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TUESDAY, November 22, 1938.
Broadcasting
WE
VE DO NOT intend to enter into controversy with the anonymous writer who regularly contributes Musical Notes to a morning contemporary, and who yesterday made this newspaper: the subject of an attack because it demands brighter and better from balanced programmer ZBW.
Were it not for the fact that the writer in question makes particular reference to our com- ment on the playing of Chopin's "Funeral March" and suggests by innuendo that we are guilty of disregard for the solemnity
of Armistice Day, his comments would go unchallenged..
In referring to the broadcast- ing of the "Funeral March", we merely illustrated the typical dullness of ZBW programmes. We drew attention to the fact that, on the day in question, listenera were inflicted, with six and a half hours of solid classical semi-classical programmes, and no attempt was made to provide entertainment for the type of listener who abhors and does not understand what it is all about, and who is content only with lighter entertainment.
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That is not our idea of 2 balanced programme, nor is it an isolated instance of the local station's disregard for the re quirements of the bulk of listeners, the proletarian class who make the financing of broadcasting in this Colony possible.
We hold no especial brief for jazz, and would be as quick to deplore any attempt to revolu- tionise broadcasting in Hong- kong to the extent that it would become a continuous purveyor of the "red hot mammy" type of programme so dearly-beloved in Manila.
Frankly, we are irritated at the smug complacency of people such as "Eeyore," when they dismiss as a product of the "Silly Season" the legitimate com- plaints of listeners who have sa much right to entertainment as the biggest taipan on the Peak or as himself.
We refer that writer to the broadcasting programmes pub- lished in the South China Morning | Poat on November 11, and invite him to compare the programmes for ZBW and Daventry. In one programme he will see a constant repetition of the type of pro-| gramme which, while it might; be constructive, educational and high-brow, is completely boring to most listeners. In the other
EUROPEAN CROSS ROADS -By Strube in the London "Dolly Express"
Stam
WHITHER?
N the carly years of this cen-
famous ณ
picture
tury depicted
an aged, bearded patriarch, bent low over a globe, à lean finger pointing at the earth's surface over which the old man's sad eyes seemed to wander searchingly,
The picture bore the one word "Whither?" symbolising the plight of East European Jewry fleeing from massacre in Tsarist Russia and the anti-Semitic terrorism of Rumania.
Five million Jews are asking that question, and thirty nations seek an answer.
BY
A. L. EASTERMAN
claim to bo burdened by surplus Jews is well on the way to solution.
It ន
estimated conservatively that in Western Palestine there
are 500,000 acres of irrigable land of which less than one fourth has been made available for agriculture. If the whole available area, were cultivated, 75,000 familles could be sottied
it. At
only present, 15,000 familles live directly on the land. There is room, therefore, it is claimed for another 60,000 familles, 300,000 additional individuals.
оп
Alongside each ogricultural familly,
F
that'
the Mediterranean where, 2,000 holdings, 6,000 in the "communal" two non-agricultural families could Four million Jews left Eastern years ago, the Jews lived as a nation. acttlements.
be settled, giving another 500,000 There, it
the Europe in the 81 years between 1800
La asserted, must be The others have been estabilshed individuals for industry and
as professions. This is the basis of and 1014, to seek refuge in Europe, found the answer to "Whither?" in in the towns and "colonics" America and across the Seven Seas. Palestine.
tradesmen and workers. Profes- Jewish economy in Palestine, one- Here, in the Jewish National Home sional men, the lawyers, doctors, third to agriculture, two-thirds to Recently at Evian, on the shore promulgated by Great Britain by the teachers, have found employment in trade and industry.
road of Lake Lausanne, representatives of Balfour Declaration of 1917 and en- building, bricklaying.
con- Jewish experts calculato 30 nations, convoked by President dorsed by the League of Nations, struction, and in the factories as well over a period of ten years Pales- Roosevelt, sat round a conference 420,000 Jews have settled since 1920, as in the hospitals, schools and tine can absorb, without difficulty, table to solve the problem of In what was previously derelict colleges.
over 1,000,000 new Inhabitants. Europe's Refugees, iceing to-day desert land and malarial swamp they This Jewish settlement has been This estimate takes no account of from Hitler's persecution and have created a fruitful soll and accomplished despite drastle im- the potentialities of Palestine as the threatened by, mass expulsion and raised every kind of agricultural migration restructions and years of entrepot of the Near East and the
civil unrest. from the orange to the terrorism and product,
Had effect upon it of the necessary dove- household vegetable.
