TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1931.
DETRIMENTAL HUNTING TRIBES IN
RICHES.
K.C.'s Answer to a Judge's Poser.
Sir Thomas Inskip K.C., the talked former Attorney-General, about the disadvantages of wealth, in the Court of Appeal,
Lord Justice Stratton had asked him what he would do if a puor muther wanted her child,
whom rich people had adopted and who were going to leave it half million by will.
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Sir Thomas: I should give back to its mother. It would be better for it.
(Laughter.)
Lord Justice Scrutton: But it would be detrimental to the in terests of the child to return it to its mother, and the law requires the court to consider the interests of the child. (Laughter.)
Sir Thomas:
I don't agreu.
In ne sense, of course, it mgiht be detrimental to a person not to draw a horse in the irish Sweep. Yet it might be wholly detrimental to the drawer to get one of these horses. I don't regard the mere acquisition of wealth as necessarily beneficial to the welfare of the future citizen. (Laughter.)
NEW GUINEA.
Sugar Cane Immune from Disease.
Washington, Nov. 30.
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RADIO TOPICS
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME,
IN AUSTRALIA.
HAS DONE.
The following programme will WHAT PRIVATE ENTERPRISE bo broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 855 metres:
6-8 p.m.-European Programme.
B. CLASS STATIONS,
Wireless broadcasting, in Aus
of Columbia Records kindly suptralia has been popularised by what plied by the Anderson Music Co.
5-5.10 p.m.-Orchestral, Stenka Razine (Glaxounow),
A little sead. packed in a her metically sealed package, which journeyed for over two months from India to this country was the beginning of a breed of sugar cane that has given life to the sugar industry of Louisiana.
Omeials of the Department of Agriculture have announced the Oberon Overture (Weber), release for commercial planting
Brussels Royal Conservatoire Orchestra (2183-4).
Willem Mengelberg & His Concert Orchestra 12:12-13).
B.B.C. Wireless Symphony Orchestra (9278). 5.40-6.10 p.m.-Musical Comedy.
in Louisiana of a new variety of cane-a sugar cane immune to the Kay diseases which practically wiped out the
industry sugar
in Louisiana several years ago, and one that in addition yields about 85 per cent. more sugar than Its The best disease-resistant rival.
Blas-Overture.
That's a Good Girl—
seed released to commercial plant- ers this fall will not be used for sugar, but merely for breeding The Desert Song-Selections, purposes. It will probably be two years before crop of the new variety is on the market, but cxperiments have already demon-
rated that it produces a full ex- traction of sugar per acre.
Seed from India. The new variety, known official
"CP, 807*
because of its
Fancy Our Meeting. The One I'm Looking for (from
That's a Good Girl),
Jack Buchanan and Elsie Randolph with Debray Somers Band (9462). Debroy Somer's Band (3200). On with the Show 1930Selections,
Debroy Somer's Bond (74), 6.10-6.35 p.m.-Band Selections. The Black Dumino Overture,
B.B.C. Wireless Military Band (25).
The National Military Band (138), The Regimental Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards (59). 6.35-7.25 p.m.-Concert Items.
Regimental Marches,
was Marche Slay,
Octet-
Classica Selections {nrr' Ewing),
The court
* በ the was continuing hearing of the appeal of Ellen Car-rigin at Canal Point, Fla., roll,
produced at the sugar plant field an unmarried domestic ser- vant, from the
a station there under the direction judgment of King's Bench Divisional Court, of Dr. E. W. Brandes of the De- nilirming an order of Mr. Justice partment of Agriculture's Bureau Charles in chambers refusing to of Plant Industry. Parent to the new redling was another Canal give her, the custody of her infam
Paint variety, but its ancestry be daughter, Joan Margaret.
Song- to the yond that may be traced imported seed, "P.0.J. 213" which lived to grow after the long trip from India in spite of the fact seed that ordinarily sugar-cane
The keeps for only a few days.
train did not originate in Indin,
an
The girl was born in laleworth, Middlesex,
The April 1929. the Homeless Chil- mother asked dren's Aid and Adoption Society and F. B. Meyer Children's Home to arrange for the child's adoption, and the child was sent to a young Protestant couple in the North of England.
