Show c I Radio Adjustment Necessary I Ie e San Francisco Chronicle II Adjournment of at congress without t the passage of ofa ofa ofa a bill regulating radio broadcasting has left the industry industry in industry in- in decidedly un In the air Last Avril a Chicago federal court denied the right of or the department of ot commerce to re regulate broadcasting stations and this view was upheld by bj byan byan an opinion of ot Attorney General Sar Sargent ent Since then however a Kansas Kansas' City federal court has handed down loWn a decision disagreeing with the Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago court and upholding the right that the attorney attorney attorney ney general genera waived This Thill latest judicial view holds that a broadcaster having accepted a license under the conditions contained in the legislative act of 1912 Is- Is bound is-bound bound to accept its terms Appa Apparently this opinion is a restatement of the authority of the de department dt de of ot commerce although It has not served to call can a halt to the pirating o of waves begun after the Chicago decision Several broadcasting stations have exercised what they believe is complete freedom of oC notion to go into the already crowded paths poth in broadcastIng broadcast broadcast- Ing lanes and others other have chosen to change their 1 assigned waves to others othos more attractive And unless this pirating is halted many broadcasters and manufacturers of oC radio equipment f see ee a chaos of ot br broadcasting ad and the enforced abandonment of oC radio by 30 listeners listener Broadcasting is something that must be regulated regu reKU- If IC it is to be at all aU successful It has been I remarked d that when the air is free tree to everybody It is free to nobody An unregulated traffic alon alona along alonga a highway crowded with automobiles could not be bemore bemore bemore more disorderly Common sense and a spirit of ot fair play may mav help out in a situation that has been clouded by bythe bythe bythe the failure of ot congress congre s and the conflicting decisions of the courts The rights of tho those thoM e already in the field should be respected even if It there is lacking any legal means of ot compelling that right Order can be maintained only onty by broadcasters agreeing at least to unofficial supervision as a stop gap p until until un un- un- un til UI congress has paused parsed sed the regulatory legislation demanded dem |