Evening star., 1927-10-16
|RAD|O DELEGATES
| DINE IN NEW YORK
Famous Experts See Great
Future in Air Field as
Aid to Peace.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
NEW YORK, October 15.-About
400 delegates to the international
Radio Conference, representing rs diff.
ferent nations, were guests tonight Oh
the Radio Corporation of America and
the National Broadcasting Co. at a
dinner ten1ered to the delegates at
the Hotel Plaza, i'll which the lead
ing figures in the radio world, potn
here and abroad, were speakers.
Senator Marconi and Secretary or
Commerce Herbert Hoover We're
among the guests, which included
many figures prominent in govern
mental, industrial and scientific neldS;
During the dinner the banquet nan
at the Plaza was transformed INTO
great central radio station. Messages
from ships far out on the ocean were
| received and read during the course
Of the dinner, and wireless signals
flew back and forth to the farthest
corners of the world. linking the for-
eign guests with their home countries
across the seas.
Model Program Given.
Addresses were made by Senator
Marconi, Gen. James G. Harbord,
president of the Radio Corporation of
America, and David Sarnoff, vice pres
ident and general manager of the
same organization. Later a musical
program, illustrative of the best type
Of radio broadcast entertainment in
the United States, was rendered.
THE air." Gen. Harbord, who pre-
sided at the dinner. told the dele
gates, has become the most impor-
tant thoroughfare of the world" With
e ct Hn
space, he was confident, he declared,
that an orderly and well regulated
procedure would govern the traffic OF
| the air.
Communications" he continued,
"are the highways of understanding.
| They tie communities and states and
| nations together more securely than
| q thousand treaties. The cry of the
peacemaker has always been-let us
| learn to understand each other. That
| understanding comes only with con-
| tact"
Gen. Harbord introduced David
Sarnoff, who, he declared, combines
| with gift for management and the
wide experience in the communications
world, an extraordinary grasp of the
scientific, technical and commercial
elements of the radio art"
Cites Need of Experiments.
Mr.. Sarnoff in his address laid great
stress upon the fact that the channels
of the air must continue to be the ex-
perimenters' laboratory. IL the radio
| is to unfold it's greatest possibilities
| in the field of human communication.
''It Is an interesting reflection" he
| declared, that, although 26 years
have passed since the first wireless
signal limped across the Atlantic
Ocean, the very nature of radio ac-
tivity, the medium through which 1t
moves, and some of the fundamental
laws which govern it, still continue
| to battle man."
"In patent decision handed down
recently in an American court. in
volving important radio inventions
| by several claimants, the learned
| court said: OF course, we shall not
presume TO say what radio really is.
| for no one has told us, and so far as
we can learn from an Independent
study Of text books on the subject,
no one knows
Great Future Looms.
ITO me this is very hopeful count
for it indicates that the greater posi-.
bilities of radio communication are be.
fore, not behind it. The sum total OF
our ignorance on this subject is vastly
| greater than our knowledge. We may
pride ourselves upon the solution of
practical engineering problems in.
yolved in the building of transmitting
and receiving stations, but we have
much to learn about the laws that
govern the propagation of electro
magnetic waves through space"
Both Gen. Harbord and Mr.. Sarnoff
paid glowing tributes to Marconi
whom Gen. Harbord characterized as
one who drew aside the curtain and
| gave the world it's first vision of a
new art in communications"