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to reserve the same hour-1 Bl-thruout the wee, for the use of various educational and civic organizations in this area. Consequently, all of us profit or suffer by the publicity of any of us. we have contended with our faculty that one Justification of local stations is the personal acquaintance or knowledge of the speaker held by .any of the listeners. Any publicity value acruing to the college must cone fro. the high quality of the programs using faculty members personally known to many of the listeners. And so we have been very anxious that the voices of our people seem as natural as possible. Any one at all familiar with broadcasting knows that to accomplish this result en¬ tails auditions. There we were up against two stone walls: faculty members accus¬ tomed to speaking all the while had no misgivings as to their ability to speak in public and the radio station people scoffed at the idea. But when wives at home did not recognize the voices of their own husbands, faculty members were gradually won over, in consequence of our insistence upon auditions, we learned indirectly that even men at the station were convinced of their worth to the point that some of their employees had auditions. But the station authorities still maintained an attitude of indifference whijh discouraged our people when they went in for rehearsals. How¬ ever, we still urge auditions for anyone who has not had previous experience. The point I am trying to emphanize is this; after the station has fulfilled its oblige- tion by granting us time, they do not care at all whether or not our pr g successful. Their duty is done, their fifteen to thirty minutes credited, and they arc anxious that it entail a minium of annoyance to them. As a teacher-training institution, we have interest in the possibilities of broadcasting for the schools of our area. Knowing something of the history of such experiments and of the general skepticism of the possibilities in that field, far be it from me to undertake such an experiment without a far more wholehearted support tha n educational broadcasting new, enjoys on the part of our faculty and local stations