The quiet man who wants
to put a tax on noise
by DAVID ASH
VTTH as little wrist-
WT
work as possible I tapped on the door at the headquarters of the Quiet People.
of
1 was colling of two lead-
e querrillas in a Dimost marit-
arv campaign against NOISE Jd Connell, founder-secretary Noise Alatement Society, and Colonel Runait Tuvim, rr. Hired infantry commander and spe nest of an anticipated army
41900 art-noise officers
B
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publicist wilb
ha greyer by 51 years in this
win taming Cointel
Buy A "probatype" for the
others, wito wil eventually gel
svart Time Ja!
Colonel
Taylor.
tall,
mous-
Aachen and soidieri. fold me buskiy
The Sevenoaks di urganiser on a soluntary hubs.
"Sevenoaks Isn't P very Juder place, if cours birt we did appoint area lieutenants nd local wardens to investigate Bompiants. and.
U necessary,
Take action under The Nolse Abatement Act,"
Ssh!
Armed with il refer black box with a dial
und level recording the are of devilels
runits of sound! - Colomnej. Taylor has made a training sertle with
Cummings
Wishing you an explosive Xmas!
from
UNO
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1983.
and his Christmas cards.
Peace on Earth and Goodwill to all Men black
THE MAN WHO
WON'T GIVE IN!
by MAURICE EDELMAN, M.P.
"DE
LABOUR MEMBEK FOR NORTH COVENTRY
E GAULLE," said Churchill to Maurice Schumann during the war, "is stubborn, arrogant, rude, stiff-necked, and always gets his
white & Khaki
CIFT
PAUSE
Ye Olde
Stage
Coach
Just me and a motto this year.
Selwyn
AN
I'm dreaming of a WHITE Christmas
IMMIGRATION
BILL
YE OLDE
SCRUMPTIOUS
XMAS
FARE!
COA
Yes immovably
de Gaulle
fram Butter
Hungrily yours
-Nehru
ASTONISHING
POLL
own way-yes, de Gaulle is definitely a great man." Major Sir Henry
On the other hand, the British Prime Minister,
when asked after a long interview with de Gaulle d'Avigdor-Goldsmid to give the Basic English for "our gallant allies," is alleged to have replied, "These bloody foreign-
ers!"
Mr Cornell following a com. The Twend stories express the plaint by Viseuumess Cowdray mixture of admiration and exas- about pneumatic drills nusirieperation with which the West-- her Mayfair flat.
Land. I have no doubt, the East as well regards the mani who more today is king of France in every- Than 100 decibels (a public thing t lille library sound level averages
The drills registered
And the
about 40 decibels) Quiet Men approached the drillers foreman, Mr Paddy O'Donaghue, who was most co- operative."
"Re agreed that the work in hand should be done more quietly with pleks," said Mr Connell
"Incidentally."
Over Berlin, over negotiations
with the Russians, and in the last few days over the Nate talks, he
has been the ndi man out of the West and unshakable.
From the Lime when he walked upright amida hail of bullets at the Liberation ceremony in Notre Dame de Gaulle has made it increasingly he added, clear that he regards himself as
"rume frms already reduce being personally under divine noise with an acoustic booth protection. round each
man wha is
drilling. Bail I am wanting experiments to produce drills and
heavy machinery which will be quieter.
"And if
backs
B
SUBLIME
Possessing what he calls the
the Government baraka-an Arabic word mean-
Ssh!
hasn't
THY'V recommendation ofing God's special blessing - ne fax on noise, people with views the troubled domestic machinery will be taxed accord-scene of France and the con- ing to the noise it makes above tinuing anguish of Algeria with 60 decibels. "
sublime calm. His self-portrait written when he was a keen-eyed young officer changed, even though he is now grey, portly, and suffer ing from cataracts in his eyes.
