From Headquarters

The National Association of Broadcasters last fortnight sent the following advice to its 400-odd member stations: -"Any member considering the use of programs offered by the American Civil Liberties Union or the National Association of Manufacturers should write to Headquarters for information about these."

The programs referred to:

> The American Civil Liberties Union, since March, has accumulated a resounding voice of 86 radio stations in 35 States for its 15-minute, free weekly scripts, Civil Liberties in the News, presented as "a commentary on the present-day struggle to preserve the Bill of Rights for all people throughout our country."

Excerpts: "Thanks to action just taken by the Georgia State Legislature, the Bill of Rights has now been ratified by all 48 States."

"A year-long survey of 332 cities having a total population of 36,000,000 [shows] that no city achieves more than 50% observance of civil rights presumably guaranteed its citizens."

"Any attempt to deprive even so unpopular a group as the American Nazis of their rights would be a denial of democracy's principles. ... Our best answer is to fight Nazi propaganda with counter-propaganda."

"Seamen now wear gas masks while on the picket line."

>Also free to any broadcaster who will use them are the National Association of Manufacturers' two radio programs, items in its $750,000-a-year campaign to get the Government off U. S. business' neck. One of these programs, a dramatic serial called The American Family Robinson, is over four years old, goes out twice a week or oftener over 250 stations by electrical Tanscription, talks Alger-book homilies, free enterprise and the American Way.

The other, begun early last year, presents famed Publicist George Ephraim Sokolsky, a sort of star-spangled spieler :or capitalism, in talks and interviews on ligh taxes, scared private capital, benevolent monopoly, malevolentisms.

To stations writing to headquarters for information, the N. A. B. last week was busy explaining its position that both civil liberty and capitalism are "controversial" topics, and therefore dynamite. Its suggestions: 1) have the A. C. L. U. program read by a local A. C. L. U. member as a speech, not as "news"; 2) be sure to identify Orator Sokolsky's sponsor, to avoid letting his views seem to be those of the station.

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