Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1925, Page 31

NEW WLW STATION 10 OPEN TUESDAY 5.000-Watt Plant Operated by Crosley Corporation to Get Underway. al Dispatch fo The Star. CINCINNA Ohio, first remote wi osley Radio ning from at 3401 Colerain ram has been pre- dio director, some of the finest for which Cincinnati is on to the musical fea- program for will be brief most promi- gineers and scientists in | whict mus note | f this dedicatory ation, there ture addres nent Located At Harrixon itting apparatus of owatt station is located les fron by am the stu broadcasting tations ated cities Crosley, Jr son, Ohio, about 2 is connected fr lios and telephone 1 Locating nt of s thickly popu originated with Powe a member of the Hoover radip con- It was his viston of the ex- be ed lo- tr 1 in there t of inte that led other the step of this pioneer power of a pla to follo for super has statio: trated that this ade radlo receptic tter, of the fact that tremen- s used, it is possibie in Cinciunati to tune WLW “in” or “out” within two degrees on the dlals of & selective receiver. If the e no other features to recommend the use of superpower, this one thing of being able to tune in broadcasting stations whose wave lengths are near that of Crosley’s 423 meters is sufficient to justify the use of high power. Costs $150,000. new broadeasting nade it extremely necessitating careful tuning upon the part of the radio audience. Powel Crosley, jr., has had three broadcasting stations before this one, each an improvement upon the other is new station supersedes the 500- watt one and has a power output of 5.000 waits. This new equipment, to- gether with the station bullding and the beautiful studios and auditorium, represents an expenditure of $150,000. VOLSTEAD ACT PASSAGE BRANDED UNREASONABLE Father Ryan of Catholic Univer- sity Says Child Labor Measure Offers Better Model. al Disp BALTIMOF Voistead a rule that Co: a rule, act John A. Ryan, ethics, at America of the Ci hav step has and in sp dous power Spe to The Star. January 24.— ception to and does, as Rev. Father of industrial ic University of Washington, told members Club at a luncheon today Dis the proposed child- labor amendment, Father Ryan said: “The amsndment is an enabling act, pure and simple gives Congress the power to child labor, sonally, T think that would have been the sensible means of incorporating prohibitfon in the Constitution. This child-labor amendment comes before ms with a presumption against . It to Congress, according to its opponents, power that is now in the hands of the States. “It has been argued that manu- facturers living in States where the child-labor laws are lax are at an advantage in competing with manu- facturers in States whose laws are more stringent “Because angle of the problem it becomes even more clearly a sjtuation calling for a na- tional law.” WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS DENIED IN MAIL CASE Judge Fixes Bond of M. S. Hawkins, Accused of Fraud, at $50,000: By the Associated Press CINCINNATI. ®f habeas corpus B. Hawkins, Portland, with using the mails connection with the Hawkins mort- gage companies, by Federal Judge Smith Hickenlooper here today. Judge Hickenlooper granted Haw- kins a stay of execution of 15 days pending an #ppeal to the United States Court of Appeals on a Wwrit of error. Bond was fixed at $50,000. P SAYS LOAN IS NOT SOUGHT Australian Commissioner Reports | 1t ves of the Cincinnati anuary 24.—A writ was denied Morton Ind., charged to defraud in Treasurer Making Survey. NEW YORK Elder, commission announced today January 24—J. A. M. for Australia, that Dr. Earle Page, treasurer of the commonwealth of Australia, would not float a loan wh in this country. He said he| was here to recuperate his health. While here, however, Commissioner ¥lder sald Dr. Page would take ad- vantage of the opportunity to inspect | bydroelectric enterprises, agricultural developments and public utilitfes lkely to be of interest to his government. Johnnie's Grammar. From the Pelican. Johnnie—Mother, T just seen— Mother (reprovingly) Johnnie! Where's your grammar? Johnnie—I was just_trying to tell yeou She's down at.the barber shop getting her hair bebbed. Compieto.y as.ou. ed in beautitul fn brown mahogany. you at less than Dealer's Cost. B i S LAt Rot wosr. icledh TONED BADIO rREQUERCY et AD: | asy to Operate. Dlals can be logged. Tune B Hioward ‘of Chicage aaid, - While § Chicage o 17 out-of-town stations from 40 