The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-07
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

John l.. Lewis 10 end the coal
strike. Secretary of the Interior
Harold l.. Ickes raised the cur
tain little bit at what goes on
in his office before he meets the
reporters. lckes had been asked
some pretty tough questions on
the settlement, and that made
him confess.
Every day we have one Of
these conferences, said Ickes,
"a big fellow named Mike Straus
tnow first assistant secretary but
formerly Interiors chief Of pub
lie relations pushes his way in
TO my office without a by-your-
leave or anything else He
pulls up chair just as close TO
my desk as he can get IT, keep
my eye on him so he doesn't lay
lighted cigaret butt on the
edge, but then he proceeds TO
speculate on what questions are
going to be asked and he tells
me how / should answer them.
Talk about freedom OF
speech Ickes exclaimed with
his curmudgeon's sardonic grin.
He doesn't give me credit for
having any more discretion than
my 4-year-old SON
After the conference, Straus
claimed that he had been mis-
quoted, What l told him." said
Mike. was that | hoped he'd
use more discretion and have
more success than he did in
talking to his 4-year-old son"
POSTWAR RADIO
Government regulation Of high
frequency radio wave channels,
now largely unused commercial
~, Is one of the postwar tech
biological developments being
carefully studied. Chairman
James Lawrence Fly OF the Fed
eral Communications Commits
sion has announced a conference
of government agencies and in
dustrles using radio TO meet in
Washington this month, and
from then on this subject may
be more and more in the news.
heralding the new radio age Of
television, aviation, communica-
tons, medicine, electro-metal-
lurgy and the science of elect
ronics-all even more startling
in their potentialities than the
future Of flying.
The standard radio broadcast
band on your home radio taps
only 1000 kilocycleS, or the fire.
quencies from $50 TO 1900, which
is an infinitesimal part OF what
the radio engineers call the radio
spectrum of frequenCicS from
zero TO 10000, 900 kilocycles and
beyond Today, the only really
useful part Of the spectrum en-
ployed commercially is from 10
TO 800, 600 kc. As new uses and
applications are found for the
higher frequencies, the demand
for the lower frequencies is re-
duced--meanlng, in so far as
home radio is concerned, that
there is hope for Ultimate allocs-
tons Of unused frequonces which
Will eliminate station interfer-
ence.
Scientists who yesterday be-
leved that frequencies Of from
10000 to $4,000 kc. we're best
for television now think that
higher bands will be better, GO
ing up into the hundreds OF
thousands In short order. they
hope TO transmit television by
relays, over the horizon, replac-
ing the more expensive coaXial
cable and giving real long dis
lance sight by radio
Above 3000 900 kc., in what the
scientists call the ultra high
frequencies up TO 100000 and
the super-high TO 10000, 900,
much experimental work is be-
ing done. even during the war
This research can't be discussed
in detail because Of its applica-
tons TO military, naval and avi-
alton uses, on secret weapons
and communications devices.