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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
HEASE SEES RADIO
AS SINISTER THING
Senator Says He Cannot Un-
.derstand Why U. S. Wants
to Control Air.
By the Associated Press.

HA1nAtN&A
TO Senator Blease of South Carolina
radio Ia mysterious and sinister thing.
The Senator says he doesn't know any,
thing about radios and never listened to
one. in his life.
Now they want to put radio right
behind me to broadcast what is going
on in the Senate" he says. II don't
know what they might do with it,
I do not care very much about the
radio bill. I was the only man who
voted against it when 1t came up. I
may have some peculiar ideas, but to
save my life / cannot see what right
We have to control the air that God
safe the people. The Government al
ready has control of fish, the sidewalks,
the birds, the trees. Now they are going
to take the air away from the people.
Made No Votes.
1.-THE candidate for Vice President on
the Democratic ticket came to my city,
a place of 60 900 inhabitants, all Demo-
Gratis. They charged, as I understand
1t, 81. 900 for Joe Robinson to make that
speech in Columbia, S. G. He never
made vote for the Democratic party.
He never made O vote for the Repub-
lean party. Hoover got only 5000 votes
in my whole State"
The Senator says that he himself
has no desire TO make a speech over
the radio, as he doesn't want to talk
to an audience he cannot see. He said
he had the same viewpoint as the Negro
preacher in South Carolina who said he
didn't want to talk to no audience he
couldn't take up collection from.
While the average member OF Con-
Eress, like the general run OF listeners,
admits that the technique of radio is
so much Greek to him, Senator Dill, CO.
author of the radio act, takes pride in
Knowing his wavelengths." At hear
ings, Senator Dill is often called upon
by, his colleagues 10 explain In under
standable terms some scientific phase
Of broadcasting.
es Explains Wave Lengths.
Admitting that the scientists prob
ably will not like his terms. the Senator
thus describes the behavior Of radio
waves:
The theory of the whole thing is
that radio travels 300, 000 600 meters
second and the tubes used for broad
casting send out impulses of electrical
energy at a certain rate of speed. II
they send out 100 electrical impulses
in a second they will travel at 300
600 600 meters a second. In the ether
they will be 100000 meters apart.
II the vibration In sending out these
waves is 10O, 900 times second. divide
that into 800. 000, 900 and you have 5000
meter wave lengths. The short waves
are due to extremely rapid vibrations
and the long waves to comparatively
slow vibrations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
BUREAU WILL SEND
SIGNAL WEDNESDAY
Stations on 1900 Kilocycles to
Get Chance to Set
Transmitters.

Broadcast stations which operate on
1900 kilocycles will have an opportun-
ity to make their transmitters more
accurate Wednesday. when the Bureau
of Standards will send signals of STAN
dard frequency.
The signals will be transmitted from
the bureaus station, WV, in Wash
ington, under a new schedule con-
forming with the terms of the interna-
tional radio telegraph convention. which
became effective January l. They can
be heard and utilized by stations equip
ped for continuous wave reception up
to 1000 miles from Washington.
The transmissions are by continuous
wave radio telegraphy but the modula-
ton which previously was on the sig
nails has been eliminated. The STAN
dard frequency signal is series OF
long dasfies with the call letter WV
intervening. This signal continues
about four minutes. The announce
ments are on the same frequency as
the standard signals.
Standard signals on 1900 kilocycles
will be broadcast from 10 to 1908
pm. March 90 Transmissions on 9TH
err frequencies that night are: loo
kilocycles, 1912 to 1920: 1850 kilo-
cycles, 1924 to 1882; also kilocycles.
1926 to 1914; 1850 kilocyles. 10:48
to 1886; 1900 kilocycles, ii to 11:o8:
$500 kilocycles. 1872 to 1l:20:: 1000
kilocycles, 1924 to 1872.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
ENGINEERS PERFECT
TINY AIRPLANE SET
New Receiver Heralded as Decided
Advance in Flying
Appliances.


