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Show THE TIMES-NEW- S. NEPttt UTAH Five binding posts. This set requires, of course, an "A battery to light the vacuum tube filament and a "B" battery to furnish the plate potential. The "A" battery should be a storage battery of not less than 20 ampere hours' capacity. One 22',4-voH" battery unit Is necessary for a source of plate potential. ' M1T$, . fifi- U tT - 1 cl TO ' lt jrtWWV .&&1BJZir! ' f VXAJH VVtTlilf sWaeitf. ffll ..'Natt iJflmfo v v ,m six-vo- lt 'iVA . construct lt SIMPLERADIO SETS Assembling one-hal- f the Coil. Inch from one end of the cardboard tube, wind on the No. 22 DCC wire until within one-haInch of the other end of the tube. Fasten one end of the winding to the tube, but allow some surplus wire on the other end for making a connecFor those who would like to con- - tion. After the winding Is In place a Struct simple nonregeneratlve apply a thin coat of orange shellac to vacuum tube receiver, the details of hold the turns in place. Assemble the circular-cu- t several sets win be given, before tak- pieces of lag up the explanation of the vacuum wood In the geometrical center of lf - A. i, H0WTO Starting SA jf mm k imxsm ' -- -' . jJrVlwiJ '''f4l? jA?WWWllS,vS :VrWM .t , V ifeMf i '"'ilMtN ZlVJiyk, Cot L- "G reek-le- t ter much, discussed in , 1' these days of Increased public In'l IF ga S terest In the Wisher Institutions of 7 A learning The public Is discussing tS-4 the collegos and universities freely " -t- heir place In the American I (Lja - fc scheme of life and tl.cir measure of 1 ' $ T success In fulfilling their mission. ) Consenuently the colleRe fraterni!WJ 1 I ties are criticized and defended. -3 since they are a feature of student life of large Importance. Are the fraternities an Influence for good? Are they detriment rather than a benefit to the student? What nre they? What Is their purpose? Should a boy Join or keep out? These nre the questions asked by fathers and mothers and guardians. The tilies of nearly all of these societies nre Greek letters, which usunlly refer to a motto expressive of the purpose of the orguLization. They are secret societies, with grips, badii's. rituals and Initiatory ceremonies. Probably the fraternities should I p put In four classes: General, local. profe.si,iti;:.il women's. In Tie first group there are about Cfiy fraternities of extVfMlshed reputation. Tlieir rhupters vary of the evils of the college fraternity without any ' greatly ns to numbers; the range is probably from of Its advantages. I have seen a good deal of the seven to eighty. Corresponding to these are the high school fraternity and the product which It turns out, and 1 am free to say that if I had a son I'M Iteta Kappa was the first society with a I should not want him to Join such an organizaGreek-lette- r name. It was founded In 1776 fit the tion. William of and Mary, and was originally college The college fraternity first came into existence a secret society. Other chapters were established. one hundred years ago when college atalmost Owing to on early prejudice against secret socieand the conditions surrounding college tendance ties. Its Secrets were exposed In 1831. The letters life were very different from what they now are. stand for Greek words translated "Philosophy Is In those days colleges were small, and the underthe Guide of Life." Since 1831 Phi Beta Knpps graduates were housed In college dormitories or lias been an honorary society In most of the large scattered about the town and fed at boarding colleges and scholarship rank determines the memThere was perhaps no thought In the houses. bership. Women have been admitted since 1S73. of the men who founded the first Greek letminds In 1825 at Union college a group of congenial ter fraternities of developing a home and home (Undents began the organization of a secret Greek-lettlife for their members. The main purpose was to fraternity. They divided over the rltuat. strengthen character, to develop good scholarship, Some of them founded Kappa Alpha. The rest and to emphasize and encourage certain qualities founded Sigma Thl In 1827. This wns the beginof friendship. )ften there was a literary purpose. ning of the college fraternities of today. The men who founded the first frnternltles were feTlbershlp In the Greek-lette- r fraternities is mostly very religious men who believed sincerely Alwnnl usually retain In the principles of life and conduct as expounded probably over 300,000. active Interest There are executive committees by the founder of the Christian church. or councils composed of alumni, which are corFraternity rituals today still emphasize these porations and hold legal tttle to the property of principles and hold up to fraternity members the the fraternities which Is worth millions. Most highest standards of dally life. The teachings of fraternities own their chapter houses. Convenfraternities are distinctly religious In their influtions nre held with supreme legislative power. ence, and the secret work to which some of the flTie Conference has met annunlly enemies of fraternities object has nothing sinister or vicious In It, but Is really of the most harmless rTnce 1000 to act on questions of common Interest Tlinmna Arkle dark riran of min nt th I'nl. and Innocent character. verelty of Illinois, tins an Interesting article with It was of until within very recent years, when the title, "Shall I Join a fraternity?" In the Amerthe attendance upon colleges began to Increase ican Itoy. Mr. Clark wns not a fraternity man and the conditions of undergraduate living began In college: therefore he la able te speak from the to change materially, that fraternities began to viewpoint of the outsider. On the other hand, he expand and to emphasise as thc.v had never done did Join a college fraternity five years after gradbefore the function of the fraternity In developing uation, has visited fraternities all over the counfor the undergraduate in college a normal and a try and has made s study of them. Moreover, as healthy home life. a college dean of men for more than