Evening star., 1935-04-05
661 RADIO TALKS
ON COLUMBIA NET.
3.Month Record Includes
Educational and Informa-
tive Broadcasts.

~oLuMBIA statisticians have
Just figured out that 66l pro-
grams devoted to talks OF an
~ educational, cultural and in
formative nature were broad
cast over its network during the first
three months Of this year. These in
cluded 180 5-minute periods devoted
to news reports of the Press Radio
Bureau.
In the field of current events there
were 143 individual programs broad.
cast in addition to the Press Radio
Bureau periods. These included reg
ular programs by Boake Carter. H. v.
Kaltenborn and Edwin c. Hill and
the weekly dramatized news resume
Of the March Of Time. The figures
do not include special Press Radio
Bureau bulletins nor eyewitness
hroadcasts Of news events.
The next category in point Of broad
cast periods was domestic affairs.
Eighty-three programs covered wide
variety Of national interest such as
the soldiers bonus, the gold question,
labor legislation, national defense snd
broad range Of sociological subjects.
Home Economies.
Home economics was the third topic
in the three months schedule with II
programs. Music discussion held
fourth place in Columbia's pro-
gram makeup. There were A periods
devoted to this subject. These en-
braced Is periods for children with
Ernest Schelling conducting q Satur-
day morning series from Carnegie
Hall, and Dorothy Gordon, present.
ing weekly program In the American
School of the Air. Adult music talks
included those given by Howard Bar
low In the Understanding Music"
periods each week, and Lawrence Gil
mans commentaries during each Sun
days concert by the Philharmonic
Symphony Society Of New York.
There were % talks on religious
subjects. all of them delivered during
the Columbia Church Of the Air
broadcasts, and other general topics
were covered in the following order:
International affairs, 16; economics,
Is; industry. 13; education, II; child
welfare, Z; armamentS, 4; student
thought, 4; general, 80. The re-
naming programs were accounted
for by the White House. President
Roosevelt was heard once during the
first quarter Of 1885 in an address to
the Boy Scouts Of America, and Mrs.
Roosevelt was on the air times.
Amateur ConteSfante
1--WE entrants in Arthur Godfrey's
i weekly amateur show on WJSV
will compete in the second edi-
tion of his program in the Washing
ton Hotel studios tomorrow night at
6:45 O'Clock. The contestants are:
Elizabeth Wilson, 10 Poplar avenue,
Takoma Park, Nd; Francis Sherlock
Cunningham. 1901 G street northeast:
John J. Connolly. TITS California
street; Sidney J. y Dwight, TIA
Twenty-fifth street southeast, and
Bakshian Arman, 1925 Connecticut
avenue.
WJSV announces that the radio
audience selected Miss Margaret e.
Hilt 1919 Third street, as the win
ner Of the first amateur show last Sat-
urday. The judges picked Irving
Hackerman, as their choice.
II
NJ 3. G. has arranged a series of
~ special programs tomorrow in
observance Of Army day. The
broadcasts will include a description
Of the Army day parade on Constitu-
ton avenue, and addresses by Senator
Steiwer Of Oregon, Representative Nc
Swain Of South Carolina, and Frank
N. Belgrano, jr., national commander
OF the American Legion.