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Radio Times, October 10th, 1924, Those High-Brows and the Lows. By D. B. Wyndham-Lewis. i) hae = a | a, oe ES Pas altiadBunors ee Ss epewemsrtcey” Lit = oGLatcdm r Ne aST elCoe: cA AREBaa ake = | = Con:eemtcea eat oeay Pe er | eAre PT DAFpre. gq OTANAL DIOSe eer: FRTIME[aeitiLa EL ACuO rr | LOADG a ai ts NEaTe 4 ht JHE OFFICIAL ORGAN OFTHEB-B. Vol. z No.5555. iP eee EVERY FRIDAY. ‘TwoPer“re = — OFFICIAL The Broadcasting of Happiness. PROGRAMMES By the Rev. R. J. CAMPBELL, D.D. (The Rev, R. J. Camptell is one of the most that the possessor of preat wealth may easily THE BRITISH famous preachers and writers in the Church of nies the secret of happiness, which inestimable England to-day, and he is noted for the grasp blessing consorta with a certain simplicity of he has upon guestions that affect the people's life and, indeed, seeme to demand it in those welfare. In the follawing striking article be BROADCASTING with whom itabides, One of the poets of ancient gives his views on wireless as o means of increasing human happiness.] Greece declires that it— COMPANY. —__ Oem leaves APPINESS i# a aly bird, seldom caught The marhle hells and roots. of kings, if pursued, but often coming unsolicited And undernienth the pooriman's caved For theaia commencing in the wake of duty faithfully done or benetit namely retber folds ite wines. SUNDAY, October I2th. unzelfishly conferred. Moralista have repeatedly * 2 * € ee ~ <= told us that it i# not to be confounded with This ia @ trutem, perhaps, but it requires LONDON CARDIFF pleasure—o lewon which humanity ia alow ta qualification. There ia nothing in poverty that learn. specially makes for happiness, nor in ignorance ABERDEEN GLASGOW * * + of either, and the two are frequently—nay, more BIRMINGHAM MANCHESTER Pleasure is always dependent im some cbegree than frequently—found in conjunction, I re- upon physical excitement, novelty, change, and peat, therefore, that the range of happiness BOURNEMOUTH NEWCASTLE is even consistent with the endurance of o possible to the mind, heart, and soul of the man BELFAST considerable amount of pain andstress, so that, who has been made soquminted with the beet curious as it nay aeem, a pergon strenuously that ie being thought, said, and -dene in the enjoying himself may actually wake wp at times world ix treater than that of himwhe, however SHEFFIELD (Relay) to the realization that it would be « relief to contented with his lot,” is yet blind and deaf PLYMOUTH(Relay) atop. Happiness, on the contrary, is an interior to the splendours that surround hit. The siate ; it can exist without much stimulus from lover of great literature, for instance, has sources EDINBURGH (Relay) without, and ia dependent rather upon one's of happiness denied to one who never reads - LIVERPOOL (Relay) general attitude to life than upon particular book, The same is true in their varying degrees distractions ond agreeable experiences, But ef thease who are qualified to follow ‘intelligently LEEDS—BRADFORD (Relay) the oft-repeated assertion that it has no depen- the expanding echievements of the leaders: and HULL (Relay) dence at all upon outward things is untrue. guides of the race in all the other arte thant * ** = NOTTINGHAM(Relay) enrich our common life and the ssience Which No man can be happy who eannot maintain fives 08 mastery in and over the natural world. a healthy action and reaction with his spiritual * *** SPECIAL CONTENTS: environment, which is only another way of saying that to live well-one must be able to It. is for this reason that I am conscious of a MISS 1824 CALLING! respond harmoniously and adequately. to the epecial satisfaction in watching the rapid exten- By Mollie Panter-Downe:. call of life as a whole, Hence, broadly speaking, sion of wireless to the homes of the people ; in fact, [ think nothing in our time has given —- the happiness of the uneultored is lees than thatof the man to whom the wonder and glory greater promise of beneficent result in time to SONGS I LIKE BEST. com. Motoring through remote country ddis- of the visible universe are being increneingly By Beatrice Miranda, tricta from timeto time, I note that the number revealed day by day. * i a * ad tiny isolated cottages on which the wireless ceria! is hoisted is steadily growing, and I A WONDERLAND UNDERGROUND: Tt ia necessary to be cautions in stating this. I do not mean that o person. of wonder if many people grasp the tremendous By C. Leonard Woolley. significance of this development or what it email means and lowly station is perforce lees