Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1929, Page 75

* MAKERS OF RADIO PLAN EXPORT DRIVE Press Associaticn Papers Reach Agrecment on Wave Lengths. BY MARTIN CODEL. Coinc Radio Manufacturers’ Association teiday at Hot Springs, Va., where plans far stimulating the American export trade In radio apparatus were discussed, the Department of Commerce an- nounced figures showing that a record was achieved in radio exports last year. The total amount of American radio equipment shipped to foreign countries during 1928 was valued at $12,061,410. This amount is & mere bagatelle in the total wholesale business of move than $250,000,000, and the retail bus ness of perhaps exceeding twice that amount done in the United States dur- ing the year. But it bulks large by com- | parison with the figures for 1927, which were $2,878,987 les Moreover, it re- veals that Americans are gaining & strong foothcld in a field of foreign trade that is keenly competitive with British and German exporters. i The importance of foreign trade in radio apparatus has generally been lost sight of in the eagerness of manufac- turers and jobbers to take advantage of the ripe domestic market. Recognizing the desirability of distributing Ameri: can radio products more widel throughout the worid, the Radio Manu- facturers’ Association is attempting to pid its members in developing their for- ‘eign sales, particularly in Latin Amer- ica, Guide Is Compiled. The R. M. A. has compiled the first radio export guide in existence outside the records of the Department of Com- ‘merce, where exporters are constantly secking the aid and advice of foreign trade experts. Within a few days the department itself will issue a compre- hensive bulletin on the radio markets of the world filled with facts regardl broadcasting, the code, reception, mai ket and other conditions pertaining to radio abroad compiled from reports sub- mitted by Government trade agents throughout the civilized world. Last year's exports were predominate- 1y ‘receiving sets. parts, accessories and tubes. Canada was the largest cus- tomer, taking about 40 per cent of the agoregate. Argentina and Australia were next in importarce, purchasing about $1,600,000 and $1,200,000 worth, and with the meeting of the | TRIO OF | SicrID | ONEGIN- 1 Mme. Onegin, the newest and youngest Europe other N, B, C. statio) | hour tonight over WRC and {in the Vodevil program Friday night. a | the microphone, will be the soloist with | stations. Heretofore the Bakers have be STARS I THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MARCH 17. 1920—PART 4. FEATURED RADIO BROADCASTS DOLORES CASSINELLI- WIMAL-Columbia attraction. the Happy en a Friday night attraction. an concert contralto. will be the guest artist in the Atwater Kent ‘Baker, a popular musical comedy and vaudeville artist, will be heard Miss Cassinelli, who deserted the silver screen for ‘Bakers, who will broadeast Wednesday night over WRC and associated | '| Behind the | by can youth is another of the practical uses to which radio chain broadcasting will be put in the near future. Sam Pickard, vice president of he Columbia Broadcasting Sys- tem and former {federal radio commissioner, has just revealed | |that the facilitles of this great | coast-to-coast network of radio| stations are to function next Fall as an educational service for the schools of America. In co-opera- | tion with the National Education Association, these programs are to be broadcast under the title of ROADENING the educa- tional scope of the Ameri- BY THE RADIO EDITOR. Microphone 500,000 letters in this 12-month period. Former President made 16 radio addresses, ‘vinually every member of cabinet appeared before Coolidge and the * ok kK | The men, and women, too, Who | write radio news for the news- papers and magazines of the country have organized a club for| “jollification” purposes only. The organization as adopted the name of the Radio Gridiron Club/| and elected as its president a . Palmer. i Headquarters of the club are in New York. Its first annual frolic | his | microphone at least once. | assuming it to be a local electrical disturbance.” | * ¥ X % Aside from the correspondence {on interference, the mail bag last | week produced a letter from C. G. Degman, 1340 Pennsylvania ave- nue southeast, containing what he described as constructive criti- cism. Mr. Degman suggests that radio speakers and singers stand far away from the micro- phone to prevent an “explosion,” lowly enough to prevent | and | an S é{‘gl\:&;‘r’ | commisicon plans to maintain the pres- | e cited Charles I. | and Chick Godfrey, both WJSV broadcasters, as shining examples enough mming” of words speak in an even and tone. of good microphone delivery. Gieseking to Play Classics. rominent New York writer, Eric | Numbers which piano students, teach- ers and amateurs ask him to play will make up the April 14 piano recital by CONGRESS IGNORES Bill Passed Contains No Pro- vision for Correcting Radio Muddles. ‘The bill passed by Congress continu- ing the Federal Radio Commission con- tains none of the many legislative reme- dies suggested for alléviation of broad- casting lls. ‘The proposal of Senator Dill of Wash- |ington and Representative Davis of Tennessee that station power be limited to 10,000 watts, the amendment of Rep- resentative Crowther of New York pro- viding for an increase in cleared chan- nels from 40 to 50 and the requests of broadcasters that the law be made more clear on the status of licenses, fell by the wayside. ‘The recommendations of counsel for the commission that apparent conflicts in the law be removed and hearings ex- pedited, also were ignored. While the measure provides that the terms of members of the commission | expire on February 23, 1930, the life of the commisolsn &s an administrative body is extended only to December 31. 