Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-16
RADIO IS CLASSED
YOUNG MANS GAME
Many Listed as Youthful
Leaders Are Carried Upon
Its Pay Rolls.
BY MARTIN CODEL.

game. PROBABLY no other industry OF
major consequence, unless it be aero
nautics, boasts as many very young men
in high positions.
The reason isn't hard to find: Radio
itself is relatively young, for broadcast
ing sprang into being only 10 years or
so ago, and with its growing popularity
there developed the receiving set and
associated manufacturing industries
Then, too, radio has drawn and is still
drawing from the ranks of those youth
ful lobbyists known as amateurs for
much Of its man power.
Small wonder, then, that older heads
in this and other businesses have fire.
1uently paraphrased Greeley's famous
radio, young man."
Outstanding Example Cited.
David Sarnoff is probably the in
dustry'S outstanding example of young
genius and success A Russian immi-
grant boy when he came to this country
in 1900, he had scarcely passed his
| thirty-ninth birthday last February
when the directors of the Radio
Corporation of America elevated him
from the post of vice president and gen.
from office boy, to the presidency of
that corporation.
But there are even younger men in
the high places of the industry that
was born of an idea that fixed itself in
the mind of young experimenter
| named Guglielmo Marconi some 80
years ago. Ellery Stone, president of
holster Radio Corporation, and A. H.
Grebe are only about IS. william 8.
Paley, president of the Columbia Broad
casting System, has scarcely passed his
twenty eighth birthday. The vice pres
ident Of Columbia, Sam Pickard, for
mer member of the Federal Radio Com
mission, is SO, and Columbia's brilliant
Washington executive, Harry Butcher,
is but 49,
McMurdo Silver, president of the
Silver-Marshall Radio Co. of Chicago,
is only %. Nathan Chirelstein became
president Of the Sonatron Tube Co. at
f, 80. Herbert Hoover, jr., son of the
President, is the radio director of
Western Air Express at %.
In High Rank at Age of "A.
Though he looks much younger, M. H.
Aylesworth, president Of the National
Broadcasting Co., is A. AS in its
parent companies, the N. B. @. is honey
combed with mere youths. George F.
McClelland its general manager, is So:
Mark Wood, its secretary, is 80, and G..
w. tombstone, in charge of press rela-
tions, is 80. All its vice presidents are
| in their thirtieS, John Elwood being "a,
George Engels SO, Niles Trammel SO
and Frank Russell "a. Nor are there
any graybeards on the technical or an
nouncerial stats, where the ages run
around 80 and under.
Ia lab AaTt e
Hedges. president Of the National Asso-
citation of Broadcasters, Is merely 35.
One Of the broadcasting fraternity's real
| youngsters is Ralph Atlass, who heads
| WBBM, Chicago, at 26. Broadcasting
stations throughout the country reveal
| similar array of youthful talent in all
classes Of work Among the artists it
is interesting to observe that Hugo
| Mariani, famous radio orchestra leader,
! only recently passed his thirtieth
| birthday
Youth mingles with maturer years on
the scientific and legal side of radio. In
washington one of the brightest of the
bright young men Of the engineering
staff Of the Federal Radio Commission
is Gerald G. Gross, who Is only %.
| Lieut.. e. x. Jett, another assistant
engineer, is 81. The chief engineer. DIR.
! G.. B. Jolliffe, confesses to SO; v. Ford
! Greaves, assistant chief engineer, to IS,
| and Andrew d. Ring, assistant, to 81.
/ Lieut.. Condr. T. A. NJ. Craven, U. S. N,
who is almost invariably included in
American delegations to international
radio conferences, is 81. Col. Thad
three assistants, Ben e. Fisher, Paul D.
P. Spearman and Duke M. Patrick, are
40, 80 and 80, respectively.
The commissioners themselves are
mostly older men, Chairman SaltZ1nan
owning to SO, Judge Sykes to 81, Judge
Robinson to about so and Commissioner
Lafount to "around So" Commissioner
w. D. L. Starbuck is A.
Other Notable Figures Listed.
At the Bureau of Standards DR.. j.
| chief of naval communications, Capt.
s. G. Hooper, is As. Maj. Gen. George
| o. Gibbs, chief Of the Army Signal
Corps, confesses to be nearing the re-
firing age" which means he has been
out of West Point about 80 years.
Such notable figures in the radio art
and industry as DR.. Lee De Forest, Gen.
James G. Harbord, j. Atwater Kent,
Hiram Percy Maxim, Nikola Tesla, DR..
L. w. Austin, DIR. A. Hoyt Taylor. DR..
Frederick Z. holster and William d.
But DR.. Alfred N. Goldsmith, who heads
the engineering staff Of the r. G. A., is
only 40; John Hays Hammond, jr.,
noted inventor, is 40, and Maj. Edward
II. Armstrong is 80. John ". L. Hogan
confesses to being "about 49," as does
Iloyd Espenschied of the American
Telephone & Telegraph Co., whose able
confrere, Laurens Whittemore, is just
SO. Harry Evans, Westinghouse SUI
perintendent of broadcasting, is 80.
In the field Of radio regulation older
heads predominant, though Senator C..
G. Dill will not admit that he is very
ripe old age. Senator Couzens, chair
man of the Senate committee having
radio In charge, Is SO, and Representa-
tive Wallace White, jr., who had the
same post on the House side and who
recently was elected to the Senate, Is
81. On the other hand, Louis q. Cald-
well, former general counsel OF the Fed
eral Radio Commission and now chair
man of the Communications Law Com
mittee of the American Bar Association,
is only about 40. B. M. Webster, jr.,
also former counsel of the commits
sion and now also in private practice,
is lust 30, a year or two younger than
Paul M. Segal, his former assistant and
present associate, and Phillip q. Loucks,
counsel and prospective secretary of
the National Association OF Broad
casters.
In Europe Sir Basil Phillot Blackett.
chairman Of the recently formed cable
radio communications monopoly, Is 46.
DR.. Meisner, the famous German radio
scientist, Is Al.
Youthful Zeal q Factor.
It is youthful zeal, at any rate, which
makes many of the oldsters as keen
about radio as hobby or profession
as any of the youngsters. Hiram Percy
Maxim, the inventor, says he was 40
when he first began to learn the code: