Evening star., 1946-12-27

Mr.. Attlee and his labor govern
ment. He should allow the English
people to share the same. England,
and its people, are behind the
times-far behind the times. If you
don't believe me, let me point out
that on the same day Mr.. Churchill
waxed wroth, the British Broadcast
ing Co. got more publicity for an
nouncing that 1t had hypnotized
people over the radio.
Front page stories. here and in
England, told how young student
of hypnosis, Peter Casson, "a, had,
through the facilities of the BBC,
put people to sleep. 1t was just
as big a story, if not bigger, than
the decision to give the Burmese a
chance to rule themselves.
Answer in Nutshell.
Right there, in a nutshell, you
have the answer to why England is
declining and falling. 1t is not
anywhere near as advanced as, say,
this country is. The radio systems
of the United States have been
putting people to sleep for 20 years
or more, and we citizens have taken
it for granted that such hypnosis
was a natural part of human prog
reSs.
England, apparently, has but one
radio performer who can put lis
teners to sleep. This country must
have 10000 radio performers who
can drive listeners into the arms OF
the sandman.
To list few: We have crooners
whose bow ties are bigger than
their necks; people who sing head
ache remedy ads as II they were
composed by Wagner; announcers
whose laughs are as hollow as any
tree 'coons ever slept in; comedians
whose humor is as broad as split
hair and as forced as a shotgun
wedding; news commentators who
made $1,000 a week interpreting"
the dispatches of hard-working
newspapermen throughout the
world who make $50 week; masters
of ceremony who are SO limited in
imagination that all they can ask
contestant is whether he is mar
ried, what his work is, how many
children he has, does he want the
money he has the chance to win,
and was 1t love at first sight when
he and the missus met; bands whose
brass, wind, and reed arrangements
sound exactly as II q heavy wind
was blowing through brass, wind,
and reeds.
Children who should be home in
bed answering questions concern
ing matrimony, the square root Of
So, the name of the architect who
designed the Post once in Buffalo,
and the cubic content of the
free balloon used by the Picard
brothers to determine how much
altitude the boards of the Picard
brothers could stand; married cou-
pies who have to be bright at 9 in
the morning, and, who, to prove
they are bright, tell you what the
family canary dreamed about dur
ing the night, and how nice 1t
would be If you would quit what
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soap they are selling.
That's Not All.
And that's not all of the Ameri-
can masters of radio hypnotism.
Speaking of soap, we have the soap
opera geniuses, who toss you into
the arms of Morpheus with tales of
how Nurse Edwards, left alone with
three children, shot it out with d..
Williams in the operating room, and
saved an entire city from scourge
of beri-beri by marrying a clean
cut, quack intern, who had magic
formula for buying diamonds on
the installment plan.
For further soporifics, listen to
the cowboys sing on American
radios.
Mr.. Churchill is behind the times,
Just as England is. Viva Burma!
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