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ton includes anything which enlarges
the intellectual horizon, adds to ones
sum total of knowledge or increases
skill in or appreciation Of any worthy
process or subject. In this sense, news
papers, magazines and journals, travel,
libraries, museums and other enlight-
ening agencies are educational. In the
restricted meaning Of the term, educa-
ton signifies formalized instruction
and professionalism processes with pur-
poseful and sustained effort. Usually
class room instruction within elemen-
tary or secondary schools or within col
leges and universities. under trained
teachers, is implied.
Important Contributions Made.
If we consider education In the FIRST
sense, radio is unquestionably making
important contributions. Its present
value In organized class room instruc-
ton Is problematical. But whatever its
present status may be, the ultimate ex-
tent and nature Of its value In all
forms of education are OF great inn
portance and interest, first, because
radio Is so rapidly becoming an accepted
part of every ones daily life: secondly,
because the public desires the utiliza-
ton for its purposes Of every important
discovery and invention.
That radio is being utilized today for
educational purposes is evident when
we examine the programs broadcast
from both educationally and privately
owned stations. -tenths
per cent of all broadcasting In this
country Is of an educational nature.
In fact, 80 much educational material
ID on the air today that any one who
desires to do SO frequently can ret In
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tific production, instituted and fos-
tered by the British and Dutch.
In statement by the late DR.. w.
A. orion, director Of the Tropical Plant
Research Foundation Of Washington,
concerning this problem he said:
1.-THE present movement of produce
ton and export of tropical plant prod
uctS Is away from Latin America and
toward the European colonies In the
East Indies, Asia and Africa where
scientific support Is being given to
agriculture. The consumption of rub
Der has been multiplied many times,
but the center of production has moved
to Oriental plantations.
American cacao producers are handi-
capped by destructive diseases to which
they have not given suficient research,
whereas the British government is
maintaining experiment stations to pro-
mote the culture of cacao In Africa.
Similarly, the Dutch have selected GER
tain strains Of the cinchona tree which
10 rich in quinine. In the same way
foreign governments are giving marked
attention to the support Of the CO.
lonial production of sugar, oils, cot
ton and other important export crops,
with the result that the American pro-
duction 10 relatively at standstill in
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Business Depression
Is Felt by Temples

The business depression now prevail
ing throughout Japan affects not only
business but the temples. Three years
ago the Kwannon Temple, in Asakusa
Park, Toxic, which draws the largest
number of visitors and pilgrims OF any
temple in the capital. averaged $500 .
day in small coin contributions. People
would 60 and throw pieces OF money
into the wooden box in front OF the
temple. Now, due to the slump, the In
come has dropped TO the $l25 level.
This state of affairs has necesSitated
complete revision in the temples bud
get. Not only the Asakusa temple, but
practically all the shrines, numbering
$4,000, and countless Buddhist temples
as well as Christian churches in japan,
have felt the sting of the business de-
preston. In many cases temple priests
have been finding 1t extremely dimcult
to make both ends meet. The number
of worshipers has not decreased, fg-
ures prepared by the temples show, but
more now pay their devotions In hope
of divine assistance In making money
than in finding q charitable way OF
spending it.
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ment and improvement in methods and
practices; second, problems OF agricul-
ttlral economics, such as credits, trans
portation and markets, and third, plant
and animal diseases and pests. quaran-
tine and regulatory problems.
Since there Is now meeting in Sacra-
mento O Pan-American reciprocal con-
ference which Is interested mainly in
the third topic, and since q similar
conference for the discussion Of COM
mercial problems will take place next
year in Washington, most Of the topics
discussed at this conference will be
concerned with production.
According to agricultural specialists
Of both continents, there are two out
standing needs of tropical America:
First economic surveys of the agricul-
tllral resources, and second, scientific
production. Just how vital these needs
are may be understood by the fact
that where once Central and South
America led the world In the produc-
ton Of rubber, cacoa and quinine,
most of the worlds rubber now comes
from the Malay Peninsula, at least half
the supply OF cacao comes from the
gold coast and by far the most quiz
nine Is grown in Java.
The cause Of this change Is scien-
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University, Is cooperating with the
Keith Fund in an effort to discover the
value Of radio in rural schools. About
100 schools of various rural types are
involved. They extend from Virginia
up into New England and as far west as
the Alleghenies. The supervisor of the
project reports that in spite Of many
apparent difficulties, which fortunately
can be overcome to some extent, radio
offers to rural schools some distinct
advantages which they could not obtain
through any other medium. Eight adj
vantages are pointed out.
A more extensive experiment Is the
Ohio School Of the air. It's purpose IL
to help determine the part which radio
can play effectively in organized class
room instruction, especially In public
elementary and secondary schools. Its
specific aim Is to teach pupils over the
air the things they need to l'low that
can be most effectively taught In that
way. This school Is a division of the
Ohio State Department of Education,
which is one Of the few government
owned and operated stations in America.
The work is offered as q supplement
10 that given In the class room and not
as q substitute for 1t. The conclusions
drawn from this experiment, which
doubtless viii extend over several years,
should prove Of much value to educa-
tional interests.
A third experiment Is being conducted
to help determine the value of radio
educationally In homes Of illiterates or
near illiterates. Receiving sets have
been installed In selected mountain
homes in Virginia near President Hoo
ver's Summer camp. The extension
department and School Of Sociology of
the University OF Virginia Is conducting
this investigation. Work of installing
receivers and of checking results only
recently was begun. and no limits Of
time have been determined.
Perhaps other studies Of equal inter-
under way.
f A second important need Is better or
eanigati0n and leadership among edu-
fCsnnttnued IN FOllrtl paae,l
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Permanent Speedway
Planned i'm South Africa

