COUNTESS SUPPORTS LABOUR PARTY.
Hopes Labourites Will Soon Rule.
One of Britain's most interest- ing titled personages is the Countess of Warwick. Strange as it may seem, she is an ardent supporter of the Labour Party whose leaders preach nation- alization of land, mines and railways, and a capital levy upon big fortunea in order to wipe out war debts..
To help the party, she has offered bez splendid home "Easton Lodge,” in Sussex, as & place where the parliamentary. leaders of the Labourites may spend week-ends to recuperate and confer.
The granddaughter of Vis- count Maynard, she is the wife of the Earl of Warwick, who holds some of the oldest and proudest of British titles nobility. He is the owner of the famous Warwick. Castle. The
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Countess owns 23,000 acres of land in her own name.
An interviewer writes that be Was curions to learn at first hand why a
woman who by birth and wealth belonged to the most exclusive of British aristo-
oracy, had become an active member of the party whose rank and file is made up of the British
toilers.
She replied quite simply and quaffectedly:
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COUNTESS OF WARWICK, AND
WING OF EER EASTON LODGE" WEICH SHE HAS TURNED OVER TO BRITISH LA- BOUR LEADERS FOR WEEK-ENDS,
"I have belonged to the Labour Party for as many year an it has existed, so that the dis- covery of my views is hardly дот. I am glad to be working with those who are treating with serious consideration and more adequate grappling the pressing probleme of our time. With such a combination of talent and earnestness they have shamed other political parties.
"Those who have direct know. ledge of the sufferings, mental, moral and physical, to which millions of our fellow country- men are subjected in our present social and industrial condition,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
RADIO A NECESSITY.
SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1923.
TWENTY-TWO YEARS
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Like the Telephone, May Be in Every Home.
Radio promises soon to becom Besides, radio promises to estab- a necessity in every home, writes flish musical entertainment se a Mr. Hiram Peroy Maxim. Pro- necessity. Its use in every home; sident of the American Radio | would do this. Just as other WM. POWELL LTD. Relay League.
forms of education, formerly be-! lieved to be luxuries only for those that the Capital of Mesars, W. We were informed yesterday Although the science is still in who could afford to pay for them, Powell & Co., Limited, has been Lita cradle, its growth has been so are now commonly accepted fully subscribed, and that allot- tremendous that in five more necessities if not actual require
home.
years, it has been predicted, there ments of society, so may radio add mens letters will be sent out im- will be at least 1,000,000 sets in music to the list of necessities. mediately-5,000 shares, that is the States strong enough to receive The place where the receiving $50,000, Sad already been private- messages from Europe, South set is already a necessity is the subscribed before the invitation America and even the Orient farm. Now, with one of these to the general public was issued. Then, like the telephone, it will sats tuned to a large central An experienced manager is ex- be an essential part of every broadcasting station, the farmer Pected from London, and the bus- geta fast information about the iness is to be developed to the fullest extent, in view of whieb, weather, about crop movements
we understand, more suitable and prices and about all other matters on which his existence premises will be obtained in a bet- depends. He is brought closer to ter situation when the lease of the the city. His evenings, heretafore present premises falla in. dreary and uninteresting. Are made cheerful and profitable
On Saturday afternoon the through the radio sat. He finds following ties in the lawn tangis he can keep the farinhand, down tournaments of the Hongking on the farm. The girls have less Cricket Club were played off desire to use the big city. And.a|Singles “4* Class-P. A. Coz, happier, more prosperous agricul- owes 1/6, beat E G. Barnett, tural population is the result.
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This is seen to the fact that already it is playing an important part in transcontinental and trans- oceanic communication. Messages and week-end lettere are being faabed through the air night and day in almost illimitable numbers, and this trafic is increasing.so fast that lange radio concerns have had difficulty keeping up
with it.
HIRAM PERCY MAXIM.
Long distance communication are holding out welcoming hands direct from every home is within to this great Labour movement sight. Just like the telephone at which will assuredly make for its birth, radio telephony is still the spiritual and economic em- beyond the circle of necessity. ancipation of the people. Thus But, like the line telephone, ita we are working. and trust that increased use will bring it within
ere long the government will be this circle and this it a short
in these able hands,"
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Cut at sea, radio is not only a Handicap-E. J. Grist and T. 8. necessity but it is required by law. Smith, owe 15-1, beat F. H. Yeats That's to protect the lives of and E. G. Barnett, owa 2/5 (64. passengere and crews on ships. 5-7, 6-2, 6-3). Later results
By the same token, radio meta were:-Final Tie A Class on every train in the country can Handicap-P. A. Car, owes 1/6. be imagined--not only as an en-beat A. Humphreys, owes 26 tertainment but as an actual re-(6-2, 0-6, 6-2, 6-4); Final Tie "B." quirement by law. Many an ac-Class Handicap.-F. X. De oident could be prevented by such Castro, rec. 15-3, beat C. M. installation, and it would repay Durnett, scratch' (6-0, 7-5, 6-3), the railroad companies in a short time.