11929. After that date the commission | will become a board of appeals, the is- | suance of licenses and the assignment legislation is enacted. In limiting the life of the commission to less than one year, radio leaders in Congress indicated that they regarded the action as only a makeshift solution of the problem, pending final determi- nation of the method of handling the entire field of radio supervision. major issue at the first regular session By that time the wishes of President Hoover, who has "?e“ understanding of radio problems, will have been made known to legislative leaders. In the meantime, there will be oppor- tunity to study the development and regulation of such new branches of the works, _picture use of radio by commercial afrcraft. In the program broadcast field, the ent plan of allocation. Minor change: will be made to improve service to list eners but no drastic upheavals of the | broadcast structure like that of last November is contemplated. CALLS FOR CONDENSER. Broad Tuning. of wavelengths to be taken over by the | Department of Commerce unless new ‘The question ‘is expected to be a of the new Congress next December. | art at continental radio telegraph net- | transmission and the | Modern Set Construction Alds| 'WORLD’S LONELIEST ISLE CAPE TOWN, South Africa (#).— Tristan da Cunha, called “the loneliest island in the world,” a British posses- | ston off the African coast, is having its first experience with the wonders of the century, radio, the phonograph and the motion picture. It is 1,400 miles west of Cape Town. Untrl)f a year ago no steamer, within the memory of the 150 persons on the island, had stopped there. Then the Duchess of Atholl, on a South American | and African cruise, paused at the tiny |island. This Winter it put in there | again ‘with_supplies. The islanders are civilized, courteous | About a fifth | When the tourists | | and all speak English. | can read and write. first visited there none knew the week | or month. There was not a watch or calendar at Tristan da Cunha. One of the gifts to the islanders was 'GETS CENTURY’S MARVELS BROADCASTIG LS | & wireless set and radio outfit. Mem- | bers of the steamer’s crew taught them | how to operate both sets. | natives are learning the wireless code. | When_invited aboard the ship these | people first saw electric lights, heard | their first piano, learned first of ele- | vators and were introduced to ice cream. ;Thl!s Iast they did not care for particu- | larlv. Both the men and women wore home- spun clothes and_sandals fashioned from rough hides. The islanders, chiefly a mixture of English and Portuguese, farm and tend 250 cows and raise sheep, | chickens and geese. ‘The ship tourists learned that several steamers made attempts to reach the island, . but because of treacherous shoals off shore gave it up. Some of the inhabitants are survivors of a sail- ing boat that 10 years ago sought to reach shore. It foundered. COLLEGES TO EXTEND Alabama Institutions Co- operate in Broadcasting From WAPIL MONTGOMERY Ala. (#).—An 8r- rangement by Alabama’s three major educational institutions for the joint | operation of WAPI, Birmingham, in an endeavor to expand the State's educa- tional program, is announced by Gov. Bibb Graves. ‘The arrangement was reached at a conference of the governor with Dr. George H. Denny, president of the Uni- versity of Alabama; Dr. Bradford Knapp, president of Alabama Polytech- nie Institute, and Dr. O. C. Carmichael, president of Alabama College for Women WAPI has been operated jointly since January 1 by the city of Bizmingham and the Alabama Polytechnic_Institute, with studios at Birmingham, Montgom« erv, where the State Department of Ag- riculture has inaugurated a daily radio market service, and at Auburn, Tech's home. This hook-up will not be disbanded, the governor says, but will be augment- ed with studios at the State University, t Tuscaloosa, and the Alabama College, at_Monevallo. | Stipulations of the agreement set forth | that the State University and Alabama Polytechnie Institute each will own 39 per cent of the stock in the station and Alabama College 22 per cent, with broadcasting time to be prorated among the five studios. WAPI at present shares time with Three WBAL to Present Recital. Mile. Magda Lavanchy, Swiss violin- ist, assisted by Selma Fox, planist, will present a recital from the studios of WBAL, Baltimore, Wednesday. Hotel to Broadeast Opening. Music to be played at the opening of Atlantic City's newest hotel will be broadcast by WPG Friday. The | N Let Us Demonstrate NN Z Several |SURVIVAL OF FITTEST TO END,RADIO,BATTLE | Morgan Eettman Thinks Law of | Tooth and Claw Will | Clear Air. | CHICAGO (®).