STATUES
BLOCKING
TRAFFIC
RUSSIA'S ENTRY ENGINEERED
LONDON TAKES
STOCK
BRITISH AIR CONTROL
FREEDOM FOR
AIRWAYS
EXPERT ADVICE
London.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1934.
Great Britain must make sure that the highway of the air la kept open and free for lawful and przceable traffle and that the threat of its use to attack British homes and people is one the coun- try has the strength to meet with every confidence, said Lord Lon- donderry, Secretary of State for Air. n the Air Number of the London Times.
BY GLANVILLE CAREW
At first sight there is no very apparent connection between light ning conductors, statues and traf- fic obstructions. Yet in a sense, in London at any rate, there is Lot us begin with the lightning conductor.which adorned the head The contribution of the British of the Duke of York standing an Empire towards the minstory of the hia column (which la ilke their has been achieved by stendy Nelson column) looking towards and patient organization. Lord Whitehall,
is
Londonderry said. "Starting from the efforts of our early flyers, str For about a hundred years, and twined at great personal danger until recently, there aprouted from against many failures and dle- the Duke's head a whole cluster couragements, we have bulit up an or nest of metal spikes. I say air force Incomparable in tradi- "nest" because they were useful antion and technique, and a system foundation work for the homes of of clvil air transport which the fowls of the air. On the rapidly surmounting the natural other hand, one school of thought; disadvantages of our situation neid has always contended that these climate and the complex problems things were originally designed as of our Imperial communications.“ nothing but files on which to me the Air-Secretary declared. pale the Duke's Innumerable un pald bills. Anyhow, the Office of Works, after a century's considera-
SPLENDID ENTERPRISES, There was no more expert flying
tion, has decided that the spikes in the world than could be seen Jyoked abourd and has now re-every year at the Royal Air Forre placed them by something more modern and less obviota.
Display: There were few more splendid enterprises than the 33. 1000 rulles of Imperial and internal Of course, no such vital change, air lines which British aircraf could be accomplished without would be covering by the end of public discussion pro aud con, and this year with regular and reliable that led to the subject of London's services. statues and monuments in general,
Flying, which no short a time
and that in turn came up in debate,ng» seemed almost miraculous, had In the Hatter of Lords
TOO MUCH STATUARY.
it
berome a common and necessary. part of the equipment of civilian- TOYOTA Britain had mery reason to
elvry.
The fact is that London is over-be inspered by the share British populated with statuary. Whether Ten and women had taken in this any census of these effigies has transformation, said Lord London. ever been taken does not appear.
It wa naturad at first to regard but within narrow radius of Charing Cross there must be hun with misslag' the possible out- dreds. Just as Westminster Abbeye of capabilities so rapidly ex- ta doubt anally is eluttered up with monaments to ended, but
the inventions could be people now recognized as medio-whether crities, au our streets are ubstructured to good and profitable use ed by scores of hundreds of statues as to disregard the lessena to folk long forgotten and long history and to yield to a stallify. ignored, mixed, of course, with ing pessimism, Var duty is not
to be afraid of our powers, but ; rathee to eliminate the causes of We begin with Alfred the Great enmity which lead to their exer- and come down the centuries. cise in the service of destruction,” through James is wearing athe Air Minister advised.
those of famous men,
Mr. Upton Sinclair, left. California Democratic nominee for governor, and anted author, confers with the Secretary of the Interior, Mr. Harald L. Ickes at Washington, D.C., on bis teine to the nation's capital.
-
Roman topa and late wreath London's trafie is to move at all it which presumably he never wore must be done. ine, to Victorian times that
True, in some cases the sintura
very nadir of artistic taste -when serve to divide traffic streams, but our sculptors presented us with that is exceptional.
gentlemen
in stone frack cents.
stone top hats and stone umbrellas,
Consider for a moment the vol ume of traite which has to be Now we have come to a point deal with, must of it through where we put up such memorials thoroughfares whose course is to men not yet even dead. That centuries old and, which, short of has led a noble lord tu suggest junimaginable expense. Cannot be that there should be a sort of materially widened. Statute of Limitations for Statuary
which should ennel
that o
HUGE VOLUME.
memorial should be publicly set The other day all vehicles pass. up within ten years of the sub-ing in and out of City streets were ject's death.