BY the Associated Press.
A tiny radio receiver, light in weight,
easy to install and simple to operate,
has been developed by engineers of the
Signal Corps for Army aircraft.
The new set heralded by radio experts
as decided advance in receiving APP
paratus, contains several novel features.
The receiver is IL inches long, 8
inches high and 2334 inches thick, and
with one set of coils weighs 10 pounds
With the two extra sets of coils the
weight is Illa pounds. In thinness it is
to other receivers what the modern
watch Is to the kind grandfather car
ried. Lying on an Office desk it occu-
pies less space than that required for
wire desk tray. It is battery powered,
using peanut" tubes
The set Is designed to afford safety
to flyers. The control knobs, dials, etc.
have been constructed so they project as
little as possible from the panel and are
carefully beveied to prevent their catch
ing the clothing or equipment of the
aviator. This is a precaution in the
event the pilot has to leave the plane
by parachute. The controls have been
so designed that they can be easily OPP
Grated when, the aviator Is wearing
heavy gloves or mittens.
The set contains a coupling tube,
stage of tunnel radio frequency, a re-
generative detector and two stages of
audio frequency application. The re-
ceiyer Is uncontrolled and its opera
ton is simple. The coupling tube was
employed SO that variations In the an
tenna would not react on the receiver
and affect It's tuning.
Another feature Is the regeneration
control The regeneration on the detec-
tor stage has been so designed that the
receiver can be made to enter oscilla-
ton smoothly, without electrical back
lash. throughout the range Of the re-
ceiver. 1t covers a frequency band from
$50 to $500 kilometers. It Is mounted
with sponge rubber shock absorbers on
two brackets, one at each end, and
quickly can be installed or removed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17

all around the country. This gave 1t
national point of view. and then 1t
became obvious that program director
ought to have one eye on Dallas, Tex,
or Portland, Ore, when framing a
national program. Responses to radio
programs have been closely and intelli-
gently studied-much more, I think,
than the box Office returns or the
theaters. The result has been that,
taking the Nation as whole. there has
been a revelation of informed interest
in good music, cosmopolitan apprecia-
ton of clever comedy and public dis
elimination which has barred bad taste,
bad ethics and ill-willed controversy
from the radio and placed premium
on good artistry and first-rate intellt-
gence.
So, when Des Moines, for instance.
catches the voice of a home town singex
or entertainer waited back to the old
home town 1t has no call to be unhappy
because it is coming from New York.
No more than If the right end of its pet
college eleven makes the all-American
team. That's what national radio
program is, in senSe-an all-American
entertainment team. At any big party
there are always two or three people
who can put on some snappy line of
entertainment 1t isn't their fault that
the piano is in one corner of the room
and they have to go into huddle to do
their stuff This radio business is Uncle
Sans big party where the specially
gifted boys and girls do their turns.
People never got the habit of writing
to a theatrical producer and roasting
show If they didn't like It, or commend
ing 1t If they did. But they certainly
got that way right at the kickoff in the
radio business, and radio comes nearer
to being constantly subject to genuinely
national criticism than any other art.
1t is not unusual for us to get as many
as 5000 letters lauding or condenning
some particular offering. To me this
has been one of the most encouraging
things in my radio career. When folks
speak up like this they are going to
make broadcasters and performers
watch their step. and radio is going to
be the real expression of the Nation.
rather than something plastered onto it.
Copyright. 1929
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
"Graham
McNamee
Speaking"

