The Seaforth News, 1937-03-18, Page 3THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1937
Coronation Plans
•\Vith the Coronation of :1-1,is Majes-
ty, King George .\'11, just a lithe over
a month away, radio listeners no
doubt are waiting kith anticipation
the special broadcast that will be
brought to then, iron, England to the
IE iipire, E. L. Bushnell, Corporation
program director, tells tis that hesuks
the broadcast 'front London the Cana-
dian networks will carry special fea-
tures in honor of the historic event,
'Phesc will be in the nature of drama
tiz'ations, musical programs; ancl talks.
Plans are now in the hands of the
program men and just as soon as de-
finite details are available we slieell tell
you more alho'ut then,. We understand
that the CDC intends to inaugurate a
special "Coronation .Week," during
' w'hich the protgramts will be broadcast.
In connection with the broacboast
direct from England, GB,C intends to
open its national network between
five and six o'clock in the morning of
the Coronation and keep it open
throughout the day, disseminating all
the speci'al's front the United !King-
dom. It will also participate in the
[Empire 1iomage program which will
precede the King's broadcast, et a
time still to be set between 1112.00.
,o'clock and 11100 o'clock.
The 13ritish Broadcasting Corpora-
tion will co-operate fu4•ly with the
OBC in nuking available all programs
which, although subject to modifica-
tion from time to time, nevertheless
will 'cover fully the Coronation pro-
cessions and the ceremony- itself. Six
major points along the route df pro-
cession will be occupied by comment-
ators; 'outside Buckingham Palace;
opposite the Cenotaph in Whitehall;
outside the Middlesex Guildhall, over-
looking Westminster Ab'bey; inside Of
the Abbey, and at the top o4 Constit-
ution 1-1111, Other observers, of course,
may be assigned to points elsewhere.
'The broadcast will begin possibly
three-quarters of an hour before the
senvi.ce when the first commentator
will give a word -picture of the depart -
program activities from Notrenvl er 2,
when it assumed control of the na-
tional system, to March, 1. reveal that
the greatest amount of network
broadcasting was devoted to musical
programs, there having been 31417
broadcasts of concert music, and 1113
'broadcasts of vocal ;recitals. The total
norther Of all musical programs, in-
cluding symphonies, operas; avid op-
erettas, was 1,,115. The s'tatis'tics,
whirl cover a four months period,
show that the. C13'C broadc'as't during
that time 3,31516 programs and that the
total number of broadcasting hours
was 11,,31013. Am analysis of (he report
shows that there were 61413 broadcasts
of news bu'lle'tins, 44719 of variety, Mil
at stock quotations, 11121 of novelty,
1141'S of talks, 10)1' of overseas programs,
'82 of dramatizations, '512 of book re-
views, 414 of special elvents, • 311 cif po-
etry, 3)11 o'f adventure, 3111• of religion,
30 of news commentary, .217 of oddit-
ies, 216 of Folklore, 26 of the ""North-
ern \fes;senlger Service," 22 of com-
edy, 210' alt- history, 1119 of literature, d9
of sports, IV df biography, 1:7 pro-
i;rants for shut-ins, 117 womelis pro-
grams„116 of Biblical dramatizations,
14 of debates, 13, of interviews, five of
children's programa, four of current
events, and two broadcasts on art.
'rite Corporation's blalttnerpbone re-
cording machine released three pro-
grams to the networks • during the
four motrbh.s period. Exchange of
programs with tltc British Broadcast-
ing Corporation and the America 1
networks enlarged the scope of the
CDC service, Exclusive of the pro-
grams broadcast daily over the east-
ern network 'front overseas, the ,CBC
carried seven important programs
from the BBC. Two major CBC pro-
grams were broadcast in England as
special features. '1'o the A•nterican
networks during the four months per-
iod the C113'C released '1150, programs.
while the Cld'C broadcast in Canada
9379 exchange programs from N
CBC, .NIBS and \IRIN, •'Phare was
one program from the Honolulu
tire of the King and Queen from the Broadcasting Company, 'l'he report
Palace.h procession winds its also reveals that. there were 1,4tiI7
yslowly the 1 Programs of moral hour duration.
way :to the Abbey, and the sec- MOO programsofhalf .hops duration;
oaf and third observers will take ov-
er, 1 programs Of three -tracts- hour
w=eilt the fourth and insh will duration, and (83 n1 one 'hour duration.
