RADIO ROOMS

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21826, 4 July 1936, Page 20

RADIO ROOMS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS. Sir,—l trust that in the considerations’that are being given at present to improvements in the Public Library the radio as an ally of reading is not being forgotten. Even if tha Government is successful in greatly increasing the number of homes that possess radios, there will sail bfairly large part of the population who cannot be said to have a home in + tne ordinary sense of the word since they are visitors to the city, live in board-ing-houses, flats, single rooms, or work for others, or are in positions which debar them from access to radio programmes. Even persons with a radio in their homes sometimes have good reason for preferring entertainment abroad. ~x xl . There is. of course, little need to stress the importance of radio entertainment as a means of raising the standard of culture and recreation for young people who for one cause or another left the schools with their education incomplete, or had not the chances that have come to us within the last few years of hearing all that the world has best to offer brought to our own door. Undoubtedly the public library will be the best and most convenient place to afford the newly-needed radio facilities, since the seekers of culture from books are most likely to be those who would appreciate access to culture by the new and helpful means now available. I think at least two radio rooms would be essential, one for, say, A stations. and the other for such entertainment as that provided by B stations. Even then the programme accepted would probably often have to depend upon a majority vote. Only experience will tell the size needed for the rooms.—Yours, etc., NEW CULTURE. July 3. 1936.