Show If HOW RADIO PLAYS PART IN POLITICS 1 f t I i ii iI i I 1 I UI CA o 0 UIo T II IN AN l la THE BROADCASTING STATION THE VOICE t THE IS FUT ON AIR V 1 i r ARE WH CN r y i CORNER OF 1 GARDEN 51 w THE CM CROWD IN THE HEARS THE CONVENTION FROM THE RADIO AUTO AUTOL U L n It In artist at hall the method of broil broadcasting d news from Madison Square Garden By IW 0 EA Do Service Ice Writer NEW YORK July The 1 l D Democratic con convention really reay was TS T Hnot not held hold in Madison Square S Gar Gar- Garden Garden Garden den this It was as held every every- everywhere everywhere where here It was as just lust as noisy In Kokomo or Tuscaloosa or Kan- Kan Kankakee Kankakee Kan as It was at M avenue ave ave- avenue ave avenue nue and Twenty Twenty-se Twenty seventh street The rhe west est wall all of the convention hall was the Pacific ocean the east wall vall jall the Atlantic the south southwall southwall wall line the gulf the north wall Canada and the tho the roof root the sky A voice oice was sounded and sounded and It l entered a small microphone In front of or the speaker It passed through that and trav trav- traveled traveled upwards up 30 fee fee- tee fee and was wal released through a score of ot horn horn- shaped horn shaped amplifiers It II went to the most remote cornel of or Madl adl son Madl-son son Square Garden It passed through the walls alls and west and north and south rod end to thu ships at sea In the east It II rode on the wings InKs of the wind Ind and no village lIage cr or hamlet S so eo small email In all the land that It failed to hear the voice clear and strong Another triumph for radio In either cither end of th the tho garden there was IlS placed laced a enclosed gloss gloss booth Here trained announcers were ere stationed When the voice of a speaker or the cheers of the delegates t being sent out on the lire air all the an- an announcer an announcer described what was as going on within thin the four walla of ot the tho convention hall Only a few thousands thousand were able to gain admittance tO tr the hall Itself Many more thousands Indeed millions failed fatted to get In These heard proceedings over the radio They stood about on street corners In all cities Madison Square within a stones stone's throw or of orthe othe the garden was packed at times Radio autos appeared equipped with sets and amplifiers and thence moved from place to place giving citizens in all part parts I ot of New York a 11 chance to listen In the basement of ot the tho ho garden was WIlS the control room It wa wad through this control room roum that the voice and noise pawed 1114 Th The voice then was III picked up by pow powerful erful eta stations lions elos cloo close by Through these station the vibrations vibration went w out Other powerful stations In other cities clUts picked them then up and en cd is s relays so that t hat a per person son Ion thousand thousands of miles mlles away aay with a tiny crystal set could hear what was going on Reports from Washington Pitts PItts burg Cincinnati Cleveland St SL StLouis Louis Louie and other titles cities es aha showed ed the voice and noise of the convention wee was coming In strong The practicability of radio as applied to J politics has hILS been dem- dem demonstrated demonstrated dem demonstrated experts say School Schoolchildren Schoolchildren children and adults adult these thuG experts add Idd can now learn more about the conduct of a convention in two days than they heretofore could learn In 16 da dais s of ot schooling |