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Show PIUTE COUNTY NEWS, JUNCTION, UTAH Btl Diagram of a Electrical By PERCY WARREN In Radio "Wqrld. The most that can be accomplished on three tubes, Jn volume and DX, is by the use of the tuner, followed by two transformer stages of audio. There are many variations of the fundamental design of the detector part and there are respective advantages In each. The set shown herewith has the following main feathree-circu- it tures : coll. II) you know that the Constitution of this laml of the free anil home of the brave Is likely to be enriched conduring the Twentieth the gress by No? Amendment? Well, you need not feel lonesome. There are others, many others, who have never even heard of tills Twentieth Amendment. In fact, it would be hard to lind In a days search a corporals guard of average citizens who have. No ; it is not an amendment prohibiting the broadcasting by radio of jazz. It does not forbid the buying of an automobile on the installment plan. It does not take away short skirts and cigarettes from the flapper. It Is not that kind of an amendment at all. This impending Twentieth Amendment Is ns different as possible. It has nothing to do with the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness of Mr. and Mrs. American Citizen. It is concerned wholly with the mechanics of the government of the United States of America. Perhaps tills Is why It lias no publicity agent and why no propaganda has cried Its merits. let this Twentieth Amendment Is an extremely important amendment. Its effects may be beyond all calculations of the experts in government. It is, in a way, a political experiment which may or may not prove of benefit to this nation dedicated to representative government. The proposition embodied in the amendment is far from being new. It is an old, old proposition that lias increasingly engaged the attention and consideration of congress for at least a century, as the railroad and the telegraph have annihilated distance and time, nnd the press has diffused knowledge of current events. The Twentieth Amendment, In short, is Intended to establish the principle of immediate legislative responsiveness to current popular opinion by doin away with the gap called by some a hiatus between the election of members of congress nnd the seating of the elected members. Those supporting the amendment point out that congress does not actually begin, under the present arrangement, until thirteen months after the members have been elected. It thus not infrequently happens that issues upon which they have been elected have been either settled or complicated by the old congress. The shortness of the second session often prevents the passage of important measures. Congressmen defeated for vote without responsibility. Election contests are seldom decided before the expiration of at least half the term, with the result that the district is misrepresented, and Uncle Sam pays duplicate salaries. Those opposing the meeting of congress within a short period after the election admit the force of these points. Their opposition is based mainly upon the theory that deliberation is an essential factor in good legislation and that there is a certain danger In the making of laws by members fresh from the excitement of the campaign. They also hold that in case a presidential election Is thrown into the house, It is better to have the Sixty-nint- far-reachi- h members The tickler, placed In Inductive relation to the grid of the tube, produces which makes the tube oscillate when the resistance Is not high enough to prevent that. One terminal of the variable resistor R3 should go to the plate and the other to the coll. Now as we vary the resistance of this, we can Increase or decrease the effective Inductive value or the tickler. Wiring the Set. On the tuner, used In the detector circuit, there are six posts, each one of which is numbered. Post 1 goes to the antenna clip on the terminal strip. Post 2 goes to the ground clip. Post 3 goes to one terminal of the grid condenser and to the grid leak It. The other terminal of this combination goes to the G post of socket 1. Post 3 also goes to the stationary plates of the only variable condenser. Cl. Post 4 goes to the rotary plates of this same condenser, and to the F-- post of socket 1. Post G is Internally connected to one terminal of the stationary tickler winding. One terminal of the resistance K3 goes to the P post of socket 1. This has G marked on the post. Post 5 goes to the top terminal of a double-circuJack, If such a Jack Is to be used. Otherwise connect this feed-bac- By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN of the preceding congress not been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, what determine the choice they see the officer shall then act as President, and compossibility of two congresses such officer shall act accordingly until the house of representatives chooses peting for