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J-une 18, 1932
ICC HEAHS RATE ARGUMENT
The Interstate Commerce Commission this weeh heard argument in the StaShine case involving the right of the Coimnission to fix rates for broadcast advertising..
The Sta-Shine Company filed a complaint complaining that the rates charged by the National Broadcasting Company and Station WGBB, Freeport, L.I. for e-dvertising time were unreasonable and discriminatory. Testimony was heard be¬ fore an examiner of the Commission at New York last December and a report rend¬ ered holding that the Commission was without power to fix broadcasting rates. Exceptions to the report were filed by the Sta-Shine Company and argument was beard by the entire Commission this week.
"The National Broadcasting Company," Frederick H. Wood, counsel for the respondents argued, "does business under private contract and it is enga,ged in no point-to-point transmission. It is therefore not a common carrier and not subject to the Interstate Commerce Commission as to reg'ilation of rates."
The company, he pointed out, was subject to the Federal Radio Commission and its license from that body specifically excludxd it from entering into any point-to-point communication business.
"It is inconceivable," said Mr. Wood, "that it was the intent of Congress to extend the jurisdiction of the commission to the regulation of business so foreign to its existing jurisdiction as the furnishing of entertainment or of advertising. "
Ernie Adamson, counsel for the Sta-Shine Company, called the commission's attention to the fact that this was the first case of its kind ever to come be¬ fore that body. He argued that the commission had jurisdiction over the trans¬ mission of intelligence in interstate commerce under the commerce act.
"Broadcasting is a method of coimminication, " said Mr. Adamson, "which is nothing more nor less than wireless telephone." Pointing out that the commis¬ sion had jurisdiction over v/ireless telephone rates, he asserted that since the radio commission did not have jurisdiction over rates, the Interstate Commerce Commission must have. He declf<red that Congress had given such jurisdiction to the Interstate Commerce Commission.
The Commission took the case under advisement.
ITEA CONSIDERS BROADCASTING
Broadcasting education to the public will be the theme of the Tuesday night session of the annual meeting of the National Education Association which, will be held in Atlautic City during the v/eek of June 27. "Safeguarding Rural Education for the Future" will be the subject of an address by Inez Johnson Lewis, sta,te superintendent of public instruction of Denver, Colo. "The place of
Radio In Ou.r Future Program of Education" will be the subject of a speech by Dr. William John Cooper, U. S. Commissioner of Education, and "Broadcasting Old-Fashioned Religion to New-Fashioned Folks" will be the topic of an address by Phillips Lord (Ss'ch Parker). William C. Cook, state superintendent of schools of V^est Virginia, will also speak. Convention radio programs will be broadcast on nationv/ide hoolups for the convenience of teachers who cannot a,ttend and the general public.