twenty years In fact, fraternities are not only Increasing their he has had Intimate relationships with thousands own membership bnf they are doing everything of undergraduates. Including the active members they can to encourage the organization of new fraof many fraternities. Mr. Clark, in short, is conternities, so that every man who wants to Join on sidered a comiietent authority college fratermay have a chance to do so. Colleges, also, whose nities. In general he approves them. Moreover, doors have hitherto been closed to the admission his article before publication was read to scverul of fraternities are relaxing their regulations and college presidents snd professors and high school are giving permission to fraternities to come In men some some and fraternity snperlntendents, and all this because those who know most about Hero are some of the not. and approved by them. fraternities think their influence a good one. At the present time national Greek letter frapoints he makes, pro snd con: ternities, of which there are perhaps fifty, are the The young man entering college Is confronted organized force In college activities. Tliey take "with a good mnny problems which his father bethe place that was once occupied by the college fore bint did not have to solve, and one of these literary scclety which taught men to speHk, which Is llie fraternity question; for though the college Interested them In the iMilftlcs of college, and fraternity was In existence thirty years ago, it which In general controlled and directed what did not, te anything like the extent It does today, went on in undergraduate affairs outside of the 'ilomlnste college life snd control the dlre1 underclassroom lint the fraternity does still more than conwas Influence then Its activities. graduate this. There are very few frnternltles now which fined pretty largely to a limited number of small do tiot have their own bouses on every campus. olteges in a restricted territory; Its membership These houses form centers of home life which was not large, and Its members not closely asso-- i do much to hike the place of the life which the I'd. " boy has known with his own family before going In speaking of the college fraternity I do not awsy to college. with confused It the have wish lo fraternity It often costs more to live In a fraternity house to the high school. Excepting, perhaps. In acadthan It does outside. The food at the fraternity emics and boarding schools where the boys are tnble Is ordinarily better than that the student away from homo and need the training and the gets at a boarding house, and the general living 'association which come from un organised home which arise from conditions are more comfortable and convenient' Mfe and the responsibilities one lias to pay for these. The social life of fratringlng these things about, the high school fraa detriment botb been has generally ternity men Is more active and so requires the pretty ternity of more money for clothing and soctnl lo the character and to the scholarship of its mempleasures Soineumes the living conditions have bers. It has often tsken them sway from the been made loo luxurious for the doing of good rentraints of home when thee were most needed. work, and at times the social life excessive and It has developed snobbishness, extravagance and the expenditure of money extravagant; but these iwcinl excesses which have been hurtful to the do not conditions frequently or generally exist. I en era I morale of the schools. It has had many er, ' OLI.KG E fra ternl ties socletlesre M (PiyiA , ($) Cm V W 'ry;W'!'. A V? W kLWI M "W 11 P I J Kl9r Hfl f 4CflJ I -- wlJ TiM Sflfe Vrill f ,(SVf" 41 J W l'l' fft f ' I f I ?T if ' CP M U -l Co--J ALooK. tube as an amplifier. The circuits which will be described depend upon the vacuum tube for a detector or as a rectifier not liavlng the additional function of an oscillator. The first set described will be that of a toning coil mounted on a horizontal base board. The following material is necessary for Its construction: The Tuning Coil. A yiece of cardboard tubing, outside diameter, three inches, and five inches long. It will cost about 10 cents. One hundred feet of No. 22 DCC magnet wire. Cost about 25 cents. One standard slider to fit by brass rod. Cost about 40 cents. h A by length of square brass rod. Cost about 20 cents. Two circular blocks of wood, whose diameter is just equal to the inside six-Inc- square blocks and then shellac or varnish them for appearance sake. When thoroughly dry slip the two end blocks into the wound tube and by means of a few finishing brads driven through the cardboard tube fasten the end blocks to the wound tube. The slider Is to be mounted on top of the coll and should be capable of making contact with any turn of the wire on the tube. In order to remove the Insulation from the wire, just under the rod where the slider moves back and forth wrap a piece of sandpaper around a thin piece of wood and, using another piece of wood as a guide, sandpaper the Insulation from the winding. inch In diDrill a hole ameter through the slider rod about one-eigh- ferial 1 . er Inter-Fraternit- y ' f il do not know any chapter of any fraternity and I know hundreds of them which does not contain men, respected by everyone In the chapter and In the college, who are earning their living In college through their own efforts; but In general, unless the man concerned has some special talent this is not so easy to do unaided when In a fraternity as when out of The man who Joins a fraternity loses something of his Independence. Relng a part of an organ Ized group of men, he Is not so free to do as he TZmnq it pleases as he would be If he did not have this relationship. lie must submit to regulations, he must learn to adapt himself to the conditions of home life, and to the Idiosyncrasies of a score or more of people. He will often have to yield his desires and his rights, perhaps, to the will of the organization, for those who go Into an organlza tion must be willing to do what will bring the greatest good to the greatest number. He must