THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1936.
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gers and malis. Radio for navigation On short Sights 40 passengers can und direction-Anding was not ready be carried, but the fuel load on long for the task of gulding air-craft over hops, such as the 9,000 miles of truckless ken.
First
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2,410 malics to Honolulu, reduces passenger accom- modation to 10.
verles of "stepping-
They will have lounge chairs, com- stones" was selected. First hop to Honolulu; then to Midway Island, fortable bunks, food served aboard, further on; Wale wash basins with hot and cold water, 1,330 miles Istond, 1,120 miles; Guam, 1,500 and even a shower bath. miles: Manila, 1,800 miles, and 700 miles to Ilangkong.
two
Euch ship will have a crew of six. First the captain, then the first
on
the
I ever a man needed seven officer, wireless operator, engineer, league boots, it was Juan Trippe. navigator and junior flight officer. 11a bootmakers were Igor Sikorsky They will live and work and Glenn L. Martin,
of upper deck. Apart from the wire- America's foremost aircraft designers, less operator, each member of the fish They took, Trippe's measurements crew must be a licensed transport and went to work, producing the pilot capable of taking the controls. Sikorsky and Martin clipper ships.
Hundreds of American clamoured
the 18 scals In for
Arnt the was bought .... by machine. M. 1
THE first passenger airway will Rogers three years ago, but he THE
from San Francisco to died with Wiley Post. One woman
Hongkong Telegraph. Horkong
TUESDAY, OCT. 13, 1936.
ENFORCE THE LAW
tence
is
due
MEA
TEANTIME pilots,
¿ galors
In the front cabin or cockpit sit the captain and the first officer or second pilot. Behind is an office for the radio man, complete with trans- navi- mitting and receiving sels and auto- matic radio direction-linders, with wireless desk, maps and instruments for the The junior officer nets navigator.
to. start was so infuriated to find that she operators were being trained over a this month. Thus a simple sen- was eight hundred and something 1,200 miles stretch of ocean between as air "snotty," purser and odd-job
demanded in Miami and Barranquilla. A stcanter man.
no crossed the Pacific and
dumped stums up 21 gigantic on the list that she
*quads of men and materials on the In the wing itself is the ship's achievement, years of patient object,
line of "stepping stones" to build engine room. The engineer has a He sits surrounded by radio stations, decking and refuel- real job.
Instruments and dials. By planning.
ling equipment, offees and hotels at 150
charter the entire ship. money
years ago.
a cost of several million dollars, telephone the captain orders engine Pan-American Airways have
speeds for take-off, climbing, cruising In commenting on
Radio research was pushed ahead and landing. the over-pioneered the world's longest.
THE
IE story begins nearly five crowding evil a few days ago, we
Three men that pliols would be able to fly sea route-the nine thousand
Hour after hour ns the ship speeds unerringly to Uny talands which are suggested that the problem would miles of ocean separating San met to discuss a plan which then mere pin-points in the vast sea area. over the oceans, the captain and the Last November the great pinn first officer,share the controls, alded have to be tackled piecemeal. As Francisco and Hongkong. Four seemed fantastic: from America to a start, the authorities might years of planning, four years of China within the week. They were came into practical being. The first by the Sperry robot pilot.
Junn Trippe, president of Pan- Martin clipper, piloted by Captain
The redio man keeps in constant Musick, landed at Manila, capital of
stations and well consider enforcing the exist-wrestling with technical diffical- American Airways. Andre Prester, the Philippines,, 8,000 miles from touch with youn ing laws by a process of selecting ties which seemed insuperabic, chief engineer. and Colonel Lind- the American mainland, in 60 hours passing ship; the navigator works
bergh, technical adviser."
flying after "an uneventful voyage," out positions and course, and the engineer watches his bewildering The Martin boat weighs 51,000lb. array of dials which are tell-tales America
Those are far-off days in the his- greatest commercial importance to this air- tory of modern vintion develop 12,000lb. more than those being for every mechanical process in the
inent.
