Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 122, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 September 1925 — Page 18

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INVENTION HAS GREAT EFFECT UPON FARMER President of R. C. A. Tells of Benefits in Speech. Bv Tim rs Priecial NEfW YORK, Sept. 21.—Radio has greater application to the farm, and <o farm life than to any other phase of farm life, Gen. J. G. Harboard, president of the Radio Corporation of America, asserted before a recent meeting of the Advertising Club of New York here. No other Invention since the steam locomotive is destined to have such widespread Influence upon rural life, because no other has carried to much comfort, enjoyment and potential prosperity to the farm, in General Harboard's estimation. "Os all that may be said of radio In its variaus relations, the best is that it will tend to keep the young people on the farm,” said General iiaihoard. "There'is true independence; there is the real throne of the American sovereign. Entertainment and culture, and the throbbing life of the metropolis, carried to the farm by radio, helping to make rural life more attractive and desirable, will sustain that class which is in ours, as in all other free countries, is the very backbone of our national existence.”

Speaking As Farmer General Harboard said he was speaking as “more or less of a Kansas farmer,” since he spent his boyhood on the Kansas prairies, went from the farm to an agricultural college, where he graduated. However, he explained that he had missed several crop seasons,- during his thirty-four years of in the army, and several more in the radio industry. “The immediate teason for the recent exodus from the countryside, aside from its part as possibly one of the great cycles of history, lies primarily in the greater opportunities for recreation and interest afforded by life in the city,” he said. "Thjn, too, city li’e hat more com forts to give its workers. One must have lived on the farm, especially in winter; must have dug fodder from under the snow; or have seen the sun rise down the long vista of a com row with the mercury in its teens, or have harnessed mutes in the dark to appreciate the life of a farmer’s boy of the old days. And even with the improvements of recent years, life on the farm is not for the soft-handed weakling. Made More Attractive "Something has had to be done to cherish our farm life and safeguard our great farming industry. The farm has had to be made more attractive, both in the actual work done, and in the actual living of the life. Much has been done, and much remains to be done. "The rural telephone came first, and to some extent helped to end the Isolation of farm life. The gasoline engine has had a marked influence on the farm in doing the hardest and meanest chores, and in saving valuable manpower. Electricity, via the rural service line, has brought many advantages to the farmer and his wife. Pumping plants and running water have become common. "Among the other modern agencies which are redeeming farm life let us not overlook the automobile. V hi! the rural telephone started, the automobile has continued. "Radio broadcasting, I devoutly believe, is the greatest force yet developed by man. Since Gutenberg devised his crude wooden type and made printing possible nearly five centuries ago, there has been no single invention so closely touching human interest and human welfare as this miracle of the ages. The voice of radio broadcasting penetrates the cottage of the humblest farmer as readily as it does the palace of the Fifth Avenue millionaire. It laughs at distance. •For a fraction of the cost of his motorcar the farmer buys his s;-at In the radio audience, in the- form of a receiving set. Thereafter the farm house is in touch with city life; its isolation has forever gone. The great men of the nation, the President himself, will speak in the farmer’s house. "Myself a son of the soil, It will be • great satisfaction to my later years if, through radio, I can in some measure pay the debt I owe to a farmer ancestry and my heritage of health and to the simple life which was all that my boyhood knew.”

EXPORTS DOUBLED IN HALF OF YEAR Totals on Equipment Shipments for First Six Months of 1925 Twice as Much as for Same Period in 1924.

Bu Times Pvcruit WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—Exports of radio equipment from the United States during January to June, 1925, inclusive, totaled $4,068,4442, an increase of $2,242,196 over the total of $1,826,246 for the same period of 1924, according to the elec trical equipment division of the Department of Commerce. The marked growth which is taking place in the experts of radio apparatus from the United States is further evidenced by a comparison of shipments of $6,050,914 during the entire year of 1924 with those of the first six months of the current year, which amounted to $4,0b8,442. Thus radio exports for the first half of 1925 reached approximately 68 per cent of the 1924 total. Although exports of radio apparatus for each of the first six months of 1925 have not always exceeded those of the preceding month, they

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have consistently been considerably in excess of the shipments made during the same months of 1924. Average monthly exports for the first six months of 1925 are $678,074, an increase of $373,700 over the monthly average of $304,374 for the corresponding period in 1924. During the first six months of 1925 Europe and Canada maintained their position as the i :ost important foreign ma kets for radjo apparatus of American origin. Shipments to Europe during the first six months of, the current year totaled $647,574. an increase of $429,038 over the corresponding period of 1924 and an increase of $146,419 over the entire year of 1924. Great Britain and Spain were the leading European markets during the first half of the current year, while for 1924 Great Britain ranked first and Sweden second. Exports

Broadcasts Boost Ticket Sales >n ' <•' t Ktri'in I 1 EW YORK. Sept. 19. IWI Broadcasting of Philharmonic concerts from W jy. has increased the paid attendance at these concerts from 7,000 to a record patronage of 20,000. The theory that radio broadcasting harms theatrical and sporting world events has been disproved by the Philharmonic concert experience.

of radio apparatus to Great Britain during the first six months of 1925 were almost twice those made during the entire year of 1924, due largely to the lifting of the radio ban in that country on Jan. 1, 1925. Shipments to Spain during the first half of 1925 were almost twice those of the entire preceding year. This volume of business has been built up by American radio manufacturers and txporters through the sale of quality goods, and, although European radio manufacturers have been competing in this market, the purchasers have consistently preferred sets and parts of American origin.

OPEN CIRCUITS CAUSE DEFECT Deadness in Phones Is Sign. ® Open circuits constitute one of the defects most commonly found in radio receivers. This defect is denoted by a deadness in the phones, which persists, although all parts of the equipment have been examined and appear to be all right. Opens may occur in the battery circuits, the primary or secondary inductances, the tickler circuit, or in the variable condensers. These circuits may be tested for continuity by connecting one side of the circuit tester to one terminal of the circuit to lie tested and touching tho second terminal with the other side. The absence of a “click” in the phones as the circuit is made and broken will denote an open in thn,t circuit. When opens occur in variable condenser circuits they are usually due to a high-resistance contact which develops on the surface of the condenser plates, due to oxidization, and making what is equivalent to an open circuit.