1928-10-30 — Page 11

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1928.

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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

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THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE

HORIZONTAL

T-Fascinato

S-Proportion

10-Divert

12~Indulged

12-Rular.

15-Small room

16-Fattering

TB-Fly that stinge

cattis

20-Burles

22-Bequeath by 'will

24-A gradation 25-BoBocch

27-Place for skating

(pl.)

HORIZONTAL (Cont.)

48-Boatman

49-French preposition meaning from |60-Ona who breeds

animate

83-Prussian town |54-Wish for

66-Buliders in stóné 68-Anatomical term

moaning line. 80-Braid 60-One who makes

amanda

VERTICAL 1-Domestic animal

28-Web-like membrane 2-Clothe

29-Slumber

3-Cosy home

33-Loud sound

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8-Masonry supports

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of " bridge 4-Bustle (colleg.)

Various

33-Manageable (sald of] 6-Combining form,

a ship)

34-Steeps

37-Lavished extreme

fondness upon

39-Win

42-Hatah

سيا

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VERTICAL (Cont) 14-Burdens |16-Displaced

17-Snout

10-Faten 21-Glides away ||23-An auld for table

25-Permit |26-Brought to a

tension

29-Borrowful

30-Stuff

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dressing cloth

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magnaala

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41-Bookkeeping entries

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fimits of

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great effort

B-Point of compass.

(abbr.)

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45-French for "party" 11-Locomotiva 46-Wiped out

48-Warrow pane

between hilla

(800lch)

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5B-Form of address

52-Little devita

112-English coin (pl) [57-Propeller

(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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THE CHINA MAIL,

RADIO TOPICS

WIRELESS SETS

CHEAPER MODELS AT RADIO SHOW

25 PER CENT. CUTS

A the

The exhibition will be open for by hearing a change of voice and a week, and the B.B.C.'s Dance by contact with the first-hand ex- Band, under the direction of Mr.perience of the traveller, or the Jack Payne, will be in attendance coal miner, or of Hatening in at daily.

national ceremonies or event. Adult Education

In the Kent experiment Mr. Stobart gave details of the standard was Introduced in Big reductions In the price of special work the B.B.C. is now schools from which, under the care B.B.C. expert surprisingly wireless receiving sets will be the engaged in doing in order to of a feature of the Radio Exhibition strengthen and support the more good quality reception was obtain- which opens at Olympia, says the formal adult educational organisaed. The conclusion of the com- the community and inmittee. which examined the results "Daily Telegraph" to hand. Com-tions of plete sets will be, generally, 25 order to bridge the gulf between was that it was possible for chil per cent. cheaper than last year, the general listener and the student dren to listen for 20min to 30min Institutions, clubs, and without strain, and that the best and, in some inetances a still great- minority.

er drop in price will be noticeable. societies of all kinds were being talks produced obviously quite good These reductions are attributed to urged to instal receiving sets and results: The collective opinion of the recent decision of the Radio run discussfon groups as outposts the teachers grew more and more Manufacturers' Association regard-or extensions of their own work favourable as the experiment pro- ing valve, royalties, and also to the as well as to provide a stimulus to creded, and no single school had -signifled its desire to lose. its wire- stabilisation of design which facill- actual class work.

Experimental groups had been loss sat.. tates mass production.

Sir Wm. Bragg said: "Is it not! Three-valve sets, giving a per- held in more than sixty different formance equal to that of the old places in England. A central rather something for all of us to for broadcast adult be a little proud of, that in this type five-valve sets, will be exhibit council

in country; when broadcasting came ed. This important development education was being formed has been made possible by the which it was hoped and "Believed to be an important agency in the manufacture of the new pantade, or the universities, the local education nation, it somehow get into the five-electrode valve. Last year the authorities, and the voluntary right hands? (Cheers.)

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"I have been trying to think how screened-grid four-electrode valve educational effected a revolution on the high operate, the council to be charged I should have welcomed broadcast- frequency, side of receiving ap-with the planning of educational ing if-I had been still, as I was for paratue. The pentode has accom- plished a similar feat on the low- frequency alde.

Excellent loud-speaker reproduc- tlon can now be obtained from a set incorporating one of these new valves in the last stage. The pen- tode is. in fact, probably equivalent to two ordinary low-frequency valves, and it works on a low plate. voltage for a valve of the super. power class. Among the new three-valve sets on view.will be one costing 26 58.

