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RADIO BROADCAST
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larly fortunate were we in having a man of such caHbre as Herbert C. Hoover, to steer the course of the commission. On the first day of the conference it had been generally agreed by all concerned that, firstly, for the proper continued growth of the art and industry proper, governmental control was absolutely essential: Secondly — that the order of importance of the various classes of service was {a) insurance of safety of life at sea; (3) radio broadcasting of desirable information and entertainment; (c) a continuance of amateur activities to the fullest possible extent within certain suitable fixed bands and point to point broadcasting to provide communications over stretches where existing systems are impossible."
A very significant fact brought out at the conference was that material changes in wave lengths are likely to be put in effect in order to eliminate some of the broadcasting problems which now exist. This legislation is highly desirable for at least two very good reasons. Firstly, broadcasting programmes are at present seriously interfered with by "ship to shore" commercial telegraph work even at points remote from the seacoast during certain seasons of the year and with the least selective types of receivers. These programmes are also interfered with to some extent by indiscriminate and improperly regulated amateur transmission. Secondly, broadcasting stations on the shorter wave lengths designed to cover a radius of 150 miles veiy frequently cover a radius of 1,500 miles and occasionally their range is even greater than that.
This phenomenon which occurs at night during the winter, is known as "fading," and frequently results in interference and confusion.
It is quite noticeable that fading is comparatively absent on wave lengths of the order of 1,000 or 1,500 meters.
The use of short wave lengths, then, greatly diminishes this reliability of the broadcasting schedules and if broadcasting is to enjoy the very remarkable future which opens up before it, it must be stabilized in every possible manner.
To make broadcasting other than a temporary fad, it must be made dependable and upon its dependability and permanence in the American home rests the future prosperity of those industries built upon it which are now growing so rapidly.
PAUL GODLEY RADIO BROADCASTING HERE TO STAY
REGARDING this very important phase of radio Mr. Godley made the following statement. "There is little doubt in my mind that radio broadcasting is here to stay, and that before many years it will be utilized in as many as five million American homes, for it may very well come to play a part in our lives equalled only by that of the daily, weekly, and monthly periodical. Like the moving picture industry, it will need to grow from a crude infancy into something greater and grander than is at present possible— its applications may even surpass in their scope the wonders of the motion picture as we know it to-day.
"But this development is very apt to be much more rapid, for, in a great sense, each broadcast