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Newspaper
Hearne Democrat
Location
Hearne, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1922
Page
8
A guide to constructing and placing a simple outside aerial for wireless receivers. It covers using long high wires, proper insulation from nearby objects, materials like No 14 stranded phosphor bronze or copper, porcelain cleats as insulators, and careful joints with scraping, twisting, soldering, and insulation. Emphasizes routing lead-in toward the station you most want to hear for best results.
The article discusses multiple aerials and lead-ins arranged at right angles, using anchor rings and multiple switches to favor desired stations. It notes directional waves, experimental choices, and that a high aerial of 100 to 150 feet often yields best results while stressing proper grounding and avoiding wrong ground paths.
Union college announces plans for radio as a tool in spreading the Gospel. A single transmitting station could reach remote regions, encouraging native converts and aiding missionaries in distant lands as the technology matures.
A radio antenna, when properly protected, acts as a lightning rod rather than a threat to the building. Do not fear reports that aerials attract lightning, as correct shielding minimizes risk and enables safe operation.
Sergeant M Waldo Hatler of Joplin Missouri swam the Meuse under fire during World War I after a comrade fell. He landed inside German lines, gathered critical intelligence and swam back to American lines. For this he earned Italy's Croce di Guerra, meeting General Armando Diaz at a Kansas City convention, with the ceremony in Joplin.
Cronkite of Los Angeles is identified as second in command of the Legion Roughhouse Club. The report explains the Forty and Eight slang origins and notes Cronkite as lieutenant in the 322nd field signal battalion with a humorous foreign language caption.
Miss Viola Bissell wins the Queen of the Canal Zone contest sponsored by the American Legion Panama department with 1,807,800 votes. Her description emphasizes tall, blonde, athletic attributes and claims she would outshine beauties from America and Europe.
A young applicant for a commission in the officer corps demonstrates poor schooling during a military exam. He fumbles through questions and, after a staff officer confronts his misinformation, exclaims with a comic outburst about not knowing where the country is, highlighting his lack of geographic knowledge.
On the Platte river prairies in Nebraska lies Fort McPherson National Cemetery, the Middle West's sole national cemetery. It holds American war dead from the west, with 15 World War I soldiers recently buried by Fort McPherson post of the American Legion. One marker bears the word Unknown.
A satirical note from the American Legion Weekly portrays Convict 711 and Convict 117 as popular robbery figures in Chicago. It humorously claims the duo returns victims’ fare yet still garners praise, framing their acts as a comic crook profile.
Rev H G Scoggins a truck driver and Methodist minister who once served as a buck private now leads the Moran county Legion post. Under his leadership the post attains about 90 percent of possible membership in the county.
A chair woven from reeds, designed after a Moro chieftain throne, decorates Commander Tanford MacNider of the American Legion’s office. Gift from the Department of the Philippines, built in Manila with split damboo and varied reeds, no nails or paint, bright sun inspired colors, elaborate Oriental design.
Representative Martin Anserge defends appointing a negro boy to Annapolis as justice to his district's colored population, citing valor of 400000 colored U S service members in World War I. Appointee Emile Treville Holley is a City College freshman. Harvard rejects discrimination and the American Legion includes several all Negro posts.
A wartime sweep of the North Sea craft moves to the scrap pile under a navy order. Maryland veterans will receive ten dollars monthly plus 26 percent extra for overseas service. The “hatts of Washington” veterans are being scattered as 198 officers are reassigned from the capital. Dr. John Grier Hibben urges reorganization of WW II draft boards to help locate jobs for service men. A house to house Indiana canvass found 120,000 veterans with 1,500 disability or compensation cases. Veterans in Paris seek Eiffel Tower ascent for a French veterans group. A Detroit judge aided the Legion by drafting unemployed ex-soldiers for jury service at four dollars a day.
The article previews practical yet stylish summer outfits for the active woman, favoring double duty suits, versatile blouses, and sharply tailored jackets. Tweed and twill dominate, with sleeveless jackets echoing last season's jumper dress, while blouses in cotton, pique, and lace add year round wearability and subtle embellishments.
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