Evening star., 1927-05-10
RADIO MAY ADOPT
'MYRACYC[E" TERN
New Designation Urged for
i FrequenCies May Be Fa-
vored by Board.


NYnyracycle, 10000 cycles, for 10 kilo
kycles. to designate broadcast fire.
&hencies has been suggested to the
kaAera1 Radio Commission by Guy NJ
dsafsd, an electrical engineer of Little
non, Colo, and is being considered as
D standard term.
The creator of this means of indi
hnting the broadcast frequencies
4Doints out that since the assignments
are in even kilocycles and the separa
tfou is placed at 10 kilocycles, the use
of units of 10 lliiocycles would sim
plify the work OF the commission and
the Interpretation by the broadcasters
and listeners. Fewer figures would be
lreuuired. Instead of saying 800 kilo-
cycles. he proposes the designation of
$50 myracycles. eliminating one digit,
or sc myracycles, instead of $50 kilo.
cycles. The last digits are zeros, any
how, so he sees no reason for using
Them.
The basis of this system lies in the
nlan the American Institute OF Me-
chanical Engineers introduced some
wears ago, whereby the unit of "myra.
watt" or 10000 watts, was estab-
tished.
Applying this method to the opera
zion of radio receivers. Mr.. Laird
points out that many dials are num-
bered from 100 to 0, or according to
frequency decrease. IT the tuning dial
81 calibrated from 100 to and reads
f55 for station transmitting on SO
1nyracycles, or $50 kilocvcles. the diff
erence between 80 and 55 is 3S, which
NAV be taken as the constant of the
net for tuning. Mr.. Laird explains.
When the fan wants to locate the tun-
ing point for a station operating on
Sc myracycles, he subtracts his set
constant of 3S from Sc. which gives
him % as the approximate point on
the dial where that station should
come in. Continuing his exposition,
the inventor says that If the dialS are
calibrated in the reverse manner, or
from to 100. the listener must sub
tract the approximate setting from
400 to get 70, the setting point for the
eame frequency on that type of dial.
After a great deal of experimental
tion, radio manufacturers have come
Do the realization that certain changes
Dhould be made in their sets when
bold and operated in different parts
of the country. This is an old lesson
learned by the manufacturers of auto
mobiles years ago, when they put
& different rear reduction gears in their
cars in order to take care of service
requirements where there were hills
and where there were not.
1t now is the custom for radio man.
ufacturers to keep their engineers on
the move with sets, trying them out
in various parts of the country. 1t
means greater satisfaction to the ulti-
mate buyer and is renewed assurance
of the more solid foundation on which
Dresent-day radio is bring built.
Ethan Allen, one of the outstand-
ing natives of the Green Mountain
State"-Vermont, win be the basis of
the radio program OF the National
Broadcasting Co., known as THE
Great Moments in History" to be
broadcast tonight through WRC.
Ethan Allen will be remembered for
his surprising victory at Fort Ticon-
deroga, which took place May 10,
AIS, and was the first notable VIC
tory OF the Revolutionary War.
The heights of early American
sentimentality and the depths of Vic
torian woe will be plumbed when the
newest Eveready hour goes on the
air over WRC: Musical foibles from
the fashionable Sos, ditties of the
period when frankie and Johnnie"
was a favorite$ ballad, "close har
monies" from the days of Harrigan
sand Hart, will be sung as part of the
program that is announced under the
title of THE Songs You Forgot to
Remember"
Gems of Past.
Some OF the songs selected are gems
iDf a day when the "sweetly, senti.
mental" reigned supreme; when both
virtue and evil were outlandishly ex-
aggerated in the wording of songs and
naudlin maidens WED for popular
fancy with strutting, artificial heroes
and malevolent villains with waxed
mustachios. OF such type were Take
Back the Heart walking Down
Broadway" and HCall Me Pet Names"
which was admirably adapted for a
duet, with "a gentleman and lady"
stipulated as the singers for best ef-
feet.
OF a more robust nature were the
songs of the Harrigan and Hart era,
famous among which were Down
Went McGinty," written by Joseph
,E9ynn, and "The Mulligan Guard" !"
the first-named ending up in chorus
that varied to suit each verse.
Barbara Maurel, contralto; and Vir-
ginia Rea, popular soprano, will ap-
pear on the program, together with
the Revelers. The Eveready Orches.
fra viii provide the accompaniments.
Other features tonight are the Wall
Columbia University French lecture,
s'Ritz Male Quartet" book reviews by
Mrs. Nina Reed. Mayfiower Orchestra,
s'Listen in With Cupid" "A Message
From the Treasury Department" by
Assistant Secretary Charles, S. Dewey.
and the Radio Cavalcade.
The Chevy Chase Chanters. a male
chorus of 20 voices, will make their
radio debut tonight from, station
WMAL. Herndon Morsell will have
charge Of the program, which will be
broadcast from 8 TO 10 o'clock.
The WMAL Radio Movie Club to.
might will present Hal Kemp and his
orchestra, George Lyons. harpist, and
Fronzini, the accordion wizard. This
feature will be preceded by the week
ly Screen Letter Box" and dance
program by the Lido Orchestra.
The Inoco Hour of Music, and a
program by Lee O'Haire and Pauline
Healy, known as THE Radio Har-
naonizers," are WMAL's early musical
attractions. A talk on dahlias by DIR.
i. B. s. Norton of the University of
Maryland, and a scientific talk by DR..
l., ]. Cole Of the National Research
Council, will intersperse these musi.
eal features.
static remained in the background
again last night and gave DIX dialers
another opportunity To tune in the
out.of town stations without impair.
sng their ear drums. There were
Ylenty of stations available and they
2rere comparatively easy to tune, but
,trose in the South and West seemed
10 lack their usual volume.
RADIOS BEST OFFERINGS
! TONIGHT.
Inoco hour of music, WMAL,
7 to 8 o'clock.