Evening star., 1934-10-07

be served through retention of tt
or through the specific allocati
radio channels to public or non
therance of education and religi
There is general agreement that
radio is a natural tool of education
and should be used to supplement the
class room. The disagreement is over
the way in which this should be ac-
compliShed. The groups fostering
specific ALLEGATIONS of facilities for
educational and religious broadcastS
contend that in no other way is it
possible to obtain maximum benefits
from radio as means of public
education and enlightenment than by
having institutions of learning and
religion operate their own stations.
The organized broadcaSting in
dustry, on the other hand, holds that
such class ALLEGATION" would tend
toward destruction of the existing syS-
TEN, and would not satisfy the pub
lie. They argue that the way to
present education via the radio is
over the existing facilities in CO.
operation with accredited educational
institutions, and they hold that steady
and material progress is already being
made along those lines.
Broadly, that is the character of
data being submitted to the broadcast
division in the hearings which began
October and which are likely to
continue most of the month. Follow
ing this oral presentation of testimony
by some 100 witnesses already docketed
to appear, the broadcaSting division
then will be the recipient of scores of
briefs and counter briefs on the same
subject. Members of the division are
Hampson Gary, chairman; Col. Thad
H. Brown. vice chairman, and Judge
Z. o. Sykes, chairman of the full
commission. Upon completion of the
hearings, and after analyzing the
documentary evidence, they must draft
q report to Congress and make recon-
mendations.
Specifically, Congress asked the F.
c. c. to study the various proposals
made to it that fixed percentages of
broadcasting facilities be allocated to
particular types or kinds of non profit
radio programs or to persons identi-
fled with particular types or kinds
OF non-proflt activities. 1t requested
that this report, together with recon-
mendations and reasons for them, be
submitted by February l, 1885.
Upon this report, it is presumed
Congress will consider any new legis-
lation dealing with the ALLEGATION of
broadcasting facilities to be proposed
at the next session. The report may
flo IS
before the Senate or House COM
mittees charged with radio legisla-
ton.
A possible middle course between
retention of the existing system and
the ALLEGATION of actual broadcasting
facilities to non-profit organizations
is the provision of specific periods of
time over commercial stations to the
groups clamoring for facilities. Such
a method, as matter of fact, is
referred to in the congressional pro-
vision ordering the hearing This
alludes to study of the proposal that
fixed percentages of facilities be al
located for "non-profit programs" as
opposed to the ALLEGATION of wave
lengths to the groups themselves.
The current hearings are regarded
as show down" by both contending
factions. Actually, however, it is only
the first phase, for whatever the F.
c. c. decides and recommends to Con-
gress will simply provide new ammu-
milton for one group or the other in
the second and final phase of the
battle to be fought in the halls of
Congress.
MOT far distant is the day when
radios ultra short waves will
flash entire messages, maps and
pictures between cities and the custo-
mer will pay for them by the square
inch, according to the Radio Corpora
ton of America. Right now that COM
pany is building repeater" stations
at New Brunswick and Trenton, in
New Jersey, for the first link of the
proposed new service, and later it
expects to expand it over the various
intercity short wave stations it has
built or is building Some predict this
system will do away with the con-
ventional code telegraphy.
One OF the experts at work on this
development is Charles j. Young,
youthful engineer who chose this
career Of research rather than follow
easier paths that might have been
laid out by his father, Owen D.
Young. Mr.. Young demonstrated a
new angle Of the radio facsimile sys-
tenn to members of the Institute of
Radio Engineers in New York last
week. He showed that picture-letters
and messages can be sent between
cities at the rate of full letter sized
sheet every eight minutes.
The new recorder system diSpenses
with the cumbersome processing or
photo developing required by other
facsimile systems, utilizing ordinary
carbon paper to print directly on
ordinary white paper. Continuously
feeding rolls of both carbon and paper
are led past a metal cylinder on which
a single spiral of wire projects slightly
above the surface. The fluctuations
in the intensity of the incoming
signals press the paper and carbon
together against the spiral to make
marks corresponding to the light and
shade of the original at the trans
mitter. The receiver is precisely
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