Evening Star Newspaper, June 2, 1929, Page 70

District National Guard House hunting has again become an- other problem for the officials of the National Guard of the District of Co- lumbia, for it appears now that it will have to give up one of the two Government hotel buildings on the Union Station Plaza which it now oc- cuples. It was said at the brigade headquarters, the organizations which are in the 'T-U building cannot be placed in the V-W building, as the latter structure is fully occupied, and it will be necessary to find new quarters ©of some kind if it is finally forced out. When the Guard first went into the plaza buildings, the one unit was suffi- clent, but it has since organized the division headquarters troops, and other organizations have taken place which make it impossible for the organiza- tion to get along with any less room than it now uses. Even the present quarters are considerably cramped, and there are absolutely no facilities for in- door drill and other training purposes. The necessity of moving a section of the Guard to another part of the city will further decentralize the work of the organization, and this cannot be bettered until Congress sees fit to pro- vide it with a building, where all of the units can be operated under one roof. But it was pointed out that unit ftself is helpless, as very limited funds for rental purposes, and these funds are not suflicient to get a satisfactory building at the pres- ent rental prices. Annually the offi- cials have appeared before Congress, seeking support for either a new build- ing or some provision for the rental of a building over a term of years. But either the legislators or the executive officials of the Government have frowned on such a project. The Dis- trict officials have refused to allow any estimate for a building because there was no authorizing legislation previous- 1y passed. Officials admit that they do not know just where they are going to find quarters with the limited funds avail- able. real solutions to the housing troubles of the Guard. One is to allow a rental appropriation large enough to induce some private builder to construct a building suitable for the purposes of the Guard, and then this would have to be coupled with a provision for a long-term lease, as no one, it was ex: plained, would want to put up a struc- ture on & guarantee of a year’s lease. At the present time the Guard officials cannot negotiate a lease for more than a year. The other one is for the Gov- ernment to erect a bullding on public land. While this would be the more desirable from the Guard standpoint, nevertheless it is known that they would welcome anything that would give them adequate training quarters over a long period of time. They also have tried to get the Pension Office Building, now occupied by the Gen- eral Accounting Office. While this is declared to be fine for the purposes of the Guard, as it has a large drill space on the first floor, even this plan has met with opposition, The following enlisted in the Guard during the week: Charles S. Lowe, 4422 Lowell street, assigned to Company E, 121st Engineers; Walter E. Myers, 903 New York avenue, assigned to Com- pany D, 121st Engineers, and John F. Rockett, 1012 C street southwest, as- signed to the Band, 121st Engineers. ‘Three units of the local Guard reached the requisite 90 per cent or better in attendance last week to put | them in the classification of superior. ‘They were the Medical Department De. tachment, 260th Coast Artillery, 100; 29th Division, Military Police Company, | 95.55, and Headquarter's Detachment, 260th Coast Artillery, 92.31. ‘The other ozganizations, in their re spective classifications, with perecent. ages, follow: Excellent—Band, 121st _ Engineers, 82.36, and Headquarter'’s Detachment, 29th Division, 81.04. Very satisfactory—Headquarter’s De-| tachment, 29th Division, Special Troops, | 75, and Headquarter's and Service Company, 121st Engineers, 72.41. Satisfactory—Company E, 121st En- gineers, 67.21; Company D, 121st Engi- neers, 66.66; Company A, 121st Engi- neers, 66.66; Battery A, 260th Coast Artillery, 66.07; Company F, 121st En- gineers, 66.04; Company A, 372d Infan- try, 65.28; Company C, 121st Engineers, 6451, and Battery C, 260th Coast Artil- lery, 63.46. Unsatisfactory—Battery B, 260th Coast Artillery, 58.62; ~Quartermaster Corps Detachment, 54.54, and Company B, 121st Engineers, 5 Very unsatisfactory—Medical Depart- Eegfit Detachment,” 121st Engineers, Acting on the request of Col. James A. Moss, president general of the United States Flag Association, Gen. Stephan has authorized Battery A, 260th Coast Artillery, to utilize its searchlights on the night of June 8 to illuminate an American flag to be flown by an Army blimp traveling over the District. Capt. Louis M. Gosorn will be in charge of this detail. The ceremony is in con- nection with the ceremonies incident to the celebration of the 152d anniversary of the birth of the flag, Company E, 121st Engineers, had 15 of its men at the rifie range at Camp ms, Congress Heights, D. C, last day, when they obtained some very v@luable training in demolition work. ey dug five holes in a gravel hillside, d them with 18 