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TELEVISION.

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At one fell swoop this would ac-

WHEN WIRELESS WALKS AND complish the following miracles:-

TALKS.

[By Shaw Desmond.) Mr. Winston Churchill's recent protest against the ban on wireless controversy is of vital importance in conjunction with the linking up of television with ordinary broadcasting.

when considered

I have sat in an "electric chair" -not the electric chair in the middle of London with powerful lighta beating down upon my de- fenceless head and a whirring like the wings of Azrael about me, A man has sat three thousand miles away in New York and has seen

First, it would give you and me our wireless broadcasting free, without licence, and nothing to pay

RADIO BOOM.

GERMAN SERVICES TO AMERICA.

otsablish-

Berlin. Since the ment of telephonic communication between. Europe and America the German Post Office and German technical experts have been work- ing to secure direct intercourse in- dependent of England or any other country.

for but our apparatus. (Result, & contented British public.) Second ly. the public-that is, you and me again-would get a hundred to two hundred per cent. batter pro- gramme than we get to-day, be cause the various private interests would be competing one against

The preparatory work has been the other for the most favourable periods of the twenty-four hours carried on so satisfactorily and so expeditiously that it is announced in which to broadcast, and would be constantly keying up the that a direct telephonic service be- the United quality of their programmes. (Re- tween Germany and

States will be opened shortly. ault, more contentment.) Thirdly,

Apart from other reasons, this

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Ime try to smile and move my head, as Mr. Churchill would be constant-direct intercourse is beneficial to!

shall

вее him, too,

ly finding his pound of flesh in- and

crease, as the television-broadcast- Germany, because it is cheaper, so that lower charges can be made, ing revenue increased, we should

we shall speak together across the Atlantic about cabbages and kings

and taxca.

Television will be a commercial proposition within two years. With in three to five, you will sit in your parlour looking at a screen

upon which Galli Curci or Kreisler

Edison will not only sing and

or

play

and talk but walk.

What is the British Broadcasting Corporation going to do about it?

If the B.B.C., as it is affectionate

get a shilling off the income tax and also because technical ad- and Mr. Churchill-a very import-vances have been made which Ger- ant point-would be happily and many can employ from quietly satiated.

the out-

set.

The English station at Rugby, it

The Chancellor's "pound" would be secured by a fixed percentage is pointed out, still works with long payable to the Exchequer upon waves which are rapidly becoming the British Broadcasting Com- obsolete. The German industry, on the other hand, came later into And it can, I pany's revenue. think, be demonstrated that his the field and has started by con- structing short-wave bean stations pound of flesh would probably for the telephone service with ly known, betray a heavy official in-double and treble itself within a difference to the all-British inven- few years, and In any case would America. These, it is claimed, ars tion of Mr. Baird, upon the plea far exceed the measly fifteen pence. not only more perfect technically,

but are

more remunerative, as that It is not yet brass tacks," at present received by the P.M.G.

they work with much less energy. then they will doom their listeners-

Bigger Fees, in as the manager of a music-hall would doom his audience if he in- sisted that they should be blind- folded through the performance.

The B.B.C.'s Critics..

Let the Churchill imagination gently wander amidst the possibilt ties of this transference of the B.B.C.'s revenue from a pedlar'a licence to peddle his own neces-

The now reading station is at Nauen, and the receiving plant is at Beelitz, both just outside Berlin. German wireless trans-oceanic in- tercourse is being developed on the basis of short, waves, and in the

The B.B.C. is a much maligned sarily limited wares to a' revenue middle of this year direct wireless

gathered for peddling other institution. It is rigidly compelled

in quality and by its charter. It is not permitted people's wares,

best time of day in which to give s gratified and grateful publie the

communication will be established

to make any profits, I believe. It quantity and type of an infinite with Mexico and Siam, and on both linea telephonic Intercourse will be Lot the Chancellor has behind it the quidnunes of variety, party who sometimes put the frac-Visualise not only private concert Possible. During the present sum- tions infant in a atrait waistcoat and theatrical interests, but the mer also telephonic communica of politics and then wonder why interests of the great political tion will be possible between Berlin the child doesn't grow up. It has parties, his own included, compet- and Buenos Aires, and towards the exactly two and a quarter millions ing one with the other for the end of the year the great sending station that is being built by Ger- of nightly critics.

Give the B.B.C. a chance and

man experts in Japan will be in working order. best then blame it if you will. So far,

possible programme, from "slap-stick" to sopranos and from It has not had a chance.

Ludvig van Beethoven to Irving How does the B.B.C. live?. At

Berlin! Then, permitting that present and I do not pose as ex-imagination still to wander, let pert-I belleve it is a peddler in him visualise the still keener com- licences, for which it nominally repetition amongst the people's ceives ten shillings per licence per favourite politicians for the right year... perhaps. (I say per- kapa, because many of my friends to announce the programmel have given up their wireless owing to what they call the "poverty" of the programmes offered, and many of them 'don't pay anything at all!)

And let the public here also do not be an end of the day when a a little imagining. Would there British Broadcasting Corporation, despite its monopoly, is only able

In addition to this service experi- ments are shortly to be made from the Nauen shortwave station with the transmission of telephone mes- sages and pictures between Berlin and Tokyo, so that altogether Ber- in anticipates that it will soon be in direct wireless communication with all the Important centres on the globe.

