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Helnl Radio News Service
7/17/46
"One of my chief concerns In the fight over that hill was for the acting profession and for all those who earn their liveli¬ hood in the radio business as actors and singers I myself having formerly been in that occupation. The Lea bill, if enforced, could do much harm to radio actors; yet their union has been accus¬ ed of no abuses, and their employment relations have been happy.
“I recently had the satisfaction of learning that the radio industry, which espoused and promoted the Lea bill, has begun to realize that, in so doing, it has very definitely *laid an egg' to use one of its own expressions. Tide magazine is atrade paper which speaks for the top crust of the advertising business, which produces practically all of the major network broadcasts. In its May 17 issue, it devotes its leading article to an analysis of the Lea Act and a consensus of opinions of the advertising agencies* lawyers and executives.
'•Their verdict on the bill does not agree with the majority of the Senate, which thought it was conferring so great a boon on the radio business, but with these experts in the radio business, the three lonesome dissenters. They call the bill a legislative boomerang. Their judgment is based entirely upon self-interest, but it is cool, rather than hysterical self-interest. On reading it, I made a silent wish which I have made many times in the past.
I wished that when business leaders have problems which require our attention, they would come to Washington and talk them over with us in person, rather than entrust them to trade associations and lobby¬ ists, who seldom, if ever, exemplify the best or the most authorita¬ tive thinking of the industry which they profess to represent. Pres sure boys thrive on conflict, rather than on solutions. * * * Advice consultation, and exchange of views is always helpful to everyone, but pressure campaigns delude both the pusher and the pushed.
"The article in Tide is worth reading. It would be well for all of us now to think back to the failure of the anti-Petrillo bill. Fbr we are again being asked to legislate on labor problems in white heat, when passions are high, and when each day*s reflec¬ tion and deliberation is the occasion for whiplash headlines about delay and procrastination. Let us not cook another indigestible hasty pudding," , '1, .
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SEN. CAPPER, PUBLISHER, BROADCASTER, FETED ON 81ST BIRTHDAY
Senator Arthur Capper ( R) , of Kansas, publisher and owner of Station WlBW in Topeka, received many tributes on his 81st birth¬ day last Sunday. Not the least of these was a breakfast given to him at the Shoreham Hotel by the Northwest Council of Citizens* Associations in appreciation of Senator Capper* s work on the Senate District Committee, a part of the governing body of Washington, D. C. The Kansas Senator said he believed the secret of success and a happy long life was hard work.
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