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SATURDAY, JULY 30,
1938
We are
are taking
you over to..
WO immortal phrases
have been given to the English language by the
** In B.B.C.:
The
Town Tonight" and Fleet's Lit Up."
That second phrase, which Lo the endeared Its treator people for all time, was heard on an Outside Broadcast, that department of the BBC, which will bring the Grand National into your homes this afternoon
In a few weeks' time an out- side broadcast will be done of a London show called " The Peel's
LIL Up.
So, you see, the BBC ran br I forgives and quite huma remembers proudly
It is significant, though, that the BBC' t mest survesslui with the public when it is being human
"In Town To night" and the Outside Broadensis are the wo Brid broadcasting contacts Bakes with reality, with real people.
DTSIDE Drðadcastitig is. i s way. The News DI But instead of reporting things that have hap pened. It reports events while they are happening And it is this that. makes it the most tricky and fas- cinating department of broadcast-
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Often, tere da and lack of from organisers of
events
* brondent futal to agen, a theatre running
By SPIKE HUGHES
order is changed and the commen- tator is puzzled whether or not Les Girls will come after the aero- bats, or when. If at ail
It is then that the commenta-
He may for has to use tila wits have to talk for forty minutes in- stend of five and sound as if it was ail arranged that way in the first place.
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EXT he is faced with the protzem of when to hoiri ha teague A OH. after all, is radio and radio is a sund andātum
The descriptions of the King and Queen getting into a car la all very well, but the commentator, if he is good, and Raw when to fez That the stener van lewe the eat- tour slan
The thuch of and is of more value in the latence aly elaborate description
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lake most things at the BBC
overal planard the weeks ahami If anything predal turns up thin departmetal is mere
FL1 kety to get air te
short fier than any other Commentary on an OB IS VEFV with- much like thinking aloud 31 1 Scripts are very rately. used, of course, bul a certain nu-
is Heipation of what
Kaing to happen is experted.
One of the worst cried is to dither
Uncertain over
defall There was the classic case of
whun irisht Rugby commentator sald
"Now one of the forward try
got the ball. I can't any who he is. Walt while I
look at the programme Number of well, t doesn't matter, now, the other side's scored any- way."
Because it is one of the B.B.C.'S nost haman features, Outside Broadenstig has its human fof- lowing.
Commentators
Freddie like FL 3. Grisewood,
T Wakelam Marshall and Tommy Howard Woodrootte get a steady fan-mail.
Juhan bagge, after he had done a brondenst in a diving suit under- water, was written to by a woma offering falman job.
There were some rocks under the sea arar Mullon Island that needed leaking off for geulogical
What rearureb, diving fee be?
would
its
And being hamann, O.B.8 van go very wrong al ties.
> the worst occasions was during the Boat Rare. when the 11 artich Magician packed The crews rowed away and were abast out of sight before tho
pine was fixed up again.
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TOHN SNAGGE kept his [commentary going t
these days Cambridge always won anyways by fuking it. Tha od disnations OB way an
se of the mom described as When
a throsch a teleseops
1 Feet 1 w rouring with and the pot was invisible. 16111
Gangsters of the Insect World
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The
meny
yours rutonologast was usually pletur - bespeelneeri ekleriy gentleman, armed with "killing Pecule bottle" and a butterfly get were mildly amused at "bag-hantes as they were called.
...
To-day entomology plays en important part in the world, for we
Egned ret have now come to seriously, and lo realise that a great mumber of them are a mensee is life and property.
ent
Already more tisan 800,900 differ- of insert pests have been
uf
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Pan
alone total the stupendous sum one hundred and thirty millions
The figures are stunted yrar from Government surveys and umeini reports of entomologists,
FO-
The codling moth For examples
mis lostager he tied with mesenate, red sule viirus inseels are new memine to all emulsions and hydrocyane gas,
des
It will be evident from these figurestroyed them That the modern entomologist quires other weapons than a "killing bottle!" To-day in this country. we have about 300 official entomologists
Kreat deal On their shoulders rests of the responsibility for keeping They have great aflies down insects.
in the chemists and biologists of the world's universities. Great chemieud Arms are constantly at work devising there potent Insectides methods of attack.
