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Radio Has Gripped Chicago
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too) have spent much of their vacation time in practising the radio craft they learned in school last winter and spring. Those who are watching the radio field closely expect Chicago to have 75,000 sets in use by fall.
That the youngsters learned the craft and learned it well is to their own and the city schools' credit. They furnished the impetus, and the schools supplied the instruction. Chicago's public school system always has been wide awake in technical matters. The four great technical high schools — Crane, Lane, Harrison, and Washburn — are admittedly without superiors in the country, and the vocational training departments of the grade schools and general high schools have served as models for other communities. This flair for technical training was directed radio-ward as soon as it became evident that broadcasting was going to make wireless telephony interesting.
A. G. Bauersfeld, . supervisor of technical work in all the Chicago schools, had been
encouraging interest in radio before the present era began. Lane Tech had a radio club as early as 1904, and instruction in wireless transmission is not a new thing in that or other city high schools. When interest began to widen, Mr. Bauersfeld prodded his instructional corps into action. Teachers were urged to encourage students who seemed interested and to study the subject themselves.
Every school in the city soon began to feel the effects of the radio fever. Classes in electrical theory doubled and redoubled. Shop classes came suddenly to life as boys who had refused to become interested in the manufacture of furniture awoke to realization of the fact that by becoming proficient in furnituremaking they would learn to make good radio cabinets.
The students' interest in radio was helpful generally. Boys aren't content with knowing that by turning a dial this way or that they can evoke sounds from a radiophone. They
© Underwood & Underwood RADIO SETS MADE IN MANUAL TRAINING CLASSES
Radio fans from twenty-four Chicago high school clubs met early in June in the office of Albert C. Bauersfeld, supervisor of technical education in the public schools, to listen to talks by prominent electricians and display some of their handicraft. In the picture, from left to right, are William Helm, Clarence De Butts, Milo E. Westbrooke, W. J. Bogan, Sup't.
Peter A. Morterson, and Corwin Eckel