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THE TELEVISION BECOMING REALITY Soon We Will Be Speaking of “Ikes” as Well as *“Mikes.” Astonishing Progress Will Be Demonstrated at New York World’s Fair in 1939. By Frances Burger. HEN is the magic of tele- vision to enter our homes and become as familiar as the telephone and radio? | Can you envisage yourself in a nice | comfy chair, at your elbow a refresh- ing drink and the ever necessary smokes, while before your eyes your favorite home run big leaguer does his stuff, or your favorite on the turf | romps home an easy winner, or the | Olympic games, each separate thrilling gport, are fought and won. Imagine | a ringside seat but a fireplace seat at the big fight, all of the thrill and | none of the inconvenience of arriving | or departing It may be a decade or two before the actual miracle of home television | becomes a reality, but television has | come and come to stay. The greatest | experiments of American history are | unfolding day after day as the Na- tional Broadcasting Co., with its tele- | vision antenna more than 1250 feet above Fifth avenue, New York City, | transmits millions of electrical im- | pulses that direct streams of electrons in portraving television impulses in homes 50 miles away. Since 1931 | N. B. C., pioneers in the development | of television, have advanced slowly but surely towards the desired goal. | With the advance of television & new terminology comes into its own, and before we have quite grasped the magic import of the science we find ourselves becoming accustomed to words such as audio (sound), video (picture), iconoscope (special camera), | and instead of the “mike” we have | the “ike.” The iconoscope tube is the heart of the television camera. It is ,:nurd-1 €haped, with a metal plate inside on which the image is focused. When | in use, the plate is the electron target | from which electrical impulses are | carried through heavy rubber cable The tube, an invention of Dr. Zworykin, caused a rapid move for- ward in the science. Experiments have | been both through the air and by | underground route, and it is antici- pated that both means will play a part in the television network of the future. Voice has no connection with the {conoscope camera, but is picked up by micropic World t in 1 began in e, 1936, a1 which time experiments o i A MADAM JUSTICE E OUR the National king officers of Woman's Party. which stands for equal rights for women. want President Roosevelt to appoint a woman to the Supreme Court One does not And of the four who want a woman to sit in the seat which the resigna- tion of Justice Van Devanter leaves vacant, none can agree on who should have the post Burnita Shelton Matthews of the national council of the woman's party believes the President “unques- | tionably” should appoint a woman to | 8it on the highest tribunal. She is a former president of the National As- sociation of Women Law Helen Hunt West, a lawver who has had a colorful career as a woman leader in Florida, thinks there ought to be “women’ rather than “a woman" on the Supreme Court. She is acting congressional chairman of the Na- tional Woman's Party. | Miss Anita Pollitzer, a vice chair- man, agrees with Mrs. West, but she looked up from voluminous papers to | announce that she is too busy trying to get equal rights for women in ev- | erything to concentrate on getting any particular woman appointed to eny particular office. “I certainly think there should be | & woman on the Supreme Court | bench,” Miss Laura M. Berrien, treasurer of the National Woman's Party, declared Miss Berrien is a vice president of the National Association of Women Lawyers and a member of the law | film headed by Mrs. Matthews—Mat- thews, Berrien & Greathouse—the only one in the Capital composed of 85 many as three women OBJECTING to any campaign to put a woman on the bench of the high court is Helen Hill Weed, a &tern, gray-haired person, who pores over law books doing research for the National Woman's Party and whose father was for 38 years a Represent- ative from Connecticut. Mrs. Weed knows of no woman qual- ified for the place. She declared she “would rather keep that old reac- tionary, Justice McReynolds,” on the bench than see a member of her own | gex, Federal Judge Florence Allen, | there. Bobbed-haired Judge Allen of Ohio is the only woman just one | step below the Supreme Court. The Congressman's daughter ob- Jected to Miss Allen on grounds that the woman jurist is “a feminist.” “I don't think Judge Allen would do for the place at all” said Mrs. Weed emphatically. “She is a fem- fnist and she believes in putting women off in a cabin somewhere, pro- tecting them and legislating for them. “I believe only in removing the barriers that keep women out of posi- tions so they can get the jobs if they Qualify,” she continued. Mrs. Weed objected just as vigor- ously to Judge Genevieve Cline of the United States Customs Court. Judge Cline is unsuitable, she con- tended, “because she is well-versed in only one form of legality.” Mrs. Matthews, small, slim and dark-haired, began her feminist career