"His passion for acting on his accompanied own is naturally by a certain roughness of con- "Noise," said Mr Connell, "can duct The leader is distant too, Injure tissues through its vibra- for authority is not to be had flons, affect sight and hearing, without prestige.
nor prestige cause anger and extreme hatred, without aloofness.... Prevent sleep and recuperation,
In the office next door a secretary answered a telephone which
ring. gave 3 muted
I
TORY MP
The subject:
AM opposed to capital should
Funishment and
political prophet, would think this is а
Tam
Like sinë
Ilves on BIL mountain from
intellectual which
The good case for not apply- makes cindy pronouncements ing it. It has not, so far, Does he want to give self-been provided in Israeli
ruie o Algeria?
No one quite
rows; but hitherto, the lack of law. precision has enabled de Gaulle to be al things to most men.
I would have no difficulty in The paradoxes of de Gaulle supporting the suggestion that constitute his strength.
Eichmans should be handed over An authoritarian by education to the Germans. and tradition. he nevertheless fought Petain
Cool Georgia Brown
A conservative. he socialists
into his Provisional Government in 1944
A dedicated soldier, he is in conflict with many of the army chiefs in Algeria.
elemy of
Aud Anally. ал Communism, de Gaulle did not besitate to da deal with Stalin in order to henent France.
HIS BOND
I think that this absence of purtisanship in de Gaulle for anything except the idea of France is his strongest bond with the French people, whom. family man himself, he sees in the image of a greal, energetic,
2
of France is de
ACTRESS
TEND to think he ought I
to be branded with the mark of Cain and let loose. But this is obviously a little ludicrous. Perhaps the best thing would be to sentence him to life imprisonment in jail. I am against hang- ing him.
Charles Clore
PROPERTY TYCOON
Eichmann
hang
2
Dr Norman Bentwich, the eminent British Jew, in a remarkable letter published in The Times the other day, pleaded that Eichmann should not be hanged. Leading and well-known Jews asked their opinions. Those who agreed to comment were unanimous.
were
It would be a danger to let to work in the Negev Desert him loose. He has not re- in Israel and made to do Pented or expressed regret something useful.
for his actions.
OF
He has no scruples and might Sir Barnett Janner even revert to his former activi- lies if he had the chance.
Mr. CHAIRMAN According to Jewish Rabbinic BOARD OF DEPUTIES
2 mạn must not be of principles
BRITISH JEWS hanged unless he was duly warned before the crime that he would be hanged for it, and In practice this
сать rarely be proved.
CHMANN should not Benn Levy
pented or expressed regret ALTHOUGH the condem-
talented but quarrelsome family.
The family Gaulle's prime concern; Europe
be imprisoned for life. comes a long way after it and I would be a danger to let PLAYWRIGHT would be idle to deny that he
He has not re- views Britain with admiration him loose. diluted by suspicion.
De Gaulle likes power; he dis- for his actions,
nation was perfectly likes administration. "He is a
an act of President who hates to preside," The trial has established the right, I think one of his Ministers said after de Jewish point, and this one man's mercy is absolutely essen- lose £1,000 million in produc- De Gaulle never changes, be- Gaulle had told his departmental life will not atone for everything tial. It is the least the livity per year."
cause he is always living up to Ministers to get on with their or anything that he did. Any dignity of Israel demands. Colonel Taylor told me: "My this ideal pattern of himself.
jobs and not to trouble him with way, he is just a shell now.
and sap energy.
'rt CHF make
nation
RESPECT
"
telephone has been very noisy "Would de Gaulle do such a detall. since 7 took on this job. Nothing?" he asks in pained sur- De Gaulle rarely bothers with : end of people ring me with com- prise when hís policles are the personality problema plant trouble is," he admitted,
questioned.
This habit of referring to him
hat whenever I go into the self in the third person is yet local for a quiet beer, everyone another example of the respect Bays Scht"
with which he regards himself as —(London Express Service), leader of France.
DON'T LET
others.
of
Rabbi Isidore
Epstein Miriam
Karlin
ACTRESS
but when he does he makes short shrift of them. He once disposed of a British poll- tician with: "That man isn't serious; he dances too much."
(London Express ServIES).
PRINCIPAL, JEWS'
I
Do not believe in capital punishment and there-
London Express Service
Pleasant Christmas
present
Tokyo.
JAPAN made some handsome Christmas presents ---and received very pleasant ones in return -by making new trade agreements with Britain, France, Argentina and Finland. Each of the parties has eased restrictions and opened the way for a considerable extension of two-way trade.
