Evening star., 1925-08-19
AMERICANS TO Go
.TOPAREY IN PARIS
Three Delegates to sit as OBJ
servers at World Telegraph
Conference.
BY Carl. III. BITMAN.

BY CARL II. BtTMAN.
America $ three unofficial observers
to the Interna tional Telegraph Con
ference at Paris. sail from New York
on the stes mship America tomorrow.
The delega tion is hea ded by John
Beaver White, q retired engineer of
Phila deIphia. and Includes Represent
ative Wallace H. White. jr, OF
Maine, and Mai. Gen Charles Nick
Saltzman, chief signal officer of the
Army.
Although the United States Is not
party 70 the International Tele-
graph Convention. the Senate never
having acted IN il. il is understo ood
it's representatives Will be sea ted as
unofficial delegates and granted All
privileges except the right 10 vote. In
this capacity the United States dele.
cation viii present the views of the
United States Government and prob
ably also the attitude Of the private
interests which own and operate the
commercial teles1a phi, ca BILE asd radio
services as to the desira bility OF in
cooperating the field of radio in the
international regulations prescribed
by the telegraph convention.
For the past month. representa-
tiVes OF the several government de-
partments interested in radio have
This body. known as the interdepart-
mental committee on electrical com
munication has discussed the pro-
posals submitted to this Government
some time ago by the international
Telegra ph Bureau. al Bern. together
with the agenda OF the interna tional
sessions TO open I'm Paris on Septem-
Der !.
Radio Issue to Come Up.
One OF the MANY suggestions made
by the European governments is that
the subject OF radio be considered at
the forthcoming conference. To this
il is believed the American Govern
ment will object, in view of the special
world conference on radio to he held
here soon. AL least the detega ties
will express hope that any chang in
the present telegraph convention viii
he such as would be acceptable to the
radio conference when it meets here
Obviously IL would not he desirable to
have matters pertaining to radio
threShed out in detail prior to the
regular radio sessions On the other
hand. assura nee is given by the Bern
bureau that only the interna tional
radio policy, with its commercial and
business angles. would be included. If
this subject is injected into the tele-
graphic sessions at Paris. That is,
the technical side and service regula
tions. affecting wave lengths. power,
schedules. etc, probably will not be
considered.
The United States interdepa TT
mental committee has analyzed the
voluminous report from Bern 70 see
how it affects the interests of the
United States. where all comnunica
ton systems are privately owned. 1t
witt TO Of
State Kellogg. who, it is understood
has prepared letters of Instructions to
the American delegates as Ia this
Governments policy. This policy ha s
not been relee sed by the State Depart.
ment and may not he made public
but 1t is said to express desire on
the part OF the Government and the
private comercial radio interests
that, If possible, radio be kept out of
the general telesra ph discussions, and
that this subject in it's many phases
be left Tor study by the world radio
conference.
Chairman Is Absent.
The chairman Of the interdepart.
mental committee. Leland Harrison
OF the State Department. has not at.
tended the sessions here. In his ab-
senmce. J. r. White. friend OF Secre-
tary Hoover, has acted as chairman OF
the special committee on the Paris
conference. The personnel of the com.
mittee includes Maj. Gen. Saltznan
and Maj. j. o. Mauborgne of the Sig.
nal Corps, Capt. Ridley Mclean, di-
rector of naval communications; AS
sistant Secretay OF Commerce Stephen
Davis. and P. E. D. Nagle and w. d.
Terrell OF the communications and
radio sections of the Commerce De
partment H c. Moore of the Shipnino @
Board, e. M. Webster of the Treas
ury and w. r. Valance and W. M.
Greene of the State Department
Technical aides who will accompany
the American delegation include w.
ID. Terrell, chief supervisor of radio
OF the Department OF Commerce
MIR. Terrell. it is understood, viii
also make study of radio broad
casting in Europe before he returns.
in anticipation of the international
phases to be brought up for discus
sion when the general radio confer
ence meets here next year
1t was also proposed that Comdr.
James, communications officer of the
Navy in Paris, and II. H. Kelly. a
Commerce Department expert now in
Paris, assist the American commits
sion during the sessions. which will
probably continue at least As dnys At
the Sorbonne.
Assurance is given that America 8
commercial interests Will also be rep
resented in Paris. The Radio Cor
poration, American Telephone & Tele-
graph Co., Western Union, Postal, All
America Cables and the independent
wireless companies will send officials
over to watch proceedings and advise
with the American delegates when
necessary.