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Show Radio's National Disgrace Dr. Lee De Forest, known as the "Father of Broadcasting," is beginning be-ginning to have some doubts oi the honor that the title implies. He has recently given vent to some outspoken opinions regarding the conditions of the radio art in the United States. Because of the fact that many citizens of Sanpete County have radios, and are in position to know what the inventor is talking about, it may be interesting to present pre-sent his remarks in part. He inveighs against the "cheap vulgarity, insane drive and offensive offen-sive ballyhoo" of the commercial advertisers and complains that an Invention, which he thought "could spread education, culture and pleasure" has been perverted to "the lowest commercial use ana Its possibilities debased until the family that regularly listens to most of the llapdoodle it exudes runs danger of infection from its diseased vulgarities." Pointing out that law of 1927 permits licensing of stations for the "public interest, convenience or necessity" he says the radio commission continues to commend what it calls our "self-supporting" system and licenses "the radio centers of blatancy." On the subject of radio advertising adver-tising Dr. de Forest says; "Direct advertising is out of place in radio, ra-dio, anyway Advehtising belongs in publications where it can be read or disregarded and where it is not forcibly rammed down the national throat or ears. The American public has bought more than 20,000,000 radio receivers receiv-ers and is surely entitled to get something from them besides laudations of dog biscuits, time payments on automobiles and disgusting dis-gusting toilet accessories. We are inclined to think that Dr. de Forest is right in his strictures. strict-ures. So much advertising of a noisome sort is mixed in with most programs that we have ceased to use our own radio to any great extent Of coursi, there are exceptions, as Dr. de Forest points out, where "some decent-minded individual or corporations offers some superlatively superla-tively good instrumental or orchestral or-chestral music, cr the thoughts o' an interna"; 1:1 1 figure, ani content with modest credit for the contiibution." The inver.tM snyf he will lend "every ouiic ot aid" to anv i'roup that Ir.'.i.ks as he dO'.'S in ai effort to drie commercial d-vertislng d-vertislng off the air. |