The experience OF Kaye Don, the
British racing motorist. ON Daytona
Beach has revived the scheme In South
Africa for . permanent speedway ct
verneuk Pan. where Capt. Malcolm
Campbell last year covered q mile at
slightly over 218 miles an hour, after
having come here to beat Lockhart,s
record of 207 miles an hour. sinee-
then the elements have been kind to-
the track constructed for Capt. Camp.
bell and few days work would put IL
miles Of 1t In good trim. But there must
be few who would 60 to Verneuk Pan
even In quest OF . record. An ugly, sun
scorched, dried-up lake, 1t Is land Of
snakes and scorpions, but not Of
humans.
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JERUSALEM.-Pale also suffers
from prohibition regime in the United
States. Prior to the World War, virtu-
ally the whole of the wine production
was exported to Russia and the United
States. Local consumption hardly
counted. Following upon the Bolshevik
revolution, however, America was al
most the only remaining market.
Thus the introduction of prohibition
brought about a serious crisis in the
wine industry Of the Holy Land. Vines
were uprooted and oranges planted In
their stead. But the farmers who could
not hold out for six years until the new
plantations began to yield were in q
sorry plight. Only lately have condi-
tions started to improve.
Jewish Effect on Change.
Even though the Palestine Of the
bible was renowned for its wine and
the prophet pictured each inhabitant
sitting under his own vinetree, vinti-
culture had been practically non-exist-
emit ever since the Jews were driven out
Of Palestine. A change came about
with the foundation of the first Jewish
colonies in the latter half OF the last
century. Before that, wine production
had In the main been confined to few
monasteries for ritual purposes.
In the Jewish settlements, however,
vineyards grew to such proportions that
the Jewish Farmers Cooperate, with
the assistance of Baron Rothschild, es-
tablished In 1892, in Rishon-le-z
south of Jaffa, and in Zichron Jacob.
south of Haifa, some of the largest
wine cellars OF the world, second only
TO those of Bordeaux. The large Inn
migration of 1o24-25 greatly increased
the local consumption and largely made
up for Americas abstention.
No Longer UprOOted.
vines are no longer uprooted. There
a no drunkenness to speak Of IN the
country. Jews always have been known
for their moderation and the Moslems
in the villages vigorously observe the
restrictions imposed by their religion.
In the cities they no longer refuse q
glass Of light wine. Wines and liquors
are so cheap that the poorest folk can
afford them There are practically no
saloons IN the Holy Land, and the wine-
shops serve merely as selling agencies
The total consumption Of wine. rum
brandy and whisky does not exceed one
liter per person per year. There are
no breweries, although o type OF barley
suited for brewing purposes grows neal
hGaza. This 10 exported TO Germany
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OF Virginia.
~ RESIDENT GARFIELD'S con-
- ception of collage as q log
with Mark Hopkins on one end
Il and a student on the other Is
familiar to every one concerned
with education. While this character
ization does not include many things
which today are regarded as essential,
1t reminds us Of the two principal ele-
ments in a teaching situation-the
teacher, fred with enthusiasm to in
struct, and the student, fired with zeal
to learn. With the advent OF radio, that
novel device which represents COM
bination of human imagination, scien-
tific achievement, technical skill and
industrial organization, carrying the
human voice into 100000 American
homes, not to mention those In other
countries, the question of the educa-
tional value of this new and powerful
instrument is Immediately raised. VIII
what is not called either" take the
place of Marks log" In bringing to-
gether teacher and pupil?
Whereas modern organizational meth
DDS, with class rooms and lecture halls,
have made 1t possible for q single
teacher to reach and inspire larger
numbers than could possibly sit on the
other end OF the traditional log, the
human voice over the radio may be
immediately conveyed into universal,
worldwide institution, establishing per-
sonal relationships between the great
est teachers Of the world and q host
Of scattered, heretofore isolated, In
dividuals.
Radio Educational Agency.
A rosy pictured Is 1t merely o fancy?
Imagination gone wild? At least many
recognized leaders in business, art, edu-
cation, politics and religious work hold
higls h0pes Of the educational contribu-
ticns which this new agency viii make
10 civilization.
education It must be observed ia the
beginning that the world Education"
has popular as well as q specialized
meaning. Broadly interpreted. educa-
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comparison with the Worlds consump-
ton Of their tropical products"
At the same time he draws this pic
ture of conditions DR.. orion pointed
out that the products of tropical coun-
tries are indispensable to the world.
There viii be more of the great staples,
such rs rubber, coffee and sugar, need
ed every year, and uses will be, found
for many minor and as yet unde-
veloped tropical products.
1t Is hoped that the conference will
establish permanent pan-American
organization for scientific agricultural
research, with experiment stations
which will serve all Latin American
countries and at the same time train
men in tropical agriculture. A start
in this direction already has been made
by the establishment of a division of
agricultural cooperation by the PEN
American Union after Its sixth confer
ence in Havana, in 1928. This division
Is chiefly q correspondence bureau, but,
according to Its director, DR.. Jose Co
loin, the letters that come in from
every country In Central and South
America show how great the need Is
for Q scientific organization.
Leon Estabrook. assistant director Of
CONTINUED on Fourth Page.)
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Fascists Take Over
Italian Navy League

