The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1922-02-26
ToConfer
on Radio
Operation
Wireless Experts to
Meet with Harding
on Monday
VIII SNot(yyoQfize Air Lanes
for HapdliR0 Greater
Rssineos

WASHINGTON. Feb. sS.-An inter
national treaty cr agreement govern
ing radio communication Is expected
to be the Anal outcome OF q series OF
conferencea. the first OF which will
convene Monday under the auspices OF
Secretary OF Commerce Hoover.
Fifty wireless experts and electrical
engineers have been summoned to
Washington to attend the conference
at the request Of President Harding.
According to plane announced to-
night, the conference will discuss plans
for the alteration of the standards est
In the International agreement OF 1912.
authorised to he used by radio opera
tives.
In the belief that the radio systems
of the world are on the threshold OF
their greatest development as a means
OF disseminating Information Of busi-
nees. press and official character. the
government ie desirous OF fashioning
adequate rules for the safeguarding
Of the proper use of the radio. Con-
fusion has resulted from the pro-
pinquity OF wave lengths utilized by
important agencies and especially by
the uncontrolled radio activities of
amateurs Secretary Hoover is con
vinced that before the work of devel-
oping to ,ts utmost the almost limit
less powers OF aerial communication.
the air lanes must be regulated and
systematized and safeguarded. on sea
and on land. The present wave
lengths system has proven utterly in
adouuate IN WAS dQrlarN1
Mondays conference viii deal with
the wireless question purely on basis
of determining what Improvements
can be made over the 1912 arrange
ment and then consult with interna
tionai experts toward the end Of con
yening world conference to devise
treaty or agreement regulating
aerial transmission. The conference
will also adopt recommendations for
legislation looking toward the I'M
proyement of this governments wire
less activities and viii ask an arpro-
psiation to carry on their work
Or S " Straiton. director ot the
bureau of standards in the department,
OF commerce. will preside al the con
terence. Senator Frank B Kellogg
q. Minnesota. Representative Wallace
H White. Jr.. Of Maine. H E Howell
OF Omaha. NetT. Or Alfred y. Cold
smith. secretary NJ the institute oi
Radio Engineers Of New York cts
Frof G Fl ,ianskv. Jf 81 the Tui
versifr OF Minnesota Hiram ?. Max
i'm. presilent Of 'he Am eTican Relay
lsague. II Hartford. Conn and Prof
1. 4 Hazeifine II the Stevens insti-
tnfe Of Hobolen. : ] VIII he amons
the radio experts attending. Monday
conference
The American boy aose ngenui;'
IL IN part asponslh.e for he pfesen
radio confusion through his amateu
acti.itias. has good .rieni IN Ser
r4.a-v Hoover The secretary wdntl
the b0ys oi America - know thai h
considers himself their special dele
gate al the aonfsreue and that h
xiil see tha- their rights and interest
are Tot sidetrackef. and believes III
hev con stltue1t- Nil agree ai'h som
that Il : the best for al. radio opera
f4ves rafe1shegt The world 'har e.r
tam saea lengih b. alioested amafs 81.
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length sHI not RsndsT in.a fhe Hat
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