmer School of
Chiropractic. Davenport, Ia.
Balloon Race Winner Used Radio.
w. T. Van Orman, winner of the
recent national elimination balloon
race, has written the chief of the
Weather Bureau thanking him for
the weather broadcasts, which the
pilot picked up in his balloon, the
Goodyear Nv. In his letter, Van
Orman said:
1.-THE weather data furnished at
Little Rock by Riley and Cole, also
flying and regular forecasts which
were broadcast, helped us win the
national race and establish new rec
ords. Every flying forecast was re-
ceived, also 80 per cent of regular
forecasts. Please accept my thanks
and convey them to the members Of
your bureau who assisted"
Radio Added to Living Standards.
Radio, along with the automobile.
the moving picture and the phono-
graph, has been added to the stand
ards Of living, from savings made by
greater efficiency in production, ac-
cording to Secretary of Commerce
Hoover.
The man who has a standard auto
mobile, telephone and radio and one
and a half hours less average daily
labor is more of a man. and has a
fuller life and more individuality than
those without these standardized ia.
cilities, the Secretary pointed out at
the recent conference of commercial
experts in Washington.