TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1930.
RADIO TOPICS
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.
The following programme will bo broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on
a wavelength of 855 metres:-
5 p.m.-European Programme of Columbia, Records selected and supplied by the Anderson Music Co.
'Chinese Programme. The little Old Woman and the Queen
that came to Tea, The tittle Man who had a little Gun,
Helenu Minis, Story (5099). Little Songs for Little Volces,
Harold Williams, Baritone (3179). Fairy Adventures by Billie Grey (4108). The Doings of Dismal Desmond,
Billie Grey, Chus, Penrose & Co. (4681). 5.35 p.m.-Wartime Mumories. Aldershot Searchlight Tattoo,
The Inkwell Fairy,
Band of M. Grenadier
Guards with full Choir (9110).
War Marching-Song,
(DX112).
THE CHINA MAIL.
PARADISE FOR. U.S. WEDDING IN
HOMELESS CATS.
- BRITAIN.
"Mr. Denny, also refers to Bri- where two large glaciers come down Janitor Provides Asylum Primate's Ruling Acts
for Feline Waifs.
tish shipping in his remarkable to the sea.
As Check, book, and says America has déter- A hut was built here and the goa- mined to challenge British plane carried by the party has been
Chicago, Oct. 2. Several U.S. engagements plan- supremacy, and for strategic and, assembled. Extensive survey flights
A paradise of hamburger, cream ned to culminate with a marriage commercial reasons to put a larger have already been made. By now American merchant marine on the the first of the sub-expeditions and mice for homeless cats and an In Britain have been postponed sens at all costs. It is just A dog sledge to the ice cap, is well employment agency for good rattera during the present' tourist season well that Mr. Denny has been good under way! Here a meteorological temporarily out of work has been because of new rules governing
of the efforts station will be established and the maintained for eight years In the the issue of special licences. enough to warn us
A special licence coats £25, and that American capital is making to expedition will then proceed up the middle of Chicago's roaring traffic,
map the mountain belt. surrounded by skyscrapers high can only be obtained from the dominating position coast to
of Canterbury's throughout the world in all forms An Important part of the expedi- enough to make even a cat giddy. Archbishop
In the window of a vacant store Faculty Office, Knightrider Street, of communication, but I repeat that tion's equipment consists of wire- in the fields in which we
less transmitting and receiving sets at Wacker. Drive and Washintgon London, E.C. This Ilcence does engaged we have withstood com which, will enable the sledge parties Street eight fat sleek cats are sear away with petition. Journal of Commerce.
establish В
RADIO'S PROGRESS.
NEW TIMES - NEW SYMBOLS.
The past year
are
tion in London.`•
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the necessity of re-
church at Stratford-on-Avon, at St. George's, Hanover Square, or St.. Margaret's, Westminster, with these licences.
to keep in touch with the main bass daily sitting in a contented row. sidential qualifications. and the main base' to communicate They are the well provided for In recent years' many American with the headquarters of the oxpedi-wards of Jim (Happy), Fuller, the couples have been married in the janitor of the building who believes Already this equipment has been nothing is too good for his pets.
Board for the cats daily requires set up at the base and is in com- munication with headquarters. The 75 cents of Fuller's salary and it
Recently the Primate, in corres- Mullard Wireless Service Company goes to buy milk for the kittens and Ltd., provided valves for both the hamburger for the cats with plenty pondènce with the American Con- sulate, stated that,'lack of re- transmitting and receiving equip of salmon on Sundays.
was not ment the receiving sets employed
"When I die," said Happy, "sidential qualification hope they bury me over the North sufficient excuse for the issue of That's where I've a spacial licence, and that applica- buried the little, cats that died tions would. fu future be dealt with these last eight years."
In the same way as those from British citizens.
by the parties on the ice being pro vided by Messrs. Stratton and Com western tracks. saw the tenth
pany of Birmingham,
Debroy Somers Band anniversary of the signing of the Armistice which ended the great European Wat. A period of in- finite sorrow was concluded for countless of our-fellow creatures.
Bacchanalia-
Drinking Songs Fantasia,
Herman Finek & Orchestra
· (9210).
Melodious Memories,
Regal Cinema Orchestra
(0723).
Martial Moments-March Medley,
Regimental Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards (9065).
6.30 p.m. Variety. Father's Favourites,
.
Organ Solo by Terance Casey (DB249).