while & law student by picketing the White House during the woman suf- frage campaign. She would have the President appoint Judge Cline ‘‘be- cause of her record, because she has served longer than any other woman on the Federal bench, and because she was the first of her sex to sit there.” The United States customs judge was first appointed by Coolidge and subsequently reappointed. Mrs. West, who is credited with first obtaining jobs for women in banks in Florida through her free employment agency for women and girls, would put her sister attorney, Mrs. Matthews, on the Supreme Court beneh if she could. reason is because she heard one of the oldest members of Congress and a former jurist, Hat- |she saw no reason why More than 1250 feet above the crowds of Fifth avenue, in New York City, the National Broadcasting Co. has,perched a strange array of poles and rods that make a television antenna. From this device are transmitted the image of television to homes within a 50-mile radius. were also carried on between a regular transmitting station and & number of homes. Scparate and distinct, yet closely allied, have been the research, technical progress and the experiments in the science. ERE in Washington, the new studios in the Trans-Lux Build- | synchronizes with the P ing have been equipped to provide | television programs. The largest of | the seven studios, which is 40 by 32 feet, two stories high, has been com- pletely equipped with all nacessary | apparatus, including a special monitor | room, for slight broadcasts to be put |mln operation when television is in- | troduced to the Nation's Capital. | It is anticipated that by the time | the World's Fair opens in New York | City in 1939 television will have | advanced greatly, despite the tre- | mendous problemspresented. In con- | nection with the great event, an | agreement was signed by the president of the Radio Corporation of America, David Sarnoff, and the president of | ' the fair, Grover Whalen. for public | demonstration of tclevision. Repre- sentatives of the press both saw and heard the ceremony of the signing | of the agreement televised. | In a paper by O. B. Hanson, chief | engineer of the National Broadcasting | Co., is described the solution of some | of the problems by borrowing from all fields of science optics, electronics, lighting, motion pictures, radio en- | ‘RmPermg, acoustics, air conditioning and, of course, highly developed pho- tography. He states that “the co- ordination of these sciences and the development of techniques which are | applicable to television is a continuing | process. The television field can only | | be bricfly surveyed at this time, but from present knowledge there is ample | reason to anticipate a public service | of stupendous proportions, & medium | with new engineering techniques, new program ideas, new talent and new | commercial application.” | The N. . says the microphone | technique employed in television differs | from that in radio mainly with regard to the respective locations of the { microphone and the performers. In | radio the performers may change their location to suit the one chosen for the | microphone, while in television the microphone must be moved to the | location of the performer. and it is further desirable to correlate the acous- | tical “pick-up” with the video—that | is, & “close-up” and a distant “shot” | }shomd sound distant. It is the change | in radio of reflected to direct sound that creates this impresion of prox- imity or distance. The synchronizing impulses required are generated by vacuum tube synchronizing generators, operated 24 hours a day to guarantec | | maximum stability. These also pro- duce the “locking frequency” which transmitter.” PO Four Leading Woman Lawyers Want One of Their Sex to Take Van Devanter’s Place. One Says No. ton W. Sumners of Texas, say in the Capitol corridor last week that “‘Mrs. Matthews knew more law than any other attorney around.” Other reasons than wanting equal rights for women were advanced by some of the champions of women for a high court judgeship. These included the need for a wom- an's viewpoint on such future legis lation as may affect child labor, wages and hours, neutrality and social se- curity. “I think i1s ridiculous,” Mrs West declared, “that there is not a woman on the Supreme Court bench. One is badly needed when there are so many problems of legislation com- ing up that are so vital to women's interests.” * Mrs. Matthews protested against a statement of Mrs. Roosevelt at a re- cent press conference, when she said a woman should not be appointed to the Su- preme Court “if there were one qualified.” There are many women Qqualified for the place, according to the for- mer head of woman lawyers in the United States. | There is no requirement that a | person be a prominent jurist to re- ceive a high court appointment. | Donald Richberz and other men prominently named as possible ap- | pointees are not jurists, several wom- en suggested. WVOMAN mayors, diplomats, Con- suls, commissars of finance members of Parliament and League of Nations envoys may still be un- | usual