to 1000 il away, on my loud speaker, y lon ‘| Tod elenr B4 though they wore all In Chicago.” Don't buy a radio set until you learn more about our wonderful Free Trial Offer. svw e Today Tor ¥ree Clroular METRO ELECTRIC COMPANY 400 N. Michigan Avse. Dept. 232 Chicago Direct from factory to| Marveloos | | | same Another epoch-making event in the swiftly moving history of radio broadcasting is foreseen in the ar- rangements now Dbeing completed to able the entire radio audlence of the United States to listen in to the inaugural ceremonies for Presi- dent Coolidge, March 4. Two separate chains of broadcas ing stations, one formed by the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and the other by the Radio Corpora- tion of America, will spread the inaugural address over the entire Na- tion. WRC will broadcast the cere- monies in Washington, and- at the time send them over stations. The Chesapeake & Potomuc Telephone Co. station will pick up the ceremonies for the chain of sta- tions to be linked up by the Amer- fean Telephone & Telegraph Co. which Will be served through WEAF. WCAP, however, will remain The Chesapeake & Potomac Tele- phone Co. also will install public-ad dress loud-speaking equipment at the Capitol, which will enable those wit- nessing the ceremonies to hear every word of the President's speech To the radio fan of today the fact that a pubiic-address loud-speaker equipment is to be installed means little. Four years ago, however, it ked an epoch-making vent in the ory of voice transmission. News- papers throughout the country on March 4. 1920, and the following daj carried the headlines, 000 People Hear Harding’s Volce,” *“A Telephone Achievement Ranking With the Open- Ing of the Transcontinental Line,” and then proceeded to tell the story of how, with the aid of the loud speaker, installed at Washington by engineers of the Bell System, President Harding addressed the greatest number of people that have ever listened to one man’s voice at time in the his tory of the world People throughout amazed when they this inauguration President Harding and understood by a crowd of 125, 000 people, a crowd that completely filled the plaza in front of the Capi tol and overflowed into the park be yond. Today this same equipment acts as an aid to bring the voice of the Pres- he land were rned that the voice of arly heard | ident of the United States not to 125,- 000, but to several millions. It is this equipment, combined with the use of the lon tance telephone lines of the Bell System, that brings the human voice to many stations broadecasting by those stations in addition to acting as a loud speaker to bring the voice clear and distinct to the visible auditors who numbered 125,000 last Inaugural day, but who probably will far exceed that number on this coming March 4 Medinm-Sized Sets Vs. Distance. The craze for long-distance recep. tion is gradually dying out, except among new fans, according to an ex- perienced listener and broadcaster of the West. He advocates medium- sized sets, suggesting that by tuning In on stations nearer home we will get less interference and just as good programs. When a man or a boy gets his first set, be it a crystal or a single tube, he begins to reach out a thousand miles or so, expecting to hear some- thing fine, but all he gets at that dis- tance, usually, is static and very weak signals, according to Earnest V. Wright, the expert quoted. Finding that he cannot pick up dis tant stations satisfactorily, he trades in his set toward a larger one. with the first word or note from some far-away broadcaster, he gets the | fever for hearing something still far- ther away, until he joins the ranks of the “super or ultra sets.” Multi-tube sets are too expensive for some fans to maintain. There are eight tubes to burn out, instead of two or three; a whole array of batteries to recharge or replace every S0 often, and what does he get in re- turn? No better music or oratory than he can get from the nearest large city station. Therefore, unles he is wealthy he soon finds out that a three-tube set will bring in all the entertainment he wishes either by phones or by loud speaker. Then comes the change and perhaps sanity. Medium-sized sets are now said to be selling ten to one of the multi- tube affairs. This fan tells me that he is tired of trving to get distance stuff which comes in badly. Conse- quently he has decided to listen to | stations he can get well and be con- tented. He plans to get rid