discutar sciential, biologist, and entomologist are fighing what is perhaps battle for the survival of humanity. The number of lives st
sting from such Acquired immunity as a result 4 Inseels as the telse fy, which entises "sleeping steknens," the mudacia, and
fever yellow
varying mosquitos, momts to 1,000,000
Three Hundred million sterling is a fair estimate of the s ocensioned every year in the lash Empire from the ravages of Hasrets on food, grafts, and tuber cone million pounds every 24 bount Colorado Beetle
and new
There are many problems to be
colossal Th
reproductive facil capacity of many insects is not the pommelsenst of them. It has also been dis- covered that some insects eventually beroane izlamune to the very poisen: that previously killed them
The Colorach beetle, most decaded
of all potato pests, was thought res cently to have been
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country. Fortunately. which followed the announcement be unfounde ཊྛིཏཱ ཝཱ་སཱབྷ, proved to years ago, however, this beetle did establish itself in France, and ruined the country's
Props for several
American seasons. Canadian farmers fought the scourge of the Colorado beetle for yenza, be- fore finally succeeding in getting it under control with
th the seientifle methods.
In southern United Slates
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of
the
THE WIND IN THE TREES
which
once
One
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION
of the dangers of Outside Broadcasting is "mike-crashing."
This danger has been obviated now by the use of the "Hip" micro- phone which will pick up only sounds two inches away.
But in earlier days the micro- phone was a magnet in public
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Not long ago, John Snagge did a commentary from a fun fair drunk deelded he'd kr to address the nation, too He was kept away, afght started, but the broaden
the public never Wen!
421, and knew.
com -
N the main there lan't anueta danger adlarhed to being an 0.8
the big "Relying" Wapping Pie was none too plens- a Port tilice offelal teli in Water,
connenbitor's clothes were ruined by the melted Iubber, but I wasn't too bad
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It is the job for anyone suffering from vertigo, however. Several of the regular > B, like the Derby, to-day's (rand National, the lord Mayor's Show, are all described from dizzy tsh helichts.
Accidents are
AS A rule nuing worse than talking Into a microphone which is "ve" before
Fare
OB from One
Twickenhamn statted with Hitmey! Can't you country hear me) **
The whole heard it, anyway
Then there was an 0.1. of the Tower of London Ceremony of the As much the same thing Kuya
Line com- happens every year. mentator deuided to use a script.
"And now." he read, "there is siener, broken only by the occa- somal wall of ก syren on the river.
The light flickers faintly, throwing dark strange shadows All a slience--eeric on the walls.
Whereon an officer, returning in his ear, hooted violently a couple of yards from the microphone.
silence And so chemists must have poisons spreide to evrlasa in- zeets, yet harness to human beings
At the Imperial institute of EB- is & "rogres gallery" tannology there is
word of insects
every kimw insect and its known parasite is kest
inost pests have a parasite
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When the Institute does not know, I les i te fine! otel. 1 breeds and krepa buge
supplies of them
thapusons and Upousands, Every year of parasites are shipped to all packs world, for it has been fead that the best method of turkling In- Try sect pests is to kill them off
Sometimes after "Biological control “
done their work i the parasites have effetently they themselves become a nuisance, but no better plan luis yet, been evolved in deal with the never ending problem of the balance of
rature
The Ancient Locust
So far as we in this country are concerned die growth in building ac tivity is perhaps responsible for the By A BLIND MAN
inereuse of noxious pests. For in WITH my super-senative powers
forest luru, and clearing can easily recog-hundred of thousands of Also any particular
of tree major diet was trop pests, have bad
destroyed. There simply by hearing the wind blowing their through the branches.
voracious insect for
kid
homes destros
inver, one
There is nothing remarkable das; almost anyone can do the same if they care to take the trouble le train themselves to listen to the different notes the wind makes In different trees.
For each tree has its own charne- teristic sound. Trees may be likened to instruments in an orchestra; each
no "living" parasite has been
Safe the lorust.
Os have their fascination all right.
A
Ta Health Centre the Activities of the people
to concerned were
be described. Five minutes before the broadcast was to happen the actors of the O.B. suddenly trouped off.
Hey!" shouted the commenta- "Where are you all going? Why, to hear the broadcast." It took a lot of explaining, con- siderable tact and persuasion to gel them back.
tor
The young men who work in the O.B. department consider theirs is the best job in the B.B.C. That's probably why they make such a good job of it.
-To-day's Thought How strong
works
words.