enough to mention, but a glance at lists under the courts of the United | States puts no premium on woman lawyers. An example is Mary Agnes Quinn of Texas, the only woman of seven attorneys under the Attorney Gen eral of the United States, who has served longer than any of her male | colleagues. | May E. Payne of Washington is! one of two law clerks under the | Attorney General. | Agnes B. Stallings of Texas is | executive assistant to the assistant | chief counsel under the taxes and penalties unit. | There are from two to a half dozen | woman attorneys in every division and SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., AUGUST 1 . _1937—PART FOUR. The R. C. A. iconoscope turned a delighted eye upon the 1937 Summer fashion forecast. So far the recent fashion shows in the N. B. C. Building have been for the benefit of engineers, Jorming the basis of intensive exrperiments in television. Here is the latest picture of American television N.SB. € vielet of Betty Goodwin the end of a great tube clectrons beating agai lions of electrica tion atop the a DISAGREE department listed under the Depart- ment of Justice and courts of the United States, and how many more pers who wear dresses may be lurking behind initials is hard to estimate. Almost invariably, the wom- an lawyers were appointed during the | Roosevelt administration. Examples of such appointees Margaret Blander of New York and Patricia H. Collins of Geor ap- pointed in 1935 and 1936, respectively, to serve as special attorneys under | the division for the enforcement of anti-trust and kindred laws. Stella Akin and Fanny B. Wilson | were appointed in 1933 and in 1934 as attorneys under the claims division. | Mary A. Redmond was made an at- torney under the Alien Property Bu- reau in 1 In a period of three years, two of them during the same year, four | women have been made special attor- neys in the Federal courts since | Franklin D. Roosevelt became Presi- dent, are IN 1934 Sara A. Donohoe of Virginia | and Louise Hart of Georgia were made special attorneys in the Bureau of War Risk Litigation. In 1935 | Helen L. Bowman of Ohio received the same appointment, as did Mary Sue Brannon of Mississippi in 1936. In 1933 Vera M. Kelley of Minne- sota was reappointed attorney in the same bureau. Other women than Judges Allen and fluorescent mpulses transmitted from the television sta- “mpire State Tower are transformed into the lights and shadows that compose the moving image RTIAS The image ision announcer, appearing at n in 441 lines by a stream of screen. Here the mil- who have by Pre. been appointed to Roosevelt in- rer Marion place pla . who She 15 sister of Senator er Glass of Virgini ceived her post in July, 1933. Lucilie McMillin. a soctalite, is civil service commissioner, Katherine F. Lenroot is chief of Vhp‘ Children’s Bureau of the Department of Labor and Nellie Tayloe Ross is | of th 1933, In 1934, for the first time in history. the Civil Service Commission named a woman to the important post of dis- rict manager. She is Miss Rena B Smith, who was put in charge of the eighth district in St. Paul. There are woman justices presiding s States over Federal, Su- perior, Municipal and Juve- And in Jacksonville, Fla young woman signs her Sarah Bryan, justice of the Mint, an appointment nile Court, a comely name peace.” e Real Traffic Congestion. (;OSHEA\" N. Y. cafital of harness racing, seems to hold some sort of a record as a center of traffic conges- tion also. On a recent warm Sunday a careful count was kept by the police of the automobiles passing an intersection on Route 17, one of the main highways out of New York City. Fifty thousand cars passed in eight hours, although the village is about 60 miles north of New York. s the President's | and she re- | " Coolness F—-3 New Devices Promise in Motoring Sizzle to Be Taken Out of Summer, Just as Chill Has Been Banished From Experiences of Travelers in the Winter Season. CCELERATED by stupendous developments in hot weather home comforts, the process of making the automobile tour- ist cool, calm and contented in Sum- mer is nearing the first big destina- tion in the success of American mo- tor touring, according to Frederick C. Russell. Indications of this are no- where more evident than in the ac- cessory market, where scores of radi- cally new products are now on display After years of success in taking the chill out of Winter driving, the ac- cessory makers have turned their attention on the subject of taking the fizzle out of Summer. Car makers are nursing along the idea ‘with nu- merous improvements in design, one of the most conspicuous being the insulation of bodies so that motor kept from the passengers So significant are the new devel- opments that the automotive prophets ‘BUMPER SITUATION NEEDS ATTENTION By Frederick Russell. EFENSIVE driving seems to be the only way of coping with the kind that is best described as offensive. Owners of cars with shackles and bushings know by this time that it is detrimental to such units to oil them. Now there is an- other application of this tvpe of bush- ing which also must be kept free of lubricant. I