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HONGKONG THE

TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY,

Yet he will not touch my

my daughter's pet rabbit ..

UEER, they are called, animal friendships. Take, for instance, my own dog Jack, a

Compound of sheepdog and whippet, he is never so happy as when on the scent of a rabbit, pointing, chasing, catching, killing, and, if I um not prompt to command, devouring it.

Yet he will not touch my daughter's pet rabbit. They sleep in the same shed.

They feed together, or, rather, I should say that Whitenose helps herself to the vegetarian side of Jack's dinner, while the dog, unbidden. waits Oven- rather sulkily until the rabbit retires. sionally the sight of a particularly ravishing bone the rabbit tempts Jack to secure it just in case turns carnivorous,

This comedy goes on even when Jack thinks We can see them unobserved no one is watching.

from a window high above the feeding yard.

Yet the dog and rabbit have nothing in com- mon except their quarters, and a mutual hate of prowling cats.

t

Whitenose will stand on her long hind legs and box with her forepaws if attacked by a cat, But Jack usually drives them away for her.

I think that Jack gels a certain amount of satisfaction out of protecting Whitenose, and her company. Sometimes when bored by drowsy huruans, and the teasing of my daughter indoors. he slips away to the shed, to enjoy the quiet move- ments of the rabbit.

On her part the rabbit seems to recognise that

cat-chaser and as Jack is useful, both as a source of food supply.

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It is a question of either would grieve if separated. It is rather a one-sided mutual benefit association.

You may read of queer animal friendships

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like that of a horse and a hen, a sheep and goose, a donkey and a goat, a dog and a rat, a man and a bat, and W. H. Hudson's story of a swan fish, which it that became deeply attached to a stroked and caressed in the water.

In most instances, however, it is generally possible to trace the mutual benefit association. man to The same, directly or, indirectly, moves form his friendships, both with man and beast.

Even the cnt that insists on mothering, any small ereature-day-old chick, pup, fox-cub, rat- is only gratifying her unusually strong maternal passion.

I knew of a cow that could not resist the call of a calf, and would charge hedges all over the farm in an attempt to answer several calf-calls at She was the farmi's best milker, by the

once. Way.

A spaniel once struck up a great friendship for a sow. Whenever the old lady went to sleep. the spaniel eagerly climbed on to her broad side, and we would find him stretched out there in sleepy comfort!

The good-natured pig got nothing out of this friendship, save company, but the spaniel seemed to appreciate thoroughly the warm glow of the sow's body.

A more beneficial friendship. was that of the On hot afternoons as she lay wasp and the sow, in the sun, flies would irritate the groaning sow by crawling over her, andtickling her skin between the scanty hairs. They were so occupied with this that the wasp was able to pick then off her body easily and rapidly.

R. M. Lockley

What do the

B B C their

N the spring the B.B.C

talked prosperity and expansion.

To-day they talk economy- the grimmest word in the listen er's vocabulary.

Beenuse economy at Broadcasting House spells poor pengrammes in Peckham, and everywhere else, the shareholders suller, And probably, knowing that licences have been on The up and up (7,900,573 last year), you are wondering why.

the Luak

facts. Last year at B.B.C.'s total income was £2,953,- 469-nearly three million pounds.

A pretty considerable figure. And Spending on

so thought the H.3.C.

boom lines seemed natarui.

URING 1938 the B.B.C.:

1. Increased the, person- nel of three of their orchestras-the Scottish, the West Regional, and the the B.B.C. Dance Orchestras. Now B.B.C. employ the astonishing num- ber of 425 orchestral musicians,

custs £500 a tip-topper (and the of tip- Tuli are

£1,500 to knock-up

out the B.B.C.

An average player

year. while

B.B.C.

bands

toppers) can

do

with

money?

Who's your favourite? Gracle, Fields? Well, last time she broadcast she was paid 150 guineas. The B.B.C. can't afford that often, they say,

Do you like radio plays? Well, the average fee-straight or musical-is about £50 for the author. Not many authors can afford the time for that money.

Jack Hylton is paid £100 for a broadcast. Out of that he pays singers, arrangers, porters, musicians, motor-coach hire. And lic

Is mut of pocket-pays for the privilege of entertaining listeners.

Highest fees in the B.B.C. are paid to "straigh!" musicians ---conductors, singers, instrumentalists. Occasionally, the cor-

poration try to cut their fees.

was con-

Toscanial did not appear last year. Illness was the excuse; at the time of his original London date Toscaninl ducting in Paris. When he broadcast in 1935 he was paid not less than £500 per concert,

Flotsam and Jetsam, who were getting £42 a time, refused to accept a cut of £10 10s, and haven't studio broadenst since. Television finance is different. Author of a programme hus to be paid out of production allocation-after artists and dress- makers have been puid.

At Broadcasting House these copyright fees are independent of production costs. Current phruse at Alexandra Palace is, Also said that they have a "Well, another shoe string show."

to heat new television theatre there; but they can't afford it..