in business, are from other cities-and
villages and farms. too. New York,
then, becomes merely the funnel
through which the voice of America
decidedly not the voice of New York
alone-is poured back to the Nation.
Take any fair-sized town in America
and you may find two or three people
with some line of goods that would
work up nicely for radio use. Their citi-
Gems, getting chain program, maybe
from clear across the country, naturally
wonder why, when they have good per-
formers in their own town. they should
be given programs originating in New
York. They fail to remember that the
radio runs Is hours day and 365 days
O year. You could drop into almost
any middle-sized American city and
scare up a pretty good program for a
few weeks, and then the grass would
begin to get short and there would be
sQuawks about too much municipal
band or the Rev. DIR. WhooZiS. Radio
just has to have great big central
rolling mill, where the best hired help
In the entertainment world is to be
found. and New York is it.
This brings me back to my main
point-that it Is America and not New
York which speaks daily and nightly
and weekly and monthly through the
microphone and makes national instead
of sectional standards of taste. The
old-time Broadway theatrical producer
had narrow and limited technique
which. when he chung to 1t, in spite of
change, pretty nearly wrecked his BUSH
ness. He had few formulas for
throwing together play which would
get the midtown crowds. He souped it
up with few rough gags-as near to
the danger line as he dared-threw In
some girl trimmings, penciled in a shad-
owy plot and stirred to proper consist
ency. This got by In New York, but, al
though the producers didn't know it. the
country was running away from them.
Little theaters began to spring up every
where, and once in a while some pro-
Queer would get offside and put a little
intelligence in road show and 1t would
knock them over all over the country.
Recruits From All U. s.
Radio has made some mistakes. but
this was not one of them. To begin
with, 1t had to recruit its talent from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
BOARD MAY HEAR
MPLA|NTSATS SITE
Commission Considers sit.
ting at Scene of Broad
casters Battles.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Battles between broadcasters over
wave lengths may be staged In the flu
ture in the city or State of the defend
ing station instead of at Washington, as
lat present.
The Federal Radio Commission is
considering the recommendations of
Senators BrouSSard of Louisiana and
Dill OF Washington that the hearings
be held at the place where is located
the station whose rights to a channel
are challenged by another The Sem
ators contend that the broadcaster, who
has been granted license by the COM
sion should not be compelled to spend
thousands OF dollars in bringing wit
neSses to Washington to defend il.
wv. K. Henderson, owner of KWKH
at Shreveport, La, has spent 5000
in the last Is months to resist efforts to
take away from him that which the
commission has granted him." Senator
BrousSard says We are asking that
the commission proceed as the Inter-
state Commerce Commission does, send
a man to take testimony and report to
the commission for adjudication Of the
case
Senator Dill says the Radio Commits
sion now has full power to hold hear
1lIt:c az any PidNC All bilt Oliltcu otdtCSt
but that its work has been so pressing
that the commission has never made
regulations covering cases of this kind.
1t has been the custom to have the per-
son whose station wave length was
challenged come here, and "a great
hardship has been worked upon certain
stations" he said.
Complaint has been made regarding
certain wave lengths In the Northwest
and / have induced the members of the
commission to agree to hearing being
held on the Pacific Coast" Senator Dill
added. Il believe that the commission
will soon adopt that as a practice, and
If 1t does not, think legislation to COM
pei 1t to do so would be proper"
Members Of the commission say they
have lacked the necessary funds and
personnel to hold hearings at various
places throughout the country, but may
in the future be able to send examiners
to cities located at considerable dis
lance from Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
"Grahan1

~ Ado is rapidly annexing New
- York to the rest of the United
States. / mean by that that
Il national chain broadcasting is
uncovering national standards
OF taste and interest which are putting
the skids under the old school Of
Broadway wisecrackers, including i'm
presarios and theatrical producers and,
in many ways, national standards of
entertainment are making some of the
native Broadway output look like "old
stuff"
A sizzling letter from an unhappy
fan in Omaha started ME checking up
on these things. This chap was so sore
that he wrote his letter in blue vitriol
although I don't know why he took it
out on me. I'm just one of half
dozen who assist before the final put
out, and they shouldn't try to plaster
me with the shortcomings of radio or
hand me any bouquets for its merits.
You birds seem to think that moth
ing of any Importance ever happened
outside of New York." wrote my dis
gruntled friend, land you keep a regu-
lar stream of New York stuff filling up
the air when we have all sorts of good
stuff we would like to put over in our
towns" This was one of the mildest
Of his bitter complaints.
To begin with, I have previously re-
ferred to the one-way system of tele-
phone wires which keeps national pro-
grams bound west instead of the other
way. But, aside from that, the fact is
that New York is the one best place in
the country to get the big-time radio
talent which radio has to have or go
out of business. I don't want to be-
little what other towns are doing-not
for minute-but sooner or later the
singer. the crack comedian. the monol-
ogist, the chap with a good entertain
ment speciality comes to New York.
This is where the market Is, and he
has to come, no matter how much he
loves the old home town.
Come From Other Places.
But the main point is that most of
them do come from somewhere else,
and they bring lot of their native
heath with them. It would make you
blink to see how many of the head
liners In New York, not only in en-
tertainment hit in the nrofeSsionS and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
OUT.OF.TOWN STATIONS.
Programs prepared sta

