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"When the constitution was drafted, its authors en¬ visaged a man speaking in a building or on a street corner before an audience that was within the sound of his voice", the speaker continued. "When radio broadcasting was removed from the scientist's bag of tricks, the range of his voice was multiplied infinitely and the number in his audience was increased by hun¬ dreds of thousands. Now he stands before a microphone and his voice carries from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This audience is potentially present and this audience is able to hear him because the government has granted to some one the exclusive right to use something which belongs to all people of the United States, namely, a cleared channel.
"You will recall that in the last campaign, Senator Glass spoke on the banking situation over one of the large chains", Mr. Harris said.
"It is reported that Ogden Mills, then Secretary of the Treasury, brought sufficient pressure to bear on the officials of the broadcasting company to cause them to cancel the broadcast time of the client immediately following Senator Glass, in order that the Secretary might take the Senator's audience and offer a rebuttal to his argument. The broadcasting officials, of course, knew that it would be unwise to refuse Secretary Mills' request after they had permitted Senator Glass to present one side of the subject. It must be kept in mind, however, that the broad¬ casters were not compelled to grant time to the Secretary, because it was entirely optional with the broadcasting chain officials as to who would and who would not be allowed to talk.
"The broadcasting company officials would have been entirely within their rights if they had politely informed either of the gentlemen with whose views or policies they did not agree that the program time was sold, that they were very sorry, and that they could not change the contract with other clients. From a legal standpoint no appeal could have been taken. The broadcasting company was the sole judge as to what constituted the operation of the station in the 'public interest, convenience and necessity. '"
Mr. Harris declared it was becoming more apparent that Congress, through the Federal Radio Commission in the granting of a monopoly to private interests, has unwittingly endangered the right of free speech over the radio.
"Since a large majority of the cleared channels of the United States have been given over to the two large chains, it places our government in the position of having gratuitously handed over to one or two groups of private capital a valuable asset which belongs to the people of the United States", the news¬ paper publisher continued. "The Federal Radio Commission has further protected that gift by creating a monopoly so that the gift cannot be used by any other agency. In addition to this gift to private interests, a part of the cost of governmental supervision of radio broadcasting is borne by the government in
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