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Show RADIO vs NEWSPAPER Radio will not take the place of the newspaper. As a medium through which to dispense entertainment, music, comedy, etc... radio is a success. It can distribute generalities, generali-ties, but it is not satisfactory as a dispenser of factual information. Put onto the air any information in which figures are used to express a fact and no listener gets the figures. We absorb information better through t the eye than through the ear. When people see what is happening, they absorb it, remember it and know what it means. When they hear it over the air, no two people will have received just the same conception of what has happened. The radio can tell them that the Germans Ger-mans bombed London. It cannot satisfactorily satisfactori-ly give them the result of that bombing, and the result is what people want. Metropolitan newspaper publishers have learned that radio doesnot affect their circulations. cir-culations. In fact, many of them will prove to you that the radio has only increased the demand for details, which the people get through the newspapers, and the radio has increased newspaper circulations. If anything, radio has increased the demand de-mand for news in a newspaper. From the air. the reader gets generalities which create a demand for detail. He depends on the newspaper news-paper for details. NO FAVORS ASK Movement of the 260th Coast Artillery from the Atlantic seaboard to camp at El Paso, Texas, was accompanied by widespread comments in press relative to method and speed of transport. The regiment was broken brok-en two sections. One section consisting of three hundred men reached El Paso in seven-tyhours seven-tyhours by rail. The second contigent, trav-ci'rig trav-ci'rig by motor convoy, expected to spend seventeen dr.s on the road. It w uld be un-: un-: : i i to assum inat the. e wi' any ace sec which could reach El Paso first. However, the part that will be played by the rails in a national emergency is strikingly illustrated. For twenty years the railroads have built up their equipment for just that crisis as the nation now faces. Road-beds and tracks have been graded and laid with an eye to speed, speed with safety. At the same time more power and performance have been the watch word in the construction of new locomotives. Yet, during that twenty years, as the San Marino, California, Tribune recently pointed out, the railroads "have been compelled "to stand in the spectator's row and see competing compe-ting systems, waterways, trucks, bus lines and airways, gobble the buiness and revenues, reven-ues, the waterways particularly receiving subsideries, in one form or another, the bus lines have heretofore worn out the highways of the country without contributing by taxation tax-ation sums sufficient to restore said highways high-ways and place them on a fairly competing basis with the railroads." Meanwhile, as the paper further pointed out : " No matter how hard the going is before they can raise a rate, they must get down on their marrowbones marrow-bones and beg . . . with the changes ten to one such permission will not be granted." The railroads do not expect favors from any quarter. They do expect, and should receive, re-ceive, a fair hearing and equality of treat-ment treat-ment in all transportation problems affecting affect-ing them. The defense emergency has shown what rail transportation means. The mightiest might-iest armv in the world cannot protect our homes and industries without the help of an efficient, capable railroad industry. |