The Washington times., 1926-11-12
WAR MEMORIES.
FILL THE AIR

More good tuning last night
added to those productive eve.
nings that have filled the past few
weeks, gives the dial twister more
hope for better winter reception
than last year. All sections re-
sDOnded to the diaIs last evening.
the West being the most pro-
diuctiVe OF good programs IN
volume and clarity. Canada again
made itself distinctly among those
present from several stations.
That Armistice Day should be
time for all citizens to rededicat9
themselves to the ideals OF the Re-
public and the pledge to keep faith
with those who died in Flanders
Fields by crushing out war through
nreparedneSS to meet any enemy,
was the gist of the Continental radio
observance of the anniversary that
ana to loud eakers from all sec.
ioals last night. Tributes TO the
dead were mingled with praise for
the living and rejoicing over the
victory.
MAI. Gen. Amos Fries, u. s. A.
from WMAL and Maj. Gen. Charles
P. Sunimerall from WRC and VIZ.
made the principal addresses in
the Washington celebration. wltr
Father Francis p. Duffy at VIZ
supplementing General SummeralPs
efforts with his eulogy of the Gead.
Both General Fries and General
Summerall called attention to the
lessons of the war, the needless
sacrifices though unpreparednesS
and the patriotic duty of every CHI
zen helping to prevent any such
situation arising in the future. TIE
United States Army Band provided
music for the WRC celebration.
SINGLE PROGRAM
FROM TWO STATIONS
Not the least remarkable feature
of the Armistice exercises heard
from WRc was the fact that the
single program came from two
centers of broadcast, WRC and
WIZ alternating in presenting its
features. There was not the
slightest break or anything but the
announcement to indicate that all
the participants We're not talking
through the same microphone. AS
q matter Of fact. they were several
hundreds of miles aparti
This feature was particularly In
teresting last evening in view of
the fact that KYW, Chicago, the
first broadcasting station in the
Middle West. combined its ArmisSl
tice Day celebration with the OBJ
servance of the end Of the fifth
year Of its service to Chicago and
the West. The big Wrestling house
station in Chicago was either the
second or the third radio station
brgadcaster erected in the United
States. It has continually and
successfully striven TO give its
audiences the most varied assert.
nent 81 programs.
One 0f the features 90 the cele-
1ration that sticks IN my mind is
he fact that many of the people
who participated in the first broad
cast program of the station are
still with it and are still giving
line service to the listening public.
DORSEY HYDE
IN AIR DEBUT
Secretary Dorsey Hyde OF the
Chamber of Commerce,
made his debut as radio speaker
from WMAL last evening with a
plea, for cooperation from citizens
with the Chamber of Commerce in
making Washington the greatest
city on the continent.
Helen Howison, soprano, and
Benjamin Rather, pianist, opened
the evening for WRC broadcast with
three-quarters of an hour of good
music in presenting the weekly Kilt
program. The motion picture dia.
logue from WIZ, the bridge game
from WRC and the typewriter sub
sidy with Erya Giles and a rather
sleepy orchestra paved the way for
the Armistice celebration and the
Suwanee dance hour which closed
the WRC pfogra- :.
Ed Callow, as TONY the Barber"
and as impressario of the Insurance
Quartet, renewed old radio acquaint.
ances from the City Club section Of
the WMAL program, where, also,
Mrs. VIII T. Pierson made her first
as a singer since her
to the station director.
Almost everything was happening
on the outside wave lengths with
the anniversary OF the end OF the
war dominating all the programs and
old war songs the principal features
OF the instrumental and vocal pro.
grams.