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BROADCASTING AND DEMOCRACY

By PROFESSOR ERNEST BARKER

The Very Idea!

IMPROVING THE FORCE

AST night we looked in on the Police Force. Us, wo are always friendly with the police.

Dy Eddie Kelly, Please-man The Sung Man-cho case, one of

Who's afraid of the. blg, bad. the most keenly fought in the his- tory of Hongkong courts, is recalled

·Junt as broadcasting is a half-wolf? by the extradition agreement Just

ROADCASTING and Demo- ;

The big, bad wolf; the big, bag. concluded between Britain and

cracy. But what, first of all, way house between platform and

Who's afraid of the big, bad France, Sung Mun cho or Nguyun

democracy? It is, funda Press, so the constitution of the wolf, At Quoc was badly wanted by the

as an alleged mentally, a way of government by B.B.C. is a half-way house between

by Saigon authorities

Tra-la-In-la-la-In! breaking the private company and the wolf? Communist. It was certain that if discussion-not

And now to turn from the way he was deported to Salgon by the heade: not even by counting State organisation. Hongkong authorities he would heads: but by laying heads to- have been sentenced to death. The gether, in a process of common in which the B.B.C. is organised nto the way in which broadcasting Hangkong authorities issued arthought, which begins with

were competition of different viows, la run.

It is run as a forum of publle order for deportation and

When we hear someone determined to send him to Salgon and ends in a compromise we can by a specified ship. Habeas Corpus all accept (minority as well as discussion, which is just what we

bellowing "Police! Police!" preliminary stage. proceedings were carried to the majority) for the basis of joint need for democracy in its first or

Hegel once spoke of the benef we think to ourself, "Now, There are two stages of auch Privy Council, the decision being in democratic action.

discussion. The first is the in- cent process of discussion, by hore will shortly arrive. favour of Sung Man-cho. Tho right of deportation was.

formal or social; and this is con- which one shrewd thought do-

another. Well, ahrawd someone who knows we live questioned, but the right of the HK$3,400 Hongkong Government to choose his ducted by parties and all sorts vours

destination was successfully chal- of other groups, through the thoughts are always dovouring at the Y.M.C.A. He will Press and the platform and other one another on the wireless. The take us home and say "Do 3,600

lenged.

agencies, with a view to forming B.B.C., as a public concern, keeps 4,500

public opinion. The second is open house. Mr. Lansbury will you know this man?" And we the formal or political; and this is try to devour Mr. Churchill will be put to bed by willing 4,500

Parliament and microphone; Lord Snowden, with muttering, "Strange, wo don't The new extradition treaty looks conducted by the formal organs whon Mr. Churchill can get to the hands, and we will wake up to be a direct outcome of the case Cabinet, with a view to attaining his shrewd thoughts, will try remember having a pair of HK$2,940

Indian subjects It provides that 2,940 deported from Indo-China shall be a foal political decision, sent to Madras or Colombo, and BROADCASTING Asiatic deportees to Hongkong or to Singapore. It also provides that natives of Indo-Chinn deported from British India shall be sent to Haiphong or Saigon. No mention ady is made (in the cable) of arrangement for the despatch from Hongkong or Singapore of French subjects of Indo-Chinn to Haiphong or Saigon, but it seems likely that some such understanding has been reached, in view of the provision for the reverse process and of the definite inference that the treaty in a direct sequel to the legal battle concerning Sung Man-cho. cidentally, Sung Man-cho is still in recent Victoria Gaol, though we cannot floral imagine that the issue of his fate at the will crop up again.

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1933.

ence

CHINA'S CORNS

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In

of electorate,

AND DEMOCRACY.

BETWEEN PLATFORM AND PRESS.

devour all and sundry: Mr. Bald.

alte way.

should be mado for one's tem- perament. That is, if one is going to remain friendly all the time,

Again, it has been pointed, out that parents should not use the which to frighten children. police force as a bogey man with

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It is wrong for the over- wrought mother to say to her crring child, "Another squeak out of you and I will give you to that fat, red-faced policeman. across the road."

were

win, with his deep sense of our yellow pyjamas before."

And then, a little later, we English life, will try to devour the ideas which run in nu oppo-might get an inviation to attend a little soiree at the Court, and The Arst is as much a part of

IL is the anme in literature, we may spend hours practicing democracy as the second. It is music, the drama-all the in- our curtsey and how to handle And then Mr. Wynne-Jones will at this first stage that broad-terests of our common life. Thore our train before being presented. casting can play a part, and is an old Greek saying that some

And wo will say: "No Y'rwash- playing a part, in the working of of us see one alde and some another, say: "Drunk again, Kelly 7"

but all of us together so all democracy.

