Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17

~ oWN OII LIlC low wave
l bands where the amateur
!, or hams" exchange dot
49, and daSheS, congratulator!
messages to Herbert Hoover from
the governors of the 48 States will
be flashed across the country or
March and for delivery to the
new President Immediately after
the inaugural ceremonies.
The amateurs in the capita.
cities of the 48 States will gather
the messages and send them or
their journey to Washington
Others along the route will pick
them up and relay them on tc
their destination.
The custom of relaying the gov
errors messages to a new PreSi-
dent was first established in 1921
by the American Radio Relay
League. It's success then inspired
the hams" to greater efforts and
it was repeated again in 1925, when
President Coolidge was inaugu-
rated.
With more enthusiasm than
ever, the amateurs have planned
the 1929 relay. Operators in all
i sections Of the country have been
i given specific instructions for
4 handling the messages and they
are expected to be dispatched with
4 more speed than in the two pre-
! vious relays.
The Wa Shington hams
through their organization, the
Washington Radio Club, will play
a dominant role in the relay. Their
position at the destination of the
messages makes them responsible
for the reception as well as the
delivery.
/ The radio club has assigned to
4. nine of it's members the task OF
! handling the special inaugural
message traffic. One of them, E. v
! Dingle, 2415 e street, who oper-
ateS W3EL, will serve as the "key,
keeping the headquarters station
in Hartford, Conn.,, Informed
hourly of the results.
/ The Washington operators have
arranged their schedule so thai
| several of them will be on a con-
tinuous watch for the 24-houl
period beginning at 5 pm. March
3 and ending the same hour March
A. Most of their time will be spent
wandering over the 40 and 81
meter wave bands on which the
messages are to be transmitted.
Miss Elizabeth Zandonini, 1926
! Nineteenth street, one of Wash
/ ington's most popular amateurs
/ will take conspicuous part ir
the relay. She operates station
| W3CDQ.
| Other District amateurs assigned
| to the relay work are E. w. Darne
| 1872 Tennessee avenue northeast
| (W3BWT) L. j. Holt, 6701 Sixth
street (W3AKR); B. w. Mar
shall, 1901 Thirty-sixth street
(W3BKW); K. D. Wilson, Boiling
Field (W3GT) E. c. Wallis, 3l4(
Nineteenth street (W3AIM); j. C
Wilson, 2747 Woodley Place
(W3AMYl, and w. H. Leetch, 30s
Whalen avenue, Clarendon, Va
| (W3AU).
When Graham McNamee, vet
eran radio announcer, makes the
first syllable of "penalize" rhyme
with the last syllable in ma
chine" his pronunciation is cor
rect.
Thus DR.. Cabell Greet of Ber-
nard College, Columbia University
refuteS the criticism of McNamet
made by Prof. w. r. Mcdonald
word expert of Los Angeles.
rnnn1Nflu Ov.{ff
cised McNamee for his use of thu
long "e" in penalize. The an
nouncer, he said, was teaching TIT
American people bad habits II
speech.
"The preferred dictionary pro,
nunciation of 'penalize' is witt
the long e." DR.. Greet declared
though many educated people
pronounce it with the short e. al
in penalty"
DR.. Greet made a research IL
American language and is consid
cred an authority on correc
speech.
A recent survey by the Nationa
Broadcasting Co. reveals that New
York does not monopolize nationa
radio programs, despite all tina
has been written and said of Man.
haitian as an entertainment cen
ter. OF $50 programs transmitted
through the N. B. C. system II
January, ITO originated in tn
company's Pacific Coast and Chi
cago studios. Fifty-eight of tn
, coast programs were tranSconti
mental broadcaStS.
The survey also shows that al
: almost infinite variety of enter