Radio Round The World

Radio Record, 4 September 1936, Page 45

Radio Round The World

[[R. ELLIOT. ROOSEVELT, son of the President, has become vicepresident of Hearst Radio Inc., whieh controls eight broadcasting stations, in spite of the fact that Hearst is one of the bitterest critics of his father’s administration, Young Mr. Roosevelt began writing for: an advertising agency; then for Mr. Hearst; then became vice-president of a network in Texas and Oklahoma, and now this.

PROTESTANT Synod at Dordrecht, Holland, which governs a number of Congregational churches in, the district, considered, the case of a ‘married couple who confessed to gwning a ‘radio set,.and to listening to sermons on it. The Blders of the church had told them. that this was wrong, and: the married ‘couple had asked for a. Biblical authority. The Elders found none, and referred the matter to the synod. The synod found that broadcasting was not so much to be condemned in itself, as for its use as a dis‘seminator of sermons, radio being "more in the service of false doctrine than true." Church mémbers,. said the synod, must either attend services regularly or _ study the writings of the Fathers in their. own homes, and as ta, the married couple, their. admission to Church membership was to be postponed for six months,