Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-09
RADIO INTERESTS
FACING PROBLEM
Decision on Pooling of Pat
entS May Mean Reor-
ganization Move.
BY JOHN F. SINCLAIR.

BY JOHN F. SINCLAIR.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, December 9.-The Radio
Corporation of America, the General
Electric, the Westinghouse Electric, the
American Telegraph e. Telephone Co.
and the United Fruit Co. in 1919 pooled
their patents and'resources to form the
present radio corporation. Fear that
Great Britain would secure a world
monopoly on communication facilities
was supposed to be the cohesive force
which caused the pooling"
When the United States Supreme
Court ruled in the oil case that pooling
Of patents violates the Clayton act the
radio corporation became a bit uneasy.
Then Judge Hugh M. Morris of Della
ware ruled that certain parts of the
radio corporations original contracts
with other concerns, dealing with radio
tubes, violated the radio law as we'll as
the antitrust laws The penalty is a
severe one-a refusal by the Radio
Commission to renew licenses to the
radio corporation, or any of its asso-
ciates in the broadcasting and commu-
nications field, including those to the
National Broadcasting Co., WeSting-
house and General Electric.
There is no question but what Judge
Morris decision, which forever pro-
hibits them from practices designed to
monopolize the manufacture of receiv-
ing tubes, brings the radio corporation
face to face with a serious problem.
The radio corporation at present
In1lc chnrt VI channels
for transoceanic communication and r.
for domestic, ! 200 ship station licenses
and a large number for experimental
purposes.
THE next move may cause reor-
ganization of the whole radio and COM
munications industry" said a radio
manufacturer yesterday.
Yes, the next move-what and where?
Frank F. Anderson of Los Angeles in
a letter to this column makes pointed
comment about present conditions, as
follows:
I'VE hear so much about the absence
of inventory imitation in manufacturers
or distributors hands at the present
time. But this talk says nothing about
ID the very great inventories or in
stallment contracts now in the final
consumers hands, nor 90 the extern
sive plant capacity in most lines result
ing from the ease of selling stocks at
inflated prices in the last several years"
This Western man continues: The
President should accomplish the maxi
mum possible in the movement toward
the continuation of volume of trade
without a recurrence OF speculative eX
ploitation. His trade formula seems to
be more favorable to agriculture and
less so to industry than was the pre-
ViouS administration.
Because the stock market decline of
the last few weeks was so much sWifter
than those of other years the market
situation possibly may be compared
with that of the Winter of 1920-2l and
the late Summer of 1923. If this turns
out to be true now, then the country
may easily witness a rally in the coming
months which may even push a few
leaders above the 1929 highs" And at
the same time it may not prevent the
average run of stocks from going as
low, say a few months hence, as they
were at the extreme lows" of 1929.
Seasoned stock observers. in other
words, are not exactly satisfied that the
market is a sure bet either way. That's
why many of them are watching from
the SidellneS.
DR.. E. E. Free, we'll known consulting
engineer, thinks the time far distant
when houses will be soundproof and
windows will be installed merely for
artistic value"
He goes further and says that rooms
for sleeping. working and amusement
will be worked out with the medically
prescribed artificial weather" deemed
best for each activity.
Nine-t enthS of the modern houses of
Canada and the United States are
I,A or rn1i fnn Y1nniSt
too dry, too drafty or too stuffy, says
the doctor
When asked how much he believed 1t
would cost to install in the United
States his ideas of proper equipment, he
replied:
III health costs America more than So
900 000, 900 year-about $50 per capita.
1t is possible for each of us to live in
the right kind of weather and cut this
ill-health bill by a half. This would
equal more than the cost which would
be required to put electrically venti-
lated and glarelessly lighted homes
into health-giving shape.
But still more surprising, the doctor
believes that with this. kind of an ar
a third of all the persons
who now work with glasses could do
without them. 4
DR., Frees work has covered a wide
field. He waSk 1.-THE first person to use
an airplane i'd geological exploration,
has cured vegetable diseases and has
done much research work on soil. Four
years ago he made a. noise survey OF
New York City.
"Spend money, but spend it effective
ly-for comfort and for health" Is
good motto. -, A..
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