No Power on Earth,
At the Races,
Lionel Monekton Memories,
A new era dawned in which one turned away, from the dark years, towards the light of Peace, as the lower towards the sun.
The Palace of Peaco in The Hague contains a statue, presented by the United States, of a young woman, proudly striding along, with uplifted-head, and flowing robes.
It is the incarnation of the Spirit of Peace, more and more gaining ground.
The Charge of the Light Brigade,
Billy Dennett, Comedian (0205). Descriptive Sketch, Claphani
and Dayer (5201). The honest will of the nations to understand one another is getting Columbin Light Opera Co. (9983).
more powerful, the desire for Crussing the Line-Descriptive.
mutual sympathy grows stronger, The Comedy Sketch Co. the willingness of the one to appre
. (4586). The Merry Widow-Selection.
London Theatre Dalestra (DX04).
Ciuiety Echoes,
1. Hermin Finck and Hi
Orchestra (9718). The Belle of New York-Selection,
Regimental Band of HM. Grenadier Guards (p192). 7.30 pm. Brahma Sonata in D Minor, Op. 108.
Violin & Piano by Efrem Zimbalist and Harry Kaufman (87780). Chinese Relay from Ka Shing Theatre.
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9 p.m.-Weather Report,
11 p.m.-Close Down,
BRITISH SHIPPING AND WIRELESS.
tiate the other is becoming greater.
A spreading of civilisation is notice- able.
Is it by chance that the growth of the most noble sentiments of man coincide with the increasing pros- perity of the Radio?
No, it is colacidental! We really
sce a causal relation.
standard, the fact that people con The improvement in the culture sider themselves, more than pre viously, citizens of the world, are
'MINIWATT VALVES.
SOME REMARKABLE PARTICULARS.
Employment Bureau.
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Unaware of the new rules, many U.S. Consulate for a latter to take Americans have applied to the
to the Faculty Office, only to be would not be issued merely be- informed that a special licence cause they had the money to pay for it..
The Archbishop of Canterbury is the only person in 'Britain who Happy believes he has raised a hundred cats during the years he can authorise a special licence. It has maintained his asylum for la authorised "under special cir- cumstances," and enables a mar- felino wayfarers. For some of
unre- them, chiefly the best rätters, ha riage to take place in any has found other homes where their gistered building at any time of
the day or night. talents may be of use.
"I've given the now opera build- At present almost everybody is in ing two fine rattere and I must have some degree informed as to "the given the telephone company # principal features and function of dozen for their building. I stay radio valves. It is also generally up all night the night the kittens known that the processes taking come, but I can't help much." place in the interior of the valve
Happy makes his home in the Fare very complicated, and therefore building with the cats. He has many will be interested to learn i trained them not to molest the few particulars about "Miniwatt" things in his room." valves, which data are supplied by the Philips laboratories.
children," he contends. "All these Whether valves are functioning cats know their name and they all well or not greatly depends on the ramble about the roof "ať" night. |`, degree
of vacuum. This plays a "Dick," called Happy. still more important part in valves Dick, a 20-pound, eight-year-old, with a low flament current con-jumped to his shoulder. sumption than in valvea with) "Teddies, Cockle, Nellie, Tommie, tungsten filament. By the pumping Midget.... process applied in Bladhoven, whereby all parts of the valve are brought to a red heat in order to material, expel occluded gases present in the
vacuum is obtained
equalling less than one ten-millionth of a millimetre mercurial pressure,
"You can teach cats just like NO HOLIDAY FOR
MUSSOLINI.
Obediently all the cate responded except Midget who was engrossed with an elaborate trapeze of rub- ber rings and balls,
Too Much Work to Be Done.
While a portion of the Press in many countries has beeen describ- ing Mussolini as gravely ill with a dangerous stomach disease and about to undergo an operation, he "I don't know what ails that has continued with undiminished kitten," Happy complained. "She vigour the multitudinous occupa- won't mind worth a cent."
tion which have earned him fame,
war," sald workers.
Spanish-American
attention.
for a great deal due to the wireless! which can practically be called the "I got to liking cats during the as one of the world's hardest
The listener-in- enjoys the grand-absolute vacuui est concerts given by the most The Philips valves owe their long Happy. "I was with the 3rd-regl From early morning until late) famous orchestras of the world, he life is a large measure to the comment, company 8, from Somerville, at night he is in his new office in hears lectures by savants, explorers,
paratively low temperature, to NJ. There was a cat with our the Palazzo Venezia. He believes and artists speaking about their which the filament is heated. A putat and it was my job to feed in doing things himself, and there work. The leaders in all spheres, few figures will show this..
her: She used to go into battle as are few aspects of Italian life of all nations, address him, he
In a radio valve of the obsolete brave as any soldier. People can which do not receive his, personal receives them, as it were, in hi
type with a brightly glowing la- learn a lot from cats." sitting room.
ment, the temperature amounted to This intellectual contact, cannot fail to act uplifting.
