Registration as Remedy To the Editor of the "Norru-Cunka Datty Nuws"
Si—~Compulsory registration of radio receiving sets, threats of tues for none registration of same, and arbitrary grouping of broadcasting "200 stations will not solve the: deplorable local radio situation, There is only one remedy, and it It simply consists of (1) the recommendations recently made in your paper by no less an authority than Mr, Robert L. Stewart, General Manager' of the American Radio Equipment Ca., 208/7 Aventie Haig, for replacing the antiquated and wholly inefficient apparatus used most stations with up-teethe minute equipment of proven worth and usefulness (which, by the way, not so costly, as a cursory glance magazines carr; is of radio receiving and sending instruments will reveal), (2) "the increase of transmission, power, It is interesting to remark in this connection that for the inaudible 1,000 watts used here, the formidable half a million watts more is common in the United State Really, all this hullabaloo up by the genius of the Chinese Radio Administration 1s not to Improve the local broadcasting, but to get more Feventie—both in fines and. lcenses, Why, then, beat about the bush. with all this ridiewous palaver' about station grouping, since it would be ike pleasing monopoly of the alr for a certain favoured section of this city while the other section gets only blank silence or, at best, a few meaningless buzzings?
Shanghai, Oct. 4,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.