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TJrbana, Illinois March 15, 1941 SUGGESTED NATIONAL DEFENSE S ICR VICE FOR NAEB In response to an NAEB communication to the National Defense Commission regarding the part educational, municipal stations should play in the National Defense program, Bernard C, Schoenfeld Chief, Radio Section, Office for Emergency Management, says that "Your group can be of inestimable value in Defense." The letter speaks for itself: “You ask if ?/e have any proposals as to how you might help the country 6 We suggest that a group like yours might help us by using radio in the following way: £, 1 - By using radio to tell the citizens of a particular community the specifier Defense problems and Defense activities of that community e Too many radio programs generalize on Defense work all over the country. We believe that radio used microscopically has better results, “2 - It is very important that we*make the listener aware of his personal relationship to the entire problem of Defense. Facts and statistics do not cause a Nation to stand close together in time of emergency, unless each citizen has been made to realize how that fact or statistic relates to him. "Consequently, we would like to see these local programs emphasize the responsibility of each individual in the community in which he lives; responsibility of the housewife and what her job is in Defense; the responsibility of the school boy and what his job is; and so on down the list, with shopkeeper, farmer, teacher, butcher, baker and candlestick-maker. Too many of us think that the only Defense workers are the factory workers and the drafted men. An organization like yours, decentralizing radio to local areas, could make everyone realize what his individual job is in the entire picture. Technically, this can be better done through simple and human programs rather than speeches by "big names". "Envision the citizens of a town of 4,000 listening over the air to the machine operator who lives down the block, listening to the foreman who comes from that region, listening to the president of the plant discussing the doings of this plant in the Defense