one<half-pound blocks of TNT, and loosened up about 180 tons of gravel which was used for filling around the new storage building etbcted on the range property. «Corpl. Benson C. Bradshaw, who at- tended the demolition specialists’ school at Camp Albert C. Ritchie last Sum- mier, had charge of the priming and blasting. He was assisted by Pvts. Eu- gene F. Wemple and Leo C. Streit- berger. jGen. Stephan has written a letter af congratulation to Sergt. George O. ‘Weber, Headquarters Detachment, 29th Division, for leading his high school cadet company to victory in the annual competitive drill. He was captain of Cpmpany B, High School Cadets. % Letters of thanks have been sent by n. Stephan to Staff Sergt. Thomas Baxter, Headquarters Detachment, th Division, and Pvt. (First Class) Qasper M. Roemer, 20th Division, Mili- ry Police Company, for volunteering eir services in carrying the colors of 3rd D. C. Infantry, the pre-war Quard unit, at the colors ceremony held a8 Mount St. Albans last Sunday. ZCorpl. William S. Taylor has been ordered reduced to private in Company , 121st Engineers, and Pvt. (First ass) Milton Ketchum has been pro- mgoted to corporal in the same unit, bpth changes, it was announced, being made on the recommendation of the odmpany commander. 7 Sergt. Edward P. Roberts, at his own Yequest, has been ordered reduced to the grade of private in Company E, I21st Engineers, and Pvt. Bernard P. Donnelly has been promoted to fill the vacancy, on recommendation of the ©ompany commander. # The appointment of Pvt. (Pirst Class) Guy T. Bolton, Headquarters Detach- ent, 20th Division, to a second lieu- tenant of Infantry and his assignment % the 29th Division, Military Police Company, for duty, was announced. Pvt. Shirley R. Lowman, Headquar- fers Detachment, 29th Division, has en ordered transferred from the tive to the reserve list. £ The recent orders directing the hon- ®rable discharge of Pvt. John F. Bar- fett, Company F, 121st Engineers, on account of removal from the city have Deen revoked, ¢ The chief of the Militia Bureau of e War Department has brought to attention of the local brigade head- uarters the fact that a number of dis- llowances in the accounts of finance ffices have béen made by the general y | ceive There are said to be only two | duty at camps as a part of advance or rear detachments or supply detach- ments when their units were not pres- ent, have also been credited with at- tendance for pay at armory drills. This practice was declared to be distinctly contrary to law and regulations in that no personnel is entitled to armory drill pay for periods during which it has or will receive active duty pay. It was | directed that special attention be given | this matter regarding personnel on ad- | vance or rear detachment duty during field training periods. | | It was announced that the brigade | Tuesday evenings of each week from 8 to 10 o'clock, for the convenience of those desiring to confer with the com- manding general or other officers not permanently on duty. Plans are being made by the DHQ | Club, composed of members of the Headquarters Detachment, to hold a get-together supper. While the date | has not been fixed, 1t has been sug- gested that it be held immedmately fol- | lowing the ceremonies on June 18 at | the Central High School Stadium, when the entire guard will be massed to re- from Wars a flag to be competed for each | year by units of the guard. In prepa- ration for the event, which will be the first social event of the club, a drive is being made for members. Instead of having frequent examina- tions during the year for the purpose of promoting enlisted men to the com- | mission ranks, the local guard has de- | cided to hold only one set of examina- tions, unless, of course, there is an “Graham | headquarters offices will be open on | the Veterans of Foreign | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, JUNE 2 1929—PART 4 emergency, when special examinations will be held. An order just issued says that these annual examinations will be held for all branches during the first two weeks in November, They will be open to all enlisted men who have completed six months’ service immediately preceding the date of their examinations. All applications to take the examination must be submitted prior to October 15 of each year. Examining boards ap- pointed by the Corps Area commander for the respective branches of the serv- ice will be designed to conduct the ex- aminations. The District of Columbia has been | allotted the following vacancies at the | Coast_Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va.: Two appointments for the battery | officers’ course, September 14 to Novem- | ber 2 next. and one appointment to the enlisted specialists’ course, Scptember 13 to December 9. next. It was pointed out in orders that those desiring to avail ‘themselves of the course should apply to brigade headquarters as soon as practicable, The Headquarters Detachment also is making a drive for recruits prior to the annual encampment. It was said that there are vacancies for six more good men. | sergt. Ackerman delivered a lecture at the Non-Commissioned Officers’ School on the duties of the adjutant general