In general, the new accords will mean trebling present volume of trade with obviously widespread and beneficial re- sults. The only snag appears to be the worsening congestion at Japan's major ports which sim- ply cannot handle current in- ward and outward freight efficiently,
However, many of Japan's export goods which have been freed--such as cameras, trans- istor radios, optical goods and the like-are now being · air- freighted.
This matter of congestion in..............
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JAPAN NEWSLETTER F
FROM DAVID GORDON
Japan has within the past year, can hit like Rocky Marciano and risen to the point where nu they have the staying power of obvious "eures" are foreseeable. Zatopek.
The Agures for traffic accidents show an awesome figure of neurly 900 people being killed and injured duíly. The figure for "industrial aceldents" is nearly three times that number. There are just too many people in too small a space.
fore I cannot speak objec- DELICATE, DAINTY
tively on the matter in the circumstances.
Sydney Silverman
LABOUR MP
AM myself against the
I death penalty in this case
because it is such a stupid anti-climax.
AND SWEET'
An
The lucky
man
adventurous Japanese businessman, Hideki Yokoi, is making plans to build two 50,000-ton luxury liners
for the trans-Pacific service.
He envisages ships which will cruise at 46 knots-taking only six days from Yokohama to San Francisco. Each would Recom- modate 5,000 passengers.
Regarded by the pubile es a "lucky man," Yokol has made a success of every venture he's undertaken. Recently he, opened coffee shop in downtown The waitresses are all over 5ft Tokyo called "Ladles
Town."
6 ins tall and can wear any kind of dress.
they please. Some wear Kimono, others evening gowns and a few even wear sweaters and stacks.
a
Volumes have been written about Japon's "delicate, dainty and sweet" women -usually by those with only a fleeting acquain- tance with the country. So the joke of the week was I think it lowers the dignity the headline in the Asalt Event and effectiveness of the action bying News "Five Women Nabbed
For Beating Up GI's." treating him as if he were of any
It seems these little lotus blossoms hung around bars tre- quented by American service men and stood over the boys for The place is packed daily, cats and drinks--or cash:
The brilliant idea of lettitig If the GT's didn't play, then girls wear what they think maits the girls would attack with themselves best, is coining high-heeled shoes or wooden money for Yokol-and there's cloga. One tough Marine Corps no doubt about the effect on Sergeant was in hospital for six "customer-client relations as weeks after a brush, with these the girls just ooze personality "cute", creatures,
COLLEGE, LONDON DATHER than let him importance at all. What is the TE should not hang, but hang, which would be proper thing to do, I frankly HE should not hang, but too bad, which would be proper thin
THE SANTA CLAUS
LEGEND DIE
He is essential for 'pretending stage
The Hon. Lilian Montagu
WRITER
AM always against capi
Was it a meteor? They make Ital punishment, it tri
"spares" and a gadget for re- charging the battery from the brilliant spectacles, burning .up house mains. THAT STAR
in the atmosphere. But they are a general viewpoint I think usually noticeable only for a few I am against it for Eich seconds. The Bethlehem Star mann. It is too good for seems to have endured longer.
him.
This is the time of year when it is fashionable to seek scientific explanation of the Star of Bethle~ Was it a rare bunching of hem, which drew the three Wise bright stars like Jupiter and I think he should be imprison- Men to the birthplace of Jesus, Saturn? One astronomer ined for life by himself, and be
The riddle is unlikely ever to reported as having witnessed
THE legend of Santa Claus, his sled, reindeer and those dead-of-night
trips down the chimney can play a vital part in a child's life. Never about the exact date of the event other to be joined later by what he liked, but books of a debunk that legend-unless the truth is demanded.
