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N the Villa Ainola, sel in the snow-clad forests 30 miles north of Helsinki, Profes- sor Jean Sibelius celebrated his 90th birthday yester.
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devoted 89-year-old
villa wife Aino- the named after her-wBS his sides as he reflected or
a life-time of music.
The most famous Finn.
the greatest living sym- phonist, now lives in retire-
ment. He has not published had any compositions for nearly Opera.
A recent photo of Siballus and his wife, Aino,"at home,
with sung
He
the Finnish of the distinguished Jarnefelt named the
boy brothers, known abroad as poet, painter and musician. It was Arvid Jarnefelt who left us this vivid picture of the young Sibellus
Yeh yers, or even visited Johan Julius Christian,
Helsinki since the war.
tions to his home inquire
compositions
Do they include
On setting off to study law Helsinki as a young man.
smart secret
the long-
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"He lived every moment Yet he still composes almost however, Sibellus found some of
but those his seafaring daily, we are told,
uncle's visiting intensively that at times
Jean Sibelius. really recalled animal, who are honoured with invita- cards Inscribed
not These might be useful in the fish jumping in a rapid must these abent
erly, ne thought, so young hunting dog that Jean' he would becomE.
for breath 45 it scents game, or 3 bird that even when sit- All through
long life. ting still, turns its head in order awaited eighth symphony? No. Sibelius has been in close com-
hear every rustle and to THE munion with nature, and many cutch all that living reality has body can say
of his greatest works are In- to tell. The great tone poem But although
myriad Flanish "En Saga" Isolated amung spired by the the sombre pines and glittering lakes and forests, As a boy, he lively period.
wander in the Woods birch trees. Sibelius still takes would
Interest In musical behind his home, carrying his affairs. Often a conductor, who violin to serenade the birds.
G
close
has performed one of the
master's great series of seven symphonies to the composer's king, receives a complimentary
On most evenings,
he
letler and his wife listen, by, the fire-
Fiercer Mood
-
MR AUTOMATION PLANS A
Av 32-HOUR WEEK
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By BERNARD LEVIN
LEASE don't call What is it? Well, that involved my wife Mrs a lot of complicated explaining, stuckrod with words like "elec- Machine," said
compilers" and "feed- John Diebold. I assured him bac But the simplest way of
1 wouldn't dream of such a telling the first Industrial
this: until
thing, and his wife, Doris, revolution from the second is who was sitting back shyly have had to be sturtech ted now, all machines in the corner, smiled. stopped and above all
and erected, by a human
being.
meang
Why should any man have In other words, however adm to ask another not to call his vanced a machine, a man has wife by so ungallont a name? always had to be there toll it With most men, of course, the what to do. Today that is all question never arises, but in over. Automation Mr Diebold's life "Mrs Ma- machines that start, stop and chine
la not the worst of it, correct themselves.
"Mrs Automation." For John can tell other machines what Diebold is the man who in to do. vented the word which describeg the second industrial revolution,
Further, Mr Diebold
His wife is likely to be called In other words, machines that
Is now doing as much
Да
nny other man to bring that revolution about.
What is this thing called automation? The man who thought up the nume The doesn't like it either, but, he says, can you think of better?) was born 28 years ago in Wechnskén, New Jersey, in a road from which one enn gel
a fine view of industria) New York.
Does this mean that the era of the robot is at hand? Not yet,
John Diebold
snys Mr Diebold. But the things which have happened already (and remember that automa- tion is still only in Ro cradle) are almost as" frightening.
Factory assembly.. belts without a man ixa sight, computers which sort out and count your telephone calls and make out your bill at
the end of the quarter, melines which not unly do things fonter than
mun could
there
(com-
Nubody who knows that view but do things which men could would blame Mr Diebold fur not do at oli-these are just the wanting to do something pretty first weak, uncertain stepa ož drustic about it, and it uppears the new chaid. In
In 1048 that
his leanings towards engi- was only one computer neering
management putors are the eyes and ears and developed early. Degrees in brains of automation) in the engineering.
and United States. Now one com- and pany is turning out 25 small ones
business
economies monagement
On hire
service in the U.S. Merchant and eight large ones a month. Marino (where he became ex- cited by Bre-control apparatus i led him step by step to the point at which he can be described in America as "the elder statesma of information"
The large ones cost $2,500,000 vach, but you can hire the use of one for a mere $3,000 a week, Nobody need think that auto- mation is going to transform an
Mr Diebold does not look like a statesman elder or younger; industry
he looks like an exceptionally me a
overnight. From the businessman calle in
serious-minded graduate student John Diebold to measure hum up
of ons of the more complicated for automation, to the time when
sciences. Except, that is, when
he smiles, which is often. Then the machines take over,
he
looks
minded.
much
Jess
A point
* $1
serious period of about 2 years. This gives the frm time to adjust itself to The most various problem created by the new technique the displacement of labour.
His large, strong hands gesti- culate as he makes a point, and his fair hair bobs up and down to emphasise it. An awful lot of points, it seems, need empha- sising about automation.
"Many
poogle" Diebold, "hink automation is just another word for mechanisa- tion-more and better machines, But it isn't."
said Mr
PROBLEM OF NIKE
Behind the scenos. top joint
By ALEXANDER BROAD The biggest problem in around the hunt for a suc cessor to the anti-aircraft gun. Today's jet bombers perly handled. and Berlin, as well as in other can travel at something ap- let it be known that there is a new and better Nike under con- of speed
struction.
to
dales from that
Vienna Sibelius studled European capitals, but only examine external musical trends:proaching the he always felt drawn to his sound; today's guided mis- forest clod home. He visited the siles travel at more than famous Bayreuth Wagner fes 2,000 miles an hour. tival in Bavaria but confessed RIGINALLY he intended to that he found the scenery there
An aircraft shell simply can- preferable to the music. For become a concert violinist. brought in by their powerful But there were also days when, Sibelius has never shown much not find them.
