* * * * EDUCATIONAL WIRELESS.
Some time ago the Secretary of the Interior, who is in charge of Federal education, appointed a committee to investigate the educational possibilities of radio and to recommend such plans for making use of that medium as it appeared the Federal Government might usefully adopt. The committee has now reported, recommending an ambitious scheme to establish a National Radio University with an endowment of $10,000,000 from public funds. The scheme met with immediate opposition from the broadcasting companies who contend that radio is not yet sufficiently developed to warrant such an expenditure. The Administra- tion agrees with them and the committee's recommendation has been promptly rejected as too far-reaching. However, the Federal authorities still avow a desire to assist, by such means as they consider desirable, in the development of radio as an educational medium and a new committee has been appointed to find out how it may be done.
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