HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1935-03-07, Page 6'.4
Commissariat /of Education,
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tyro, years
to a- feature
Newspaper,"
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Twenty-one. broad-
Programs For The Children
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CANADA
•"oVr'TVHERS*-C0ED- IS "DRY” I
Burr! Y(Ze admit vtjhe virile:-quali^
... ../ties of frigid aip,^-and. the stimulus-
induced- in-sluggish veins by the icy
blasts. Bpt Zero is always -suffer-
rd,.: never, welcomed. His departure
-■ is much more popular than his ar
rival, May. it,, we trust, be soon.
Winnipeg Free Presl£.
together purifying effect upon the
1 - LLOYD. GEORGE
It was a summer afternoonIt was a summer afternoon in
...1890/ when ,_Mri. „Gla.dstd.ne_ija fypgk
fresh from a, by-
coat and tearose, complimented Mr.
Lloyd George, fresh ; from a by-,
election in Carnarvon.., In theft long
years since then two reigning; Brit-
, ish sovereigns have died, the Brit-’
ish Empire has1’ fought two wars,
dynasties and nations have disap
peared, the 'map of the world has
been changed. Yet now we read thatl
this same Lloyd George whose voice
, has sounded through all this din of
four’decades of world upheaval and
fevblutidn,” is’ tdnaunch : a "new’ po-"
-MiticaL- movement.,-In—his-^eventysl
first year, veteran of a thousand
fighfs, he is “buckling on his ar-i
mor.”—(From the Ottawa Journal.)
THE TITANIC FUND I
Wheh the Titanic was sunk in
1922 a Mansion House Fund was
g^started forthe ^relief mainly of old
•V, people an^bhrldron^ber^t^ of aid
by the loss of supporting relatives;-
~~“The",r espouse ~was“£4-l- 5^12—and’—itr
is now announced"that 276 Y)ersbris
- are still sharing in the disburse
ments of from £15,000 to £20,000
' annually. It is rightly regarded as
one-of the best administered. funds*
ever recorded. Brantford Exposi--
. „tor. ■ ‘ ;. r
REFORESTRATION
/ ,In New Zealand they set to work;
with a vigor and an enthusiasm that:
are noW begirining to’bear fruit. AT
. hundred years ago, when New Zea
land was first settled- by the Eng
lish, it was half forest. To-day only
. Qne-tenth of the area is forest. This
is the result of reckless clearing of
trees during the closing period of
the nineteenth century. But painful
jexperience taught the New Zealan
ders that much land unsuitable for
/pasture was excellleiit for tree
growing; and they -hhve profited by
their experience. Montreal Star.
AUCTION SALES . -I
The terms that used to appear on
auction sale bills .giving so many
^months’ credit on approved joint
hotes^ and a percentage off for
• cash, are apparently a thing of the
past hereabouts.._A more abbrevi
ated form is now in 'common -use
and thej most of the sales are us
ually “Terms Cash.” Numbers of
the posters also bear the admonition
that nothing is to be taken from the
premises “until satisfactorily settled
for.” It would appear that the
farmer has gone on the e cash and
carry basis also.—-Acton Free Press.
HANDBILLS
Many citizens . . may have
the view that if handbills have to be»
inch matter would.be more welcome
if it came through the mails than
communicated to them in the present
manner littered all over front
Vteps, verandah or sidewalks, there,
frequently to become . ugily em
bedded in ice or snow in winter
time, mixed up with mud . or slush
In the spring, caught up and blown
I *n over the place by the four winds
Of fteaveh in the summer time, and
become mixed up with wet and
•limy leaves in the fall. It is to be
feared, handbills have not had an ah-
vocab.ularly. of the human race. —
■ ——
.••’I" _ ocean flyiNg-
- While flying oceans and things,
Amelia Earhart has to keep her ears
on beam wireless and her eyes
on a magnetic compass, an aperio
dic compass, a directional bank and
turn indicator, a1 rate of climb
clock, an artificial horizon, alti-
meters, "an " ice warnings thermometer
a super-’charger pressure gauge,
machine age has gone feminine,
— Border Cities Star. ‘ .1i' ■ > i
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T7 . SPEED LIMIT
The special civic ' . corihhittee 'on
traffic and parking has recommend
ed that application be made by the
city ,to the Legislature for . power to
pass' a by-law fixing the speed limit,
in Winnipeg at 30 miles an hour.
