Broadcasters’ news bulletin (Jan-May 1931)

BROADCASTERS’ NEWS BULLETIN Reporting accuiately and promptly current happenings o( special interest to Broadcasting Stations in the Commercial, Regulatory, Legislative and Judicial Fields OFFICERS WALTER J. DAMM, . Milwaukee, Wis. President EDWIN W. SPENCE, Atlantic City, N. J. Vice President O. D. FISHER, . Seattle, Wash. Vice President PAUL W. MORENCy, Hartlord, Conn. Treasurer Issued by THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS Incorporated NATIONAL PRESS BUILDING WASHINGTON, D. C. Telephone District 9497 EXECUTIVE PERSONNEL PHILIP G. LOUCKS Managing Director EUGENE V. COGLEY Assistant to Managing Director OLIVINE FORTIER Secretary "MASS ACTION IS IMPERATIVE" Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, was speaking over a nation-wide network of radio stations, when he said: "The old time crahhed, suspicious merchant or manufacturer who waged lone¬ handed guerilla warfare would, I think, he overcome with amazement if he could witness today the candid interchange of opinion, the manifest present willing¬ ness to submerge petty self-interest in the common welfare. "I believe that the titanic developments of modern business have made sturdy commercial organizations practically indispensible. The requirements of commercial life are too stringent now the problems are too far-reaching and too intricate to be grappled with effectively by any single firm, how¬ ever courageous or self-confident it may be. Mass action is imperative and mass assaults can move mountains." Broadcasting is the most regulated business in the world. It has all of the complex problems which arise out of government regulation in addition to all of the problems commgn to other businesses. But that is not all. Interests that have stpod passively by and were unwilling to bear the trials of pioneering are now endeavoring to invade the broadcast band at the expense of existing stations. While broadcasters throughout the United States are busily engaged at home performing the exact¬ ing duty of developing programs for the public, those who are designedly seek¬ ing to. enter the broadcasting field are effectively organized in Washington. They are conducting aggressive campaigns to achieve their ends by legislative action. This is no time for quibbling. Regardless of prevailing dissatisfaction over individual assignments, American broadcasters mast unite or they cannot withstand the in5>ending onslaughts. Broadcasters must organize for selfpreservation. Organized, broadcasters are politically powerful. Unorganized, they are weak and vulnerable. United, broadcasters can withstand all onslaughts. Divided, they ane the easy victims of small but efficiently organized groi^is. Broadcasting must organize or it cannot take its proper place before the American public and the Congress. ExecL’tive Committee; William S. Hedges, Chicago, III., Chairman; Henry A. Bellows, Minneapolis, Minn., and Frank M. Russell, Washington, D. C. Directors; William S. Hedges, Chicago, III., H. K. Carpenter, Raleigh, N. C., George F. McClelland, New York, N. Y., Dr. Frank W. Elliott, Davenport, la.; A. J. McCosker, Newark, N. J,; Edgar L. Bill, Chicago, III.; A. B. Church, Kansas City, Mo., J. G. Cummings, San Antonio, Tex.; Don Lee, Los Angeles, Cal., E. P. O’Fallon, Denver, Colo., C. R. Clements, Nashville, Tenn., Henry A. Bellows, Minneapolis, Minn.; John J. Storey, Worcester, Mass., Morgan L. Eastman, Chicago, III., and Leo Fitzpatrick, Delroi*, Mich.