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Show h• c t• St • Rad10 a ton ensors tp THE UTE SENTINEL December 6, 1935 Midvale, Utah, Friday, --~~~~~--~--~~~~-~~--------------~~~~~~~~~---------------------------~~---PAGE THREE key, to drink beer and to smoke is in the present- not the past-1 remarks are ad"d;;~;;---cigarettes. Maudlin love stories and vivid descriptions of horrible crimes and villainies will be dangled before him, not in a way to point out that wrong-doing doesn't pay, but in a way to shock him and make him dwell on these horrors earnest observers all over the coun- until he becomes shock-proof." try as to the effects of many radio There are those of the radio programs on minds of the listeners and particularly young people. world who admit that in the early Speaking of his experience in list- days there was much reason to ening to programs on four network complain or the character of radio systems, Mr. Jamison says, in part: programs. Then, they say, millions "No 10-year-old boy or girl can of dollars were required to equip listen for one day to the general stations, and the stations could not run of these programs without be- be circumspect as to the moral efing mentally and morally pulled feet of their acceptances. Now, down. They are debasing. He will since radio has become wealthy, be UJI8'ed to gamble by the reports the large systems have a long quesof the horse races. He will become tionable list and do not depend on more and more interested in the that list to any extent for their income. · d egraeli ng sport of pr1ze-fighting To those who thus defend the because this is pictured in attracradio system, let it be emprasized tive terms. "He will be urged to drink whis- that the criticism of the programs Protest gs . Brm Several , congressional protests were made to the Federal communications Commission against the act of WLW, powerful Cincinnati radio station, for omitting a broadcast of the twice-a-week program by Drew Pearson and Robert Allen, co-authors of a dally L. newspaper column, 41 WashingtonMerry-Go-Round ... The omission was made on Saturday, October 19, 1935, allegedly because certain statements in the • broadcast did not meet the approval of this privately owned powerful 500,000-watt station. It is stated that Station WLW had threatened to discontinue the Pearson-Allen broadcast program because of a reference made by them to the effect that LeBlond Machine Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, was manufacturing metal lathes to be shipped to Italy to be used, presumably for the manufacturing of munitions. Other references were made by the columnists which met the disapproval of Station WLW, it was stated. One pertained to Mr. Joseph Green, an official of the State Department whose residence is in Cincinnati. Mr. Anning S. Prall, Chairman of the Federal Commerce Commission stated that probably no discipl~ary action would be taken against the station, adding that the dispute is one involving continuity of a program, with which the commission is not officially concerned. Although the commission has not a1 rived at a definite policy affecting censorship, it has authority to refuse renewal of licenses, which it can exercise if the right of free speech is being violated, or if certain properties are not being observed by the licensee. Among those Members of Congress who filed protests with the commission were Senators Norris (R. of Nebr.); Nye (R. of N. Dak.); Clark (D. of Mo.); Byrnes (D. of S. C.); Chairman Fletcher (D. of Fla.), Senate Banking Committe; and Chairman Wheeler (D. of Mont.), Senate Interstate Commerce Commission. Senator Fletcher stated in his wire that he regarded the act of Station WLW, in excluding the program, as an "unwarranted invasion" of the right of free speech. It does not appear that Station WLW questions the truth of the statements made in the references by Messrs. Pearson and Allen. It is pointed out that the responsibility lies with the broadcaster when he speaks of persons, events, situations, etc., and not with the radio station or stations. There is ample opportunity for broadcasting stations to be highly sensitive if they would take into account the kind of matter they often allow to poll~te the air. Hon. W. D. Jamison, former Iowa Congressman, now a prominent lawyer of Washington, D. C., publishes an editorial weekly bulletin, entitled "The Window Seat." 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