New Britain herald., 1927-10-06
ANDY NOT KEEN FOR RADIO HOURS Hears Loud Speaker at Friends
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Dear Mary Ann: Last night l didn't have anything to do and so l calls upon a friend to ask him when IS he gonna pay me that tivo berries which he borrowed last April. h. stead of digging down in his pocket and paying me Ae changes the sub- ject and asks me if l would like to listen in on his radio, and when l tells him I aint interested he dusts off the set and begins turning some knobs around like he was trying to open a locked safe or something without using any tools.
 Turning the knobs, he explained, was so you could get the stations you want and also keep out those which you ain't got any use for, such as freight and police stations. The first station we got musta been q stone quarry as 1t sounded like dynamite blasts was being broad casted, but later it quiets down until it only sounded like somebody was practicing band music with parts of Ford cars, instead of using musical instruments.
 They was plenty of volume only 1t wasn't very orderly but seemed to come in punches. They was more interference than at football game and a variety of wave lengths, but luckily none Of them was permanent. l asks him what he gets most from the radio and he answers, static and sleepless nights" Later l asks if he ever got London and he wise cracks, NO, but if this static keeps up I'll get tho insane asylum"
 After fussing with the knobs some more we breaks into d political speech and hears some city official say that he's perfectly satisfied with bis present salary. but if he were given an increase he'd be willing to accept it so as not 10 hurt the feel ings of the taxpayers.
 Not liking app.esauce so early in evening we goes to station l.. o, | D. and hears d male quartet. They was four members in this quartet and it seemed like each voice was kinda nervous and shaky like it was the owners first appearance before the radio public and expected some thing to happen. One of their mum bers was Asleep in the Deep and ] guess a lot of people was wishing they was. especially the bass.
 Another song was "A Trip to 1nr rr- and difficult trip, and just the op- posite of what the title was. Only two songs were sung, for which W" vas thankful. There voices really wasn't so bad. only it sounded that way on account of the static. Next We tuned in on a night sermon in a New Haven church and the preacher had a better voice for broadcaSting than the neighbor across the street when she's mad at her husband, only he seemed to tire more quickly.
 Static left Us for q minute and everything came in so clear that we could even hear the people with slight coughs and colds, and also heard tho deacon src"zc, and his footsteps as h" passed around the collection plate. q guess only q small collection was taken as we didn't hear any crisp one dollar bills being unfoidcdD Later we gets an other station in time to hear fella tell "TToW To Keep Your RridgH Up 10 nato.' Just then the static came J,,' {g1t whether the speaker was a dentist, or a card expert.
 Without warning we finds our selves listening to an elorutionist re- cite "Shcridon's Ride" and learned that Phil burned up the road for twenty miles. but tn" station faded just then and we failed 10 learn whether he used d horse. or q sec ond hand f1iyVer