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EDITOR DECLARES NEW RADIO CONTROL SYSTEM NEEDED
It is quite possible that the whole broadcast system in the United States is on the wrong basis and that some other form of organization must be developed to control radio broadcasting in order that the right of free speech by means of radio broadcasting may be preserved and made accessible to all, E. H. Harris, Chair¬ man of the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association declared addressing the National Editorial Association.
"Foreign governments have found the solution in govern¬ ment ownership or government control, and it is possible that we also may be compelled to adopt this policy before the radio actually is used in the ’public interest, convenience and necessity’”, Mr. Harris, who is the publisher of the Richmond, (Ind. . ) Palladium averred.
"It is not within my province to recommend that there should be government ownership of radio, but I am urging every editor to study the points which I have attempted to present in reference to a proper and equitable method of handling radio broad¬ casting in the United States.
"There are many dangers apparent in private ownership of radio, but I am urging every editor to study the points which I have attempted to present in reference to a proper and equitable method of handling radio broadcasting in the United States.
"There are many dangers apparent in private ownership of radio, and perhaps as many dangers lurking in government ownership, but you have before you the experiences in our country with private ownership and the experiences of foreign countries with government ownership from which you may draw your own conclusion."
Mr, Harris said that "the press of the United States does not operate through any special grants by the government; it has no exclusive privileges; it stands or falls upon its service to the people of the United States as 8, means of defending, preserv¬ ing and championing their civil and political rights.
"This right cannot be abridged by Congress. There are only a limited number of radio channels for public broadcast pur¬ poses. If Congress delegates the exclusive use of these channels to private capital for profit, how can we have freedom of speech over the radio so long as the holders of these exclusive privileges are the sole judges of what can and what cannot be broadcast?
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