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THE VITALITY OF SUPERSTITION.
(Continued from Page 1.)
Under a Ladder.
There is something peculiarly. irritating in widespread customs
which are so obviously irrational that one cannot understand any anne person believing in them. I cannot understand the position of the atheist, or of the Sadducee, who "bolioves neither in angel nor spirit," but I cannot understand how anyone can believe in a God Who is angry if thirteen people sit down to table; Who likes the numbers 3, 7, and 8; Who will bring us to humiliating end if we walk under a ladder, and Who frowns on enter prises begun on Friday. The whole thing is utterly silly for wards.
However, there is a reason why these absurd beliefs have shown Buch vitality. The imagination is terribly potent. Taith can remove the mountains which faith has put there. A talisman is a real protec tion against witchcraft. If you be lieve in witches, it is better to be lieve in the talisman. The ordeal V ร
taken under ecclesiastical patronage; the duol is, of course, a mere survival of the ordeal.
How far faith can cure disense is still disputed. It is usually said by doctors that suggestion can often eure functional but not organic dis- ease. But when we ask them who- ther a hard and fast line can be drawn between functional and or- gauir, they hesitate. Faith-healing Beets and individual healers will continue to flourish until the whofe subject is put on a scientific basis; and we are still a long way from this.
TO-DAY'S WIRELESS
PROGRAMME. BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. ON 335 METRES.
11 to 11.30 a.m.-Stock quotations. 11.30 a.m.-Chinese programme, 12.30 p.m.-European programme. 1.30 p.in.-Weather report, local
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5 to 8 p.m.-European programme of Columbia records kindly supplied by Messrs. Anderson Music Co.
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Orchestral. "Stenka Razine" (Glazounow).-- Brussels Royal Conservatoire Orchestra.
LATENT CIVIL WAR IN GERMANY.
THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN NAZIS AND SOCIALISTS.
ONE OF HITLER'S MEETINGS
SUPPRESSED.
Berlin; Dec. 18.-There was to have been a big meeting of Nazis
The Two Opposed. 'Groups. The issue ie rssentially one bo- at Magdeburg today. Hitler him tween the Nazis and the Socialists. self was to have spoken.: The meet-The bourgeois parties are hardly. ing has been forbidden. Paradoxiaware of what is happening, and wal as it may seem to bo, this event are in any caso inclined to be pro- is as significant as the suppression of the film" All Quiet on the West- ern Front" only in on opposite sense. It is the first victory of the counter offensive against the new Fascist reaction in Germany.
The authorities were prevailed upon to suppress All Quiet" under pressure from the Nazis and fear of disorders. The result was that all films, plays, public meet- ings, and so on were exposed to the danger of suppression if enough people could be found to demon strate against them and threaten trouble. In this way infinite pos sibilities were open to the Nazis But when they nounced their demonstration at Magdeburg, the Republican Reichsbanner announe. ed a counter-demonstration. result would have been disorder, perhaps of a formidable kind. The authorities thereupon decided to prohibit the meeting (the meeting
The
Nazis. The Communists are almost forgotten, in spite of their great numerical strength. What has for years been apparent is now quite clear-namely, that a revolutionary situation in Germany would sweep over the heads of the Communiste. This is what is happening now, and, what is more, they, or at least the leaders, know it.
The onslaught on persons and on. meeting-halls, the fights between partisan groups, and the general violence and disorder are now such in Germany that it is almost an under-estimate to speak of latent civil war. But it is not so much the number of killed and wounded and the amount of damage done (which is not much greater than it has been for months past) but the character of the conflict, that mat
era, and this character is no longer one of desultory rowdyism, or the confused strife of general political of the Reichsbanner was prohibited ferment (ns in the election cam- as well, just ng Nazi meetings inpaign), but a definite struggle be the streets of Berlin were prohibited tween two great national factions--- after the suppression of "AllNazie and Socialists,, Fascists and
Anti-Fascists. Quict.") Berlin is a lively city for rowdies and for desultory political affrays, but it is relatively passive in the broader political sense, and it usually lage behind in the big political movements. Such a move ment is now developing in different parts of Germany,"
Socialists Roused, German republican democracy is "Oberon Overture" (Weber) passing from the defensive to the Willem Mengelberg and his Confive. Authority has largely
B.B.C.
cort Orch.
"Ruy Blas "Overture.
Wireless Symphony Orch. 6.40 to 6.10 p.m.-
Democracy's Danger.
