Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-29
PLANS FOR FEDERAL
!, CONTROL Of RADIO
NOW COMPLETED
Granting Of More Wave
Lengths for Private Use
May RevoIutionize Science.
Great Future Seen
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
Heased Wire Service to The Journal.)
Downright, 1922.


Copyright, 1929
WASHE.GTON, April 2S.-Plaps
for government control of radio
have been completed. An admins
tration bill will be introduced in the
senate next week by Mr.. Kellogg.
of Minnesota. and in the house by
Mr.. White, of Maine: Briefly, the
bill when passed would authorize
the department of commerce to pre-
vent the growth of any monopoly
in transmitting messages of any
kind through the air. 1t would en-
courage division of the hours of the
day among the sending stations.
For many months the radio prob
lena has been growing in complex
fly. The limited number of wave
lengths and the great number of
people who have sought to establish
transmitting stations has compelled
the government to take hand.
Committees of experts representing
every kind of business interest ana
every phase of government equity
have been at work on the matter
and finally have come to a unani-
nous conclusion. Their findings
will be embodied in the new bill to
be introduced in congress.
The legislation itself will be broad
ely phrased so as to give the widest
latitude possible to the administra'
tive agency of the government-the
department Of commcrce-but the
report which has just been agreed
upon by the army, navy, private
companies, amateurs and all kinds
S.. Of concerns interested In radio
makes certain recommendations
which the department of commerce
would be morally bound to follow
when the law is enacted.
Ban on MonOpOlies
In the first place, no transmitting
station ever will be given monop-
DIV for a certain city or district
The government believes such
nractice would be giving privilege
to vested interests. If there are
several newspapers in a city or
several business houses which want
to use the radio for TRANSMISSION
purposes, the government will grant.
licenses to any of them. But the.
time for using the transmitting
20 no divided
couitably among the users.
The inspectors of the department
of commerce will assist in bringing
the parties at interest together, but
the division of time must be made
bv the transmitting station, or else
the government will decline to in
terfere. But the advantages of dl'
vidine the time so that each station
may be free from interference dur
ing it's ser.Eng periods are so obvi-
GUS that agreement is confidently
expected.
Secretary .foover, who has been
working on the matter for many
months, believes that the number OF
sending stations will be materially
increased when as many as four or
five wave lengths can be used in
city at the same time. Up till now,
there have been few wave lengths
available for private uses, as the
navy has reserved for its own use
most of the wave lengths.
This has compelled stations in
the same vicinity to use the same
length with the result that they
have drowned each other out or in
terfered with each other so seriously
as to be ineffective. Most of the
programs, especially concerts and
entertaining features of radio tele-
phony, have had to be sent on the
same wave length-360 meters.
This has made it impossible, for in
stance, to hear stations at great
distances because the stations near
by took precedence in the air.