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EDUCAT IONAL BROADCASTING, IN 1928-1933 BY • Morse Salisbury, Chief of Radio Service, U. S, Department of Agriculture Of course, the catastrophic results of the 3-year collapse in the price structure overshadow everything else in the history of educational broadcasting during the past 5 years, like everything else in the history of all educational effort during that time. As the newest form of educational activity, and consequently the form with the least capital and personnel involved, broadcasting seems bound to suffer at least as much as any other branch of education in the inevitable retrenchment in education. That is the overwhelming fact before the thinking of all persons in¬ terested in educational broadcasting just now. It is difficult to recall again the picture of educational broadcasting 5 years ago when hopes surged high and the public prints teemed with glowing predictions. Once you do recon¬ struct the picture of educational broadcasting, in 1928, and compare it with the.broadcasting of the present, you realize how vain is prophecy, and how actually realized developments, though different, may be as beneficial as imagined developments. In 1933, gone are the perfervid dreams of a 10-million dollar radio university; exploded is the 1928 belief that radio had magical powers of educa¬ tion, We’re looking realistically at education by radio this year. I think that is clear gain. 1 think those of us who have come with radio education to the rock-bottom realities stand ready now to build something that will work and that will endure. We at least have learned that radio can’t perform many educational functions. You can’t give radio courses to all the people of a State that will compare in effective instruction value with courses given in residence to a few people,' You can’t expect the radio organization of a university or a college to do a good job unless you give it authority. Even if