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Show MEASURES INTRODUCED TO REGULATE RADIO STATIONS. A resolution and a bill aimed at the misuse of radio broadcasting stations sta-tions were introduced in the House of Representatives by Representative Thomas R. Amlie, of Wisconsin. The resolution would compel the observ-. ance of the right of free speech by the various stations and the bill would i regulate the use of the radio on Sunday. Addressing himself to the resolution, resolu-tion, Mr. Amlie stated that the Federal Feder-al Radio commission was given full and complete power to regulate broadcasting. A large part of this power has been delegated to the broadcasters who have agreed to exercise ex-ercise the power so delegated in accordance ac-cordance with a broadcaster's code of ethics. "There has never in history been such a complete failure on tho part of a regulatory body to achieve that for which it was created as in the case of the Federal Radio commission," com-mission," he said. On the bill Mr. Amlie declared: "The listening public has a right to some voice in the type of program that is hurled into its homes, although the broadcasters proceed on the theory the-ory that the public are the recipients of their bounty and ought to be grateful." Mr. Amlie declared that in 1929 world figures show that the total investment in-vestment in radio was over a billion and a half dollars. Of this amount the receiving sets represented about 98 per cent of the total investnent and the broadcasting equipment about 2 per cent. It was Mr. Amlie's opinion "that the radio fans would be glad to carry the whole load if they could get away from what Dr. Lee De Forest; has characterized as 'continual drivel of second-rate jazz, sickening crooning, interrupted by Wataret sales talks, meaningless but maddening station announcements, impudent commands to buy or try, Actually imposed over - ;-, n background f what might alone have been good music' " "The cost of time on the air over the chains has been constantly goin,r up. An hour over the wliile national hook-up now costs $20,000 and will probably soon be higher. "In view of this fact. I do not see why they should seek to commercialize commercial-ize every minute on Sunday as well us on the rest of the weiek. Business on the whole respects thw Sabbath. Why should ntot the broadcasters be made to respect our finer sensibilities on that one lay of the , week even though their earnfngs for tfcat day be slightly reduced?," |