THE WIRELESS SCHEME

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 34, 9 August 1921, Page 7

THE WIRELESS SCHEME

"A PROJECT OF LITTLE MINDS"

COMMENT ON DECISION OF

CONFERENCE.

(mtlTl* PKKSS ASSOCIATION.—CBfIWSHT.)

(AUSTRALIAN • NBW ZBAL^I» CAILB ABSOCIATIBN.) LONDON, Bth August.

The Daily Telegraph, in an 'editorial on wireless comnuinica,tions, wonders why the Imperial Conference accepted a discredited scheme which was so inadequate that' Mr. Hughes reserved for Australia' complete freedom of action. The scheme looks very like a project of little minds groping jn the dark, whereas we need a bold schemtj, evolved by men of expert knowledge and wide vision. So far as Imperial communications are concerned, the Conference failed especially in giving consent to the Post Office remaining in charge of wireless development. . The result will probably be further delay. In the meantime our kith and kin overseas have to obtain what advantages or disadvantages they may ffom the services being inaugurated in other countries. That is not the way to consolidate the Common- , wealth, which represents a distinctive phase of civilisation. There would have been some hope if an Imperial Board had been formed, with power to mobilise the best scientific minds and business heads in order to speedily produce a swiftly working, cheap system of wireless throughout the Empire. We are convinced that only in the free atmosphere of science, in alliance with commerce, will the Empire obtain adequate, swift, and cheap wireless communication." • ■■