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of democratic discussion, study, and information. We believe that in this new means of communication we need,if possible, to preserve some of those same We need also principles.,/the opportunity for a man with ideas, even though he be in the minority, to get those ideas before the people and in an orderly way through discussion and persuasion, finally to make them the ideas acceptable to the majority. In this three-fold combination system, then, we do not have government monopoly. Therefore, many of the arguments which have appealed to you as being sound objections to a government system, do not apply because this is not a monopoly system; this is a proposal, in fact, to change the present monopoly system into one that is not a monopoly. Other advantages that would accrue to the smaller local stations would be the research in radio broadcasting that we propose would be conducted by this government system, research in listener responses, in the preparation of programs, in the technique of broadcasting, and by this close touch with the American people such a system would give us valuable guidance material. A vital thing in a government system or any other system of communication which so intimately reaches every man’s fireside is the question of control. Who shall control it? Who shall manage it? Who shall guide it? It is obvious that America must guard the sources of general information, must be assured that the sources of general information shall be correct, that there shall not be suppression of vital facts, that there shall not be vicious propagandizing, that the control shall be honest and courageous and shall be ani¬ mated T?ith a desire for public welfare. It is not wise for America to permit any system of communications by any chance to come under the too complete domination of any parties, however fine and commendable those parties may be. We feel that this question of control, then, is vital. The proposal that we are making is that the control shall be vested in a series of boards; first, a national board to determine national policies; advising - 6 -