The Twig
Mcvibcr of N. C. CoUciiiutc Prcsn AssocUiiion
Published Weekly by the Student Body
of Meredith College
STAFl'’
Kai'iierixf, Brow.x Editor-in-Chief
ELizAUi'n'ii Kkndhick ... .Assistant Editor-in-Chicf
Claka Mae Jessup Associate Editor
Rutu Fheicmax Associate Editor
GicKAi.i)i.\-E Goweu Associate Editor
Annik Hoi-e Ward Associate Editor
Fax.me Paul Y. W. C. A. Editor
Mhs ^;ai!v Vi.NCK.vf LoNG Fuculty Editov
Ann Eliza Buewek Business Manager
Evki.yx Bailey Assistant Business Ma7iaffer
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EDITORIALS
(111 tlic sfiitt'. 'I'his jiriiclisc has never bci'ii
used Ijd'ovo at ilevodith, and bc.^idcs giving
rlic cniifovs and re])i>}'tcvs sonictliing to wovk
for, \v{' hope’ will moan niucli to tbo growtli
•ind l)(?ttoriiU‘Ut nf our paper. So with this
.■itjiil'. under the wise direction of Jliss Lowe,
\vc‘ have no doubt but that T/u; Tivicf of 1022-
28 will be a college newspaper of wbicb
•Mcvc'dith will bo dnly proud.
JDlections for 1922-23 are over, although
the new ofticers do not assume fheir dvities uti-
til the beginning of the fall term.
The Tivitj staff for the coming year has
hr(Mi greatly enlarged, and organized on a
slightly different basis. Tbis is to lee|) from
jiufting too nuicli rcsponsibilify and strain
upon any one edition. We are fortunate to
have the followhig girls to serve on the stuff
for 1022-23:
Alice Lowe—Editor-in-Chief.
Mabel West—iLanaging Editor.
Oerahline Gower—Assignment I’Mitor.
•loy neamer—Kxchange Editor.
Phyllis ilays—P>u.'^inc^s l^runager.
Ghnlys Strickland—Assistant Ihisiness
-Manager.
Sophomore Reporters
Tsabel Do Vlaniming, Elizabctli Higgs,
Leona Colwell, Elizabeth Bowen, Flora Frye,
.lennio Erye, Fay 'Foster, Annie Elkins, iifary
Page Franklin. Tiaeford I [atelier, lulna I'^arlf
Wotten, .Toanette ilace.
'I'his may ?ecni a rather large statf for a
]>apcr as small as The 'J'lrifj, but it is our in
tention to enlarge oiir edition next year, if
])ossibl(\ Again, these girls have been selected
with a view to training and rel(‘ntioii on the
staff. That is, the i'’diror-iii-(’bief for li)2;’)-
24 is to 1k! eliosen from the nuinaging editor,
Assignment editor, and Exchange elitor of
1922-23. Tliese editors, in their turn would
bo selected from tlio iSojihomore reporters.
'J'hus, when a girl is elected editor-in-eliiof
she will have had three veavs definite training
GENERAL ELECTRIC AN
NOUNCES NEW RADIO
BROADCASTING STATION
A radio broadcasting station, more power
ful than any now sending out programs, has
heen installed l»y the General Electric Coin-
j!any at its ])lfint in Schenectady, IN’. Y.
From the roof of a five story factory build
ing, two towers 183 feet high and spaced 3r>0
feet apart, su])port an antenna at such licight
as to give the wireless waves \inobstrueted
freedom to travel equally well at a sj)oed of
186,000 feet per second in all directions.
This station has not been regularly oper
ated iior has advance announcement been
made of the impromptu or test programs sent
out, which would cause amateurs to be listen
ing, yet, letters have been received from such
distant points as Cedar Kapids, Iowa, ilinne-
apolis and Santa Clara, Cuba, the latter place
l,-l-r>U miles distant, announcing that the pro
grams have been lieard. These reports come
I'rom operators who, in an evening’s experi-
II (‘utiiig with their receiving sets, have acci
dentally come upon the waves from Schenec
tady and are no indication of the distance this
station may be beard.
