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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1938.
Broadcasting
WE DO NOT intend to enter
into controversy with the anonymous writer who regularly contributes Musical Notes to a morning contemporary, and who yesterday made this newspaper the subject of an attack because it demands brighter and better balanced
from programmes ZBW.
Were it not for the fact that the writer in question makes particular reference to our com- ment on the playing of Chopin's "Funeral March" and suggests by innuendo that we are guilty of disregard for the solemnity
of Armistice Day, his comments would go unchallenged.
In referring to the broadcast- ing of the "Funeral March", we merely illustrated the typical dullness of ZBW programmes. We drew attention to the fact that, on the day in question, listeners were inflicted with six and a half hours of solid classical or semi-classical programmes, and no attempt was made to provide entertainment for the type of listener who abhors and does not understand what it is all about, and who is content only with lighter entertainment.
That is not our idea of a balanced programme, nor is it an isolated instance of the local station's disregard for the re quirements of the bulk of isteners, the proletarian class
who make the financing of broadcasting in this Colony possible.
We hold no especial brief for jazz, and would be as quick to deplore any attempt to revolu- tionise broadcasting in Hong- kong to the extent that it would become a continuous purveyor of the "red hot mammy" type of programme so dearly-beloved in Manila.
Frankly, we are irritated at the smug complacency of people such as "Eeyore," when they dismiss as a product of the "Silly Seacon" the legitimate com- plaints of listeners who have na much right to entertainment as the biggest taipan on the Penk or as himself.
We refor that writer to the broadcasting programmes pub- lished in the South China Morning Post on November 11, and invite him to compare the programmes for ZBW and Daventry. In one programme he will see a constant repetition of the type of pro- gramme which, while it might be constructive, educational and high-brow, la completely boring to most: lateners. In the other
EUROPEAN CROSS ROADS
State
WHITHER?
IN the early years of this cen-
tury + famous picture depicted an nged, bearded patriarch, bent low over a globe, a lean finger pointing at the earth's surface over which the old man's sad eyes seemed to wander searchingly.
The picture bare the one word "Whither!" symbolising the plight of East European Jewry fleeing from massacre in Tsarist Russia and the
- anti-Semitic terrorism of Rumania.
America and across the Seven Seas,
penury,
Five million Jews are asking that question,
and thirty nations seek an answer.
-BY-
A. L. EASTERMAN
the Mediterranean
Palestine.
from the
claim to be burdened by surplus Jews is well on the way to solution- It is conservatively estimated that in Western Palestine there are 500,000 acres of irrigable land of which less than one fourth has been made available for agriculture. If the whole available area were cultivated, 75,000 families could be settled on It. At present, only 15,000 families live directly on the land. There is room, therefore, It in claimed for another 60,000 familles, 300,000 additional Individuals,
Alongside each agricultural family. famulties could
where, 2,000 holdings, 0,000 in the "communal" two non-agricultural
the
be settled, giving another 600,000 Four million Jews left Eastern years ago, the Jews lived as a nation. settlements. Europe In the 84 years between 1080 There
It is asserted, must bo The others have been established individuals for industry and
and "colonies": as professions. This is the basis of and 1814, to seek refuge in Europe, found the answer to "Whither?" In in the towns
workers. tradesmen and
Profes- Jewish economy in Palestine, one- Here, in the Jewish National Home sional men, the Jawyers, doctors, third to agriculture, two-thirds to Recently at Evian, on the shore promulgated by Great Britain by the teachers, have found employment in trade and Industry. of Lake Lausanne, representatives of Balfour Declaration of 1817 and en- building, the factories as well over a period of ten years Pales- bricklaying, road con- Jewish experts calculate that 30 nations, convoked by President dorsed by the League of Nations,struction, Roosevelt, sat round a conference 420,000 Jews have settled since 1920. as in the hospitals, schools and tine can absorb, without difficulty. table 10 solve the problem
over 1,000,000 new inhabitants. of In what was previously derelict colleges. Europe's Refugees, Aceing to-day desert land and malarial swamp they This Jewish settlement has been This estimate takes no account of from Hitler's persecution and have created a fruitful soil and accomplished despite drastic im- the potentialities of Palestine as the threatened by mass expulsion and raised every kind of agricultural migration restructions and years of entrepot of the Near East and the
unrest. Had effect orange to the terrorism and civil product,
upon it of the necessary dave- Britain, household vegetable.
