HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1932.
PAGE THREE
Radio Is Great Modern Miracle
By CALEB JOHNSON.
WE RICH i
A young man, who is vice-president
of a New York bank, told me
that he dined recently at a fashion
able resort.
"All the other guests were very
rich," he said. "They were older
people, many of them retired. They
were shaking in their boots. They
are afraid there will be a social up
heaval and that their money will be
taken away."
I told him I thought these people
had a right to "worry.
"The social order will not be over-turned,'
I said, "nor will people
like your friends be stripped of
their possessions. But I do believe
that, when this depression is over,
the rich will be poorer and the poor
will have a degree of comfort and
security that they have never pos
sessed before. And this will be bet
ter for everybody."
In saying this, I am taking a po
sition which is contrary to my own
selfish Interests, for, while I am not
and never shall be rich, I have an
Income that Is much above the av
erage. If taxes are higher, mine
will go up with the rest.
But shouldn't they? What have
I done to deserve as much as I get
out of life?
You may answer: "You have
worked hard. You have been am
bitious and intelligent. Any man
who will apply himself in this coun
try can do well."
This is not a complete answer.
To be sure, I have worked. But
where did I work the hardest? On
a farm one summer (I still ache
when I think about it). And in
Montana in a construction camp.
The hours, in each case, were more
than twelve a day, and at night we
were too weary for anything but
bed.
On my farm my income was one
dollar a day; in the construction
camp it was sixty-five dollars a
month.
If I have increased my income it
is not because I have worked hard
er but because I happened to get
out of these tough jobs into one
that Is much easier and much bet
ter paid.
If I have used intelligence, it is
not greatly to my credit. I hap
pened to have been born into a
home of culture. I was sent to col
lege, and my expenses were paid.
Many rich people, Who are wor
ried for fear they will have to bear
a larger burden in the future, have
had all these advantages, plus the
added advantage of inherited
wealth. When they grumble they
give me a pain.
Surely, we who have had the best
luck in this country are going to be
wise enough to recognize it and to
assume cheerfully our full share of
the load.
JOBS
How many wage earners or sal
aried employees in this country
have stayed on one job as long as
twenty years? Probably more than
most people realize, but very few
equal the record of three employees
of a New York lead pencil manu
facturing concern. One of them,
the credit manager, has worked for
the same company for fifty-four
years, one of their salesmen has
been with them fifty years, and one
of the factory men fifty-five years.
All three are in good health and
still in active service. In this same
company the average length of ser
vice of the travelling sales force is
over twenty years. Twelve sales
men, still active, have a total of
four hundred and eight years of
service, an averageof thirty-four
years each!
Examples like that help correct
our idea that we are essentially a
restless people, constantly jumping
from job to job. These folks who
stay on one job continuously may
not get much excitement out of life,
but they certainly get more solid
satisfaction and security, and If
they are thrifty they are very likely
to leave larger estates to their heirs
than any of the job-jumpers.
JEWS
It is diillcult for Americans to
grasp the full extent of the antl
Jewish prejudice which exists in
many parts of Europe. In Ger
many the Fascist movement led by
Adolph Hitler has a part of its rev
olutionary program tne expulsion
of all Jews from Germany, and Hit
ler showed enough strength at the
recent election to cause great alarm
anions the Jewish population.
I have a Jewish friend whose
daughter not long ago married a
young Jewish banker 01 Benin, one
wrote home the other day that her
husband was closing up his busi
ness in Berlin and they were mov
ing to Amsterdam in Holland, and
mnnv of the other Important Jew
ish business men and bankers
of Germany were looking for more
friendly countries to move to.
When we consider the position
iwimled bv Jewish merchants and
bankers In America, the honor paid
to two trreat Jews. Cardozo and
Brandeis, who are justices of our
Supreme Court, the respect in
which Jews like Edward Filene of
Rnstnn and the late Julius Kosen
wald of Chicago, are held, any such
program as Hitler's seems incom
prehensible to us.
RICHES
Hnnrv Ford once told me the se
ot-ivt ,vf mnklne money. It lis to
manufacture something which ev-
ervhndv wants, make it cnoape
thnn anvbodv else can make It,
lfn nn imnrovlne the product and
reducing the cost of making it, and
cut down the retail price every
time the coat is cut.
That Is a rule that has never
failed to work, whether the product
be automobiles, or newspapers, or
kn.ri The lower the price, tne
wirier the market.
I was reminded of this the other
day when I saw a notice tnat tne
ovir,.inv manufacturing! the high
est priced automobile In the world
its American factory and
stopped trying to do business in
while Mr. Ford Is an-
nmmpinu n new car which will be
cheaper than anything he has yet
put out.