IS. Scheduted for Eastern standard time.
s65.e-WHAS Lcuisville-s2o
6:00-Band parade.
7:30-At the piano.
6:00-Melodies Theater Family.
9:00-D. Lawrence; trio.
l0:15-Champions
1o:45-Sunday at Seth Parker's.
46f.3-WSM NashviIle-6so
6:30-Sacred concert; at the piano.
8:00-Melodies; Christian Church.
9:l5-A. K. hour of music.
l0:15-Champions Orchestra
Conservatory of Music program
ll:l5-WSM Rhythm Symphony.
27o.1-WRvA Richmond-l,11o.
11:00a-Morning services.
7:45-Eyening church services.
10:15-Champions Orchestra.
25s.s--wwvA wheeling-1.1so
10:35a-Church services.
1:00-Bible students.
3:o0-Organ recital.
7:30-Evening church services.
CENTRAL.
293.9-KYW Chicago-l,020
8;15-Uncle Henrys Magazine.
9:15-Good reading; orchestra.
10:00--Week-end party; news.
12:00--Dance music.
4l6.4-WGN-WLIB Chicago-72o
8:3o-Dinner concert; Nighthawks.
9:15-A. K. hour of music.
l0:15-Champions orchestra.
l0:45-Features; popular GA hours).
447.s-WMAQ Chicago-67o
s:0O-Sunday Evening Club.
l0:15-Sandy; old timers tales.
u:00-Ainos- ANDY; orchestra.
42s.s-WLW Cincinnati--1oo
9:30a-Church school and services.
6:00-Dr. Fosdick
6:30-Anglo Persians orchestra.
7:30-At the piano; melodies.
8:l5-Uncle Henry's Magazine.
9:l5-Concert orchestra.
l0:l5-Cino Singers; cello recital
II :00-Musicale novelesque.
2So.2-WTAM-WEAR Cleveiand-1,o7o.
1:30-Sunday afternoon musicales.
5:30-Westminste Choir.
6:00--Band parade; WEAF program.
7:00-Music: Maj. Bowes Family.
8:45-Sunburst of Song; A. K. hour.
10:l5-Champions Orchestra.
orchestras.
398.S-WCX-WJR Detroit-750
10 00a-Church services.
6:l5-OrcheStra; Anglo PersianS.
7:00-vespers; at the piano.
8;00-Melodies; Uncle Henry's Mag.
9:l5-Financiers: WIZ programs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
LOCAL STATIONS
315.6-WRC--s50

315.6-WRC--S50
fNational Broadcasting Co..
li:03a to 1900 noon-Service from
the New York Avenue Presby.
terrain Church: sermon by Rev
Joseph r. Sizoo, pastor.
1:30-Peerless Reproducers IN. B. c.
2:00-Roxy Symphony concert IN. B
c..
3:oo-Dr. Stephen S. Wise. rs Life
Worth Living?" IN. B. c..
4:00-Service from Washington Ca
tlledral.
5:2S-Motion picture guide.
5:30-Capitol String Ensemble.
6:00-StetSon parade IN. B. c..
6:30-Dictograph program IN. B. c..
7:00-Old Company's program IN. B.
c..
7:30-Musical program by Mai. Ed
ward Bowes' Family from the
Capitol Theater, New York IN.
B. c..
soo-"Our Government" by David
Lawrence.
9:15-Atwater Kent radio hour, fea-
turing Nine. Sigrid Onegin, con-
tralto IN. B. c..
10:15-Studebaker program IN. B. c..
10:45-Weather forecast.
10:46 to 11:15-Sunday at Seth Park
er's IN. B. c..
Early Program Tomorrow.
6:45a-Tower health exercises IN. B.
c..
s:o0a-On the Sis IN. B.C).
6:15a-Federation morning devotions
IN. B. c..
S:50a-Cheerio IN. B. c..
9:00a-U. S. Navy Band IN. B. c..
lo:0oa-Dr. Royal S. Copeland IN. B.
c..
Blue Birds IN. B. c..
Household Institute IN.
B. c..
ii :30a-Organ recital.
1900 noon-Farm flashes.
Bridge for Beginners" by Mrs.
John Munce, jr.
Lenten services.
1:00-Madrillon Trio.
115-Farm and home facts.
1:30-Madrillon Trio.
205.4-WJSV-1.469
independent Publishing Coz
7:00-Ladies' Choir of Fairfax, Va.
7:45-Kathryn Crowley. pianist.
8:00-L. e. Phillips. trombonist.
8:30-"Diamonds in the Rough" by
Dr. D. H. Martin.
s:45-Brass quartet .
10 :00-Chick GODFREY. tenor.
0:30-Weather report.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
English Station Heard in U. S.

Short-wave set owners in New York
have been experiencing the delight of
listening to tests being made by 5SW,
Chelmsford. England. One record of
reception said that the station was
heard on the speaker with plenty of
volume and without fading. The wave
length of 5SW is 25h
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
WINS MOVIE SINGER.
Dolores Cassinelli Says Radio Is
Now Her Life.

NEW YORK Op).-Radio has won a
singer from the movies. Dolores Cas-
SMELL. with her soprano voice, says
that she never will go back unless per-
haps I make single, for radio is my
life now"
Heard often from WEAF. she will be
the guest soloist for the Happy Bakers
in their first countrywide broadcaS,
over stations associated with that
transmitter,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
Loud Speaker Table on Market.