Aiderman and police are apparently
agreed that this . measure must be
. taken to curb the mounting toll of
[“accidents and" fatalities —on—city-
i streets. — Winnipeg Tribune.
NO DOUBT
It is possible' to read newspapers
on the Niagara Highway now Since
the new sodium vapor lamps haye
been installed.- And we suppose
some sap Will try doing it while
driving at 60 m.p.h.
^——^LD>^T_C1TIZEN
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Journal. staff* rr— j Sault Ste. Mape W' f/'/fer F ;r
r- fTAlCE CHANCE ''
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;td.: .
are tri. be ’trusted aslong,..as,-they
J" obey the/, recognize indivjd>
ualjy to-;be prdinary-safety precau
tions,' But, th|e fleeting dpsjreAto
‘$ake a chance” (how’/often does
it not occur -into,' our driving
minds'?), is the factor that, if ac
cepted, sooner or later ends in mis
chance. . : ’ ■ i . " , ••• / •
Tendency to succumb to the
temptation of taking chances should
-Ve-ruled’-uot—'ofT—Konds by every^
•motorist who respects his own. life
and the lives oF others.
» How can the law and the courts
'-help-, to discourage*.this tendency?
Not by ..longer sentences^ but by
,more~hof them. Too. many motorists
“get away with it** either through
inadequacy of. enforcement or lax-
| ity in imposing penalties. A reasori-
. able penalty actually imposed is
-more -effective than—a—drastic-pen
alty which is not' imposed. — Win
nipeg Tribune.- —
“ '+frl~*845*'T'“; , p ,i ■
The -j^ajority' of' .accidents occur ^ijen/'drivers"''.pei^W^p. -thrimel4y4s
to “ta^e a chanpe.” -' -Most drivers
|S-^:
Bermuda Vacation
__Kingston mourns the 10M"~df^her-
oldest resident; John W,. Martin^
who died at the great age of 108
years- To have lived for more than.
• a century and to have been able to
fbllQW closely the progress of the
/city and the Dominion down through
?the years, fell to the lot of Mr. Mar
tin, a man always gifted/with a keen,
intellect and one who almost to the
very last was incommand of his
sense's;' — Kingston Whig-Standard, r——------—-------------—-T '
CUPID IN ENGLAND >
■ Cupid must be working overtime
in England. . Weddings there num
bered 143,248 in 1934, am increase
of 13,751 over the previous year.—
St. Thomas Times Journal.
OR PERHAPS. BOTH -
“Perhaps what is wrong with (he
world is that we haven’t enough of |
tenors,” remarks the Ottawa Jour-J
nal. of the report that music is to
be made compulsory in the schools.
Perhaps it means •f “tenners.” —
Sault Ste. Marie Star.
“ ? TOO MANY IDEAS
r *The trouble, js that the world is
Snort Ul Iuett3r MUL Ui<*G Liiexv—Io—nw
way of plowing under^the surplus;
I HOURS OF AN EDITOR
There is a minor war in progrees
in the newspaper world at the pre
sent time. Itall started because
the Toronto Mail' and Empire reg
istered a complaint that under pro
posed, legislation there is under pro-
sion for an| eight-hour day for edi
tors/ declaring that ./‘many of them
commonly work 12 or 14 hours a
da#-, -often seven days a week.” This
caused The Ottawa Journal to pro
nounce. skepticism' that editors
Worked even as long as eight hours
a day . . i , . .
