MARVELS OF THE RADIO
(Continued from Pare 7)
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tion is at a minimum. then the but whether we can all apply them sound will be maintained at that is a different matter. level when the set is tuned to ang
Servicing more powerful station. This is ac- complished by setting the control so that when the signals reach a certain value according to the vol
My last word has to do with the vital problem of servicing. The modern radio set is a complicated affale, and occasionally needs an
ume of sound desired, it is automa-expert touch. A paragraph I came tically prevented from increasing.
This Introduces complications in the way of increased static inter- ference; that is if the set is main tained at a constant signal volume
for a distant station, fading of the
waves from that station results in a seeming increase of background noise and static, due to the signal- to-noise ratio being altered in fa- vour of the noise.
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Listencer's Job
I think I might be permitted to conclude with a few remarks anent listening to broadcast programmes. Some time ago, I came across a few rules for broadcast listening They are well worth quoting:-
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1934.
NEWS
TO WEAKEN
CHINA
Dr. Hoo Speaks Out
across some time ago is worth quot- ing:-"Since the initial boom of broadcasting some years ago, radio
Singapore, Aug. 14 sales and service are sometimes in
There is a far greater and the hands of people of a type not more deadly danger that threat- calculated to do justice either to the eas China to-day than Japanese trade or the user. This is regret aggression. It is the drug menace. table although true, but is a condi- Unless we check it now it will eat tion which is tending to improve. into the very soul of the nation At the same time wholesale manu- and utterly destroy it.
FROM CHINA
CANTON TRADE PROSPECTSTM
Siates."
"
(From Our Special Correspondeni) Canton, Aug. 21.
brought in good returns. land was the best security and
"A local foreign firm representing
Canton Land Depreciates The value of real estate in Zenobiao, Inc. an American con Canton is going down by twenty cern, has written to the Canton per cent. This is due to the lack Chamber of Commerce, requesting of buying and selling and the re- local sellers of preserved Lee Cheeduction in the rent. The land frult to send samples to it, as this boom in 1929 was due to the re- American corporation wishes to mittance from overseas Chinese sell this commodity in the United who believed that Livas, Chinese
This fruit is grown only in
grown Kwangtung. The crop this year was exceptionally good, and the best kind was sold at 30 cents while fresh Lee Chee is sold in
But preserved Lee Chee, which is ship them to the United States North China, It is impossible to
dried by the sun, can be exported to the distant countries.
facturers of complete sets would Dr. Victor Hoo, Chinese Mini-Hong Kong currency a catty, frequently be well advised to exer-ster to Switzerland. made this cise some discrimination as to the statement to a them before the purchasing public. yesterday. Dr. Hoc is returning to type of retaller who is to represent Fress" reporter on the Conte Verde "Singapore Free
both as regards demonstratlan and Europe. subsequent,service." sale, as well as installation and
Looking at this in the light of reason for altering a word of it. present day conditions, I see no
On the economic side the public
"When I left Europe I promised make a first-hand study of con- the League of Nations I would
ditions in China, to day," proceed ed Dr. Hoo.
is undoubtedly to blame for an ated how great a hold the drig traf- "It was only then that I realts- titude of mind which regards the hiring of a paid serviceman as an injustinable expenditure. This has
fic, as distinct from the oplum trade, was beginning to get on in many ways. For example, if a been brought home very forcibly!
China. friend happens to be a plumber, morphine and heroin. Their effect "The drugs used are chiefly
repair the bathroom tap as a spare plum addiet for 20 or 30 years one would not dare invite him in to is deadly. A man
time recreation, Nor, to 80
to but the life of the morphine, or other extremes, would one scek-heroin addict is generally two or dicul friend over the bridge table. professional guidance from a me- three years
may be An
"We know who is responsible
(1) The room should be of fair size with plenty of rugs. curtains or books, and with few flat unbro- ken wall spaces. (2) 6lt directly in front of the loud-speaker at a distance of about ten feet, (3) Ad- just the receiver to moderate vol- ume: If the announcer's words are intelligible in the far corners of the room the volume is about right: (4) Avold interruptions. adjust the tuning and other controls once and for all, and leave them during the entide programe; (5) Keen oulet. and avoid conversation. (6) The room should be dimly illuminated with no actual lamp not even the But the 'something-for-nothing for this traffic. We believe that it pilot lamp of the receiver-visible spirit which permeates radio sets is the desire of these people to de- to any listener: (7) Choose a com- a different standard, and many moralise and weaken China by fortable chair and wear comfort-people appear to have no scruples every possible means. But for "able clothes (Laughter)...
in borrowing the services of techni-obvious reasons, chiefly political. Quite Sound
cal or knowledgeable radio friends we These rules are possibly idealised, In a manner that they would never them."!