There were then no flying- buik for Imperial Airways. Let into entire aircraft, from
special districts in which over- That is the story.
crowding is most pronounced. These could be dealt with in turn.
attaches the
the tempera-
Considerations of financial string-way to the East. Pan-Americans boats capable af spanning the the 130ft. monoplane wing are four ture of the hot water for the wash ency would not apply to treatment | hope to transform little-known 2,410 miles between San Francisco 800 h.p. radial engines giving a basins to the rate of flow of petrol of the problem in this. manner. islands in the Pacific Into rich men's and fionolulu with a loud of pussen- cruising speed of nearly 160 m.p.l. from the tanks to the engines. Obviously, a beginning has to be made at some time, and the evil could be dealt with at its source if the Government gave due notice that it intended to enforce respect for the law, which is now ignored in wholesale manner. Despite the fact that overcrowding is known to be rampant in urban areas, seldom, if ever, are there any prosecutions for infringement of laws which specifically pre--- scribe light, air and sanitary con- ditions and the proportion of floor space or superficial area per each person occupying domestic buildings. There is a further provision that the sub-letting of
A HUNDRED YEARS HENCE?
Mr. H. G. Wells's film, "Things to Game," han started many discussions as to the future. What do practical scien- tista and technical experts think of the matter?
By A
"To-day we give the answer-of-a-Science-Correspon}{.....
Science Correspondent
dent, an Aeronautical Correspondent, and a Naval Correi pondent, who for once plunges into the manner of Mr. Willa himself.
Soon we shall give the ideas of a Medical Correspondent, Housing-Expert, and an authority
you dreas.
· By An Aeronautical Correspondent
By A
Naval
Correspondent
any part of n domestic building expect to have smokeless cities, that there will be no air force continuous echo sounder tells me vulnerable to surface or air attack.
cause
themselves in
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BUZZER and a red light. The voys and thereby make them more: HUNDRED years hence we may THE HOPE of everybody must be in such a manner AS to cause
the atom, 100 years from now. For If one seeks on the bridge that we are approaching| overcrowding is illegal. Yet, in new industries based on point of fact, it is this very sub-sex-control clinics, advisory bureaux to forecast the future by observing the "chelf" which raises the Atlantic
is any hint of trouble and our sensi- letting practice which is the main on human heredity, and statutory the trends of the past, one must con- bed around the coast of Europe. A
tribunals which will condemn us, ac- clude that the deadliness of the air few orders, and I go below.
tive instruments tell us at once f of overcrowding, And cording to our social usefulness, to weapon will continue to increase with
We change from the radio-trans- there is anything within afty miles sub-letting is in turn due to the chemical rejuvenation or to natural the years until it reaches the pol
where, if there is no limitation, the mitted power to our own engines and we just submerge. We don't sub- fact that the rentals asked for death.
machine will indeed be. master of in a moment the great ship is sub-merge just to a hundred feet or sb. flats and other accommodation are The world's natural supplies of oil the man, and nutions at war would merged. She is guided all the time We go so deep that no searching air- the act of by the impulses of a "leader cable." craft can see even a shadow to betray too high for tenants'to bear unless (if the prophets of doom are justified) destroy
All I have to do is to follow these im- our presence. Of course, they can recoup themselves by will have become exhausted. All destroying their opponents,
pulses. They will take us into No. 3 armed, just in case we should ever be coal will be treated at the pit-head. renting portions of the premises From there will be distributed smoke- If one looks back upon aerial de- main channel, which in turn will take caught on the surface by hostile craft. This is miles in- But we don't carry any of those to others. This applies both to lens fuel, electricity, gas, and in-velopment one realises that man has us to No. 3
the way he has land, and underground in the heart clumsy guns which our
much about. If we much of the better type of pro- numerable synthetic chemicals. This failed signally in perty and to the worst of the country will have new honour as a directed it. He has turned it more of the Welsh hills. Next me
coal-producen We may even find and more to military purposes; he has disturb the surface of the water, and had to fill our ships with shells we cargo-carrying buildings in the slum areas. In ourselves exporting oil produced from developed it always with the object it won't be long now, it will be should reduce our the latter, the conditions, under coal. It is unlikely, at this stage of of war in mind. His air lines them alongside the wharves of No. 3. port. capnelty to absurd proportions, We which families can afford nothing human history, that man will have selves have been "strategie"; his com- Here, far underground, we shall dis-carry two small Zedray projectors. cargo and You can hold your hand in front of to harness the sun's mercial aviation has been subsidised embark passengers and
these and they won't hurt you, bui better than bed-spaces, are yet learnt
radiation, or that the atom, useful in so that it shall provide a reserve of load again for America.
so soon as the Zedray comes into almost unbelievable. The other ways, will have become a source pilots in readiness for war.