hoppy than the possessor of great wealth. means and will cometo mean in the enlargement OFFICIAL NEWS AND VIEWS. There is no tack of evidence to show (Comfinued overicaf,) . a4 — RADIO TIMES —— tsfre TORER7 Ww A0re,Thee x 1oe4.va ——- SsSee ca = The Brandcsstine of Happiness. “Sonce Sane at Sea. = Se (Continued from the previous page.) Cheerful Ditties on the Ocean. of the spiritual 1 know not a few men and women in lowly horizons of the and ill- panic positions who Are the possrssors ot HANTY”™ of" Chanty" ? Wherever old poorest and humblest well-selected libraries of their own in which sea-dogs gather you will hoor the point elements both of our every well-thumbed volume has been bought argued as to which is the correct spelling. Some rural oand urban for a fow pence at a second-hand bookstadll, or will vow that the word is from the French 4 populations side by In dome cheap popular edition of a great classic, Chanter aml is the same as-our word “chant + pide and in Comino If these 4ame men and women could afford to but the majority stick to “shanty,” alleging that this type of song originated in tho “ shan: with the tichest and goto grand concerts, undoubtedly they would most fortunate. ao 80; snd, whether they would or not, the ica“ or grog-shopa of the West Indies in the if * * vory fect that the best music can now be heard at days of the buceancera, There is one point in favour of the latter argument, which ia the An. ofd friend of their own firesides is effecting a-silent revolution pronunciation of the word, That, beyond all mine. the distin- inthe souls of thousandsandteneof thousands whe doubt, is" shanty.’ guished head of onc until now have not known what good music was, +5 ! of the Oxford col- The way to destroy the worst in anything is Shanties ans songs aung by SA f0rs whon tigared in the severeat of theiie Many labors, leges, tela me that to make the best caeily accessible. PFamilianxe his on, seriously in- the public with the best.in any department of Thev Are inpeparably eonnecbod with the BRL Rov, FL d. CAMPBELL, uo, jured in the (Great life, and in time the worst will cease to -be ship; and with the cradual divappearance of War, haa fed to wanted.” Were it otherwise, the ‘outlook for this: form: of yesecl they, too, are facing from the face of the wator. take up poultry and fruit farming in Wilt- humanity would indeed bea poor one, shiro on account of physical infirmity which It is not only in the higher arts that the Due to the Merchant Service. = unfits himfora professional career. ‘This young eonrecs of happiness are thus being multiplied. Yet, happily, loverd of mnsic have collected man at-firat felt himself out off from the ameni- The practice of engaging experts in every field these. old songs which breathe of stinging brine ties of cultivated metropolitan sotiety, He of human knowledge and endeavour to dis- and humming winds, and they are to-day 1more missthe best beetures, the best plays, the eonree upon their several subjects at the B.B.C. popular among landamen than at any former Ondeen’s Hall concerts, and all the other delights broadcasting stations cannot but be productive period. within teach of the average Londoner. He of excellent results, It must make an cnormonus The shanty ia the invention of the Merchant found #he Jong winter evenings. lonely and difference, for imstance, to the average bury Berviee. They wore never allowed in the Silent depressing ; the monotony of his lot began to manor woman to be told week by week what Navy. But, then, the Navy was never ao pall. Wireless was hig salvation. From the books are best worth reading, and why. The shockingly undermanned as were the merchant: day on which it was installed, his disabilities guidance given in regard to the progress of the men, and, as the old saving Went: “A song ia disappeared aa if by magit—imagio it was, world in general links uaall uptogether. Loneli- ten Men on a rope.” Another saying Waa: “A “When my day'a work ia done.” he saye, “I ness and monotony disappear in the conacious- wash andl a song are the sailor's two Juxuries.” draw my chair up to the fire, bght my pipe, nese of being kept in touch with all that is going There are three sorta of shanties, cach adapted put om the wireless, and in an inétant IT amin on day by day—not after it has happened, but to its own. special sort of labour. First comes London, and at. the very heart and centre of while it is happening. the Capatan Shanty, sung at the capstan when all that is going on everywhere,” My ownfamily, for instance, will never forget warping or weighing anchor.