Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1926, Page 34

“ SUMMER CHANGES | — INAIR WILL BE FEW Threatened Chaos May Not' Materialize—Only 65 New Stations Ready. RY CARL H. BUTMAN. 10 per cent of the broadc nts are ready to go on the al 2bout 10 per cent now operating plan o change channels. and some % will inerease their nowes The Department of Commerce indi- cates that of the G600-0dd individuals and organizations seeking hroadeast licenses, only 65 are equipped and ready operate. ment for a brondeasting license (oday is the pogsession of broadeasting equip- ment installed and ready (o transmit programs, but as these siations are not numerous it ix probable that the gther will not bé jamuned vers n tigns which can be licensed immediate 1v} the other potential broadcaster miist secure and install equipment be fave they can be licensed Of the active stations, only ever officially notified the department that they desire to shift their wave channels, and some of them now plan to stay put. indicating that the re maining 400.0dd_will let well enough alone. Some of these stations. most Iv old-timers, have advised the depart- ment that they have no intention of changing their ether chann. Such advice as the ahove tends to reassure the radio public that there will be no chaot in the ether for a time at least. = Perhaps we shall weather the threatened Summer rush 10 get on the air. There is no hasis now for the assumption that the num. her of active broadcasting stations will he doubled or even increased bevond, A 600, nor that practically all of the present stations will shift about. Ninety-six of the active stations re port that they desire to use increased power, and it is assumed that they will be licensed to step up their wattage as soon as thev can do so0. Although about a dozen plan 10 g0 10 5,000 watts or ilowatts, and one station con- templates 10-kilowatt transmittery no trouble is anticipated this Summer In the Fall those stations which are on the same channels with other high. powered stations will. no doubt. ex perience considerable increased inter ference. unless they are 500 or more miles apart. Soon, however. Congress will be in se: a regulations. LocalRadio Entertainment 48 have Sunday, August 1, 1926. NAA—Naval Radio Station, Va. (435.5 Meters). 10:05 a.m. and 10:05 p.m. reports a Weather p.m.—Time signals. WRC—Radio Corporatio (468.5 Meters). 11 a.m.—Services broadcast Foundry M. E. Church. Dr Hartsock of Poughkeepsie, N. Y preach 4 p.m.—Service held at the Peace Cross, broadcast from the Washington Cathedral, 6:20 p.m.—Musical program broad cast with WEAF from the Capitol Theater, New-York City. $:15 p.m.—Atwater Kent Hour broadcast with WEAF from New York of America from 8:45 to 10 p.m.—Vesper Hour. pre- | sented through the courtesy of the Pmerson Drug Co. of Baltimore. Early Program Tomorrow. 6:45 to 745 am.—“Tower Health Exercises” “broadcast with WEAF from the Metropolitan Tower in New York 11:35 a.m.—Arlington time signals. 12 (noon)—Organ recital by Henry Smidt-Gregor, broadcast from the Homer L. Kitt studios. 1 p.m.—Meyer Davis’ Willard Hotel Orchestra, under the direction of Samuel Korman. WRC T0 BROADCAST FEATURES OF WCAP Capitol Theater, Atwater Kent and Other Sunday Numbers to Be on Air Today. The entire schedule of broadcasting that listeners have been accustomed in the past to hear from station TWCAP will be on the air today and {. this evening. transmitted. from sta- tion WRC. which today begins full- time operation following the departure from the air of WCAP. The evening’ program that will clude the entertainmenf from the Capitol Theater, New York, under the and down | Radio, | Radio | st g 1 The sole require- | 112:00- soon. | her words, there are only 65 sta | { { i | | | | | | | le in; LONG RANGE RADIO ENTERTAINMENT | & TO0 Children's proram 1. halie Chureh se ™ Sanday school be Meth Protestant Church —ses Christian Science ( a: Bethany Presi University of §o Vork: “Employment Opport 10 10 Mousshe #:40—Snringfe #:45—Phliadelphia Chieago / New 10:00—New Yok Church services Detroit: Church ' services . . Schenectady: Church sorvices Pittaburgh. Chiarch aeryic o Boston: The Cathedral of S | 10:30—Cleveland: First Methodist Chi ncnnati: Weather and river Atlanta: Chureh sertiias 10:45——Atiantic City: Chelsea Baptis AN T Avondale M. E.. Chuv b C. A ehjirell, sery “hurch services: orgRn o Church services h services i Westminste First Presbytes 111 00Cin i 112y Preshy ter 15 ' NOON Ricago:. Church wer Funnies roa inga: Firat Bapi Jemite String Trio . Chu SUNDAY, AUGUST 1, 1926 Programs of Distant Stations Scheduled for Eastern Standard Time comie stories: music « unitie Chureh services Stations. Meters. Miles. L WE% o 4Be3 208 Jiwai 624 o AM . rvices 10 Am, Book Concern. . LWLW WIID WBZ Wao rrices 1AM, it services . hu Chicngo: Seventh Cliiiec 0f Christ, Scientist. servic o RerTices. 