refer to the rubber bushings at the ends of the front-end stabilizers which are being used on so many of the 1937 cars. These bushings must not be lubricated in any way. The mountings, however, should be in- spected if there is anvthing wrong with the alignment. The sta should always be central 1, and, if replaced, it st the same size as the original. rubber No more inc | support of the | modern bumper the | experience of a friend of e who managed to bend the front bumper of !his car back into shape by remov- ing it from the c; id jumping on it. He a light fellow by any means, but his 190 pounds would hardly seem sufficient to make an | impression on a unit which is sup- posed to protect vehicles and passengers. One of the popular and fairly mild tests of a bumper's re- sistance to impact would today send most bumpers into the land of the limbo. In this test a ton weight ran down a track until it struck the bump- er squarely in the middle at a speed of 10 miles an hour. mina' insufficier the T IS to be hoped that the bumper situation will receive the imme- diate and most serious thought of safety engineers. Without proper protection at the front. too many col- lisions are reaching too far back into the car. Witness the number of re- cent cases where the engine itself was virtually pushed into the driver's lap Kibvon ecutives (Continued From Page 1) transcontinental route between Dallas and Los Angeles. Smith was one of the first of the major air line executives to give en- couragement—to the ‘extent of a $i.- 250,000 order—to development of the giant DC-2 and DC-3. His abilities as an executive and promoter of his service are reflected | by the fact that American has carried their | Douglas transport planes, the | | are venturing the belief that this | Summer should find touring accom- | plished without many of the | discomforts. Both driver and car will profit in this important process. | JOILING radiators, for instance, will have no place in the well- regulated tour. This will be accom- plished through the use of special oils which tem, serve to ninate rust Some [ of the newer models are equipped with double fan belts which eliminate the possibility of slippage or breakage On some cars the engine oil itself is | kept cn0l by being passed through a section of the radiator. While this appears to be merely a lubrication feature it has a direct effect on en- | gine temperature through enabling | the whole power plant | cooler. Gas “lock.” that special annoyance that tied up so many motori: | Summer. will be out of the p the newer cars. There is a for owners of the older models, be | cause the market offers special | tachments td check the pre-vapor ing of the gas lines. Many of ideas used in the design of the lat models can be adapted to t ones Tire t ! minimized able pee bles are expected are tires better stand the punishment of high n hot weather. but more peo- ple will be able to equip with new rubber owing to low prices. By keep- ing pressures more accurate there will be less injury to side walls. fW type valve caps ilable for pose not only of maintaining more constant but of making to check over the tires. A point not likely to be considered is the saving and outside heat is more effectively | usual | added to the cooling sys- | to operate in tire trouble this year through bettep equalized brakes. ANUTHER device that will make engines run cooler and keep the engine temperature indicator below the danger line is the valve or top= cylinder oiler. It is coming into wids | popularity this season. Still another device is the sort remove car- bon through injecting chemicals that i attack the binder. These attachments | will ease the job for the valves and will 1 ckeck detonation both in low compres- | sion engines and in those of the h compression type which, with a litt] carbon, develop a super-knock even when operated on anti-knock f Many motorists this seaso; special valve oils mixed with the gase oline. It is preferable to feed such Is through special oilers but either n is a benefit. Because mot taking t men, it be fewer engi grade of lubricant heating in the past has been due to the mistake of using too heavy an oil in hot weather. Comfort is everywhere indicated for the driver himself, an gers. One of the mos Is a sun and glare visor instal inside the car y of this can be sw universal joint so as to cut as well as front glare. Much is et the new models scientific slanting of the w1 to Consid for his passer ome devices 1at can be A special on a off &ide sun glare ed \/E.