Britain, the Mandatory
countries On sandy wastes modern cities opened wider the doors of Palestine providing new tive, and to-day the statesmen of the have risen connected by great motor there is no doubt that many more of increased trading population. world, the statesmen at Evian like roads and rall. Water has been Germany's refugees would have Nor does the estimate take into the aged Jew in the picture, are brought to the towns and the desic found asylum there.
account the possibilities of Jewish searching the globe for an answer to cated acids, electricity in light and Assuming freedom of entry, ex- co-operation Transjordan, vast, his query, Whither?"
power to the remotest village. They perts--maintain that Palestine can fertile, sparsely populated - and -un- have brought new industries to the kettle comfortably another million of developed, and of the great area of Europe's homeless and hopeless Southern Palestine, the Negev, as backward Near East.
They have built hospitals and Jews.
yet unsurveyed and unpeopled, which
penury.
The Evian Conference was abor
Power, lopment of thees for an
In Germany 300,000 Jews are under sentence of doom; Hitler de crees, "No more Jews in the Third Reich."
Goering, In Hitier's name, schools and a great University which Viscount Samuel, formerly High may become available for Jewish proclaima a Four-Year Plan for the stands proudly on Mount Scopus, in Commissioner of Palestine, is by no colonisation.
liquidation" of Australia's 350,000 Jerusalem.
means an extravagant advocate of Jews. Goebbels declares, "No room
Since 1933, 135,000 Jews have fled large scale Jewlah
Immigration, is noteworthy that out of Fales- Line's 0,000 square miles Jews now in German Austria for the Jews." from Nazi Germany. One-third Yet he has declared that there a own only 560, with a population of of them, some 43,000, have been room in Palestine for a population 800 to the square mile. On 5,400 Poland's statesmen under Ger- settled in Palestine, bringing with of not less than 8,000,000, including quare
Araba miles 900,000 man influence, proclaim a policy of them £10,000,000 in capital which one million Arabs.
settled-180 to the square mile. With "Polonisation," a purge of 3,000,000 they have invested in agriculture
total popuin- But Palestine alone is not enough, Jews from all branches of Statelife, and industry.
tion of about Col. Beck, the Foreign Minister, on- Fourteen thousand of these Ger- this baals, accommodation for at In
Europe.
Of these, one million will nounces that "at least 1,000,000 Jews man Jews-fonner artisans, profes- least 1,300,000 more people. If that
to be require
absorbed by other must emigrate." One million are sional and business men-have gone is so, the problem of European countries, the United States, South already on the starvation line.
on the land, 8,000 in private small Jewry and of those nations that America, and clowwhere, at the rate
King Carol of Rumania has said that "hundreds of thousands of Jews are not entitled to citizenship," and
are
0800,000, there is, on for there are still four millions left
Hungary decrees an 80 per cent. AN ENGLISHMAN ABROAD
purge of Jews from trade, the pro- fessions and the Civil Service.
of
of 100,000 a year over the next ten years. Two millions must remain in Europe. For them there is no escape. What is to become of theso? Civilisation must proclaim that the. settlement of refugees is no acknow ledgment persecution and the de- Scores of thousands of Nazidom's
these
kallions HAD just arrived back in Rio and harm if you put some whisky in it, privation of rights. Justice demands victims have already fled; the mil-
remaining two was spending the night in an hotel Frightful lack of sanitation here,
s must be
the right to be given lions await fearfully their sentence as it was too late to leave fe: Sao y'know"
to live and
of outlawry.
