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against it, the Board finally got
a break. Three Circuit Courts Of
Appeal reversed lower courts, and
held for the NLRB. District
judges Immediately changed their
tune and sided with the NLRB in
80 other injunction suits.
Publicly, Senator Arthur VAN
denberg is still maintaining an at
titude of good will toward rival
Republican presidential candi-
dates. But privately it is a diff
ferent matter. Following Gov.
ALT Landon's recent radio inter-
view, Vandenberg told friends he
thought the views expressed by
Landon were terrible" :. The
six-Weeks' delay in getting ap.
prevail for the Resettlement Ad-
ministration's widely acclaimed
movie, "The Plow That Broke the
Palms." was not the fault of
Comptroller General j. R. McCarl,
but one of Resettlement's own
lawyers, who tried to place the
film in the hands of professional
friends in Hollywood. When
sixth-grader Jack GreenWay,
student at Washington private
school, goes to commencement
exercises next month, he will listen
to an address given by his mother,
Mrs. Isabella Greenway, Arizona
CongreSswoman.
Copyright. 1885, by United Featur,
Syndicate, 1nc)
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Davis the clew he had been seek
ing. Instead of attempting to limit
the radio telephone to direct COM
munication, the idea was to make
its voice available to all listeners.
And the way to make radio pay
dividends was to operate a broad
casting station so that people
would buy receiving sets.
A CCORDINGLY arrangements
n were made to open the sta
ton on the night of Nov. 2 by
broadcasting the returns of the
Harding-CoX election. Thus did
Radio Station KDKA make it's
bow to the world with historic
broadcast.
At the start there was no stu
dio attached to the brcadcasting
station. The microphone was in
the same room with the broad
casting apparatus. Before long it
appeared wise to give up phono-
graph records for a real orchestra
and so the KDKA Little SYM
phony was organized. Old-time
radio fans will remember It'll
The orchestra was crowded for
room and so when warm weather
arrived, the orchestra moved to the
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DR.. Conrad impresses you most by
the easy simplicity of his manner
and the warm geniality of his
smile.
A movie director would pick him
as the type to play the proprietor
of a small-town store on Main-st.
He has no outward characteristics
that movie director would as
sociate with a great scientist or
a great engineer. But the fact re-
mains that this mild-mannered,
pleasant-faced gentleman laid the
foundations of a billion dollar in
dustry and changed the habits of
a nation.
TINE story begins in the early
l. days of the World War. The
nations soon saw the value of
wireless on the battlefield and the
British government engaged
Westinghouse to carry on certain
researches. DR.. Conrad, already
famous in engineering circles for
his work upon automobile ignition
systems, was one of the men as
signed to the task.
In 1917, America entered the
war and Westinghouse DR..
Conrad-continued their radio ac-
tivities for Uncle Sam. The
U. S. government gave Westing-
house licenses to erect two expert
mental radio stations as part of
the research. One was located in
the Westinghouse plant, the other
a few miles away in the home of
DR.. Conrad. BY the end of the
war, DR.. Conrad had worked out
the fundamental practices upon
which radio broadcasting is based.
During the war, Uncle Sam had
created a patent pool in the radio
field so that development work
might be carried on at full speed.
DR.. Conrad went ahead with his
experiments. He depended in large
part on reports from the operators
of amateur stations in various
parts of the country for informa-
ton upon the success of his eff
forts, and so he took to playing
photograph records over his sta
ton, announcing baseball results,
news dispatches and the like.
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I ACCORDING to the Keeping
l. Up With the World" department
of Golfers weekly (noted also in
Readers Digest), a personal letter is
legal form of manuscript and
therefore not the property of the re-
cipient but that of the person who
wrote it. Even excerpts can not be
published without the permission of
the writer, his heirs or his executors.
= ON THE average they are. Prof.
A Lewis M. Terman, Stanford psy-
chologist, and his associates gave
tests of 545 portraits of personality
to 100 divorced men, 100 divorced
women and to 100 happily married
and 100 unhappily married couples.
The divorced persons were on the
average the most aggressive, most
likely to bawl out the waiter for
poor service, most likely to bluff
their way past doorman, more self
sufficient and quicker in making de-
cisions: but, strangely enough, they
were more tolerant toward other
peoples opinions. less mercenary
and easier to borrow money from
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roof Of the building. A tent was
erected to keep the wind from
blowing the music sheets away.
Immediately it was noticed that
the quality of the concert was i'm
proved. The reyerberations which
had previously been noticed were
absent.
And so, when cold weather ar
rived and the orchestra moved in
doors, it brought the tent indoors
also. 1t was then realized that
the same effect could be obtained
by draping the walls of the room
with burlap and thus the modern
radio studio was born.
A way was wanted for relaying
programs from station to station
the connecting network of tele-
phone wires was not then looked
upon with favor-and DR.. Conrad
turned his attention to short
wave radio. Two short-wave re-
lay stations were built, KDPM in
Cleveland, o., and xxx in
Hastings, Neb.
The rapid rise of radio to a
billion-dollar industry and the
growth of the great broadcasting
networks is contemporary history.
Notwithstanding the rail-
roads.
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especially true OF divorced women)
and good people 10 go to for advice.
OF course this was only the general
picture; necessarily some divorced
persons did not fit the general pic
ture.
= THIS is the biggest wad of bunk
- with which nations deceive
themselves and their people into GO
ing to war. AS Nathaniel PETER says
in Harper's Magazine (abridged) -
modern nations do not use con-
quered territory for their surplus
populations even when they conquer
it. There are times as many Ger
mans in New York State as were in
the 900, 900 square miles of German
colonies in 1914; as many Italians in
one square mile in New York City
as were in all Italy's African COL
onies in 1914 and so times as many
in New York State; only 100000
japanese have moved into Man.
churia, although Japan sacrificed
300,O00 men In 1905 to conquer It'll
NEXT-Are women more emo.
tfcnal than menu
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MEANWHILE Westinghouse Of
4V4 ficials were gazing upon the