Many, many years ago, it was contact with metal i generates such sult is not only gross over of industrial power..
realised that there should be only one Intense host that the metal simply dis- crowding, but also totally inade-
While coal is in the nscendant, fron ·Aviation might have been a great service in place of the old Navy and integrates,
Merchant Navy. I was so much will be on the decline. The lighter force for world prosperity and world more economical to
the revert to quate sanitary provision for the occupants. It is to be conceded metals-aluminium, magnesium, and happiness. It has been turned into centuries-old practice of every carrier To-day no voyage takes more than that the landlord's point of view possibly beryllium-will have come has to be taken into account-that into their own. They will be used the most ghastly menace conceived or of cargo being her own protection, | ten days, and there is no dirt or dis- particularly when it was found that comfort in any of our ships. Even he has a right to expect a reason-for all constructional purposes nations of the world are straining the only reply to submarine attack the weather does not affect us.
economy. lightness makes for
con-we've just come through a bad March gale in the Atlantis without rolling at able return on capital outlay: may even have aluminlum frainework bombing fleets. When wor broken Was to herd ships together in But, without question, much of buildings, with materials of the cork
-just by going underneath accordance with the doctrine of een- the slum property has already of asbestos-type-used of the secrets out these will be used ruthlessly in
of metals, so that strength and hard-tral shock. People still talk glibly consideration. Aviation, through ovnstead of wallowing about among used to do. There is always a calm more than paid for itself in ren-ness, and lightness, and resistance 10 bombing only military objectives; diréellon, has centred itself upon the waves on the surface as people tals over and over again--and corrosion can all be cheaply com- but they know that every living thing bomb. When one thinks of an acro- layer somewhere in the sea, usually some of it calls for condemnation bined.
In a country at war under modern plane lo-day one thinks of the bomb half-way between the surface dis- conditions Is a "military objective": as being unfit for human habita-
thirty years I 1 Impossible to may be. My instruments tell me da tion. The outstanding fact is
Now synthetic materials will and so a "legitimate" target for the that state of affairs can be reached turbance and any ground swell there belleve that it can continue for an exactly where this calm layer is and that, generally speaking, accom-have replaced glass and wood. Most bomb. modation for the ordinary worker of the looms of the industrial North, In thirty years aviation has reached other 100 years. Some man or some when bad weather is approaching.
'nation must arise with the influence
Naturally, we don't go about sub- can only be secured at rentals some say, will have disappear for the stage when it is the most power- to check the militarisation of avia-
we shall be more cheaply clothed in fuldestructive force known. Its tion and redirect it along commercial, merged in fine weather, even though away above the basic wage; this pressed cellulose: Laundries, too, constructive, or commercial, side is touring and mail-carrying channels. the air conditioning is so good that is a circumstance which no Gov-will have been driven out of business, relatively so puny as not to be worth I cannot believe that the world will there is never a "fug" in the ship. ernment should ignore. If the for the clothes of the future will be
commit suicide. Yel any suggestion But the engine-room ratings like a overcrowding laws were enforced, neither washable nor worth washing.
that alr forces will continue lo de-rest as well as everybody else, so we district by district, rents, would
Ivelop for one hundred years presup- work on the radio power on the sur- perforce have to come down. for these could never supply enough their way towards (economically) poses that the world is bent upon face when we can without danger or
With more consuleide.
discomfort. Such a measure, in conjunction energy to keep the human machine improved stocks.
agricultural output the Yet the countryside will centrated
Ah! There's the blue light. We with a planned movement to at work.
wear an unfamiliar look, Sirange Insect menace will have first in-It appears, therefore, that, f crente industrial centres away high-yielding сгоря, scientifically creased and then been, overcome. In civilisation still exists one hundred are in the channel now, going-under- from congested areas, would un-bred, will have replaced the varieties a hundred years' time, also, it is years from now, the hope that it will ground to No. 3 port. There the 5,000 probable that enough knowledge will contain no such thing as an air force tons of wheat we carry will be sucked doubtedly contribute to a problem we now know.
have been accumulated to enable the must be fulfilled. The Arst line out of our holds and distributed of great magnitude and admitted
Rather more cautiously animal-improvement of the human race itself strength of my air force of 108 years underground, of course, to the bomb-
hence is therefore a cipher.
proof food centres of this country. complexity.
breeding laboratories will be feeling to be seriously considered.
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moment the
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conceivable. At this
their resources to build up enormous
Tabloid foods we shall be spared,
of
the
Why