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asts, the ancient and inveterate enemy of mani, cont Egypt, Palestine, Africa, and other countries subject to their onslaught, enormous sums for protective
Locusts are the measures. real "gangsters" of The insect world, and if ever they were permit- one strikes a different note: but, ted to get a real hold on growing the notes are felds the loss in destroyed crops and rising and falling, spruce saw-dy, and other blended into une hnemonte whole.
general impoverishment would be in- Dominion twenty The
The elm, for example, can be discalculable. tinguished by its harsh note,
bollweevil costo Jen uition
Platte your
borer,
In Canada, the corn-
pests cost million pounis Australia's
annum.
loss during
il similar period is calculated to be slightly in
of Canada's: excess
Queensland reckons her insert bill at two million. The ravastes of insects in the Indian Empire on timber and food
NOW YOU KNOW
Answers From Page 2
1.-Dean, 2-His hat.
3.An ear specialist,
4.
One who smuggles. 6-Ruin.
6-St.. Crispin,
7-08 9/9.
B. Henry VIII.
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12-Sorcerer
13.--Austria,
14.-Idiots,
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Oleaginous.
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20.
Two maels,
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22.--Dally.
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29--Colorless,
20.-York:
24-Many-sided nolids,
kind
It
The Locust Control employ ob- of guttural grumble. The gentlest servers. They are stationed near the
remote places breeze strikes a loud chord here. seems to be seeking vainly for an breeding grounds are situnted.
perpetual question. Instant There is no cadence.
ans.ver
to
In the holly the sound is remark ably sibilant. The stiff leaves seem almost to hiss us the air rushes through them.
The "war" is
where the locusts' The
there are Indications of "swarming," the mysterious process which changes the harmless mulltary locust into nomad hordes, the ob- servers telephone their Governmental offices giving the direction taken by With the yew, the music changes the winged "destruction" which liter- to a plaintive minor key-a mournful, ally darkens the sky.
rise and fall, and if one soughing
on. Weapons of was of a morbid tendency, one might modern warfare are brought into say that it presnged death or disaster. action. Acroplanes attack the flying In contrast to these, the oak and swims with poison sprays. Deadly the ash are distinguished by a light, hydrocygnie gas is released against hurried rustling sound. They strike those already settled on the crops rather a high note, but, walking on, and voraciously eating their wily one notices that the sound changes neross the country. Ditches, normally to a lighter rustic, and a still higher for irrigation, are quickly inter-con-
nected and led with blazing oil.
like the
No one has yet been able to explain, why this gigantle swarming begins, or what instinct compels locusts to leave crops only partly devoured and, as it given signal, rise together, denfening the air with the beat of a
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note. It is the apple tree. there are Then
trees acacia, mountain ash, and sycamore, Mysterious Movements through which the wind blows with a certain joyousness. It is contagious, for immediately one comes near them one becomes aware of this feeling. The tempo is quick, at times the musle seems to race. It is all very Eny and merry.
Through the lime trees the windmilllon wings as they proceed to their holden In some way to ploneer en- tomologists with their nets and kili- Even those of us who Ollier countries not cursed with In bottles. locusts use the aeroplano for spraying anxiously watch out for the blue and fruit irees and crops. Our hop-fiekin black aphis bug to make its seasonal are sprayed with a solution of sul-appearance in our garden ara pro- phur and copper. Indeed, there. is bably armed with a concoction or- hardly a former or gardener in this iginated by one of them.
Leonard Armstrong or any other country who is not be-
has a smooth passage, and the sound lu very melodious.
But it is in the silver birch that the wind seems as it it had almost come to an end. It rustles gently through the tiny leaves, which nenree jy slir in response It comes liked still, small voice, and then, away.
next landing spot.
45 Books to
choose from
【EAVENS, only two more days
"HE
to go, and I haven't made up my mind what to read over the holidays!" If that's how you feel this morning, this is the page for you. For it offers you a choice among forty-five novels and volumes of short stories.
For The Romantic
This Man Murray, by William Corcoran (Dent. 79. Od.). A tale of love on the run
Streamlined. across the United States.
The Lady and the Unicorn, by Rumer Half-caste Gudden (Peter Davies, 79. Gd.). familles--and ghosts-in a ramshackle old Calcutta lenement.