earn, unless they are to perish. Paulo that evening. After dinner. I "It looks quite a modern town for
Above all, the statesmen will have Where are they to go? President met an Englishman in the comfortable all that," I said.
to consider means to facilitate Roosevelt, at least, has realised that lounge of the Copacabana Polace "Oh, looks, yes," cold the English emigration to the one country which man scornfully, "Just a vencer; a has shown the capacity to absorb "Just arrived?" he asked by way veneer of civilization. Underneath those for whom Central Europe da of Introduction. 1 nodded.
it's rotten."
claros there is no place. HOT the Almanzora?" he continued, Bui President · Roosevelt and the and again he was right.
the Jewish problem in Europe must Hotel, be dealt with on an international basis.
.face.
and
A Refugee Tragedy
He then went on to tell me a few And this involves pressure ́ ́on other democratle leaders who seck "You'll find this a queer country more retten things about Brazil. Re Great Britain, the custodian of the the people (male Jewish National Home, to end poli- to aid the Jews are faced with this to stay in," he went on after a pause, again mentioned
female.) He spoke of the teal uncertainty in Palestine and to devastating dilenuma-while Europe These Brazzies (as he called the
Mostly climate. He described the decrepit provide facilities through the removal prepares to shut the door behind the Brazilians) are a poor lot. Wondering Jew, the rest of the world half casts, nigger and what not. And state of the railways. He told of the of immigration restrictions for the has already all but closed it in his you know what the half-breeds are. dishonesty of the government. He entry of Jews secking asylum and
sneered at the habits of the people, freedom. Treacherous devils!
"Belter be careful not to quarrel He did everything he could to con- So the searching Angers of the with them" he continued. "They're vince me that Brazil was the worst slatesmen pass to and fro ever the pretty quick to shoot. Do y'know country in the world. globe's surface, from one country to every one of the blighters carries a
London. You must have been here a long the other, only to find written nuovo gun in his pocket. They're always me I said, finally.
The Englishman wilted only very tragedies of refugees occurred re- One of the most heartbreaking them the words "No entry."
shooting someone. Even womeni But over one land the Angers these folk
You've simply no conception how slightly.
Home Office letter treat their woment "About a month," he said. "Or cently when a pause over the Eastern corner of Jealous? Why you daren't look at course some of the chaps who've been stating that he had been selected as one of 50 doctors who would be another man's wife, but what he pulls here a long time have been telling me allowed to practise in Britain reach- out a pistol. Of course they've soms all about it. They know, of course ed an Austrian refugee a few days -tho Daventry-programme, reason to be jealous. The woman
At this stage I saw fit to mention
after he was found hanged in his Bro. hot blooded. Southern type, that I had been ten years in Brazil. aft
tion, the type of completo pro-] such a thing as a virtuous woman in shocked the Englishman by mying Timuroom. This was revealed at an
It was.
he will find balance and perfec y'know. I doubt very much if thero's and knew somewhat different. 1
Inquest held at Milford on
on Ses, Hanta gramme which on Dr. Erich Schwatzer. tainment for all classes of whole thing's a vicious circle. The admired their habits, and had never arranged for him to be a quest of Forester at Roso Coltage In listeners.
men are brutes with the women and seen a man shot or a woman knifed of his unfortunate state owing the women take their cue from the As I I say, I shocked him.. I know he We do not feel sufficiently men."
hoped and prayed I was wrong. A to his experiences in Ausicls. crushed by "Eeyore's" criticism The Englishman paused for a me- foreign country, simply could not be cording vordiet that, Dr. Schwantzer killed himself while the balance of to withdraw our allegation that ment and then continued.
even half decent. ZBW is a most hopelessly typhoid and what not. Better be Englishman
"A rotten climate, too. Fever and Unfortunately he was not the only his mind was disturbed, the coroner
abroad. Small hopes said he was satisfied that he had.
bidde unentertaining broadcasting | careful the water. Of bourse they for the Brotherhood of Man, grajo ample cause, for... Worry, atation.
Miller:Watnám.
say, that, the water can do you no
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