are powerless to deal with but there is a good deal of sound dream of doing with any other pro- reason in them. The first is based fession or business. I will leave the the last two months China had on acoustic principles. Flat unbro-
point in this suggestive state for passed drastic laws to control ken surfaces, such as plaster walis people to embroider for themselves. carpets or rugs, and articles such On the technical side the facts sug-drugs. The death penalty
trafficking and manufacture of as chairs and books in a bookcase gested earlier, that the work of ra- tend to absorb the sound waves and dio sales, and
was service have fre-
provided for give less echo. The second rule quently fallen into grossly unquali- either trafficking or manufactur- anybody caught 1s due to the fact that most loud- fed hands has had a serious re-
log. Addicts speakers do not send out sound flection on the status of bona ade treated and if they returned to it were compulsorily waves in a sphere, but rather in beam or cone. As regards the third one which reputable dealers must death.
servicemen. This state of things is after being cured the penalty was rule, moderate volume avoids deplore. Again, it must be said ceiver or speaker distortions. Too that the radio doctor is often call- great volume may give undue re- ed in to attend to some chronic people. verberation, while it is certainly cases, sets congenitally defective. It would be one of his first more fatiguing and nerve-racking, struggling through debilitated exis-duiles on his returning to Europe tences and in advanced stages of to report on this matter to the paralysis or seniic decay-jobs for League. the magician rather than the Tech- niclan. No doctor car. choose the type of ailment that is brought to him for treatment, but his healing skill may often be sorely tried by the patient's condition.
to listen to.
re-
Vote Of Thanks
However, added Dr. Hoo, within
20 People Executed So far they had executed 20
Lee Chee is a julcy and sweet fruit. Its season ended only two weeks ago..
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Good Rice Trade
Rice merchants are sending their goods to Nanchang, provincial capital of Klangst, for sale, as the price of this cereal has risen to $13
troubles are blamed for the fallure Mex. per 100 cattles (133-1/3 lbs. The drought and
Communist of rice crops in Klangst and other provinces.
The enterprising merchants here are sending the rice to Nanchang
ing carloads of rice from here to via Hunan. As a result, the Canton-Lohchang train is carry-
the rice will be transported by the borders of Hunan. From there
has
Since then the flow of wealth from abroad has stopped. estate no demand, the value of real With
houses are vacant here, because gone dowIL Many
back to the country in order to modern fats. Some people moved one big pld house was rebuilt into
avoid the many taxes here..
Flong Kong Note Drop The drop in the premium of. Hong Kong currency from 41 cents to 39 cents to the dollar is due sharks and bankers in Shup Sam to the speculation of the money Hong, local Wall Street. Slack- ness in imports also results in a poor demand for the Hong Kong dollars, whose premium therefore goes down
OPIUM SUPPRESSION LAW IN CHINA Authorised Wholesale Hongs To Be Established
Shanghal, Apg. 21.
boats and overland to Nanchang. It is reported that 105 authoris Klangsi there being a Communlating established in sixty shien un- It is impossible to go right throughed oplum wholesale hongs are be-
der the jurisdiction of the Klang- su Provincial Government in ae-
Nanchang, the price of local rice belt in the Southern districts."
As a result of the demand from
is likely to go up.
ACTIVITY REDS
OF
On The Prowl For Loot
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(From Our Special Correspondent).
Cantón, Aug. 21. According to a report received here to-day, 300 Reds from Chiu most pleasing impressions he had ed an attack at Shan Hang and Dr. Hoo "said that one of the Hislen, South-west Fukien, launch of his visit to China was the im- gave battle to the first Indepen- proved outlook. Most of the edu-dent Kwangtung Division. cated people in China to-day were
After some looting, the outlaws fed back- fully aware of the gravity of the to Chfu Hslen. situation in the Far East and
Ting, which is South-east of Shang One regiment of the 20th Nan-
Hang in order to relieve the Can- tonese garrison there who may be transferred, back to Tai Po in Fastern Kwangtung.
The fourth rule about interrup tions is merely the common-sense of any sort of listening. Any un- due meddling with the controls is a common complaint of many do mestic experts, and is irritating and distracting. The same general rule applies to number five, since any extraneous noise is naturally detri- mental to the hearing of the pro- was proposed by the Hon. Mr. W. H desire to work and to do their best
A vote of thanks for the speaker everywhere there was an earnest king. division has occupied Yung gramme. This, of course assumes Bell, who said that the wonders of that the programme, is worth radio were brought home to him in for their country in the coming listening to! Нете It may 1930 when he witnessed a man in crisis in which it was felt China be inter polated that a good England talking to his son in Aus- would play a very big part. many people keep sets switched on tralia over the radio telephone. Mr. when they are not really listening Bell said that he heard almost not only present among the civi- This spirit of co-operation was to them. This is liable to lead to
As Wu Ping and Chang Ting are every word of the broadcast of the lian radio nerves' by listening to the
population but "among the still in the hands of the Com test match. radio and to other things at the for presenting this difficult subject sign.
