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Office of Executive secretary Urbana, Illinois November 1, 1940 NEv, :VJ1 AUDIOS DEDICATED One hundred eighteen educational broadcasters and representatives of educational institutions and civic groups attended the First Annual Conference on Applied Radio at the University of Iowa on October 17-19. Highlights of the Conference were the dedicatory services for the new WSUI studios and the emphasis placed upon radio’s role in educating and informing people in the democratic way of life. Democracy must recognize free radio as a major instrument for meeting the revolutionary change? facing America today. Dr* James Rowland Angell, educational counselor for NBC, pointed out in hie address on f, The Place and Function of Radio in a Democracy, ” f, The business of education is to make people free,” said Dr. C. a. Siepmann of Harvard University, former program director for BBC, at the educational directors * session of the conference. "The magnificent function of the broadcaster is to put up sign¬ posts, give direction to peopled thoughts and hopes. Radio must get across to a mass audience the feeling of belonging, of beingrut alone, but part of a great nation. This must be done by utiU.ring the immense resources of the radio industry, adapted to the longings, ex eriences, and limitations of that great audience. The educator should not be ashamed to use the techniques of radio which already are successfully exploited by the enter- tudio dedication ceremonies on October 18 included a special drar.atic oresentaticm. B 0n Tn aves of Sound,* directed by Dr. H. Clay Harshbai fSUI production director, an: Idress by Dr. Angell. "LOCAL COOPERATIVE BROADCASTING." i. . j Copies of the booklet with the title, H "tOCAL OOOPlRATlil BROAD¬ CAST! 1 .> - A Summary and Appraisal,* by Leonard Power and ) pfub:. ished by the Federal Radio Education Comm It tree* With the coopera tion of the U. S. Office of Education, are now obtainable through the FREC at 25 cents ‘each.