Education by radio (1931-)

EVENING STAR WASHINGTON. D. C. FEBRUARY 9, 1931. CENSUS SOON FINISHED Kadio Figures Show 44.4 Per Cent of Families Have Sets. Having completed its census of Amer- ican radio-receiving sets on April 1, 1930, th6 Census Bureau hopes to have the total compiled by April 1 of this year. In the meantime, it is issuing as fast as they can be compiled the "radio set populations" by States. The first State count last week showed that New Hampshire, with 119,660 famjlies, has 53,111 with sets. In other words, 44.4 per cent of the families of the State have radios. The second count re- leased showed Delaware, with 59,295 families, has 27,183, or 45.8 per cent, owning radios. 444,676 Receiving Sets in Canada Canada had 444.S76 radio receiving j sets In operation at the end of 1930, 1 says a bulletin of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Canadian government charges a license fee of $1 a year to sus- tain the Federal radio administration, although broadcasting is operated as a private enterprise as in the United States. /CHICAGO will come on the air with ^^ a bang this week. It is to be the originating point of 49 National Broad- casting Co. program periods formerly presented from New York. The change will bripg the total net- work programs from Chicago to more i than 120. It was made partly because the New York studio facilities are over- crowded. All of the shifts are to be on the "blue" network side, of which WJZ is the key station. N. B. C. oflScials announced that the move was "considered one of the most important in broadcast history" and another step in fulfillment of the prophecy of M. H. Aylesworth that Chicago is destined for first place in the realm of radio. * * * * J^INCOLN'S birthday is to be fittingly observed on both the N. B. C. and Columbia networks February 12—the same date Pope Pius XI will make his first world-wide radio talk. The climax is to come with the address of Presi- dent Hoover over the two chains. Besides the President's talk, Colum- bia is to have an address coming from London by John Drinkwater, who wrote the plays "Abraham Lincoln" and 1 "Robert E. Lee." THE EVENING STAR FEBRUARY 6, 1931. BIG RADIO INVESTMENT BritUh Manufacturing Industry Valued at $400,000,000. While broadcasting is a government monopoly in Great Britain, the business of manufacturing radio receiving equip- ment Is in the hands of private enter- iJrise. A total invested capital of nearly $400,000,000, "every penny of which is British," is represented in the British Radio Manufacturers' Association, Wil- liam Adamson, M. P., and secretary of state for Scotland, declared recently The 3,250,000 receiving set licenses Issued by the government represent a listening public of 13,250,000, he esti- mated, and a total of 4,000,000 sets Is expected to be in use within another year. Radio is an extension of the Home. It should pull up not down, forward not back. PerfectB Color Television. M. Barthelemy, French television expermienter, claims to have perfected a system of color television which excels anything achieved In other countries, says a report from George R. Canty, Department of Commerce trade com- missioner at Paris. Not only can facial features be reproduced distinctly but entire scenes can be transmitted and received by radio, the inventor claims. Station in Two Countries. LAREDO, Tex. (/P).—A truly interna- tional station has gone on the air here. Studios of XEP are in the Hamilton Hotel, on the American side of the Rio Grande, while the sending towers are in Nuevo Laredo, Mex. It uses two wave lengths, 430 and 730 kilocycles. From the Washington Times January 5, 1931 RULING ON RADIO VALIDITY DECLINED Questions Whether Broadcast Sta- tions Have Property Right in Air Not in Proper lorm. k By the Associated Press. The Supreme Court today declined to pass on the validity of the law under which the Radio Commission operates. The controversy reached the court in questions submitted by the Circuit Court of Appeals and involved whether radio broadcasting stations had a property right to the air. Justice Roberts had repeatedly refused to answer the questions regarding the validity of the radio act because they were not presented In proper form. The commission required Clinton R. White to reduce the power of Station WCRW, at Chicago, and refused to re- new the licenses of Stations WMBB and WOK, the former at Chicago and the latter at Homewood, near Chicago. The .owners of the stations challenged the validity of the radio act and claimed property rights to the air, which they said could be taken from them only by compensation. Prom the New York Evening World Jan. 20. 1931, page 31 TEACHERS VOTE RADIO LESSONS AN AID TO STUDY —«— Find Interest Stimulated in Pupil—Even Parents "Listening In" While the value of the radio In education ha.<i been much discussed. Its use In teaching arithmetic has been found through experiment to be practical. Of fifty-two teachers In Cleveland whose classes had radio Instruction during the past year, thirty-nine voted approval of the method. According to the report of Supt. of Schools R. G. Jones, "the most frequent advantage mentioned In the questionnaires sent to the fifty-two teachers was the Interest stimulated In the pupil and the power of con- centration the pupil Is developing. The most frequent disadvantage was the Inelasticity of thj lesson. "It was the consensus of opinion that the bright pupil needed a few more difficulties to master and that the slow child, should be allowed to take more time." Cle eland schools are continuing the lcs.sons this year and the-se sug- gestions made by teachers are being given careful consideration. One teacher reported that shs has not had a solitary failure since radio work be- gan. "Some pupils were a little slower than the others, but were not complete failures." she said. Introduction of the radio for class- room work also is creating Interest among the parents and many of them "listen In" while pupils anx- iously await their radio .mornings. Another teacher expressed the opinion that "radio has developed Judgment and Independence in finding one's In- dividual weakness and has encour- aged a desire to correct them." Twenty-seven hundred school chil- dren learned their arithmetic from the loud speaker Instead of their class- room teacher during 1929-30. They added, subtracted and multiplied by radio as arithmetic les.sons were broadcast from a local station. The I lessons, presented twice a week, were I prepared and broadcast by Ida M. Baker, a mathematics teacher In Cleveland, who al.-io seems to possess that intangible radio personality that Is necessary to successful broadcast- ing. Arithmetic was chosen as the sub- ject for radio presentation In Cleve- ! lend because It Is a definite subject and one that can be measured ac- curately. Experimental le.ssons were 1 conducted In one building for two [ semeiiters over a public address sy.i- tem before they were broadcast to the 1 entire city.