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that have proven themselves trustworthy, I think that America at large has great respect for her judiciary, and I ask you, is it not possible that in a thing as vital to American life as radio broad¬ casting we can be equally successful in selecting trustworthy officials? I wish briefly to call your attention now to the service which such a govern¬ ment system could render and also to call your attention to the fact that much of this service is difficult if not impossible of rendition at the present time. I am a public school man and consequently I am familiar with the public school situation, but let me say this, that not only public but private schools are alike in this situation, and I speak for one as much as for the other. I can not forsee how America, judging by her past practice and standards can permit the entrance into the schools of radio broadcasting if it is sponsored by and paid for by advertisers. No matter how commendable the thing advertised may be, the competitors of that particular firm are going to object to the exploita- and sale tion of a public institution supported by everyone’s taxes- for the promotion/of anybody’s product. If that is true, then the service to the schools, public and private, is largely denied any private broadcasting system, but a public system, controled by the same public that controls the schools, both public and private, can very properly be permitted to enter those schools with school programs. In the state of Wisconsin, where state broadcasts have been made to schools with the idea of not supplanting the teacher but supplementing the teacher, with the idea of vitalizing the study for the young people, it has been proven that classes given the advantage of the vitalized stimulating effect of frequent radio broadcasts progress twenty percent faster than control groups that did not have the advantages of the radio broadcasts. Master teachers present programs, current events come in, the students listening to men of national note tie them at once to the living world about them. Education has in the past been too much tied to the past, has been fearful of - 8 -