The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-03-25
A. ATWATER KENT
2hi/aae/ohiz Radio manufaduxs-
and Pioneer in promotion Of
Education through the oAr

and thereby raises educational standards OF the
nation" DIR. Tigert said. .t-,a
"The janitor passing the door has much to
say about the extent to which our educational
work in this country shall be developed as !, the
chief educational officer of the nation.
"Our school system has to be continued by
taxation so every voter has equal voice in de-
termning educational standards. BY rousing
curiosity by planting desire for more informa-
ton and education, radio is increasing the num-
Der of voters who demand the best schools, best
teachers and best educational methods all over
America"
Back of nearly every revival of learning, every
advance in mass education, there has been some
mechanical stimulus which largely RESPONSE
BILE for the renaissance. (
Back of the placing of books in the cottages al
we'll as in the monasteries and the accompanying
wealth of writing which eliminated in the Shake
spearian triumphs was the introduction OF mod
ern printing. Behind the development of the
newspaper from a weekly leafet for the compara-
tive few to daily journal bristling with timely
news and education for every one was the inven-
ton of the telegraph.
&c. today, back of the publics demand and the
educators desire for education is the radio.
Hardly had thousands started going to the
university of the Air" when new advantage OF
radio was discovered 1t was observed that many
more persons wear eye glasses than carry ear
worn out, the United States Census Bureau Off
cally reported. So teachers are using radio to
save American eyesight by transferring part of
the eyes work to the ear.
AS result, American are learning to 'see''
by listening-in to the Inauguration OF the Presf-
dent instead of reading about it; by hearing a
travel talk instead of pouring over the geography's
pages; by listening to a practical 'Howto-doit-
on-your-farm" lecture agricultural engineering.
rather than by reading volumes of generalitias ON
the subject.
This new educational trend has been furthered
by the inventors and manufacturers. They I'M
dertook to eliminate some of the many dialS,
switches, knobs and plugs on early receiving sets
which mystifed the mind and strained the eye OF
one trying to manipulate all of them, and they
succeeded in producing a set which, while still
possessing the power to pull in education and en-
| tertainment from anywhere between the Atlantic
and Pacific, can be controlled by one single dial.
So simple is this set that no eyes at all are
needed to operate it. This has become a boon to
another group-the blind. In fact, one OF the first
single dial sets ever made in his factory was pre-
scented by A. Atwater Kent to a talented blind girl
of Washington, D. c.. whose longing for fine music
became known to the Philadelphia radiomaster
Cali well-equipped schools for the blind now
have radio sets, both in assembly halls and in
individual students rooms" reports Mrs. e. M.
Connell superintendent of the National Capitals
home for the Blind.
Blind youngsters have no trouble operating
radio recoverable single dial sets make 1t easy
for them to bring in perfectly procession of sta
lions which teach them more rapidly than did the
old fashioned Brale reading boards"