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regional, and state-with suitable powers to insure service to both national and local needs. These boards should be nonpartisan, the members careful y selected from leaders active in fields of public welfare, such as agriculture, labor, music, drama, schools, religion, science, medicine, law, the arts, and other civic interests. It is suggested that appointments to the national board and to the regional boards be made by the President of the United States, confirmed by the United States Senate, and to the state boards by the respective governors, in all cases the appointments to be from lists of eligible persons nominated by the supreme courts of the several states. "The system shall be available for public business, for public forums, for adult education, for broadcasts to schools, for public service by nonprofit welfare agencies, and for other general welfare broadcasts. "Nonprofit welfare stations shall be assured the right of affiliation with the federal system. "The system shall ultimately be extended to provide satisfactory coverage of the continental United States, including remote rural sections as well as more densely populated urban areas. "The provision of funds and the allocation of suitable broadcasting channels necessary for the effective operation of the system shall be made by the federal government. "Recordings of programs of general significance shall be made and shall be available for broadcasting from nonprofit stations. "A continuous program of research shall be maintained by the public boards to study the desires of the people, the preparation of programs, the technique of broadcasting, and the results of the broadcasts.” Mr. Chairman and members of the Commission, the National Committee on Educa' tion by Radio is presenting to you today the result of their four years of study, the result of the infoiraation that has come in to them through their various agencies, their knowledge of American sentiment and desires. We are presenting this with the request that as a commission you interest yourselves in this plan sufficiently to have it given the most thorough and complete investigation. You have at your command the technical expert advice that is necessary for a definite and immediate discussion and consideration of such plan. We urge that you take this proposal with sufficient seriousness to proceed with such a study. The National Committee On Education by Radio does not have the resources that you have, but we have some very good resources of a technical nature on the engineering staffs of our colleges and universities. We have investigated just - 13 -