There are three main agencies sides. Broadcasting, as it is run up. Same-hic old bingel" And he will say: "Ten bucks." And we will go on our way. by which the process of informal in England, is a way of arranging

We do think that a certain or social discussion is managed, that all of us shall be allowed to The first agency we may call the put, and to see, every side of

among of reciprocni friendliness oral, in the strict sense of "the overy question.

Here the speaker who ad- This is particularly important could safely be expected without word. vocates a view, and throw it into in its bearing on politics. A hun-undue optimism. The spirit of the forum of discussion, stands dred years ago we used to have on camaraderie and whathaveyou is: To-day we have an electorate of nailceman who says, "And if I face to face with his audience-electorate of about a million, not beat expressed by a largo see you around here again picking Then there is a second agency, some 30 millions. a man face to face with men.

How can we make an electorate those sunflowers I'll run you in!" which we may call the printed.

common In cases like that, we always This is the Press: the body of all of 30 millions into a our newspapera, all enunciating forum of public discussion, in have a lurking feeling that we are. views of public policy, and all pit-which views can compete together not welcome. It may be that we ting their views in competition in a single medium, and some are too sensitive, but allowances compromise can be got on which The announcement that well-against one another,

we can all more or less agree?

comes. to Hore science

our known Berlin police chiefs are to undertake the reorganisation of the

nid. It gives us all, the franchise Chinese police is another indication of the care taken by the Nanking

But in the inst ten years we of the air. Millions and miillons Thanks to authorities to avoid any suspicion have been given another agency of listeners can be drawn into

new one great forum. of intervention by the Powers in besides these two. This

wo science, we can still be one great Chiness affairs. It is easy to be-

agency is broadcasting, and lieve that the Nanking Government may call it semi-oral. It is half- English commonwealth, in spite "WET" AGAIN would prefer their police to continue way between the platform and the of our numbers, and we can listen

in an unsatisfactory state of dis- Press, You do not ace the spea- and think and debate together.

But we must always be free to hear competing views. If we were After nearly fourteen years of cipline and organisation rather than ker; but there is a speaker, and

Children should be brought up British, you hear his living voice. the "noble experiment" of Pro- consent to control by

However broadcasting may be all tuned in to one voice, demo-

that the moment you start French or Amèrican experts, or by hibition, the United

States those of any other Treaty Power. organised and ran, whether by crney would be dead. The air,

or which is our common forum, must "going crook" on them they im. private companies yesterday returned to the Liquor The Berlin reen come in quite a many Standard. The end of an epoch different category, Germany having through a single public organis-be an air of many voltes. Andmediately fly to their friends, the has thus been reached--an epoch lost her extraterritorial rights nsation, it is in itself a contribution we listeners must keep a fresh police, and give you in charge for Looking back through our diary result of the war. No issue of an to democracy, because it is a new and judging and critical mind-threatening language. marked by much bitterness and extension of influence can therefore agency for the process of social in our study-groups; in letters of strife, by liquor gangs and arise. It seems a pettifogging dis discussion. But the way in which protest and appreciation to the we find that the police have never tinction when analysed; but it un-it la organised and run in England powers that be in the B.B.C.; in made any really determined and con-every way that will keep the com- sustained efforts to be friendly by syntheticism, poisonous

mon air manifold and free.

with us. harsh laws made and broken, by doubtedly reflects the mood of the makes it a specially good

tribution to democracy. Chinese people.

Of course there are difficulties We hope this will be rectified in Take first of all the way in "speakensies," rum flects, judi-

which it is organised. It is not and dangers for democracy in the near future. Not only for our cial paralysis, congested prisons,

organised as a private company, broadcasting. For one thing the sake, but for the sake of-the- which might as such be interested voices that are most prompt and generations to come.. If policemen

and ordinary children and corruption and incompet. THE FUKIEN SCENE

The in high places.