THE LOAD LINE We would suggest that an EX- amination be made of the lodd
It is interesting to note, in con-line of every Chiness owned voesslį nection with the stranding of the entering the Harbour. We want 8.8. Kuming near Tambobo to see an example made both in Point, P. I., recently, that a wire- the interests of justice and in the lesa message sent out by the interests of the travelling public, steamer Atlanta City (which went and the honest shipowners whom to the assistance of the Kumsang) we represent. There is far too was first picked up at Manila by much of the "dear me, I really a resident working a private radio can't be bothered attitude" about! apparatna.
some of our' Government Depart- ments, and the sooner that some The largest single radio trans- of these well-paid and under- mitter in the world is said to be worked gentlemen wake up to a the one built by the United States sense of their responsibilities, the Navy Department at Bordeaux, better for all parties concerned. France. It has a capacity of 1200 Besides, if there is law forbid- kilowatts. It sends on a wave ings ship to leave the port too length of 23,400 meters and can deeply laden, it necessarily fal- be easily beard in the United lows that somebody is respon- States.
sible for seeing that such law is. enforced. If the person respon- communication, but exactly what of life occure, then we say he is Fog has some effect on radiosible fails to do his duty and loss
it ia has not yet been discovered. guilty of culpable negligence al- So a British aviator has under- most amounting to murder. taken to fly an aeroplane through foggy atmosphere and try to signal to land stations at the same time. Records will be made for fature study,
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SALE OF HORSES."
Lorg prices were not the order of the day at sale of horses beld. by Mr. Hough this afternoon. Hoodoo fetched $190 and a bay mere $260 while other prices
A London inventor has devised ranged between that and $30
an apparatus by which an aviator The horses were a good looking
may be able to send any of 62 lat bat bidding was weak. different messages to
a land station by simply polling a lever. Each of 62 combinations has meaning of its own, and all the pilot has to do is to touch the lever for the message he wants to send and the flash is off.
PUBLIC BATHS. At to-day's meeting of the| Sanitary Board the following| minute by H.E, the Governor was laid on the table "Iam satisfied that among possible preven tions to disease, baths are of great and pressing importance. The world will soon be able to I have directed the Ag. D. P. W.. prepare for oncoming weather 10 to erect matshed public baths in days ahead. This, through the various parts of the City and enterprising work of Hagbard think they are equally necessary Ekerold, engineer and explorer, of at Hunghom and Yaumati. Bere Bergen, Norway, who has had a the people should have an opport- weather burean equipped with unity of washing themselves with radio in the arctic region.hot water. Request the D. P. W. His project is to erect observa- to give an estimate that a Finan. I tion posta is tbe arctic cial Minute may be prepared. T circle, equip them with broad-have no doubt that the Finance casting apparatus and from these Committee will approve, but the
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flash weather warnings to the matter is pressing. Send to the THE HUMAN ZCO rest of the world. By this system, Sanitary Board for their informa-| says Ekerold, ship captains will tion."
know days in advance where and:
when, to expect storms and ice-
bergs, farmers will be able to with one of the Italian inventor's protect their stock and crops, and semi-circular wireless wave trans other persons, dependent in any mitters, by which vessels nearing way on the weather, will be fully the island may detect its presence prepared for unfavourable condi- from any angle. tions. This information will be of
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Only American aircraft that the equator because, saya Ekerold, carry 10 or more persons at pres- most of the stormy weather ent are forced to include a radio originates around the north pole, transmitting and receiving set. But the International Commission Germany is sending radio for Aerial Navigation has agreed apparatus into the American to adopt this rule for all airæft. market. One of the German importations is a 26-inch collaps ible loop antenna.
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Radia transmission has been brought down to a wave length of 100 meters for practical purposes. Nearly 5,000,000 words were One important broadcaster in the transmitted by radio through the Statee is experimenting with U.S. Naval Communication Ser-intention of using this low wave více during the fret quarter of length for seta tuned especially this year. Last year this service for such reception. handled nearly 16,000,000 words
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of the powerful U. 8. naval radio station at Annapolis. Six 600-foot Marconi's invention of a wire-steel towers hold this wire aloft less lighthouse has at last been To keep snow and ice from weigh- put into practice. Besides light, ting down the wire and breaking the lighthouse, at Inchkeith it an electric heating circuit melta' Island, Firth of Forth, is equipped it as fast as it collects.
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