The old Idea that money can be
made only by selling high-priced
commodities to the wealthy is re
sponsible for a great deal of our
present economic difficulty.
Henry G. Russell, of one of the
Hartford high schools, who told the
Eastern Commercial Teacheds' as
sociation the other day that the
principal thing the matter with our
social and economic order today is
an excess of greed. Dr. Russell
warned the Teachers' convention
that young people must be taught
the dangers of avarice.
"Get the money" without regard
to how it is got, seems to be the
motto of an increasingly large num
ber of young men and women. It
is this idea, fostered by "success'
stories, in print and to a very large
extent in the movies, that Is at the
bottom of the whole system of
racketeering. Organized crime is
simply organized greed.
It is still true, as Saint Paul wrote
nearly two thousand years ago, that
the lov3 of money is the root of all
evil. Not money itself, but the love
of money. And the only possible
corrective to the tendency to put
money above everything else Is to
change our whole method of teach
ing the young, so that they will
learn that it is possible to live hap
pily without much money even
more happily, for most people, than
if they had money.
EADERSHIP
The type of normal human be
ings whose health is always perfect
and whose nerves are always calm
seldom or never develops leaders
men of genius, according to a re
port of the University of Illinois
Research Laboratories, where sci
entists have been studying human
types for several years.
It is the people who are nervous,
uneasy and always looKing tor
something to do who take the lead
in new business enterprises and be
come the geniuses of art and liter
ature, this report suggests. Tall
men are much more likely to be of
that type than the short, stocky
ones, Tne difference arises largely
from physical causes. The inter
nal chemistry of one type is much
more variable than of the other.
And this leadership type is much
more subject to illnesses which
have their origin in nervous insta
bility and blood changes, than are
the more placid people.
Perhaps the quiet folks who nev
er do anything except follow the
normal routine of life are more con
tented than the other kind, but they
don't have half as much fun!
GREED
I am Inclined to agree with Prof.
ewer Chicks Hatched;
Butter Markets Slump
Fewer chicks hatched by western
hatcheries. Pacific coast egg pro
duction at Its peak and a break in
coast butter prices are events lea
turned In the weekly market news
summary from the O. S. C. exten
sion service.
Commercial hatcheries in the
western states hatched fewer chicks
during December, January and
February than a year ago, accord
ing to government reports, but
there was some Increase in natcn
incs in the eastern states. Book
ings for March and later delivery
were reported 3.7 per cent ugnier
than a year ago for the whole coun
try and down 8.4 per cent in tne
western states.
Although the peak in Pacific
coast egg production was reached
during the week ending April l,
coast markets held fairly steady.
Storage of eggs by first receivers
became quite heavy but large spec
ulators were not In the market. A
heavy consumptive demand for the
United States as a whole helped to
reduce the necessity of storing,
With receipts of butter at coast
markets heavier than during recent
weeks and a lessened demand fol
lowine Easter, prices along the
const broke sharply lower. Port
land jobbing prices on score
declined two cents to a level of 23
to 24 cents on April 1. At San
Francisco, 2 score declined three
cents and stood at 20 cents whole
sale April 1.
The government report on inten
tions to plant onions, made as of
March 1, Indicated only a small in
crease In acreage in Oregon, but in
the whole country the report indi
cated that growers intend to plant
11 per cent moro acres of onions.
This would be an acreage about the
some as in 1929. The principal in
crease Is expected to be in Color
ado and Michigan, with more mod-
arntB Increases In Indiana, New
York, Minnesota and Idaho,
When you stop to think of it, the
most wonderful thing in the world
is radio communication. Young
folks of today have grown up
among so many modern miracles
that they don't realize what the
world was like only a few years
ago, before there was any such a
thing as electric lights and tele
phones and phonographs and mo
tion pictures and automobiles and
airplanes and radio.
I have seen all of these things
come about In my own lifetime, and
to me the most miraculous of all or
them is radio.
It is literally true that there is no
place the human being can go and
not keep in touch with the rest of
the world if he so desires. Few
people, outside of technical experts,
realize the strides that have been
made in the last two or three years
in the so-called "short wave" radio
broadcasting. There is literally no
distance that cannot be spanned by
the short waves, for they travel
completely around the earth with
out any difficulty at all. The radio
short waves are not affected by at
mospheric conditions to anything
like the extent that longer waves
are, and ingenius methods have
been devised whereby short waves
are picked up by radio stations,
converted into long waves and re-
broadcast.