—The primal Iaw of the tooth and claw-—survival of the | fittest—eventually will clear the ether | and settle broadcasters’ congestion prob- lems, thinks Morgan L. Eastman, ploneer Chicago broadcaster. Eastman is the manager of WENR here. It has been waging & fight — 80 | far unsuccessful—for full-time broad- casting. In the last reallocation the station’s time was reduced. “Competition between stations is be-, coming keener, and only those whith | are able to present programs that hold listeners can survive,” sald Eastman. "Advertisers will follow the better sta- tions and the poorer ones will drop out s their revenue is reduced. KEEP AMATEUR NIGHTS. Roanoke Station Finds Plenty of Novices for Trials. ROANOKE, ~ Va. __(#).—“Amateur' nights” at station WDBJ, in this eity, have proved so popular that the sta- tion owners expect to continue them Indefinitely. The first broadeast found 850 per- sons present for & hearing, and since then a corresponding number has been on had each w BUY IT HERE! New MAJESTIC All-Electric Radio 10 som ic | walter Gleseking over WJZ and asso- g’;gt;’;b}gld there some time in| o stations. Requests are to be limited to Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Grieg. the National Radio Assembly. | The plan as outlined by Mr.| Pickard will bring to the little red | schoolhouses in the most 1nacces-! sible rural districts, as well as the | educational centers, subjects Tespectively. South American coun- | tries show a growing appreciation of | the American product and furnish such 8 promising fleld that the R. M. A. ex- port guide pays particular attention to | them. Modern set construction, with fts | single control, calls for a gang con-| denser with accurately matched sec- | tions. Even slight differences will re- | sult in broad tuning. | One new model, described as a “bat- * %k % Our plea to the Federal Radio | Commission last week to eliminate the new source of interference | Radio Course Is Prepared. Tariff and other restrictions keep the American product out of some coun- tries, notably Great PBritain and Ge! many. American, British and German radio exporters have, since the begin- ning of radio broadcasting, been run- ning a neck-and-neck race in the radio markets of the world. The 1927 figures showed them each doing about a $10,- 000.000 international business. Comparisons for last year cannot be made until the British and German fig- ures are available. Press Row Settled. Rival American newspapers and press associations seeking allocation to the radio short waves reserved for news- carrying purposes composed their own differences voluntarily yesterday. They met an obstacle to their plan, hewever, in the apparent unwillingness of Judge Ira Robinson, chairman of the Federal Radio Commission, o surrender ‘the public utility principle imposed as a condition precedent to the grants of the 20 domestic and 20 transoceanic chan- nels to the American press. After arguing nearly two full days on the respective merits of their cases the press groups finally joined together in an allocation agreement specifying the number of channels to be assigned | to each of the members of the Ameri- | can publishers committee. They asked, however, that the commission waive the | public service rule, under which it was demanded that each assignee organize & subsidiary wireless corporation for handling other press traffic on an equal basis with its own. It was proposed to assign two trans- oceanic and five transcontinental wave lengths each to the Associated Press, the United Press-Soripps Howard group and the International News-Hearst group. Other assignments were pro- posed as follows: Chicago Tribune, New York Times and New York Herald Tri- bune, one and one-half transoceanic and one domestic channel each; New York World and Christian Science Monitor, one transoceanic and one domestic each; Consolidated Press, one transoceanic and two domestic; Chicago Daily News, Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle, one-half transoceanic and one domestic each; American News Trafi¢ Corporation, five transoceanic channels for mutual services to all in- corporators. Extended discussion began after John F. Neylan, counsel for the Hearst in- terests, presented the proposals of the | rs. | flelds of art, dramatics and litera- unanimously concurring group of press assoclations and newspapers as their spokesman, and the hearing was con- tinued to this morning. At the meeting on Thursday, Mr. Neylan ap- eared in opposition to the other mem- ers of the American publishers com- mittee, proposing that the press chan- nels be granted only to the press asso- ciations serving a multiplicity of news- papers, Judge Robinson’s questioning plainly revealed him out of accord with the proposition that the commission waive the publie utility requirement. He in- sisted that other individual newspapers might want to use short waves and would be excluded because the supply | had been exhausted by the applicants | Judge Sykes followed | at the hearing. 