IJroadcastlng stations, with but a fraction
of tlie jiower of th(* G-E station, have been
h(‘arl at distances of 2,GUO miles or more un
der favorable atmospheric conditions.
'J'he General Klcctric station has been
licensed to 0])eratc on a 3G0 meter wave
length under the call letters of W. G. Y. Jt
is e([uipped with the most mod(‘rn of radio
a^^paratus, iuchidiiig the multiple tuned aii-
icnua which, because of its many advantages,
has been installed in Kadio Central, th'..-
wc.rld's most powerful commercial station
at Ivoc’ky Point. 1^. L, and other transoceanic
stations of the Kiidio Corporation of Amei'ica,
A three room studio, where the jirograms
ire jiroduced, is loealetl in a Coni])an_y ofHce
'milding, 3,000 feet from the trajismitting
station. One room is used as a receplioii
room for the artists, where thev may sit and
chat until their time on the program arrive.'^
witlioiit hing('r of interfering with what is
li’oing on in the studio. Tlie second I'oom if'
die sfndio, where a conccrt grand ])iano, vie
rrola, an organ and other eipiijiment for the
artists are to bo found. Here a number of
portable microphones, which are commonly
known as pick up devices can be shifted about
to locations be.st -suited for the reception of
announcements, musical numbers, or what
ever mav be sent out. In the room on the
STUDENT! OPINIOM ^
Girls, we said that we would not continue
walking aronml this eam)jus being constantly
inspected by we know not whom, and we
don’t any longer. We have done that much
toward the improvement of aff’airs here. Xow
can we not go a step further? We arc on
the street only two blocks from the business
section of the city, and we should, after all
that has been said ihiring the jiast few months,
be well aware of the fact, but as yet there are
those of us who persist in doiniing our bed
room slippers and leisurely strolling from
Jfain to Faircloth. Should we one time stop
and think, we every one know that that adds
not one good thing to our reputation—even
though our slipjicrs are new or of some ])retty
bright color. Xor do they make a good aj)-
pearance in the dining room and library.
Worse still, tiiere are those of us who hav
ing washed our beautiful tresses hang them
out of the window, on the street, to dry. Some
of us even go from building to building with
masses of the drying locks gracing our shoul
ders, ami curly, black, or golden though they
may be, girls, let’s sto]> and think. Wo know
that we would not do thene careless things at
home. Are we justified in doing them here ?
Should we for one time see ourselves as jiass-
ers-by seo us would we not l>e more careful (
GiCUAI.DI.NJO Go\V1!1{.
opposite side of the studio is ajiparatus for
amplifying the sound waves before they are
transmitted by wires to the liroadcasting
station.
A switchboard in tlie sMidio, which lights a
red light when the station is in o]K>ration thus
warning |)ersons in the room that whatever
tl'ey might say will be sent out to thousands
()f ears of an invisil)lc audience, is within
reach of the studio dii'ector at all times. X'>t
until be throws a switch can anyihing reach
the antenna. A tolejdione attached kee])S
him constanlly informed just how the ju'o-
gram i.s goinii' out and allows him to change
|)osition o1 tin; artists or mierophoni* if such
is necessary lo improve the tone (piality of the
enlertainnient.
With the exceplion (>f ihe small ])ick up de
vices or microphones ami the switcliltoard,
there is nothing in. this room to indicate it as
different from any musical studio.
Ill the apparatus room, the somul waves
are ])ut through a number of stops of anijili-
fication by means of vacuum tubes which in
crease their volume thousands of times. 'I’be
■,im))lified sounds are then put into a wire
and sent to the broadcasting station, where
they enter another bank of vacuxim tnl'es,
known as modulators or molders of the elec
tric waves.
Direct current at a high voltag-e is necessary
for 1ho operation of a transmitting station.
To obtain this, a 220 volt alternating current