MEANWHILE Westinghouse Of
AVA ficials were gazing upon the
size Of the funds they had sunk
into radio research and beginning
to wonder how they were going to
realize a return on their invest
ment. 1t was suggested that the
facilities of the International
Radio Telegraph Co. might be used
to furnish a news service to ships
at sea but the necessary arrange
ments could not be made at the
time.
1t was obvious that the lack of
secrecy made the radio telephone
unsuited for direct communication.
One day in 1920, H. P. Davis,
vice president of the Westinghouse
company, picked up a copy of
Pittsburgh newspaper. Mr.. Davis
was in charge of the company's
radio activities. In the advertise
ment of a Pittsburgh department
store he found a consignment of
wartime radio receiving sets
offered for sale. With one of these
sets, said the advertisement, you
can listen to DR.. Conrad's radio
station and hear music, baseball
scores and the like.
IN that instant, radio broadcast
ing was born. The ad gave Mr..
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Feet off the Ground

IT HAVE college students" said the legislator
Il solemnly, "parading through my city carrying
banners attacking the government state institutions
and newspapers"
Here is poor, unfortunate lawmaker who has
heard so much about the freedom of the press that
he has gone slightly daft on the subject and has
come to believe that it is some sort Of crime for
free-born American to proclaim, IT think the Daily
Bugle is terrible paper"
Come, now, Mr.. Parsons; get your feet on the
ground. When did it ever become crime to attack
state institutions? I will make side bet that If
carry sign through the streets of Syracuse saying
"One of the assemblymen from your fair city is a
lunkhead," no jury in the world will convict.
And as for the Federal government itself, I chal-
lenge the conception Of Mr.. Parsons that college
student or anybody else, is not within his rights in
haunting signs derogatory Of the actions of the Ad-
miniStration.
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the air.
The younger generation,
which has grown up in an
atmosphere of nine-tube
radio sets equipped for
long, intermediate and
short waves, will never
know the thrill of hearing
the first faint sounds from
the earphone of a crystal
detector radio set which
you constructed with your
own hands.
The oatmeal box was the foun-
dalton for the tuning coil. You
wound this copper wire around it,
making little twisted loop every
five turns. Later you scraped the
insulation from these loops and
soldered other pieces of wire to
them which in turn were soldered
to the contacts Of switch.
Before the World War, radio
was known as wireless" and it
was chiefly wireless telegraphy.
There had been some experiment.
ing with wireless telephony but
no one saw much of a future
for it.
TINE world had been mildly
Il thrilled when in 1903 Mar
conf sent the first wireless tele-
graph message across the Atlantic.
1t was genuinely excited when on
Jan. %, 1909, Jack Binns sent the
famous GOD" which brought
other ships to the aid of the sink
ing Republic and made possible
the saving of passengers and crew.
But until the World War, public
interest in wireless was confined
to small handful of amateurs.
The other day at the Westing-
house plant in East Pittsburgh,
sat in the office of the man who
led the revolution in radio, DR..
Frank Conrad, assistant chief en-
gineer of the Westinghouse Elec-
trio and Manufacturing Co. Me-
dunn in height and stocky in build,
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Complete Disagreement