101 M, " Dianist: organ reciial 1TO ¢ P, ago: Oran recital s cako: Vocal and organ’ concert Mooseheart. Tl Organ reci Philadelphia: Musical exercises Chi a i tiom 2 10 2:00-—"hicago. Musi base hal Davenport New Yor Detroi¢ —Atlantic 0 Chicago: Shenar —Maoseheart, Tl I program Patmer Federation of Churches aws Orchestra de Hotel Trio: se time for kiddies Musical program a4 70 Chicago: Fellowshin and mission: cert: services from Chicago New York: Instrumental program Mixed "Quartet Cincinnati: "Ore-n wdtal Atlantic Cits: Pat Conwav's Band Dallas: Farmers hour: talk: music Chicago: Church services 3:00 330 s T0 400 5 Alemite Boys ram T Pal tlantie City 4:15— A 4:30--New York 5 TO 5:00-—New York: Orchestra concert hiladeiphia: Organ recital Chijeago: Organ recital: snorte Chicago: Organ recital: WGN Studio Boston: Base ball resuits: news Fregational Church services 6 o Schanectady . Park Avenue Baptist Pannavivania Orchestra New York: Ernie Golden's tlanta: Sacred coneert incinnat Roeht's ‘O Sew York Pittahureh New York ‘hestra WGY ase hall resnlts Seohior apitol Fa WWJ.KSD. Chicago. Punch and 6:30—Chicago: Vesper concert Philadeiphia: Prasbyterian Church 3 TO 7:00—Chicago: Younz Women's Council Band_and choir: sermon . Dallas: Radio Bible class WLS Chicago: Evening song wivice Cleveland: Park Theater Orchestra Davenoort: Base ball results Chicako: Artist nrogram —Baltimore . WHAT, Conceri Orohestr: New York: Hatel Magicon Orches Philadeiphia: Bonwit-Teller 'Ensem Atlantic City 8 TO Clevslagnd: Musical program Sew Vork: Tall violinist . o Cincinnati - Crosles Sulon Orchestr Haxo: " ‘Drake Hotel Ensemble Quintat Oulian. and orehestra, WSAL WGN. WCCO and KSD.' 1 ago: ‘Melody hour: Crawford's hestra: vocal and instrumental Boolk veview: pianiat: so Sorey's Entertalners Hotel Ambassador Or Play music ringfield. Musical program Cineinnat) * Pittsburen New York rosle; Claseical nrosvam Godtrey Tudlow. Goldman Band coneert, WCSH ‘and WSAL. from Philsdeiphia: Pat Conway's Band » 10 Our Music Room™ Fourth Church of Cl News: base ball 9:00—Chicago St Louis Atlantic ¢ mental concert i Cincinnaty: Everereen hour Atlantic City: Classical concert by Atlanta: Church mervices Dallas: *Fi $:30—Chicago: C| New York: 9:45—New York S Baptist Church servi Al concart Manhattan Douhle Quar WGBS Sting Trio 1 10 Musical program ght, Club 5 ‘n' Henrs: musical Hot Springs: Meyer Davis Orchestr: Cineinnati: Swiss Garden frolic selections . 4 10:30—Davenport, Paimer Litile phony icago: Request program ... . Atlantic City: Organ and vocai reci 11 P.M. 70 1 10:00—New York St. Lowis: ) Chicago: Sam 11:00—Cincinnati: § 11:30—Chicago: Bac Chapel staff Dallas: Ligon Smith's Orchestra Cincinnati : Sol RADIO GOSSI With Station WRC now in complete {control of high-powered broadcasting in Washington, suggestions for im- provements already are being made by radio listeners. Judging from the fan mail since the acquisition of WCAP by WRC was announced, there seems to be no criti- m of the plans of the Radio Corpor- ation of America’s station to continue the features formerly broadcast by direction of Maj. Edward Bowes: the |the station of the Chesapeake & Po- Atwater Kent hour, presenting Allen |tomac Telephone Company. There 18 McQuahe with the Atwater Kent|an apparent doubt in the minds of Radio Orchestra, and the vesper | some listeners, however, as to whether hour concert, arranged by the Emer- |the transmission and modulation qual- son Drug Co. of Baltimore, he broadcast from Morning church services will. be will | ities of WRC can equal those of the :20 to 10 o'clock. | now defunct WCAP. Officials of WRC do not deny that broadcast from the Foundry Methodist | the quality of WCAP's transmission Epiecopal Church, where the sermon will be dellvered by Dr. L. J. Hart- sock of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. This afternoon at 4 o'clock WRC will con-|lation and transmission. was superior in some respects, but promise a material improvement with- in the next few months in both modu- The fault in tinue the broadcasting from the Peace | the transmission in the past, it was Cross at the Natlonal ' Cathedral, which have heen a regular part of the Capital radio programs for three years. The Emerson vesper hodr, that. will close WRC's evening broadcasting, will bring to the radio audience the voices of Gretchen Hood, soprano; Hanpah Greenwood, mezzo-soprano, and Eugene Martinet, baritone, to- gether with the full Emerson en- semble, directed by Arsenio Ralon. SEVEN RADIO STATIONS SIGN NON-JUMPING PACT Minnesota Broadcasting Group Agrees to Stick to Wave Lengths Now Assigned to Them. By the Associated Pves MINNEAPOLIR, Minn., July 28. Operators of seven brosdcasting sta- tions of the Twin Cities and North- field, Minn., met here yvesterday and pledged themselves to refrain from pointed out, has been due primarily to the long distance circuits used.by the Radio Corporation in station inter- connections. - Just as soon as WRC begins the use of the telephone com- pany’s circuits, it s said, & marked hange is expected. 4 'I‘I\:E telephone circuits will be used this week on programs originating in Washington, but it probably will e geveral months, it was sald, before a complete shift can be made to the telephone lines for the programs to be drawn from New York and other cities. Certain contracts which the Radlo Corporation shas with a tele- graph company, It was explained, pre- vents the use of ‘the telephone com- pany’s long-distance clrcuits at this .. B l": humber of other suggestions also have been made to WRC by the Washington fans, and the officials at (he station have promised to give them serious consideration. Here arve a few, culled from the mail of the st several da i 1. That the power be increased. That the plano (not the director) be made the dominant feature in the Jumping their present wave lengths. Twin_ Cities ~stations represented { the Metro svere WCCO. WAMD, WHDI, WDGY, | Also that daily health exercises broadcast from i politan Tower In New York. the exereises be started at WLB and WRHM, and that at North- | 6:40 instead of 6:45 a.m. field ¢ WCAL: Dr. George Young of Minneapolis, | gin earlier, operator of WDGY, sald he would run | o'clock. its assigned wave|ment, pure and simple. his station on t the evening programs be- Y and conclude by 11 “Radio is home . entertain- said one length only. %o long as no possibility | writer, “and the overwhelming ma- existed of interference by a local sta- | jority b His stand was seconded by $.