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In the.absence of our In normal times the Prime Minister, Lord true value of a broad- ismy Northern Craigavon,it casting service to pleasing duty to convey thecommunity must through the medium of necessarily depend to a the Irish " issueof Ireland very large extent on the World -Radio very way in which it is han- cordial greetings from dled, and it seems to me theGovernment of that the matter at pre- Northern Ireland. sent beingtransmitted We inUlster pride over,Iunderstandthatwithin the courseinto the homes of our ourselves on our closeofthenextfewyearsthere is every people isthe outcome connectionwiththe chanceofourpresentstationbeingre-of a practical and UnitedKingdom,ofplaced by one of considerably higher power.sincere idealism.In which are province isThis is part and parcel of the scheme of generalthisconnection,t h e afederalState. As reorganisationknown as the " Regionalnationcould not have such, we do not possessScheme." When this new development comeschosen a better man to complete autonomy into being, there is little doubt that receptionmanage its broadcasting The Right Hon. thesince certain services ofin the more -remote areas of our province willaffairs than Sir J. C. W.The Right Hon. H. M. Viscount Craigavon.generalapplicationbe very greatly improved, withtheresultReith, the Director-Pollock, D.L., M.P. overthe wholethatthe cost of maintaining wireless General of the B.B.C. of the United Kingdom remain under thereceiving apparatusintheseareaswillbeHiswonderful personality, lofty ideals, control of the Imperial Parliament.Of thesereduced. tenacity of purpose, and sound businessacumen " Reserved Services, ' the Post Office is one of The value of this broadcasting service tohave made him equal to -the task. the most important, and so it was fitting that inthose responsible for government is in ordinary Theeducationalpossibilitiesofwireless August, 1924, the British Broadcasting Co.,circumstances not quite so obvious as is theare almost unlimited, and I observe with great Ltd., over which the Postmaster -General, even caseduringabnormaltimes.Whenonesatisfaction that the corporation is taking pains at that time, had certain powers of control,considers the condition existing under a state to develop them.I am informed that in many should have established in Northern Ireland aof national emergency, such as existed in 1926,districts the loud -speaker has becomea sine studio and transmitting station.The transferas a result of the General Strike, it is impossiblequa non to the training of the child mind. A ofthecompany'sassetstotheBritishto say how we should have fared without the few schools- in the north of Ireland,are already Broadcasting Corporation on January r, 1927,aid of wireless, but I am convinced that theequipped with receiving apparatus, and it is to be brought the undertaking even more under therisk of a national disaster would have beenhoped that in the near future the practice will xgis of the Imperial Government. considerably greater than it actually was hadbecome more general throughout the province. The fact that the Government of Northernnot every man and woman inthe UnitedThe youthful imagination cannotfailto be Ireland exercises no direct control over broad-Kingdom been kept informed in a clear, concisestimulated and the outlook widened by thisnew casting inIreland places me in the happyand cool-headed manner of the progress ofmeans of contact with the nation's greatest position of being able teachers.In the realm frankly,andwithout of general culture the reserve, to express my effect of broadcasting is crews on the subject. already showingitself, Our province cannot but it may take another be likened to the Valhalla twenty years before we ofwirelessengineers. realisethefullforce In the first place, itis of its influence on the mountainous,and,of nation. A liveappre- course, it is a well-known ciation of good music, factthat mountains drama, and literature is frequently interfere with being created where it wireless waves and so neverexistedbefore ; cause difficulties in intellectual interests are reception in certain beingstimulatedin localities. Moreover, a thehome ; newsis large proportion of disseminated in country thetotal population is districts beyond the concentrated in Belfast effectivescopeof the and its suburbs, and as dailypapers,and the this industrialareais consolation of religion on the coastat some is brought to the homes distance from the geo- of tae aged and the sick, graphical centre of the who, through infirmity, province, itisdifficult areunabletoattend to arrange a satisfactory Divine worship. Our broadcast service for the culture is advancing whole territory. with more rapid strides When both of these than ever before, and, negative factors are though due credit must considered, Icannot be given to other helpfeelingthatthe organisationsfortheir B.B.C.isto be con- share in the movement, gratulated on the success we must recognise in withwhichit has broadcastingthe tackled the problem up greatest civilising to the present.More - An aerie1 view of Belfast, showing the City Hall in the centre. influence of the age. 384 WORLD -RADIO MARCH 16TH, 1928 (Continued from Page 385.)