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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-20
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-20
JOINT PATRIOTIC MEETING
WILL BE HELD TOMORROW
Sons andE Daughters of Republic
Clubs Will Assemble at Peck
Memorial Chapel.

The annual joint patriotic meeting
will be held by the Sons and Daughters
of the Republic Clubs at Peck Memorial
Chapel tomorrow evening at 7:30
O'clock.
The meeting, which will be featured
by q Colonial playlet given by members
OF the clubs, will have as speakers: Mrs
David D. Caldwell, State regent. and
William Tyler Page, clerk of the House
of Representatives.
The clubs. are formed under auspices
OF the Daughters Of the American Revo-
luton. and the work is sponsored by the
local chapter.
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Homemade, but !
Ends Bad Cough
In a Hurry

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quickly, it is important to sOothe W
and heal the inflamed membranes, VA
get rid of the germs and also to M
aid the system inwardly to help III
throw off the trouble. III
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anything you could buy at 3 times II
the cost. From any druggist, get = N 4
ounces OF Pinex. Put this into q \
pint bottle, and add plain granu-
lated sugar syrup or strained honey |
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moment, and makes a remedy so
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without, once you have used it. |
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This simple remedy does three |
necessary things. 1t l6osens the |
germ laden plSegm and s0othes |
away the inflammation. At the same |
time it is absorbed into the blood, |
where it acts directly on the brOn- /
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-10
RADIO WORLD PINS
HOPES ON HOOVER
Looks to President Elect for
Expert Aid in Solving
Problems.

BY the Associated Press
To Herbert Hoover, the engineer
with his capacity for organization, thu
radio world now looks for expert ale
in solving the problems that have
arisen with the rapid development o.
program broadcasting and wireless
communication.
Although the President-elect has
given no public indication of his views
it is expected he will give radio i'm
portant consideration when he becomes
Chief Executive. That he considers radio
of major national import has been
indicated in his statements while Sec
rotary of Commerce.
Ranked as Utility.
At a conference in 1924 of leaders
In the industry, he said: Radio has
passed from the field of an adventure
to that of public utility. Nor among
the utilities is there one whose act1v1-
ties may come more closely to the life
of each of our citizens nor which holds
out greater possibilities of future infiu-
ence, nor which is of more potential
public concern. Here is an agency that
has reached deep into the family"
The present session of Congress
which will decide whether the Federal
Radio Commission is to be continued for
a year as an administrative body or is
to become an appellate board, will end
before Mr.. Hoover become President
The special session of the new Congress
to be held this Spring may not take
up radio, as majority leaders are de-
termined to restrict its deliberations to
tariff and farm relief.
Ample Time for Study.
With the commission or the Depart
ment of Commerce doing the station
ALLEGATION and licensing work for the
next year, Mr.. Hoover will have ample
opportunity before the regular session
of Congress next December to make a
thorough study of the situation.
The President-elect has reputation
for being a master Of the conference
method of getting business to pull to-
gether in solving problems and curbing
abuses.
It is considered likely he will rec
ommend a conference of the best
minds" in radio to draft scheme OF
supervision to promote harmony In the
industry and benefit to the listening
public.
AS head of the department that SUI
pervised radio he laid down the prin-
ciple that "the pleasing OF the listener
is the primary purpose and public good
must overbalance private desire"
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Behind the Microphone
BY THE RADIO EDITOR.