Later the Society was informed that the girl was baptised in the the - Roman Catholic faith and
mother applied that the child should be restored to her as she wished her to be brought up in thut faith. The child is now in the possession of the society.
He
Sir, Thoman Inskip appeared for respondents in support of the judg ment of the Dixisional Court. said the evidence was not satisfac- tury whether this was the mother's application at all.
Lord Justice Greer said that on the question of the rights of the child, the child, when adopted, had now all the legitimate rights of a
however, but in Java, one of the greatest-sugar-raising lands in the world.
'Dr. Brande's search for disease cf sugar-cano resistant strains b. been a romantic one that has led him into far away lands and among strange peoples. Some of his specimens were obtained from of New the head hunting tribes Guinea, where he flew in a modern
airplane over a country peopled
with men in the stone-age stage of cultural development-United Press.
SEA MYSTERY.
child with two parents. He did CASE OF THE MARIE CELESTE
not know whether the rights in- cluded rights to adopted grand parents. He supposed they did, for grandparents undoubtedly had responsibilities, at any rate to some extent, (Laughter.)
Sir Thomas Inskip pointed out that the Society felt it had a grave responsibility. Four judges-Mr. Justice Charles, the Lord Chlef Justice. Mr. Justice Avary, and Mr. Justice Wright-had all come to the conclusion that the society was right, and it was better for the child that it should remain where it was.
Judgment was reserved.
RECALLED.
Paris, Dec. 5.
ure termed the B class stations cons trolled and operated by private.en. terprise.
In the last twelve months the
secondary services have improved to such an extent that listeners are for a sub- beginning to agitate stantial reduction of the wireless license fee of $6 a year.
The B class stations received no part of the radio impost. They dorive their revenue entirely from advertising in the form of spon-
sored sessions.
During the latest series of cricket test matches in Englund a group of privately owned stations in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia put on the air a ball by ball description of the More than $10,000 was games. spent on cable messages, the cost being borne by big advertisers who obtained valuable publicity from their enterprise.
pende entirely upon the amount of money advertisers are prepared to place in the pool. The big or- ganlantions, which alone have re- sources adequate to the expense en tailed in
sponsoring ambitious broadcasts, are comparatively few. However, if sufficient money is into a broadcasting pool to sup diverted by national advertisers
port a continuing series of wireless entertainments, then, and not till then, will the listening public ba in a position to say to the Govern- ment, "Cut out the licence fee; close your A class stations."
On the communications side, Australia is efficiently served by Amalgamated Wireless (Australia) Ltd., an organisation in which the Commonwealth Government has a half share interest. Pennant Hills transmitting centre, near Sydney, la the largest radio "nest" in the Southern Hemisphere. It ried the Kingsford-Smith at Sydney with her sun in New York, and when the airman reached San Francisco, Pennant Hills again enabled him to hear his mother.
car-
converantion of Mrs.
La Perouse, also near Sydney, is the listening post of the Australian wireless service. Here a score or more Australians listen la to the In addition to details of play re- world. If the German commercial ceived by cablegram every few station at Nauen holds a conversa. minutes, the radio phone between tlon with the Brazilian Govern- Britain and Australia was employment they hear it at La Perouse as ed to carry "talks" by the Ausonally as they followed the signals tralian captain and other players of the Southern Cross around the for rebroadcast throughout the world. When an overseas broad-
J. H. Squire Celeste Octet Commonwealth, Tens of thousands casting station puts on something
(0440).
The Kerry Dance (Molloy), The Songs My Mother Sang
Doris Vane, Soprano (157). Violin Solo-
Slavonic Dance in C Minor
(Dvorak-Kreisler),
W. 11. Squire (2000).
of cricket enthusiasts stayed up till 4 a.m. cach day and at the end of play were thrilled to hear the voices of members of the Australian team immediately they left the playing ground 12,000 miles away. This enterprising scrica of brondcuels did a great deal to ad vance the B class stations in publie The Government owned (A class stations) were completely overshadowed while the cricket test matches were being played.
favour.
