Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1929, Page 12

2. % COUZENS PROPOSES UTILITIES CONTROL = Would Create New Body to Supervise Wire and Radio Communications. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Senator James Couzens, Republican, of Michigan, the next chairman of the Henate committee on interstate com- ‘merce, today introduced a project for sweeping Federal control of telephenes, telegraphs, cabies and radio. His plan oafls for the creation of a Federal commission on communications. Its functions would include all the regu- Iatory rights now vested in the Inter- state Commerce Commission, as far as telephones, telegraphs and cables are eoncerned, and all those now vested in the Federal Radio Commission, as far as wireless is concerned. ‘There is no expectation on the part of Senator Couzens that his proposal can be speedily enacted into law. He recognizes its controversial character, is aware of the powerful interests that may be arrayed against it, and acknowl- adges that electrical communications are a field in which there is bound ‘to bhe wide -and legitimate division of opinion. It is the Michigan Senator's hope. however, that his bill for a Federal eommission on communications can be formally referred during the present some new-fangled contrivance within the cab of a locomotive, that the Inter- atam Commerce Commission has not to look ;lter Its purely lndlelnl ‘&unemm nowadays are only a part of many- and far-reaching duuu. he second place, unless a tele- ne or mmu lfllll’ is "ln- rstate,” the tate cannot act. the n is rely “intrastate,” only local author- mlu—-n town, a county or the State it- urisdiction. As it works national in scope wan! telegraph or telephone regulatory mat- ter, the Interstate Commerce sion’s émmuum may not be unlly invoke Left Llrnly Unsupervised. They are, in fact, as good as never invoked at all. The wire communica- tions companies, in other words, go pretty much their own way, restraining their rates and practices purely in ac- cord with what they believe the public will “stand for.” ‘The Federal Radio Commission, created by the White-Dill law, has, of course, very thorough supervision over everything affecting less. The Couzens plan would practically take over bodily the functions the radio com- mission now has, and add to them similar powers over the telephone, tele- mph and cable companies. y of the foremost factors in the htter neld.u have indicated that they ‘would not be opposed to such a gl:‘ Senator Couzens projects. He al- ways been at pains to make clear that it does not contemplate the slightest in- terference with legitimate private en- terprise in the electrical domain. It does aim at giving the Federal Government very minute and very constant knowl- edge of what is going on in that domain, wants action on a | Mission . THE BVENING STAR, - WASHINGTON, D. C., it. Tbennhndlynnflmdmtlvlty'lnntdrmtwmwwhm mr;.mdntwn plan to the nuchmenc ot' y be safeguarded. Watchdog Jolicy Proposed. ‘The Couzens ition aims to be the same kind of a watchdog over com- municafions in general, ,mt‘ha ‘White- Dill law 1s over tional ‘Tele) Tekmph-lldlo Corporation mrm has just been hung up, until its proponents can assure themselves that the White-Dill watch- «dog cannot bite them. Maj. Gen. James G. Harbord, retired, Mnc of the Radio Corporation of Amflm. has recently bun dnunrll’ng speec mnm what he ber-h u v.h- “‘com= form of Federal Government.” ment for official meddling.” He assa! their “evasiveness of control” “their unrestrained activities.” Harbord manifestly deplores the con- tinual growth of “ extra-constitu- tional les,” some 34 or 35 in num- ber, and costing, he says, upwards of $550,000,000 a year. Presumably he will oppose the ides Senator Couzens espouses, (Copyright, 1920.) g o Testimonial Dinner for Pastor. A testimonial dinner for Rev. C. R. Stauffer, former pastor of thé Ninth Street Christian Churc the First Christian ch:‘rc’lllo 'fp:"firn!:‘. Ga., wll.lbehnldnl&ooeloekmh evi in the Vermont Avenue Chris- tian Church. if we break even . | Manufacturers of the single units ob- NEW RULES DELAYED * FOR COOLING DEVICES Refrigerating Machine Manufac- turers Object to Most of Pro- posals Before Board. Objection was volced to most of the proposals in a draft of new regulations covering installation, repair and mainte- nance of refrigerating machinery, con- sidered at an before the Board of Oomm loners y. Manu- facturers of multiple unit refrigerating devices objected to the fees required for permits to install each of the units at- tached to the central refrigerating plant. Jected to much of the inspection re- quired and also to the fees attached to the installation permits. There is no code now covering instal- lation of refrigerating machinery, but several of the speakers representing re- frigerating companies said they were anxious for some kind of a code to be enacted. Several of the speakers asked for two weeks more to file briefs on the subject, and this was granted them. B L P A ‘Toy balloons may not be carried on Berlin busses, under recent traffic rules. Other ;:rmden burdens include !ocgzd wuns, hatpins, flagstaffs or an; it- ed articles. 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