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[By Prof. Henry J. Spooner. Thus a constant noise, as of the the Old Bailey against Dorby No evidence was offered at The steady growth of traffic ses waves, or of some kinds of Barry 62, an advertising agent, and other street noises in all our street traffic, may cease to pro- of Worthing, who was in- cities is affecting the health, duce any conscious sensation efficiency and wealth of the com- and this explains why a harmful dicted for threatening to pub libela on Mr. Harry It is true that the physical noise may be almost mistaken for Heading, a company director, with health of our people is better than prevalent. Hence the danger to intent to extort £300 from him and it has ever been, but their, nervous public health, as although noise offering to prevent the printing and health is being Insidiously affect may not be heard the nerve-force publishing of certain matter touch- ed by the increasing devastating suffers; the power of the nerve-Ing Mr. Heading, with fatent to ex- dinpreventable noise that dis-

munity,

silence an illusion that is for too

Hah

tracts attention and tends to de- pores and corpuscles being affect tort £300,

ed by the stimulation until it de Borry was accordingly found not crease the efficiency of all work-elines from exhaustion. Thus guilty on the direction of Mr. Jus era particularly of executives does Physiology explain the para- tice Wright, and was discharged... and of mental workers engaged dox, but at the same time it points Mr. Cloutman, for the prosecu- on creative work, who often suf-out the fallacy of supposing that tion, was mentioning, the circum- fer agonies in endeavouring to noise can be harmless because we stances of the case when he was austain a mental effort in a noisy get accustomed to it, or that our, stopped by the judge, who said he atmosphere.

And in this connection. I would to the multitude of strains im- made.

nerves are adapting themselves could not allow any statement to be like to explain that my deep in posed upon them,

Counsel then withdrew his re- terest in the prevention, climin- Quite apart from the human marks, adding that, having read the ation or reduction of unnecessary factor of the noise question, we depositions, he considered that noise was first aroused by some have the serious economic one there was no case on which a jury. very pathetic cases of nervous due to the alarming depreciation should be asked to convict. breakdowns that came under my in the value of house property notice whilst I was professionally and land along and near traffic

Mr. Justica. Wright: That is all engaged on industrial noise pro routes. To say nothing about came to the conclusion on reading you are entitled to say. If you the decline in the rateable value the depositions, and speaking on Had I not witnessed, day by of such property. day and month by month, the almost paralysing effect of inter-of the harmful traffic noise is pre-

At least some 50 or 60 per cent. your responsibility as counsel, that there is no case on which you could mittent nerve-shattering noise on ventable, but no attempt is being expect a reasonable jury to bring men who were physically strong, made by our states men to grap in a verdict of guilty, you are on I could not have believed it pos-ple with this national problemn, titled to say so, and say that in which are long we shall be com- these circumstances you tender no

evidence. pelled to face.

blems many years ago.","

sible..

* Schools Suffer. And I often think of the many schools and colleges with noisy aurroundings where efficient teaching is Impossible in the gulation of matters which con unblemished record.

cern their health be one of the Mr. Justice Wright said he saw class-rooms into which the din of most important functions of Goy- no reason for not: allowing the the outside traffic penetrates. No ernment, then I respectfully sub course proposed by the prosecution wonder we see no many children mit that the increasing racket to be taken. As far as he could and young people, with their finer and din of everyday life should see, that was a proper course to senses blunted, starting and command the attention of the Ad- take. He directed the jury that, as twitching when silence is sudden-ministration. "Daily News and there was no evidence before them, ly fractured; and apparently Westminster Gazette." lacking in the power of mental

If a watchful care over the Mr. Laurence Vine, for the defen- health of the people and a due re- dant, said that Mr. Berry had an

concentration.

We do not appear to have given any attention to this educa-

to bring in a verdict of not guilty.

The jury did 80, and Berry was

discharged, 0, an

Mr. H. D. Roome said he held a

tional waste, but I may mention KING & MODEL SHIP watching brief on behalf of John

"I BUPPOSE IT WILL GO TO AMERICA."

"I suppose it will go to America" said the King.

that this serious matter is receiv- ing attention in other parts of the Empire; for instance, accord- ing to the "Transvaal Educational News," at Johannesburg there is a large public school in Twist- street at a point where the con- His Majesty was looking at the verging street traffic produces an wonderful model of an early 18th amount of noise that seriously in-century warship-H.M.S. William terferes with the class work; and (1702)—which was recently sold at the principal, Mr. Allen, investi- public auction, and is now among gated the time lost due to the the art treasures at the exhibition traffic noise in several of his of the British Antique Dealers' As-] classes, with results that were so sociation at the Grafton Galleries. remarkable that he decided to call "What did it fetch?" asked the in the aid of the Department of Psychology to assess the loss en- tailed by distraction through noise.