of his five-tube neutrodvne and purchase a g00d three-tube outfit. Distance in radio, he says, is something like us- ing a_telescope: “You will strain your eye until your head aches star- ing at a little white speck, which may be a house on a mountainside 30 miles away, but if you were trans- ported to its front yard you would find it a house not worth a second glance—a very cheap shack, perhaps, and not nearly as nice or interesting as many near at hand. It is because it was 30 miles away that you were tascinated.” From Los Angeles my friend can get Chicago, Salt Lake, Denver and Kansas City stations, but the distance away was all that made them -more interesting than those near home. Now he is determined to listen in on the home and medium-distant sta- tions and leave long-distance alone. Isn't this a pretty good idea? Those who live in New York have as good programs available as there are in & %2000 7% 22 7% Phone us before 10 a.m. and we will call for, fully charge and return your Radio Battery the same evening for $1.50. ith’ Smith’s North 9928 North 4896 Battery and Radio Service 2119 18th St. N.W. Distributors of Exide Au- tomobile and Radio Bat- terfes. Experienced automo- tive electricians and radio 2 7 Z 2, 0 7 7% X 2227 727 77 7 N 7 special | | wire lines to WJZ and WGY and other silent. | on| for perhaps | Then | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 25, 1925—PART 1. Los Angeles or Chicago, and vice versa, so why not patronize home or at least neighboring stations and tal- ent, picking up programs which come in clearer and much stronger? WLS to Increase Power. W 5,000-watt superpower sta- tion will be erected by station WLS, Chicago, to replace the equipment | now in use. The new station will be built in the open country to avoid in- terference with other Chicago broad- casters 1 the latest devices known present-day science swill be in in the new station, according to uel E. Bird, construction englneer. Two 200-foot steel towers will con- nect the giant antenna and several miles of ground wire will be used Service from the new station will tart within three months, according to the present plans of Edgar L. Bill director of WLS. At the time of in- augurating the new plant it is hoped to have the twin studios now in preparation in the downtown district | of Chicago ready for use. The new station will reach out two and one- half times the distance touched now, the engineers estimated, and it is ex- pected that every State in the Union will be able to listen in on the pro- grams every day. A v Radio Hearing Set. The Federal Trade Commission has notified the respondents in the al leged radio monopoly case to appear in New York March 18, for the taking of testimony. Hearing will be ducted by Attorney Edward L. of the commission’s staff. The following attorneys will repre sent several companies: N. T. Guery William P. Sidley, John W Davis and Stetson, Jennings, Russcl & Davis, for the Western Electric Co. and for the American Ttlephone and Telegraph Co.; Darius Peck and John Walsh, for the General ctric Co.; William K. Jackson and Harry Covington, for the W Specialty Co.; Cravath, Henderson & De Gersdorf, for the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing and for the International Radio Telegraph Co., and Joseph P. Cotton Cotton & Franklin, for the Radio Corpora- | tion of America. | The Federal Trade Commission's complaint charges that the respond- ’u.u have combined and conspired for | the purpose and with the effect of re- | straining competition and creating a | monopoly In the manutacture, pur- | chase and sale in interstate commerce |of radio devices and apparatus and other electrical devices and appa- ratus, and in domestic and trans- oceanic radio communication and | broadcasting. { | o | | Broadeasting in Syeden. | | Pending the erection of the regular | | Swedish broadcasting stations to be | | operated under the “Radiotjanst.” the | | Swedish telegram administration will | operate temporary stations for the| Dbenefit of some 40,000 radio fans.