The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1935-08-15

'fbusiness men concerned. They are
not only disguised. They are down
right sore. It is one of those things
that politicians, UNDETERMINED in
science, attempt to do that cause
practical people to lose faith in
their government.
Fight of Vital Interest
If it were simply a fight between
the A. T. & T. and the commission
that is involved, the situation would
hold no interest at all for me as
a Washington writer. But, as I
said above, it goes much further. !
am told that some officials of the
A. T. & T. are SO dissatisfied with
the attitude of the commission in
this instance that they are ready,
even anxious to Withdraw their ap-
plication and decline to proceed
with this experiment which ulti-
mately is going to mean enormous
changes in telephone and tele-
graphic contact between cities To-
Gated at great distances apart. The
A. T. & T. engineers have been
working on this problem some six
or seven years. They proposed to
build 100 miles of cable by connect
ing New York and Philadelphia. It
had very little of the commercial in
it. They wanted to try out transmits
sion of television images for re-
broadcast by radio. They wanted to
perfect further the transmission of
photographs by wire and they were
DESTROYS as well of determining
whether they had discovered all of
the potentialities of the new inven-
ton. ALI of the expense some six
hundred thousand dollars to
be paid from surplus funds of the
corporation.
It takes no stretch of the imag-
ination to realize that if the A. r.
& Z. backed away from the pro-
gram it has laid out and refused to
spend more money in perfecting its
invention and declined to attempt
to put into commercial use for the
benefit of the country as whole,
the country, that is you and I,
would suffer. We would be denied
advantages developed by science
and made available virtually as
national benefit.
do not know what the end will
be. It is not at stage wherein a
forecast is possible. But the prin-
ciple of the commissions action,
whether it be put forward under
Democratic or Republican admins
tration, remains exactly the same.
1t should not be tolerated and if
the communications commission
persists in it's efforts to expand it's
control, its usefulness certainly is at
an end. Hitherto, the communica-
lions commission has had very
satisfactory relationship with bus
mess. I have heard dozens of exec
utives from communications COR
porations say they were willing to
forgive and generally overlook ig-
norance piled up in the commission
by political appointments in sever
al spots. They wanted to cooperate
but it is the opinion of more than
just myself among Washington OBJ
servers that this sort of thing does
not contribute to good government.
! Now, as to Duck Hunting
Duck hunters will have only 80
days for shooting this fall in ac-
cordance with the most rigid regu-
lations in the history. of American
game hunting. This is the result of
determination by the federal gov
eminent under an act of congress
to give migratory wild fowl an OPP
portunity to increase in numbers.
In explaining the governments ac-
ton which was made the subject
of a proclamation by President
Roosevelt, j. N. Ding) Darling,
chief of the biological survey and
an internationally known cartoonlst,
declared that unless the shooting
of ducks and other wild fowl is
restricted it is only question OF
time until none of them remain.
It is assumed that hunters will be
interested first in the period during
which they may shoot ducks, geese,
brant or jacksnipe. The season will
open in northern states october 81
and will close November 10. In the
southern states the season will run