The italian Navy League, which or
ganized pleasant lectures, cruises and
entertainments for It's members, was
recently taken over by the Fascist
party In celebration Of the fact that
the italian navy, six years hence, viii
contain 100000 tons of fighting ships.
A prominent Fascist, Achille Starace,
has been appointed as It's new presi-
ders to pursue an intensive naval
propaganda campaign"--a command
hardly necessary since the government,
senator's. deputies and general pt.ksssiic
have lately accepted In full the na-
tional propaganda for Q more effective
navy.
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Sees Lure of the Land
Dominating Canada

The lure Of the land Is evidently still
dominant II the demand for Canadian
government homestead lands In West.
er-i Canada may be taken as criterion.
Last year about 2,775,O00 acres were
taken up by settlers. an increase Of
285,0O0 acres over 1919. The total
Of homestead lands offered free to set
tiers on payment OF O registration fec
OF $40 was i7,s45. an increase OF 1,779
entries over the year before.
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Wine Industry in Holy Land Gains
]. After Blow From u. S. Prohibition

and England for the production of ale.
Palestine imports the beer 1t con-
sumes to the amount Of approximately
500, 900 lters per year. being 100000
iiters less than Its wine consumption.
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conference on agriculture ever con-
Quoted, they will plan to do for the
food supplies Of the Western Hemis-
phere what the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture is. already doing
for this country. And, perhaps more
significantly, what the British have
done for the entire British Empire
and what the Dutch have done for
their colonies.
In other words, they win survey the
whole field Of crop production with a
view to immediate cooperation, scien-
tific production and conservation and
with an eye to the needs Of future
generations.
Grouped Under Three Heads.
As originally planned, the program
for the inter-American conference on
agriculture, forestry and animal In
dustry was grouped under three heads:
First, problems dealing with research
In agriculture and forestry develop
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BY GRACE PHELPS.

