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Show J DIGEST AH WILLIAM BRUCKART fetj f0Al PRESS BLDG. WASHINGTON.:. I i . ,. ,n-One of the oldest 3?!s tlie must constant of i1 i: all complaints tiach about the federal . J .J" government at ' J faPe wushlnston has tendency toward bureau-' bureau-' trni Bm-oaucratlc con-; con-; Jdlsredtapet "ed nianngement of even ;'( ? (fairs by a governmental jj J ' lt is naturally and obvl-'"ilslve obvl-'"ilslve to the average Amer-V Amer-V , a condition thoroughly 'I !' S in Mr. Hoover's ad-i ad-i '1 1 when there were I bureaus, and commissions ' ; It Is even worse now, fffith all of the New Deal's I soup agencies scattered y0n In execution of varl-, varl-, Deal experiments and the- ' . this constitutes a prelude .npears to me to be a most attempt by bureaucrats to '. private affairs. I refer to 1 Ksued the other day by li mmmunlcntlons commls- tnnces apart. The A. T. & T. engineers engi-neers have been working on this problem some six or seven years. They proposed to build 100 miles of cable by connecting New York and Philadelphia. It had very little of the commercial In lt. They wanted to try out transmission of television Images for rebroudcast by radio. They wanted to perfect further the transmission of photographs by wire and they were desirous as well of determining whether they had discovered dis-covered all of the potentialities of the new Invention. All of the expenses ex-penses some six hundred thousand dollars was to be paid from surplus sur-plus funds of the corporation. It takes no stretch of the Imagination Imagina-tion to realize that If the A. T. & T. backed away from the program lt has laid out and refused to spend more money In perfecting Its Invention Inven-tion and declined to attempt to put Into commercial use for the benefit of the country as a whole, the country, coun-try, that is you and I, would suffer. We would be denied advantages developed de-veloped by science and made avall- ':? which lt has asserted a :1D which I cannot believe , ever Intended lt should Further, the asserted Jurls-. Jurls-. which the commission Is , ,0 exercise goes far beyond :'. which might be made the 1 'rf complaint solely because lt ,acratlc. It has reached Into : j 0f commercial enterprise In 4er which, without a doubt, 'v.n the effect of covering ln-ana ln-ana experiment In Industry j . , destructive frost bite If the I -!csic,D is allowed to get away able virtually as a national benefit. I do not know what the end will be. It Is not at a stage wherein a forecast is possible. But the principle prin-ciple of the commission's action, whether lt be put forward under Democratic or Republican administration, adminis-tration, remains exactly the same. It should not be tolerated and If the communications commission persists per-sists In Its efforts to expand Its control, con-trol, Its usefulness certainly Is at an end. Hitherto, the communications commission has had a very satisfactory satisfac-tory relationship with business. I have heard dozens of executives '.(acts Involved are these: The can Telephone and Telegraph 3tly, which Is spending millions '.Bar's annually In scientific re-ar re-ar i to Improve our system of )e -notations such as the tele- the telegraph, and the radio, 'ff r'has perfected what Is technl-" technl-" - known as the coaxial cable, i" cable Is revolutionary. It !,?' ' the possibility of transmission )r,': a telephonic conversations slat". sl-at". :neously over a single pair of rr." i It Is not commercially com-t com-t ; In all of Its phases. Like ev- -nr;anlzatlon of sound Judgment, ltr :t I, & T, wants to Iron r'. , : weaknesses and imperfections i : sh a period of experimental 3f; -.jtion. iol- "in Is where the federal com-fM' com-fM' Stations commission enters the picture. As a E FCC Enters courtesy, purely. Picture the A. T. & T. 1 submitted Its plan "t1- nperlmentatlon to the communl-' communl-' 'is agency, saying as lt did so the commission did not have from communications corporations say they were willing to forgive and generally overlook ignorance piled up In the commission by political appointments In several spots. They wanted to co-operate but lt Is the opinion of more than just myself among Washington observers that this sort of thing does not contribute contrib-ute to good government. Duck hunters will have only 30 days for shooting this fall In accordance ac-cordance with the Now, as to most rigid regu-Duck regu-Duck Hunting lations in the history his-tory of American game hunting. This Is the result of a determination by the federal gov-ernment gov-ernment under an act of congress to give