| | Stations of this type are in service at | Stockholm, Malmo and Gothenburg. { During Jantary the equipment of the | Boden staiion will be installed, and it |is expected that another will be erect- | ed and equipped soon at Sundswall. | On January 1 new regulations went | into effect and new licenses were re- quired of all. Licenses for private | recetving sets cost 12 kronen, but| | when loud speakers are employed in | {public places or for advertising spe- | ts at increased fees are pec- | The regulations require that | receiving sets must not be| with automatic recording | and also that listene: ain secrecy as to all com- | | munications heard, except. of course, | | the broadcast programs. The copying items broadeast by a pub. lisher is prohibited for commercial purposes. All licenses lssued carry a provision that the sets covered may be inspected at any time by either the telegraph or military guthorities Smith | regular connected Lithuanian Radlo Regulationsd { In Lithuania a radio fan must énrl tion the postal authorities before he | may erect or install a radio set. His | pplication must bear a 20-cent reve- | ue stamp and be accompanied by his | yearly tax of $10. If he plans to buy | an assembled set, it costs him $2.50 extra, and for amplifier $1 more, with an additional 10 cents for each tube used. This runs the initial taxes up to about $13 for a four-tube set, be- sides the cost of his set. Sets not so | licensed or on which taxes are not | paid are subject to seizure. 1t banks or commercial intitutions use recefving sets, it costs them $200 | annually, while cafes, moving pleture houses, etc. must pay a vearly tax of $100. When admission is charged | in public places, the tax increases to | $2.50 per day, or $700 a year. All| radio dealers must be registered and | pay an annual tax of $200 for the installation of a receiving set in their shops. November Radio Exports. ‘ An analysis of the Amerlcan radio | exports during November, which to:| taled $948,993, the largest recorded,| shows that our shipments to Canada which takes nearly half of our month light socket. FANSTEEL 30 Church Street | knowing Uniform, constant voltage or both “A”and “B” circuits Balkite Radio Power Units furnish constant uni- form voltage to both circuits, and will give radio set greater clarity, power and range. Balkite Battery Charger keeps battery charged. Balkite “B” replaces “B” batter- ies entirely and supplies plate current from the Based on the same principle, both are entirely noiseless, have no bulbs or to break, adjust or get out of order, and can be put in use at any time by merely connecting to a light socket. Both ‘are guaranteed to give satisfaction. Sold by leading radio dealers everywhere Balkite BALKITE BATTERY CHARGER — BALKITE “B* PLATE CURRENT SUPPLY. Eastern Repnesentative J. P. RAINBAULT 1y exports, Increased by $112,284 over the October total. Exports to Aus- tralla were $24,803 more than in Octo- ber, shipments to England increased by ‘approximately the same amount, while exports to France, Germany, Cuba, Brazil and several ,other_coun- tries also gained. Exports to Brazil, Chile and -Japan dropped off. Ship- ments of apparatus from the States went to practically every country of the world except Venezuela, Ceylon, Bolivia, Salvador and Portugal. RADIO QUERIES Radio Editor: The following is an open letter to the one signed by Mr. F. F. Camp- bell that was published in The Eve- ning Star of January 16: Dear Mr. Campbell I read with Interest your article on Interference as published in The Evening Star of January 16. You have the correct call letters of the station that is causing this called interference, although you don’t seem to be aware of the fact While T don't happen to be the owner of the statlon In question, 1 do be- long to the same radio fraternity that he does, namely, the American Radlo Relay League, and deem I+ a great pleasure and a privilege to cast my hat in the ring. in his defense, against unjust complaint and insinuation as to his integrity as a law-abiding radio amateur. I want to state here that when | the young gentlemen In question| stated over his radiophone that it was “Three boy, Sa!l boy"” transmit- ting he could not have given you his call letters any clearer or plainer and that he was not using false call let- ters to try and conceal his identity because he knew that he was violat- ing the law In radfophone work it is quite easy in announcing call letters, to have the listener-in to mistake one letter for another, so a code was adopted | whereby a word is spoken for each letter in the call, the first letter of each spoken word forming the cail letters of the station that is doing the transmitting. With less effort than It took you to send in your complaint to the radio inspector you could have gotten this informa- tion from the Department of vom- merce and thereby prevented your public accusal of law - breaking