The Radio-broadcasting only at Chelmsford, Mr. F. G. Kelle- dwells on the summit of our present way, managing director of the.com-culture life, does not descend to the pany, said the British Empire had valleys. Broadcasting is on a high done the pioneer work in the level and everywhere endeavours methods of communication, whe- are made to give the very best ther by telegraph, telephone, air- Why? Because one stands before
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COMPETITION WITHSTOOD.
Speaking at the opening of the extensións to tho Marconi works
craft or shipping, and had built up systems of incomparable strength and mobility.
In their own field of long dis- tanec telegraphy and telephony, the British Empire, from the time of Marconi's invention, had led, the world, while shipping enterprise and an instinctive sea sense had enabled the shipping owners to build up a position which no other country could equal.
the forum of the whole world.
Thus the wireless encircles and keeps together the human race in a way as meant by the poet when he wrote the well-known line "sold umschlungen Millionen."
This was at the time a fata
morgana born of the intense desire of an earnest and sensitive human.
The radio has made this wish come true..
Millions of people, scattered all over the world, are now bound to gether by the Radio.
"There is nothing finer in Bri- tish industry than the way the British shipping owners, in good
The work done by the Radio times as well as bad--they are now towards peace must certainly not be passing through a very bad time- underestimated. "It does not show have maintained the supremacy of outwardly, it is a mysterious pro- British industry," he said. "Bothcess within the human mind which in our own sphere and in that of the it gradually but surely alters and British shipping owner our posi- ennobles.
tion can only be maintained by This is delicate work, like the coaseless activity, use of the most embossing of a rare metal, tho.. modern methods, and efficient and kneading and turning of a vase into aggressive management in every sublime shape. department of our industry. There has never been a time when these factors were more essential than they are to-day.
Remarkable Book.
an exalted task, reserved for the Radio, a task of which-on the oc casion of the tenth anniversary of the armistice it really ought to be mentioned for once in a way she acquits herself in an excellent man
ner.
And in this way
"There has recently been publish- ed in America a remarkable book by a leading American publicist, Mr. Ludwell Denny. The book is called America Conquera Britain." It has not attracted that amount of public attention In Britain which its character and Importance de
The palm-branch of old has been serve. It ought to be in the hands the symbol of peace. The singing of every public man and every towers" of the broadcasting sta Header of labour...
tions, whose slender shapes every "Of that branch of communica- where are pointing to heaven, could
Radio.
Happy is inclined to believe in In only one detail has the Duce about 2,600 deg. C. In contrast to reincarnation, contending that changed his mode of life he no this the filament used in the Philips many cats have bigger and more longer takes as much physical exercise as formerly. Riding and of only about 1,000 deg. C. B 405 has a filament temperature generous soule than people.
"Maybe in the next world we'll fencing have been replaced by The function of a valve is based all be cate." be said.-United little Swedish drill. on a flow of electrons which are
-Press. released from the flament. When
a high positive voltage is applied to
the anode of the valve; these elec
trons are drawn to the anode or
that such an electron could travel
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Car Dashes to Sex. His chief relaxation at present is to bathe from the beach of the
DECLINE OF CONEY royal estate of Castel Porziano, on
ISLAND.
plate at great speed. The speed reached by the electrons at an anode voltage of 120 volts is about 7,000 kilometres, per second, which means America's Playground round the earth's circumference 10 Feeling the Depression. times in one minute. This speed is not influenced by variations in grid voltage; only the number of
New York, Sept. 28. electrons reaching the plate. is Coney Island, greatest amuse- varied thereby,(China Mall Copy-meat plate of the continent, is right, 1930)..
icsing money.
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the Tyrrhenian Sea, some 20 miles from Rome. It is not often he can spare the necessary couple, of hours, but when he can he drives new highway connecting Rome and his car at a high speed over the Ostia.