migratory wild fowl an opportunity op-portunity to Increase In numbers. In explaining the government's action ac-tion which was made the subject of a proclamation by President Roosevelt, J. N. (Ding) Darling, chief of the biological survey and an Internationally known cartoonist, declared that unless the shooting of ducks and other wild fowl Is t-oofrlotorl t 19 OnlV R OUeStlOU Of m ' iJIctlon but that In the develop-' develop-' ' t of such a revolutionary lnven-) lnven-) the corporation was advising al :;ronmilsslon of Its plans and sug-l! sug-l! ! fd that If the commission ; :tit It had Jurisdiction lt could "' ' sin experimental license cover-DH cover-DH the work. In all of this It Is to -temcmhered that the communica-M communica-M :! commission has jurisdiction e'j rates, regulations, and prac-b': prac-b': i of the wire, telephone and " 't companies. ire t . in;i seems that some bright young Ij.. iln the communications commis- i immediately conceived the Idea lti,. -niiig that group take Jurisdic-B Jurisdic-B .. 'when lenal authorities tell me e!l,, ;Ms nothing In the law giving cni:j that authority. The story I ,.s around the commission lobbies ,11 H the A. T. & T. would not have cied to having the commission n( : '""else what it believed Its right e l'Mrj granting a license for the ,1( : ':lnient but when the order f :i '-'fed from the secret chamber k ;., :! Ike cnmmlsslnn, lt carried In It J Provision which said that the 'amission could withdraw Its ap-v- ;:,tl and nullify the permission ,tj:! ;,,lei on 10 days' notice as It saw time until none of them remain. It Is assumed that hunters will be Interested first In the period during which they may shoot ducks, geese, brant, or Jacksnlpe. The season will open in northern states October 21 and will close November 19. In the southern states the season will run from November 20 to December 19. For the Information of hunters there Is set out below the states Included In-cluded In the northern area where hunting may be done between October Oc-tober 21 and November 19: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Con-necticut, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, In-diana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Minne-sota, Iowa, Missouri. North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Washington, Oregon, and Nevada. Ne-vada. The southern states listed and in which hunting may occur from November No-vember to December 19 follows: New JerseyDelaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Car-olina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and rt. ! fMe to say that this provision y: filler with several other technl- I f- 'Phases of the circumstances was hs1 ; '!;Sl) to arouse the Ire of the busi-i, busi-i, 1 ';' men concerned. They are not (r,i -r disgusted. They are downright t'- I 't Is one of those things that o: ' 'lflans, undertralned In science, ir- ;Pl to do that caue practical i ;! f i lose faith In their gov- I I J!' 'orc 6iQ1l'ly a fight between ' T, & t. and the commission 1 -i P;t. . tnlt Is Involved. V r'l the s'tuat,on pj "Q' Interest would hold no In- terest at all for ' Washington writer. But, ''"j 8!"d "hove. It goes mucn fur-''. fur-''. n'J' 1 am told that some ofilclals s4nA' T' T' are so dissatisfied lithl i Ultude of the commission , ltI.a 8 '"stance that they are ready, !,V :ia"S'0U8' t0 withdraw their ap-'i ap-'i tUn and decline to proceed with it ' Wiu,erlmeQt wlllch ultimately Is ,'i lew 0 tDean enormous changes In '" ll(,.J'llc and telegruph'e contact 11 cities located at great dls- Callfornla. Regulations iss.ied by the biological biologi-cal survey, according to Mr. Darling, are based on the necessity of having hav-ing a net annual Increase of migratory migra-tory birds left over at the end of each shooting season until the present pres-ent depleted population of waterfowl water-fowl Is restored to something like normal. This year's rigid restrictions, restric-tions, he explained, follow a period of approximately thirty-five years during which the kill of wild fowl has exceeded the Increase from breeding. To give an Idea of how thoroughly thorough-ly the wild fowl are to be protected, the new regulations prohibit shooting shoot-ing over what Is known as baited water or land that Is, land or water wa-ter on which feed has been scattered scat-tered as an Inducement for the birds to stop their (light. Another thing ruled out In this effort to protect the water fowl Is the live decoy. This has always been the most effective ef-fective method for luring wild fowl from the air. None will be allowed hereafter. I Western Newspaper Unioa. |