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RADIO TOPICS

FUTURE OF RADIO.

tion?

IS IT MAKING US 7

LAZY?

certain

I ask those three questions be спине of

observations gathered both here and in the United States during the last two years. And I am interrogative,

rather than didactic.

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the educational type which at one in Ching, or that nightly massacro time appealed to the ambitious boy of ideas which occurs in the Bri or girl who had left school and tish Parliament, is the most tremen. wished to advance themselves.dous power ever wielded by a Wireless and the cheap film are ros-single human being.

Now, if the mind.behind the voice EFFECT ON MENTALITY,

ponsible for this."

I am not in a position-to-stato | is standardised, then the millions What does "wireless? hold for the positively that the classes in the of listeners intend to become Indeed. the. future of the race? What is wire-continuation-and-extension.schools standardised-for, leas doing to the mentality of show depletion, as no exact com people in the mass take what In to-day? Is wireless making broken parative and up-to-date figures are given to them without question. If crockery of the British imagina available, but it is obvious that the the fallure of democracy in. Its boys and girls of this generation older forms and in our day has. cannot be in two places at once. proved anything, it has proved that. The picture-palace, like the dance Therefore, it is vital to the whole ball, is packed to the doors with the future of Great Britain that the youth upon whose brain and brawn mind behind the wireless shall not the country will one day have to be standardised..

We are living in an, age of depend. And to all this is added When I speak of "wireless" I am the waste of wireless, with its mil- standardisation. Our food, our clothes, our amusements, and now not blind to the phenomenal bene-lions of "fans.”

If the roofs could be lifted from our "wireless" is standardised, as fits which it has conferred upon England's homes to-night, there in America. There. assuredly, mankind generally or to the some would be found hundreds of thou-youth of both sexes, is being slowly Ing over it. I am rather concern-sands of boys and giris from 15 to but surely standardised and the For vast num- wireless is the Standardisation 25 "Hatening in." ed with what it is doing to-day. In bers the cheaper cinema or broad- King.

casting are their only sources of information and of understanding. To live life one must understand How far does broadcasting help in such understanding?

The truth is that the British Give it a chance by giving it over

to-day imagination

is broken the wireless, as in the amusement crockery. A bit of this and a bit palace, the best, rather than the Give it a chance to of that. A'snippet of this and a mediocre? snippet of that. On the "wirelcas" read and to study the printed word, a really sound and interesting ex-for which neither wireless nor any None of us, I imagine, can be position by a writer may be follow-thing else can prove a substitute? blind to the fact that men

ed by the very cheapest of revue Give it a chance, in a word, to ea and

And as the cape standardisation as large por women of thought and understand-or, music-hall songs. ing in our day every now and then average mind is incurably lazy and Lions of the youth of the United are apt to curse rather than to impatient of new ideas, the broad-States have not escaped it.

For, if England ever reaches that bless wireless broadcasting. With casting companies are apt naturally

times excellent contributions com-

aide-the homes and the brains of the British people-its effect upon the mind of the rising generation, and still more with what it is likely "to do" to-morrow. "Wireless," with its splendid potentialities, seems to me rather like "The Women Who

Took the Wrong Turning" in the

melodrama of that nama.

It might have been turned to the finest of popular educators. Well,

what has it become7.

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life.

Some of us, would, if we could, save the youth of England from this For youth fate.. But we cannot. only can save Itself. Yet may we not give youth a chance?

to take the easy road and supply stage, then God help England.- Shaw Desmond in the "Evening

in a generation it may quite pos"what the public wants" or what sibly be that if wireless pursues its present path our descendants will they think it wants. have still more reason to curse it with bell, book and candle.

The result is patent.

Standard."

The crazo for "ghtness" and WIRELESS LESSONS. "pleasure" has reached the stage when it demands "snappiness" be fore everything else.

...

Mental Rickets.

This serving up of "peptonised

Pap" is having a transient, one hopes not a permanent, effect upon In the world the British mind.

CATERING FOR THE "GET-AT-

ABLE" AGE.

