The Washington times., 1928-10-31

| Static. Unlimited, were doing
business on the sound wave
lengths last evening in all sec.
| tiOns Of the atmosphere making
broadcast programs practically
worthless for distance tuners. The
| South provided excellent volume
! in its programs and was easy 10
| tune--but almost impossible to
hear. Most Of the midwest was
difficult to dig out.
In these days of multitudes OF
things happening In the atmosphere
that are recorded through loud
speakers, 1t is just possible that
radiotics generally will overlook
the rather significant use Of radio
| tha Voters Service series Of pro-
grams brought to a close last eve
ming. Most OF US. intent upon
entertainment and relaxation as
chief dividends from our invest
ments in receiving sets. are apt TO
overlook the remarkable achieve
ment of Miss Bell Sherwin and her
assistants of the National League
of Women Voters in supplying con-
formation in the series OF soundIy
educational expositions Of political
issues that started last spring and
continued through the summer ana
fall
There have been few more definite
and successful achievements N the
use of radio than these efforts OF
few earnest women to make peo.
pie want to vote. The series o.
talks cannot be called n0n-partisan
rather they were muIti.partisan in
that they presented practically every
phase Of every issue before the
neople. They gave tile people who
heard them--and there isn't q
listener to radio who did not hear
some OF tIem--a very deep seated
conviction Of their own importance
as part OF the working forces Of
the United States in promoting what
we call the American idea In gov
ernment and. as we have pointed
out, accomplished that greatest Of
all educational objects. iTIstilled an
urge to exercises al the rights and
privileges their being part Of the
government so definitely suggested.
Wea are glad Miss Sherwin and
her associates will take I'D another
phase of individual citizenship re-
sponsibility shortly in d new series
of talks. Likewise we would point
out that without the intelligent and
wholehearted cooperation of a far
seeing public service idealist ike
Merlin Hall AylesWOrth, president
OF the National Broadcasting Com
pany. even the tremendous re-
sources for good and the Will to acs
compIish III displayed by the women
of the league would have gone for
naught.
VASSAR PRESIDENT
TALKS TOLERATION
DR.. Henry Noble McCrackens
president of Nassar, speaking for
the Calvert Associates and the Dem
ocratic National Committee through
WRC last evening made one Of the
most impressive and Illuminating
appeals for religious toleration In
the campaign-and Charles Evans
Hughes. from Worcester, Mass. and
through WRC, the soundest Repub-
lican argument we have heard dur
ing the campaign. Secretary of
state Frank @. Kellogg presented
his idea of the campaign situation
through WMAL. in a most under
standable way also.
The entertainment high point of
the evening was the Eveready pro-
gram with its novel arrangement
that presented a series of continuous
musical numbers without spoken an
nouncement. The program opened
with the largo from Dvorak's New
World Symphony" and closed with
the final movement of the same
great work-with dozen or more
of the songs of Stephen Foster and
of plantation origin or setting, be.
tween the opening and closing. The
feature was well planned and finely
executed under the direction OF Nat
Shilkret.
One of the most striking exhibit
tions OF pure cubist music we've
heard was the strikingly modern nnu-
sic quartet for strings composed ny
Frank Bridge in honor of Elizabeth
Sprague Coolidge. and played by the
Roth String Quartet in the Coolidge
Auditorium of the Congressional LII
hrary as a feature, of the Founders
Day concert broadcast by NAA.
It could well be used as a musical
counterpart for famous collection OF
color, dots, dashes, triangles, squares
and splotches exhibited in art gal
leries several years ago as A "Por-
trait of Lady Failing Down Stairs"
It served to prove that the Roth
Quartet of Budapest is group of
masters of stringed instruments,
however.
WJR-DetrOltA~-68O
S:00--Courtesy program.