learn to get on with people, to give up, to be nn selfish, to do that which will be most helpful and advantageous to his brothers. Many fellows do not like to do this, and sometimes parents do not wish them to learn, so that such men would make poor fraternity men, and they would be unhappy and make their friends unhappy In the making. There Is a tendency when a man joins a fraternity for him to be satisfied with the friends he meets within Its membership, and so to narrow his Interests, to restrict his acquaintances, and to undervalue the broader training which comes from a more general contact with men. It Is only the roan, however, who will weak and narrow-mindefall Into this snobbishness and who will restrict his scqualntances snd his friends to the men whom he meets within his fraternity. The num ber of such men is fortunately not large. I'.ut there are advantages In fraternity life and these I believe outweigh these possible evils or disadvantages which I have mentioned. The boy who Joins a fraternity establishes himself in a home with many of the same duties and comforts of the home life to which he has been accustomed before going to college, and the fraternity house remains to him a home even after he gets out of lie gathers around him Immediately a college. group of friends who have his best Interests at heart. It has been said by those who oppose the fraternity system, thnt his choice of friends Is made too quickly to he satisfactory; thnt It Is a very mechanical choice seldom based upon the principles which underlie true friendships, and flint the friendship thus formed Is nn evanescent one. I'.ut the fact that fraternity brothers in every chapter In every college where frnternltles exbt lire not only close friends while they sre In college, but remain so throughout life, tends to A fraternity mnn Is disprove such a statement. seldom dissatisfied with the friends he has chosen. The Ideals of life formally set before the fraternity man, and these as I have said, are practically always based upon Christian principles, nre the highest possible. The character of the men who were responsible for the founding of these organizations snd the character of the national officers who are now In charge f fraternity affairs In eiich crganizatlon will substantiate this fact. The fnterfrnternlty conference, which for the Inst dozen years fins done more to bring fraternities than any other ngency snd fraternity men and which Is constantly suggesting methods In the fraternity of developing good scholarship, of strengthening niornl principles, and of ertcourng. in e loyslt) to the and Wn jt officers. Is composed of a most representative group of business and professional men Inwyers. doctors, minsters and the best In the country. i tkt-C- C O A Z o ! B Inch In from each end so diameter of the cardboard tubing and that the rod Is fastened In place; see Inch thick. and between Two binding posts. Some orange that the contact finger on the bottom of the slider can at all times make shellac. good contact with the windings. Mount The Detsetor. A type U V Itadiotron vacuum tube a binding post on either end of the coll, nttachlng one by means of a wire which sells for $5. The standard vacuum tube socket to the slider rod and the other to the end of the wire wound on the tube, costing about $1. ohms re- and the tuning coil Is complete. A filament rheostat of sistance costing about $11. Mounting ths 8et on Base Board. A combination grid condenser and Is only necessary now to mount It V 200 Radlotroio the U rid leak65 forcents. the component parts on the base board costing In addition a phone condenser cost- and connect them up. Fig. 16 shows the relative posiing 50 cents. on One pair of Murdock No. f6 receiv- tions of h the Instrument mounted an eight-incsquare base board, with ers costing S4. the actual wiring diagram. Fig. IT For mounting on base board : One piece of wood eight inches shows a schematic diagram of ths wiring of the same set square. one-fourt- h R-- ll d GREAT PLANT IN MELBOURNE ! Australian City Is Building Radii Sta tion for Direct Communication With Great Britain. The work of establishing the mame moth Australian radio station In for direct communication with Great Britain has been begtin. The substations for overseas traffic will be about three times as powerful as any European station today. It will fake two years before the central and feeder stations sre completed. As a normal performsince the chief station will be able to speak direct over miles for the greater part of any working day. Receiving and sending stations to correspond will be built In T'anada during the same period. The plant for the main station will be Imported from England, but the plant for the feeder stations will be manufactured In Australia, one for each of the states. The combined cosl of all these stations will he Bhout $.1,000,000, The lisln station win consist of a transmitter and receiver terminal thirty mlea apart the latter Inclnd'ng twenty-four towers each WiO feet high pread over a square mile. The wireless rates will be one-thiless than tl.e present cable rates to 12,-Wl- rd Eorpe. SHORT FLASHES San Francisco is receiving concerts broadcast at Schenectady, S. Y. In New York m squad of soldiers whs drilled In an armory uptown at the commands of a superior on Governor's Island. At the Pacific coast seaside Instead of burying resorts. themselves Li the sand, the young ladles clamp on their earpieces and kill time between swims listening to radio music. Educational experts say that radio will prove of great assistance In the development of the minds of subnormal children. The great obstacle In their education has been Inability te arouse Interest. It Is believed thnt radio will greatly stimulate such Interest. And now it Is the dentists who are profiting by radio. It Is a greet advantage to keep the mind of a pntlent off his trouWhen a radio bles. Is clamped nn. whst registers on the ears of the sufferer makes him more or les indlffccent to what Is going on in hU mouth. Great posIbll!tles for tV sooth-intalker. ear-piec- e f |