handle the broadcast from inside the O'thtr programs of greater length
8100Abbey itself. When the great Corona -were tvso 01 one and three-quarter
tine service finally is over, the depart- hour duration, 115 di two hour ,ltira-
sire of the procession from the Alsy tion, and 11(8111 of three horn duration,
vZll be described 'by thw sixth obasercryA sligh' increase in the use this sea-
er at the Middlesex Guildhall. Listen-'
isten- son of the CB(' "ttr1 \ivssengtr
EFS (hen will be kept in torch with gcrtire" liketi;e is noted, there hac-
scenes at sued, places as Trafalgar
rat" been 1,7137 additional message,
Square, St, items •Palate, andd Oxford
Circus until the King and Queen hruadenst to the Canadian Arctic re-
heiat earance on the balcony gions over the previou< ea SOIL The
make their i p total number of messages transmitted
of Buckingham Palace there to re-
ceive
e ceive the cheersof their loy' 1 sub 5'718)1'
lects. That scenintg will be broadcast 'We have some nice oatmeal soap
to the Empire and the world the first 00 sale today," ,•nggested the young
radio message to his people by the lady in the departmentfor ore.
newly -crowned King. 'I be customer ansvr politely.
Some CBC Statistics
Statistics issued by ' the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation covering its.
"No thanks we never wash our oat -
THE SEAFORTH NEWS
AT OTTAWA
It was in the 1119130 budget debate
that a member oIf the U,IF.A. group
spoke of the circumstance as one of
the ironies of history in that 11 had
fallen to the Liberal 'Minister of F•in-
aace from 1\'estern Canada to scatter
the flowers M British preference over
the grave of free trade,- In this Cana-
dian Parliament on Wednesday of this
week we 'observed the last rites in a
moving funeral oration by the Alen's
her for Ontario. Perhaps we• may
now, without impiety, assess the vir-
tues of the deceased and apecttlate ori
the cause of the demise.. '
ft is sometimes overlooked •that
there never was any native Lilteral-
ism in Canada, Like most by-products
of the Colonial complex, it was a mig-
tratory 'bird that crossed the Atlantic.
It was the working of a comparative-
ly simple economic sy-item .described
by 'Adam SniiNlt in 171716 that has been
made tate text •of inniumerable Cana-
dian essayists.. of the Free Trade-
school,—none more brilliant than, the
Member for Ontario,
'1Dconontic Liberalism sprang groin rate,, the right to s't'rike., measures of
a dominating, world authority. 1t was social secl.trity, were not in.. the vocah-
not 1 itogether an a'ccdent that the in- I ulary of Adam Smith, Like ail econ-
dustrial ,revohrti011 had its origin in a cimists, he described what he saw, gold
these were not present in. the economy
of h1s time.•
'today, instead, of slave labor the
economic machine has to adjust itself
to cartelized prices for raw comnto-
dit'ies. !Jabot, instead of Iheing regard-
ed as a commodity i•tthe cost of a
nianufactatred product, is deemed a
service w'or'thy of wages in employ -
meat and fndcntnity against want in
enforced idleness.
So ittttrh for the domestic transi-
tion. What ,sf the international? Alfter
Cobden Wad auctioned aIS the -farming
papulation for cheaper bread, he tra-
velled on the Continent, earning- the
cutting sobriquet of Carlyle, "the
cresadiug hag moan ,with his ea.lico
millennium." On the -Continent he
travelled as an international salcvntan
of free trade and peace. He conchul-
ed a treaty with durance in 113130, but
was me'rcifnlly spared by the ,1 riot
-Reaper from seeing the harvest of
tariff. warriors that reaped in little
more than ten years time. Competitive
tariffs ,were erected all over contin-
ental Europe during the depression. of
the seventies, particularly to save ag
nicatltn:re from the abundance of low
priced wheat .shipped by cheap trans-
port iresin the North .\nterican C'ont-
titlellr, Sttltlt't111111 yet 111nt•e itmportant
tva S happening. Germany and the 1'n-
(lcd States were tattering the lists as
leading industrial States and ,without
nen worids to conquer it was becom-
ing evident that free trade could nut
forever supply the golden cargoes of
prosperity that C'ohtlen envisaged for
all nations. 7o Richard Cobden free
trade was a t•irtue such is goodness
or happiness. The more abundant it
was, the more valuable 10 humanity
it on0id. become.