Ал кооп as the election returns were out, it was clear that German democracy was in danger. The danger is now so real that Gorman democracy can hardly be said to exst any longer. But the present situation is one in which democracy can be restored. Its ultimate de- struction or restoration may be de eidod within the next few months..
The struggle that has now begun
in real carnet is one of the very greatest importance. It is usually underrated because almost all Ger- man news comes from Berlin, and most of it is about Berlin, where there is nothing so conspicuous just now as the passivity of the Left. But under the influence of the pro- vinces this passivity may come lo an end very soon.
Nazis Tactics Recognized. Amongst the working class in Ber-
failed, and is able to assert itself only within certain limits. Beyond these limits Germany is in a state Musical Comedy.
of latent civil war. In Magdeburg, "That's a Good Girl-Fancy Our
Meeting.Jack Buchanan and in Hamburg, in Merschurg, and Elsie Randolph with Debroy other provincial towns the ardour Somers Band. "The One. I'm Looking For" and enterprise of the Nazis are now (From "That's a Good Girl"). beginning to burn among the 80-
Jack Buchanan and Elsiccialists. Besides the Reichsbanner, in there is a growing realisation of the Fascist danger, of the danger Randolph with Debroy Somers special formations of young stal-that the Nazis are making a bid for Band. "The Desert Song "-Selections-warts-mainly Socialists are being power, not by open insurrections
Debroy Somer's Band.
created. They are martial in char- (which is the Communist way and doomed to fail), but by entering "On With The Show, 1930 "— acter (though without firearms), the Government and so getting a
Selections, Debray Bomer's
In some towns they even get some foothold inside the fort, and then Band.
financial help from the traileAttacking simultaneously from with- in and from outside! The tactics unions. They repel Nazi attacks of the Nazis are something like with a skill and a resolution. that Communist cell tactics, only con are very different from the desulceived with far greater imagination |tory, defensive methods of a few
weeks ago.
6.10 to 6.35 p.m.-
Band Selections. The Black Domino Overture,"
B.B.C. Wireless Military Band. "Regimental Marches."-The Na-
tional Military Band. Marche Slav-The Regimental Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards.
0.33 to 7.25 p,num.
Concert Items, Oclette Classica Selections " (arr. Ewing).-J. H. Squire Celeste Octette.
Song- The Kerry Dance" (Mol les).-Doria Vane (Soprano). Song" The Songs My Mother Sung."Doris Vane (Soprano). Violin Solo Slavonic Dance in G Minor" (Dvorak-Kreisler). Joseph Szigeti,
Duct "Excelsior !! (Longfellow and Ballo).-Hubert Eisdell and Norma Alling
'Cello Solo-"Melodie
(Gluck
and Squire).-W. H. Squire, - - Quartette" I See My Love at the Window," Calliope.-Lions Quartette of Seattle. Organ Solo Scherzo " (Com mette).-Edouard Commette, 'Cello Solo Reveric" (Dunk
ler).-W. H., Squires 7.25 to 8 pm.—.
Operatio
Song-La Tosca-Viesi D'Arte."
-Eva Turner (Soprano), Song" Cavalleria Rustionna
Voi Lo Sapete" (Mascagni). Eve Tumer (Soprano)." Duet Il Trovatore" (Verdi).-
Arang. Lombardi and Carlo Galeffi. Song Lucia Di Lammermoor" (Mad Scene) (Donizetti)-A M. Guglielmatti (Sopratio)... Song" Lucia Di Lammermoor" (Cover with Bitter Tears).-A. M.. Guglielmetti. (Soprano). Song" The Mikado-A More Humane Mikado" (Gilbert and
(Baritone)
Song The Mikado-Tit WIL low."Harold Williams (Bari- tone).
8 p.m.-Ko Shing Theatre relay.
9 p.m.-Weather report, local time,
11:30 p.m.-Close downl
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and realism-the cell is to be form- ed in the German and the Prussian Governments by norinal constitu- tional procedure, and then, when the cell is there, the rank and file are, if need be, to advance in con- centric attacks, preceded perhaps by armed shock troops.
But they have also begun to at- tack, and it is now beginning to ccur that Nazis hold meetings at their own peril, that they cannot
This is the situation, and this is demonstrate without risk, and that the danger. The Socialist massen their halls and headquarters are of Germany understand this at inst, threatened. Indeed, an activa anti-end their counter-operations have begun. They are not only holding Fascist movement has been called the fort; they have begun to make to life by the Fascist merinoc. The aallics against the beleaguering meetings and demonstrations of this Nazis. Whether these operations movement are now so well attended have begun in time or whether they that huge overflow meetings are s are too late no one can tell as yet.--. constant necessity,
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