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 operating an unlicensed station, but operating without an operator’s license and also sending unauthorized call letters. Every letter in the alphabet has been assigned by the International Convention to some country or other, and no gone can select his own call letters without committing what amounts to radio forgery.

In this connection, it might be said that the officers of the American Radio Relay League, propose to accept no one for membership whose call letters are unauthorized. Once in a while an application for membership is received in which unauthorized call letters are given. It is so easy to secure properly authorized call letters that there is no excuse for using unauthorized ones. All that has to be done is to write a letter to the District Radio Inspector whose addresses are as follows, and ask for application blanks for Second Grade Amateur License, and fill these out and return them when they are received:&mdash;

1st Dist., all New England States, Custom house, Boston, Mass.

2nd Dist., Eastern New York and Eastern New Jersey, Custom house, New York City. &emsp;3rd Dist. Western New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania, Deleware [sic], Maryland, Virginia, and District of Columbia, Custom house, Baltimore, Md.

4th Dist., North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia. Florida, and Porto Rico, Custom house, Savannah; Ga.

5th Dist., Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma and New Mexico, Custom house, New Orleans, La.

6th Dist., California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Territory of Hawaii, Custom house, San Francisco, Cal.

7th Dist., Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Alaska. Federal Bldg., Seattle, Wash.

8th Dist., Western New York, Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and Lower Michigan, Custom house, Cleveland, Ohio.

9th Dist., Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Upper Michigan, Minnesota, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota, Custom house, Chicago, Ills. 

We Are Coming On All Right

&emsp;Our American Radio Relay League is coming on all right, all right. When the Federal Government decided to bring a test case into court early in March at New Haven, Conn., they selected our President as their expert witness. Every member has reason to be proud of this. We have had something to say in the past about those mushroom wireless associations which are formed while you wait, and sell you a two-cent button for twenty-five cents, or something else of equal value. Our own League is quite different from these organizations, as we have pointed out in language possibly somewhat more emphatic than polite. When the Government selects our President as its expert witness, it sort of makes us feel that somebody else thinks the American Radio Relay League is the real thing, when it comes to amateur wireless organizations.

Read what the government’s attorney wrote Mr. Maxim: March 8, 1916. Hiram Percy Maxim, Esq.,

&emsp;Hartford, Conn.

My Dear Mr. Maxim:

Permit me to thank you on behalf of the United States for the service which you so generously rendered the Government in testifying in the United States District Court at New Haven yesterday at the trial of the case of United States vs. William T. Scofield, the defendant being charged with a violation of the so-called Radio Communication Act.

In agreeing to testify as an expert without receiving the fees to which you would be entitled as an expert, I feel that the Government owes you, at least, a debt of gratitude. You will, of course, understand that I am personally as well as officially appreciative.

Respectfully yours, THOMAS J. SPELLACY,&emsp; U. S. Attorney. 