8 similar line of questioning, while the third commissioner, H. A. Lafount, did | not participate actively in the discus- | sion. ‘The commission will probably take the applications and proposed change | of policy under advisement. Whether it will undertake to render a decision before the two additional members are appointed to fill the posts vacated by | Commissioners Caldwell and Pickard is | uncertain. President Hoover indicated yesterday that he has not reached the matter of reappointing Arthur M. Batcheller and Prof. C. M. Jansky, jr., whose con- firmations were passed over by the Sen- ate, or of appointing two other men, but he said a decision would be reached shortly. (Copyright, 1920. by the North American Newspaper Alliance.) Mitchell to Sing Over KOA. Tom Mitchell, after concluding a geries of programs at KNX, Lo 1 i to be heard from KOA, De Radio to Help Museums. PARIS (#)—Radio may help popu- larize the museums if a decision of the International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation, meeting in_ Paris, is car- ried out the museums and broadcast descriptions {ent educational systems. | fundamental principles which he | | destinies of the American Govern- {ment. |other subject which is neglected ithe most celebrated artists of the Announcers will walk through | hitherto untouched by most pres- Joy Elmer Morgan, editor of the official journal of the National Education Association, is lending his full co-operation to this new radio project. For several years| he has been alert to the value of radio to schools and also has been | active in advocating its use for increased educational purposes. Mr. Morgan lays down three believes must underlie this service | to_the schools. First—Material offered by radio for schools must be of the highest possible quality and accuracy. Second—Broadcasters must look upon themselves as servants ready to help education in whichever way the school system believes is | best, since the regularly consti- tuted educational authorities are responsible for the schools’ curri- culum. Third—No element of advertis- ing must be included. The schools, he points out, serve all | the people and cannot lend them- selves to commercial activity. * ok X kx The National Radio Assembly will treat such subjects as the study of history and citizenship as | vitalized by inspiring messages from outstanding men who arec| making history and shaping the Music appreciation is an- in many of our public schools, but which lends itself admirably to treatment by radio. In this type of work it is planned to present country. Health and hygiene also will come in the curriculum of the national assembly. America’s most eminent physi- cians and famous athletes will give the hygiene talks. Geography will be made interesting and realistic by word pictures from the lips of world-renowned travel- | And so on down through the ture. which will be brought to the pupnils in the smallest hamlets by nationally known leaders in their respective fields. *x kX X | Keeping pace withethe ever-| growing activities of radio, the National Broadcasting Co. is_in- creasing its working space in New | York by annexing an entire floor | comprised of 18,000 square feet. Among the improvements con- templated are three new audition and rehearsal rooms. } The increase in space is the sec- | ond within a year. Practically every department will be bene- fitted. One innovation will be an up-to-date law library. The N. B. C. has occupied the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, which has been playing havoc with broadcast reception in Washington and vicinity appears to have produced some results as well as a large crop of fan letters | | A radio course for dealers’ service ! men and professional set repairmen has } just been compiled by the radio divi- | sion of the National Electrical Manu- tleship,” has a die needed. suggesting probable causes of the trouble. | The interference stopped last | Monday and the air remained un- | disturbed except for the cus-| tomary heterodyne squeals and | “blooper” squawks, until Friday night, when it returned for a brief period. * X ok W. K. Scott, 1907 Fifteenth street, expressed the opinion that the buzzing interference was caused by defective detector tube of the 227 or 237 type, pointing to his own experience as an illustra- tion. He explained that a nolse somewhat akin to the buzzing of a large bumble bee emitted from his loud speaker until he replaced the detector tube. * Kk X ok E. H. Piggott of Clarendon, Va., commented on the interference as follows: | “I read with interest and appre- ciation your comment in last Sun- day’s Star in regard to a mysteri- ous interference in radio recep- tion. Prior to that time I thought the trouble was of local origin, but since the nature of the interfer- ence you described coincides with | that I have experienced I am con- vinced that it.is widespread. “I agree with you in that I cer- tainly think the Federal Radio Commission should give this mat- ter immediate attention. In fact, I wrote the commission about this matter some time ago and re- ceived a very unsati~factory reply to the effect th-t 1 t1 o1 1y an- | thority to investigate the trouble. | fourteenth and fifteenth floors at 711 Fifth avenue. The additional | space just leased is on the third floor of the same building. | ! ik u | Radio broadcasting has just! passed through its greatest stage | |of development, and yet the sur-| {face of radio’s possibilities has | scarcely been scratched. These points were brought out most im- | pressively in the annual reports of Owen D. Young, chairman of the board of the General Electric Co., and Merlin H. Aylesworth. | president of the National Broad- 1 t made public last The report covers in detail the achievements of the N. B. C. in 1928. The interesting facts it re-| | vealed were these: | Approximately $4.000.000 was ispent for talent and $2,000,000 for | wire tolls in 1928. Listeners wrote more than 1,- of the principal treasures of the nation. | Cuts Time for Heating Tube. Development, of a new synthetic ce- has reduced the required to Henry r. 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