Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 64, 16 March 1922 — Page 16

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EXPECT THOUSANDS TO ATTEND CONCLAVE OF FOREIGN VETERANS An unusually large celebration Is expected In Richmond when the Vet erans of Foreign wars hold their convention during the week of May 8 to 13. K. G. Barkoot shows will be brought to . Richmond by the local Genn-Llchtenfels post and wlil have the space on North A street extending from Ninth to Twelfth streets. The Barkoot shows travel with a Mctof tr aa r,onto Viiro five rirtxie'

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have one of the cleanest traveling shows in the country. K. G. Barkoot is the oldest private owner of a show of this kind in the country. A "Beauty" contest will be staged during the big convention for the pretty maids of Richmond and the winner will be sent on a trip to Atlantic City. This will be a feature affair in Richmond. The local post is expecting from 4.500 to 5,000 delegates from all over the state and is preparing for an overflow of festivities. Big Parade Scheduled A big parade will be given on one of the days of the week in which most all the organisations of the city will be represented. Richmond is considered lucky In securing the convention, inasmuch a? other cities in the state were desirous of having the affair. The membership campaign which th local oreanizafion of veterans is, now launching is urging all overseas soldiers to join. Those desiring to do ho may apply at any time at the rooms at Wifih Q n 1 Mom trftsj Installation of officers will be held! in the rooms Friday night at 8 o'clock; and every overseas man Is urged to be present at the meeting. ADOPTPHILADELHIA MOONLIGHT SCHEDULE FOR LOCAL LIGHTING Adoption of the Philadelphia moonlieht schedule for the use of the city lighting system was reported by D C. 11 ess and L. C. Weldon, officials of the municipal light plant to the board of works at the regular meeting Thursday morning. The new schedule .will insure that the most efficient use is made- of the city street lighting system. Reports of burning lights In the day-time, and other reports of lights not burning soon enough in the evering were what brought about the adoption of the new system, it was s-tated. 4 The new schedule has been carefully worked out by engineers of national standing, and it provides a definite hour at which lights shall be turned on in this city, for each day in the year. Nothing Is left to chance or the weather. Follows Chart. The engineer at the plant can follow this chart and be sure that he is Riiirig the city the most efficient service in its lighting system. Smoke or mist in the. valley where the plant is located had a tendency to make conditions different there from what they were in the city. L. C. Weldon, production superintendent was empowered to close a deal for the throwing over of the old licht plant smoke stack, provided he can get It done for a reasonable sum. I'etition to cut the curbing at 921 Sheridan street and a petition to build a private alley between Main street and National avenue near Southwest Second, were received by the board. The petitions were granted. Tentative discussion of contracts for painting the buildings at Glen Mil-, ler park was held by the board after the regular meeting. The contract will be advertised and bids received later. Advise Auto Numbers Stenciled on Chassis By Axrolat?d Pressl INDIANAPOLIS, March 16. Auto mobile owners were urged in a state-1 mcnt issued today by Robert T. Humes, chlpf of the state auto police, io stencil the serial or car number of their machine at several places on the chassis, and also hide an identification -ard in the upholstering. Several stolen automobiles. Mr. Unities said, had been recovered with the engine numbers obliterated, making return to the owner almost impossible. Hence his appeal for precaution against thieves. Treat Your Friends to LUNCHEON at PRICE'S

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Telling the World by Radio By FREDERICK J. HASKIN

