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Show NEW "RADIO BUG" IS POPULAR American Legion Posts Are Enjoying Programs; Supplied for Hospital Hos-pital Patients. The new "radio bug" Is particularly popular with ex-service men. Everywhere Every-where reports come Into the American Legion of radio-phones being Installed in Legion clubhouses and in hospitals and camps. Recently the Legion post at Omaha, Neb., was all ready to stage a big dance but no music arrived. An ex-gob ex-gob was called upon to "do something quick." So he rigged up his wireless, listened in on Chicago, and very soon the company was merrily stepping around to the strains of music played by an orchestra hundreds of miles away. Hospitals in North Carolina are taking tak-ing up the radio Idea as a means of supplying recreation for sick and wounded men. The Legion has Installed In-stalled a phone at the government hospital near Ashevllle, and ex-doughboys can hear anything from AI .Tolson t-o Madame Jeritza. |