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11/30/43
SYKES' IDEA OF ROTATING FCC CHAIRI^N REGISTERS
There seems to be no question but that Judge Eugene 0.
Sykes, former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has something in his suggestion to the Senate Interstate Commerce Commit¬ tee considering the White-Wheeler bill that the chairmanship of the FCC rotate, as is done in the Federal Trade and other Commissions.
It is such an obvious solution to the present situation where Chair¬ man Fly is charged with having dug himself in and usurping his power that one observer remarked it was strange nobody had thought of the rotating idea for the FCC head a long time ago.
The Federal Trade Commission Chairman serves for a year a:i ' then is succeeded by the next man; thus all of the members of the Commission have a crack at it. The opinion was expressed that there might be a good chance of the Senate writing the suggestion of Judge Sykes into the new radio law.
The Judge, now practising law in Washington, who has Just been made legislative counsel of the Newspaper Radio Committee, told the Committee, he approved the organization of the FCC as outlined in the bill, which provides for the separation of the seven-member Com¬ mission into the divisions of three members each, to deal with public communications (broadcasting), and private communications (telegraph and telephone). The whole Commission would have jurisdiction over the assignment of frequencies to the various radio services ajnong other duties.
The principal grounds of protest of the Press-Radio group headed by Harold V, Hou^, of the Fort Worth (Texas) StarTele gram were these :
1. That regulation on the question of newspaper interest in radio has been recognized as a proper field for Congressional action by everybody involved, including the Chairman of the ^deral Communi¬ cations Commission.
S, That the present status of "freezing" newsoaper applications Is a denial of the Constitutional guarantee4n that it presumes to apply to no other lawful business except newspapers and therefore is discriminatory.
3. That all that is asked by the newspaper publishers interest¬ ed in radio is that provisions of the law be written so that the oc¬ cupation of newspaper nublication in relation to radio interest be treated the same as any other.
4, That Congress provide for immediate action, as newspaper epplications for radio stations have been treated prejudicially by being put in an inactive file since Ma.rch 10, 1941, on a legal issue which even Chairman James L, Fly agrees has doubtful validity.
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