TRAFFIC ONSTRUCTION. That brings us to the question of trate obstruction.
fcounted. Let it be borne in mind [that the "City" means the historie area of about one square mile at the heart of which lle the Bunk of. England and the Mansion Our former sculptors and public House. The Aguros are, of coursy, authorities, particularly those of not yet available, but they must to the nineteenth century, possessed a certainly exceed those of July, an uncanny prescience which en-1933. At that count--to instance abled them unerringly to select for a few main points these results thair products precisely those appeared: At the northern end of street sites best calculated to Blackfriars Bridge there passed in hinder the stroot trafie
twelve-hour day (8 n.nt. of the a twentieth century.
8 p.m.) 42,000 vehicles; at the Bank, 36,000; at London Bridge, Before long there must be a gon-30,000. And there are scores of erul sweeping away of many of great traffic points in London at large whore the traffic must be at these obstructions. There will be least as great,
of course, a public howl against!
the ancolleges of romoving, those
to
Our obstructive statues must
things, which many of the howlers some day and that not far ahead
And refuge in some sort of have seldom looked at, but if Panthoon.
Remarkable -xamples of the new German window display modeis, which are becoming the rage in Europe.
AMAZINGLY LIFE-LIKE
MODELS
DOLL-MAKER'S
INVENTION
ALMOST HUMAN
FIGURES
Germany has produced a remark- nbly life-like doll. These perfect figures, which are now the Renar- tion of shopwindow displays of the leading shops of the big Ger- man cities and elsewhere in called Europe, can enrcely be dolls. They are of the natural size of adults and of children of every possible age. Their limba have the
freedom. their Cell expressiona ato equally (natura) and their carriage has the same ease as that of human be
the Ings. They originate for Koenen wurk-shops of the world- famous Kathe Kruse. They are actually a consistent development of the toy-doll.
same
The latter once proved a valu- able stimulus to a reform in doll. manufacture, eventually even in the entire toy-industry. because the Individually-rande doll in s perfect imitatibu of the real child. showed up the unnaturalness and impersonality of the wholesale article. Thir artistically-made shop-witkw doll will also sharpen the eye to the manufactured and to the artificiality of the typified Bgure which is to be seen in the same position with the same smile. In all shop-windows. They Arc jelther, grotesque or sweetly-sen- Hintal, but they are never like the real person, be it mall, wontan or child. Therefore nothing that i exhibited on them, even the Intest fashion can ever achieve the anme effect as these very articles would on the human-being itself. The practical advantage of the model-figures lies in advertising. The advantage is heightened by the aesthetic, impression of a shop- window arrangement of some of these Kathe Kruse dolls in artistic surroundings. They are grouped Venes which
ITALY'S MILITARY themselves exclusively in small life-like
to warlike instruction and the predepict in the most natural manner fession of urais."
whatever is to be exhibited in the The clever child will no longer line of new creations. The possi- be top of his class at school and
CULTURE
CHILDREN TRAIN AS WARRIORS
MUSSOLINI'S APPROVAL
The Italian Cabinet verenity under the pryaldeney of Senor! Mussolint approved a d. tailed scheme of military training for the whole Italion nation,
The more important points of schere are that boys fra years nkl, and siden laye who
be eiled at th
Take away all the prizes unless abilities are unlimited.
also show a proficiency in "military Kathe Kruse's manufacture of eat. Children will not be dolls arose from her wish to make promoted 16 higher einsses, or re them for her own children. They
their diplomas from the
were to approach as nearly as secondary schools, nor will. Und-possible in body, as well as in iversity students be allowed to take features, the flying child. She | degrees or dilpomas, unless they has achieved her purpose and her
Profetency.
have shown the required military seven children were her models
for
every new
creation. Each The chenie wil be obligatory metal, each disposition of mind, in her I will start in the scholastic year she was able to express 1924-25, The programme of dolls, military teaching will be divided Kathe Kruse has invented a doll into three groups for the young skeleton of amazing simplicity nimirable variability. the ! Pludent, starting at eight; for the hekler boys, starting at almost four
Teen ant for the University student and higher chuot sind
will
to do their military pervacet will be prepared "spiritually, phal
oľ
Jack limb can be brought into any desirable position. Every figure
is able to sit or to stand. It can Lesprezs by means of a carriage むい increased The post-military phase of the complete relation
cases activity and the heads are change-
alde.
ly, and militarily." that it training will last in they enter the Army they en, datif the age of 2.
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·streets all night.
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