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HERBERT C. HOOVER, SECRETARY OF COMMERCE AND RADIO
This is not his official title, but the Department of Commerce is authorized by law to regulate radio traffic in all its forms, and in this capacity it is going to come into immediate contact with the whole public as the whole public becomes radio receivers. At the opening of the Radio Conference Secretary Hoover made the following statement: "We have witnessed in the last four or five months one of the most astounding things that has come under my observation of American life. This Department estimates that to-day more than 600,000 (one estimate being 1,000,000) persons possess wireless telephone receiving sets, whereas there were less than fifty thousand such sets a year ago. We are indeed to-day upon the threshold of a new means of widespread communication of intelligence that has the most profound importance from the point of view of public education and public welfare. The comparative cheapness with which receiving stations can be installed, and the fact that the genius of the American boy is equal to construction of such stations within the limits of his own savings, bids fair to make the possession of receiving sets almost universal in the
American home"
WANTED: AN AMERICAN RADIO POLICY
The Problem Confronting Our Interests, Amateur, Commercial and Governmental
By DONALD WILHELM
iHE United States is in immediate need of a radio policy, and this fact was the first to confront the Washington Radio Conference, where the opinion on this question was unanimous.
And why?
Said some of the radiolytes present, "The amateurs — they're too much with us!" Answered Mr. Godley, of the American Radio Relay League, and others, "We're tired of being more or less unwittingly misrepresented, we amateurs!" Said others, "Too many
jazz hounds!" Answered some more, "And too many canaries." Agreed everybody, "The air is in a mess." Remarked Chairman Hoover, who called the Conference, " Yes, this is one of the few instances where the country is unanimous in its desire for more regulation." He added that, clearly, what is needed is an ether policy.
And who should form the policy and don uniform and wield the big stick of its enforcement?
\Jnc\e Sam, of course.