Marriage, by
James
Mr. Arkwright's Lansdale Hodson (Gollancz, s. 8d.). In which a wealthy Lancashire widower learns a thing or two.
Fruit in Season, by Anthony Thorne (Heinemann, 7s. 8d.). Four men and women return to the home of their youth after many
yours.
This Proud Heart, by Pearl Buck (Methuen, B. 6d. ). Torn between Domesticlly and Art, a woman finds her happiness at long last.
The Time of Wild Roses, by Doreen Wallace (Collins,
8 6d). Love down on the farin. No le romance of an empty day
For Adventurers
Northwest Passage, by Kon- neth Roberts (Collins, Os dd.). Major Robert Rogers of Rogers' Rangers burns up that old Injun Trail.
A
Woman Screamed, by Robert Neumaon (Cassell 8s. Gd). Europe a hundred years ago. And Kossuth. There was a here for you!
Red Planes Fly East, by Piotr Pavlenko (Routledge, Bs. d.). On Russia's Far Eastern Iron- tier. With bombers roaring over Tokyo.
Count Belisarius, by Robert Graves (Cassell, 8s. 8d.). The story of a great Roman general. Spotlight on those Dark Ages, please!
Solo, by Nicolas Bodington (Gollancz, 7s. Gd.). What it feels like to fly alone from Sau Francisco to Parls and back non-stop.
A Ship of the Line, by C. S. Forester (Michael Joseph, 7s. Od.). Or what I meant to be press-ganged in the Good Old Days....
Short Stories
You Make Your Own life, by V. 5. Prichatt (Chatto and Windus, 3s. Od.). Brilliantly written tales about ordinary men and women.
Furthermore, by Damon Runyon (Constable, 7s. Gd.) Second expedi tion into the wilds of Runyonland. More than somewhat.
Head in Green Bronze, by Hugh Walpole Macmillan. 89. d.). Bir Hugh is "at home" in Cumberland, Hollywood and points cast.
Caster
Reading
Here are five of the authers in the holiday fiction offering-i Booth Tarkington, Philip MacDonald, Amabel Williams- Ellis, Robert Graves and Sinclair Dewis.
almost Kuess - proof solution. The Nursemaid Who Disap- peared, by Philip MacDonald (Col» ins. s. 64.1. Anthony Gethryn Brilliant takes the trail again, detection.
The Guilt is Plain. by David Frome Longmans, Green, 78, 64.5. Le Mr. Pinkerton tumbles his way through the oddest mystery.
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The Judas Window, by Carter Dickson (Heinemann, 7s. 8d.). brand-new solution of that classic sealed-room riddle.
Fall over CHAT, by Josephine Bell (Longmans, Green. 7s. 8d.). Death and by diabetes, runaway pony drowning. And murder...
Francis The Black Arrows, by Beeding fodder and Stoughton, 75. 6d. Very Secret Service among the Venellan gondollers.
Cha Ladies K1017 by Peter Cheyney (Collins, 75, 6d. -man Lemmy Caution is out and about again. And are his wits sick!
File on Fenton and Farr, by Q. Patrick (Jarrolds, 55.7 One of those collections of letters, tickets and lipstick.
Death under Gibraltar. by Bernard
(Gollancz,
Newmna
79. 6d. Plot against the Rock and dauntless work by "Spy "Newman
For Laugh Lovers
Summer Moonshine, by P. G.
(Herbert Wodehouse
Jenkins,
78. bd.). The decline and fall of a Cries of Hoah! country seat. Heahi"
Seven Against
Richard Aldington
by
Reeves, (Heinemann,
7. 8d.). A little City man beset by fools and Jakers. Easy armchair slaughter. A
Faithful
by Shella Stranger, Kaye-Smith (Cassell. 75. 6d.).
dlozen Mostly buker's
on the theme of your-heart's-in-your-
homo.
London Lovers, by Denis Mackuil Hodder and Stoughton, Bs. 8d.). Thirty variations of that Old, Old Story. Very pretty indeed.
What Next? by Laurence Hous- man (Cape, 8s. Od.). Thirty tales, fantasles and parables exploring modern faiths and morals,
For Serious Moods
Bidden to the Feast, by Jack Joncs (Hamish Hamliton, 8s. dd.). In which a rich South Wales seam is mined across forty years.
