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a choice between tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee? What choice have you unless you can select from a wide range of programs? Many of the alleged surveys of listener reaction and choice have resulted in their saying, f, Yes, I like program A better than programs B and C," but all they had to choose from was A, B, and C, and it does not at all approach the question of whether there might have been a program of some other kind that would have been preferred. Therefore, we believe that this three-fold system of the private chains, the government chain, and the local stations will, in all probability, afford the richest variety of program material. Canada Coasts that one of the chief benefits of her system has been making known to Canada her own resources in the talent and genius of her own people, that it has raised and improved the unity of the Nation and given a clearer realization of Canadian talent. In America we want to bring to the top for the benefit of all the people the best that America can produce in music, in statescraft, in information, in service, in all the material that can be put out on the radio. We want to do that in order to improve the listener’s choice, and I hold that the combination system is likely to bring out more completely America’s genius than any single agency of broadcasting. I wish to speak last of the safeguarding of the freedom of speech. America is trying an experiment. Other nations which have tried the experiment of popu¬ lar government in the last decade have seemingly given up in despair and gone back to some autocratic form of government. America still persists in her effort and her loyalty to government of, for, and by the people, basing her faith largely upon, first of all, free thinking, the right of each man to think through and make his own decisions on questions affecting himself and the public. However, free thought is of little value without the privilege of free speech, and what is radio but free speech, an instrument which makes vocal the voice of a nation, and if that opportunity is not free than we have a restriction of the freedom of speech. We - 11 -