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The March of Radio
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Vacuum Tubes in Another Legal Tangle
JUST before the De Forest audion patent expired, the attorneys for his cornpan}' brought about an action which had a startling effect upon the Radio Corporation subsidiaries. In the United States District Court at Wilmington, Delaware, Judge Hugh M. •Morris, granted an injunction which stopped the Radio Corporation's sale of tubes manufactured by the Westinghouse Lamp Works. The case involved nothing of direct interest to the radio listener. It seemed merely to be a legal squabble.
When one stops to think of it, the legal profession seems to be the most inbred union in existence. You have to be a lawyer to make a law, and you have to be a lawyer to prove that someone else is breaking a law. Furthermore, one can't become a lawyer unless the rest of the union wants him, because the lawyers write the entrance examination for the union. One set of lawyers draws up a legal document to permit a lamp company to manufacture vacuum tubes and another lawyer hails them into court to show that their law was bad. It appears that the De Forest agreement which would permit the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company to manufacture tubes would not permit the Westinghouse Lamps Works to do so, even though it is acknowledged by all that the Lamp Company is simply that part of the Westinghouse Company which had the facilities for making tubes. The Manufacturing Company is equipped for making motors and all kinds of electrical machinery, but not for turning out delicate lamps and vacuum tubes, and so naturally turned its
ABOARD THE S.S. "GEORGE WASHINGTON Captain Cunningham has a broadcast receiver which he uses in the time he can spare from his nautical duties. Captain Cunningham was navigator of the U. S. A. T. Leviathan during the W ar. From left to right, Captain Cunningham, \V. J. Roche, and T. H. Rossbottom
tube activities over to the lamp division. Judge Morris ruled that even though the parent company had the right to manufacture tubes, the Lamp Company had no such right and all the tubes it had wrongfully manufactured must be confiscated and held.
So the lawyers go, one getting a company into trouble, so that another can get it out. It looks as though in this case the attorneys for the De Forest Company have been a little bit shrewder than those of the Radio Corporation.
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Radio Dispute in Cincinnati
E ever increasing number of broad:asting licenses issued by the Department of Commerce is practically certain to bring trouble in a short time, in ever increasing amounts. Some method of equitably limiting the number of stations must be found by the Department. It is their job and they might just as well tackle it now.
A strange instance of the Department's inactivity took place in Cincinnati. Two stations in that city had been granted licenses to operate on the same wavelength. After much squabbling as to the proper division of