HONG KONG HOTEL VISITORS.|

October 26, 1928.

Mr. A. M. Birchall Messrs. R. J. Callen, 'D. B. Carr,] Rev. P. J. Colligan, the Misoco G. K. Culliman, R. Carroll and E. Carroll.

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Mr. J. M. Dalgarno, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Drake.

Mr. H. Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. C. B.

Edgar...

Messrs. J. S. Gubbay, L Gendolfo, Miss Glanella.

Mr. A. F. Henry, Mr. and Mrs.

B. Honig, Capt. Hudson.

Mrs. H. R. Irby.

Mr. F. T. Lopez,

The Misses H. Murray; and C.

-Murray, Dr. J. L. Maxwell.

Mr H Nitz, jan 2

Mr. J. O'Rourke."

Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Friestley,

Miss CJ Post, Mr. and Mrs. E

Pepperell, Mr. and Mrs. WAS. Rusuell

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There will be more sets than ever drawing both high and low-tension supplies from the house-mains. Refinements in valvo design have made possible distinct advances in the quality of reproduction from sets of this class. Listeners with- out electric light mains will. And that accumulators and batteries are cheaper and better. There. will also be an interesting device for the bonefit of car-owners, by means. of which accumulators may be charged from their lighting sets.

A short-wave set incorporating a high-frequency stage is another noteworthy feature. Several manu- facturers are exhibiting sets which are not only efficient on the ultra

C. Francis Jenkins, an inventor, demonstrating his projection apparatus used in the sonding of motion pictures over the radio. In tests the invention proved nccessful, not only in broadcasting silhouettes but also half-tone pictures. Mr. Jenkins has also a device which attached to a radio, presents the pictures to the persons listen- ing to the radio.

I should

short waves, but also give good programmes and publications, the forty years, a teacher." results on the medium and long-carrying on of experiments at the have been very glad of it, I am wave bands. It is an indication listening end, and the attraction of mure. that short-wave listening will not new sources of revenue from the

"After all, we know that as in future be confined to the experi- development of Hazwork The teacher we need to be kept up to menter. Cheaper coil-driven loud-council holds its first meeting. In the mark, and we need a littlo encouragement now and then. apeakers will also attract attention, October,

as well as the improved reed-driven About 8,000 schools now regular-When a fresh teacher comes in cones and horn-type speakers: ly used broadcasting as a means of either in person or through the As usual the B.H.C. has an inter-instruction, and 5,000 schools were ether it does encourage us. It esting exhibit in preparation. The on the books as the maximum It sets a new standard to us we profit by it. If there is some chief part is entitled, "From B.C. to number of users. B.B.C." and comprises a series of

The investigations into the result aspect we have not been consider- tableaux. In these will be shown from the educational point of viewing that aspect is now put to our how mankind has listened to music had, he said, struck anal blow students. from the earliest times to the pre- against a priori objection to the "One way of keeping teachers up sent day. There will also be an use of broadcasting in schools to the mark: is by subsequent ex-

race.

The next thing necessary was to

exhibit showing the evolution of

amination of their scholars and the microphone, and the apparatus get some public spirited and enter students. If I wanted to be kept used for the broadcasts of the prising local authority of take up up to the mark 1. would rather be nightingale's song and the boat wireless for its schools officially kept up while I was still teaching and organise the thing on a big than after I had finished, and that scale.

is why I think this method of A Kent Experiment.

bringing a little fresh air into the It may Mr. Salter Davies Director of classroom is so good. Education for Kent, described become a means of replacing that in detall the experiment in educa- awkward examination difficulty tional broadcasting made in sixty which every teacher has felt severe- schools in that country. The re-ly from time to time; Is it not sults, he said, were not a case for better that the standard of a war between extremists, en- school be kept up by hearing what thusiasts on the one hand and the best teachers can say, and how sceptles on the other..

they say It? Is it not rather

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It had a real but limited use better than waiting still the end for school purposes. Isolated of the year or the term, and then rural schools, with a single teacher, sending the students to an out- and schools of all kinds benefited side examination, and then per- haps not knowing exactly why that happened which you were not expecting?

Sir Oliver Lodge said he was of opinion that, the British artisan wanted something to Joccupy his mind, and although he was not yet fully conscious of what It was he needed, his need was really only to be supplied by: what he himself would call high-brow | stuff. The average British listener was quite willing to listen to the highbrow if it was put to him fa plain language,

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