the Mandatory Power, lopment of the surrounding countries The Evian Conference was abor-On sandy wastes modem cities opened wider the doors of Palestine providing new opportunities for an tive, and to-day the statesmen of the have risen connected by great motor there is no doubt that many more of
of increased trading population. world, the statesmen at Evian like roads and rail. Water has been Germany's refugees would have
Nor does the estimate take into the aged Jew in the picture, are brought to the towns and the desic round asylum there.
account the possibilities of Jewish searching the globe for an answer to eated Delds, electricity in light and Assuming freedom of entry, ex- co-operation with Transfordan, vast, his query. "Whither?"
power to the remetest village. They perts maintain that Palestine can ferille, sparsely populated and un- In Germany 500,000 Jews are have brought new industries to the settle comfortably another million of developed, and of the great area of Europe's homeless and hopeless Southern Palestine, the Negev, as under sentence of doom; Hitler de-
yet unsurveyed and unpeopled, which crees, "No more Jews in the Third They have built hospitals and Jews.
schools and a grent University which Reich."
available for Jewish Viscount Samuel, formerly High may become Gooring, in Hiller's name, stands proudly on Mount Scopus, in Commissioner of Palestine, is by no
colonisation. proclaims a Four-Year Plan for the "liquidation" of Australia's 360,000 USU
Jerusalem.
of means an extravagant advocate
It is noteworthy that out of Pales- Since 1933, 135,000 Jews have fed large scnic Jewish immigmtion. from Nazl Germany,
One-third Yet he has declared that there is ine's 6,000 square miles Jews now of them, some 45,000, have been room in Palestine for a population on only 560, with a population of 800 to the square mile. On 8,400. Poland's statesmen under Ger-, settled in Palestine, bringing with of not less than 8,000,000, including square miles 000,000 Arabs are man influence, proclaim a policy of them £10,000,000 in capital which one million Arabs.
setled-100 to the square mile. "Polonisation.
With an existing total popula-
But Palestine alone is not enough, a purge of 3,000,000 they have invested in agriculture Jews from ali branches of Statelife, and Industry.
tion of about 1,800,000, there is, on for there are still four millions left, Col. Beck, the Foreign Minister, an-
Fourteen thousand of these Ger-this basis, accommodation for at in Europe. Of these, one million will nounces that "at least 1,000,000 Jews man Jews-former artisans, profes- least 1,600,000 more people. If that require to be absorbed by ather must emigrate." One million are sional and business men-have gonellà 30, the problem of European countries, the United States, South already on the starvation line. on the land, 0,000 in private small Jewry and of those nations that America, and elewwhere, at the rate
Jews. Goebbels declares, “No room in German Austria for the Jews."
King Carol of Rumanla has said that "hundreds of thousands of Jewa are not entitled to citizenship," and' Hungary decrees an 80 per cent, purgo of Jews from trade, the pro- fessions and the Civil Service,
be dealt with on an international basis.
face.
backward Near East.
AN ENGLISHMAN ABROAD
Palace
of 100,000
years.
Iz
year over the next ten Two millions must remain in Europe. For them there is no escape.
What
to become of these? Civilisation must proclaim that the cettlement of
f refugees is ledgment of persecution and the de- privation of rights. Justice demands that these remaining two
millons
no acknow-
to absorb.
A Refugee Tragedy
ст
Scores of thousands of Nazidon's HAD just arrived back in Rio and harm if you put some whisky in IL victims have already fied; the mi- was spending the night in an hotel Frightful lack of sanitation here, must be given the right to live and lions await fearfully their sentence us it was too late to leave for Sao y'know." of outlawry.