Another way the B.B.C. spend money: do you know about the mysterious and useful people under "programine contract"? This means they are paid a retaining fee of £800 a year The B.B.C. are for writing, composing, producing and so on. not renewing some of these contracts..

AUGUST 13, 1937.

RIGHT. HAND

OR LEFT?

By Robert Kingman, M.D.,

TAMMERING can be far more than an embarrassing defect; it can be a dangerous and even fatal handicap, A good deal has been written about the relationship between stammering and left-handedness, and the public is coming to know that doctors be lieve there is a connection between the two.

Left-handedness, however, la only half the story. Stammering depends not on left-handedness, but on a right- sided brain, which is à cause both of left-handedness and of the speech defect.

Ninety-six in every hundred of us have left-sided brains, and persons with left-sided brains nic always right-handed. The minority, four in every hundred, are born with right- alded brains and are left-handed.

ap This carious cross-mechanism plies to most of the functions of the body that right brain governing the movements and receiving the sen- sations of the left side of the body, while the left brain does the same for the right side,

crossing the

To facilitate this human

brain is divided into two parts, or hemispheres, commonly call- ed right or left brains, ench an exact of the replica in reversed pattern other, like the left and right of a pair of gloves.

Efects of "Sec-Sowing"

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govern at the same time.

Imagine the confusion that would result it one hemisphere gave the order to go downstairs at the same time that the other gave the order to go up!

the two In certain circumstances sides of the brain do try to dominate

STEAMER time, and in this way at the same the internal confusion that results is

CHANGTE seen outwardly in the hesitation of

TAIPING specch that we call stammering.

CHANGTE This happens

a naturally forced,

TAIPING right-brained person has been

when

by changing from left-handedness to right-handedness, to change leader- shilp to the left brain.

If he tries to talk when nervous or excited,

brain should say that the left

control the words, but Nature sees a chance to reassert her- self, and insists that the right brain take its natural lead.

While the two hemispheres see-saw against one another for a decision as In- dominate, to which shall dividual splutters and stammers. Finally, the re-establishment of co- ordinated speech shows that one or the other side of the brain has gain- ed the upper hand.

the

But, you may object, some right- Truc, do stammer. handed persons but they are naturally and mentally lett-handed Just the same. That is, they started off by being left-handedi £190,280, and and right-brained, and their right for another brain is still dominant, or trying to have apparently be, even if they learned to be more skilful with the These things tot up. WH the right hand than the left. additional burden of television they mental Left-Handedness become alarming,

Engineering rost maintenance accounted

£01,00).

And I'm considerably afraid that. Some babies, born left-handed into unless the Government are generous, a world where everything is adapted the that modest little £500,000 allocated to the right hand, and where

discard majority are right-handed, tu artists, and to your entertainment, their outward preference for the left will be reduced this year.

hand before, it is even noticed. But while physical left-handedness can be other suggest

reversed, mental left-handedness can- economies to the B.B.C. not. This fact explains the anomaly

of the right-handed stammerers, that affect listeners less.

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ACROSS

1 In steadfastness is Its reverse. 9 Vegetable.

Here is an Illustration which shows what really happens in cases that cease being physically left-handed but continue to be mentally left-handed. A boy used his left hund for the the in school. In Arst two years third grade the teacher insisted on the use of the right hand. The change of was enforced at home with knife and 10 Changed with a brief answer for

boy Check LID

these bevies

me in it. fork and other activities. The carning secretaries. (Some men,

began stuttering in his fourth year, 11 A number.

12 Even it a man wears this the ear and continued it until his first year £000 a year, have two.)

19 stil

still visible. at college. Consider whether

At this time the boy considered 15 Pigs don't feel the end of it after- (After all, himself and was considered by others eating it. lege is really necessary.

firms run an ex-to be completely right-handed. When 17 Edible change from 27 across. how many other

18 Courage that is not encouraged pensive establishment to teach new-be we given the special tests which

are piled to doubtful cases, how- in the works. comers to earn their salaries"}

ever, it was found among other things 19 This Is ground for the common

benent, Find out how

is that, in spite of his nine years of writ lost each year on public concertsing with the right hand, he still had 21 No light-handed people ilve

herein. it clear that he wanted to televise these conditions, on the BBC's own the Prums and Symphony concerts, much greater facility with his left.

