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"PARTY" NOISES. Behind the trivialities and personalities associated with
NOTES OF THE DAY SPREADING THE GOSPEL
AUSTRIA'S BULWARK
The combined
strength of
Britain, Italy and Franco holds up
the political bulwark of Austria.
OF SCIENCE
By GERALD HEARD
The Very Idea I
LOOK BEFORE YOU
SLEEP
L
(By George)
of a set of lovers laws
The recently signed Declaration HE British Association is sciences, and each export, if he le has bect mapired by a desire for peculiarly British. For the to win the black diamonds ofdle A common policy in the pruge vareste science we seldom hear for his advance on the world of THE publication recently tion of the dependence of the isolated middle That is peculiarly Brits Bonded, already. It looks for the Nordic race has set
integrity and In-ment of European state. This common taking for granted that the British
and down the line. policy was a very essential thing, Association is not for Art or for though the advance, wonderful us wondering if our own Austria's frontiers would not have Science." for without It the security of
purpose or planning, but for it ang been, has not been an fast been assured. Individual nction
ne it might just because The same thing is true of its scientist did not know what au- sional advice in choosing a and readers need any profes on the part of either France or very aristocratic uncle, the Royal ether in Italy, who would be most im- Society. There are
the next gallery was mediately concerned in the event many Royal Societies as
almost na doing. The seam lost here could mate or bird. of an invasion of Austria, would are National Associations, but if a neighbour's knowledge of his of feathering your own nest,
thero have been more quickly refound probably have grown into an Royal Society par excellence is for own part of it could have been looking before you sleep, and Apart from the ordinary rules: agreement, but there might easily Science. have been dangerous rivalries be- Yet are the British pre-eminently tween those two who sought a group-nation of scientists? Yes, Instead of giving out, or going rattle, you should go a little The British Association, theu, empty barrels make the most Vienna's
hand As It Is, we allow them to be so in their on repeating as an ancient and deeper than the skin in order to serve peace, and in harmony, with much regulation or academic order. tank of acting as
way that is, without too honourable custom its century-old ensure that marriage will be a Great Britain lending her sage The Continent concedes that.
town crier to boon and not a bane. counsel and influence to the group. The nation of amateurs"- now life, a new essential service formulated a set of rules with the
Science, may be entering on a Austria may well breathe easily amateurs of genius those are to Science. with such a company of guardians, EYESS OF DESIRE
they are working together to pre-own
the half-patronising titles willing- ly granted to the British for their science. And that, undoubtedly, Association. As the Royal Society is the raison d'etre of the British have became venerable, highly eminent,
There is no question but that several European powers
used
ACCIDENTAL
DISCOVERY
looked with eyes of desire upon specialised, organised, the British; MORE EXPERIMENT the rich neid for commerein! ex-
observers,
the
everything and try
IN STRATOSPHERE
For this purpose
WO have
Assistance of Aunt Emma, who be- ing a spinster, knows as much about women as we do,
No. 1: How to be a married дид happy-Become widower.
m
ploitation in the broad valley of genius wanted A place for the Danube. It was suggested by amateur who will keep on being
How to become a widow?-Hook Interested in only recently,
your man and let nature tako ita that out anything. Franco-Italian jealousies have been
When his "baby balloon" sent course. back automatic radio signals up to a height of 9 miles, Prof. subjects read "Mistakes of famous For further information on those Naturally, as Science has goneArthur H. Compton, leader in a criminals," "Great Trials," and
and the full-blown
aroused by the endeavoura of each 10 secure a foothold there. At
the same time, it was recognised specialised
un getting more anil more world-wide hunt for the cosmic "The Eilencious System of. M. that Germany had a game to play scientist knows more and more of ray, said he believed he had found Bleubarbe." In that particular direction. It less and less, many such have said the new rays in the higher atraton- would now seem that France and there is no place for the British here.
a satisfactory way of measuring Italy have recognised the potency Association, of the German wooing and have "minority masses" that support it and have told the
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the
no
Even though his first
No. 2: Both sexes. Keep pure in body and mind-a cold bath at ex-night and Indigestion during the
hayo
antecedents if you want to marry at all. For further information: Don't go too far into anybody's:
read "If Gossip Wa Mush."