Joseph Szigeti (2097). Duet-
Excelsior (Longfellow & Balfe),
Ilubert Eindell and Norman Allin (79). Cello Solo--
Melodie (Ginck & Squire), Quartette-
Under existing arrangements the o. I See my Love at the Window, b. Calliope,
335,000 owners of receiving sets in Lions Quartette of Seattle Australia are obliged to pay a
(5170).
yearly cence fee of $6. Of this Organ Solo--
sum the Commonwealth Govern. Scherzo (Commette),
Edouard Commetic (5315),
ment retains $3 and $3 is paid to the Australian Broadcasting Com Reverie (Dunkler),
pany to provide programmes for W. H. Squire (2069). two stations each in New South 7.25-8 p.m.-Operatic.
Wales and Victoria, and one each in the three other mainland states. Provision is being made for relay or subsidiary stations in the coun try districts of all states.
Cello Solo
Song
La Tosca-Vissi D'Arte (Puccini), . Cavalleria Rusticana--Voi Lo Sapete
(Mascagni).
Eva Turner, Soprano (2118),
Duet-
11 Trovatore (Verdi),
Arangi Lombardi & Carlo
? Galeffl (2167). Song-
Lucia Di Lammermoor-
Mad Scene (Donizetti), Cover With Bitter Toars, /
A. M. Guglielmetti, Soprano (2052).
+
Tho Mikado-A More Humane
Mikado (Gilbert & Sullivan), The Mikado-Tit Willow,
A seu mystery, strangely recall- ing the famous case of the "Marie Celeste." the greatest sea-puzzle of history, is reported from the Sung-- Channel Islands where Jersey fishermen have brought into har- bour an abandoned French two-) master, which had been found derelict off La Roque, with not a soul aboard but in a perfect state, with a candle light in the cabin an a table
had been on which served supper for two. But the Pupper had not been touched.
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special in the way of a programme La Perouse picks it up and passea it on to an Australian station for rebroadcasting. At La Persouse they talk to trawlers on the Aus- tralian coasts, they listen to the trawlers in the North Sea, tho signals of rum-runners dodging American patrol boats come in also the voices of the announcers radio broadcasting stations In Moscow, Manila, Auckland, and Milan. They hear it all at La Perouse.
at
Around the count of Australia radio stations are in constant com. munication with ships at sea and with land stations. Some of these places are very lonely, but the operator need never be. short of conversation.
"For goodness sake tell me the score, old man," the ́operator on a cargo boat in the Great Australian Bight will radio. "I've got a bet with a fellow on a P. and 0..boat in will the Red Sea that Bradman make three time as many runs as Hobbs and Satcliffe together."
MARCONI'S MESSAGE.
In a message to the Dally Ex- preas Senatore Marconi writes:
There are now "on the air", more privately owned stations than Goy- ernment controlled, and the service
Of course radio operators are not they offer, free, meets with the
supposed to discuss frivolous sub- unqualified approval of the listen-jects, but during the critical hours ing public. In two years' time of the cricket teat matches which existing contracts between the aroused intense interest among | Commonwealth Government and the Australians, some very animated Australian Broadcasting Company conversations buzzed over tho WIE come up for review. Before ether when a good 100 per cent the term of the present arrange Australian at some lonely radio ment expires, it has been suggest outpost found himself in touch ed that the postmaster general with a patriotic Britisher. should make a thorough investiga- tion of the broadcasting business with a view to ascertaining if the public could not be relieved of n of the wire- considerable portion less tax of $6 a year.