Summer nearly as much as any
other season of the year.
Arnold also told the club that
during the last eight years $780,
100000 was spent for radio sets,
parts and accessories, $3.50, 900, 900
of which was turned into the cof-
ferS of radio dealers and manu-
facturerS in 1928.
X X X 4
Announcement comes from the
National Broadcasting Co. that
Frederic William Wile's weekly re-
sumo of the political situation in
Washington is to be expanded
from a one-man job to a general
coverage of Government and po-
htical topics through discussions
by a group of Washington news
paper correspondents.
Fifteen minutes each week the
staff correspondents of prominent
newspapers representing every
section of the country will sub
Stitute for Mr.. Vile before the mi
crophone. These talks will be
broadcast on Wednesdays at
7:45 pm.
Through the news series the
N. 3. c., according to Merlin II.
Aylesworth, it's president, will "of-
fer the country a symposium Of
national events by the best OBJ
servers and analysts of those
events" 1--WE believe" he said,
that by presenting Washington
correspondents for newspapers
from various sections of the coun-
try, we will be able to render a
better balanced and more COM
prehenSive service"
BroadcaSting is not an innova-
ton to the Washington newspa-
per corps. During the political
conventions last Summer the
heads Of several Washington news
bureaus and press associations
appeared before the microphone
in coast coast networks to
broadcast an analysis of the con-
vention proceedings. At various
other times, too, the newspaper
men have contributed to the in
formational activities Of the
N B. c.
The voice of Herbert Hoover de-
livering his inaugural address.
March 4, will be heard around the
globe through rebroadcasts Of the
N. B. G. program, according to
President Aylesworth.
Recently we had a striking
demonstration Of international
broadcasting," said Mr.. Ayles-
worth. "a speech by President
Coolidge. heard all over the coun-
try, was followed within a few
seconds by program coming to
rs from England.
"The programs OF the National
BroadcaSting Co. are heard with
regularity in Europe, Asia, Africa,
Australia, New Zealand and South
America. We have arrived at the
point where radio communication
to the masses of other nations is
an accomplished fact.
"At the National Broadcasting
Co.'s laboratories on Fifth avenue
we receive. five DAYS a week, pro-
grams presented by the British
Broadcasting Corporation. FIRE.
nuently we hear them with almost
the clarity of a local station.
These programs are received here
in the late afternoon, although
they are produced In England Ave
hours later in the eevening--Lon-
don time.
1--WE visualize in the not distant
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70 WELL regulated radio broad
casting studio could get along
without a couple of wash boil

N TO WELL regulated radio broad
casting studio could get along
without q couple of wash boil
/ ers as a part of its regular
equipment. Not because the
music is necessarily a "wash-out," but
because barcarole just can't be put
on without them.
All sorts of elaborate limitations of
the swish and murnlur of water in the
Grand Canal or in sylvan glade have
been tried, but nothing has been found
so. effective as a pair of fashioned
wash boilers as water is dipped gently
from one to another This was discov-
cred after rather disastrous experiments
In the early days of radio broadcasting
We had to study microphone acoustics
as carefully as David BelaSco studied
theater acoustics. Before expert knowl-
edge was gained the usual methods of
orchestral noiSe-making were tried.
They were failures, as they frequently
resulted in wild and startling blasts
rather than the stimulation of nature
which. we sought.
AL the radio noises have to be toned
down to almost nothing in comparison
with the supplementary sounds of the
concert or theater. When we first be-
gan rubbing pieces of sandpaper to-
gether to make the sound of an ap-
preaching train it sounded like a quar-
tet of large sawmills running with their
mufflers open. The trap drummer tried
to initiate a galloping horse and
achieved something that sounded more
like an earthquake. The same was true
with regard to the rubbing of sticks and
all the complicated apparatus used In
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the commission remnant would seem to
give the edge to the engineers and ex-
perienced broadcasting men being urged
but this Is mere speculation. One must
be Democrat and one Republican
1t is apparent from his attitude that
President Coolidge will not leave over
the matter Of reappointmentS to Presi-
dent-elect Hoover, although 1t is gen.
orally believed that he will seek his
successors opinion before naming the
old and new Office holders.
Senate Hearing Next.
House committee hearings on the bill
to extend the life of the commission are
to end Monday noon, and it Is O fore
gone conclusion that favorable report
will be given the measure and that II
will be pressed for action by the radio
leaders. Hearings of the Senate COM
mittee on interstate commerce, sched-
uled to open today, will last about
two days, because they will be confined
has announced. Senator Watson said
Commissioner Robinson would be the
first witness.
The Senate committee chairman is
determined not to let the hearings wan
der far into the tangled field of radio
as have the House committee proceed
ings. The latter have been delayed by
the inquiry regarding the Universal
Wireless Communications Co., which Is
about at an end. The big question Of
the technical qualifications of the COM
pany was answered to the satisfaction
of most of the committee by Lieut.
Comdr. T. A. M. Craven, the witness
last Saturday.
Craven told the committee that while
he had made no specific recommends.
ton" to the commission he had thor.
oughly investigated" the details of the
company's claims to be able to utilize
the channels granted it with sharper
separations than others had claimed tt
be able to do. He said he was satisfied
that practical principle was demon
strated and method revealed to hin
in strictest confidence which will enable
the Universal to carry out its nationa
radio-telegraph project If 1t Is Launched
on a large scale with plenty of capita
and competent engineers. He paid ne
attention to the patent situation, h:
said. because that is outside his juris-
diction-the manufacturing and design.
ing stage.
Copyright, 1929. by North American
Newspaper Aliiancs.l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-10
INVENTOR DESCRIBES
TELEvISION HISTORY
Now on Practical Basis and Pos.
sible, G. Francis Jenkins Tells
WFBM Listeners in Address.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
INDIANAPOLIS, February 2-Tele-
vision Is now possible and on q prac-
tical basis, C. Francis Jenkins, Wash
ington inventor, told radio listeners
of Station WFBM in talk recently.
Jenkins, in his account of the prog
resS which has been made in the de-
velopment of the new science, credits
amateur experimenters with being
largely responsible for the rapid de-
velopment. The present television re-
ceiver may be compared with the one
cylinder "horSelesS carriage" of 20 years
ago, he said, and there Is need of
much research and development before
1t will look like the eight-cylinder limou-
sine of today.
The principles of television have been
known to science for the last 20 years.
Mr.. Jenkins said. Activity in the de-
velopment did not begin until about Is
years ago.
Gave First Demonstration.
Immediately after the armistice,'
Mr.. Jenkins said, II set up laboratory
devoted exclusively to this development
and after practicing on still picture
transmission for some months gave the
first public demonstration Of radio Wis
ion and radio movies on June IL, 1925.
But 10 months later the demonstra-
ton by the Bell laboratories OF wire
transmission Of living images from
Washington to New York put the seal
of approval on previous predictions Of
the possibilities of the new art and
stimulated activities"
Mr.. Jenkins told of starting regular
schedule for television broadcasts from
Washington July 2, 1928. Thousands of
amateurs throughout the country built
apparatus and prepared to receive the
tranSmiSsions, he said.
He believes amateurs are contributing
to the development of the art OF trans
hitting radio movies as much as the
engineers in the big laboratories Of the
large radio corporations.
Describes Present Apparatus.
In describing apparatus in use today.
Mr.. Jenkins said: 1.-THE pictures seen
are black and white, comparable to the
cartoon movies in the theater.
I'VE are broadcaSting in black and
white only at present in order that the
| frequencies involved in motion picture
| transmission may stay within the legally
| permissible width of the carrier channel.
1.-THE halftones in regular movie film
and in broadcasting from living sub
jects and scenes require broader band.
LUIS was ICCOBillIcu ny CAlC EcACIdi
Radio Commission and bands 100 sno-
| CYCLES wide have been assigned for
such work. The new, more powerful,
broadcast stations we are building out
side of Washington are for this width
of band, and fireside entertainment
pictures are contemplated.
Present transmission on 6,420 kilo-
cycles was undertaken principally to
| learn the possibilities and the limita-
| tionS of this new entertainment; to
build up radio movies technique; and
| to insure later the availability of RADIO
visors giving larger and brighter pic
| lures which may be watched conven-
| iently by the whole family"
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. Ado program arrangerS
- are making a continuous
N -.

