Jottings from Near and Far

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 5, 11 August 1933, Page 34

Jottings from Near and Far

RADE association membership has become an imperative necessity. in the U.S.A, since the enactment of President Roosevelt’s Industrial Control Plan. The R.M.A. has therefore issued a -general invitation to al makers of radio products to meet them to discuss the matter of voluntary "eode" regulation of the wireless industry. * % * AMOS AND ANDY’S announcerBill Hay-once conducted one of the largest church choirs in Nebraska. He also has had very wide experience in guiding. the activities of municipal choirs and other organisations of a similar nature. & & * QNB of the latest devices for minimising interference, and sold under various trade name, has for its prin ciple the use of a shielded lead extending from the receiver up to the aerial proper. This lead must not have a large aerial to ground capacity or no signals will be received, consequently the ordinary type of shielded wire cannot be used. In some noisy locations this device should prove excellent. OME concern is felt by listeners in Christchurch who own unselective sets that when the new 3YA starts they will have increased difficulty in tuning out this station. It should be borne in mind, however, that although the power is considerably greater than that of the present station, the new location is approximately’ ten miles from the centre of Christchurch. "THRE hag never been a more grand ‘old man of social reform than Charles Dickens, and this was amply

borne out by Mr. George McCracken from.4YA when he gave a talk on "Dickens and Social Reform." He was the advocate of all those who suffered the wrongs of the world, and he showed up the evils in his matchless humour and pathos in his books, each of which exhibited some evil suffered by the poor. Dickens went about his sociai reformation in his own way, and did what Cabinet Ministers try to do today. The great novelist struck hard and effectively at what he saw.

"THE difference between the papers of the different countries was ex: plained by Mr. W. R. Kingston-Smith, in his "Press and Public" series from 1YA. French papers are more politieal than English, he said. They are subsidised by various interests, banks. and so on; just before the Disarma ment Conference the French Armaments Trust bought out several of the leading Paris dailies, and the conference failed. British papers were less politically partisan, while in U.S.A. the emphasis was on economic.rather than ‘political matters. Here is something »a good many people may not know. A jbig London daily will have only half ‘the number of reporters than a New Zealand daily does. The London paper ybuys even its local news from an agency, Then there is the joke of the ‘Yankee Tabloids, small illustrated apers with bright brief news originmlly founded *n Chicago to waste surplus profits and becoming perversely wrofitable. All in all it was quite an teresting summary of present-day ress conditions,