Of this 108, the P.M.G. first of to offer sometimes as little as six all this is very well-but suppose all gets his pound of flesh, that is,!

TUESDAY, MAY 15, 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 karbor, plow, and sitho.).

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HORIZONTAL

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country people call an onlon? (Dial.)

-What English

dramatist wrote "Euphuss" from

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which "Euphulam" To formedt -Roman household

god 10-What English

dramatist wrote "Vanica Preserved"1

13-A suffix used to

form personal nouna from

adjectives

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land producing Grass for hay? 18-inclinad

17-Marked with volna 19-Naver (poet.)

21-A part of the foot 23-Suffix. 8ame ak

"out"

25-Mohammedan proper nama 26-A bird

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28-Advance guard

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VERTICAL (Cont.) 12-Boulde

HORIZONTAL, (post)

14-To lubricate 36-Prefix. With 57-Likewise

89-What large extinot]

pigeon lived in Mauritiust

141-What other name

has the leftmus of] Panamet

44-To be sleepy

47-Like a bear

16-To draw, as from a

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Indian

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22-The highest nots in

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124–What is an ancient,

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or minstrel called?

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60-What is the bole of 29-Toward the stern

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181-One of the months

(abbr.)

[82–Being in want

53-A medicinal plant.

VERTICAL

1-Near what lake in

W. Russia is

Novgorody

2-No (Scot.) 2-6and and pabblás:

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4-What alkaline

solution is used ini making soap? 6-An English' post,

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B-Edward (short) 81-Willingly or freely |11-A „number ·

Central India

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85-What group of

islands lies west of arpace?

86-What seaport city

of ancient Phonicta decupled the altď” of modern Salda? 88-On what river in the Frankfurt of East. Germany?

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42-A small stream |43-AMicts with fatigue

48-To regret 48-Pla pon

48-A bird

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

are already beginning to knock at the door of each one of us.

These developments will not only be national but International, and If Great Britain is to gain full ad- vantage of the new "science seeing at a distance" it is essential that the leaders of

the nation

of

12 per cent., or 1s. 3d. After he.guineas for the broadcasting rights the B.B.C. stands pat and refuses should lift all this business of

television-broadcasting from the has got his fifteen pence, the B.B.C. in three one-act sketches, as it has to alter its constitution, mental and

a single more or less receive out of the remaining 8s. 3d. recently done in one case? When physical? What then? One ven- television-

.VOX isolated and constructed broad- (a) In respect of the first million programme-makers are able to offer tures to imagine that the

five to ten times that amount, as populi might, under inspiration casting corporation to the broader the following amounts:-

would be the case under compet which is already showing itself, plane of national concept allied licences, 90 per cent.

make itself heard.

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(b) In respect of the second million licences, 80 per cent.

(c) In respect of the third mil- lion licences, 70 per cent.

..

tion, will they not be likely to get the pick of the artists?

Think of the day, now not far distant, when every home in Eng- land will have its television screen (d) In respect of all in excess of allied with the usual broadcasting three million, 60 per cent. (The listening-in apparatus. The day balance of these percentages goes to the Exchequer.)

re-

"A Lease on the Ether." My proposition is that the venue of the B.B.C. should by the lawyers and the grace of Heaven, plus public opinion, which is the eame thing, "gradually be trans- formed from a licence revenue for listening-in to programmes pro-

when mother and father and Tommy and Agatha will be able to see Sir Gerald du Maurier as well as hear him, and watch Miss Evelyn Laye or Miss Gladys Cooper as well as hear them. Then let him do a few simple, sums of compound interest and I think he may come to the conclusion that wireless hitherto, and the revenue gathered

in

All this could be accomplished by certain simple alterations the charter and licence of the B.B.C. all of which I think can be effected with a minimum of frie-

tion and inconvenience.

to

During the transition stage the licence fee charged to the publie could be gradually reduced vanishing point as the other re- venue increased. And this la but suggestion out of a dozen one others that are possible.

with private competition-"Even-. Ing Standard.”.

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Storage of millions and decimals of gallons. venue to be obtained from various television, has only been a joke.

message. It would provide the Storage in millions and Decimals

of gallons. If the B.B.C. Refuses. Interests and enterprises ready to

stations and staffa, would be relfev-

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Total Put into a few words, why should concern at all, like the Post Office. the onus of programme would fall Wong Nei Chung..

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Total 1,800,20 1,140.29

1923 Consumption of water in the City

81.86 97.59 the British Broadcasting Corpora monopolies are bad for trade and It is television which makes and Hill District in milion, and do- tion and put upon the broad backs worse for freshness of idea. Let this question urgent. This is cimals of gallons during the month of of various private enterprises, who it be the Government's business not the place to anticipate the pro- April.

1927 1928 would rent from the B.B.C. "a lease just to allot wireless programmes found developments, sociological as Consumption

216.29 217.00 on the ether"? This "lease on the provided by outalde experts, and well as economic, which the com- Estimated population 411.000 421.880 ether", would be for the purpose nothing else.

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Consumption Estimated population 159,820 164,880 Consumption per head

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