against this amateur. I think that if you look back a bit you can re- member hearing, at one time or an- other, some of your favorite broad- casting stations using words to des- ignate their call letters. Back in the early days of radio broadcasting the Naval Air Station at Anacostia used the words “Nan Sail Fox.” 1| don’t think they did this because they wanted to conceal their identity, that they were the law. Their call was much for the call letters. Now for the so-called interference | from this station. I wonder if realize that all receiving sets that are built, especally the home-built variety, are not 100 per cent perfect as regards selectivity, freedom from harmonics, etc. I also wonder if you realize that G0 per cent of the re- violating NSF. So TER—COST LESS 2-TUBE RECEIVER Operates Loud Speaker on Local Stations Complete with $ all material 3 Nothing. necessary to operate. More to Buy Complete assortment of _parts. phones, batteries and suppi standard makes always in at lowest prices. HAVERFORD CYCLE SALES CO. Radio Division 2 10th ST. N.W. Open Eveningx The your “A” storage moving parts, nothing New York City Tel. Cortland 3522 Meanufactured by FANSTEEL PRODUCTS CO., Inc., North Chicago, Illinois ceiving as guilty transmitting s sets sets using tion that is not properly b prevent should sideration plaints. In concluding, allow me it the just a little and consider their complaints just a | wee bit more before sending them in, | the relatiens amateurs genia that ow 3BSB apolog he was-tr: becau BRYA. S. FLA’ Radio Editor 2 Can using this station SAL i ner RADIO BRINGS: Inmates of Home for Aged, B sets in use today are just|night of causing interference as ts. 1 am refefring to|tra w generative type and|was a radio frequency amplifica- lanced to pscillation. These things and must be taken into con- by persons making com- of the r WM you k Fleetw Radio to say that| ¢ listeners would be more broad-minded broadcast bit between, them and the | would be much more con- 1 than at present I also think you owe Mr. Detwefler, the | and operat of Radlo- Station (Three Boy Sail Boy), a public| for publicly insinuating that | ing to conceal hig identity hé was violating the, law.— | HER, Radio SLR taded again The | tion i = letters ou WMB! 1l me if there is a station as its call letters? T heard at 11:35 o'clock Monday lections, IRVING SIE meters, information.—E. 4-meter reader may be able to identify tion which broadcast the concert by the | Alexandra Hotel Orchest Maxwell Furniture Co., 415 7th St. N.W. E PRICES SUNSHINE INTO THEIR LIVES lue P An_orchestra played s name of the orches. when code AL, Arlington, Va Fla., broadeasts 16 first Leo, and nnounced BF, Miam reard. It ood Hotel Editor you tell in_ Missouri ength? night 1 d 1 1 wo call letters have not been assigned Mo., which band n _Columbia, WAAN wave me is located and It must be a r as it is not in the radiologues. Monday heard al se. the drowned the from where WOON stra. I Then to pick it appreciate There with ghe transmits Perhaps name it out.— station the or its w station, n orchestra playing. The announcer said it was the Alexander Hotel Orel catch the call letters. was unable It was on a wave Id greatly WOODWARD. WOO! could not the station | length of 465 any WOOM is a sta- call on a some the sta- | 87 Years of Age and Blind. 31 RADIO SET/INSTALLE, IN HOME FOR AGED i Soroptimist Club and Hospithl Fund Committee Finance Installation. The« Soroptimist Club, with the ag sistance of the Washintgon radio hospital fund committee, has installed In the District's Home for the Aged and Infirm at Blue Plains a central radio receiving station for the enter tainment of the more than 300 inmates. Five loud speakers, located in the sun parlors in the various wards, arc connected to the receiving station by a circuit of 650 feet of wire .. Shortly before Christmas the | roptimist Club called on LeRoy Mar), chairman of the radio hosital f\n.‘ committee, to address its members u a luncheon. Mr. Mark talked on tha subject closcst to his heart—the lack of entertainment In the Washington hospitals, orphan asylums and chari- table institutions. It aroused the inter est of the club and immediately a campaign was started to raise funds to install radlo apparatus in the almshouse, the institution sclected Miss Elise H. Colem was appointed chairman of the committee charge of the fund-ralsing campaign and in a short time $375 was raised. 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