The biographer of 11 r. \\'insane
Churchill may well list as one of the
,u the nttrchabrts of London who tent episodes of a colorful and. courageous
money abroad for the purchase iii eanccr that it was he, as Chancellor of
capital good, in economic realty lent the EtitItetrucr in 1015, who tooved
railways, industrial plants and the like,1witlt his natural selGronfidenre to re -
These merehanls• wanted to bring in • store the vanished .order by going
goods as the means of paying their 'hack 00 the sterling standard. Mr.
(Heiden(' charges..
Churchill has since descrfhcd himself
meal." 1initrc,t and s
1 What a world was this to look bark. as Ito last of the Mohicans." In a
u'pnn. Such 0 collective improvement struggle for sig years British ecrxtont-
\ti"ant and For Sale ads, 3 wks. 50-e.
in standards of living was realized
that economic li+hei-ali,'n became hal-
lowed ground. Not even John Bright,
,whit cared only for the condition of
the people among whorl Joe lived,
would tai japer with its operation, Lib-
erals feared even the eliminati,ttt
child tabor because that mould delay
the indastri'al harvest. Strange as it
may sound, Liberal- of that flay who
sate the need of combinations ,,f em-
oloyers Yn ,ked upon union, of work..
ers as an industrialist of today would
look upon sttbotacze, And it fell to the
Tories of the mould of Lord Shaftes-
bury and 'Wilberforce to throw then-
selv, s body and ;,nil in tite pathway
.if the mechanical progress. That
children were ch'aint'd by mine opera-
tor, 10 the wagons in their coal -pit
-,
that ,women were 'flogged, that sten
were seized in the streets by the press
gangs and despatched 00 merchant
ships to God knows where, that ,much
of the raw products for industry was
supplied by slave labor, Moved I,lber-
als only to inaction.
Abolition of child labor, union wage
Maritime state with rich deposits of
iron ore, coal and s'nclh natural cont-
odities as limestone and salt, adjacent
to the seaboard, which gave that
state an industrial .pre-eminence over
all the world, 'made it the world's
chief :storehouse of wealth, the source
of overseas capital investment, the ar-
biter cif colonial destinies, Mistress of
the Seas and master of world cl''iplon-
acy, It is trite, he carried it a step
farther by abolisltiug torn- duties am11
destroying agriculture; but it was the
merchants of 1-ondon, who petitioned
Parliament in hi320 to remove duties
:n that they curled more easily collect
interest on their overseas investments,
who are the real progenitors of free
trade philosophy.
When rhe Bank of England in, an
era of currency transition and chaos
gan'e its promise to the world that it
would redeem in gold at a lixed .atan-
'lu'rd, not of weight, hat of value, any
bill 01 exchange drawn upon it, Lon-
don cornered business of financing
international trading transactions; and
that offer could not by any stretch of
flu' imagination have held good, as it
did, 'for a century had it not been for
fiscal anti economic policies designed
10 secure its operation. Hail 'hill'.,'
:orate lot London in appreciable quan-
tities, the gold would not have been
'here to redeem then,, and if the in-
visible balances were moving' the nth-
er tray, too mach gold would have
font' its tiny into the vomits of the
Ranh o' England, thereby int:put'ra'islt-
+n British .distorters who were the
source of her expanding prosperity. It
is clear that supplementary checks
nod halatnce, were indispensable to
to the working of the system. Inter-
est rapes were lowered its order to
Arils capital ,tttt and raise,) to aurat't
it home. That alone was not 50flicienl;
o un ter
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Seaforth News
SEAFORTH, ONTARIO,
i•ts watched approximately half the
zt,ld cif the world accumulate in the
C'niter] States mainly to sterilize and
one-half of the balance in ,France, be -
'muse debt and trade policies carne
into conflict, The coal strike Britain
coated endure, cats in unemployment
'tt•atc:tit worker:: could vote for, cuts in
bond interest )were voluttarily made,
but elit•n Britain's annual interest
-.,atw'tle'llt- ,m overseas investments
hero+'k by approximately a hi11511
;Alar,. even <ttch a stalwart of the
\lant'hestc•r Sehortl as the then C'itin-
cellor, Philip Snowden, could site that
the di.tres signals were v1•awing and
he agreed to tarili'sas a temporary ex-
pedient to avert nationalbanlantptcy.
Now -a party in Canada that once
was 1.iberal 'joins- with the 'Tories of
Great llritain to •extenal their opera-
tion against the 11011Priiish world and
invites Parliament's sanction to its ac-
tion as it Totes 'for a prosper'i'ty
hud:get.