As a matter bf fact it’s a lucky
editor who gets' off with an eight-
hour day./ Or iij he lucky? One
doubts if the Mail and Empire editor would be happy /if compelled,
to restrict Iris work to a miserable
eight hours a day And somehow
one can’t help but be mildly skepti
cal that a .brilliant editorial page
like that of The Ottawa Journal
dan be turned out in four or five
hours’ work. Even, by the brilliant
■: ■ p.THEF/'EM'PIRE
THE'DEATH OF A PEDESTRIAN
The recent provision of five-bar
red gates, which the pedestrian can
leap between pavement and, island,
is a measure of the complication
which has overtaken the traffic. It
is said that ants are top small to see
the foot which treads on them, or to-
conceive of the ,‘being oy/ing the
■“fOo't'.*"Th~e~TL'0^ndon'“pedestrian^i^’nbw"
caught between;extremes^ J He can
be run over, and even killed, by a
car so small that he never saw it
coming, or crushed by a coach so
large that he ^thought it was the
house at the corner. In his last
conscious moments he ipay be able
to register surprise that only about
twenty-five heads' appeared .at the
windows of Leviathan^ whilst "three
~g:r~~^ people"
-emerg«PSbm:=stlife'^smaH-^eaasEsa>m
which he nearly/trod, before it kill-
; ed him. t— H. Pearl Adam in The
Fortnightly (London),, - I
FiVE-YEAR PLAN FOR ROADS
/ The Minister of Transport has
announced a Five-Year Plan for the
roads. There j is, happily, -more
common sense than politics in a new
deal of this kind, /There is/to .be ho
delay. Schemes are to be drawn up
at once after collaboration wiith. lo-
cal authorities, and there is to be
a clean break with that “hand-to-
mouth” policy which has in the
past frustrated so many good inten-
fions and efforts? Within five years
the Government aims at revolution
ising; the reads of Britain by clear-
s ing away all obsolescent survivals
from a past that conceived transport
. in tei-ms of| those Juggernauts, the
mangel-wurzel cart arid the milk-1
float- — London Sunday Referee,
?the West' Coast, ■ • ■ • ' . . .
7 “ UNIFORMITY' IN BRITAIN.
Also, ' Great Britain has. a much. /
school curriculum: .ft-.
i ei. carexullyi. .plannoa/
ur'|- ipleiqent C'v/deflniteljr,-'. :'d
ippiyiug.' .1 . - ■■■■
The British, too, ■ have adyap?
.ge, \which 1 the most
g.anized Central.. agency^,
• > ll’;. ....Ki
lidly - owned, corporation//$,t&3rem- /
pToyees •. regard/ themselvepjr gubiio’ /
servants, and their whole technique
has -'been eased in their approach to
whatever talentvthey wished to com
mand. Once, they set them'selves- to* ’
i.present_s£ieMtfl-C-./talks_. .thej ■ were z.„
free to ask the most noted authorit
ies in England to speak for England’a -
children; and to groom^and then to *.'
reject/ if necessary,, t&dp^foi^emost*
authorities who did not^nave micro
phone talent. ■ , , r
National interest >and tradition are
better understood^ in England thaij, -
here. For example, if the schools
there wish to dramatize England fpr
-English children,-—program “-makers -
have three centuries of county liter
ature ready to hand on. which to -
"draw.-'
Besides courses on the districts of
England and in French, German and
, Prusik, the, lt)3£ schedule from Lon-
don includes a series of talks ron ’' /
“Tracing History Backwards,” other ' (
talks on English history and a.full
’course in biology. There is also., un
der .children’s hour auspices, a. news
broadcast, toudfH£' on international
politics, finance f’and science, so in
structive . that on ■ one -occasion ■ at ■
least the British Cabinet stopped its
discussions to listen. .
//-aF
SAiSass-'-^ F-w®
fe/cpuld-
hardly ".overtake.~;
Bermuda vacation of Gladys Yule (left), daughter of Lady Yule,
of England,' and Mrs."Thomas McGuffe, also of England, "gives them
opportunity to practice their favorite Sport—tennis. The/are-pic
tured on. the tennis Courts,of the Castle Harbor after one' of their
spirited morning matches. ; , • ,
’ ‘ RADIO IN JAPAN. '
The year book-of Japanese radio,
described the work of
ago, .points, with,, pride'
called “The Children’s
broadcast in alternate-
man and woman.
casts, were used to propagandize the
children on the Manchurian situa
tion.. ■ - -
On New Year’s Day Mr. Hato-. .