4
/ - are making a continuous
i search for the unique in
= musical instruments that
will sound well over the air. Many
have been discovered, but the
hunt keeps on with even more in
telligence and fervor than char
acteried the early experimental
days of broadcaSting.
The discovery of really new
solo instrument will make a for
tune as surely as will the owner
of radio personality. Nearly
every known instrument has been
put on the air and virtually all
of them have been found useful,
at least on special occasions.
Many of the more successful
new" ones are not new at all, but
so old as to be unfamiliar to most
moderns.
The acceptable instrumental
novelty is a radio rarity, accord
ing to program makers. Cigar
box violinS and bicycle-pump sax
ophoneS, Of course, depend upon
an appeal to the eye as we'll as
the ear, although the musical saw
has been put upon the air by
WJSV and other stations with
fair success.
So far as can be determined,
the crwth, the virginia., the rebec,
the gigue and the pochette have
never been before a microphone.
All are ancient instruments found
mostly in museums. Persons with
ability to play them are scarce.
Although there are countless
players of the ocarino or sweet
potato" the instrument is seldom
heard in radio programs. The
shrill tone of this instrument, it
is said, does not have the neces-
sary air for broadcast purposes.
A Soloist on the crwth, on the
other hand, authorities state,
would find warm welcome be-
fore the microphone. This in
strument, a Stringed rectangular
affair and played with a bow, was
popular in England as late as the
eighteenth century.
The Russian balalaika, also a
stringed instrument played with a
bow, is heard infrequently on the
air. The pochette, little "pock-
ct fiddle" of the seventeenth CEN
fury dancing masters. however,
has never been played before a
microphone. Neither has the vir-
ginal, a little two-octave instru-
ment of ancient origin.
\ X \
Frank A. Arnold, director of de-
velopment of the National Broad
casting Co., spoke before the
Washington Advertising Club last
week on the results of survey Of
DR.. Daniel Starch of Cambridge,
Mass, of the habits of radio lis
teners east of the Rocky Noun
! tains.
This survey, according to Ar
mold, showed:
The average set in use has Ave
or six tubes.
The radio fan listens to the ra-
dio on the average of $50 hours a
year.
The most popular radio hours
are between 8 and 10 pm, with
the noon and dinner hours hay-
ing about an equal number of lis
teners.
Crystal sets are more or less rel
egated to the past, less than per
cent of the 1909 families inter
viewed owning receivers of this
type.
Radio sets are in use In the
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SPECULATION RIFE
ON NEW RADIO BODY
Successors for Pickard and
Caldwell Are Being Ad-
vanced by Friends.
BY MARTIN CODEL.

