NO TRAFFIC COPS?
UNCLE SCRIM wants no traffic cops on the Friendly Road. To that end he has been campaigning throughout North Island centres and last week addressed an audience of 800 in the Wellington Town. Hall on the subject. He complained that the Friendly Road could not reach Wellington over the air because the naughty Government would not let them increase the power of their Radio Station. Sixteen times in sixteen months had he visited Wellington and argued with the Government but for no reason at all the Government would not allow an increase in power. We have a great admiration for Uncle Scrim’s ability and the good he has done by his masterly talent. Through his own capacity and skill he has created a service which is supported by the regular weekly contributions of many loyal people. These sums have been expended with economy and humility in extending his service. Appreciative as we are, however, of his merit and aims we are afraid that his demand to be free of "traffic cops," aerial or otherwise, may not succeed. Every road, to pursue his own analogy, is subject to restrictions and control. A road itself is evidence of control. It is simply a defined track between points to prevent pedestrians and traffic wandering at will over surrounding fields, fertile or otherwise. On the road, we are all subject to restrictions. There is always a "traffic cop"’ (quite a friendly chap, too, as a rule) to see that we don’t go too fast, do not travel on the wrong side, do not endanger others. He is there for the common good and to extend fair play to ail. , Uncle Scrim, in the unbounded goodness of his heart, has endeared himself to many thousands. He has done a great work, but his very success emphasises the need for the traffic cop even in the friendly sky-ways administering "‘God’s gift to mankind." The religious organisations with their thousands of enthusiastic adherents and devotees naturally seek to serve their own adherents and to win others from the gilded by-paths of life back to serious foot-slogging on the main highway. They want stations on the air too. If it is good for Uncle Scrim to expand cheerily along his Friendly Road it must be good for the Anglican, Roman Catholic and the Presbyterian to give the same service. That is the real problem. It seems to us there must be a traffic cop of some sort (whether the Government itself or the expanded Broadcasting Board) to extend fair play even on the "friendly road of life."
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Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 35, 8 March 1935, Page 5
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432NO TRAFFIC COPS? Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 35, 8 March 1935, Page 5
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