Show I CONGRATULATIONS RADIO Radio broadcasting Is 25 years old and as ns we tune In our sets to tonight's I programs we congratulate the pioneers I of ot this Industry In furthering this de- de device vice for tor entertainment and education The talk that radio Is still in Its Us in- in fancy l recalls rc ls the earlY caily crystal sets that didn't gather much but but dust and static but thrilled us to the marrow We think radio has come a long and wonderful ways You may wisecrack that there hasn't been too much change in tho the comedians comedian's Jokes but It goes without saying that we wouldn't be without a aradio radio in every home stale stalo gags or not Remember how we used those earphones on the old sets and when a distant sta ate station station tion came In we wo bragged about It Tor days How we sat eat up late at night when the air was better for broadcast- broadcast broadcastIng Ing trying to find new call letters turn turn- turning turnIng turning ing the dial for tor usually more static and less program m finding that the noises from the east coast crackled and boomed the same as those on the west coast Let them speak of ot television which comes to Washington and New York In to mid January and tell us that our present pre pre- present present sent model will soon be out but nothing In television can make us forget torget for tor- forget get the days das when w en radio was really an Infant |