Paulo that evening. After dinner. I
"It looks quite a modern town for com, unless they are to perish.
Above all, the statesmen will have to consider means to facilitate Where are they to go? President et an Englishman in the comfortable all that," I said. Roosevelt, at least, has realised that lounge of the Copacabana
"Oh, looks, yes," said the English-emigration to the one country which
a vencer; a has shown the capacity the Jewish problem in Europe must Hotel.
nun scornfully. "Just "Just arrived?" he asked by way vencer of civilization. Underneath those for whom Central Europe de- ef introduction. I nodded.
clares there is no place. it's rotten." "On the Almanzora?" be continued,
Ile then went on to tell me a few
And
pressure this involves But President Roosevelt and the and again he was right. other democratic leaders who secle "You'll find this a queer country more rotten things about Brazil. He Great Britain, the custodian of the to aid the Jews are faced with this to stay in," he went on after a pause. gain mentioned the people (male Jewish National Home, to end poli
spoke of the tical uncertainty in Palestine and to (as he colled the and female.) Ho
decrepit provide facilities through the removal devastating dilemma-while Europe These Brazzles
Mostly climate. He described the prepares to shut the door behind the Brazilians) are a poor lot. Wandering Jew, the rest of the world half casts, nigger and what not. And state of the railways. He told of the of Immigration restrictions for the government. Ho entry of Jews seeking arylum and has already all but closed it in his you know what the half-breeds are. dishonesty of the
sneered at the habits of the people. freedom. Treacherous devils!
He did everything he could to con- "Belter be careful not to quarrel So the searching Angers of
the with them" he continued. "They're vince me that Brazil was the worst statesmen pass to and fro over the pretty quick to shoot Do y'know country in the world.
here a long
London. globe's surface, from one country to every one of the blighters carries
You must have been
One of
the most heartbreaking The Englishman wilted only very the other, only to find written above gun in his pocket. They're always time," I said, Anally. them the words "No entry,"
shooting someone. Even women!
tragedies of refugees occurred re- Home Omice letter You've simply no conception how slightly. But over one land the fingers these folk treat their women!
"About a month," he said. "of cently when n pause over the Eastern corner of Jealous?
course some of the chups who've been stating that he had been selected as Why you daren't look
of 30 doctors onc another man's wife, but what he pulls, here a long time have been telling allowed to practise in Britain reach. out a pistol. Of course they've some all about it. They know, of course,
women: Daventry-programme, reason to be jealous. The
At this stage I saw it to mentioned an Austrian refugee a few days
hanged
in hi knew somewhat different. 1 bedroom. This was revealed at an tion, the type of complete pro- such a thing as a virtuous woman in shocked the Englishman by saying inquest held at Milford on Sea, Hants WRI gramme which provides enter the whole country. Of course, the liked Brazil, loved the Brazilians. on Dr. Erich Schwatzer. tainment for all classes of whole thing's a vicious circle. The admired their habits, and had never arranged for him to be a guest of Rose Cottage In listeners.
men are brutes with the women and seen a man shot or a woman knifed. Lady Forester at
he view of his unfortunate state owing the women take their cue from the As I say, I shocked him. I know We do not feel sufficiently men.
hoped I was wrong. A experiences in crushed by "Eeyoro's" criticism The Englishman paused for a mood and tryed your net bo cording a verdict that Dr. Schwantzer killed himself while the balance of even half decent. to withdraw our allegation that inent and then continued. a most hopelessly typhoid and
"A rotten climate, too. Fever and ZBW la
Unfortunately he was not the only his mind was disturbed, the coronar what not. Better be❘ Engilshman abroad. Small hopes said he was satisfied that he had, unentertaining broadcasting careful the water.
atable cause Of course they for the Brotherhood of Mars.
for worry and de“ pression. station,
Lany that the water con đỏ you no
-the
he will find balance and perfec-y'know. I doubt very much if there's and
hot. blooded, Southern type, that I had been ten yearn in Brazil, after he was found
Miller Wateori
who would be
It