He would be a rash prophet who
would predict that the 1181 world of a
tree trade economy will not return at
any place or any time; but if and
when it does. it •will originate in sonic
country enjoying 'industrial suprem-
acy. Hal the United States after the
\\'ar 'adopted the bt'4kin.q' and tariff
policies of 'England of .a century earl-
ier,'they in all i r,3baltility could have
restored• an international gold stanel-
ard and supplied the dynamo Of a 'lova
tariff world economy, 'BM they chose
not to tlo so, and if one looks im-
partially at the ]Great 'Britain of today
he will see little prospect of a reversal
of policy to +former trends in that
country,
The editors of 'Punch when once
told that the vivacious' journal was
not as ;nod as it used to be replied,
'1 t never was.' This aphorism can be
fittingly applied to British -democracy,
which may not 'look as good as it used
to hitt which has a way of its own of
marching on. \Ve read only a few
days ago their 'Unemployment fmsur-
ance foul has a surplus for 41133.6 of
some $35,000!01130, anti an estimated
<nrplus Ifor the present year of over
,70,1100,000.1, The Statutory 'Commit-
tee has recommended a .tltortening
the waiting period and an increase in
days of benefit. The workers have
better standards of living than ever
before. .\gricniture, which was de-
stroyed under 'free trade, is enjoying
a substantial measure of rehabilita-
tion, They ltarae provided security for
the worker its anentpinvment, the
means of subsistence for the destitute,
better health services, annuities for
old age and nubile assistance for the
bahe unborn, acrd they have served
warning on elle so-called totalitarian
states of Europe that if war is (o
cunt', athile Britain may move slow-
ly into action, she will tint likely be.
among the first to sarrender.
1'es, the slemocraey of I)israelf may
look better on the pages of history
het tht' Englishworker doesn't care,
and con cannot persuade (tint to trach'
his dinner -pail for a theory, or to give
it up without a fight in the cause of
world peace.
,furthermore, t warning of the
Member for Ontario that, in this can-
alization of trade. we are sowing tite
seeds for a future world war. which
wits re-echoed by the .cutler of what
remains of the l.ib-ral Party in Great
Britain is not wanvia in'g. ('Illus tit
s re lit ,descend ht the alt -ton 'iodide
;1 p,t>itidu7 that the Laurier prefer -
ma, caused the last tear, we ,tuts;
seek ,not catise•s otlit'r than Empire
,refcrentiatl trade ,or tackingus to. the
,rteipice of 1011-1,,
Readistie forces have compelled l',ri-
:gin to look to their Empire and to
ntk 10 llis \latjesly's 'I)mtt,ininns for
that tconruut coomeration tvMelt So
"MO) rf the ret of the world has un-
1,'rt ntatt'ly lune I her, and she has
.riven them a market in retail which,
its tlt' case of Canada, represents stth-
-r tntial,y half of orir export trade.
Th, sterliiitzt standar,( as it operated
;or a tt•tttnry 7s 710 more.
Free trade went with it, and Lifter-
:tut which built 'las house of so
-'aur iia 0,10114; 0.11n
1.hat 'l nurtdat tio,
1' truer to the ground, -
ELECTRIC EYE
'When light falls ttpon the retina
The human eye, an electric current
sent along the optic nerve I)ewar's
cv terintent ht 11173 showed this, and
nl the same' year another discovery
was made that led to the possibility
constructing, an instrument which
:ohl sec ars men see.
It was found that a sort of metal
retina mull he made which ;governed
an electric Currents -that is to say, al -
1'.? at large cttrret11 to t3ovt', whet,
the automatic retina saw a bright.
¢ort anhardly any current- when in
tt+e hark. d
Later on, better eyes ,were ilfeyi;ed
--One in which nn orient flowed in
t c darkness and in which when
12 11 e.11. up to it, there Was • n ,feet-
::--rent of a strength in exact
^ 'l"•rnfnn to the brightness of the
No one realized ,flat miracles.
w:vttld conte` of the attounatic metal..
eve— what incredible things it would
PAGE THREE,
'do for us. Lt is a sinriple.thing—a.
;class or quartz bulb in which 'half of
the interior surface is coated with one
of a certain family of metals, (the
alkali elements, lithium, sodium, pot-
assium, rhubidiunt or calcium), and
connected to an outside wire. And
facing this retina of metal is a wire
ring or open sieve which' connects
%''flit a second outside wire, When
li'g'ht falls itpon the metal retina a
stream of electrons it ejected and
thus an electric current flows from
wire to ,vire across .tite. vacuum.
