Evening star., 1934-01-14
By THE RADIO EDITOR.

~ n. YEAH?
A lifting Of eyebrows and
vigorous disagreement Is the
~ answer Of radios singing cow
boys to VIII Rogers definition
of q "dogie" and to his assertions that
no real cowboy can sing, much less
yodel.
Rogers, an ex-cowboy himself, was all
wrong In his Headliners program last
Sunday. according to former cow
punchers who now make their living
by ululating ditties Of the trail over the
same national hook-up. They are both
hurt and astonished by Wills statement
that dogie Is really q "doggie" and Is
in fact q coyote and not cow, and
bv his claim that said coyote Is the
only thing that can sing worse than
Q cowboy.
Jules Allen, former Texas Ranger and
a member of the Trail Drivers Assocta-
ton, who crossed the plains fve times
during the nineties, quoted from the
American Live Stock Market" pub
lished in 1922, which defines dogies as
small common-bred cattle native to
the Southern States" Allen, who claims
to have punched cattle before Rogers
swung his first lariat, and who now
sings cowboy ballads over an N. B. G.
network, also refutes the charge that
trail riders can't sing by pointing to his
appointment by ex-GoV. Dillon OF New
Mexico as the official cowboy singer OF
that State. y.
John white, the lonesome cowboy"
soloist heard in the popular Death
Valley Days" programs from Radio City,
also brought unimpeachable authori-
tiles to back up his claim that Rogers
Is In error.
Experts" Quoted.
Of 'dogie' are new ones on me" said
White. "I think he was kidding swhen
he said 'dogie' Is q coyote. But don't
take my word for it. Let me quote two
Of the grand old-timers of the cow colln-
try, Will c. Barnes, former Arizona
cowpuncher, and Dominik ]. White,
Montana cowboy poet who wrote one OF
the best known of the cowboy songs,
When the Work Is Done Next Fall.
Barnes. in q Saturday Evening Post
article several years ago, explains that
'Dogies are class of mavericks. un-
marked and unbranded, whose mothers
have mislaid them Barnes is old
enough to be Wills pa, and D. j. White,
who could be his big brother, wrote q
poem that was printed in 1891 in which
are the lines: 'Day-herding those same
dogies, out on the dry's grain plain
obviously not referring to coyotes"
Johnnie Marvin, another trailriding
radio soloist who was raised in the sad
die, corroborated this evidence, and then
took up the cudgels for cowboy singers.
will was speaking for himself when
he said that cowboys can't sing" he
declared. There are just as many good
singers and bad singers among cowboys
as there are among stevedores or bank
clerks of movie stars. And as Tor
yodeling-why, every cowboy yells at the
cattle in the high falsetto, and when
you put that into a song-thats
yodeling!"
"Vou takes your choice" @ Nv whether s,aae
! you want radio in your auto
mobile, 1884 model, but attend
ants at the various exhibits in the Ma
tional Automobile Show say that pro-
spective buyers almost invariably stipu-
late that they prefer radio installa-
ton with their cars. Indeed, few OF
the new car models contain radios as
standard equipment, incorporating the
price in the cost of the car, and in an
ether year it is confidently predicted
that radios will come with practically
all cars.
For the most part, however, the new
motor cars, at least the closed models,
generally have built-in antennas, some