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The Strain on a Prime Minister.

A recent address

ed

HERE. THERE

and

EVERYWHERE.

Exhuming Chopin,

The removal of the body of Chopin from Paris to the village in Poland where he was born will. also remove him from a musical company,

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1933.

FUTURE

OF RADIO

BROADCASTING FROM

WILL SURVIVE

BROADCASTING FORM WILL

SURVIVE

(By Sir John Reith, Director-General of the B.B.C.)

Dominion Stations.

He was taken seriously 1 in Edinburgh on October 4, 1849, but managed to reach Paris, where ho dled a fortnight later, and Was

Fifty years from now will there and, to many, disquieting happen- buried in the Pare-Lachaise Ceme be a B.B.C., as we know it to-day, fngs. tery, a fow yards only from the Governors and Director-General as In Germany the head of the graves of Bellini and Cherubini. they are known-or at any rate central organisation has always This will not be the first instanco their functions are known-staff, been the direct nominee of tho of the exhumation of a famous machinery, processes, all more or Minister of Posts, and was call- composer. Weber aled in London less as to-day?

ed his Commissioner, in 1826, and was buried in Moor- I believe 40. There will be de- This, from, the aspect of au- flelds Chapel. In 1844 his widowvelopments and Improvements in tonomy and political independence, made application to the Home every line; to suggest otherwise was unfortunate, and there were Secretary, and his remains were would be to limit the possibilities many in Germany who looked for- removed to the family vault at of scientific invention and of ward with abme assurance to such Dresden, no less a person than human enterprise.

an alteration as would bring them Wagner supervising the arrange- Thore will be progress on pre-more into line with British prac- ments.

sent-day practice, perhaps out of tice. The reverse has happened, all recognition; but in certain fun-and now, to all intents and pur- The Decline of Shooting. damental particulars I do not an-poses, broadcasting in, Germany Hall Barn, Beaconsfield, where tielpate. any marked change, and becomes governmental. M. Flandin, the French ox-Minister should deplore it. of Finance, formed one of Sir I am not referring to what may? Gomer Berry's week-end shooting [be called high programme policy, suit to Australia and New Zealand, Canada appeared to be following party, provides, or used to provide, though actually what I have just where the home system is now in the finest pheasant coverts in said would, as a personal opinion, operation. The numerous private England.

there apply. But it would be enterprise stations were to be ex- It was here on December 13, foolish to write categorically on propriated, and a single Dominion- 1918, that the King, the Prince of this score in these times of chang wide authority was take, con- Wales, and five other gung shoting practice and changing princi-trol... 3937 pheasants-a record for this ple.

The struggle was long and country.

Monopoly Will Stay.

jacrimonious. The Aird Commis- Recently the bag was under 800 This much, however, I should sion had recommended it in 1928. expect and hope that the policy A special Parliamentary Commit. Allowing for the fact that the of the supply of good things in an- tee, after a fresh and exhaustive King's party included. three excep-ticipation of demand, the policy of inquiry, entered a similar recom tional shots-His Majesty, Lord certain things done and certain mendation in the spring of (which does not necessarily in Herbert Vane-Tempest, and the things not done, having stood the year. A bill was presented to clude the Prime Minister), and Hon. H. Stonor--the difference in test of the first ten years as they Parliament in accordance there- the Economic Advisory Council the bags la remarkable..

surely have, would stand likewise with. he would add two Standing Com- The changed conditions of the during the next fifty.

They have their single control mittees. The first would be a English countryside

The importance, from every now, but something unexpected Committee on External Affairs, sible for the decline. Never again point of view, of a clear policy happened at the last moment. Imperial and foreign, which will England yield the enormous -broadminded but definite The Commissioners were establish- would clearly be designed to give bage of the pre-war period. should not require emphasis. ed. but they are now apparently weight in foreign policy to other

But the issues which I have im- Civil Servants, and broadcasting is mediately in mind are simpler and a Department of Government. more mundane.

