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MEXICO PULLS A FAST ONE BEFORE THE CONFERENCE BEGINS
Showing that Mexico is not so dumb with regard to radio c,s some of our people apparently had thought was word from there on the eve of the North American Radio Conference which opened in Mexico City Monday, that new regulations providing for radio statio license periods as long as 50 years had just been promulgated. Cur stations are only licensed for 6 months. The significance of the Mexican move is said by experts here to be that through the longerlicensing period, Mexico will not be in a position to give up any stations. On the other hand, because of our shorter period, if the Conference so decrees, there would be no reason why the fre¬ quencies of some of our stations could not be cancelled. In other words, it looks as if we could lose at the Conference, but that the Mexicans couldn’t.
The fact that Mexico had sprung this surprise move came in a telegram to Philip Loucks, of the National Association of Broadcasters, from James W. Baldwin, who is acting as observer for the Association in Mexico City.
The new Mexican regulations provide that all broadcasts relative to medicine and health may be made only upon permission of the Government and that foreign studies are prohibited. This will no doubt be hailed with satisfaction by the Federal Radio Commission as it is looked upon as a direct slap at Dr. J. R. Brinkley, an American, operating Station XER, at Villa Acuna, Mexico, just across the border from El Paso.
Brinkley, a "goat gland" specialist, who claims to be able to rejuvenate the aged, originally operated Station KFKB at Milford, Kans, Complaints were made against the station by the American Medical Association and others. It is said that several Kansans volunteered to come to Washington to prove that the "goat gland" treatment had actually made them younger.
However, the Federal Radio Commission finally closed the station. Whereupon Brinkley lost no time opening up across the Mexican border, telephoning his broadcasts down to Mexico from Kansas. Brinkley has been bombarding the United States on what is declared to be between 75,000 and 100,000 watts power, which is a tout twice as much as is regularly used by any station in this country. Recently he was authorized to use 500,000 watts power, according to reports from Mexico*