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THE INVENTIVE SPIRIT.
WIRELESS A NICESSITY,
TWO KINDS OF BACHELORS.
DON JUANS AND “UNCLES."
VOLUNTARY AND INVOLUNTARY.
BRITISH NAVY.
ENGINEERING RECORDS.
MECHANICAL GEARING DEVICE.
It is a tradition in the British Navy that nothing is recommended for general adoption until it has been tried out thoroughly under an exhaustive series of tests.
To a
TAKING THINGS FOR GRANTED,
The strike of the marine wireless
There are two classes of celibate operators for an increase in their men, the voluntary and the inyolun wages brings home to us very tary. The bachelor by compulsion forcibly the speed with which the is not a true type of bachelor. Cir-
extent this tradition was world has travelled of late years in cumstance, not will, stands in the large
Accessarily abandoned during the way of his marriage. the matter of inventions. Only a
The real bachelor, or natural war, and the naval engineers were short while ago it was a nine days' celibate, is a somewhat scarce variety.compelled to stake their reputation wonder that we should be able to He is an abnormal being: This does and the safety of the ships on devices communicate at all with ships at sea.not mean that he is a morbid speci-which were almost experimental, A Now it is so much a commonplace men of the human family. He is notable case is the use of mechanical that the prospect of ships having to merely a "deviate type" from the gearing between the turbine and the start on their voyages without their normal, like a colour-blind person or propeller.. A steam turbine runs most efficiently at high speeds, and a wireless operators fills us with alarma giant,
Generally speaking, the man who propeller works most efficiently at We are a little bit too prone to take the amenities of modern civilisation is incapable of falling. In love is low speeds, so that in order to get for granted or, at least, we used emotional, or cold-natured and the best results it is necessary to to be. Nowadays, what with the self-centred. The bachelor who has arrange a speed-reducing mechanism is war and its after-effects, and been disappointed in love is often between the two, much as
between the engine and what with Labour troubles and overflowing, with affection and done their results in the form of strikes, sympathy. He is a typical born the driving shaft on a motor car. we are all too often forced to realise uncle, with a number of nephews It was only just before the war that the value of modern inventions by and nieces, some related by birth mechanical gears were fried on having to do without them for a and others adopted. The altruistic British naval vessels, but the engineer- time. Wireless, even just before the bachelor is frequently a philaning staff of the Admiralty pinned war, had only recently emerged from thropist, and ardent social reformer, their faith on the excellence of the stage of being a wonder and a and a loyal friend. Deprived of con- British design and workmanship, and luxury. To-day it is frmly esta jugal and parental love, he discovers within three years they succeeded 2 compensation in deeds of kindness in transmitting no less than 20,000 blished as a normal and necessary
horse-power through a single set of factor of our existence. Like other and generosity.
The bachelors by choice, the Don gearing. Battle cruisers, light inventions, it was brought on to an amazing extent by the needs of the Juans and Lotharios that abound in cruisers, torpedo boat destroyers, war. Its value for military and civilised communities, are seldom submarines, and patrol boats were naval purposes, was, of course, altruistic. Many of them are over-Sited out with gears until now there are close of 600 gears in service, obvious. As a natural consequence, indulged only sons.
its resources were developed to an
ia
They are the congenital amorists, representing nearly 6,800,000 horse extent which would have been the philanderers, and the intri power. The latest large ship to be impossible to. finance in time gners, who skip from flower to fitted on this system is a battie of peace; and now we find our flower, sipping honey without endur-cruiser in which 36,000 horse-power selves in possession of a means of ing necessary restrictions and in is transmitted through one set of
gearing. The early problems communication such as would have hibitions of family fife,
There are the adventurers whom gear transmission for marine pur- been regarded as belonging only to the realms of imaginative romance the advocates of the taxation of poses were worked out by a world- by our fathers or, for that matter, bachelors would like to penalise. famous British engineering firm. by our earlier selves. What our They are regarded by eustere married forefathers would have thought of it folk as shirkers. They neglect one defeats the imagination to picture, of the chief racial duties, the hand-
The remedy is in a finer idealism Bat even now, wireless telegraphy is ing on of the torch of life from one beginning to take a back seat. An generation to another, and they are of the love of the sexes. Mothers of other darling idea of the inventors is accessories to the enforced celibacy sons have a serious responsibility, in regard to the attitude of the younger quickly ceasing to be an interesting of women
For all normal human beings mat-generation, towards love and mar experiment and is developing into a commercial asset. The wireless teleing is a biological duty. Compul riage. They have the power to phone, which became an actuality sory and voluntary celibacy, among stamp the deepest and earliest im late In the war (though not too late a large number of both sexes is a pressions in the brains of their sons.
It must not be forgotten that exity to have a good deal to do with serious anomaly and a disintegrating our air superiority over the factor. When marriage is postpon Lothario. is the son of his mother. enemy), is increasing in efficiency ed until the approach of middle age, If mothers were more often, the every moment. Dame Melba assisted or shirked altogether, social moral sympathetic elder sister of their sons, in a demonstration of its powers by problems are certain to increase and their kindly and reliable coun singing into a receiver at Chelmsford-Nevertheless we ought to inquire sellors in the conduct of life, there
to the admiraron of privileged and whether if is wise to urge the incur would be a higher deal of love and ences both in London and still farther ably inconstant man to enter the wedlock and less risk of domestle afield. If this invention, besides matrimonial camp. The reformed unhappiness for both men eliminating wires, is going to elimin rake" is a rare specimen, women
and
ate exchanges, bungling operators; It is useless to pretend that every It should be the ambition of wrong numbers, and all the delays man and woman is a monogamous every young man to marry” sooá. and annoyances which make the society possesses the virtue of after manhood, and this ambition London telephone service the indie Leswerving constancy, The penali should be fostered and aided by ation or taxation of bachelors would sympathetic parents. An increase Hon it to-day is, we look forward to the day of instalation among us with increase the national exchequer, but of bachelors is a sign of racial
(such
would not lessen the deterioration January Mortimer Cafeting of eager if somewhat ins
in the Daily Mail. number of voluntary relibate mèn. credulous hope.Daily Telegraph
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, § 1920.
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