A to the wisdom or propriety Of Mr.. Hoover's at
L tempt or Senator Dickinson's attempt ito un-
dermlne the wnole structure of government" might
be in complete agreement with Mr.. Parsons, but I
can not join him in this belief that there ought to
be law" In fact would like to remind Assembly
man George Parsons of Syracuse that his words
serve to give aid and comfort to those who would
nullify the Constitution of the United States and rip
its Bill of Rights to tatters.
do not know which newspapers the college STU
dents OF Syracuse were attacking in their banners
but in certain parts of the country both professors
and students have felt it their duty TO defend the
American system of education against the attacks
which are being made upon it by Mr.. William Ran
dolph Hearst can assure Mr. Parsons that there is
nothing whatsoever in the state Federal Constitu-
ton which says that Mr. Hearst or any other news
paper proprietor is immune from public criticism.
might even add for the assembymans peace of mind
that it is by impossible for college student
to be against Hearst and the revolution at one and
the same time.
Copyright, 1936)
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Profit Welcomed

IT Is maintained further that the government
- should not in any way compete with industry.
This declaration aimed particularly at the produc
ton of electricity under government authority.
The Chamber holds that the distribution of
income among the people and classes of the coun-
try is major problem facing business but it re-
fuses to specify just how this problem is to be
handled.
The proposal of the government to provide on a
large scale for the rehousng of America is de-
nounced 1t is contended that housing is a local
problem to be kept in private hands.
AS might be expected, there is a sweeping attack
upon the rise in governmental expenditures for re-
during the recent convention it was urged that
relief be turned back to local authorities and gov
eminent public works projects abandoned.
VET there seems to be no objection to holding out
the tin cup to the government in case industry
may profit directly therefrom For example govern
ment subsidies to private American shipping inter-
ests are urged SO that may maintain merchant
marine under the American flag.
The Chamber rallies heartily behind the Supreme
Court and its recent reactionary decisions. It con-
tends that the power of the court to declare acts of
Congress unconstitutional should not in any way be
curtailed.
Without exception, these are the policies and
low them once would most certainly involve us
in another great collapse.
Major defects of the which closed in 1929 were
either cut-throat competition the crushing of the
small business man by the great concerns which
could undersel him.
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Washington MerryGo-Round
by DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN

XXTASHINGTON, May 21.-On
w the surface, the Tennessee
Valley Authority has been as
serene as the hills which tower be-
hind Norris Dam. Underneath.
however, a bitter feud has been
raging between two members of
the three-man Authority.
They are DR.. Arthur E. Morgan,
chairman, and Davis E. LilienthaI.
his associate. Policies are not in
volved. The two men just can't
get along together.
DR.. Morgan, an engineer, and
president-on-leave from Antioch
College, has charge of the social
welfare phases of the great power
project. He is trying to build up a
new kind of power minded COM
munity in the South.
Lilienthal, a lawyer, and former
member of the Wisconsin Public
Service Commission, has directed
Twas distribution of power and
the numerous legal battles which
have attended it.
YOUNG and dynamic, Lilien-
L. thai has many strong ad-
mirers in the Administration and
Congress. Also he is the most
publicized of the three Authority
members.
Friends of Morgan say that
Lilienthal is aggressive and push
ing" has been secretly trying to
undermine" the chairman. and
wants the place for himself.
Lillienthal's friends, on the
other hand, accuse Morgan of
Jealousy, say he is difficult man
to get along with, is at logger
heads with other TWAS officials.
This undercover vendetta came
to a head some weeks ago, when a.
communication from the White
House addressed to Authority was
turned over to Lilienthal by q
iva clerk. Morgan deeply re-
sented this, considered it complete
confirmation of his charge that
Lilienthal was trying to usurp the
Craftsmanship.
NTHEREUPON he went to the
w President, asked him not
to reappoint Lilienthal. Morgan
actually intimated that if Lilien-
thai were renamed, he would quit.
(Hls term still has six years to
rum Morgan also suggested
several men as successors to
Lilienthal, among them John l..
Neeley, a IVA engineer.
The President, in turn, called
IN Senator Norris of Nebraska, as
he does on all IVA problems. Nor
ris urged the reappointment of
Lilienthal regardless of anything
Morgan said or did. If it were a
choice between the two men, he
told the President, he considered
Lilienthal the more desirable.
The President informed Norris
he would reappoint Li,ienthal, but
that he did not want to lose Nor
gan. He suggested that an effort
be made to bring the two men
together.
Mutual friends Of the two have
been working on them to this end.
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wednesdays and DUH IuesdayS.
And it was of Tuesday, as I
remember, that Mr.. 2 began with
an opening bid of two clubs. II
pass" said Cora, his helpmate,
and Chauncey z threw his cards
all the way across the room and
shouted, How could you do
thing like that, you-you Com
munist?"
I gravely fear that both Red"
and Communist" are words
which will have to be defined or
discarded in favor of terms of
nicer meaning. Unfortunately,
the present loose usages to which
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TeIeT
parlor or the gaming table. Legislators toss them
about as If they were biscuits and all the rest of the
world composed Of passengers on a nearby ship.
For instance, Mr.. Hearsts New York American
quotes with appreciation speech made by Assembly,
man George Parsons of Syracuse. MIR. Parsons was
speaking in favor of the McNaboe bill which would
appropriate thousands of dollars to Investigate
Communism in the public schools and colleges of the
state" But what are the boys going to look for?
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limiting Anarchy Again

TN the dark days of the depression business cried
out for some sort of economic planning In fact,
one of its major leaders, Gerard Swope drew UP
plan which suggested the later NRA Now it turns
its back upon such proposals and invites the anarchy
which helped us into the abyss.
Business had ample opportunity before 1929
to consider the problem of the redistribution of in
come. But it failed to recognize or to tackle it
resolutey. The proportion of the national income
going to the very rich greater in 1929 than in
1921. If the government has stepped in to deal
with this problem, it is only because business de-
faulted the opportunity.
The same may be said with respect to the problem
of security for the workers and salaried classes
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Liberal Side
by
HARRY ELMER BARNES
Dvv
(Westbrook Pegler Is on vacation.)

THE Chamber of Commerce of the Unit
ed States has recently held its annual
meeting. 1t brought together what it be-
lieved to be 'the sound economic principles"
which it demanded, during its meeting,
should be restored in this country. These
are cogently commented upon in the
American Observer" They may be re-
garded the authoritative expression of the opin-
ion of the leaders of American industry. Among
the more important principles enunciated are the
following:
The government must not "impose upon business
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BY DAVID DIETZ
Gap}uns. Harvard Sn{anea Edi<nx

scrppsHoward
TT looked for awhile the nation would be faced with
shortage of oatmeal boxes. The situation was more
serious then-the year 1921-than it sounds to you
Is years later For in the year 1921 cylindrical card
board oatmeal box possessed Importance which far
transcribed it's original purpose container for oatmeal
1t introduction to the esoteric circle of those
who understood the newest miracle of the world of science
With oatmeal box few hundred feet of copper wire,
bit of mineral crystal and telephone receiver you could
fashion device that would pick music and voices out of
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rules Of conduct pertaining to
such matters as wages, hours,
conditions and terms of employ
ment." These matters should be
left entirely to industry.
The Chamber maintains that
business must provide for eco
nomic security and opposes Fed
eral and state social security
legislation.
Any attempt of the govern
ment directly or indirectly to con-
troll production, is sweepingly
condemned.
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II Seems hM
BY
HEYWOODBR0UN

STAMFORD, Conn.,, May Give were
playing contract the other night with
a cranky neighbor and his wife, who is not
quite bright They serve to make up
most unpleasant game, but is is the best
the Ridge affords during the week. Of
course on Sundays when the New York immigrants
come in nobody would go around to the rs even to
borrow money but they serve their purpose rainy
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America
Goes
Pioneer Broadcasting Station and Billion
Dollar Industry Grew Out of DR.. Frank
Conrad's War; Time Experiments.

of
radio of
Manufacturing pioneered radio This
Jubilee