It is highly desirable and not Now, broadcast programmes are merely as affecting the B.B.C., that naturally of considerable interest the B.B.C. type of management of to those who purpose listening to public services should be examin thom. And listeners to broadcast ed and discussed. To-night's programmes are in some measure broadcast debate between Lord

ganisation responsible for them. Benn was accordingly arranged, The programmes-improving in but it would require a dozen auch scope and in quality each year for the ground adequately to be will obviously continue, and the covered. unrestricted, competitive private Of the impact of broadcasting enterprise system of the United on the Press and other affected in- States of America being, to say the terests there is no space here to least, unlikely. of adoption here, treat. And with respect to the. some one concern will remain res- B.B.C, and its unnumbered millions. ponsible for them..

of listeners, here is material for Relations Outside. -

several articles alone. I shall Let it be remarked in passing deal with one element only, and I that it is significant that the introduce it in this form! monopoly objection to the B.B.C., the most clamant of all objections

are respon- !

factors than those that must Your Daily Smile.

deliver- chiefly weigh with the Com-

at Oxford by Lord mittee of Imperial Defence, The Molto for Wives. Cecil directs attention

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at second, and more important, Oh, try those tears!, the right moment to a crucial would be a General Purposes question of government. Taking Committee. It would consist of Two Minds With--~. "The Machinery of Government" the Prime Minister, the Foreign A financier says that our banking for his title he devoted himself, Secretary, the Chancellor of the system is not perfect. I discovered interested in the B.B.C. as the or Allen of Hurtwood and Sir Ernest in the main, to considering the Exchequer, the chairmen of other this long ago after interviewing plight of a modern Cabinet, Standing Committees, and the the manager. choked with business, and how it Minister or Ministers specially may best modify its structure to concerned with the subject under meet a strain which promises to discussion. In some respects it

A naturalist says an antelope become fatal to its function. would resemble the War will often run off with a dozen The subject has endless ramifica- Cabinet, but unlike the War different new wives in a season. tions of administrative and legis-Cabinet it would not have experts:

ANTELOPEMENTS.

lative method which may be con- in attendance generally Lord "Hitch Your Star to a Wagon." veniently covered by the term Cecil holds that experts should I read that Wild West films are "devolution"; but Lord Cecil is speak through their Ministers - still the most popular in hundreds not the less constructive because nor would it supersede the full of thousands of cinemas. he has confined his suggestions Cabinet, for Cabinet responsibi-

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to immediately practicable re-lity entails the collective grasp PROFOUND PROBLEMS: adjustments of Cabinet business and approval of policy. But the . FOR HUSBANDS ONLY. and practice. He is concerned to main business of the Cabinet at the best years of my life for you, Who was it said: "I've given up discover how, short of a more ita weekly meeting would be to and what do I get in return?" radical overhaul of the machinery receive the reports of commit-

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You cannot have twenty to twenty-five million people pay-

in 1923, ia practically unknown ining, according to some of them," the one piper and having there- fore the right to call an equal number of tunes. Nor even fiva million the number of licences. One of the B.B.C.'s greatest

Assuming, therefore, the mono- poly and the one concern, it is the constitution of that body in 1982

of government, some relaxation tees, and when these were unani-Short Scots Story. may be found of the deadly phy-mous they would seldom require sical pressure under which lead-long discussion. The advantages hair-cut, but the thought of spend-1942) which may be the subject of troubles is the lack of criticism

A Scotsman was going for a (or for the matter of that even in ing members of the Cabinet and, of this procedure, it is claimed, ing so much money made his hair speculation-its relationship with A surprising observation? It is, niore than any of them, the would be Prime Minister have to work, among six Ministers instead of to cut it himself.

to settle questions stand on end. Then he was able the State, with other bodies, auch, perhaps, commonly imagined that and how room may be gained for twenty, while the General Pur-

a. more systematic and provident poses Committee would be

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for instance, as the Press, whose the B.B.C. has more than it wanta, interests and activities are er may and perhaps even more than it de- be affected, and with Its listeners.serves. But that may be quits! fathom.constitutional issue, much discus thing contradictory or inconsistent

slen and argument will take place in the two statements.

I believe the present form, with a few but important clari- Beations and adjustments of de-

Facts You Did Not Know.