This seasonal advice to parents comes from an Oxford psychia- trist, Dr 'Hugh Freeman. Father Christmas, he says, is part of a
slage which all children pass through-pretending.
it
be settled. For there is doubt these two come close to each allowed to read. He could read
may have been four or Mars-in 1603. en 10 BC. For those who like even to argue, sibilities:
I
suggest these pos-
spiritual nature should be at his From their motions he cal disposal. culated thit a similar freek. Was it a planet? Venus, for show that the Sun was almost Arnold Wesker
.occurred in: 6 BC. But checks instance, is very bright one of in line with the planets at that American the brightest attractions in the time making them hard to see. developed ly. The Wise Men, however, refrigerator without doors. It are thought to have known of rock whirling in space orbits, Was it a comet? These lumps has shelves, with air ducts in enough about astronomy not to brighten and develop them. An icy blast
conspicuous is forced have been in doubt. through the ducts to cool food
"talie" when they approach the supernova? These
The World
of Science
have
make up for unhappy Christ- mases in their youth. NO HANDLES Wintry Note. scientists
Last at any ex
the our
The bearded ilgure in red -represents -many-unsatisfied-
wishes, and he is part of "package deal"
which modern Christmas has become.
not
what
19?
...
11
If the Santa Claus part is if his bellef is strong, but it is true, the child asks himself, pointless to bolster up a myth
that is already crumbling,' Dr Freeman suggests that De Freeman writing in the feast, plus the large numbers of British Medical Association pub-
over-commercialisation of the
the room.
Manufacturer's
Wae it
Ope
PLAYWRIGHT RICHMANN should be sent to Spandau Prison
Self-defence
There was a case some time, ago where a 22-year-old bus conductress was given a lift | home on the pillion seat of a motorcycles The rider stop: ped by a river bank where = according to the giri "he tried to get fresh." She strangled him, threw him into the river
and for good measure aliucked the motorcycle in as well.
She dutifully reported to the Dearest police box, but the cops: let her go a few hours later on the grounds she was only de fending hemelL More likely they were glad to have her out of the way and Japanese police are no cowards.
Muscles
Totyo now has over 100,000-
and set up a "curtain" of cold "new stars are really old ones. They can be seen with the air which keeps out heat from which suddenly flare uptem-ked eye for weeks or maths where the other German porarily outshining all others, which fits the Bethlehem report criminals were, kopt, to
It had been worked out that explanation? But no such event it mentioned The new fridge saves people in other ancient records,
bamet Halley's has serve a life sentence. To opening and closing a door... 10
approached at a suitable angle eet him free or to keep him Flying saucer?g to Jerusalem Oh, this push-button age.
Was it bring Sauter? One time each at around Christmas in an Israelf prison would
cabaret hostesses. he Inhuman.
according to recently Issued" Bintistici, “If the group of British space fanatice neared the Earth, since 87 B.C. warning it very aimcult for a boy or girl.
Chicllamas gift for the obsessed has suggested this. Since with Almost certainly, it came close
girls who double as weltrem- to believe
It is no good the Israelis hostess in coffee shops and, bars in a real Father Never go to extremes to put adlentist: Automatic
at in B.G. Christmas, today.
over the legend, Parents who bruals, battery operated with a their disposal they have been at the leg was this too early to hanging him and thien laying his wise adited they would "If a child asits if he is real.” do so either want desperately to detachable brushlik ba unable to produce proof of sauce was the star a miracle? In Notting could vindate the curarity of the
crimes have bent indicated. Hve the hits be quite It sips back and forth across pers in the 20th century it this scientile, age at Christmas they card by chikamani, he already doubts. It does no living too much through their the teeth with rapid strokes, and hard to swallow the idea that time, it in ales in hopa sa harm to 24 along with the child children" for are trying to is sold with four coloured they approached the world. B. C.
be adds, "It is quite likely that believe it themselves and are
**(London Matarees Beruser);.
welLondon Aigners' merktoe).
But under the ordumy and |button në muLMELİSİ...
SILENCE
PLEASE
the
Someone, finally did it here and opened a place called "Coffee Shop Crazy." It is. Customers enù scribble on the walls er carve their Initials on the furniture. - Austher place, the "Bar Beat" has a motorcycle on à stand. Any customer who
letting
off steam can feels like
alt on it and rev up the engine tilt it wereams. In the mean- time. Here's a band playing bat music, so it's not hard to ERLORE WANT the din is like...... One of the pärastokioni: siden