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THE · HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1937.

Millet's famed painting of "The Gleaners" is suggested here in stark reality as these Chinese sweep up bits of lose rice and wheat that have spilled on the pavement in Shanghai, Thousands of homeless and foodless victims of the war are glad of these grains. Note the giri at left with her apron Alled with glean-

ings.

VOICES OF BABEL

THE winter season is fast approach-

ing, and with it come those dark hours when the freside calls. Then it is we turn to our wireless

sets and tour the world in rearch of enjoyment after the day's work.

Along with many others at this

Propaganda- Tortured Ether

time, I have tell the call of that Appeals In English

old-time thrill of searching the elher, and have invested in an all-

wave sel.

German stations throbbed with impassioned speech, pulttienl the highest degree, and in the echoes of Hitler's spoken thoughts the loyal

emphasised speakers

their hatred and distrust of Russia, of all things Seraille and non-Aryan.

So the placid attitude of conteat-Nazi ment with the local and national stations has gone, and the thrill of ten years ago has returned that

wanderlust of the ether.

Will hum about mine cars; and

sometimes voices.

That, then had wak'd after

long sleep,

Will make me sleep again; and

then, in dreaming,

The clouds methought would open,

and show ilchas

Ready to drop upon me, that, when I wak'd,

I cried to dream again,"

When Shakespeare put these pro- phetle words into the mouth of Cnli- ban, he could not have imagined, even with his uncanny foresight, that the day would come when men far

So the knobs went round to Italy, more human in form and pretension Here in a beautiful, cultured voice, than the beast of Prospero would fill in the English language, a woman the air with hatred, misrepresenta- One night recently I fingered by announcer was reading what might tlon, and war, to feed the minds of

be colloquially described

millions who were listening only in the set until the early hours. The Mussolini's อาเค book of words, the hope of being entertained. night was propitious, and the recep- Germany, with its (to Italy) second Praise for flaly, puts on the buck for all that could be desired.string Mussolini as Fuhrer, and America came легол wonderfully hints at the distaste with which all things non-Fascist are regarded in Fascist Italy.

tion

clear and distinct.

The most pathetic call came from Lisbon, where a pleading voice, stark and clear in the silent hours around midnight, begged the listening world (in English) to heed no propagandist fates of a torn and revolt-ridden Portugal.

The political broadcasts, if they go on unchecked, may bring the opening of the clouds, not to drop riches, but to rain down death on innocent people who only asked to be allowed to live their simple lives in peace.

Did Roger Bacon foresee the results of his invention when he mixed the ingredients of gunpowder? Did Leonardo da Vinci, struggling in the intervals between his painting and sculpture to devise a flying machine, picture it as one of a fleet of heavy bombers under the commard of a dictator who had the power if un- loose war by a word?

Then I turned to Europe, and after two hours of diligence at the knobs I went to my bed with won- derment and misgiving. What does It all mean? Where will it all end?

Wireless broadcasting came to us! as_a...miracle. -IL-quickly-developed "From north to south, from west Into a commercial proposition, and to cast, in the islands round the coast,

and in the colonica overseas, the people in their own homes had pleaded the voice, "Portugul is át

Did the gentle conferred

Kenius Marconi upon them one of the peace; Portugal is at peace."

visualise an elher teeming with poli- greatest blessings of selence.

American commentators from New ties and slinking with the hot breath York and Chicago discussed their of malice and hate when he first sent own political affairs, and seemed to his signals across a modest garden? view European muddle-headedness I think not. with amusement tinged with pity.

The controversy raged, and still rages, as to the proper function of broadcasting. Some insist that it is

wholly recreational, and that we Epidemic Of Fear

should be amused. Others point to: the vital need of education, and clamour for the instructional type of transmission.

Poisonous Words

What Is Truth?

There is however, a bright side to Talk, talk, talk-nation speaking all this fearfulness. The man in the unto nation, bul not of peace, and street, that mythical character who not with peace in their hearts or on Is the prototype of our ordinary men their lips. The ether throbs with and women, is a shrewder and more fear, fustiftention of politlenl acts, likeable follow than the demagogues and with biased accounts of the in their egotism can ever appreciate. character, management, and sinister intentions of other States,

Now, unfortunately, the creature

No wonder the nations have re- of man's brain threatens, like the cently been canvassed for their opin monster created by Frarkenstein, to lon on "infammatory broadcasting."

.

run amok. There are unleashed Some have declared against it, some

have not deigned to upon the world, at the time of day others have accepted

reply, white that it is when resistance to suggestion is at undesirable, with reservations. Ita weakest, poisonous words that Where will it all end? Ko with the listener to his bed. Sinister thoughts flash ko ghtning round the world, and the ether is become an aerial Tower of Babel.

The B.B.C., still the standard of Incorruptible public service, stands aloof and refuses to cheapen its re- putation and lower its dignity by allowing passion to supersede rea¬ son, but the serious searcher of the. ether is bound to come to the con- clusion tint the B.B.C.A motto,

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From Moscow came a long laser- tation

on the Nurembert spate of Nazi speech + making. Leningrad added

to the torrent. Hitler WON spoken of as the corner-bby of a second-rate troupe of clowns, Ger- many was depicted as a nation seek- ing for bread and fed on empty words and covert 'threats. Disaster was predicted for this National Socialist country.

The words piled up, and hatred; became more and more apparent. A glance at the programme showed that Moscow, will its three transmissions, was sending forth these thoughts in at least four European languages.

"The isle is full of noises. Sounds and sweet airs, that give

delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling

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He listens to Moscow, to Berlin, to Rome, Madrid, and the though at first alarmed, he ends by rest, and being amused. He loses little sleep over these gardenwall blethers of the politicians.

Like Bacon, he echoes the words of Pilate and asks, "What Is Truth"? Like Pilate, too, he does not wait for an answer. The knobs are too casily manipulated. He turns to on- other station that is sending out en- tertainment. At any rate, "Music hath chorros.

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