Even, then, he fills the time be- tween dips in the sea by dictating replies to urgent communications. Mussolini's private life is 28 simple as ever. He resides in the Villa Torlonia, Tent to him by Prince Torlonia, but he is never in except to sleep and take his meals. He rises in the morning at o'clock, and after a frugal break- fast drives to the Palazzo Venezia to begin the day's work.
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Concessionaires at the famous playground say this season his been their worst. Last year was IG — GNOME — INIOUS” bad, due to too-frequent rains, but this year there is no excuse except The children had been learning a that people ars not spending, poem about fairies and gnomes when "It takes $5 to see all the sights,
He has no fixed hour for fun- be taken any but the average visitor to Coney cheon, which may spends under 25 cents," lamented time between 1 and 8 o'clock, ac an attache of the biggest amuse-cording to the importance of the ment centre. "Prices have been affairs which claims his attention. reduced, but people aren't spending. Dining Off Sandwiches.
the teacher asked:
"Who knows what a gnome is?" There was silence for awhile.
· Then one' little 'boy: answered..
Tabiata would
prove
ad-
solini's procedure, in tackling ministrative problems is afforded by the recent measures adopted to
The place where you live with Tourists seem to be on a budget, At the same time it is a noble,"
His luncheon consists of a plato your mother and father; miss!"
Just a little matter of a missing and most of them leave no more of soup, a dish of meat and veget
ables, and some fruit." He, does aspirate.. But it takes considerably. than $1 with us." mo: than an aspirate to make home
not take coffee, does not smokė, home in the truest sense of the word.
Cheap Motor Cars,
and drinks 'very little wine. After It takes harmony, love and above all,
Two reasons were given. One Is about half an hour's postprandial health, for both adults and young onca in many
homes,
all business la dull, and relaxation he is back in his office. the chil
His dinner time varies from" 9 drea, who ought to be the source of amusements are the first to suffer. the statue of life's greatest Juys, are mother's The other is that the middle o'clock in the evening to 1 “ur 2 peace could be regarded as a depic- chletest burton and anxiety on ac- claus patrons who used to go to 'clock in the morning. Sometimes tion of the constant growth, the count of ill-health, ever Increasing Influence of the In homes such as these Baby's Own Coney Island now drive in their he takes only a few sandwiches in
a boon and a low priced cars to more distant and his office. blessing, Mothers all over the world less crowded beaches. UnitedAn excellent Illustration of Mus have written expressing their gratis Press. tude for this splendid medicine for the children. Everywhere parents are turning from the old-fashioned crude remedies, and are finding in this pro-
in the coming winter.net/ duct of modern science the perfect health regulator for the very young
He ordered his Mialstora ta which parents have awaited so long,
draw up a programme of urgent 'Baby's Own' Tablets have been de
public works, and within a few signed 'specially for the usa", of "înv.
days it was ready and the neces- fants and young children by highly qualified medical authorities, and the Under the pretence, of reasons sary finance provided.
N various Ingredients, all absolutely of public hygiene," whatever that. He also devised another import- purs and guaranteed harmless, are may mean in this case, the War ant programme of municipal works dispensed in the accepted Ident-ratio From the latest despatches it for the correction of infandle in saw police, at the order of Marshal which will provide employment for last half-century of electrical pro-gathered that this expedition, which digestion, colle, constipation, and Pilsudaki, recently prevented the scores of thousands of workora gress, but, continued Mr. Kelleway left London in Bhackleton's old ship stomach and bewel: troubles general newspaper boys and delivery vans Mussolini-belleves that unem
so long as the facts are known "Quest on July 17, with the object The tablets check diarrhoes, of from having access to the offices of ployment, can be faced better by pol Vorma-allas Levers colda and the opposition papera ad providing work then by paying the British of aurveying the all-British Alf croup Perfectly safe for the young
messure of Bouls across the Aretle 13 Canada | est lady, they are, igvaluable during The Marshat apparently, wants coles, and in this way unemploy
tion with which we are concerned, be called the modern symbols of "Mr.. Denny ways" the International | peace.
Telephone and Telegraphy, Cor poration of New York has probably done more. In nine years to break the Britlah wireless communication monopoly than all the other com panies activities combined in the
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PUBLIC HYGIENE
HOW: MARSHAL PILSUDSKI DEALS WITH THE PRESS:
meet the threat of unemployment
thow the public. the great ment has been limited so far to variety of methods he has at his about 400,000 individuals out of a disposal for fighting opposi- population only alightly lower than tion partleg.
England's,
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