Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-05-01 | Page 16 | Radio Political Football, Says Commissioner

ADlO FOOTBALL SAYS i 1 COMMISSIONER r. r FAYETTE Ind May 1 1 CAP CAP- AP AP- AP ft Radio dio has become a political football foot foot- S ball baU to be kicked aro around around nd inra In a presidential prest- prest d election eJection year by men who wito fall all to understand Its engineering 9 f features In in the opinion ot of O O. O II H. r Caldwell aldwell member of th the e federal rad ra- ra radio d dio commission in ln an address prepared for tor delivery deity deity- ery before the senior engineering ring students students of Purdue university here I today Mr Caldwel said that thit many sophistries had been erected to the name of oC radio for home coot consumption con con- gumption at v vote ote getting tomy time tom but butt t y that thit the radio fans were learning rapidly and the politician A t ho b Y such uch false falsa appeals as cutting radio radio vers powers proposes to waste a pub public resource whole while hUe depriving millions ns of listeners of their is favorite favorite- must soon soon face an arouse aroused public CONFERENCES CONFERENCES' FAI FAIL r i. Although the be best t engineering minds of the country had agreed on ona on ona ona a program based on simple radio principles and sound experience the commissions said conference offer nC affer af- af fer ter conference at t Washington had failed to 10 Improve It j yet he continued with politicians poli poli- opposing It It because they c can n not understand It the plan maYbe may maybe be held in on abeyance for foi sheer sheel lack of support of oC men trained Sn In business bustness busi bust ness ess 01 or engineering thinking t to have haveIt It ii promptly adopted and so bo improve the radio r reception of millions ns of listeners all aU over the land w Prominent In Jn the the- opposition argument argue ment he added was the cry against the rural or exclusive e. channel channel chan chan- nel assigned to a a. single powerful for station station for to the lay Jay mind such channel might better be shared by a dozen or more local county seat broadcasters Of course he said the fact is that with such sucha a a channel shared snared by bya a number of stations the distant listener could get nothing but now now or squeals owing to the interaction of the several earlier carrier va waves ves URGES SINGLE CHANNEL J If If vv we e are to reach the remote listeners ils- ils its lis on the farms in the moun mountain mown moun- tain cabins on the plains and in inthe inthe inthe the crossroads and villages and villages and I more than of our people now live Jive miles rone ore more from a bro broadcasting station station we we must reach teach these good folk sol solely ly through such exclusive rural ch channels he argued The he commissioner attacked u as s another another another an an- other sophistry the argument put forward that high power radio transmitters are a menace Tie He said saia that to cut the power of an existing watt station to watts as has been proposed would be he as abhorrent and wasteful of the wave length a public resource as to permIt permit per per- permit mit only ten feet of a foot wate wae wa wa- te e fall all to be utilized while tho rest lest of ot the foot drop was lost