While the privately owned and operated atations are providing ex- cellent entertainment, they do not cover the complete scale of broad- casting. They do not deal com- prehensively with sporting fixtures, nor do they give such variety as is contained in the programmes of the national, Government controlled services. However, if development Although there were a number of during the next 12 months con- bad mistakes, the cream of the whole tinues at the pace maintained in the thing was a statement to the effect last year, it is expected that the B that the dial readings for a particless stations will encompass every cular station would vary as the die- worthwhile event which lends it tance from the transmitter insaff to. broadcasting. creased. The idea was that if the Extension of the services pro- reading were 45 and 47 (on a twovided by private broadcasters de- dial set) at ten miles from the Lon. don Regional, for instance, the readings would be increased to something like 58 and 56 at twenty miles..
A GOOD JOKE.
What is the best wireless. joke you have ever seen in a newspaper -the unintentional kind, I mean?
Not long ago a so-called "na- tional" daily printed an article on how to tune a set. If you saw it you must have laughed as much as I did.
The way in which some news- paper editors get their legs palled passes belief!-W.M.
"B" ELIMINATORS.
Eliminators, particularly those
Eight years ago broadcasting was looked upon merely as a means of entertainment. To-day it has established itself
As one of the most powerful educational forces of our time, a large employer of labour, a friend and helper in all good causes, a blessing to the blind, the bedridden and the sick, as well zз a means of entertainment and instruction for the healthy, both in the vitality of youth and in the; tranquility of old age.
Even 50,
we are only at the beginning of the development of broadcasting. Its range and In- fluence will grow and the service it renders to mankind will increase.
GERMAN DISQUIET. BOMB ÎNJURES FOUR
THE "UNDERCURRENT OF DESPERATION."
Berlin, Dec, 10..
of
The strong undercurrent
OUTBURST OF ANTI-FILIPINO FEELING.
Imperial (Calif.), Dec. 9. Four Filipino lettuce packers
which have been developed during desperation coupled with Radicalism wore injured, two very seriously the past year or so, are, as a gen running swiftly through Germany eral rule, rather faithful servante
and very rarely give trouble. While exploded on Wednesday at Ham they are working well it is good burg. where one was killed and Beveral wounded in recurrent Should policy to leave them alone. they give trouble, if the fault is not clashes between Communista and enally apparent, take the unit to the the Police, who had the order to tolerate no public manifestations nearest agent for that type of in- strument and let him rectify the and were polted with stones, being trouble. Faults in eliminators are finally compelled to use their
firearms. hard to trace without special in- struments, and, as very few radio The capital remained quiet until anthusiasts have them, it is better Wednesday night, the authorities to leave, the problem of repair to ban on demonstrations having ap an expert. equipped with the right parently had a sobering effect. tools for the job. Overloading is. However, riotous scenes ensued in one of the greatest causes of the Reichstag when the National- trouble and breakdown in elimina Socialista demanded the release of tors. After having satisfied your their doputy, Herr Fabricius, who self that the unit is capable of was arrested on Tuesday night in working your set in the ordinary connection with the anti-Remar way, make sure that there are no quest demonstrations and who later "shorts" in the set or eliminator was sentenced to a heavy this wiring.
Trans-Ocean Servicër
by the explosion of a bomb in a stable in which 60 Filipinos were sleeping.
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There has been a strong feeling against Filipino workers locally.
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(short) 16-Aliver of Scotland 17-Bnake-like fish 18-Ahead
19 Face
21-Attempt:
22-Restrain 25-Likewise not 28-One of the vertical
alde places of a · door
20-Masculine name
(short) 30-Condition 32-Raw motal 23-Woody plant 16-Barren 87-One who ordains
33-A section of the
Koran'
85-Enlarge a hol
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Barvice Order
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81-Before 62-Feminine name. 84-Dispatched 60-Venture 67-Burden
VERTICAL
VERTICAL (Cont.) 16-Earth 20-Feminine
descendants of Moab
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30-Clased auto $--Author of
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11-Observe
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Revolution (abbr.) fruit
47-Maturs
48-The Beandinavian
people
60-A mountain district
in Italy 51-Bound 34-Sheep ary |65-To striks gently 168-Time period. [61-Grook latter 2
63-Comparative ending of adjectives".
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