Evening star., 1935-11-28
NEW CABLE SEEN
AID TO TELEWS|ON
Head of Bell Laboratories
SO Advises Federal Com
muniCations Body.

~ r. FRANK B. JEWETT, noted
scientist and head of the
Bell laboratories of the
- American Telephone and
Telegraph Co., although regarding
television as still quite distance in
the future" told the Federal Com
munications Commission this week his
company's new "coaxial cable" prob
ably will make it possible to link tele-
vision stations in the same manner
as broadcasting stations are now
Joined into networks.
The cable, while developed pri-
marily for telephony, and to which
many look for the ultimate diSplace-
ment of all overhead telephone lines,
is also peculiarly adaptable to tele-
vision because of the wider range of
wave lengths it can handle. The
path of transmission" possible on the
coaxial can be increased, DR.. Jewett
testified, to 100000 cycles under a
new repeater system devised by Bell
engineers. Since teleyision requires a
frequency range 100 times or more
wider than normal sound broadcast
ing, the coaxiai cable is seen as an
important future sdjGnct to televi-
sion broadcasting,.
Though the adaptation of the cable
to television was seen by Bell experts
as possibly as long as ten years away,
various interests are insisting that the
use of the cable be made available to
all bona fide companies in the visual
field. To this the A. T. g. T. has
agreed, but it was stated that so far
only the Radio Corporation of Amer
lea has inquired into the possibilities
of utilizing the cable for its prospec-
tive television stations. That COM
pany, however, has no exclusive claim
on the cable for television purposes.
X X 4
A GALA program, marking the CEN
tennial celebration of the first
publication of Hans Christian Ander-
sens Fairy Tales, will bring to the
N B. c. microphone Sunday such no.
tables as Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen,
American Minister to Denmark; Otto
Wadsted, Danish Minister to the
United States; Paul Leyssac, we'll
known actor and interpreter of An
dersen's stories, and Lauritz Mel
chior, Wagnerian tenor of the Metro
politan Opera.
Other participants in the broadcast,
presented under the auspices of the
Danish Brotherhood in America, will
be Frank V. Lawson, general secretary
of the brotherhood; Jacob Enemark,
president of the Eastern Lodge of the
Brotherhood and Helge Peterson, di-
rector of the Scandinavian American
Steamship Line.
Dan MAIL response has shown that
rank and file workers, given a
chance to express their views over the
radio for the first time this Fall are
sharing popularity equally with labor
leaders on the Labor Speaks" pro-
grams, according to Spencer Miller,
director of the Workers Education
Bureau. who conducts the series on
Columbia.
Some months ago Miller conceived
the idea of arranging round-table dis
cussions of current labor problems to
be participated in by himself, import
ant union leaders and (this was the
innovation) real workers in Americas S
basic industries. He included the lat
ter with some apprehension since he
had no idea whether or not they
would succumb to microphone fright
and spoil the programs
In every case the worker has been
60 anxious to express his views and
so full of first-hand information that
he has starred" on the program and
received much of the fan mail.