111 a jewel'ler's shop in 'Regent
'Street a deadly 'burglar trap is opera-
ted by one of these automatic eyes.
1rt this case, beams of infra -reel' (in-
visible light) are directed across the
door.: and windows, and received by
a atrial retina especially sensitive to
such light. A burglar passing into the
invisable beast rings an alarm.
There is another kind, also in a
.Regent Street shop. In the window is
a digit, and a passing policeman has
only to shine this bull's eye upon it
when all the electric lights in the
shop are turned on by the current
trent the automatic eye which can
see the policeman's beam! And when
he turns .his light away, the alh'ap
lights go out, 'There are thousands of
variations, and the public will soon
hear more of 'them: For ,fire protec-
tion instead of ,waiting for an uncer-
tain rise of temperature to ring an al-
arm or turn ,on sprinklers, alt electric
eye is now set to watch for flames.
Another modern 'contribution to
electric wonders i, 'now used in •con-
jection with the •Robot eye. ibt is the
ntagnificatioltof tiny electtrlc. .curents
in perfect copy of every minutest
quality and :variattion. Without this,
'Radio would be imp'ossi'b'le. By this
magtlificattionwe. could ,s't'art a great
steamship by 'itg:hitin,g a cigarette a
quarter o'f a mile 'away.
Recently, in Loudon, there .visa's
hied an international riesling of -ex-
perts t0 ,discuss ,fie fat rat rove-
ntents in this wonderful device. The
proceedings of the greeting 'make ,two
lrundrerl and 'thirty pages of difficult
technical reading. 'I very 'bit of the
story it told, historical, mechanical.
mathematical and prophetical, 'Elec-
tric eyes for seeing infra -red and ul-
tra 'violet rays and eyes for judging
,the quality of daylight and for meas-
uring the 'beams 0•f distant sitars,
Dr, Fournier cl'A lbe has demon-
strated the w'ork'ing of an instru-
ment which reads for the blind— reacis
any printed book, not ,Braille type! :\
microscope scans the printed line, and
five electric tyres give their jagged
.currents '(as •they see the varied forms
of letters) toa telephone ear -piece. Of
course the .sound is not speech, 'but
a .series of different sounds which can
the learnt as the 'alphabet is learnt,
each one eharacteristis of the printed
letter, In London, a girl ('born blind)
had learnt the new sonorous alphabet
in eight months, and an ordinary
printed hook was pant into d'A7ble's in-
strument. She repeated the 'words in
English as the kindly Robot read to
her.
Last su'm'mer an expert spoke of
coming triumphs, and he chose as
example the future aeroplane in
which an idle passenger rides without
a .pilot. (Electric eyes in the plane
watch the rivers and mountains, help-
ed out by another instrument which
tells of air current., rain and heat and
winds. These message, are sent lay
wireless from the planes to a pilot
who sits on earth at laboratory table
and guides the plane.
Consider the Color 11;itcher---a
most actau•au' and dclieate device.
\\'polar will tell you that the human
tv e 1, lite mal jud e itt color match-
mg, and indeed all measurements of •
line were decided solely by the 'human
eye until recently. llut now a quad-
ruple electric ere has been adjusted
according to the sight of famous col-
or -matching experts, and it works
with deadly certainty far better than
the average person
In the .talking cinema film there is,
down the margin,. a hand of ,variable
shades of grey .created by a micro-
phone current a -'hien controls a strip
of light. The microphone current is
produced thy the actor'.. voice. An
electric eye scans the strip, of varia'b'le
banes, thus reproducing a magnified
copy of the microphone current to
operate a loud speaker.
hs'erybody knows how Theodore
Hook used to take the wind out of
u0mpnue •peoptle's sails by going up
to them and saying, "'Pray, sir, are
yotl somebody of inigortance?"
'Phis was once 'tied on Beerbohm
Tree, but it did' not conte off, 'Stand-
ing outside the !Garrick Club one day,
and possibly loodding very pleased
with himself, Tree was approached
n t stranger who Said Hook's very.,
words
Itee was not at ail taken aback,
'Asking king itt the ratan with. a cynical
;Mile, he i•epdicd, "1 don't think I
an 'he; nr I should' hardly be seem
talking to you."
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