San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29
AIR IS PUbL|C'S
CONSENSUS
Of MEET
Secretary Declares Benefit
to Greatest Number
Rules Policy Of US.
By HERBERT HOOVER

vitality represented concerned in it.
conclusions.
You. the listeners, were represented
at the conference through listeners
clubs in different parts of the coun
try and through the radio press, who
70 a great degree reflects your views
The conference also included repre-
sentatives Of the manufacturers Of
equipment, representatives of many
. government departments it included
representatives Of neighboring foreign
governments. Some 500 men and
women left their homes and business
affairs in all parts of the country to
spend three days in hard work search.
ing for solutions Of our many radio
problems.
The major subject Of this whole
three-day conference was interference.
In the practical terms of the listener
interference is the different bowls,
noises and whistles that come along
with your programs. We know from
the experience of the last few years
in this new art that many Of these
noises can be done away with. but
the doing sway with them takes US
into q dozen varied difficult fields.
1t involves questions Of legislation
by Congress further 10 control the
traffic in ether. 1t involves treaties.
many complicated and complex ques-
tons in the operation Of broadcasting
stations.
1t involves cooperation from the
electric light and power companies
that electric currents will not 20
astray. 1t involves cooperation Of the
listeners themselves that they shall
heep their own receiving sets 80 that
they do not occasionally turn them
into sending sets and thereby disturb
their neighbors.
USE OF WAVE LENGTHS.
An radio listeners know that mes
kz1es over the radio are carried on a
specific wave length. They also know
that there is only a certain band of
these wave lengths from about 200 to
$50 meters which can be used for tele-
phone broadcasting. Many Of them,
perhaps, do not realize the enormous
amount Of commercial and other "a.
do work that 10 carried on outside
the broadcasting band.
But in the broadcasting band there
ere only q certain number of paths
over which broadcast messages travel
from the station to the ears Of the
listener, and only one Of these paths
can be used by one station at one
time, unless they are a long ways
apart. Some Of these paths are used
by our neighboB in Canada for Ca
madam stations, and ours have come
10 b an integral part of single net
vp1k, To speak il actual figures, for
al the broadcasting in the United
States there are virtually IS wave
lengths which can be used at the pres
emit development Of the art, and we
now have nearly 600 broadcasting sta
tons clamoring for their use.
a OTHERS CLAMOR
( Ehe cir today is overcrowded. And
sven worse, we are faced with the de-
sires and demands Of nearly 200 new
broadcssters who wish TO erect sta
lions and to force the way into the
already congested lanes. There are
now more vehicles on the road than
there Is room for and more are crowd
fng il. Unless something is done the
whole traffic will be jammed.
I THs was the primary problem
fwiA which the conference had 20
deal Il is the cause of major in
reference. II faced it boldly. 1t
looks at it solely from the attitude of
Kbe listener, exclusively from the view
point bat it was the duty Of every
me - fnink and act with one goal
IN view, that is, a clear, ineligible
valuable signal, free from conflict
with other stations should reach the
ear Of the listener.
The conference declared that the
public interest, as represented by
service % the listener, should be the
basis for the broadcasting privilege.
And Il therefore determined that it
would ask Congress 10 enact legisla-
fion in your interest TO the effect
that there must be a legal limit upon
fbe total number Of broadcasting sta
ticns until the art further developes
new channels.
mot ONE DISSENTING VOICE"
take pride in the fact that in this
conference, made up as IL was not
only by representatives Of the listen
trs, the amateurs. the great news
papers and magazines of the United
States, but Of the manufacturers and
broadcasters, with millions of dollars
invested in their enterprises and at
stake in this situation, not a dissent
ing voice was raised against the reso-
hilton by which they formally recog-
Bized that your interests are dominant
IL the whole situation. 1t was signif-
icant 20 me that the resolution which
% declared was introduced and advo-
Gated by a high official Of one Of the
greatest radio companies in the United
States, and i want TO assure you that
this resolution represents the real
Sentiment of the conference. 1t is
honest and il is sincere.
i think, therefore, that II were
asked what are the two outstanding
resnlts of the conference would say
that they lie first in the recognition
81 the listeners dominant interests
IN radio. and, second. a. a eOrollary.
The determination that the amount Of
interference must be reduced. That
nsars fewer stations and better ones,
a. ar least no increase in numbers,
and IL must result in more efficient
srrvice and better programs. This
request % Congress was that these
stations are ~ be under strict Gov
eminent regulation; that each one
hal obtain his license from the De
y rfment Or Commerce, and before be
,koos - be must demonstrate that his