News of a XIXth Army conten-

in private profits and, incident- eloquent are the radical voices; change-over has come with retration in southern Fukien and of ally, in pressing the private views and they will always be pulsating brought up together, we feel sure a movement of troops by Canton of the company. It is organised most vigorously in the air, though that great benefits would result. markable "suddenness, for only

as a public concern. But it is a great and silent majority may The policemen of the next genera tion would not look down on their to meet the apparent menace of

just because Again, the B.B.C. has to organ civilian friends about a year ago even the most attack fits in closely with predic- not a public concern managed be registering a silent protest, militant and most optimistic tions of probable developments. directly by the State, which might "wets" did not expect repeal That Taal Ting-kai has looked with be tempted to become an agent of ise discussion to weigh, vlowa civilians have to pay to go to St. envious eyes towards Canton for a propaganda for the official views and distribute times and how within less than ten years. long time is common talk; whether of the Government, It is a public ever well it may do the work, it Andrew's Fair or the Cabarets. better position in concern managed independently will produco a sort of artificial Thero would even come a time, we go back a little further, wehe is in any

We would also suggest that find that general opinion, two or making his first perhaps, when policemen

towards they are appointed by the Govern- The weighting of the B.B.C. may three years ago was that it Kwangtung instead of

Cheklang is extremely doubtful. ment, can take their own line, and not be the weighting of actual policemen be grown smaller. Also, take twenty-There are stronger guarantees of who instinctively take the line of life. In particular, the B.B.C. han five years to

the the stability of the Canton Govern- serving the general interest--not to count with political parties, and Eighteenth Amendment, whilst ment to-day than existed a month an official interest; not a party to come to some arrangement with

(Continued on Page 5.) in January, 1920, when pro-480: rumours of dissension in the interest; but the interest of the these great organa of democracy-of policemen. So far,

camp have been largely dissipated; whole community. hibition became effective, there the runs on the banks have been who believed silfed by intelligent handling of the were many

remain for situation in Canton. In the air, on that it would

the land and son, Canton has forces at least half a century. The vastly superior to those at the dis blunders of the "drya," the posal of the Fukien secessionists the final outcome in a straight fight. gradual organisation of their end there should be little doubt of Huspicion, however, opponents, the desertion of pro-There is still minent members of the "dry" possibly quite unwarranted, cause, and the business depres-cerning the intentions of Kwangai. sion which lent expedieney to the The Wuchow and Nanning leaders have preserved a rather uncomfort- repcal campaign=all these able silence on the main issues, things were cogent factors in the which may nevertheless be inter- if it la correctly reported that trend. As we look back over preted as sitting on the fence. But the past few years of the anti-Hunanese troops will take part in Prohibition campaign,, it is easy any hostilities on the Kwangtung- to see that public sentiment was Fukien border, Canton has little undergoing a change, but, un- occasion for anxiety whatever hap

puna. fortunately, there were fow opportunities. for making, itself felt; Various straw" votes in- parts of the world. Suppressive dicated the way in which the efforts all too often drive the until evil underground, creating an people were thinking, finally the movement gained even worse situation, with new such. Impetus that it could not and more pernicious consequen- be stopped. Two main con- cea. We have seen this fact siderations may be cited in ex- tragically. Illustrated in Amer- planation of the death of Pro-Jea's experiment. For a time, hibition the first, a natural re-regrettable reactions may here pugnance against inhibitions and there manifest themselves which affect the ordering of as a result of the lifting of the one's mode of life; secondly, a ban, but eventually the nation growing conviction that it is will. doubtless resume the even batter to control certain social tenour of its ways, and Pro- cvils than to attempt their total hibition will remain only, a dim fa well-meant but suppression. The soundness of memory, of this latter viewpoint has again Impracticable piece of social and again been established in all reform..

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"Ho seems to be getting alang right well. Last night be knock- ed out his man In the fourth round."

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should be cultivated on the part this ox- a spirit of "Comel Come! Let us say no more about the matter!" pression only emanates from the suspect, And is this met in a friendly manner? We are sorry, to say it in not. The policeman Is frequently rude, and almost invariably inquistive. Far, far too often be naks you to come with him. We have often thought that a lot of this hospitality would-not be forthcoming if the policoman had to issue the invitation at his own expense.

We may seem a little harsh with the police, but you don't know us. We like policeman.

are

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We think policemen

all big. marvellous. They

the strong, handsome men with most wonderful uniforms. We would love to have a policeman's! Autograph in our album,

We would have liked to have beon a policeman-ourself. Police- men can kick you in the stomach, and when you go to kick back, they blow a whistle, and the Emergency Van fuil of Indian policamen. pounces on you. If wo wore in policemen we would go about all -day doing nothing else but kicking people in the stomach and blowing our whistle.

i can't be- Still, we supporo as wa comon policoman, we must content oursolf with just standing off and admiring the police forco wondorful generally What a body of men! What friends. What pals.

How kind to children. Dammit, if we had ten or eleven, or oven twelve children, we'd turn them over to the police. 4 That's what we think of the pollon, Great man...marvellous. And if we get arrested during Christmas, we've written all this for nothing.