The extent to which wireless can with advantage be used for educa- tlonal purposes in schools was dis- cussed at a meeting organized by the British Broadcasting Corpora- tion, and by way of demonstration

Is the Novel Going? As a novelist the first thing that set me thinking furiously, and in more senses than one, upon all this was the notable decline in the cir- culation of the serious novel laat year-in individual cases from one third to one-half. That is a decline in the form of literature that mut-physiological the feeding of infants upon peptonised foods leads in- ters more than anything else as a evitably to rickets. May not the two leasons were broadcast from stimulant of thought. Publisher after publisher told me that, whilst certüin "popular" novelists, writing on the surface of people and things, still held their own, the really serious novel had within the last few years often had its sales cut

almost in two. One of my own friends, a fine artlat, told me that one of his last novele had sold per- haps 15,000 copies, whereas he has had a 50,000 circulation.

"People cannot be bothered," one of these publishers said, "to read books that take time and thought when they have the giddy wireless waiting at their elbow."

Persistent serving of peptonised 210. wireless to the people lead on in-

The advantages of wireless were evitably to mental Abroad rickets is known as "the B.B.C.'s director of education. That ricketar voiced by Mr. J. C. Stobart,_the English diesare." Let us trust that wireless could not replace the liv the country which has produced ing teacher Mr. Stobart readily ad- some of the world's greatest

mitted, and he went further, and wireless instruction thinkers may never be known in said that this connection in the world of could only attain its full advantage ideas.

when used in conjunction with the A certain process has been class-teacher, who, in many cases, taking place in this country which must be the partner of the unseen has escaped the attention of the lecturer. Observers had attended man in the street. That is the pro-in various schoola to notice the effect of lectures; while others had Its present studied the days of speakers, and I do not suggest that fewer lines, one ventures to thifik, enor- by comparing notes it had been serious novels are bought than be-mously accelerates this process possible in the last twelve months fore the howlings of wireless were The Englishman (the Scot and

to make great advances in the tech- heard in the land, but I do say that Irishman to a much less degree) is fewer of such books are borrowed slowly but surely being "American nique of wireless teaching. The lecturers were always fated with from libraries or friends by the

the difficulty of not being able to boys and girls of to-day than, say,

youth, Impressionable fifteen years ago.

youth, night after night hears the Even allowing for the enormous same type of song and the same increase in the output of novels flaccid exposition over the "wire-

A distinguished headmaster had (some three thousand a year in this less" and in the cheaper picture recently referred to children lieten-|:

sees the Bame inane country), the vast majority of them palaces

cess of standardisation. "Wireless" run on

ised."

When

standardised 7. Walk

see the class, but they sought to overcome this blindness by ima- gination.

head-

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1928.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional "phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)

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1-Direction

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Identication -B-Checkered cloth 10-A'large body of water coming 11-8uffix;denoting

superlative.degree 18-The Juice of plants 15-Without moletura 17-8psak

18-To Ilok up 20-Hurries

22-Part of the body

(pl.)

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condiment

28-To sweaten

2-A kind of sweck

potato

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45-A tooth

48-A narrow place }49-To pat ↑ |B0-A male descendant] |St-A. soed-capsule 63-Overwhelming

sorrow 54-Performed

55-Used for autting

wood

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through

21-An eye infection 23-A sweet alcoholio

Ilquor

24-Cruda buliding 26-Used by an artist) 28-One course of a'

meal

30-Drinking venaul

31-A sack

53-To overspread

67-Measure of distance)34-To know (Bootsh)

(pl.)

58-A badge

69-Everything

BO-Turt

VERTICAL

1-Part of verb "to 2-in bed.

3-To long for. 4-Supplications

6-Not hard

31-Small flying animal -Quick humor

32-Instrument for

showing time

34-8mall barrel

BB-To choke

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87-To hollow out

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41-To yawn

be")43-At this time

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P-Part of boat (pl.)}

12-A heathen

13-Pronoun

14-A vegetable

16-Affirmative answer

88-A cloth for wiping| 17-tipper regions of 40-Ta move qulekly to

the atmosphere 118-To pull-

44-Place out

49-That-which to takom

as a pattern

47-A_flower.(pl.)

| 80-A_horizontal

foundation

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border 54-Prefix meaning through*

56-A small compact

mais used for stuming

And fro SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSSWORD PUZZLES

Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably eura. These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in tur to still others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vergisilly or both.

(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.

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PERFECT VACUUM.