|o'clock, even in Washington. 4. That George F. Ross of the| wave | studio staff, a capable and. conscien- by | tious pianist, give a series of short Secretary of Com-|conceris on the greal masters. tlon. E. Hubbard of WAMD, contly jumped to a higher lemgth and hroadcast a speech Herbert “ Hoover, meros, and then returned io its regu- lar wave. which re- Beer consumption in Germany in- creassd 26 per cent Jast year. Eight Al t | cult. billion pints were ‘drunk, or about 1G_pinls. peRsCapiide of homes are abed by 11 Several of the listeners, owners of crystal sets, have complained that they have been unable to pick up WRC, although they had mno diffi- v whatever in tuning in WCAP. Engineers at the station beliave that Little Sympathy O Carl Rollins, Hoiel McAlpin Orchestra church ervioes 1 program hy Maj. Edward Boses and ihe pital Theatar, WEET WJAR, WTAG and WCAE 1ds musical program Chelsex Baplist Church services —New York: Aiwaier Kent radio hour. Ensemble Orchiestra vinlinisr Garden frolic: Ace Brigade's 14 Virg ome hour; Paul Rader and s Wesley Helvey's Orchestra .. Sansliine hour Beihany Sunday ‘school 8 PM. 1 results L. esira; soloist rmon . Aerial’ Girin 1P program . orchestra con el Taheranc e whr "wEaE Wi Wik WEAA Wae Vespers by the Federation 'y WHAS r House Ofchasira Nocal and instrumental concert Mme. Nadine Sisova. pianist 8 P baritone . Ensemble weather. Park Sirest Con T P, “hurch Carilion: Hotel Church ! o LWCA WSR WKRC Wz KDKA WCAP, WEAF WEN WHT WET from services 8 P concert by Tabernacle W W 242 2 LW w W it < 2 " ra. bie = & WGY ‘and Ww! =2 5 BN | WHMCA WLW and’ Blacksions " Siring faaturing “Allen M £ UWEAP. M) com sk "Oreneira, Onburns Or. coloiats : foiste oS> 2T S > Bt chestra =3 £ soloist WGY and WIAR - WEEIL WTAG. > 10 P.M. i Scientist oy esults: vocal and inatru- easide Hotel Ensemb s 4 ¥ tet 1 PM. program Orchiesira: soiolats i < 3 2 MIDNIG HT. nians WRRC aal Radio 12 MIDNIGAT TO 1 AM, 12:00—Chicago: The Nutty Club: WBBM staff with Charl ie Garland WB P AND NEWS | receiving sets, and plan to correct this condition themselves. Press Club Radio Equipped. The National Press Building at Washington probably will be hetter equipped for radio reception and also trai ission than any building in the world. A special committee on radio is working out a plan which will com- bine the latest and most practical ra- dio applications on the market. This may include interior wiring so that any office may plug in a pair of phones and listen in to major broad- cast events. It is believed that the use of loud speakers would be objec- tionable. This idea is not solely to provide radio entertainment, but is based upon the fact that radio will be utilized more and more to cover news events in the Nation's Capital, where practically everything of im- portance is broadcast. Thus it is seen that a busy correspondent might stay at his desk in his office and yet cover a speech which his paper desired re- ported, simply by listening in. Radio’ reporting in this manner has already been practiced on several occasions. Facilities in the Press Club quarters on the two top floors will include the installation of three or four broadeast receivers, connected through a central switchboard so they can be operated independently and plugged in so as 1o serve any of tl.3 several rooms. At a dance loud speakers in the dining room and the auditorium rmight be run from two sets tuned to a single station or two loud speakers could be operated from one powerful receiver. In the meantime, if members in a private dining room want a different program, the operator at the board can tune in a .tation on a third set and plug it in for them. These sets will not be operated by members, but monitored by experts. In the auditorium it is expected to have installed the necessary wires and microphones for connecting with lgeal broadeast stations so that en- tertainments may be broadcast from the club quarters at almost a mo- ment’s notice, Members of the Press Club radio committee who are working out de- tails are: Robert D. Heinl, chairman: Carl H. Butman, vice chairman: Lynn M. Lamm, Bertram Linz, P. H. Mec- Gowan, James D. Preston, Hal H. Smith and Frederic W. Wile. Maj. 8. F. Rothafel, familiarly known as “Roxy,” and Senator C. C. Dill ‘are associate members. Wenther Maps Practical. A mew and practical application of radio-photography is the broadcasting of weather charts, to both land and =hip stations. Instead of receiving the weather data and plotting it on an outline map of the sirrounding ployed by a German shipping com- pany, brings in the map complets, provided, of course, thé station or ship has a radio-photo.receiyer . SRation., . 