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THURSDAY,
NOVEMBER 4, 1937.
Blessings" Of Machinery
THERE may be other old fossila be-
side myself who are oppressed by n doubt whether the twentieth century In not rather overdoing machinery. It is purely academic polnt, and should therefore arouse no very fierce indignation on either side, for nothing is more certain than that the modern world will not change its habila, Western civilisation will per- tinnelously continue to achieve the millennium by differential gears.
It is Interesting, however, to cogitate whether after all we may not be pursuing an illusion. Of course, even that would not greatly concern those philosophers who frmly hold that we and everything around us are just so many unsubstantial shadows. is no special tragedy, though there may be some slight comedy, in the spectacle of shadows alertly pursuing In fact the situation, if we illusions. accept this view of our terrestial existence, simply brings us back to the familiar but still deeply im- pressive words of the burial service. What shadows we are, and what shadows we pureue!
Wrong Route to the Millennium
By "AN OLD STAGEN" sober fact it intensifies it, and adds greatly to the nervous strain.
tion, suggested emphatically that our machinery bad got perilously ahead of our intellectual equipment and sense of responsibility. 1 am merely re-echoing the sentiments of that illustrious authority. We have 'great
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The citadel of up-to-date chinery, of course, is USA. In that favoured lond of freedom and graft they have recently sent a convicted murderer to his legal doom on the final verdlet of a robot. The felon was cross-examined by a professor, who studied his reactions as revealed
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It is dificult to see, therefore, any solid progress by way of machinery along the road to the millennium The delusion is that mankind by its means may liberate itself from the
lie-detecting machine. There original curse of Father Adam, and,
whilst machinery doca the work, be strong agitation of the robot's tell- enabled to enjoy unlimited leisure, tale needle, when asked did he com- The only impressive sense in which mit the murder, completed the doom this has hitherto been realised is of the wretched prisoner under ente
It was taken us satisfactorily the gigantic cohorts of the unemployed chism.
indeed workers whom mechanism hus put out demonstrated that he was of a job. We are still as far from guilty, and popular opinion's legiti even a four-hour day as we are from mate suspicions of the processes of knowing what to do with evin the American law were imppily dispelled
by the infallibility of the machine, scanty leisure we possess. ELUSIVE ART OF LIVING
Curiously enough, the late G. K. ote a detective story on Chesterton wrote need to stress the that subject. He called It. "The Mis There is no
side of modern machinery, take of the Machilye," and in this case lethal The aerial torpedo, the suturing, the unknown prisoner's pulse leapi the fonk, and the 10-inch gun all at the meation of a certain man's Building speak very effectively for themselves.name. On this manifestation he was The sort of millennium they envisage adjudged guilty. But it turned out would be rejected by a colony of that the name that made his pulse G.K.C.'s mentally, defective apes.
Jump was actually his own. Whilst the hustling West develops adorable le priest, Father Brown, its mechanical genius, the imme- unravelled this tangle, and showed morial Est, hough borrowing much it up in his own inimitable manner. of the best machinery, is still dedleat- log most of its time and attention to purely contemplative pursuits.
A spectacular phase of our modern! mechanism is dedicated to augment- log our facilities for hustle. It is per-: missible to wonder how far even that modern characteristic of hustle is not; a delusion and a spare.
Nowadays we perform in a few 23 days journeys which would have ancestors slow-coach taken our several weeks or even months. When
aviation the
experts solve the mechanical problems of the stratos- phere we shall be able to fly from London to New York after breakfast and be back in time for dinner the same night
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1 Even when you want to make a
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8 Like a much faceted diamond, they have hundreds of angles, and are worn out by laun➡ dresses.
10 There's nothing in the box but
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1 Change here for Dover.
12 The Belfiess' girl' who always
takes the blame.
13 House-room,
15 It's raining loads outside,
16 I doubt it you will find this
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Devon drink?