He thanked Mr. Hill military and that was a very good munists, the Canton High Com- same time, or doing jobs calling for
so lucidly.
mand is taking precautions to some degree of mental concentra-
He had not been to the propervent the Reds from making a tion while the loud-speaker is
vinces on this visit but he was swift descent on Hwangtung as vigorously dinning into their ears. I
told feel sure that many people know of,
on good authority that a they did to Bhul Kow. General Li similar sentiment prevalled there. Yang Ching, commanding officer some friend who keeps the radio on
Dr. Hoo" thought that if this of the third army, has returned to during conversation when nobody is
spirit could be maintained and Mei Hsien eastern Kwangtung. to listening to it, getting everybody-
fostered China would soon leave inspect the defence works there. including himself-worked up into
the chaotic conditions of the past General Pai Hsung Hal, well a state of nerves, A background of
far behind.
knewn Hwangal military leader.
REMAND HOME
IN KOWLOON
music may be a pleasant accessory Government Requires with Dr. Hoo is travelling Mr. accompanied General 14 Yang
to a meal, but mixtures of radio and other things should be used with a due regard to nervous ir- ritation Our sixth rule, about
Vote Of $5,000
At to-morrow's meeting of the
Li Shih Tseng, an old and respect. ed member of the Kuomintang and one of the greatest scholars In China to-day. He is on a cul.
The rainstorm daring June, 1934. caused considerable damage to Government buildings and the roads, waterworks and drainage systems of the Colony. A sum of
lighting, is based on a proved pay-Legislative Council (Finance Com-tural mission to France. chological fact, described broadly as "mixture. of the senses." It is mittee) the Government" will seek generally agreed that the final ap-approval for a vote of $5000 for preciation of the senses Hes, not ina remand home for girls in Kow" the sensory organs, but in the brain, loon. and It has been satiation of one A sum of $81,000 is sought for sense, it is less able to be stimulat- repairing damages caused by the ed by another. This of course ex- rainstorm in June last. plains the apparent enhancement of other senses shown by blind pea- ple.
The Flict Lamp
Details of the various items for which approval will be sought, are as follows: Temporary Remand
for Girls
Home
Ching to Inspect the defensive works in Eastern Kwangtung. The last line of defence is marked at Wai Chow on the East River. while the advance lines will be et Lu Lung and Mei Hsien. This is
measures. said to be purely precautionary
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Reds Invading Kwangtung?
Southern Hunan under General At the same time the Rede in L1 Ming Jut are making an at-
$31 000 is found to be necessary tempt to break into Kwangtung to make good the damage. Incidental Expenses (Medical
from Yucheng. Lleut.-General Ti Han Yun, commanding officer of Department)
$700 the third Independent Kwangtung The application of this fact is
Owing to the increased move division, is now in Ping Shih. found in the sixth rule, and psycho- It is considered desirable to opening up of new clinics, and operations against the enemy.
$5.000 meat of staff, mainly due to the Northern Kwangtung, to direct" logists tell us that for best sten- make small internal alterations extra expenses incurred by Crown ing the room should be dimly lllu- and to provide additional fencing Agents
General Li Ming Jui and bis minated. The point of the pilot and rating on the boundary walls Sisters, the charges under the yote ing in Southern Hunan for some inrecruiting Nursing band of outlaws have been haver lamp on the set may appear an ex-of No. 2 Embankment Road, Kow for incidental expenses have been time, robbing the country people travagance, but the little light on loon Tong, which house it is pro-greater than anticipated, and a and disarming isolated detach- the midst of a blank surface has posed should be rented for the supplementary vote for the above ments. These men were former the trick of focussing the attention. Another point in connection with purposes of the Salvation Army sum is now requested.
Women's Industrial Home and ́as Kau U Fong Theatre Flush lighting, also, is that dim illumina- tion undoubtedly helps the latener a Remand Home for 'Girls.
Water Cinsets to create his own imaginaties base" | Furniture estimated to cost Sata. ground, especially where plays are
"aiso" required.”... being broadcast.
The total cost is estimated to Whether or not the whole of be $5,000, and as this work has not these rules are worth regarding been allowed for in the 1934 must obylously depend on the 1s Estimates, & supplementary vote tener's earnestness in following the for this amount is requested. programme concerned. Undoubt Typhoon and Rainstorm edly the rules given ade quite sound, Damages.....
$81,600
at
Kwangs! "troops stationed Huang Chow on the Yangtze River. East of Hankow.
$2,500
Canton mintary Authorities prove the sanitation at the Kay expect General Ho Chlen, Chalz- Fong Theatre a lessed property man of Hunan Provincial Govern- belonging to the Government, by ment, will order his troops to clean the installation of a flushing up the Red hordes lust of the system at an estimated cost. af Kwangtung frontier, The Can- $500.
tonese troops now have to watch Kowloon Canton Ratway:
the Reds in Hunan, Elangst and Stores Depreciation
Fuklen.
cordance with the special Optum Suppression Law-Reuter,
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