at least for the tima-being, agreed that they the specialists were periment in Chicago had a sort day. to agree. In any event, they have, not going to waste their time balloon broke away at the start ways be followed by a chapter on with British assistance, definitely talking to such general minds.
of "surprise" ending when the A visit to the cinema should al- put an end to any fear that The B.A. had better be wound up. Austria may be
and spared to a height never "The embryonic development of Impulsive power. For an action nineteenth century.
seized by some It had served its purpose in the reached by man, over 17 miles, the Silk Worm," or "The life and of that sort would assuredly lead
the Chicago physicist declared the achievements of Benjamin Sloan, to war. Not only would
Then it was necessary to intro-fight a success. the duce Selence to the middle classes. balloon continued to send back its The Peak Party Case," lies an about the ravisher's ears, but the amateur, such as Cavendish, could signals to earth. Professor Comp- choice of a wife.
signatories of the Declaration be The
Up to a helght of 9% miles the the Inventor of the Button-hole." important issue affecting what
wealthy pure research
Rule 3: Be careful in your the Magistrate described as "the would have to Took to their arma-nge of democracy, and peerage pletely satisfied with the experi- Be merciful in your choice of " member-nations of the League not be expected to turn up in the ton expressed himself as com ordinary comity which should For the League President, M. be shown in neighbourly rein- Sandler, only last week, toti ad patronage for "curious enquiries" ment, which was made at the a husband. tions." The prosecution based on a section of the Sum- Europe would not be tolerated as that Science paid. That has been ton is working on is that of send soon come out anyway. If your
was that violation of frontlers In was even less likely to last. The University of Chicago,
middle classes had to be shown The idea that Professor Comp-family don't shout about it-it will If you have insanity in your mary Offences Ordinance which in the Manchurian instance, but donc. The lays down that "no person shall, would call for instant intervention had then better disband,
British Association!
ing up baby balloons equipped between sunset and the hour of and application of sanctions.
with cosmic ray detectors and great grandmother wore a hump, six in the following morning, CONTROL OF THE AIR
remember that automatic radio equipment which changed. Marry your opposite is
fashione make....any noise whatsoever
But quite apart from the fact w relay to the earth the data culculated to disturb or interfere
that it is not at all clear that the recorded by the balloons. Here a fairly good rule. If you are at The development of internation-ruling classes to-day realise the fore it has been a choice of sond dough; if you are knock-kneed try Wastrel marry somebody with some with the public tranquillity or at air-transport is one of the most necu of Science (did not the May up small balloons equipped and hook a jockey. calculated to disturb or annoy important questions of the day of 1931, cut research as though a chance on their returning to Report, which made the great cuts with recording devices and taking any person." How, precisely, in a perfectly sane world the only it were a luxury and not a constant earth with their secrets, or send is this section to be inter-problema involved would he of a saving?), is the specialist right ing up larger balloons which could preted? According to the technical character such as the about the future of Science itself? carry men who would bring them decision given on Saturday, the of landing-places en route,
provision of reliable nachtues and He would abolish this Beano of back,
Rule 4: Look for a partner disturbance of one person is fortunately, however, it is aufficient
Amateurs because it serves
not a playmate-don't marry a to constitute
The altitude reached by the bal- tennis player on the strength of offence. On a strict reading of that need the most careful con- in leaving St. Paul's with sunset balloons have previously been
an political aspects of the question need of Science itself,
foon is greater than has ever been his service or a nit wit who is only Yet when Dean Inge-who now achieved by man, although free a sleeping partner. the section, this ruling cannot sideration, for the chief obetacles benedictions was still called The known to ascend to such heights. be called into question. Had the to progress lie la present world Gloomy, one
Remember that the battle of law covered only such noises ns conditions. On the waters, the which it was sought to justify his matic radio signals would work, the old boy was born.