20 While the mud El Greco rallied his dwarf (or umbrella-carrier). with fearsome fest, I led the beautiful Cirenasian to safety
22 X
(hidden).
bird of ill-omen. 23 Abraham's other name. 25 Exidden In Clue 20.
20 Pocket vessel used in the Ad-
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27 Every such breath is expelled.
28 Makes one a rigmarole.
DOWN
3 Our Willem IV. was its ruler.
3 Hidden in 'Clue 20.
4 These used to make darkness
vialble In the streets.
Ife sounds the very man to be un eniployer of labour.
TH
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6 Diamond, for example.
7 I brace limp cat (anag).
8 certainly sounds a slow pup.
(For chosinul lovers.) words, 8, 5).
10 Pain.
(Two
13 Does It count blades of genss?
14 "Sing or hum in an undertone,”
Any optimistic 'Mr. Chambers.
10 sit, girl (anug.).
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20 Railing permitted to a KC, in
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21 What a plague!
24. Words of guidance.
25 Drink.
Yesterday's Bolution
İADED---DOBETEPS
PERCH LEDHORSE SĮ
METEOR LADYLIK E - FREE ARIAVAISSE CINNAMON EVENE ETAKCEREAL UNIDE BENDING SILLTUR NĮ MDMMH EYEDE? UN AR
#ERTO MEU 8UAGE; MUNE-KEE-O-R-O
WHISTLER RESUME MEN LEG AN TUDE AN VERSATILE FAWN 8,
WHERE'S THE GAIN?
But does that really save us any- Because thing even in actual time?
the easier travel becomes, the more we travel, and, in the aggregate we probably put in far more time travell
our quick way than our forebears d their slaw ones. Take a minor illustration of qulie another side of this mechanical travel question.
Several times a week journey from London Bridge to Fleet Street. It takes about the same time either by bus or taxi. At busy periods of the day, which are the periods when am malcing the Journey, it takes anything from fifteen to thirty mmutes.
It can easily be done on foot well within the half hour. In fact, such is the super-mechanism now of our London streets, you hear people say with entire seriousness that they are hurry, and must therefore walk.
Another great labour-and-time- saving device is the telephone. # I ventured to say anything against that invention It is probable that the Post- inaster-General would have me in- dicted for treason-felony. But let any subscriber to its mechanical tyranny consider how for in fact the tele- phone adds materially to, instead of. detracting from, the time and energy devoted to making and answering calls of all sorts,
con-
What it really works cut at is that one can make a call, and hold versation, ever so much more quickly, though I fancy still not quite so effectively, over the phone than by personally getting into touch with the other party. But the net result is that one makes over so many more calls and holds a great many more conversations. It confers no advant- "age"on"one-man over another-in-bus-
THE55.
TYPEWRITER TYRANNY
Yet it is a certain as anything could be in this world that no up-to- date business man would dream of dispensing with either his 'phone or his typewriter. Bat what a snare the latter instrument is! 1t merely adds{ to the potential volume of work with- out lightening the actual daily burden arging it. A fewer number of discharging of office staff perform just as
much individual labour as though the type writer had ever been invented.
The sume view might with
Just as much plausibilty be advanced re- garding an infinite number of modern time and labour-saving mechanical gadgets. A Journalist may be using n typewriter, but though that may increase his earnings it in no way) lightens his job. As a matter of
His final dictum 1 commend to all engineers, and, above all, to all,en- thusiastic believers in the infallibility Even those who take the most elate of machinery. "No muchine can lie," view of the blessing of machinery sald Father Brown, "neither can it might perhaps be persuaded to wish tell the truth" The more this note- that some multi-millionaire bene-worthy saying is pondered, the more factor would endow a few chairs of will its profound implication be ad- mere human reflection in the Western mired. Man remains the best ma-j world. Not long ago a distinguish-chine yet invented, and the human ed engineering professor, ha presi- heart will never huve a robot sub- dental address to the British Arsuela-stitute.
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