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SHIPS AS FAST AS AIRPLANES.
SHOOTING THE WAVES TO NEW YORK IN A DAY.
[BY OTTO PROBST.)
[The following article was written for the Daily Express by Herr Outo Probat, a German scientist, who daims to have invented a ship that will travel as fast as any airplane] Our former ideas of time and space have been revolutionised by numerous inventions, That which was considered as a wonder has now become commonplace
The same will soon be the case with my invention, the new "shoot ing ship." There may be many to day who are sceptical about it, but in a few years time this type of ship will be one of the many means by which people will be able to spend a week-end in the New World.
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The first Power to possess a feet of such ships will naturally be much superior to other countries, and thus, on account of the great speed, bent all other, merchant ships in competition.
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In Case of War.
A comparatively small flotilla of "shooting ships" "would, in my case of a naval war, be sufficiat to keep the greatest fleet in check and to destroy, with 70 per cent degree of certainty, all enemy shipe which come into sight.
In
By means of the "shooting ship," business trips to America will no longer be a question of time. consequence, the trade between the Old and New World will flourish; for my ships will even be able to compete successfully with airships, Let us now make a journey in shooting spirit in one of my ships to New York. Only a few will be able to form a real idea of speed of 150 metres per second, 4 speed which amounts to six times the speed of an express train which travels ifty-six miles per hour.
MOB LAW" IN ART.
CENSORED PAINTER ON ' SHOCKING" PICTURES,
A REPLY TO THE HOME "SECRETARY.
Mr. D. H. Lawrence, the novelist and painter, who has recently had some of his pictures seized by the police in London, is publishing in Paris periodical named "This Quarter" what he terms a reply to the British Home Secretary,
He opens with some pungeut re- marks:
If a play shocks ten people in an audience, and does not shock the remaining fire fundred, then it is obscene," he says, "te ten and in- nocuous to five hundred; the play
not obscene by a majority Hamlet shocked all the Crom
wellia puritans and shocks - no body, and song of Aristophanes shocks everybody and did galvanise the Greek at all.
not
"Have a Vote." Man is a changeable beast, and Racing With Sound.
words change their meaning with Ten seconds after our departure, him and things are not what they in which we have travelled about remed and what's what becomes one mile, the shore battery fires a what isn't, and if we think we know where wo are, it's only be- gun as farewell. We see the firing cause we are so rapidly being tran- at the mouth of the gun clear slated to somewhere else. We have but hear no bang. Only after a further ten seconds-that is, at the end of the twentieth second after our departure does it reach us.
But il a
On the bare surfson of the sea we are not conscious of our speed; we have no measure by which we can make comparisons. ship or an island came into sight, then the mile-devouring speed of our boat makes a powerful impres-
xion on 13.
It is as if one would adjust a binocular quickly on to the field of vision. The objects near us chase by like phantoms, and in a short space of time have already disap- peared from our view,
This will be made possible by a special equipment mounted in the accompanying bouts of my ships. In my opinion, my "shooting ship" should become the most dreaded weapon of the next war.
Thus we whip the ocean hour, by My shooting ship "develops a hour, sad after twelve hours the speed of 300 knots an hour, and torch of the Statue of Liberty sad would be propelled by the detonadenly comes into view, and we run with reduced speed to the Ameri- tions of explosives in the rear of can coast. the ship.
The movement of the
As will be seen, the introduction WATER of my "shooting ship" for trade would exercise nó kampering innd naval purposes is only a quae
tion of time. fluence, as the speed and the
Important journeys of single per- method of propulsion minke the sons, be it on purely business or
private interests, are able ship independent of them.
made in this way with the mini- mum waste of time.
Let us look into the future and imagine ourselves at & point of time at which ships of my inves tion in the sole possession of one Power glide over the sea of the world at a hitherto unattainel speed. By reason of this speed it would be theoretically possible to encircle the equator by water in about eighty hours, or in as many hours as Jules Verne in his novel journeyed round the earth in days.
My shooting ships" would rush over the occan and take letters and goods to America and back in at space of tima, hitherto required for communication between England and Germany.
WOMAN IN BATHING COSTUME
ON
MIDNIGHT ARREST
THAMES EMBANKMENT.
A remarkable story was told to Sir Chartres Biron, the magistrate at Bowstreet Police Court recently, when Mrs. Anna Gillett, aged thirty, of Little St. Andrew's street, Holborn, who was arrested while walking along the Victoria Embankment clad in a bathing costume and a coat after midnight, was accused of being drunk and disorderly.
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Sir Chartres dismissed the case on payment of a doctor's fee of
10s, Bd.
Police Constable Britten stated that he saw the woman walking along the Embankment about 12.50 a.m. with a number of men round her. Two of them were support-
ing her, and she was laughing and shouting. She wore a coat which was open at the front, exposing wet bathing costume,
Blow. In the Face.
He asked her where she lived, and she told him to mind his own business. A motor-car drove up, and the occupants, who appeared to be complete 'strangers, offered
to be
But for rosene work at sea and for water police activity my ships would be eminently suitable on accoust
of their extraordinary speed. In such cases it is often of decisive importance to arrive with greatest speed, and the last minute is of decisive character.