CHEAPER RADIO VALVES PROBABLE.

London, Jan 11. Professor Finch, who was a mem- ber of the Mount Everest Expedi- tion in 1922, has been responsible for the discovery and production of A perfect vacuum, which, it is claimed, will greatly cheapen the manufacture of electric bulbs, wireless valves and X-Ray appara-

interviewed,

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Professor Finch, stated that mercury vapour, which hitherto had made vacuation costly procedure, could now be caught in a liquid trap, consisting

of the sloshy-sentimental or "penny "fashion-plate" piece and reading to the wireless while reclining

are in armchairs. ""There dreadful" (crime) type, this makes these standardised "captions," la it mastera," Mr. Stobart commented, serious reading. The country not natural that its thought should "who are happy so long as they see which refuses to take its novelists become other than as buffoons or tradesmen through the streets and do some boys running about with books is in a bad way intellectually. For "listening in yourself in cinema under their arms and an appear- very great trouble in selecting the of an alloy of potassium and

ance of external activity. But a announcers, but they had no deaire, sodium, the novel proper is almost the only or dance-hall, and you will hear, a great deal of useful work is done to abolish the raciness of the dia- mirror of life as it is lived.

I hear," exactly the

same

phrase

In chairs, even arm-chairs. What lest. It was possible, he added, to used ad nauseam, and the same the B.B.C. seek to do is to provide have two languages-one for State gramophone voice. For the grame food for thought that is stimulate occasions and one to use privately

the new phone voice is part of

Ing." standardisation, especially in the younger Englishwomen.

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Children's Memories.

and on the football field. The De vonshire peasant would still "be able to talk good Devon and be able

St. Paul's." to enjoy the speech of the Dean of

MARINE WIRELESS.

It is all very well to say that nobody is compelled to take up the wireless recelver' lying to the hand, No, but for millions to-day for whom wireless has become obses-

The two British marine wireless. The Power of a Voice.

In view of the doubts that exist sion It is impossible to resist that

companies, the 'Marconi Interna temptation. The real danger, how Wireless has placed in the hands as to whether children retain in

tional Marine, Communication Com ever, is that wireless does not give of the Average Mind a terrible their memory what they hear over

In the course of a discussion it pany Ltd., and the Radio Communi- youth a chance to think its own weapon. The men who are direct the wireless, special interest at- thoughts and to use its own brains. ing "wireless" to-day are largely taches to a recent test. Ten stories was mentioned that experience had cation Company, Ltd. have come to It superimposes. It "extraverts." of the Great Average. What they were told at Intervals, and then the shown that children under seven an agreement to amalgamate. their For extraversion is one of the out- say goes. Where the day before children were asked to write one of years of age were not very "get-at-operating and inspection services. standing features of our age. yesterday the orator could influence the stories. If they found difficulty able," The age at which they be- A joint service department has been

Packed Dance-Halla

his hundreds, the wireless of to- in remembering what they heard it gan to listen readily was about 9. organised under the name of Bri

Wireless Marine Service, morrow will be influencing Its tens might be presumed that they would Af present there are about 4,000 tigh of millions. The power of what I choose the last story told, but, as schools lietening to London and which will, in future, deal with all. be found that, allowing for increase will call the "topical" is one of the a matter of fact, only 18 per cont. Daventry, and Inst term the number matters relating to the appoint of population, there has been a most seductive of all powers, and selected that story, and others were of applications for pamphlets ment of operators to ships, the or decline in many directions. One the power of a single voice over chosen in about equal proportions, issued in connection with the wire-ganisation of marine telegraph. of the heads of a great London the "wireless" to colour (great In reply to a number of the audi less lessons reached: 80,000. That, traffic, the Stting, maintenance and publishing house said to me the heavens! if sometimes they only ence, who asked if any steps were explained Mr. Stobart, could be repair of ship wireless installa- of the present tions, and the provision of wireless other day, "We have been fortunate would. Introduce some colour, one being taken to achieve a standard taken as the size ourselves. But there is probably a might forgive them) the story of a pronunciation of English,Mr. wireless school, and it was growing service depote for ships in all parts

of the world. falling off in the sales of books of street rlot In New York, a massacre' Stobart replied that the B.B.C. took every term.

So far as the sales of educational books are concerned, I think it will

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