BY GRACE PHELPS.
T YHEN the delegates from the
4 Il republics Of North and
~ South America gather In
v washington on September 8
for the first hi-continental
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Continued on Fourth Page.)
New Britain herald., 1930-01-15
MANY SLOW PAY,
 CREDIT MEN SAY
40 Per Cent Lax in Meeting Payments Per Cent Crooks

Denver, Jan. IS (Rl-If you pay your bills promptly on the first Of each month, you are one out cf every two persons who does so.
 On the other hand. if you arc slow in meeting your credit oblga- tions, you may find solacc in the knowledge that 4o per cent of the credit buyers of America have the same characteristic. Added 10 that there is another 10 per cent that is downright crooked and not only $ slow in paying, but buys on credit without ever intending to pay.
 The latter two classes, represent ing 50 per cent Of the people of the United States. are about 10 have their ConscienCes stirred, however.
 The National Retail Credit Ass0- citation Is willing to spend $7.000.- o"0 10 cause them q few qualms of unoasiness.
 That fact was revealed here by G. T. Hulse of St. Louis, secretary and educational director of the assoCia- tion, here 10 attend the seventh an- nual convention of the associated re- tail credit bureaus of Colorado Wyoming and New Mexico.
 The "consCicncc" fund already has been raised and will be expended IF advertising aimed 10 establish q new psychology on the part of credit buyers. More than one-third of the sum will be spent for daily news paper advertising, Hulse said.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-15
Hardware Trade Still
 Retains Healthy Status

New York, Jan. 15-The hardware trade throughout the country con- tlnues to retain a healthy status ac- cordlng to reports received from leading market centers, Hardware Age said today in it's weekly market summary. CNren sales are main- tanning approximately the same lev els, as are customary for the season. Spring lines are prominent on the orders being booked for future de- livery.
 Conditions, for the most part, arc favorable to ihe hardware industry at present and general improve nIent in the coming months has been predicted. In the south especially, agricultural conditions have shown marked improvement and this is be- ing reflected in the orders received from agricultural sections. Contem- plated building projects, which have been planned for seasonablc con- struction weather appear more nu- merouS than at this time a year ago
 Prices, in the main. are firm. A few rCvisions of minor character were the only fluctuations during the past week.
 The credit situation, while spot ty' in character, is considered satis- factory as q whole.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-15
STORY OF SINKING
 OF TUG RELATED
Heroic Crew Faces Death Calm. ]y-ReCue Skipper Praised

Plymouth, Eng, Jan. 15 Pt-A tale of how 23 heroic British blue jackets on the naval tug st. Gcnny went bravely to their fate as the little vessel sank beneath them nea.' Ushant light Sunday night was tod today by William Sullivan, one of five survivors of the crew of 2S.
 'Thc weather became so terrible that we put on our lifcbclts as @ pre- cautionafy measurc,' he said.
 Ut was well that we did so, for q few minutes later the St. Gcnny began to sink. All the ships creN acted as if they were at exercises They stood at their stations. There was no panic, no noise. nothing ot that sort, even when the ship dis appeared beneath LIS and we were buffotcd about by the waves.
 We were in the water about half an hour before our companion boa. the St. Cyrus, could pick us up. The SoamanShip of the captain of the st. Cyrus was marvellous. How he brought his ship around in such a heavy sea 1 do not know, but he managed it. We are extremely for tunate to be pirked up"
New Britain herald., 1930-01-15
NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15 193o

by the professor, who is master of the new Harvard residential unit, Lowell House, to applicants for rooms in that house. It read as fol- lows:
 "I have it very much at heart to see Lowell House start off with no one on probation or near it, that is 10 say. in group VI. Don't you think it would be a good idea?
 Cant you climb on the band wagon yourself? With best wishes. sincerely yours,
 JULIAN L. COOLIDGE"
 The crimson, Harvard's under graduate daily, satirizcd the letter. presenting several others which, it said, Professor Coolidge might have written.
 some considered the Crimson's thrusts as only another indication that Harvard undergraduates disap- prove of Professor Coolidge's atti- tude toward censorship ns revealed through his connection with the watch and Ward society. The pro- 1csSors resignation from that or sahizatlon was accepted at direc- tors meeting in Boston Monday.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-15
PORTUGAL HUNTS
 FOR NEW LEADER
SalaZar Likely to Be Chosen as
 Premier, Observers Say

