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under which our educational stations have labored in the past has been the dif¬ ficulty in any given locality of producing a sufficient amount and variety of program material. In the large metropolitan centers only, probably do we have available a sufficient talent to give the richest possible programs. Under the plan we propose, hrrwever, all public service stations, that is, stations that are nonprofit in character, that are endeavoring to put out programs for public welfare exclusively, will be assured the privileges of hookup with the government system. That overcomes one of the great handicaps under which local individual stations have been working in the past. We believe that that privilege, together with some others that will accrue in the system, will stimulate the establishment and promote the maintenance of local public service stations. If that be true, then the combination which we are proposing is three-fold; it is the present system with all its advantages and inevitable disadvantages; a government system paralleling that with its ad¬ vantages, and perchance its disadvantages; and also a system of local stations largely independent. With that three-fold sys.tem we hold that we can depend upon getting the best over the radio that America can produce. In passing I want to call attention to this, that the instant I mention government system I see in your faces that you are set, some of you, for or against the government system. I want to call your attention to this, that we are not advocating government monopoly on radio broadcasting; we are not advoca¬ ting a monopoly by anybody on radio broadcasting. In fact, we are advocating a plan which insures diversification and establishes, instead of monopoly, a part¬ nership. We believe that the proposal we make is in strict accord with American principles. We believe that this American government has depended very largely upon the interplay of controversy and of ideas between minority and majority, has depended upon checks and balances, has depended upon the turmoil, if you please, - 5 -