Evening star., 1925-02-22
RADIO GOSSIP AND NEWS

The United States Government has
decided to call an international radio
conference at Washington in Septem-
Der. approximately so countries will
be asked to send three delegates each
as soon as an appropriation is passed.
Agenda, outlining the subjects to be
discussed will then be prepared by
the State Department, 1T is under
stood.
The Bureau of the Budget has sent
to the House appropriations commit
tee an estimate for $4,000 to defray
expenses during the conference. This
amount Is based upon the possibility
that the sessions may last three
months.
Following several months consid-
Grafton by various governmental
radio officials, a recent interdepart-
mental conference, at which repre-
sentatives of the State, Commerce.
War and Navy Departments and some
other bureaus were present, decided
that the conference should be called
for September, and forthwith the ex-
pense estimates went to Congress.
Until the measure is actually passed
II is doubtful If the State Depart
ment viii make an official announce
ment.
The United States Government was
represented at the radio conference
held in London in 1912, when. at the
suggestion of the Secretary of State,
the United States representatives in
vited the other delegates to hold the
next conference at Washington in
1917. This was postponed, however,
on account of the World War. During
the peace conference in Paris, in 1913,
II was decided to hold world confer
ence on electrical communications in
an effort to provide adequate inter-
national facilities. This conference
was TO have been held in Washington,
and a subsequent act Of Congress
approved in 1919 authorized the Pres
ident to call an electrical communi-
cations conference. A little later a
preliminary session of delegates from
Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan
and the United States met in Wash
ihston, but 1t was unable to arrive
AT an agreement on a combined radio
and telegraph conference.
The French government has now
called separate conference to meet
In the Spring in Paris to revise the
telegraph convention approved at Lis
bon in 1908, to which the United
states was not a party. The United
states is therefore taking steps to
holo the radio conference in Wash
ington in September in accordance
with the decision reached in London
in 1912.
While the United States is not Of
ncially concerned with the Paris tele-
graph conference, any results
achieved by the signatories will be
available for consideration at the
Washington conference this fall and
may not be considered in connection
with the radio regulations drawn up.
The Washington conference wfil
consider the developments which have
taken place in the radio art since
the convention was drafted in 1912.
AS this original convention dealt
only with radio code communication
between ships and shore stations,
regulations for the several modern
methods of communication will have
to be worked out to bring the articles
up to date. Probably the creates
development is that of the radio tele-
phone, which has made necessary in
ternational regulations, as we'll as
radio broadcasting, which is rapidly
becoming of world wide Importance.
Some of the London convention pro-
visions have become antiquated and