section. The duties of the postal section were discussed by Sergt. Krider. Two lectures will be delivered at next week's drill, it was announced; one by Sergt. Edwards on the duties of the quartermaster section, and another by Sergt. Wilson on the finance section. Plans are being made by the Head- quarters Detachment to form a base ball team. Some of the equipment has | been acquired. Elmer Humphrey is { athletic director of the unit. McNamee OMEBODY asked me a little while back whether radio broadcasters were really as excited as they seem to be when they are broad- casting some exciting sporting or political event. I could only answer for myself—that I never had to pump up any excitement, and that I always have to wear high shoes, tightly laced, so I won’t jump out of them when Clyde Van Dusen cuts in and takes the rail, or Babe Ruth pops a home run with the bases full, or Strong makes an 80-yard run through a broken field. My {friend replied that veteran sport- ing reporters always seem calm, and rather hard boiled, no matter what happened, and he supposed that if you saw enough of this kind of thing, you got just like an old pair of suspenders, with no more stretch in them. I knew, of course, that it is part of the writer's trade not to join in the crowd excite- ment, but in thinking all this over, I came to one very definite conclusion about radio broadcasting: If a man ever loses the habit of get- ting excited, when there is something going on worth getting excited over, he is through as a broadcaster. Here's a curious thing. You can fake emotion on the stage, as any good actor does, but for some reason or other you can't strain this imitation feeling through a microphone. It has to be real or it falls flat. There is a reasonable ex- planation for this. An actor’s voice is backed up by gestures, facial and bodily expression, stage setting, and, above all | by the crowd feeling, which an audience engenders in it itself, which makes it credible and receptive toward emotional efforts. “Mike” Good Lie Detector ‘The radio voice—nothing but a voice —mind you, lacks all these helpful trimmings, and it lands among one or two persons who aren’t steamed up with any crowd mania. Anything a bit strained or “phoney” in the expression sticks out like a sore thumb. I'll lay a bet that a microphone would be a good lie detector. Take a doubtful wit- ness into an outside room and let him broadcast to the court and he would have a tough time to put over any stalling or evasion. Another consideration is that, since great radio subjects are necessarily dra- matic and exciting affairs, the feeling of the event, as put out by the broad- caster, must keep pace emotionally with the actualities, Take the derby, for instance. Everything is working up to that last 2-minute dash. Wouldn't it be a let-down to have somebody report the actual race in a flat, matter-of-fact tone? It would be a terrible anti-cli- max. The announcer must have feel- ing, and if he hasn’t got it, he's sunk. You can’t fake it over the radio. Some of my correspondents have been asking where I have been lately. I am glad to have this space to tell them about some of the demands on a broad- caster’s time. As a matter of fact I have been in a whole string of Mid- dle Western and Eastern States making congert appearances—about 24 of them, I think it was, in the month of April alone. Most of these concerts are not broadcast. I enjoy singing and it has been a great pleasure to get in personal touch with my friends around the coun- try, but I began to get lonesome for that other old friend, the microphone, and the Kentucky derby was like old times gain. Singing in a small town in Ohio re- cently, I was touched to find that an elderly lady—she was 76—had driven 30 miles in an old-fashioned *spring wagon” to attend my concert. When her husband was in his last illness, he had asked her to thank me, sometime, for a song I had sung over the radio and she had come to do so, and to ask me to sing this song again. Un- fortunately she could not remember what song it was, but I sang what I | thought must have been the one, and I saw by her expression—she sat in the front row—that this was it. She was a sweet and gracious old lady, and I confess, as I sensed her deep feeling, that, for once my professional capacity for emotion was almost too much for me. I had difficulty in finishing the song. Victim .of “Kidding Match” Artemus Ward once said it would have been worth $10 to him if he had never been born. I felt something like that in a rough “kidding match” at the studio the other day, in which, at first, I got all the breaks, but which wasn't 50 good at the finish. Somebody got into my mail a fan letter written to another announcer. other members of the staff. I handed him the Jetter, “Read it,” he said, “I like to have the world hear these nice things they say about me.” I started reading it aloud. It was some of the most violent invective I have seen on paper. I got a cheer from the crowd as I came to each climax of denunciation, with my friend standing dumb alphabet. You'd make less trouble for everybody. You know about as much about politics, football and horse racing as I know about