The Chute, by Albert Halper (Cassell, 8. Od.). Life seen from the frantic floor of a monster Oliicago mail-order concern,
I'd Hate to Be Dead, by Frank The Tilsloy (Collins, 88. Od.). Amazing Adventures of a Lad With an Eye to the Main Chance.
Sleep in Peace, by Phyllis Bentley (Gollancz, 8s. Od.), Threa Yorkshire of generations
two families. Mill stacks and mod- erniam.
(Peter Lor, by Jim Phelan Davies, 8s. Od.). A young man grows grey bohind prison bara. The novel of the season,
Amabel The Big Firm, by Williams-Ellis (Collins, O. d.). The tale of a great chemical com- bine-and living men and women.
For Sherlocks & Watsons
Artists in Crime, by Ngaio Marsh (Geoffroy Bles, Ta. 6d.). A murder with seven witnesses-and
ад
Kumbla Galleries, by Booth Tarkington (Heinemann, 78. Od.). The gloriously comie misadven- tures of American picture- dealer.
Ap
The Prodigal Parents, by Sinclair On your Lewis (Cape, 7s. 8d.) right-Two Harassed Parents. On your left Their Wicked Young.
My Wife's the Least of It, by WI- Ham Gerhardi (Faber and Faber, 10a, 0d.). In which Filmland takes the count. Terrific irony.
This Narrow World, by Elleen Bigland (Hodder and Stoughton, 78. d.). The delightful Anna sees life in Scotland and in Russia.
A Mixed Six
What Hath a Man? by Sarah Gertrude Millin (Chatto and Win- dus, 85, 0d.). The strange life and stranger death of Henry Ormandy,
The Bending Slektle, by Gerald Bullott (Dent, 7s. (d.). Sixty-year- old Lalage is brighter and younger than any of your Bright Young Thinge.
I'm Not Complaining, by Ruth Adam. (Chapman and Hall, 78. 60.). A tale of school-teachers. Work, politica, love~and living,
No Nows, by Pamela Frankau (Heinemann, 78. dd.). A journalist sats out on a wild-goose chase and stumbles on the story of his life.
O. Absalomt by Howard Spring (Collins, Bs, Orl.). From northern slum streats through the Great War to the Irish Rebellion.
A Stranger Myself, by J. A. Colo (Faber and Faber, 78. Od.). Featur- ing life-and death-In the wards of a suburban hospital,
A Lay Sermon
By HUGH REDWOOD
VERY unpleasant indeed is
MIN
broken tooth, Il continually thrusts itself into our conscious- It lacerates our tongue; it may even affect our speech.
So that the gure, as here em- ployed, is ap, for all these things 32 peculiarly of the who
A broken tooth PROVERBS. XX. ID.
need
Crite friend
Us Sails
of that The starp edge brokra confidence is constantly with us; It finds Its way into our manner of speaking, our soreness of tongue is apparent to every-
one.
What relief, then, for all con- cerned when we can turn to the unfailing. thought of a Friend What is to be unafraid; to re- tht: promise: "I will
thee leave
nor forsake be able to say. In all
menber
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to
thee certainty, "The Lord is my helper and I will not fear what man shalt do unto me" That ought make us speak plainly, but does t? Listen: " foresaw the Lord always before my face, for He is on my right hond, that I should not be moved. Therefore did my hwart rejoice, and my tongue was piad. No broken tooth there. Does you heart reJuice? Then ave free longue to its gladness.
"I CAN'T ALWAYS BE WATCHING THEM HOW, HLAST.
HOW CAN I
KEEP THEM HEALTHY?"
"You're very wise to ask
that, Mrs. Bartlett. And I'll tell you the way in which you can help them most,
"Make sure of internal cleanliness by giving them a regular weekly dose of California Syrup of Figs. This in specially important with children at the criticnt age, like yours, who are working hard for their exams. There's nothing pulls them down more thinn poison in the system-il affects their general health, making them ilable to catch any infection that's going about.
my experience 'California Syrup of Figs does far more than simply cleanse the system. It acts quile naturally, and gently and keeps the digestion healthy and active.
"I And 'California Syrup of Figs' equally good for, adulta, especially for women. As a matter of fact, Mrs. Bartlett, I use it myself and recom- mend
family you to adopt it for the whole Be sure to get the gerusine "California Surup of Figs."
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California Syrup of Fiqs".
"NATURE'S OWN' LAXATIVE
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