RADIO AND TELEGRAPHS

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17223, 5 October 1927, Page 7

RADIO AND TELEGRAPHS

CONFERENCE ASSEMBLES. OPENED BY PRESIDENT COOUDGE. 40 COUNTRIES REPRESENTED. (Australian A N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received October 5, 9.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, October 4. Mr Coolidge, the President, opened the International Radio and Telegraph Conference. He urged the delegates (who represent 40 countries) to discuss the problems candidly and be generous in co-operation and concihation. He declared the United States' readiness to aid in solving the problems of the conference, which is expected to devote over a month to the task of v. bringing the 1912 conference up to date.

Mr Coolidge said: "In many fields our country claims the right to be master of its own development. It cordially concedes.the same right to all others, but in the radio field the most complete development, both at home and abroad, lies in mutual concession and co-operation. Your main object is 1 to raise this great industry into the realm of beneficent public service." Radio's Great Part. The President pointed out the great past radio plays in military, defence, navigation, commerce, education, musical and theatrical entertainment. He remarked that the undeveloped portions of the globe suffered from lack of communication, and radio offered a means to reach and develop them. Mr Coolidge added: "To use radio does not require elementary education. Its main weakness appears to be in the fact that it produces no permanent record for future consideration." Air IWust be Policed. Mr Hoover told the radio conven« Hon that the air must be policed, and said: "We are most seriously threatened with the chaos of unco-ordinated traffic. Regulation of traffic upon channels of ether are as essential as regulation of traffic upon our crowded streets, but equally in both cases the purpose must be to expedite movement, and stimulate progress, not retard it. If w'e are successful we shall have contributed to the march of international commerce." A POWER FOR FRIENDSHIP. GREAT WORLD INFLUENCE. (Received October 5, 11.15 a.m.) WASHINGTON, October 4. In the course of his speech at th» opening of the Radio Conference, Mr Coolidge declared lhat radio having become a great world influence must be used to promote friendship and understanding, rather than ill-will and dissention among the nations.