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Care in Checking Hook-Ups

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1925.

LAW GRADE TALENT.

Checks Advance Of Radio. Hook-ups hastily connected, socket. It is better to have the Bud carelessly checked may trouble revealed through one Now York: Radio will not be- result in the loss of much time tube, than in all,

como An intellectual force in and monoy.

Blow-outs may be avoided by socisty until its broadoant diroo- This is the ossential point in the use of only 2236 volts of the tore and speakers are picked for considering the matter of keeping B-battery for testing. Then, if their education and intelligenOS, vacuum tubes longest. Vacuum this accidentally is orossed on a programmes of higher quality are tubos are epsily and delicato, and fllament lead, it will not be arranged and advertisers and must therefore be used with ex enough to destroy the tube, propagandists are banished from treme care and caution.

although it will impair its re- the studios. A wrong connection, an un- ceptive qualities to dozno extant. obhacked short, any one of several This voltage will light up the the New Republic, weekly periodi- With those recommendations, misstops may result in a blown- tube with abnormal brilliancy: cal of opinion, indiote radio broad- out tubo, To avoid this, the best That will be enough to show that casting to-day as unintelligent, advice for fans who make their thoro la an orror in the con-commercialized and unprogres- circulta step by step.

{nections.

alvo, while it socs in this industry

The first wiring to be done in At all times, tubes abould be the development of a powerful any receiver is installation of the burned at the lowost effective educational institution. Alament loads. These wires point for good reception. Too

cubo

should be run along the base, if much fllomont current and plato "In most parts of the country." possible, and all connections with voltage cause the thorium coat- roads an editorial, "fully 90 por sockets, A-battory anding, especially on such tubes as cont. of the non-musical-matorial rboostals completed - before any the 199 and 201-A, to burn off, on the air is sheer rubbish, not other wiring is begun.

leaving an inoffiefont tubo,

worth the attention of any one When the filament wiring la Whenever there is dificulty with more than an eight-year-old complotod, a good practice is to with reooption, the best way to

mind." tost out the tubos in their sockets. Jchook over a hook-up is to turn If they light, the wiring is correct. off the controle. Sometimes, B-battery connections should however, this. Isn't practicable, not be made until after this tost ospecially when the effect of cer- is made and it provos successful, tain changos is to be noted in the Even after the B-loads are con- tubos or the whole apparatus.. [nocted, extreme caution should bo usod. A B-wlro, might be in- jadvortontly crossed with a fla- mont lead, with the result that a tube could easily bo blown out,

Paid advertising is forced on the listener, the writer continues, after-dinner spcochos, aro trans- mitted with little regard to their morit, and a corps of volunteer publicists fill the air nightly. Of course, broadcasters must pay to get competent speakers and on- tertainers, but this is just as Shakespeare is on the air. Sta. important as having good men in Even after chooking up closely, gun a series of prosentations of he adds.

tion WLS, at Chicago, has bo-the faculty of a great university, caution must still be the guide. the famous dramatist's plays, "This remarkable invention," Use only one tubo, jastoad of all though the microphone.

Big the writor oxplains,

"with for which the hook-up provides, scenes of popular oporas also will potential powers second only to insorting it coparately in each be reproduced.

those of the printing press and

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SECRET TRANSMISSION, with an audience already near 19 Secret radio transmission is public school system, is mala ly)

as largo as that of our enti ro perfectly possible, according to under control of men unfitted by THE HUMAN ZOO. Edouard Belin, inventor of a training and personality for posts photo-transmission system. His of such importance. idea depends on synchronizing

the transmitter and receiver to "While there are a fow excep perfection and making it impos.tions, such 0.8 stations main' sible for an outsider to discover tained by universitios, it is) the key to this system.

generally true that the making of programmes is in the hande jof underpaid individuals, picked up at haphazard, usually musi o- Shoppers at the Gimbol storo torost is music. They are ad mir- lans or men whose primary in- in New York will have the ably fitted to assemble orchos- unique opportunity of Booing how

IN VIEW OF SHOPPERS.

radio programines are broadcast tras, pianists and singore: but A double glass partition separate addresses they are about as com-]

when it comes to lootures-and the studio rocms of station

WGBS from the store, so that petent as Florenz Ziegfeld is to outsiders may seo the antire Irun Columbia University. operation and yet not interforo: "The devolopment of motion pictures in the United Statos was held back half. a doondo becauso at first it was, LITERARY CESSPOOLS RAIDED. in the control of fly-by-nights, adventurors and reformed push- Twenty tone of obscone books (cart poddlors, not one in a bun woro seized recently by Paris dred of whom had reached the scorot service mea in a numbor social level whore one. takes

shops owned by wealthy one's hat off indoors.

of

brothors. The pousity in France Radio broadcasting seems for dealing in such literature is threatened by the same fate; and only a short term of Imprison for somewhat the same reason: mont, anda maximum fino of 5,000 boostse, a remarkable now.eduo- frands. At Butry, Oles Depart-ational device has suddenly ment, 1,000 photographic plates developed an a sort of by product and 10,000 obaceus prints were of industry, and is therefore in soized. Five big motor lorries the hands of business med not had to be used to take all this only Ignorant of its proper use, printed filth to the polios head- bus indifferent ad to whether it is

uned properly or not."

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By D. Batchelor