Radio Broadcast - 1923, August - 86 Pages, 8.5 ... - VacuumTubeEra

278 Radio BroadcastTHE BOOM IS ON IN ENGLANDAnd manufacturers are hard-put to supply the increasing demand for broadcast receivers.These women are doing light assembly work at the Marconi Works in ChelmsfordThe Interdepartmental Radio Advisory sentatives of the Departments of Agriculture,CommitteeInterior, Justice, Labor, State, Treasury, War,and Navy, Bureau of the Budget, Interstatethe Department of Commerce we Commerce Commission, Post Office, and thehave received aFROMbulletin describing the Shipping Board. Whereas the power of thissuccessful functioning of the committee committee ispurely advisory, its membersof representatives from all governmental departmentshaving a serious interest in radio ter has yet been brought up for considerationhave cooperated so harmoniously that no mat-communication. For some time past various which has not been amicably solved. As itsdepartments have been doing more or less fundamental principle in controlling the extensionof governmental radio activities, thebroadcasting, and as it seemed only consistentwith the Federal Government's activitiesin other branches of coordinating the work broadcasting should not be used where wirecommittee has wisely concluded "that radioof various government sub-divisions to cut telegraphy or telephony or printed publicationdown expense and interference, Secretary would be as satisfactory."Hoover brought about in April, 1922, the formationof the Interdepartmental Radio Ad-departments feel that the committee has beenIn the words of the bulletin, "the severalvisory Committee, which we discussed in these a satisfactory clearing house for governmentcolumns about a year ago. The scope of the radio matters. While the experimental broadcastingsystem has operated satisfactorily toCommittee's activities was widened in Januaryof this year to include not only questions date, the experience which has been had withof methods of, and material for, broadcasting,it should be used as a basis of a rational planbut all other radio matters in which the several for a government broadcasting system. Thedepartments may be interested.question is, of course, intimately related withThe Chairman of the Committee isActing the existing and prospective privately ownedAssistant Secretary S. B. Davis of the Departmentof Commerce, and he has with him repre- If radio is to become of maximum benefitbroadcasting stations throughout the country.to