"TURN EM OFF!"

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 152, 8 September 1941, Page 2

"TURN EM OFF!"

RADIO' CROONERS ADVICE O'F DR. LYON "There is a most wonderful invention on all radio receiving sets. There is a knob on the right-hand side, where you can switch it oft'," said Dr. J. Lyon, of London, when speaking at the Competitions festival in Wellington. Dr Lyon deplored the tendency to give children a background of radio and gramo> phone music. It war., he said, 'ike showing them ]3ost cards of a beautiful beach instead of giving them n holiday. "I understand music," Dr Lyon' said. "I know what it means. Music is the thing that is: to heaven Ave have on this earth; it is the hand-maid of religion. Music is the most elevating thing, the most elevating and refining of all th'i irts. If you can on**" get that into the hearts of the jDeople, what a wonderful thing! Advice to Parents "Listen to the terrible things coming through, the radio —terrible things. But the child up to believe that that is the best in art. Why? Bccause it is what the parents give it." Dr Lyon said that he did not want the set switched off all the time, but he asked his listeners to make up their minds what they would like to hear and to let that something be good. They should never leave the set on all day. "Do you wonder I lose my temper when I hear crooners jazzing the beautiful numbers we have heard to-night? It should be made impossible for them to do any such thing. If you want to write jazz go ahead and-write it and make up your own music, but don't trespass on the heaven-sent music of the masters."