4 -l a2 | Linking Up Stat 123 | (| Corporation of Amer ;04 [ forces a form of “lwoking’ viilee. region, this new mathod, already em- RADIO ADVERTISING IS GAINING IMPETUS Band ions Nation- ally Attracts Big Business With Novel Programs. Development of 'the ‘“good-will"" radio progiam into one of the most is being predicted following the pur- chase of station WEAF, ploneer link {In the country's most extensive sys. tem of toll broadcasters, by the Radio ca and the an | nouncement that this type of pro- gram will be developed furthe; Several leading manufacturers of products with # nation-wide sale are understood to be negotiating for novel ideas in radio presentations that they expoct 1o send through the broad casting chain next Winter Seeing the possibility of “fat" con- 3 {tracts with some of the radio adver- tisers, singers. instrumentalists and orchestral conductors who have here- tofore held aloof from the microphone are also reporied as taking a consid- erably greater interest In the radio studios of New York When the “commerclal” program flist gave promise of solving some of the difficulties of the broudcasters, oll siations began adding 1o their In the serv addition to the toll chaiges for vogram, fees for this “hooking e asked of the advertisers. the past few months these ooking” offices . of both stations WEAF and WJZ have been constant- |1y growing In size and activities. The most recent entry into the ranks of the commercial broadcasters is the New York Symphony Orches tra. which has been engaged to play a series of radio concerts under fhe direction of Walter Damrosch begin ning October 23, 'The orchestra will play under the auspices of the Pranstieh] Co. of Chicago. No. 75—Sense and Senses. Smith and 1 had been discussing our friend Brown and his mediocre succt as a radio fan when a third part close observer of human nature. ad vanced the theory that perhaps Brown was handicapped by poor vis fon or a bad sense of touch. It was rather a novel thought, and our cu riosity was aroused. “Radio operation is a matter of good hearing,” Smith said. “What has vi- sion got.to do with it? Or any other sense, for that matter? “Radio operation is handicapped concentration of a single sense.” our informant countered. “That's the senseless part about it. 1f you are successful in bringing in the stations, then whether you realize it or net, {vou are using all your senses and not just one of them." Smith wanted a demonstration, The set was handy and our adviser soon was proving his point “Now,” he requested, “tune in for WFAR and let us know just when you think you have received the best possible results, basing vour decision on_hearing alone.” Smith did as he was told. WFAR eame in fairly well. He was satisfied that he had made a good job of it and that all one had to do in tuning was to use good judgment as to sounds and their values. That required good hearing. But our friend was not satisfied with the demonstration. He believed that improvements could be made and to our astonishment proceeded to make them. What surprised Smith particularly was that our informant did not turn the dials a little one way and _then another, cocking his ear to catch any improvements in reception. Instead he turned on more light, cleaned and adjusted his glasses and gazed at the dials as a diamond cut- ter might study the details of a gem. After a few minutes of this sort of thing he gave one dial an almost im- perceptible turn to the right with a delicacy of touch that would have suited a concert pianist rendering a soft passage. lnnfll'llily reception was atly improved! "Go‘t'trde evesight helps,” he explained. “You thought you made a fine job of tuning just with your ear. Well, bet- ter learn to use your eyes, t00.” He hastened, however, 1o correct a wrong conclusion which Smith was on the point of drawing. Blind Not Handicapped. “Do not infer from this that a blind person cannot have as much success as you can with a radio set,” he cau- tioned. ‘“The blind radio fan may be much more successful. Persons robbed of one sense quickly develop others to a point where the deficlency is com- pensated for. As a matter of fact, these persons often speed up their workable senses so they obtain bet- by popular forms of national advertising | who entered the discussion, @ | WRC, TAKING AIR Period of Nol Three years old tod: Station WRC is celebrating its birthday by | commencing full-time broadcasting for the first time in its life. And | today, ircidentally’, 18 the first Sun- | day since the erection of the Park | road towers that the Radio Corpora- | tion of America transmitters have been in operation’in Washington. With the passing of Station | WCAP from the broadcasting field | and the transmission of its final pro- | Bram vesterday morning,” WRC in- herits full time on the 469-meter | 'wave length in the . and will f{earry on the work of entertainin the radio fans of the Capital, Ma {land and Virginia that was formerly conducted alternately by the two sta- tions, Today's program to bhe broadcast by WRC will be the same as would have been offered by, station WCAP. This morning, church services will be (ransmitted from the Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church; in the afternoon a second service will be broadcast from the Washington (a- thedral, and this evening WRC's lis- teners will h ment that hus past vear—the program from the Capitol Theater in New York. the Atwater Kent Hour of Music and the concert by the Emerson Vesper Kn semble. The only difference in the form of broadcasting will be In the fact that they will come from the transmitters of WRC instead of WCAP. In the future, WRC will continue to | broadcast all of the programs that formerly have heen transmitied from WCAP, and at the same time include the entertalnment that has heen heard on the evenings when the Radlo Corporation Station had the alr. i Since the first program presented { by WRC August 1. 