The Donaldsonville chief., 1912-11-16
DoNALDsoNyILLE. LA. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER Is. 1917

| ITO WIRELESS TELEGRAPHERs.
IAI Users Of Radio Communication
/ are Warned TO Comply with the
/ Act Of Congress and Federal
Regulations.
Approximately 400 wire1ess-euuip-
ped American ships, 100 commercial
wireless stations, many more sta
tfons connected with colleges, schools
and experimental laboratories, and
several thousand amateur wireless
stations will be affected by reg
ulations promulgataa Nv Acting Sec
retary Cable of the Department
of Commerce and Labor to enforce
4 the radio communication act of con-
gress which goes into effect Dec. Is.
The act establishes a complete feder-
al control system over radio communi-
cation, and requires licensing Of all
wireless operators working across
state lines or in communication with
ships at sea. It Is therefore impor-
tant that all persons asing or con-
j templating the use Of wireless tele-
graphy should familiarke themselves
Z with the requiremg gats lof the act of
congress and the regulations pre-
scribed thereundenA
| The department Will administer the
act through radio INSPECTORS at New
York. Baltimore, New Orleans and
San Francisco, and additional in
i spectors will soon be appointed for
Boston, Chicago, Savannah, Seattle
and Cleveland. The limited States
/ has been divided into mine districts
! with headquarters at these cities.
/ The circular embodyiag the regula-
tions announces the eligibility OF
women as operators and states that
! licenses for coast stations will be is
sued by the nearest RADIO Inspector or
by the commissioner Of navigation at
/ Washington. Examinations of would
be operators will be he'd at the navy
yards. naval stations the Naval
Academy, certain army msts and else
where. Amateur stations are restrict
Led IN wave length of isansmittal to
mot exceeding 200 metess, except in
special DUPLICATION To the depart
4 ment.
The Iuris dict 4 ttle radio IN
/ speetor at com prises
4 the. states of Il, Mississip ippi,
Louisiana, Texas, tennessee, Ark
| ansas, Oklahoma and New Mexico.
J, His address Is Room 235, Custom
4 house, New Orleans, Ls.,and all wire
/ less operators or others concerned
in radio communica should apply
lat once to him for information and
instructions relative thereto, in order
that they may not su ubject them
selves to the penalties attaching to
nom conformity with the law.
To Whom Does the River Belong.
The river belongs to the nation,
The leyee, they say, to the state;
| The government rup.s navigation,
The commonwealth, though, pays
the freight.
Now, here is the problem that's
heavy:
Plesase which is the right or the
wrong?
When the water runs over the levee,
To whom does the river belong?
It's the govern ment's river in sum
When the skage Of the water is
low,
But in spring, when it gets on a
hummer
And starts o'er the ievee to flow;
y, ,+sr &c c1y
The state must dig down IN It's TILL
And push back the odd Mississippi
Away from the farm and the mill.
know very little Of laWing,
I've made little study of courts,
I've done little geing and having
Through verdicts, opinions, reports;
Why need there be anything more
When the river starts levees to
climb?
If the government Owns the aforesaid
1t must own It all OF the time.
If the bull you are leading should
And jump over somebody's fence, 4
There isn't much douapt you're the
fellow
Expected to bear the expense.
Il it follows Sunday school teacher
And chases the maid u.p a tree,
You're owner the same of the crea-
ture,
Undoubtedly all will agree.
Il some time should somebody's
chickens
Get into your garden and dig,
And pull up the plants like the dick
ems,
Or somebody's bull lpup or pig,
The owner thereof carmot blame it
On you or some par ty remote,
The owner thereof CART diselaim it
The chick or the nllr1 Or the shnat