Along with “hot” movies,' fascism
and red menaces, children’s radio
hours have been a constant target
for committees and aroused commu
nities, writes Ernestine Evans in the
N.Y. Times. The same parents who
used to want “Little Tied Riding
Hood” put on the index, because it.
it kept Johnny awake at- blightof
gave Susie complexes have protested
against the thrillers and so-called
crime serials on the air that may ,or
may not haye given the" children
nightmares and indigestion.
Interested ^organizations are not
at* all agreed as, to what improve
ments should be 'proposed; all are
agreed that by studying the field
some change and enrichment can be
made in the present situation. Today,
however, for the first time,1' upward
of fifty organizations have officially
and. unofficially, authorized the plan
ning of a central agency on radio fro
grams for young people; and a J pro
posal for national action will shortly
be made. The united stand wa3 tak
en, at a luncheon held late last No-
... ." ’ ' ' J
the . American Library Association,
the Progressive Education Associa
tion and the Child Study Association
of America., It marked the culmina
tion of your years of work of the,
American Library Association, with I
which many other organizations
have affiliated. ,
FORMULATION OF PRINCIPLES.
The central Committee is now for
mulating principles general | enough to
be accepted by the Junior League^
the Jewish Welfare Board, the inter
national Council of Religious Educa
tion, the Girl Scouts and similar or
ganizations. Some advertising agen
cies that have, arranged and sold1,
thriller’ and baby crooner hours/pro
phesy failure and highbrow dullness;*
others welcome the new* organization
as .the opening wedge for the better
standards.
Both major networks, N.B.C. and
Columbia, add numbers of local sta
tions have’indicated their willingness
to co-operate with the committee'."
The networks give a great deal of
attention to their- critics; they "deal
with Bishops, cranks, doctors, law-
THE SAME, THE WHOLE WORLD
OVER
Every person of mature years,
short of iddas,, bu£/thadr“there-is-no. ‘younger generation a lUucuwu
way of plowing under the surplus: -witrP:au=^Tifbiased -eyer-mu^t. have! vember—under-thR joint' auspices of
been struck by .the...disquieting revei- - - '■ - —
ation that the race is declining. In
a world in whichj.all the old values
are being scoffed at and all the:
ancient beliefs questioned, only one
postulate stands like stone -— that
the present generation, by which is
meant the adult portion of it is the
most wonderful and virtuous that
the earth ever produced. Apart
from this one shining exception,
there can be no r little doubt that
generations are not what they used
to be. Humanity is going to the
dogs.----Melbourne Argus.
Finds Marriage Not Cause
For Teacher’s Dismissal
B.Trenton, N.J.-Ruling that mar
riage did not constitute “inefficiency,
incapacity, or conduct unbecoming
a teacher,”- Dr. Charles H. Elliott,
state commissioner of education
has. ordered Wildwood authorities to
reinstate four women teachers „dis
missed last Fall because- their hus-j
bands were able to support .them.
yers, parents and insulted, natibnal-
; ists every? day. It. can be taken fo,r
.granted, therefore,, that any. solidly
organized phalanx of public opinion
bent on setting standards in young
people’s broadcasting will get the at
tention of the. business. men who: con-_
trol the aiF/waves. / ■ „ -
The new,*BbntraT agency expects
to get backing for a two or three
years’ program of research on for
eign and domestic broadcasts, and
in making trials of programs here..
Nobody knows whether a broadcast
i3 good until it has been jtried. Very
few stbry tellers, whose voices en
chant in the schqol room and library
or. on the stage are the same over
the air. The voice may change, the
personality fade, and success .with
the little audience may be dependent on gesture! or the inspiring pres
ence of* spellbound, or wiggling
youngsters.' ; _ .