My "shooting ship " has been tested in practice by me, and the tests have brought satisfactory re eults, so that no doubt now. existe of its capabilities; soon those who are to-day sceptical of my inven ton will have the opportunity of expresing their praise of it.
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HANDCLTF KING'S 'LAMENT.
ANCIENT TRADE HIT BY CRIME DECREASE,
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There is trade in Birmingham that thrives on crime, but whose leading figures are now lamenting the fact that we are yearly growing more law-abiding. It is the hand- cuff trade
Birmingham supplies nine-tenths of the world's handcuffs, and the secrets of the trade are jealously guarded, being handed down from father to con for generations.
Fashions in handcuffs do not vary. : The modern motor-car bandit has lo be content to be manacled with the same style of handcuffs that encir led the wrists of Charles Peace.
Bitter Reflection..
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Ose of the largest manufacturers of handcuffs in the midlands spoke to a reporter of the selfishness of criminals who light-heartedly re- form without giving a thought to the harm they were doing to one of the "staple" industries of a great city.
"There are societies springing up every day, he added bitterly, "ne- tually to persuade people to re- form. Interfering busybodies!"
"Why don't you try advertis
suggested. Something
ang
to drive her home, but she refused bright and snappy, like Make the
to go, and struck one of them in the face."
She became more abusive and volent, and with the assistance of another policeman he took her to Cannon-row Police Station, where the divisional surgeon certified her to be drunk. Her hand was cut, and two stitches had to be put in the wound.
Mrs. Gillets said that she went for a swim in the River Thames two or three nights every week. She
criminal handcut conscious.
"No use," he said sadly. "Do you know that during the 150 years we have been catering for their needs we have never received a sing- le testimonial from a prisoner! If it was not for large and regular orders from Amerien we bould have to go out of business. There is a country for you!":
mid that it was had on this night swum from Cleo vary add story altogether." There patra's Needle to Westminster was no reason why the woman Bridge, and, she asked if she could should not baths if she liked. No have done that if she had been doubt she was drunk, but there wa drunk
not much evidence of disorderly, (Continued at foot of next column.) | conduct.
to leave everything to the majority, everything to the mob, the mcb, the
mob..
, abscerta our cars not to see its Low!.
"You perform your antics to please the vast public, duci ez machina, or you refuse to perforin for the public at all, unless now and then you pull its clephantine and ignominious leg. When it comes to the meaning of anything,: even the simplest word, then you must pause, because there are two great categories of meaning forever separate. There is mob meaning and there is individual meaning.
"Even" quite advanced art crítics would try to make us believe that say picture or book which had a ex appeal was, ipto factor, a land book or picture. This is just cant- ing hypocrisy.
[WA, Fallacy,”...“
"Half the great poems, pictures, music, stories of the whole world are great by virtue of the beauty of their sex appeal. Titian or Renoir, the Song of Solomon or Jane Eyre Mozart or Annie Laurie-the love liness is all interwoven with sex ap peal, sox stimulus, call it what you
will.
Perhaps it may be argued that a mild degree of sex appeal is not pornographic, whereas
high degree is. But this is a fallacy. Boccaccio at his hottest seems to me less pornographic than Pamela or Clarissa Harlowe, or even Jara Eyre, or a host of modern books ar volumes which pass uncensored.
"Then what is pornography after all this? It isn't sex appeal or sex stímuïns in art. It isn't even a delibera, intention on the part of the artist to arouse or excite sexual
feelings.
There is nothing wrong with sexual feelings in themselves so long as they are straightforward, not sneaking or sly. The right sort of sex stimulus is valuable to hummar daily life. Without it the world grows grey.
ECZEMA ON
HANDS IN RASH
Irritation Was Intense. Healed by Cuticura.
wsfeed quite a while with co- rema which bröka om on my handa Izarts. For some time. the irrita- tom was intenso, keeping me sWRID at night, it was of a dry timĖKITO. casing the skin to break open, and it had a burning sensation. It inter- fered with my household detien and was a great handicap: -
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They know what is obscene and what isn't-they do. If the lower ten million doesn't know better than the upper tea men then there
Boys' School. is something wrong with mathema tics. Have a vote on it! Show hands, and prove it by counting it!
You cannot samper with the great public. British or American. For populi, vor dei, don't you know At the same time, this vo dei shouts with praise for moving pictures and books and newspaper
accounts that seem to a sinful. nature like mine completely dis Busting and obscene. Like a real
the other way. Prude and puritan. I have to look
"You Accept the Mob." "When the voz populi, voz dei is hoarse with sentimental inde cency, then I have to steer away taminated. There is a certain kind like a Pharisee afraid of being con- of pitch that. I refuse to touch.
So, again, it comes down to this: you accept the majority, the mob, and its decisions, or you don't. Your bow down before the roz populi, vez dei, or you plug i
"I would give everybody the gay. Renaissance stories to read. They would help to shake off a lot of grey self-importance, which is our mo dern civilised disease."
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