\'TIIATION has improved. You will note more of on the top of the eonl vents tend om the motor special jobs feat roof. More w fully or fold down expensive cars hood sides to be | | | 1.000.000 passengers, more than any | A NOTHER first-ranking air line ex- 1 | ecutive whose first business ex- perience was banking is W. A. Pat- terson, president of United Air Lines Patterson, now 39, left a San Fran- | cisco bank to enter the aviation i dustry, his fst connection being as- sistant to the president of the Boe- ing Airplane Co nd Boeing Air Transport, which later became a unit | of United. When United Air Lines was organ- ized with headquarters in Chicago, Patterson moved there from Seattle as assistant to the president Honolulu-born, Patterson now in Kenilworth, a Chicago suburb, with his wife and two children, Pa- tricia and William, jr. The company Patterson rose to head claims to be the oldest in the country, with predecessor units or- ganized as early as 192 It operates in 15 States and employs 1,700 per- sons. President Patterson's ricular” activity includes trade asso- | ciation affairs. He was named chair- man of the air transport section of the Aeronautical Chamber of Com- merce upon its organization Well-groomed. with an appealing personality, Patterson has a cupid's bow mouth, a chin cleft by a dimple THOSE WERE THE HAPPY DAYS! “#ishron semorier —By Dick Mansfield OVUREALLY WERE CON- B TONE \E YOU COOLD YURN OOY - /4 VA(A‘fio AT ATLANYIC CITY, 7A ONLY YHE J\HIGH-TONE- 7 & CouLo AFFoRD’ (Ve o SIDERED HIGH- (ORUEN SUNDAY 1N ONE OF\ QB THOSE SPORY RGS WK A FRINGED OMBRELLA ToP SN \ RPeMEMBER, i <S5 oNERR C.G.SCHNEIDER, PRACTICAL BELL HANGER, HANGING IN gf‘f\rs BRANCH 1207 ST.NW, COLON(AL..\\I BEACH \s WAS A SORT ©” “THRILL YO CRESS A BUTTON AND HEAR “THE ELECTRIC BELL RING INSTEAD _— OF THE OLD DoOoR BELL WE USED YO FREQUENTLY OERK FROM XHE SOCKET \WHEN TCEMEMBER WHEN CALLING, You WERE CONS\DERED HIGH-TONE \F YOO HAD AN ELECTRIC BELL AN 7 7 WHOLNE ONERS Z— P N a5 ars e —am e /ONEY TROUBLE i "BOUT “THESE GRS CAPITOL STREET - Y’RE TDHIGH [i/:7% 2N 0 DUMR- WAITER WHEN Y00 WERE 24| CONSIDERED SOME- 2,Q00Y |F YoU HAD b GOLD IN »‘:?ue, ANSWER O LAST WEE FOLOING HAT= RACK§ ACARPET | COVERED BRICK TO HoLD THE Door OPEN, A COSPIDOR INSTEAD OF AN ASH YRAY AND ‘THE OMBRELLA STAND GAVE A TONEY APPEARANCE o THE AVERAGE HALL WAY, EMORY TEST WHAT DO YOUREMEMBERS K RUESTION, HERE WAS “THE NATIONAL RACE COouRsE 2 : AMI g \g |HG C&fi AVE. (T WEE K Mus/st‘m sroooAnszE!‘%A.\/.five. ONSWER, " TON ROAND,NE e ’ccmarzgf other air transport company to date. | “extra-cur- and brown hair As to salary. tablishes a maximum nually renowned 3 ne exec ckenbacker. He is —46 that Amerira’s is Eddie the oldest Just one knows Rickenbacker was World War " may not know tha nager of East operates more | ington ace, althouzh t he is general T Air Lines, which ough Wash- Rickenbacker was 0. n 1890, f days g date before on espondence schos m enough engi get him a Motors and bl S but they lacked thr Nineteen-year-old turned automobile racing and for seven ye was a race driver for various car manufacturers. It was a short jump | from & crash bonnet to an aviat | helmet, and both fitted Rickenback well. While he was getting up a racing team for an English motor car concern war was declared by the United States and he enlisted as an Army sergeant On arrival in France. R was assigned as one of Gen. Pershi staff drivers, but soon was transferred | to the Air Corps. Good fivers rose high and fast in those davs and Rickenback nerve and knowledze of engines soon got him a lieutenancy and an appointment as chief enginee ing officer. In September. 1918, h became commander of the 94th Aero Squadron with the rank of captain His exploits with the 94th—he sent | down 25 enemy planes—won him the iCmu de Guerre h four palms, the { Legion of Honor Medal, the Distin- ‘amshfid Service Cross with nine oak | leaves and the Congressional Medal of Honor. Back from the war, Rickenbacker resumed his connection with the auto- | mobile industry His fame attracted | financial backing and he became an executive of a motor car company bearing his name and producing a car which displayed the insignia of his World War flying squadron With the growth of industry, Rickenback thoughts turned from automobiles to planes In 1932 he joined Aviation Corp. as vice president of American Airways and a year later went over to North American Aviation, Inc., as vice presi- dent, which position he still holds, in addition to being manager of Eastern Air. Rickenbacker still loves automobile racing. He is president of the In- dianapolis Motor Speedway Corp., which stages the annual Xfemorial day 500-mile race. He is also chair- man of the American Automobile Association’s Contest Board. In February, 1934, just prior to cancellation of airmail contracts, Rickenbacker, with Jack Frye of T. V. A, flew a Douglas airliner across the continent in 13 hours 3 minutes, breaking the transcontinental commercial record. Nine months later he broke that record with a trans- continental flight of 12 hours 3 minutes 50 seconds. “Eddie” Rickenbacker, unlike so many technically-trained persons, has the faculty of being able to put his experiences into words and ideas. He has a lively imagination. He is the author of a book, “Fighting the Flying Circus,” and of two comic strips. This versatile airline executive and war hero is 6 feet 1!, inches tall and weighs 170 pounds. His brown hair is graying at the temples. He and Mrs. Rickenbacker have two boys, ages 9 and 12 “Eddie” writes of himself, “Have no particular hobbies but enjoy & were ) Kenbacker the aviation game of golf.” Like President Roose- velt, he smokes cigarettes. LY