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coming into the everyday present and using the things about it and around it. Education in the schools needs broadening, and here is a vitalizing influence that can come into the remotest rural school with its few pupils, out in some of our mountain canyons just as it can into your metropolitan areas. I have seen thousands of children gathered into a single auditorium listening to radio broadcasts of great current events, a magnifident service, and there are 30,000>000 of American citizens in schools this year, 30,000,000 in round numbers of students in schools, public and private. Here is an essential service which alone is sufficient to justify a governmental system with all its attendant ex¬ pense and any difficulties that it may encounter. What are some of the other possible services? Health is one of them, public health, discussions of matters relating to public health. The nation’s health is of inestimable value. Our medical friends are willing and anxious to present educational health facts, but I fear that there are times that this would interfere with and perhaps make inevitable a clash with the advertisers of particular remedies, a clash which is very likely to keep from the public the facts and the truth re¬ garding health* All of us realize the possibilities of service the governmental system could render to public business. For example, on the train the other day I listened to the Governor of Nebraska explaining legislation and his explanations to his people certainly were valuable whether you agreed with him or whether you did not. Our own college stations, particularly those in the land-grant colleges, have been of inestimable value in the last few years in explaining to people the various agencies which the Government was putting in operation for the relief of distress in those communities. The University of Wisconsin presents broadcasts each week by members of the state legislature who discuss the happenings at their state capital. - 9 -