King, "Three thousand guineas? It ought to go to that museum opened the other day." A

And in Melbourne, according to Accompanied by the Queen and the "Herald," the principal of the Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, University High School, Mr. M. S. his Majesty spent over an hour in Sharman complained bitterly of the galleries, through which he was

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Bull. I gather," he added, "that as you did not wish to hear state- ments from the other counsel you would not welcome one from me?

- Mr. Justice Wright:~ No; it was your duty to watch the case, and you have watched it with great as siduity, (Laughter.)

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the bandicap his school suffered conducted by Mr. Frank Partridge, Place, 79 degrees being reached at the Bri-Kensington Palace. In Central through noisy traffic. "We have past president of to endure,"

Asso-London and at South Farnborough Dealers he said, "the crash tish and clatter of 40 trams in 40 ciation. He expressed Burprise 78 degrees, were recorded. It was minutes."

when informed that the great easily the hottest day this year in on Central London, and was hotter In Victoria, Australia, a "Noise ter part of the treasures Abatement League has been view were for sale, and that few of twice only during 1927. founded; its object being to ob- them were the property, of private At Kew the temperature at 2 tain the enactment of an up-to- collectors.

p.m. was 74, the highest this year date Act for the suppression of Attracted by the collection of by 8 degrees at this time. It was noise wherever possible. And gold and enamelled snuff-boxes, the equalled only once last year-on among the other cities tackling Chinese and Chelsea porcelain, and August and exceeded twice on the noise question may be men-seme quaint Gothic oak furniture, June 16 and July 10. tioned Bombay, Brisbane, Cape- his Majesty was particularly inter-

During the afternoon the thermo-SAILORS' AND SOLDIERS' HOME town, Durban, and Sydney. eated in the early English silver, meter at Kew after a temporary which, he said, he much preferred to fall went up to 76, three degrees higher than on Sunday and only exceeded three times during 1927.

At 7 p.m. temperatures were still very high, the thermometer then reading 75 at Birmingham, 74. at The worn ramshackle motor there is a "Strad" in the collection Ross-on-Wye, 73 at Kew and Croy- vehicles that tear through our should be played upon occasion- don, 72 at South Farnborough, and streets are responsible for a large ally, "because they are all the bet-71 at Oxford, Chester, and Liver amount of the injurious din weter for it." To the 16th century pool noise with the smooth, unoffend jewels he returned more than once, ing motion of vehicles that are in and soon proved that there is little, good running condition, and the if anything, in the medal collection case for warning off the streets that is new to him. all ́such faulty vehicles cannot be This was the Queen's second visit challenged; and that, too, in the to the exhibition. truest sense of economy,

It will have been noticed that its foreign counterparts. The King both in Johannesburg and in Mel-mentioned, incidentally, that he bourne, trams were the primary possessed one of the earliest "WI cause of the trouble; indeed, they liam and Mary" coffee pota. - are great offenders.

But he thought the old violins

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There is also the question of road surfaces. Steel-tyred vehi- cles running over granite setts are a common cause of shattering noise.

Space will not permit me to further deal with this aspect of the noise question, but I venture to compliment Glasgow on ita public spirit and wisdom in in- stalling a fleet of refuse collect Ing vehicles driven by noiseless

a

SIR P. HUTCHINS.

TRAGIC END TO WEDDING

ANNIVERSARY."

Camberley.A few hours after Only having taken out his licence celebrating the sixty-eighth anni- the previous day, & motor cyclist versary of his wedding, Sir Philip named. George Balbería, of St. Perceval Hutchins has died here James-street, Edmonton, was seri- at the age of 90. qusly injured in a collision on the Sir Philip had a distinguished arterial road at Enfield.

career of over fifty years In the Pe

Indian Glyll・Service, spending thirty-six years in India and the re- mainder at the India Office in Lon don From 1898 to 1908 he was a

of the Council of India

keer cyclist, had ridden

stall over England, thre years ago his

“GET ON OR GET UNDER?”

Pficiency le, the key-note of auc- mer

electric motors, and mounted on teas, and to be efficient the mind rubber tyres

must be alert and the body in per-

As to the motor horn nuisance, fect working order

I am bound to say that since the used when necessai

Home Secretary took action there aid to efficiency because

has been a noticeable diminution vent and dispel

in the use of the offending instru- billous attacks, sick ment, also of the exhaust cut-out, liverlahneid, keep

It is well known that many

people claim to be

affected by

noise notice the:

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