1623, radio broad casting has undergone maiy changes, ! and the Washington station of the been theirs for the John Smith and His Radio BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL Car owners throughout the world have followed John Smith in his daily motoring—and have benefited thereby. is willing that his fellow fans should be amused and profit by his evening experiences. Smith has a faculty for “finding out things” so it will pay radio devotee to follow him in The Sunday Star each week. He also is a radio fan, and | ter results than persons who have all their senses and ot so much sense.” We were heginning to get the drift of the thing. Gradually we were catching the idea that by using all our available faculties in operating a set far better results could he had. The ear can be a poor guide when it comes to handling some of the con- trols of the set. as our informant later pointed out. If Smith depended en- tirely upon his ear he might turn up | | ton did not seem to be clear enough. whereas if he used his eves he would see that this would be the wrong step. Vision tells him plainly whether lac] of clarity is a matter of too much filament ‘current or too little. From experience he knows, or should know, just about whére the rheostats should be for best reception of certain sta- tions under given conditions. The eye can save him many a mistake the ear might make. A good tactile sense has been demi- | onstrated to be an advantage in radio set operation. This is shown in the way some persons have of just giv a dial the slightest touch and reaping decidedly better resuits. it you watch them carefully, it is interesting to note that they are not listening in- tently to the product from the loud- speaker as you might suppose. Their attention is directed chiefly to “feel- Ing"” out the set for better results. Getting Maximum Results. ‘The main point brought out in our little discussion, however, was the matter of correlating the various senses and developing from them some process of tuning that has more sense. Depending upon any one sense is the equivalent of having a one-way mind. Act on tips from sev- eral senses on the contrary, and you have less difficulty getting maximum results. Smith made a little experiment that any one can try. First he decided to’tune for a favorite station which he is in the habit of enjoying every night. ‘With the loudspeaker disconnected he proceeded to tune just as though lis- tening carefully for results. But he was using just two senses: Vision and touch! It took him several minutes to ad- just the dials and the rheostats to exactly the points he was accustomed to setting them. Then he plugged in the loudspeaker and we awaited the verdict. To Smith's surprise, the station brought no better results, tuned without using his sense of hearing! Proving that sense and senses can do more to pull in the sta- tions clearly than just a keen sense by itself. Next week—No. 76: From New An- gles. : (Copyright by the Uliman Feature Service.) FIFTEEN MINUTES OF RAD:IO EACH. DAY BY JOSEPH CALCATERRA Moted Authority on Radio All Rights Reserved. The Filament Control Jack. The tendency nowadays in the de- gign of radio receivers is toward the elimination of as many heedless oon- trols as possible. It has become g]eneral practice’ therefore to have group control of two or more tubes in a receiver, the control being an adjustable one such @s a rheostat or an automatic control of the Amperite Lo days when the UV:200 In bygone A TV-201 types of tubes were the s S van. 1 high current only ones to he had, I consumption of one ampere per tube, made it necessary to economize on current wherever possible. In many cases. the loud spdaker was operated on the first audio stage when great volume was not desired. In such cases if the last audio tube was Jeft. burning, the current drawn not only from the “A” battery by the burning filament but also from the “B” battery- was an item of no mean proportion.. It was held desirable therefore to turn off the last tube when it was not in use. The usual method was to use an extra rheostat giving independent con- trol of the last tube by means of which the tube could be turned off by setting the rheostat on the off tion. Grouping ‘of Audio Tubes. The first step taken to reduce the number of controls in radio receivers | was to put both audio tubes on a single rheostat. While this effected a saving In_the number of rheostats used redus the number of controls and simplified tuning, it brought up the objectjonable feature that the last tube must be left burning even when it was not in use. There were several Reproduction Prohibited. stage was not being used. This was at best a troublesonie makeshift. An- other was' to insert a switch in the filament lead of the second tube