knitting. The Old Soldiers’ Home for you, boy. You're through!” which greeted this salvo, and then I was compelled to read the last line, printed in capitals and underscored: “THIS GOES FOR McNAMEE, TGO.” ‘This time, my friend stepped forward and lead the cheering. Finally Made a Mistake I was reminded the other day that the old “talking to yourself” racket, which appeared in the early days of broadcasting, has entirely passed out. Before radio broadcasting settled down to an even keel, under reputable man- agement, there were flight-by-night outfits which were trying all sorts of dodges to get on the map. One was He was standing by, with a half dozen | by rather sheepishly. It wound up like | this | “You'd better learn the deaf and I joined in the yell of lppreclafion\ “microphone” rigged on an automobile down near the dock. There would be an elaborate set-up of wires and ap- paratus on the car, and the departing celebrity would not know that he was talking into a dead disc. However, the publicity would be played strong and the rotogravures would carry the picture of the “big shot” broadcasting his farewell mes- sage. The publicity, of course, was all that the thimble-riggers got out of it. The celebrity, off for Europe, would not have a chance to check up and they usually got away with it. However, they made their inevitable mistake in due time. They induced a ‘Wall Street financier to “talk to him- self,” just before embarking. He was suspicious and instructed his secretary, remaining here, to find out what hap- pened. He did. The boss came back from Europe three weeks later and landed a whole fist-full of knuckles on the fake outfit. So far as I know, that was the last of this pastime. McNAMEE'S QUESTIO BOX. Graham McNamee receives a great deal of mail, but each week he will publish the answers to those questions holding the Ereatest amount of general interest. All Guestions should be ° accompanied by = a stamped, self addressed envelope and ad- dressed to Graham McNamee, 711 Fifth Ave- nue, New York City, or in care of this newspaper. Please make your aquestions brief. . L. W.—Yes, it is true that cer- tain studios have professional “kissers.” An ordinary kiss is a flop in a radio drama. Making it sound plausible is a difficult art. Kissing a microphone is, of course, a part-time trade. C. N—The qualifications for an an- nouncer are a good voice, well placed and controlled; flexible imagination and emotions, so that one may feel and con- vey excitement; good diction; the ability to sense and report essentials in a crowded moment. . T. R—My most interesting broad- cast was the Tunney-Dempsey fight in Chicago. The Army and Navy game of 1926 was probably the second. G. T. M—As I saw it, Clyde Van Dusen took the rail just after the end of the first quarter, cutting in in front of the field. There was a strip of water several feet wide next to the rail, making the inside horse swerve out. L. B—Golfing and automobiling are my personal recreations. L. R. B—Yes, I listen to radio when I'm on vacation. I never get tired of it L. M—It is true that Washington officialdom was not hospitable to radio broadcasting at first. We had to feel our way in slowly. C. L. B—I am referring your ques- tion to a technical expert, who will write you. (Copyright, 1929.) Eneters SHIGhNS o] Has Music Assemblies TWO programs will be presented at the assemblies held Tuesday and Wednesday of this week at Eastern High School, according to announce- ment made by Mrs. Frank Byram, head of the music department there. The high school orchestra will present se- lections both days. Tuesday, beginning at 9 am.,, for the lower semester assem- bly, the following will present solo numbers: Olivia Johnson, Rachel Nie. domanski, Isadore Fischer, Joseph Did- den, Ethel Pote, Mildred Bishop, Leah Effenbach, with a boys’ chorus in one number and a selection from “Caval- leria Rusticana,” played by Ralph Bucca, first violin; Max Rifkin, second violin; William Drescher, viola, and Ludwig Manoly. violoncello. he upper semester as- as soloists: Edna Creel, Margaret Bovey, Betty Rodier, Lillian Llewellyn, Ann’ Rossner, Jane Menefee, Grant Vandemark, Ralph Bucca, Gene- vieve Spence and Leah Effenbach, with selections by a girls' chorus and music from “Mignon” by the string quartet above mentioned. The accompanists will be Mrs. Byram, Miss Wood, Miss Spence, Miss Effen- bach and Bennet Wood. Piano ;dASong Recital Announced for June 18 AJOINT recital of songs and piano music will be presented at the Washington Club the evening of June 18 by Mary Alexander, pianist, and Gonzalo de Arango, Cuban tenor. Both performers are young and will make their initial formal appearance before Washington audiences on this occasion. Senor de Arango 1 feature songs written by the Spanish composer Ser- rano as well as songs of his native land. Miss Alexander recently came to Washington from Paris where she studied under Alfred Cortot. Institute of Musical Art Gives Second Concert | The symphonic orchestra of the In- I stitute of Musical Art will present the second concert since its organization Tuesday at 8:15 p.m. in the Vermont Avenue Christian Church. 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