of the charges on The aim was to see if the auto-cubators of Ipswich or wherever Waterloo was planned in the In- are calculated to disturb public doctrine of the Freedom of the nicknaming was his saying that and then after the balloon had tranquillity, it would be neces- The ocean outside territorial Scienco was heading for a disaster been let out to a height of 1,000
Seas has been firmly established. gary, in order to establish an waters belongs to no nation, and similar to that which overtook an fect, to pull ft back again before offence, to prove that what so in times of peace it is a high- As the building of Babel had to for the final flight. But before might be termed a communal way that may be used by any ship, be abandoned because of the con- the balloon had gone to 1,000 feet Judge Ben Lindsey
earlier international enterprise. loading on the cosmic ray devices nuisance had been committed, whatever flag it flies. but when, as is the case, noises people would like to
Many fualon of tongues, "calculated to disturb or annoy analogous Freedom of the Afr soon the specialists will not be balloon was free before he intend-
80 to-day the slender wire Science may broak down because Compton's hand snapped and the Dear Judge Lindsey:
in Professor Denver, Colo, any person" are brought within established, so that any aeroplane the ambit of the section, there might travel anywhere it chose able to understand each other's ed. Up to nine and a half miles, soon as he found out I haven't. I haven't no lawyer, da that it only requires one in- not sufficiently exact. A travel-Einstein himself who has lately
room for doubting through the air. But the analogy
special Innguages.
That has not happened. It la tinued.
however, the radio signals con- stolen the money he wouldn't take dividual to show that he has threaten the lands three miles or the sciences, with no help from similar balloon will be sent up
ler on the Great Sea does not
Plans are now being made for remarked on the strange fact that a complete experiment when n
Peter D been disturbed or annoyed for a more distant. The acronaut's pas-any acientist, are tending not to with all the necessary cosmic ray breach of the Ordinance to be sage above any particular land is diverge but to converge, established. Whether this was of vital interest to those who dwell, the intention of the Legislature beneath. He may,
daviccs. It will not be nesessary for instance.
to attach a wire to tho balloon but in framing the law, it is carelessly or by unavoidable
Scientists have increasingly to it will be let off into space to ecek, impossible to say, but the fact cident, drop something dangerous know what is going on in someone its own destination and send back remains that this what a to persons or property." Any Gov-clao's working." The great seam to the eager experts the data It literal interpretation
scema therefore to of knowledge rune right across records as to the behaviour of the section implics. Mr. Hamilton air above its territories comes in a
the be justified in claiming that the the tunnels made by the many rays. further rules, and here, special way within its jurisdiction, again, he appears to be on
seems no
of
ernment
GC-
good ground, that it is not the desirability of the Ordinance necessary to show that the noise being amended so as to bring it is deliberate or premeditated. more into line with the spirit of Indeed, in the case under notice the times in which we live. the Magistrate found that the The law should only concern it! defendants "were having an self with noises which are deem- ordinary party such as people ed unreasonable have given, are giving and will sufficiently wide as to permit a -✡ term give all over the Colony." The magistrate to rule that the hold- registering of a conviction there-ing of an occasional party, with fore means that anyone giving its concomitant jollifications, such a party, with the noises would not be considered a breach common thereto, is liable to find of the Ordinance, whereas an himself in the Police Court, undue repetition of such gather- there to be convicted and fined, Ings might be. This would be in if only one neighbour lodges a line with what should surely be complaint that he has been an- the guiding principle in these noyed or disturbed. To take the matters--that it is neither the point to its extreme limit, it only character nor the volume of the requires someone to complain noise, nor even necessarily the that his neighbour's rádio, hour at which it is made that operated as early as eight or nine should bo o'clock in the evening, is annoy factor, so much as its fre the determining ing him, and an offence will liequency. In other words, for despite the fact that the Govern- a ment itself broadcasts long after "jamboree," say, three or four householder to have 1 that hour! Happily, on the times a year should not be re- principle of "Live and let live," garded as unreasonable, but for neighbours aro. not normally in him to have one three or four the habit of displaying such a times a week might well-be measure of intolerance. But Under the ruling in "The Peak the fact remains that the law as Party Case," ho runs
a risk
it now stands docs make it of holding any parties at all, a possible for cantankerous people fact which clearly demonstrates to interfere with ordinary social the point that the law as it intorcourse. It is this circumsstands is far too swooping and tance, as we see it, that points embracive in its provisions..
"Emery, it looks as if you've let somebody walk out in a pali af mismates.
DUMD-BELLES LETTRES.
By Jaket Lowell,
A Case In Point.
my case.
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