THINGS TO COME

New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 171, 2 October 1942, Page 2

THINGS TO COME

A Run Through The Programmes

AST year Professor F. Sinclaire of Canterbury College gave a series of talks from 3YA on the "Spirit of England" as exemplified in British Literature. ‘This year he will give another series of five talks, this time transcending the geographical bounds of one nation, on "The Spirit of Man." A wide field is covered, The first talk will be on "the Human Tradition of Values" and in this Professor Sinclaire will discuss the unanimity of tradition and its authority. From this he will go on to discuss such things as the sources of these traditions, man’s relation to’ nature and to such things as truth and beauty, and such themes as justice, freedom,*charity, and humility which recur throughout the whole of literature. The fourth talk in particular suggests a challenge, appropriate at the present time when thoughts of a new Christian Order are in the air. It is entitled "From Gods to God." These talks will begin from 3YA on Thursday, October 8, at 7.15 p.m, Ohm Sweet Ohm What advertisers tell us to-day, science confirms to-morrow-or rather, in the present instance, on Tuesday of next week, when Dr, L. Malcolm (speaking from 4YA) will tell us about " Electricity in Your Body." Of course we have known All About It for years, ever since we first saw the picture of the superman with the penumbra of lightning flashes over his head and underneath him the legend, "I can Make a

MAN of You in Twenty-five Easy Lessons!" Other pictures of less fortunate people with high-tension sparks shooting from rheumatic joints or over-worked and under-nourished kidneys, gave corroboration, if such were needed. But consider the bright sparks, dry cells, and dim bulbs in your acquaintance and you will realise that without electricity in

the human body life would be as flat as a dead battery. How would the novelists get on without it (" Their Glances Met and Fused in a White-hot Look of Lurv"), or the song-writers? Choir With Organ Dr. Galway’s organ recital from 4YA next Sunday evening (October 11) can boast more than just Dr, Galway and the organ, for the programme will include singing by the Dunedin Training College Ladies’ Choir. The Choir, which consists of more than 200 voices, will render part songs by Rowley, W. H. Anderson, Schubert, Schumann, and Somervell, and if we may judge by the high standard of performance in their recent annual concert, the performers ---

will bring pleasure not only to proud parents and relations all over the province but also to the large body of listeners who like to hear good music, It Is War! Something new in war propaganda is the claim made for 7t Is War, a programme broadcast from all YA stations and 2YH, 3ZR and 4YZ every Thursday at 7.0 p.m. The series is designed to awaken New Zealanders to a realisation of the dangers that confront them, and the author, a Wellington journalist, has gathered into his dramatisations a great deal of vital information regarding enemy methods and _ history, much of which it is claimed has not been published in this country before. Science And The Citizen If white rats have manganese added (or is it abstracted?) from their diet they lose all maternal instinct. -Reverse the process and they become good mothers again. The presence of .000005 of a milligram of copper in the soil will cure that fruit tree of blight. Perhaps the day will come when a small dose of this or that by the scientists will cure society of its Hitlers, Crippens, or Al Capones. But at the moment it is still rats, fishes and the soil that are the subject of our efforts in that direction, and listeners who want to know where humans come in had better tune in to the Commercial Broadcasting Stations on Friday nights to hear a series of talks called "Science and the Community." These talks have begun at 2ZB and 1ZB, and will be heard from 3ZB on October 9, 4ZB on October 23, and 2ZA on November 6,