Radio Digest (Oct 1926-Jan 1928)

RADTO DICES T— Illustrated 19 SHORT WAVES By Marcella (Continued from page 6) and that his soulful brown eyes have driven more than one fair listener to despair, especially when she learns he is only twenty-two and unmarried. Does this answer your question, Lucille? I f want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your kind invitation to visit you this summer, but I am afraid it can't be done this summer. * * "Tony, the Scrap Book Man!" Isn't that a romantic title and Tony is romantic, because now he can do just about everything and put it over. For instance, did you know that Tony was really Anthony Wons and you know, Mr. "Wons is the man who puts on the Shakespeare readings all by himself. He takes every part. Besides that he is the Pied Piper of WLS who lures the children off into the ether in search of beautiful dreams. Why, he does not think a thing of putting on circuses, minstrel shows and productions just for a lark. Yes, he is married, R. L., and although he loves his Radio audience, is absolutely absorbed in his work and his family. He has one little daughter who looks just like her daddy. Papa has blond hair, blue-gray eyes and is slim. * * It seems as though this issue is going to give you the lowdown on a lot of bachelors. Perhaps we ought to put up a sign and just have this column for the girls. But, on looking down, I see a few ladies sprinkled in at the end. "Well, to go back to bachelors. There is no need to fret, Maud. Paul D. Maxwell, chief engineer of KSO, is not married. He is one of the many that like all the girls. He is small but mighty, being only 5 feet 6 inches (why, I think that is pretty big). He has brown eyes and brown hair and is a wizard at the piano as well as in the use of the English language. And that's all that young lady at KSO tells me. Well, we'll just have to make it do. Do you love red hair and that luscious pink and white coloring that goes with it, Anxious? Then you should see Grace Wilson. She has the most unusual coloring I ever saw, especially when you see her blue, blue eyes. Of course, she is rather plump, but only attractively so and very feminine looking even though her voice is very low. I'll tell you another thing about her, she comes from a family of actors and has been on the stage ever since she was a baby. She took up Radio work so that she would not have to travel. Don't you like the outdoor kind of girl who likes dogs? Grace does. She has three of those enormous police dogs. That blond announcer who broke a lot of hearts by marrying late last year was none other than our old friend "Bat" or "V. S. Batton. Surely everybody ought to know him. He was at WDAP, Helen, when Leo Fitzpatrick was there and has been working under Dean Fitzer ever since. He's a pretty thing, too, with fair hair and blue eyes and, some say, entirely too young to be married. Tain't right. He's only 23 years old. You want to know how the fair one caught him? She nursed him during a serious operation in 1925 and made him so comfortable, he just decided she was indispensible. Furthermore she accompanies him whenever he is announcing and now no other charmer can grab him away. Anyway, that's what "Bat" says. * * What deep secret would you like to know about your favorite broadcast star? Drop me a note, girls and boys, and I'll do my best to answer here. MARCELLA. "TORCH OF YOUTH" (Continued from page 7) ence and the opportunity to live completely, according to the organic facilities with which we have been provided to carry on our existence, conserving rather than dissipating the system by which we carry on and have our being. This is an approach to the Living Truth, which must be woven into the mind of the child unspoiled by outworn superstitions concerning punishment and death." "You believe in life after death?" asked Arthur Turner. 1Y £ 67VJOT in the old way of believing. We are only at a threshhold of revelations so vast that the past up to the present moment I suspect will seem incredibly dark and benighted to the generations that follow. Do not be too surprised to hear some morning that our chemists, physicists, botanists and other devoted scientists are prepared to an : Other cones may look like \ aFarrand-but there the resemblance ends nounce an artificial compound of elements, setting into action a life germ. And then will come gigantic strides in the preservation and conservation of human life." "Are we soon to arrive at the age of the synthetic man?" gasped several voices about the table. "Great progress has been made," replied Dr. Dykeman, "and I say such an achievement may be forthcoming at a day not far distant — " "I must protest — " President Blake was fairly bursting. "Now, you just let our friend Dykeman have his say," interposed Uncle Joe in a soothing voice. "You boys know this is what Dykeman says — not Blake?" "Sure," answered Hunter, impatiently. "But what about the immorality and suicides and all that among the students?" Y\ 46"\7"OU know we have all had our re ligious concepts woven into us almost from birth, an invisible diety up in Heaven watching us and ready to cast us into Hell or convey us to Paradise. That was the belief of our fathers and their fathers and their fathers' fathers back for ages. We learned our little Lay Me Down to Sleep, as Dr. Watson has pointed out, then the Lord's Prayer, the other precepts of the Bible — some religious law from our very earliest impressions until for many, as we grew up, we leaned on it as the very staff of our life. "But growing wisdom has shown that there is something more than the things we learn from books and that some of the things we learned from books were only bugaboos for children, an age of children who never knew what was in store through the progress of science, a period that existed before the world began to grow up — to continue the figure. The myth of Santa Claus was a calamity for some children when they discovered the truth. For others it was a sense of relief to know that they were above the age where credulity in such things should no longer be expected. "Now, I might say, the trouble with some of our students is the discovery that the religion their fathers feared more than they respected is more of a myth than a potent threat. They were not yet ready for the revelation that work and unselfish devotion to improve the welfare of our fellow beings is the reason for life and that the satisfaction of worthy achievement makes life well worth the living. For these students the break down of their religious faith was the break down of the staff that sustained their lives. They drifted with the tide. Emotions, desires, animal craving for excitement, low vital ebb following high stimulation and consequent weakness of will and purpose, a false sense of freedom and lack of necessity for restraint, temptation, false comprehension of what seems to be the easiest way out of a difficulty, evil and irresponsible companions, one mis-step leading to another, out of the pale of respectability, loss of self respect, loss of ambition, a human discard — death. That's the route of the unstable student who cannot grasp the realities of life." "What is the solution to this problem?" asked a tall, elderly reporter who sometimes filled in as religious editor. "More education, better ' understanding of social psychology, individual instruction. I have in mind those two young men recently captured as bandits who stole automobiles and held up theater cashiers. Both students and from an environment that should have protected them from ruin. In a few years they might have been fully reclaimed and become useful citizens. But the prison life will finish them. I can say as much for those fellows convicted of crimes against women — caught in the fire of unrestrained excitement and lost." The reporters became interested in specific cases. In a little while the particular interview of Miss Wanda Nevens had been almost forgotten and there was plenty of ammunition for the next morning's deluge. It was at this time President Blake began to think seriously of resigning. He had merely intended to organize the institution, establish efficiency and a reasonable amount of discipline. He had never given serious thought to advanced ideas in the student body that could be considered torch bearing for a future generation. 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