BROADCASTING ELSEWHERE
It is worth while to study what
other nations have made of broad-:
"casting especially those countries
where radio is considered a politb.
cal and. educational fristruFirient. of
prime Importance. in creating and
controlling a public. The radio audi
ence is important pecause it is the
largest and the most representative;
If the cenral agency , studies what
the British Broadcasting Corporation?
has done, a rise in interest in edu
cational hours may be expected. It
is now eleven years- since the Cen
tral, Council for School Broadcasting
was formed In England, and the
present system has been worked
out so sloWly and carefully that no
one can quite recall the date on
which It became plain that j really
fine educational broadcasts were as
certain to get fan mail as the enter
tainment. hours, Thq, Ohio School of
the Air and. the American School of
the Air in this Country, in putting
on national programs, labor under
■handicaps, which the BBC has never
had to meet. National programs
here always have to deal With a vast
/country,' so that every broadcast
tries -to4 get on different hours, de-
’ pending on where the program is
received—East, Middle West or on
"yalnrtrbaclcast a talk to young cit
izens, the. fii^t.lo.c.casiQn-Jon_wh'ich-a^ l^.
Cabinet Minister had spoken during ,
s^Khie^GhRdrejft^. Hour *\ Another
time Dr. Katsube of“Hlrdshima^Uni-®==--e.
versity spoke on- metaphysics, for
children. .'The anniversaries of fam
ous historic battles are regularly cel
ebrated. . • /. .\ .
rShort'-.courses on Western- singing,.
and on JapaneS^ dances were given ;.
last yeai\ and printed syllabuses dis- -,
tributed. Texts were also-published--
’"to acebmpahy twelve . lectures, on
the orchestra and its interpretation,
for older children, six on the geog-‘
raphy, history and. legends of Mari-
dhukuo, thirty-three on Japanese
literature, and .fourteen Summer
lectures .on the scientific collecting
of plants, flying insects, poisonous
plants and insects and so on.
. RUSSIAN BROADCASTS
In the Soviet Union, a. special de
partment of the All-Union Radio
Committee deals constantly with the
- Commissariat/Of Education. Classic
and contemporary music and/lttera-
ture are regularly broadcasti^as are
talks to suggest and encourage crea- ' •
tive work. A special institution, “The ‘
Central Home of Art Education,” is /
carrying on studies on children’s ca
pacity to listen, and their interest. A
“campfire,” hour is devised for pio
neers at their country cam pis. and
"city club rooms.- Besides -this, the „
study of radio apparatus is.now-paVt ~ ~
of the regular curriculums in 20,000
schools. ' .
it 13 possible that the flew Ameri
can committee, also endeavoring tel.
provide fuller programs,, will - find ’
that children do not need dlstrajC-
tion and entertainment so much ah
a steady and rational program of
What we call education, dramatized
and attractively presented.
Ottawa Awards~Cohtract
Hamilton Public Building
Ottawa—The contract for erection
of a new Dominion 'jJBplic building
at Hamilton has Been awarded to
W. H. Yafes, of Hamilton, it was
announced here last week. The con
tract price was given as $1,600,00(K
The- building will- be erected on the
site of the present post office.
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FU MANCHU By SAX ROHMER
J*
Installment 1 THE ZYAT KISS—Archangel of Evil
> Suddtnfymy old friend ff,*-
n Nfiyland Smith put out the' lamp.. He had been explaining
the""mi'SHon-that^LroughLHlh Jiurgrisingly *° London
quarter!, when I !up^o^d htmlo'beln'8Ui*'r»ra?~Ht!-tannod,.r
iqgaro-jawed face wai taut end grave, "A lervanf of the
British Government, Petrie," he said, "I appoar'as a detec
tive, hearing credentials from"the highest Source*, bocauso
I learned of the evil activity, of FU.mA.NCHV. >/-■
"Nd doubt you will think rn». . „
mad," Smith remarked, and I could «eo, him af the window
„ peering Intently into, the itreet. ■ "But before you are
' many hourt older you will know I have good reason to'bk
^oautio.uAh. nothing suspiciousl" He rolightod the
lamp. "You ar<i .tJie, only^manT c^irtrufFr~rifnftt" kav»"" -
someone with me, iPotrie, all the time; Can you spare,a -
few days’to the string^st business that_^yer w«is recorded
■; irf-fa6t-6t;fiotiOn'?u; ",d - |tk<>t myri deadly of allfho reptiles of the Eat<