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Notice To Com
All Com
publicat
the Editor
the Writer's N
not
One Yes
to: play
be
her should approach the subject with the mind as fresh as McDougall's visitor from Mars who alights at the Croydon aero- drome and sees the joking by
tanders who "suddenly losing all mity, dignity and self-control, seized with belly shaking laughter, and, with faces con- gested and contorted, limbs way- ing madly, bodies bending and all directions, emite &
hideous bowls
Broadcast News
bulletins of the Bri Broadcasting Corporation
are received all over the world,
Hong Kong, Monday, Nov. 22, 1937 and the foreign listener is often
LAUGH
under the impression that hears in them the word of the
GROW FAT British Government. This
conception arises, not un
"Laughter, said a shrewdly, from the peculiar status
cynic, "is the the sound you hear the corporation. from other people when your hated once again
catarrect-
by Sir
blows off and rolls in the mud.Stephen Tallents when he was
And this remark apparently con
tains the kernel truth about
laughter if the outstanding psy-
chologist, Professor William Mc- the
members of the
He
Director of Public
on, for which
Dougall, is correct. For 34 tions, could be compelled years, he tells us in an article în Government ews, but
Fortnightly, he has preached compulsion
that laughter is always about dis-
upon it.
pleasing things about “misfits. obvious sons why mishaps, mistakes, minor acment should refrain from
cidents, trivial hurts, ships of
ference for anything that tend tongue, of pen, of foot. This ed to confirm the impression that fof course, is nothing less than a broadcast news is official news revolutionary doctrine, for it is would have embarrassing results. generally assumed, even by phi-It is interesting, too, now that the losophers, that men laugh be question of broadcasting news in cause they are pleased. If Mc
foreign languages is under con Dougall, and also Max Eastman, sideration. It is the practice of author of The Enjoyment of Laughter" are on the right several other countries, but as it track, pleasure is the result, and is generally used for propagand not the cause, of the strange purposes its adoption in England body-quaking phenomenon which needs to be carefully gu is unique to the human race against the possibility of
take While such broadcasts Hence a modern corrobo
may do good 28
ectives
for the old adage, -1 grow fat, for laughter pleasure and pleasure, health
That discovery certainly leads logically to the
the function
create ple
otherwise
writes McDougall,
who converts paimini
asions of
lation, takes from our
mishaps their natural
eous statements in the for gn pres they would be
they fell under the
political distortion.
The Affair.
ther it be the pain of our own China affair, failure or the sympathetic pain ernment has since
of another's failure, and converts with the matter of the lit into something allied to joy, to phraseology for the
3ollity The character in The emergency measures whic Barber of Seville who said: "they have been pas hasten to laugh at everything for Diet,
fear being obliged to weep, for a may therefore have been ex-phrase wi pressing a truth far more pro ed in Gre found than his creator knew. duration
Before assessing the merits of hardly do, this theory that laughter
resses no pleasure at all, but the "Japan happens to create it, the on
conclus
adopted thorities formula for officia
over ent
of the smile has first to be decid-
Here
th
Mc
denies
as the will duly
abo
Sme
the first step in laughter the