As Congress approaches the close of
Its hearings on radio speculation Is rife
regarding the possible successors to
the vacancies on the Federal Radio
Commission created by Commissioner
Sam Pickard,s resignation and by Com
missioner O. H. Caldwell's request not
to be considered for reappointment when
the terms Of the present commissioners
expire, February %.
President Coolidge has intimated that
he Is favorable to the reappointments
Of Commissioners Robinson, Lafount
and Sykes, and has represented that he
favors the one-year extension of the
commissions administrative functions
as proposed In the bills before House
and Senate. This Is the expressed de-
sire Of Senator Dill of Washington, one
Of the radio leaders In Congress, who
conferred with the President last week.
All three commissioners are known
to be willing to accept reappointment
Chairman Robinson denies that he is
actively seeking the judgeship Of the
has been mentioned by friends. Judge
Sykes has definitely spiked rumors Of
his desire to leave. Commissioner La
fount Is willing to remain, despite the
fact that remaining away from his ex-
tensive business in the West means a
sacrifice
There is a growing belief here that
the reshaping of the commission may
| find Mr.. Lafount at its head as chair
man, Q post he once declined.
Investigates List.
It Is understood that the Secretary
Of Commerce, William r. Whiting, has
been investigating q list of candidates
recommended to President Coolidge for
appointment. Names said to be on this
list include Gen. Charles NICK. Saltz-
man, recently retired chief of the Army
Signal Corps; Lieut.. Comdr. r. A. NJ
Craven, detailed by the Navy to be the
commissions engineer in charge Of short
waves; Paul Gascoigne, who was radio
chief Of the Republican national cam
paign; Arthur Batcheller, Federal radio
supervisor for the New York district,
and L. S. Baker, secretary Of the Ma
tional Association OF BroadcaSters.
All of these men are prospects for
the commissionership from the first
zone.
Names of those said to be uged from
i the fourth zone include Harold Hayes,
Federal radio supervisor at Chicago; e.
A. Beane, former supervisor at Chicago;
B. K. Pratt of Chicago, who was radio
chief of Chicago headquarters of the
Republican campaign; Jacob M. Dickin-
son OF Chicago, son of the Secretary of
War In President Taft's cabinet, and
r. d. Murphy of Bismarck, N. OAK,
Democratic chairman Of that State.
Others who have been yariously men
York. consulting engineer for the Fed
eral Radio Commission: John v. L. Ho-
gan of New York, consulting radio en-
gineer; e. L. Bragdon, Edgar Felix, Or
rim Dunlap, jr.; Capt. Robert Wood and
Lloyd Jacquet, all New York radio edi-
tors; Volney Hurd, Boston radio editor;
H. G. Butcher, an Iowan, connected
with the National Fertilizer Association
at Washington and representative here
of Wallace's Farmer Of Des Moines.
The absence of technical men from
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Porter Hero Honored.

For bravery in preventing a woman
from being run over by railway freight
train. william H. j. Kilhy, a porter has
tust been awarded a bronze medallion,
the highest award granted by the Car
neg.e Hero Fund trustees at Dunferm-
line, Scotland. Iy trying to protect the
woman KiIby was struck by the engine.
but continued to hold her down between
the platform and the rail until the
train passed over. them. Kilby was
severely injured. and is to receive more
honors when well enough.