Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 213, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 January 1925 — Page 16

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RADIO SCHOOL AT . lOWA UNIVERSITY READY IN MONTH v Will Include Economics, Politics and Coms merce. By EEA Service lOWA CITY, la., Jan. 15. er university of the air will open early in February with station WHAA as the medium. The course will be conducted by the University of lowa and will include economics, commerce, sociology, education, English and politics. “All persons are invited to follow the radio lectures,” reads the announcement. “But all who desire credit must be regularly registered -before the first lectures are given and should at once report to the extension division indicating the courses selected. Registration materials will be sent promptly to all who report.” Each course will consist of one fif-teen-minute talk a week and assigned readings from two or three books which the radio student is supposed to get from a library. Topics for written work win be furnished every two weeks and reports ■will have to be turned in every other week. Among those conducting the courses will be: Prof. Frederic B. Knight, on psychology of learning, each Wednesday at 4:30. Prof. T. A. Knott , English, Wednesday at 4:45. Theodore Yoder, current, social and economic problems, Saturday at 12:30. Prof. Frank L. Mott, appreciation of literature, Saturday at 12:45. Prof. Frank E. Horack, American constitutional system, Saturday at 1. The Loop Antenna The directional properties of a loop are spoiled by the presence of magnetic materials situated near it. The steel framework of a building has a detrimental effect on the direction of a loop. These buildings have the characteristic of casting shadows across the loop, aside from destroying the directional properties. This condition is particularly true of a pancake loop. It is wise to keep the loop away from metal stairways and radiators. The Energy of Aerials A loop aerial picks up the least amount of energy of all the aerials. An indoor aerial about twenty feet long and of one wire will pick up more than a loop while an outdoor aeriel will gather more than the other two, and a long aerial more than" a short one, but the long one also picks up other disturbances which are objectionable.

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means of publicity. There has been buL little systematic broadcasting of regular symphony concerts, KSD, St. Louis, WEAF, York, and WLW, being notable exceptions. The shortcomings in the present conduct of radio are due to the fundamental error of wanting something for nothing. Way out west in lowa, is the one place to go if you are looking for something different If you don't believe us, tune in KFNF at Shenandoah some evening and listen to Henry and the Seedhouse Gang, plenty of music, put out by regular folks the way you are sure to like it WEAF has been presenting som# very fine programs 'lately, but there seems to be a sort of loftiness about their announcers, some how or other when you tune in on this station they sort of make you feel as though you are not at home. Oh, well, you cannot please everybody. Harry M. Snogrps, “The King of the Ivories,” as he is known to thousands of radio fans throughout the United States, last night broadcast his last program from WOS. Tomorrow Snodgrass will walk from the Missouri State Prison a free man, with the best wishes of every radio fan in the country behind him. Harry has not as yet decided just what he will do. Reports have been given out that he will go on the vaudeville stage. The writer has just received a letter from J. M. Whitten, the announcer at WOS, in which he says: “Harry has not as yet decided Just what he will do when he is released from Jefferson City, but the radio fans of the country have his promise on one thing, wherever he happens to be, if there is a broadcasting station near, they are going to hear from Harry; he will never forget the radio fans and what they have done for him.” Receiving ‘conditions during the past week have not been up to the standard of tjiis time of the year; there has been a great deal of interference from static, and as usual with this condition existing, the programs offered by the various stations have been excellent. The outstanding events on the past week’s programs were the concerts by the New York and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestras, broadcast through WEAF and KSD, and the Brunswick hour of music, which went' on the air from several eastern stations last Tuesday evening. Vincent Lopez and his dance orchestra gave us two excellent dance programs on last Thursday and Saturday evenings from WEAF. The Victor program scheduled for this evening is very attractive and no doubt will be heard by many listeners. McCormack and Bori, by their exquisite recital on the first Victor program, managed to tear away all the prejudice of artists against radio appearances. Radio has at last triumphed; it has been recognized as a great human instrument securely fastened in millions of homes. Radio has the possibilities and opportunity to become a powerful new art. In it is found the mean.-; of getting to the American people the best to be offered li music, the greatest

danger now facing radio is the ever reaching and destroying peril of commercialization. If, however, radio is controlled by a group of artists and supported by the public, its scope will be limitless and its influence constructive. On the first Victor program McCormack conducted an experiment, he sang all alone, which, as he stated, he has made into a record, as yet unreleased. If when this record is released! and it meets with an unprecedented sale, the wary officials of the Victor company will conclude that it does pay to give something away. Lopes Signs Off On the radio We have said hello. And now-we say farewell. This is Lopez speaking, Pennsylvania Hotel. If you come down To New York town

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