so that the tube could be turned on or off as desired. The panel space occu- pied by a battery switch was not as much as, the space required by an- other rheostat and the control element was simplified because the one rheo- stat could still be used to control both tubes. A battery switch was also leks expensive than an extra rheostat. The real solution of the problem, however, really came with the design of the fllament control jack shown in diagram. In this jack, the switch ture is incorporated in the jack. The filament circuits of the tubes up to and including the first audio tube are wired in the regular way. The positive filament terminal of the last tube is connected with the positive “A’” batterv lead. The negative fila- ment terminal of the last tube is con- nected with the outside terminal of the jack while the next terminal of the jack is connected wtih the rheo- stat. The jack is used in the plate circuit of the last audio stage so that the filament circuit of the last tube remains open until a 'plug is inserted in the jack. The Mast tube is burning therefore. only when a loud speaker is inserted in the last stage jack. At other times, as for instance when it i inserted in the first stage jack, the last tube remains unlit and does not consume any “A” battery or “B” battery current. TO CONTINUE WCAP PROGRAMS Three-Year-Old Local Station Celebrates Birth Month with All-day Offerings, After Long - the same entertain- | these events | the rheostats a little more if recep- | NOW FULL TIME, table Features. Radio Corporation has kept pace with the many developments in the art. When it first came on the air, WRC coufd transmit only programs that originated in its own studios that had been built in the Riggs Bank- Tompkins Bullding especially for this purpose, Development of a wire-line system followed in the station’s first vear, and by Ajgust 1, 1924, pro- grams could be picked up from a number of points in the Capital and transmitted by relay through the Park road antennas. In another few months WRC had been connected further with its sister station WJZ in New York, which in turn was cor nected with WGY in enectady. This brought added interest to the Washington programs, and enabled the station to present’ a much more varied and entertaining radlo bill. in another vear the wire system was still further developed to where WRC could take its entertainment from practically any place in the Capital it desired, also from Baitimore, Phila- delphia’ and other cities in the East. Although the form of radio programs {and their presentation has progressed |as rapldly as has the scientific develop- | ment of broadeasting, the opening pro- {gram transmitied from WRC still stands as one of its most notable ether offerin, | On that flrst program that in- | augurated the studio and the station of WRC were addresses by David Sarnoff. vice president and generat manager of the Radlo Corporation of Ameri Col. 'Theodore Roosevelt then Assistant Secretary of the Navy: Maj. Gen. John L. Hines, then Deputy Chief of Staff; Judge Stephen B. Davis, solicitor of the Department of Commerce, and Dr. Alfred N. Gold smith, director of research of the corporation. special radiogram from Gen. James G. Harbord, presi- dent of the corporation, was re- ceived from Paris and was read to the | station’s listeners. Nusical features n that first progimm included a concert by the Unfted States Marine Band, and a number of nationally | prominent artists—Elisa Breeskin, | violinist; Charles Trowbridge Titt {mann. solist with /the - Philadelphia, | Detroit_and New York Symphonies. | Ruth Peter, soprano with the Wash ington Opera Company: Victor Goli bart, tenor, and Clelia Floravanti, mezzo-soprano. In the three yeary thut followed its debut. WRC has offered ite listeners { hundreds of programs of entertain { ment and instruction that have in- | cluded such events ax the Democratic national convention of 1924: addresses | by President Coolidge and practically every member of his Cabinet; funeral | services conducted for Willlam Jen- | nings Bryan: memortal services for | former President Woaodrow Wilson: concerts by many leading singers and instrumental soloists of ‘the world, which were arranged and presented as | Victor and Brunswick concerts; dance rograms originating in London, England: ringside. descriptions of the outstanding prize fights of the world; important base ball games: concerts | by the New York = Philharmonic Society, fhe United States Marine Army and Navy Bands and their orchestras; descriptions of hoat races, automobile races and foot ball games and scores af other events. Through the co-operation of the Smithsonian Institute and several of | the governmental departments in Washington, WRC has offered edu-| cational programs of interest to the sclentist, farmer, business man and the student in almost every field. Further educational and instructive programs have heen offered in the past vear that have taken the form | of a radio school of international re- lations, conducted under the auspices of the Koreign Service School of Georgetown Universil and the “Radio Congressional = Forum,” at | which members of the Senate and House of Representatives discussed ! the weekly work of Congress when in | session. Discussion of the political tion in Washington has been con- ducted weekly for more than two vears Ly