Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
RADIO EDUCATION
SERIES WILL OPEN
Lecture on Psychology and
Economics to Be on Air
Saturday Nights.
BY MARTIN CoDEL.

0SdAAocd CuuCdIlOu Will Jake 10 LIlt
air somewhat along British lines when
the National Advisory Council on Radio
in Education this month begins q
! weekly series of lectures on present
day economics and psychology. In
tended largely for the adult ear, the
lectures will be delivered by eminent
authorities every Saturday evening, be-
ginning October IT, over wide network
Of National Broadcasting Co. stations.
APPLY enough, the first 10 lectures OF
the series of 80 on economics will be
devoted to causes OF the economic de-
preston and possible ways out. Com
ing at $3.50 to 9 pm, Eastern standard
| time, the inaugural program will start
with an Introductory address by Presi-
| dent Nicholas Murray Butler OF Co.
| lumbia University. He will introduce
President James r. Angel of Yale, who
Will give the first address in the series
OF psychology programs, and DR.
Ernest L. Bogart. president OF the
American Economic Association, who
will open the economic series.
Programs in Two Parts.
Each Saturday evening the program
will be divided into two parts, Is min
! utes being devoted to economics and /;
ihiliuCCS W pSJtIlOIORy. Inc economics
series will cover such subjects as I'M
employment insurance, national eco.
nomic planning and the merger move
ment. The psychology series. also
numbering 80 talks, will cover such
subjects as child development, adult
learning, changes in personality, ami
NAL behavior and the social and indus.
trial implications Of scientific psy.
chology.
The economists and psychologists or
the programs are largely drawn from
the colleges and research agencies Of
the country and are men and womer
Of highest standing in their professions
summaries of their addresses and sup.
| Elementary data for study and discus.
sion will be made available to the radio
audience after each, address, through
| the agency of the National Advisory
Council on Radio in Education, organ.
lied about a year ago to further radio
| IN American education, under the di.
rectorship of Levering Tyson, with Rob-
,ert A. Millikan as president and Nor.
man H. Davis as chairman.
| In offering their facilities for thi.
cultural series at one of the most ia.
vorable hours for reception, the N. B. C
network and its associated stations arr
answering. in part at least, the demand
4
on the air" Full cooperation with an,
broadcasting plan offered by the or,
ganized educators has long been prom
, ised by the broadcasters in reply to thu
demand for more wave lengths for edu.
cational broadcasting being made IL
Congress by certain educational inter.
ests.
Would Lend Facilities.
Since the available radio channels
cannot be further crowded, and sine,
the allocating of any proportion of thu
existing channels to diverse educationa
interests would inevitably mean tina
| Just so many existing sta atoms must q
| of the air to make way for the new
ones, the broadcaSters are seeking way
and means of lending their facilities Il
education as a whole and at the same
time balancing their programs to re
tain the interest Of listeners at large
This new series Is the first step TO-
ward a cooperative scheme that vii
not sound the death knell of those WHIT
have invested IL the business of broad
casting. Essentially, the lecture plan il
almost precisely the one followed IL
England, where the English Broadcast
ing Corporation has just begun 1t.
Winter adult education broadcas
schedule, under the general title "Thi!
/ - lldIleHlk NOLlO.
Aiming, so far as possible. to main.
| tain a continuity of subject-m matter
the British lectures go on the air a.
| fixed half-hour schedules each day
with the outstanding British educator,
and publicists taking part It's SEIZED
/ ule. now at hand. includes such men a!
Prof. John Macmurray on problems o
modern life, with supplementary talk
by laymen, including at least ont
woman, and representatives of TIT
younger generation labor and church
| Prof. Arnold Plant. on economics, IL
which the relations OF the state ant
industry will be freely discussed; Mon
sieur E. NJ. Stephen. in French Ian
guage talks: Hon. Harold Nicolson, OF
literature: Sir Barry Jackson. on thu
drama: Kingsley Martin, on the press
Prof. Julian Huxley. J. B. S. Haldane
Sir Oliver Lodge. Hilaire Belloc. Der
trand Russell and others. on science.
Noted Men TO Speak.
All the offerings are intimate talks
Just as those of the new American Sc
res will be. In the economic serie
being offered here the speakers. in ad
dition to DR.. Bogart, will include Ed
win F. Gay Harvard; H. @. Moulton
the Bookings Institution Of Washing
i ton (Which helped prepare the course)
Jane Adams of Hull House; William
Leiserson, Antioch College; William
Gephart, st. Louis: Edwin G. Nourse
Brookings Institution; Leo Wolman
man. Columbia University; Jacob H
Hollander Johns Hopkins University
and Otto T. Mallery. Philadelphia.
The series on psychology includes, be
sides DR.. Angel, such figures as Waite
r. Miles. president of the American
Psychological Association: Prof. Ed
ward S. Robinson. Yale University
Prof. Gardner Murphy. Columbia Uni
versity; Robert S. Woodwork, presi
dent Of the Social Science Research
Council; Arnold Gesen, Yale Univer
sity; Harold E. Jones, University 0
California; Florence L. Goodenough
University of Minnesota; John e. An
derson, university Of Minnesota, ant
Leta S. Hollingsworth, Columbia Uni
versity
Committees Of representative edu
Gators in each instance framed the Sc
ries and will issue the invitations TO
the later lectures All Of the speaker
are contributing their time gratis, a
re associated Sf a