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Show gjjPndWsemination Of Hews !4 Problem In Many Parts Of World 5 ,'"'" IIP h SOLJAK Leslif y PHo,?" For you and ! V "Sfe everyday ques--e sSy solved by ouy- ' Clt i 15 oaper or turning gow, ,f i "T'But for millions o i d,Ls consists only of car U nefSunreliable rumors e aniiD of neighbors. 111 f 4 e,g world outside each P4 & o" district is shut ra i Vl1 ilid wall of silence. ?iSe advent of the pop-, pop-, , Be'01 radio, films and tel-bW tel-bW lat Press' nst peoples of the IV. mf in cultural isola-A isola-A k X "li Ue of the ways r J people and were in- K helieve that their own 1 & SiUvtag standards were stef: 5 tven divinely ordained 111 Us ' own time, the so-called "Vf of mass communicator communica-tor !ahave made the world far e W , than it was, even a few ;3l'e r decades ago. They have 4 throughout the globe 't, Sating but sometimes be- iJSffStur of change and ;f5more developed coun-to coun-to tL average man reads -tily paper, listens for sev-'fhnurs sev-'fhnurs a day to the radio. S to the movies perhaps twice a week. When he :3"t off from these contacts, he feels lost, and may even lose his capacity for rational action or example, on May 10 1950 a dispatch stated that 30 Japanese Jap-anese soldiers who refused to believe that Japan lost the war five years ago were still holding out on Anathan Island, 70 miles north of Saipan, in the mid-Pa-cific. The Japanese government has asked relatives to write to the soldiers and tell them the facts. When UNESCO was established, estab-lished, no person nor agency in the world was able to provide even a reasonably complete picture pic-ture of the world's communication communica-tion facilities. One of UNESCO's first jobs, therefore, was to make a complete and accurate survey, as a pre-requisite to any long-term measures to increase in-crease means of communication among the world's peoples. On-the-spot surveys were undertaken under-taken by the Technical Facilities Facil-ities division of UNESCO's Mass Communications department. At the request of the United Nationa sub-commission on freedom free-dom of information and of the press, UNESCO has prepared a concise and popular but comprehensive com-prehensive sur vey of the world's communication facilities, pub-lished pub-lished under the title, "World FiTml'nic(rts:KPress' Radio Pre n (Clumbla University , rress, New York City, $1.20). UNESrn.rkWas PPared in bCOs division of Free How of Information, under the i CannH10" ,f Albert A- Shea- of I blen n0Wh, f0r some vears has oeen specializing in communications communica-tions research, 'ihe resulting re-' , 13 lhe first single-volume survey of its kind. Brightly il- riirir fHd ?nd wrien in simple, I nf fashln. it provides con-th, con-th, on facilities in more m u states and territories. Much of the general information informa-tion is surprising. We learn, for instance that the world's peoples i receive their daily information through 218,000,000 copies of newspapers and 160,000,000 radio ra-dio sets; that 4,000,000 tele-Vls' tele-Vls' sets are already in use and that entertainment is provided pro-vided by 95,00 motion picture theaters. These are . impressive figures, but their real significance signifi-cance is not apparent until we note how the facilities are distributed. dis-tributed. In the United States, there is one radio set for every two persons; per-sons; in Ethiopia there is one for every 2,000 persons, and in Uganda on for every 20,000. The Naga tribe of Assam, India, does not apparently own a single sin-gle set and still communicates by "bush telegraph" or smoke signals. The disparity in newspaper reading is equally startling. In the United Kingdom, one newspaper news-paper is sold daily for every two persons; in French West Africa there is one paper for' every 10,000 inhabitants. In the Soviet Union, there are publications publi-cations in some 70 major languages; lan-guages; in the undeveloped parts of Africa, millions of people are without newspapers in their native tongue. Islanders of the tropical South Pacific have no daily press but keep in constant touch with the outside world by means of radio. Nearly every nermanently inhabited island has a transmitter. Facts about films show equally strange contrasts. con-trasts. In Canada, which has a 13.000,000 population, there are 937,000 filmseatsiinAfghanistan, where the population is only slightly smaller, there is seating seat-ing for only 700 persons. |