Frederic Willlam Wile, prominent’ writer and lecturer, and the drama has heen followed studi ously on the air by Leonard Hall, drama_critic. In the future. it has been an- nounced, WRC will continue to follow in the path it has set in the. past and practically -all of the features that have stood the test of time will be continued, along with the addition of the outstanding attractions that have come (o listeners from WCAP. Among the latter programs will be the Atwater Kent Hours of Music, the Capitol Theater Concerts, the en- tertainment of thesIpana Troubadors, the A. and P. Gypsies, the Davis Sax- ophone Octette, the WEAF Grand A situa- WILLIAM G. PIERSON, Planist, composer and member of the studio staff of the now defunct WCAP, who sang the station’s “swan song” at the close of the impromptu farewell gram Friday night. The final me. ige was supplied by a host of ar- tists who have ken in the WCAP programs for the last thre years, OIL FIRE STARTS Weather Bureau Reports on Unusual Feature of Re- cent Disaster. Tornadoes, 'smaller than the twisters that often work havoc in the Middle West, but true tornadoes just the same, were one of the effects of a great ofl fire at San Luls Obispo, Calif.. recently. according to a report to the United States Weather Bureau by J Hissong, of the local weather bureau of the California city. The fire was started by lightning and burned for five days, destroving ¢ 6,000,000 barrels of ofl. Two were killed and the total prop- erty loss was estimated at $15,000.000 However, the unique feature of the fire was-the great number of torna does which it started, one of which was responsible for the two deaths. REAL TORNADOES i i { Columbia | continued handling the FAIR RADIO PLAN WAS HOOVER AIM Request for Ruling on Right to Control Ether Was Only Course Open. BY CARL H. BUTMAN. It was a desive for fair play for ‘broadcagters which led Secretary of Commerce Hoover to ask the Attor- ney General for g definite opinfon as to his legal authority to regulate radio. Everybody thought he had such power under the 1912 radio law, but Mr Hoover was beset with difficulties an probably would have encountered se rious complications if he had tried to coutinue handling the broadcast situa tion after the Chicago court decision against him. After the Zenith case, he no longer could assert his right to make sta- tions operate on a single assigned wave length, practice held legal by the Court of Appeals of the District of sometime previous. This court decisfon, it may be recalled, stated that the Secretary of Commerce must issue licenses 1o applicants but pointed out that at his discretion he could ussign each station definite wave lengths to prevent interference.” He situation on this basis until this decision was re versed in Chicago, and Congress failed to confer authority on him or any one to regulate radio. Ended Volunteer Control, Then. it was up to Mr. Hoover to have a definite shows down, in view of the two conflicting legal opinions It also was apparent that the wo- called voluntary control was at an end. Mr. Hoover could not. usurp authority which was not written into the laws of the country; he did not want to do this anyhow, as it would have put him in a position of a dic tator, or, as he so often has been unjustly termed, a “czar of radio.” There is only one authority who has the right to interpret the law for the executive chiefs, and that is the At torney General. To him Secretary’ Hoover appealed, also because it only through the office of that offi clal that other executive departments can pruceed against persons who break the laws and regulations of their departments. In other words the Department of Justice furnishes legal advice and prosecutes cases for the other departments. The world now knows what the Attorney General held, or at least the radio world knows it. He said that fore these whirls. started. savs Mr, Hissong. strong southerly winds prevailed. which shifted to west and then to northwest. Then four tanks, each containing 750,000 barrels of oil, “boiled over.” ““They threw out an immense quan- tity of hot, burning oil,” he says, “which spread with remarkable rapid- ity over an area estimated by the engl- neers present at about 900 acres. The flames leaped seemingly a thousand feet into the air. At the same time violent whirlwinds began to form over the fire. “From the time the wind veered into the northwest and the large reser- voirs boiled over, hundreds of whirl- winds formed in and around the edges of the fire until the last tank boiled ovy During the perfod when the large reservoirs were burning and the temperature over the fire was prob- ably ‘at-its highest point, and conse- quently the vertical convection was strongest, the whirls appear to have been most numerous and violent “Many of them had all the char acteristics of true tornadoes. The gyrating, writhing, funnel - shaped clouds with the white condensing vapor in the vertices were plainly visi- ble against the background of black smoke. Some of the funnels appeared 10 be not more than one,foot in diam- eter at the smallest part, and some were reported as giving the impres- slon of ropes dangling from the clouds of smoke.” House Lifted by Twister. It was one of these twisters that caused the casualties. for it left the fire, traveling east-north-east to a cot- tage about 1,000 vards