regularity. a President, or until the senate chooses The Constitution (Art. I, Sec. 4) pro- a vice president. vided that congress should assemble The funny attempts to change the March 4, 1789, and thereafter in evtime of the sessions of congress have on the first Monday ery year a provision for n in December, unless they shall by usually Included in the date of inauguration day law a different to change ... appoint Up day. and Including May 20, 1S20, eighteen acts were passed providing for the meeting of congress on other days of the year. Since that year congress has met regularly on the first Monday in December. Several Joint resolutions providing for tills Twentieth Amendment have been introduced in this congress. Representative Benjamin L. Fairchild, for example, introduced this joint resolution on the opening day: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 13) proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States fixing the commencement of the terms of President and vice president and representatives In congress and the terms of representatives and fixing the time of the assembling of congress; to the committee on election of President, vice president, and representatives in congress. AVliut these proposed constitutional amendments purpose to do is indicated by the constitutional amendment the before congress. March 14, 1924, the senate voted on this amendment. Note the vote: Yeas, 08; nays, 7. The amendment did not come to a vote In the house. This apparently was not due to any particular opposition to It. It simply got lost in the shuffle of a short session, it is difficult to see why, in view of the practical unanimity of the senate vote, it should not have passed the house, had it come to a vote. The amendment, as passed by the senate: Section 1. The terms of the President and vice president In office at the time this amendment takes effect shall end at noon on the third Monday In January and the terms of senators and representatives then In office at noon on the first Monday In January of the year in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified, and the terms of their successors shall then begin. Section 2. The congress shall assemble at least once In every year and such meeting shall be on the first Monday In January unless they shall by law appoint a different day. Section 3. If the house of representatives has not chosen a President, whenever the right of choice devolves upon them, before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, then the vice president chosen for the same term shall act as President until the house of representatives chooses a President, but if the house of representatives has not chosen a President before noon on the fourth day of March next following, then the vice shall become President durpresident remainder of the term; and ing the the congress shall by law provide that In the event the vice president has Sixty-eight- h Two grounds have been advanced for t he proposed changes in the date of inaug inauguration day : One is that season uration day should come at a more likely to give pleasant weather. The other Is that the Presidents term should fit logically into the plans for changing the beginning and ending dates of congress. Is a constitutional amendment necessary to change the date of inaugura tion day? The Constitution itself fixes no exact, date for the inauguration The constitutional sharks appear to be at variance on this point. Some hold that the amendment is necessary arOthers hold to the contrary. The of gument in favor of the necessity Is briefly amendment a constitutional this : Set. d terminal to the P post' of the AFT 1. The B post of this AFT goes to the l post (Det on strip). If the Jack is to be used, connect the B post to the Inner terminal, and the bottom to B-f- Det. clip. The G post on the B AFT 1 goes to the G post on the socket 2. The F post on AFT 1 goes to the A clip. The P post of AFT 1 goes to the P post of socket 2. The B post goes to the B post of AFT 2, and to the bottom terminal of the jack. The G post goes to the arm of the clarostat, and to the G post of socket 3. The resistance wire post of this clarostat goes to the F post on the AFT 2. The B posts of both AFTS go to the B Amp. clip. Now you can use two Individual ballast resistors. R4 and R5, as per diagram, which are placed In the negative leg of the amplifier tube filaments. All the F posts go to the jclip. Connect the A to the B . List of Parts. tuner (includes colls One and R3). One .0005 mfd. variable condenser single-- (1) A variable resistor controls regeneration. (2) A variable resistor controls volume on the audio side. Smooth regeneration control Is obtained by using a fixed tickler with the variable resistor in parallel or, as In this case, In series with the plate Pravidesorlmpnrtant Changes in Mechanics of U.S. Government Resistance-Controlle- f- it For Code Practice in Radio Communication Those who have a longing to know