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tensively adopted by, or adapted

Further, I believe it will be ex

to, other forms of public service now undertaken by both Govern-

SECRET OF BRITAIN'S

SEA POWER.

examination of the larger as-small enough to get close to A psychologist says that the On the first, that is, the straight true as well, and yet there be no pects of public policy. Among business and authoritative enough modern mother is hard to the topics open to a Sidney Ball to carry conviction. With all lecturer he could hardly have that he says in favour of lighten- chosen one that bears more Ing the Parliamentary, party, closely upon the difficulties of and social calls on the Prime the present day. The burden Minister's time there must ba placed upon a modern Prime general agreement. Under the Increase in hydroelectric power Minister is beyond physical bear-present Administration some generated in Italy has displaced ing. From the moment that be thing has in fact been done to re-an annual coal consumption of 9 forms bis Cabinet the race beduce the claim of the House of 000,000 tons., tween his duties and his physical Commons: Nor, in the light of endurance begins. The same is the far-reaching consequences of

ment Departments and private en hardly less true of one or two of the institution of the Committee to aid agriculturists by promoting while admitting of essential public The Rumanian government plans terprise. It ta that form which, his colleagues. But when the of Imperial Defence, let anyone alcohol distilling plants to use control on matters of major policy Prime Minister's health and suppose that his suggestions as a potatoes and grain as raw importance, allows also the great- vigour suffer the public interest whole involve a mere juggling materials, byproducts being used to eat flexibility of management and is threatened in a peculiar de with committees. A General fatten cattle. gree, since he is the pivot of the Purposes. Commitee might have

the most favourable working con

The secret of Gt. Britain's ditions.

maritime supremacy through so Cabinet system and any impair equally substantial results. The By the use of electrical record State's Control, many centuries has been revealed ment of his activities must tend War compelled an adaptation of ing instruments aviation engineers The precise relationship between at last. to impede its working. Lord Cabinet procedure to a vast have praved that airplanes receive such bodies and the State will pre- It is contained in an explanatory Cecil's proposals for giving emergency. Since the War no more severe shocks from air that sent an increasingly delicate pro note attacked to the first edition of Cabinet Ministers more room to Government has had time to le "bumpy" than when landing at blem. In what was, after all, an a Spanish book antitled "Art de breathe and more time to think think out the adaptation requir-high speed...

experimental period, the first ten Navigar" by Martin Cortes publish-

aim at a division of labour oned by that over more laborious

Spain Takes Credit For England's Supremacy. (Reuter's Special Mail Service).

Madrid.

lines nearer to the normal pro- form of government" known as Designed for hauling freight in years of the B.B.C, or to be more of in 1551 and translated into cedure of boards and committees democracy. A reorganization of the tropics and Far East, a three exact, in the fret Charter, grant English by Richárd Edon in 1500, directing less exalted affairs. business after Lord Cecil's model ton tractor has been constructed in ed in 1927, precise definition was This note states that "This book His plan is that the Cabinet would still leave the country's England that draws three trailers, not to be expected. enabled Gt Britain to master should do more work through leading Ministers an over-driven each carrying 15 tons, over rough The more precisa it was, the the art of navigation and teach it more control was the State likely to the world. Henco Gt. Britain Standing Committeca and less set of men. Much at any time, roads,

through committees appointed in and out of Cabinet, will de-

to reserve to itself. The desir became Mistress of the Sea thanks ability of consideration on this to Spain...

from time to time for particular pend upon a Prime Minister him- Their are objections to either point, in the Hight of experience. The little book, which has excit questions Cabinet committees self. Some, in the past, have method. Both at least point to is already recognized, fed much interest, is on show, at an of this kind, he thinks, fail to die worked to exhaustion. Others, the need in a Prime Minister of Throughout the world countries exhibition which opened at the Ad- tribute the burden and are other partly by design and partly by a very clear and determined pre- have tended more and

mirality Museum here this week, wise unsatisfactory. To the temperament, have sat back ference for essentials and of a adopt, for broadcasting purposes. Other exhibits of Interest are ap committees of Imperial Defence and have refused to take stern and Vigilant front to the systems closely resembling, and engraving of Lord Nelson and (which consists of the Prime part in decisions until the importunite and the irrelevant frequently modelled on that of relica of the Spanish fleet which Minister and others whom he public Interest for their own with which Downing Street must the B.B.C.

recent days took part in the Battle of Trafal- may summon), of Home Affairs salvation) positively required It always be beset

there have been two surprising gar