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Drive up to the curb in Darktown with your motoradio set to a blue program and you wont be lonesome long.
RADIO TAKES A RIDI
"Stay Home and Listen to the Radio" Has Been Changed to "Take Your Radio as You Go"
By Colonel O. N. Taylor
"How about this spelling — you make it all one word, 'Motoradio' ? asked the Inquiring Reporter of Colonel Taylor.
"Quite right, suh. 'Motoradio' is what 1 have in my car, suh, an' I assure you it is correct."
MIGHT as well start this tour with the inevitable story about motor Radio and get it over. Here goes! Pat: "1 see they are equipping all the new Fords with Radio sets now."
Mike: "Sure, begorra, and why?" Pat: "So they can get out-of-town!"
And now that that is over we might say that the craze for Radio equipped automobiles hit the higher priced vehicles first, and the flivver class is apt to be the last to take up Radio on wheels on a large scale. On account of the gas tank being right behind the cowl, most of the ready built sets cannot be installed there as there is not enough room for the receiver proper and the speaker. >
But flivver or not, Radio is being taken for a ride! It is going bye-bye! The day is near when the guy who goes to trade in his old bus will tell the salesman that he has new tires all around, only 20,000 miles on the speedometer, 600 hours on the Radio, and new tubes in every socket.
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Of course there are a few hindrances to motor Radio. Some legislators, perhaps the grandsons of the boys who introduced the 10 mile an hour speed laws and the one about motorists being required to stop their engines and dismount upon meeting
a horse-drawn vehicle, have tried to get bills through prohib ing Radio equipped autos from using the highways. They I such contraptions detract the driver's attention. The sai solons should introduce similar motivated bills forbidding t use of cowl ventilators when flappers in silk dresses are ridii in the front seats.
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Then there is a bit of wifely objection. When I announc to the other three-quarters that our (and I don't mean ; editorial "our") car was to be equipped with a Radio set, si howled.
"Can I never get away from Radio? You have five sets no and one is always going when you are at home, in your offi' or at the summer cottage. Now I suppose I will have to listc to squeaky sopranos between those three points."
Well, she does and likes it! After the set was installed si had but one cutting remark to make. Our car is a bit loud i appearance, 1 admit. A Mexican torquoise blue with oranj wire wheels and pipings. Riding home through a park the fir night with the Radio banging out a band playing "The Bil board," that march that reeks of the circus sawdust, she ha this to say: .
"I hope you are satisfied. First you get an auto that loot like a band wagon and then you have to go and install a callioi in the thing so it will sound like one."
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BUT, my, how Radio adds to the pickup of a car. Just tr driving up to a stop light near a telephone exchange abov. the time one shift of "excuse-it-please" girls have given tin seats at the wrong-number-board to another shift. Tune i