the code used in radio communication will find the circuit shown in Figures 1 and 2 useful in the practice of sending and receiving dots and dashes. The system is especially applicable to radio clubs, school classes, and other organizations desiring a means for group practice. The material needed is a , buzzer capable of producing a lilgh-frequenc- y The Constitution fixes the term of the President at four years. A change in the Inaugural date would result in an extension or curtailment of that curtailment period. That extension or can constitutionally be effected only Constithrough an amendment to the It. to have The appear yeas tution. more than 1S76 fifty since Anyway, to made been change have attempts the inaugural date. In 1S76 the date fixed by a proposed resolution was May 1. Ten years later an attempt note, a telephone Induction coil, a was made to fix it on the anniversary switch, a key nnd pair of phones per of George Washingtons first inaugura person, and the necessary batteries. tion at New York April 30. By arranging the parts as shown In The weather likely to obtain on in Figure 2 the circuit may be controlled auguratlon day is a factor that has by any one of the keys. been much discussed. Custom has Only the keys, buzzer, coil, binding made this inauguration of the Presi posts, etc., need be mounted on the pageant which top of the operating table while all dent an the weather can largely make or mar, the wiring Is made on the under side. When President Coolidge was inaugu rated March 4, 1923. the weather was Ideal nnd the vast crowd of spectators packed the entire space Inclosed by the east face of the capitol, the con gressional library and the senate and house office buildings. And with the powerful amplifiers used every word of the Presidents inaugural address was distinctly heard by every person, William H. Tafts Inauguration day, March 4, 1909, was a complete con trast It was so stormy that the ceremonies had to be held Indoors. As may be seen from the schematic Senator Iloar of Massachusetts In In Figure 1 the secondary-key-phon- e 1S98 sponsored a resolution fixing the diagram circuit Is a series parallel last Wednesday in April as inaugura- one allowing provision for additional tion day. But weather bureau reports operating positions, the signal being showed that from 1873 to 1S97 th in all the phones. In this way heard weather was little, if any better, on to maintain intercom la It possible the later date. circuit A-- (Cl). One 2 meg. leak (R). One .0023 mfd. grid condenser. Two low ratio transformers (AFT1, AFT2). One single-circujack (J2). One double-circujack (Jl). Two amperites (1A or 99, R4, R5). One clarostat (R6). One dial. Two knobs. One rheostat (R2), audio-frequenc- y it it 20-oh- m To Build Loop A loop one foot square will work with a sensitive receiver. Set the two crosspieces In the shape of an X and attach the upright piece to one of them. Cut slots In the end of each of the four ends of the crosspieces to receive four pieces of hard rubber 7 by 1 by 4 Inch. Now wind 26 turns of loop wire or standard single lamp cord 4 inch apart about the rubber pieces set perpendicular to the frame of the loop. -- munication between the several receiving points. By putting the buzzer In a continuously operated circuit, the tone produced will be more constant than If the several keys were used to Interrupt the buzzer circuit. Also, by placing the keys in the secondary side of the circuit there will be no appreciable lag or key thump in the signals as transmitted. Dust in Sets Is Cause of Loss in Efficiency Dust In radio sets is often the cause large loss In efficiency. This la especially true In wet weather, when the dust becomes damp, and allows the feeble radio currents to leak. The worst places for dust to be allowed to of a collect is about binding posts and terminals and between the plates of ' It may rotary variable condensers. be removed from between wires and around terminals with a small brush, about two inches wide. The engineers in laboratories often use pipe cleaners, the same as used for cleaning the stems of ordinary smoking pipes, for removing dust from between condenser plates and from other otherwise Inaccessible places. It would be good practice for the set owner to carefully dust his set in this way, as often as once a month. Keep Tube From Vibrating If the tube elements are not rigid, they will vibrate easily, producing rattling and howling noises. A tube that vibrates easily Is said to be Such a tube will produce distorted sounds when the loudspeaker Is tuned in the direction of the set, because the sound wave, striking the receiver, causes It to vibrate, and the grids of the tubes to shake. micro-phoni- c. A Lazy Switch Hook an ordinary electric switch In the negative A lead to your set, lengthen your lead so It will reach to your pillow and you have a battery f switch that will save many a step after you retire, with the loud speaker operating. cut-of- |