The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-13

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little later the stenographer had to
stop again. There are a lot of
these swear words" she said, that
I never larned the symbols for on
this machine"
INFORMING ICKES
At his first press conference after
signing the agreement with John L.
Lewis to end the coal strike, Secre-
tary of the Interior Harold l.. Ickes
raised the curtain little bit at what
goes on In his oiIlce before he meets
the reporters. Ickes had been asked
some pretty tough questions on the
settlement, and that made him con-
fess.
Every day we have one Of these
conferences" said Ickes, "a big fell
low named Mike Straus (now first
assistant secretary but formerly IN
terior's chief OF public relations)
pushes his way into my Office with
out by-your leave or anything
else. He pulls up chair just as
close to my desk as he can get 1t,
keep my eye on him so he doesn't
lay a lighted cigaret butt on the
edge, but then he proceeds to spec
ulate on what questions are going
to be asked and he tells me how
I should answer them.
"Talk about freedom OF speech"
lckes exclaimed with his curmud-
geons 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 misquoted
What I told him." said Mike, was
that hoped he'd use more discre-
ton 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 commercially, Is one
Of the postwar archaeological de-
velopments being carefully studied.
Chairman James Lawrence Fly Of
the Federal Communications Com
mission has announced conference
of government agencies and indus
tries using radio to meet In Wash
ington this month, and from then
on this subject may be more and
more In teh news heralding the new
radio age OF television, aviation,
communications, medicine, electro
metallurgy and the science OF cleo
tronics-all even more startling In
their potentialities than the future
Of flying,
The standard radio broadcast
band OH your home radio taps only
1000 kilocycles, or the frequencies
from $50 to 1900, which Is an in
finitcsimal part OF what the radio
engineers call teh radio spectrum
OF frequencies from zero 10 10000
900 kilocycles and beyond. Today,
the only really useful part OF the
spectrum employed commercially Is
from 10 TO 100000 kc. AS new uses
and applications are found for the
higher frequencies, the demand for
the lower frequencies Is reduced
meaning, In so far as home radio Is
concerned, that there Is hope for
ultimate ALLEGATIONS OF unused fire.
quencies which will eliminate sta
ton interference.
Scientists who yesterday believed
that frequencics OF from 10000 to
90 900 kc. were best for television
now think that higher bands will
be better, gtoing up into the hun
dreds OF thousands. In short order
they hope to transmit television by
relays, over the horizon, replacing
the more expensive coaxial cable
and giving real long distance sight
by radio.
Above 100000 kc., IN what the
scientists call the ultra-high fire.
quencies up to 100000 and the
super-high to 30,oo0,000, much ex-
perimental work Is being done, even
during ten war. This research can't
be discussed In detail because Of It's
applications TO military, naval and
aviation usese, on secret weapons
and communications devices.