Lisbon, Portugal, Jan. 15 (UP) -.-- A solution of the cabinet crisis is inevitably slow in ConsummatioG, duo to the necessity of finding q premier willing to remain in d posi- ton subordinate to Finance Minister Antono De Oliveira Salazar.
 It appears certain Salazar will continue in office when new cabinet is organized.
 Salazar tavorS a dictatorship for Portugal devoid of political charac- ter. It is probable, therefore, re- publiCans such as General Arthur INCns FcrraZ, president of the coun- cil of ministers and minister of the interior in the cabinet which fell last Saturday, will not participate in the new government.
 The immediate cause of the pres ent crisis, preCipitated by the reSig- nation of Salazar, was the finance minister's desire to take up the crit- cal financial situation of the country. This Premier YNons Ferraz refused to do and the resignations followed.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-15
MARY WINS FIGHT
 IN TAX ON ESTATE
Screen Star C0nYinCes Court
 Money Paid Once

Los Angeles, Jan. 3 LT-Mary Pickford, screen actress and wife Of Douglas Fairbanks, film luminary, has successfully contested in s,l- perior court an attempt of the state 10 collect $90,2S4 inheritance tax on the estate of her mother, Mrs. Char. lotte Pickford Smith.
 Miss Pickford contended that the S3S,2S4 tax, already paid by her as tXecutriX of the estate. was all the state legally was entitled to, because $7S0,00O of he mothers estate was trust fund she had created out of her earnings as an actress. Mrs. Smiths estate aggregated more than $1.0OO, 900.
 Superior Judge Harry Hollizer re- turned verdict in the actress favor yesterday after an hour of delibera- ton.
 The actress was due to appear in federal court today to contest the loyying of similar federal tax.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-15
GAS IN SHIP HOLD CAUSES Z DEATHS
Liner to Be Delayed in Panama
 for at Least Week

Panama City, Panama. Jan. 5 Cp Deadly gas in the hold of the Blue Star liner Saxon Star, which is here from Vancouver, probably will pre- vent it's continuing it's journey to the Britain Isles for possibly a week.
 The gases are combination caused by burning coal in the hold and BoraX, with which the ship is loaded Two persons already have died and two others have been part ly overcome by the noXious fumes.
 Two mon, one a fireman and the other a seaman Yenturcd into the hold after the fire in the ships in terior first began. They later were found dead in the fircroom to which they had stumbled but too late to avoid the poison gas The bodies were buried at sea.
 Large blowers have pumped suffi- cient oxygen into the hold to per init the ships crew to work there.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-15
HARVARD CRIMSON
 DER|DES TEACHER
Prints Letter Prof. Coolidge Wrote With IrOniCal Comment

Cambridge, Mass, Jan. 15 CUP)- Professor Julian l.. Coolidge of the Harvard mathematics department has expressed the hope that the Harvard Crimson was merely trying to be facetious when it poked fun at a letter he had recently addressed to several students.
 The letter in question was written
New Britain herald., 1930-01-15

T used to love a hike over the hill on frosty afternoon" writes Miss Cline. And then I began to be too tired to start out-too listless to move. l began to fear the cold. began to hate my work.
 q had a horror of medicines. So when the doctor told me to try Nujol, l protested. But this is different, he said. Nujol just passes through the body, lubricating it and absorbing the poisons. And, he added, it won't make you fat. Try it.
 q did try it. My energy began to come back. began to take my after school jaunts again. Work seemed
New Britain herald., 1930-01-15
Special Credit Facilities

Representatives from Our Credit Office will oe ill attendance in the Furniture Department so that credit may be extended with minimum of personal effort on the part of the customr