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MANILA
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1937.
"Blessings" Of Machinery
THERE may be other old fossila be-|
the
Wrong Route to the Millennium
By "AN OLD STAGER" sober fact it intensifies it, and adds greatly to the nervous strain.
llon, suggested emphatically that our machinery had got perilously ahead of our Intellectual equipment and sease of responsibility. I am merely re-echoing the sentiments of that Illustrious authority, We have great
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The citadel of up-to-date mn- chinery, of course, is U.S.A. In that favoured land of freedom and craft they have recently sent a convicted It is dimcult to see, therefore, any murderer to his legal doom on the solid progress by way of machinery final verdiet of n robot. The felon along the road to the millennium was cross-examined by a professor. The delusion is that mankind by its who studied his reactions as revented
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side myself who are oppressed by a doubt whether the twentieth century is not rather overdoing machinery. It is a purely academic point, and should therefore arouse no Very flerce indignation on either side, for nothing is more certain than that the modern world will not change its habits. Western civilisation will
per. Unaciously continue to nchlove millennium by differential gears.
It is interesting, however, to cogliate whether after all we may
not be pursuing an illusion. Of course, even That would not greatly concern those philosophers who firmly hold that we. and everything around us are just so means may liberate itself from the by the sensitive needle of an Infalli- DIRECT TO VANCOUVER (from Yokohama) many unsubstantial shadows. There original curse of Father Adam, and, ble He-detecting machiné, The is no special tragedy, though there whilst machinery does the work, be strong agitation of the robot's toll- 5 Midnight Nov.
may be some slight comedy, in the enabled to enjoy unlimited leisure. tale needle, when naked did he com *Midnight Nov. 10
spectacle of shadows alertly pursuing The only impressive scase in which mit the murder, completed the doom Midnight Dec. 3
illusions. In fact the situation. If we this lina hitherto been realised, is in of the wretched prisoner under cute- 20 Pres. McKinley Midnight Dec, 17
accept this view of our terrestial the gigantle cohorts of the unemployed chism. It was taken as satisfactorily NO PASSENGER ACCOMMODA-existence, simply brings us back to workers whom mechanism has put out demonstrated that he was indeed 20 TION AVAILABLE.
thie famar but a deeply Im- of a job. We are still as far from guilty, and popular opinion's legiti- pressive words of the burial service, even a four-hour day as we are from mate suspicions of the
of processes What shindows we are, and what knowing what to do with even the American law were happily dispelled shindows we pursue!.
scanty leisure we possess,
by the infallibilty of the machine.
Curiously enough, the late G. K. ELUSIVE ART OF LIVING
Chesterton wrote ʼn detective story on There is no need to stresa the that subject. Ife called it, "The Mis- inachinery. take of the Machine," and in this case lethal side of modern The aerial torpedo, the submarine, the unknown prisoner's pulse leapt the tank, and the 16-Inch gun all at the mention of a certain man's Building
On this manifestation he was speak very effectively for themselves. me. The sort of millennium they envisage adjudged guilty. But it turned out a colony of that the name that made his pulse by would be rejected mentally defective upes.
jump was actually his own. GKC's Whilst the hustling West develops adorable little priest, Father Brown, its mechanical genius, the Imme- unravelled this tangle, and showed morial East, though borrowing raucht In his own inimitable manner.
up In of the best machinery, is still dedical-
is Anat dictum I commend to all ing most of its lime and attention to engineers, and, above all, to all en- purely contemplaílve pursuits. thusiastic bellevers in the infallibility
Even those who take the most clate
of machinery. "No muchine can lic, 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 wilt its profound implication be ad- mere human reflection in the Western mired. Man remains the best, ma- world. Not long ago a distinguish-chine yet invented, and the human ed engineering professor, in a prest-f heart will never have robot sub- dental address to the British Assocta- stitute.
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1 Even when you wont to make a bet of £10,000 or more, they'll take you.
0 Like a much faceted lamond, they have hundreds of ongles, and arc worn out by un- dresses,
10 There's nothing in the box but
a drawing.
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13 House-room.
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20 Pocket vessel used in the Ad-
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Yesterday's Solution
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METEOR LADYLIK E
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ADRENEYED TH SPERION MESSU AG
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A spectacular phase of our modern mechanism is dedicated to augment- ing our facilities for hustle. It is per- missible to wonder how far even that modern characteristic of hustle is not
delusion and a snare.
our
Nowadays we perform in a few 23 days journeys which would have 277 taken
slow-conch ancestors several weeks or even months. When the nylotion 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.
WHISTLER RESUM DESIRES ANTE DE AL VERSATILE FAW N 8)
WHERE'S THE GAIN?
But does that really save us any- thing even in actunt Ume? Because the ensier travel becomes, the more we travel, and in the aggregate we į probably put in far more time travell- ing our quick way than our forehears did their slow ones. Take a minor Illustration of quite another side of this mechanical travel question.
Several times a week 1 journey from London Bridge to Fleet Street. It takes about the same time either by bua or taxi, At busy perleds of the day, which are the periods when 1 am making the journey, it takes anything from fifteen to
thirty minutes. It can easily be done on foot well within the half hour. In {fact, such is the super-medianism now, of our London streets, you hear people] say with entire seriousness that they) are in a hurry, and must therefore
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walk.
Another great labour-and-time-i saving device is the telephone. ventured, to say anything against that Invention it is probable that the Post- master-General would have me in- leted for treason-Iclony, But let any subscriber to its mechanical tyranny consider how far in fact the tele- phone adds naterially to, Instead of detracting from, the time and energy devoted to making and answering calls of nit
Wsorts.
What it really works out at is that one can make a call, and hold u con- versation, ever so much more quickly,
though I fancy still not quite sol effectively, over the phone than by personally getting Into touch with the other party. But the net result is that one makes ever so many more calls and holds a great many more conversations-It-confers no-advant- age on one man over another in busi – ness,
TYPEWRITER TYRANNY
Yet it is as 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. But what a snare the intter Instrument is! It merely adds
to the potential volume of world with-
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out lightening the actual dally burden
of discharging it. A fewer number as much
of office staff perform just Individual labour as though the type- writer had never been invented."
The same view might with just as nuch
plausibility be advanced «re- garding an infinite number of modern time and labour-saving mechanical endgels. A journalist may be using typewriter, but though that may Increase his carnings it in no way lightens his job. As a matter of
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