Three years ago, the United mood. he forsook interest in opera, He did, how- Sometimes he is visited in Bercer
ever.
write a one-act opera in States Army announced that it vloin for the rifle.
"The Maid in the had found the answer. 1896, called he tells us, "1 Tower."
Was answer
Nike-a "Up to 10,"
missile I could
down hunted
aircraft was a great Nimrod,
It atter which
like a bloodhound of the air.
The army announcement said flatly: "It is almost impossible for them to miss.
side in the low-timbered ORIG
Ainola, to concerts from abroad
radio,
by the leaders of his land.
Old Colossus
When asked about
spend days on end wandering wards, he replied curtly: "Leave through feld
eld and forest."
her there!"
Passing the vilinge school where he and Finland's Presi-
1. gindly dent Paasikivi-first studied, venus, walk
Dapper Figure
ECENTLY Sibelius
these wood- now planned as the the Arnold lands come President of
Aulanko national park. Nearby Bax Socety, arranged to promote
stands,
startling in its white recordings of music by the English symphonist whose works modern
modern hotel typical of the were Influenced by Sibelius's style.
Indeed, Sibellas's music Finns' wealth of beautiful con-
temporary architecture.
Perhaps just now Sibelius musicians,
In
poser.
The
But the U.S. Air Force was sceptical, Air Force officials said Nike they did not doubt that could bring down anything in service during
ng World War II. gure, probably baffle Nike.
outline. superb, TODAY Sibellus still appears A modern jet, however, would
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with- Before ho
ho
the
So the controversy has raged for three years-three years in which Nike has taken up sentry big
HOT PURSUIT
is played more frequently in Britain and America than other countries largely because recalls that April evening in drew from. life in Helsinki duty around almost every
1893 when, only 20 years old, regularly entertained at the city. of the interest shown in it by Sir he was first acclaimed as Fin- Hotel Kamp, with parties last- Thomas Beecham and the late land's foremost modern com- ing
and far into the_night, Serge Kousse,"Lisky.
on His large "Kullervo" drawing extensively
Last week, the Army agreed Arnold Bax mot Sibelius in symphony for orchestra, chorus cellars.
Now he reflects:
was to take on the Air Force. Nike 1909 and 1930, He saw him at and soloists, based on the Finn-
fon necessary for me to get away was matched against Matador. Ish eple poem "Kalevala" personal the time of his most
Longfellow which
modelled from Helsinki. My art demand-Matador is described as a “jet compositions, including the "Hiawatha"), had just bad its ed another environment. In bomber missile"-a plane flown quartet styled "Intimato Voices, and later in retirement,
Comparing his impressions.
first performance,
Helsinki all melody died within by robots. me. Besides, I was too sociable Matador screamed across the New to be able to refuse Invitations deeent at White Sands
Mexico, Nike took off "in hot It was in 1904 that he bought it happened after that is
(Bax wrote of "an arrenting Prophetic Words that interfered with my work."
formidable-looking fellow, born
of dark rock and nortnamn forest, yet somehow only half the size of the capricious old Colossus of today."
Last
your
Rmusician, declared that, con-
the Villa Ainola near Jarvonpsa, Just before his friend · Richard a matter of dispute. The Army
Strauss,
born a year earlier, claimed that Nike scored twice POBERT Kajanus, the regoing settled at Garmisch
but missed on dour "prelimin- Honoured throughout his ary" tries. The Air Force dialme Sir Thomas fronted with such talent, he country, and by musicians in that Nike, connected only, once Beecham Journeyed for the would forthwith cease compos- every land, Jean Sibelius is -and that was, when Matador first time to Finland to gee Ing himself. And he placed a spending his last years in the was flying low and slow.
and conduct ata taurel wreath on the young loving care of his wife, and. Army Secretary Wilber M, Sibelius festival given In his honour./man's broad shoulders. It was five daughters, one of whom is Brucker desued a fresh », assur- They had met often before, inscribed with words diso from married to Jussi Jales, conductor ance: "Nike can destroy any alr- however, during the composer's the Kalevala: "This way now of the Finnish national opera, craft, war nasay visitato Britain in the course will lead, here the musical genius who has drawn dered, Will the Army get four . It wOOKNE) fitting that the --But'en anxións :/'nation" "won" formar years. ⠀
gith lies now oporek visited the county Prophetic word label Finnish - soy freely from the wonders of preliminary tries; if they ever Recently I visited town, Hameenlinna, in southena muskan vandaard very was feet the northern" "ornor, 3) and-rd-moounter the real things And Finland, to sen
Darren, inte ha month later) visibelfar Beabed nature so closely, in its what dom Mie Brücker menn by Kitzl wooden * house where
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At the moment, with fairly dull cruployment America, the unions are co-operating. But the possibility of men being thrown cut of work by machints is one that is bound to be raised.
Mr Diebold is reassuring. Mora leisure time for all rather than unemployment for some is what he foreseea, and is quite serious when he adds that he expects to see a 32-hour week in America within ten years.
Mr Diebold and his wife (sho is a mathematical expert and a director of the firm) work an 80-hour week at the moment, and smile as they tell you so.. Evidently the way of revolu- tionary is hard, even 14 the revolution is only an industrial
ono.
It
No substitute But then, their office is not equipped with automation. not concerned with the Army's
le feuds with the Air Force thing, but simply that there are Isn't that they don't trust the say that Nike is good if pro- some kinds of work the machines
But they have have not yet got around
to, and almost certainly never wilL
There is still no mechanical substitute, It seems, for imagina→ tion and a sense of purpose. A machine couldn't have invented the word automation,
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