"We are only the pioneers. Ours is the venturesome age that is exploring the possibilities of the human mind. In transmitting the heritage of the past, in stimulating the creative faculties of the mind, in building up a new dynamic civilization, radio will be one of our great instruments. I do not suppose that radio is going to make this the best of all possible worlds in a generation. Challenging situations will continue to arise with every new orientation of society, but I am confident that through the use of radio there will be brought to their solution a more direct, a more rational, a more intelligent technique than has ever been used in the realm of politics in the past. Looking at radio in its historical perspective, we can scarcely fail to accept with courage the new resposibility that it imposes on us. We may perhaps even face it with some degree of inspiration."

"Radio in Historical Perspective" by James T. Shortwell, Columbia Univcersity. Keynote address at the first assmebly of the National Advisory Council on Radio in Education, held the the New School for Social Research, 66 West Twelfth Street, New York City, May 21, 1931.