away. It picked up the cottage, lifting it sev- eral feet in the air and carrying it about 150 feet north. There the cot- tage was dropped in a field, a total wreck, and the owner and his son. who had heen in it at the time, were killed. A’few minutes later a whirl, which Mr. Hissong beligves might have been the same one, nnroofed a house about a quarter of a mile north- east of its first viotim. Debris, evi- dently carried by other whiriwinds, ;’ss found as far as 3 miles from the re. Since the whirlwinds started just Opera and Light Opera presentations and many others. The Metropolitan Tower setting-up hour organ concerts and programs of luncheon programs, formerly _daily features of WRC. will be continued as in the past and play-by-play de- scriptions of the games plaved away from home by the Washington Ameri- can League Champions will still be furnished to the base ball fans of the The WRC Players, who made their debut last Winter, under the direc- tion of Madge Tucker, will be back at the microphone in the Autumn after a Summer vacation, and other regulars of the alr, including Mrs. Nina Reed, with ‘her discussions of books and world affairs, and Dorothy Townsend, with her discussions of women’s affairs, will remain dsso- ciated with the Washington station. Continuing in charge of the Radio Corporation activities in Washington | will he the same organization that has carried on in the past. These officials are F. P. Guthrie, district manager; Ralph Edmunds, program manager; Kenneth Berkeley. as- sistant program manager; William M. Sweets, studio manager and pub- licity director; George F. Ross, musi- cal director and announcer, and George Ellls, engineer-in-charge. | WALES GAINS RENOWN FOR HIS GOOD MEMORY By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 31.—The Prince of Wales is getting the weputation of having a remarkable memory. While jreviewing the First Seaforth High- jlanders, of which he is colonel-in- chief, he stopped before Mrs. Mac- Kenaie, wife of the Sergt. Maj. Mac- Kenzie, who was standing in the women'’s inclosure. & “I remember you when you were in India,” he said.” “How long have you Mrs. MacKenzie replied that . she had just returned to England and was delighted. Afterwards she explained: *He only_saw me for a few minutes in 1923 at Delhi. What a memory he has for faces!" | trol, either- using one Amperite for controlling both tubes or using a sepa-. rate Amperite for'each tube with the filament control jack to turn off the ditfon. The same system can be used when |last tube when lstening in is done *1». remedieés for taeon One was arg used for flament con-!on the first stage, after the wind veered, Mr. Hissong suggests that they may have been caused by the convectional currents came in so well that further tuning | ®Xercises will be’on the air every|over the fire being started rotating by He had |MOrning for the early risers: noon-|the northwest wind. EXPERTS TEST WINES. German Tasters Sample Products From All Over Europe. BERLIN, July 31 (#).—What are called the most enviable jobs in Ger- many have been assigned to a group of experts whose duty it is to sample rare wines from 50 countries on the five continents. The experts were engaged by the Institute for Wine ' Cultivation at Freiburg in the Black Forest to seek methods for improving German wines. Of all countries with wine-growing possibilities. the United' States alone is not represented by samples. The experts’ preliminary report ranks German table wines as among the best in the world. N OO g == ] — - - { 0 i) i. iz W ETETTT T T T T TS Wash W the 1912 radio law does not impose any duty to regulate radio or any dis- cretionary power on the Secretary of Commerce, whom he declares has no more authority than the Secretary of Agricuiture. This left no question in the matter. Obviously, if one has neither statutory duty nor power, one cannot attempt to exercise authority and if a person did try to do so, he could not enforce his decisions through the courts. The Attorney General, as a representative of the Commerce Department, could not, for mple, prosecute any one who failed to comply with ilegal regula tions, in court Atmosphere Was Cleared. This opinion cleared the atmos phere. Hoover had definite facts be. fore him. He was compelled to ac cept the judgment of the Attorney General and comply with it. The situation is now known to all broadcasters alike, they know what the ruling is and can act as their judg. ments dictate. If Mr. Hoover had brazenly attempted to continue regu lating them, some 90 per cent of the stations probably would have com plied with his requests, but this would have left the other 10 per cent to do as they pleased, giving them a slight advantage in choice of wave lengths. power and time. The new stations would have joined the minority and aided in the making complete chaos in_the ether. The problem of regulating a fixed number of broadcasters with a definite number of channels to divide between them is a simple mathematical one, but when this is complicated by a variable number of broadcasting sta tions, it assumes unlimited scope. In. Jecting the unknown quantity, 8 puts the problem in the realms of higher mathematics, with a new and varied problem, each day. * * * * * * * »* * * * »* “No wender my radio has not been working! 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