Education: Bringing Up Radio

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*So dull are the Sunday night programs sponsored by B. B.C.'s director that most Continental stations step up their power to reach British listeners. †At an earlier meeting of the radio council, Vice President Henry Adams Bellows of Columbia Broadcasting System Inc., onetime member of the Federal Radio Commission, said that a proposal made by Secretary Wilbur's committee to allocate 15% of all radio time for educational purposes would mean a "great disaster" to the cause of radio education, for the present audiences which have been built up by commercial stations would not tune in on a special, educational wavelength. Most educational discourses are "without qualification dull."