By the use of short waves any
airplane can be equipped so that its
pilot and passengers can talk read
ily with the earth's surface, receive
communications, weather reports
and navigating instructions, or lis
ten to the few broadcasting sta
tions which are using short waves
for that purpose. Successful com
munication between submarines at
the bottom of the ocean and ships
on the surface or shore points has
been accomplished by means of
short waves. The latest applica
tion of the short wave broadcasting
Is the feat accomplished a few days
ago by the Columbia Broadcasting
System in sending out a complete
radio program of entertainment
from a moving train of the Balti
more and Ohio Railroad. I was one
of the passengers on that special
train and have seldom been present
at anything more interesting. It
was particularly interesting because
of the possibilities which it opened
up.
A good many years ago, before
the word "radio" was in use and be
fore the human voice had ever been
carried over the ether waves in
other words, when the words "wire
less telegraphy" described every
thing that was known about this
subject at that time the Lacka
wana Railroad tried the experiment
of wireless communication between
a moving train and some of the
stations along its line, with the idea
that it might be possible to substi
tute wireless for the telegraph
wires in train dispatching. The
system worked pretty well under
good weather conditions, but the
potency of the short wave had not
yet been discovered, so that com
munication was uncertain and sub
ject to all sorts of interruptions.
Moreover, to operate a wireless tel
egraph system meant having a
skilled telegraph operator on each
train, increasing the train crew and
adding to operating expense.
If it were possible to have a ra
dio telephone system on every train
with a loud speaker receiving set,
which would always be in commu
nication with some station along
the line, then train orders could be
given direct to the conductor with
out his having to pick them up at
stations, and reports could be made
direct from the train, while still in
motion, of any trouble which might
occur along the line. And if every
passenger train were equipped to
pick up radio broadcasts, as so
many automobiles are today, pas
sengers who find railroad travel
monotonous would have something
in the way of diversion to while
away the time.
Whether such developments, and
others, can be brought about, de
pends, of course, on how success
fully radio waves can be sene out
from the moving train and picked
up along the line; the reception of
broadcasts on a train is a simple
enough matter, but the experiment
which was carried out between
Washington and Baltimore was to
find out whether radio would work
as well in the opposite direction by
the use of short waves.
And it certainly worked.
A Baltimore and Ohio dining car
was stripped of its tables and con
verted into a broadcasting studio.
Heavy curtains were hung all
around the car to absorb any echo.
Two grand pianos were installed at
one end and Jack Demy's twelve
piece orchestra, with Belle Baker
as the vocal soloist put on a half-
hour short wave broadcast pro
gram. The short waves were pick
ed up at a temporarily equipped re
ceiving station at Laurel, Maryland,
from which they were transmitted
to Station WCAU, where they were
automatically rebroadcast and were
picked up by folks who had their
receiving sets tuned in for that sta
tion as readily as II the program
was being broadcast right there in
the station studio. Not because it
was necessary, but for the sake of
impressing listeners with the fact
that the program Was coming from
a moving train, one of the micro
phones was nung out or the car
window to pick up the noise of the
wheels and the shriek of the loco
motive's whistle. When that mi
crophone was silenced there was
little, if any, train noise to muffle
the broadcast.
It was an excellent experiment In
entertainment, out a good many
people must have wondered what
was the practical value of spending
the $30,000 which the experiment
cost. I asked that question of of
ficials of the broadcasting company
and of the railroad.
"Any railroad man will tell you
that nothing could be more useful
in railroad operation than some sim
ple means whereby the train dis
patchers at junction points along
the line could always talk to the
conductors of all the trains in mo
tion," said one of the railroad men.
"It is one thing to give instructions
to a train crew, and another thing
to be sure that they understand
them. With the cnoductor able to
talk readily to the nearest station
equipped for radio reception there
would never be any question as to
whether he knew just what his or
ders were. And that is only one of
the many possibilities which this
opens up in railroad operation."
"We can think of a lot of prac
tical applications in broadcasting
of the possibility of equipping ev
ery important train in this way,"
said one of the radio men. "Say
that the trains on which the Presi
dential candidates will travel this
summer and fall are equipped for
broadcasting so that every speech
the candidate makes at way sta
tions along the line can be broad
cast over the entire nation. That
would be valuable and interesting,
wouldn't it. Or suppose, as often
happens, that some broadcasting
star is also travelling on a theatri
cal circuit or is suddenly called to
Hollywood, he or she could do the
daily broadcasting stunt at the
same hour every day while travel
ling, just as well as from a fixed
point We don't know yet what is
going to come out of it all but, any
way, it was an interesting demon
stration of some of the newer pos
sibilities of radio.
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