Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-16

broad minded as the Secretary Of
Labor, Mr.. Davis. failed to take into
account these changed conditions, when
in a speech in Philadelphia he viewed
with alarm" the tendency Of inmi-
grants coming to America under the
quotas of national origins" TO huddle
themselves together and so fail to re-
ceive American contacts and Amer
icanization influences.
Time was when that tendency was
far more deleterfous to the work OF the
melting pot than 1t is today. with the
voices of the radio broadcast into the
veriest hamlet and carrying American
speech in spite of the protective clan
nisfness. The country lout. fresh from
the fields Of Europe, shut on from the
spirit Of his adopted country. timid.
diffident In the presence Of Americans
because he cannot speak our language
and fears that he will be laughed at for
his plumbers, today may get his Amer
lean atmosphere verify out Of the air.
AS soon as he becomes habituated to
the sound of the language through the
radio broadcast he will find 1t no longer
mysterious and difficult. Vocabulary
viii follow, as 1t does for children.
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In short, the rniehtiest influence
toward Americanization of aliens Is the
radio broadcast, whether to carry the
news of the day, or. simply to amuse
and entertain.
What the family doctor" may do for
disease. experimenting the technical
specialist, the radio broadcast is doing
for the homesick alien immigrant, even
within his shut-in clan-colony.
In conjunction with the broadcast,
of course, must be reckored the in
fluence of the motion picture. One ap-
peals through the ears, the other
through the eyes, but in both cases
American atmosphere Is penetrating
the spirit Of the immigrant.
The culture and broadening hitherto
gained only by globe-trotting are now
brought TO our doors through the
ether, and these new Influences will
Americanize even the most clannish. in
spite of themselves, as could not have
been accomplished 10 years ago by any
| Americanization school.
Now to these new means Of opening
die eyes of the aliens is added the
'oadcasting of the moving scene. by
/ HE invention Of our fellow Washing
{ q MAN. Mr.. G. Francis Jenkins, the ac-
t ual inventor of the motion picture
f An. This Jenkins method Of broad
c; 0ting scenes in movie action Is not
tok be confused with merely sending
ri stures by telephone wire; the picture.
tn ! action scene In motion, Is broad
ca 4, into the air. just as sound Is
br, aYdcast. and may be picked up" by
an v number of "lookers-in" just as
sol IA d may be heard by any number of
list q ,ers-in.
tn is reported that already the broad
castt pictures-mostly silhouettes yet
are witnessed by no fewer than 10000
"looik .rs-in" at the weekly entertain
men,ni floating invisibly through the
ethelf The picture waves do not In
terfe 4, with sound waves, and 1t takes
no @ D tiniistic prophet to foresee their
early i combination in the same enter
tainr ient So new human relations
are tveloped even by stay-at-homes.
He must indeed be dullard who falls
TO see how such modern enlargement
Of tn d five senses must broaden the
l1umalsI mind and give the world a very
differe n character from that of The
Man " tn the Hoe" The grandchii-
dren o. today's generation will be more
alert. Jul have travelled" by radio ara
.elevisi 3n-T was about to write "telep-
athy," snd, why not, indeed
To re. Der to the newspapers of q cen-
jury agcS affords both amusement and
amazem I 1t rs one discovers how narrow
vas pub DC knowledge of the events Of
he. worl a. as reported in the press. A
century y news development has forced
he adju ament of many difficulties not
'oreseen III the early days.
In the lsame way the radio broad
lasting b: ! 1gS new problems. For ex-
ample, thea broadcasting companies In
ute churt D IS to use their services, but
'orhtd sec a1rian controversies-as the
began decades ago to do.
The comps ilies may be caught legally
'esponsible for ISLANDERS spoken over
heir service " by irresponsible orators"
" ibelers, lst as publishers are liable
or whateve / appears In their columns
wen through signed communications
The aston paing fact Is that the de.
'elopment Of vthe new means Of spread
ng informauk'n Is so sudden that even
is managers re agaSp at its expansion.
To think tn Z { man will not be radical
y changed IN his nature by such new
Influences! lkreposterousl The prob
ems are so INV that 1t may be that
! new collegeA Is needed to make re-
earc.f Of our human relations"
(Copyright, lA.e, By Paul v. Collins.)