NEW YORK CITY, March 16. New i York Is under the spell of a new fascination these days. It has gone in for radio phoning. Suddenly every body has begun to talk radio, playj with radio and Invite you to studio ether-tapping parties. The once so, popular ouija board Is now a back ( number when it comes to receiving! j :. ooroa Initomt the family gathers about its little radio receiving apparatus and listens to the varied program of music, lectures. news dlsDatcnes ana chiiarens beathe large commercial radio companies. Although this etherial entertainment has been popular for some time, it i3 only within the last two or three months that the passion for radio has become acute, 200,000 new receiving sets, it is said, having been installed in that time. Recent estimates show that approximately 700,000 American homes, schools, churches, halls and office buildings are now equipped as receiving stations, while the federal government has licensed more than 15,000 stations for transmitting messages of one kind and another. Every evening at 8 o'clock thousands of amateur radio operators, scattered all over New York City, New Jersey, Long Island anl up through New York state start twirling the curi ous knobs on top of their radio boxes: adjusting their headpieces, and listen ing to the loud, clear sounds of a pho nograph record which is being played many miles away. They continue to listen intensely and rapturously, not because they find the record so edifyine (it would sound much better played on their own phonographs) but because it is so delightfully uncanny to hear it from such a distance over the radio-telephone Static Mars the Music "Oh!" exclaimed a young woman breathlessly, the other evening as she sat for the first time with the receivers in her ears, "it's quite clear, and I can even hear the scraping sound of the record. It's Caruso. He's singing 'Ave Maria.' Where is it coming from? Trenton? Think of that Trenton! And he's been dead all I these months, yet here is bis voice singing to us and perhaps to thousands of others way out there in the night. Perhaps his voice can be heard all the way over in Italy, where he lies buried do you suppose so?" "Yes," said the owner of the radio box, "perhaps it could, if sent from one of the big broadcasting stations." "I wish the sound of the record were not so terribly loud, though," complained the young woman. "Sometimes it drowns out the song." "That is not the sound of the record you hear," the owner laughed. "That is what we call 'Old Man Static.' It sounds like frying bacon on a red-hot fire, doesn't it? Sometimes it's worse than it is tonight, but it's always pretty bad. One of the mean features the radio inventors have not succeeded in overcoming " "He's finished," interrupted the young woman. "Now they're putting something else on. A man's voice. He is giving the letters of his station KG something I can't quite hear the last letter. He's reading some news, all about Lloyd George in England, and now it's about a rum schooner found off the coast of I didn't get that. Oh. yes, he says it will be cloudy, with easterly winds, tomorrow. Goodness, there's your friend, Static, again it's quite deafening, isn't it? Ah, here's some more music, but now they are playing two records at once, and it sounds frightful. One is a jazz record, and the other is Tosti's 'Goodbye.' It's all rigt; the jazz has stopped. I suppose the 'Goodbye song ends this particular program, doesn't it?" "Probably," assented the owner of the apparatus, taking the headpiece from the young woman, s head, but something else from some other quarter will doubtless start up in a few minutes. The broadcasting goes on all evening. The most interesting thing, though, is to get on the high Battery Service by the Year "Snappy Service" AUTOMOTIVE BATTERY SERVICE CO. 1134 Main Street jjiHiMiiiiiiiinm MiiiiniiiiiHlHttinmiliimiimiiihtiiHlittiiinitiiiiiiiiiiiiMiim MEN WANTED 1 To sell used cars. Steady work, 1 and an opportunity for the right I party to make big money. Address Box II-2058, care Palladium. HiiillMiiiiiitHiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiHiiiiiniiuuiHiiuniifiimiiiitiiitiiiiiimtHttfifittiu mimmmniniiiiiMiiiuimiiiiilHlimiiiiiiniiiitttillinimnHitmiiiiiinnntttitnil Pretty Mahogany End S..S6.75 is Tables, square or ov 3 1 1 Every Make of Record Plays on The Brunswick Come sec this wonderful invention the Brunswick Ultona which brings all artists on all makes of records into the home. Much of the widespread preference tor the Brunswick is due to this exclusive feature. 920-926 Main

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wave - length where you can hear the wireless telegraph Bpark signalling news from the great Nauen station near Berlin or from the big British plant in the Welsh hills near Carnarvon tn Dpal Rpaoh. th Npw Rnma. wlck or Arlington in this country, That make3 you realize the enormous power of the radio " . M rnii gcw wwvcr -uu miles Most of the radio sets sold to private individuals possess a guaranteed range of 100 miles, which is sufficient to let the owners in on the regular commercial programs, but which excludes them from inter-continental conversation. Fortunately for the dignity of international diplomacy, it requires a couple of hundred foot steel towers, several thousand feet of copper wire and a hundred thousand watts or so of electric energy to talk to Europe. Amateurs are restriced to 200 meter wave-lengths or less, and are under the supervision of a radio inspector whose business is to see that they confine their operations to short distances only. Nevertheless, when the great trans-Atlantic test3 were made by American, English and Scotch amateurs on the memorable nals of 26 different Americans, most as an eyesore and as a fire menace, but of them using home-made equipment. were distinctly heard in Scotland. The acquisition of the usual ama teur raaio receiving station is a very simple matter, you can have one in stalled in your home for the sum of $35 up to $250, depending upon the nature Of the equipment. Of course, there is always the possibility of unreasonable opposition from your landlord, who is apt to look upon the aerial antennae concert or tne 1,000 to 25,000 meter this difficulty is likely to be eliminated as the landlords themselves become converts to the radio sport. Although

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