The New Frequencies

New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 479, 27 August 1948, Page 5

The New Frequencies

\ A.ARK TWAIN wrote a story once about a man who forgot his own funeral. We should not like to ‘suggest that there are relatives of that man in New Zealand or, if there were, that the accident might happen again. But there are other accidents to which the forgetful are exposed when nobody calls time for them-some serious and some ludicrous-and it was of these we were thinking when we prepared and _ printed the supplement given away with this issue. We were thinking not only of the careless man but of the man who is so much a creature of habits that it takes an earthquake to. change his ways.. We are all that man some of the time and one purpose of this supplement is to make earthquakes unnecessary. Thousands of listeners must put up this week with a disturbed listening routine, and if they don’t want a worse thing to happen to them they must spend some time studying the change. The details are set out in this issue and printed separately on a durable sheet, but that is only our contribution. The listener’s contri‘bution is careful reading and if he refuses to make it there is not much more that we can do for him.. We can’t get him to the right church at the right time or have’ him listening to the right racing results at the right time if he will not take the trouble to find out when and where to listen. If he wants Beethoven and gets jive, waits for the wool sales and gets family planning, he has our sympathy. But.sympathy is all we shall allow him. We shall not accept responsibility for him whether he misses a train or misses a serial, goes fishing when the rivers are muddy, or finds himself listening to a wrestlingbout when: he hoped for "a Wings of a Dove."