A. loud speaker table, built to nj the
requirements Of proper bafie for the
dynamic, has been introduced. II was
designed to accommodate various types
o. 1paakexs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17

22S.9-WOL-1310
american Broadcasting Coz
10 00a-Wstch Tower service.
:00a-Service of the Church of
Epiphany.
1890 to Decentralization hour.
5:oo-Program by Christian Science
Parent Church
5:30-Vesper hour.
6:30-Joseph Bruno, baritone, and Sal
vatore Carta. tenor.
7:l1-"Amos N Andy"
8:00-Wardnan Park Concert Orches-
ira.
Early Program Tomorrow.
:30a-Musical clock.
S:00a-Birthdays
S:0S-Musical clock continued
800 to 10:00a-Request program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
Two Give Chain Programs.

wsMB. New Orleans and KTHS. Hot
Springs. are giving an N. B. c. Saturday
night chain program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
434,S-NAA--6a0

washington Navy Yard
10:05a-Weather Bureau reports.
9:55-Arlington time signals,
10:05-Weather Bureau reports.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
415.9-WMAL-630


washington Radio FORUM
0:00a-Watch Tower service.
III :00a to 1230-Woman's Missionary
Council service from Mount YER
non Place M. E. Church South.
3:00-Cathedral hour, presenting
Bach's Passion, According to
st. Matthew" &C. B. 81.
5:oo-vesper song service by Willard
c. and Christine Pierce. THE
Midnight Evangsls Of Toronto, :.
$50 to 6:00-Service of the Tenth
Presbyterian Church Of Phila-
delplia.
6:00-La Palma hour &C. B. 81.
e:30-Sonatron program &C. B. 81.
9;0o-Majestic hour, featuring Walter
Kelly, THE Virginia Judge" &C.
B. s.
l000-De Forest Audions, featuring
Alma Gluck. soprano, and Ar
thur Pryor and his band &C.
B. 81.
1890 to IL :00-Around the Samovar &C.
B. s..
Early Program Tomorrow
10 00a-Topaz Trio &C. B. s..
10 :30a-Brunswick concert.
IL :30a to 12:30-Woman' Missionary
Council Lenten service from
Mount Vernon Place NJ. E.
Church South.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
Today on the Radio
PROGRAM FOR SUNDAY, MARCH II. 1929.

Meters call letters
otherwise ndtcatedl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17

\ Ado is rapidly annexing New
y York to the rest of the United
/ States. / mean by that that
\ national chain broadcasting is
The Washington times., 1929-02-28
ChicagOans Are Cool
To Adopting Time
From New York

CHICAGO, Feb. 28.-Proposals
that Chicago time should be
changed to Eastern standard
time so that New York and this
city might transact business on
an identical schedule are stirring
up a controversy in which oppo'
nents of the idea appear to be in
the majority.
Directors maintain that Chicago
would be forced to set its clocks
forward two hours instead of one
when New York daylight time
goes into effect. This would force
Chicagoans to arise two hours
ahead of sun time and provoke
a loud outcry from working
people.
The assertion is also made that
the change would cause mucn
confusion in Omaha, Minneapolis
and Kansas City. That the time
in these cities should be the same
as that in Chicago is held to he
essential.
The Washington times., 1929-02-28
Doctor at 83 Found People
Preferred His Prescription

The basis of treating sickness .'as
not changed since DIR. Caldwell left
Medical College in 1875, nor since
he placed on the market the laxa-
tive prescription he had used in his
practice. known to druggists and
the public since 1892, as DR.. Cald
wells Syrup Pepsin.
Then, the treatment of constipa;
tion, biliousness, headaches, mental
depression, Indigestion, sour stom-
ach and other indispositions that
result from constipation was en-
tirely by means of simple vegetable
laxatives. herbs and roots. These
are still the basis of DR.. Caldwell s
Syrup Pepsin, which is combina
ton of SIENNA and other mild laxa-
tive herbs, with pepsin.
! DR.. Caldwell did not approve of
drastic physics and purges. He
did not believe they were good for
human beings to put into their sys-
tenn. II grown people want to use
them no one can deny them the
privilege, but they should never
be given to children.
The simpler the remedy for con-
stipation, the safer for the child
and for you, and the better for the
general health Of all. And as you
can get results in a mild and safe
way by using DIR. Caldwell's Syrup
Pepsin. why take chances with
strong drugs? All drug stores have
the generous bottles.