Radio mirror (Nov 1937-Apr 1938)

RADIO MIRROR HERE'S a great way to beat these rising food costs! Have delicious Franco -American Spaghetti several times a week. Serve it as a main dish for lunch or Sunday supper, or as a side dish for dinner. It's marvelous to make left-overs go further— it turns them into nourishing, attractive, money-saving dishes. But be sure you get Franco-American. This is no ordinary ready -cooked spaghetti! Just wait till you taste that appetizing cheese-andtomato sauce, made with eleven different savory ingredients. Your family will never get tired of Franco-American. It's a great worksaver, too! You just heat and serve — it's on the table in a jiffy. A can holding from three to four portions is usually no more than 100 —that's less than 30 a portion. Free recipe book gives 30 different appetizi ng ways to serve delicious Franco-American that will save you time and money. Send for it now. Franco -American SPAGHETTI Made by the Makers of Campbell's Soups MAY I SEND YOU OUR FREE RECIPE BOOK? SEND THE COUPON, PLEASE t The Franco-American Food Company, Dept. 411, Camden, New Jersey. Please send me your free recipe book: "30 Tempting Spaghetti Meals." Name (print) Address City -State the better. There's nothing like a little anger and excitement to loosen a man's tongue and make him able to express himself forcefully. "Another thing you should watch as you listen to these programs, particularly the current events talks, is the pronunciation of proper names, like Chiang Kaishek, or Stalin. For some reason, incorrect pronunciation, even more than poor grammar, stamps its user as an uneducated person. The leading commentators go to great pains to get the correct pronunciation of these names, and it will help you to fix the sound of them in your mind, just as you fix the other facts you hear. "Remember, there's no educational program out of which you can't get something potentially useful to you. Maybe you know notning about gardens, for instance, and care less — but on the other hand, perhaps your boss' wife is a garden enthusiast, so a few minutes spent listening to the CBS program called Your Garden and Mine may possibly pay for themselves many times over. THEN there are the many programs of ■ good music, and the talks about music which are given during the intermissions. You may find that great music bores you at first," Carnegie smiled, and added. "1 confess it did me. But if you listen to it often enough, you will find eventually that you have stored up an understanding of it which will make music a positive joy. "All the time, as you listen to educational and musical programs, you are broadening your mental outlook, cultivating your own inborn capacity to be an interesting and distinctive person. Your knowledge of the facts of current history is enabling you to form your own opinions, and to state them with the conviction and assurance that knowledge brings with it." "How about that matter of opinions?" I asked him. "Without meaning to, I often find myself taking as the truth the opinions different commentators express over the air, without bothering to examine them. How can one avoid that?" "To begin with," Carnegie replied, "you must distinguish between facts and opinions. When a commentator tells you that such-and-such a number of Chinese were killed in Shanghai, that a warship was blown up, that some other specific thing has happened, that's a fact, and can be taken without examination. But if that same commentator goes on to infer certain opinions from those facts — if he should say, for instance, that the United States ought to intervene in the SinoJapanese situation — that's an opinion, and you should bring all the other facts in your possession to bear upon the problem before you agree or disagree with him." Even the popular programs, designed purely for entertainment, have their lesson for the person who wishes to live a fuller, more satisfactory life. "Let the popular entertainers serve as inspirations to you," he told me. "More and more, I'm afraid that modern people are depending upon outside sources for their pleasure, instead of finding it in themselves — so don't be satisfied with listening to a dance band on the air, but let it inspire your interest in a certain instrument, so that you want to learn to play that instrument yourself. Then, as you study the piano, or the saxophone, listen to your favorite performers and try to learn from them. And then you and the radio will be working in partnership to make you a more distinctive person. You may not learn to play well —it doesn't matter. You will be creating your own pleasure, and adding to your own capacities — and thereby becoming more interesting to others as well as to yourself. "The radio commentators can teach you how to speak in public, too — provided you know something about the art to begin with. You must have the primary knowledge first. George Gershwin, a composer, could listen to a great symphony and learn things that would help him to write better music — but I could listen to music for a year, and still I wouldn't be able to write a simple song. "It's the same in public speaking. If you've already learned a little about how to express your ideas in public, either from lessons or from actually doing it, which is much better, you will have the knowledge that enables you to look past the speaker's words and discover how he is obtaining his effects. "Boake Carter can show you how to express your ideas forcefully and dramatically, Edwin C. Hill how to improve your phrasing and diction, Lowell Thomas how to make every sentence and word count. Dr. Walter Damrosch, of the Music Appreciation broadcasts, and the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick have the two most perfect enunciations I have ever heard on the air. All these men. and many others, can help you build upon your previous knowledge of public speaking. But you must co-operate with them by being ready, and thoughtful enough, to profit by the lessons they can give you." CARNEGIE leaned forward then, and spake emphatically. "But there's one thing you must remember, always. Don't try to imitate anyone! Don't try to reproduce Edwin C. Hill's or Boake Carter's mannerisms, don't try to tell funny stories like Bob Burns or Jack Benny. Those mannerisms, those tricks of speech that make Burns and Benny funny, belong to the men who use them. They are part of their inborn personalities — the residt of their personalites. "Use the radio to help you liberate the real you. Use it to gain knowledge, and the confidence and freedom that come ftom knowledge. Above all, be yourself to the fullest extent. Do this, and you will find your radio is helping you to win new friends and influence people!" In a Future Issue — A new type of feature for everyone who listens to the Pepper Young Family program or who likes a good story. Read PEPPER YOUNG STEPS OUT by Elaine Sterne Carrington, author of these broadcasts, who proves she knows boys and humor 60