When he used the latter his letters 22 Might paradoxically be best. 2. Built, equipped, and staffed good programmes with good artists. admission, will become worse. (Sir Adrian Boult, when asked this

didn't know. were better formed and more rapidly 23 There's sense in this. training college

young

question last year,

outside made, while what he wrote was of 20 Part of a church. TE B.B.C. cannot, and will nld he, "I am mercifully THE

both in content and 27 The poet's above. higher quality not,

on wages. these matters.") cut down

grammatical construction. The spel-20 This part of England may be the The underpaid men far outnumber

responsible for bodily ailment, Balance the cost of contemporarying was also better. The unnatural conceris, plus the Ices of modern-leadership of the left brain which had

30 A tongue that wags but feebly foreign

nowadays. 3. Opened three new high-power- B.B.C. biting their pen-holders try- those who are overpaid,

visitors, against the been forced upon him was cramping Recently we read of young Mr. Istič

33 Quanh, ed transmitters (average cost around Ing to cut down elsewhere.

Patrick Butler, a B.B.C. Empire an- number of people who listen to them. his style ns well as his speech, *£100,000) in North Ireland,

£2,000. So work

musicians bill for yourself and re-

member it's only one small item.

wherein

offeinls could le

their jobs.

intide The D.B.C.

It clear that now there was no

rezult money. The Twenty-five young hopefuls work there on full salary. The col has been a compromise-Mr. Cock

and somehow struggling on lege costs £11,000 a year.

Burg-

much

money

head, and Anglesey: laid the founda- ALREADY the writing... nouncer, who hat buherited £200,000. SOME rigid attention to these Root of the Trouble

tions of two more near Newcastle and Aberdeen.

the

The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra is scrapped-a sav-

may

4. Built a cinému organ casting Ing of about £18,000 a year.

£10,000,

The Theatre Orchestra 3. Sent Mr. Stanford Robinson to turned, willy nilly, into

announcers, more 6. Engaged conductors, producers, torlea tively and approximately, £330, E300 and £123 a year).

(starting

£250,

35 An insect here in France with father and one of the boys is looked for 37 across,

do.

DOWN

2 She brings up really childish

charges.

3 He possesses something, evident-

ly.

4 This offers no easy opening. 5 It files through the air with the

greatest of case.

CROSSWORDS

8 The beginning.

12 This can be drawn out, of course

If creditable,

13 Two beasts commence to kill. 14 Motion mostly and altogether

funny.

15 Another thing the housewife has

to do.

16 This den is not light, 20 Rotate.

25 Fish the postman may collect, 28 Light excess (5).

29 This occasionally comes to one's

cars.

31 Foreign officer elected, and not

for the Arst time.

32 Perfect reflection for a shop-

keeper.

34 Money-making plant,

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that extra details, plus about £300 Ilis B.D.C. salary is

He was advised to make exclusive 38 One thing the housewife has to a year-£5 105. n week-and for £100,000 which 1 feel sure the Gov- be four days a week, he works from 11 ernment are going to give to television use of his left hand whenever it

this year, and the B.B.C. should be would serve. The plan was started in 37 With anticipation, an opera p.m. till 4 a.m. That's not over out of many of its difficulties.

October, and by Christmas his par- If not then the future is grave.ents notleed a decided improvement May he had no the Continent (on pay and with orchestra for the new opera schenw.payment.

(and I wonder Or alternatively

No, the money goes in other ways. Saturation point, say the BBC. in in his speech. Ly

trouble. When his right expenses) to watch opern,

you'd which

prefer) the opera

Last year the D.B.C. spent £223,- their annual report, is nearly reached further

ship confusion and stammering both nnd secre scheme may be dropped. Certainly 314 on their permanent orchestras. in licences. Six out of every eight brain was allowed undisputed leader-

censed. auturies, respec- no new orchestra will be formed.

COPYRIGHTS and royalties houses have radio sets.

Parents and teachers are beginning Ninety-five per cent. of sets now cost them another £205,-

our to learn of these cases, and the an- are replacements. And

left-handedness is weakening. Chil dren are being allowed ib-use the clent and ridiculous prejudice against

hand which comes naturally to them. Every pupil should be tested with

be a dangerous the four special forms of writing, of determining which eye is the dominant for responsible positions in which this

speech defect may which the two hands are capable, and one.

One of these days, It is to be hoped, handicap, and they will also be ap- An instrument

all stammering · school- with the manuscope, which tells to a hair which hemis- these tests will become a routine plied to phere of the brala is the leader by preliminary when stammerers apply children.

last year looked like dazzling our These two items, added to- sold 7. Increased the staff and pro- eyes and cars, have petered gramme hours of the Empire Ser into seven days of quite ordinary Bether, come to very little less than population is not growing any larger.

vice.

8. Opened B

The Coronation programmes, which

480.

out

features.

all the fees paid to all the artists who entertained you (total. £504,807).

television service,

Where the producers had expected the order "Spend, my boy, and pinke

The combined salaries of the

advent

which has cost £111,800.

of

it good" they now meet grave-faced entire programme staff came to the and 101, while travelling, postage And it was with the television that the B.D.C.'s financial men who say, "We can't afford it." surprisingly small figure of £293,-. Unless the Government pay over petty expenses came to the whacktig Cock, director of television, nade more money to keep television going, sum of £62,504,

draught began to blow. Mr. Gerald

Jonah Barrington

Ging with poetic heart.

7 Criminals who work hand In

glove don't leave this,

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