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manufacture of lethal gases. These will be extraordinarily diffi-1 cult to draft, in view of the fact that some of there gases are used in

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TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1929.

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The whole question is one of great importance. berzuse of the change that has suddenly taken place in the conduct of war. The last century Wire was a period unique in history in On demand the matter of ecnsideration for the O Calcutta- lives and property of non-combat-wire auts, but the period has passed. It on demand is not that the western nations have reverted to brutality, but that recent) developments of civilisation have entirely changed the methode and objects of war.

“Knock-out" Blow-

One should say, the immediate objects. The ultimate object has always been the breaking of the opposing nation's power and will to resist.

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Hitherto the ouiy means of break- ing that power has been by the elash of armies in the field, because as long as offensive action was con- fined to the movement of troops on the ground the nerve centres of at country could not be attacked until its armies had been defeated.

Now, in the twinkling of an eye, all that is changed. The nerve cea-: tres lie open to attack from the air. Why should a quemy waste time, resources, and man-power in trying, to defeat armies when a knock-out blow is possible? The modern prize-ring has shown us the way. results of a rald, but especially in How shall a nation continue to fight teaching the people what to do and when the nerves of government and minimising the effects of panic. finance and manufacture have been The provision of great under- paralysed?

ground shelters to which every If, therefore, in ten years' time, one could resort during raids has say, in 1940, there should be a war often been advocated. This would between two powerful western na-be not only impossible on the tions, it is obvious that each will ground of expense, but useless and try to get its blow in first..

even dangerous. Air Attacks

Complete Organisation The war will be brought home to To issue the whole population the civilian from the very first day, with gas masks, and particularly because there will be an air attack gas-proof clothing (for the on the capital of on some important mustard Jvariety),

and give manufacturing centres.

instruction their use, is This curions result fellows. Pre-equally impossible. What paration for war now means the be done is to have a complete training and equipment of the fight-organisation of fire brigades and ing forces, in 1940 it will be just scavengers for street cleansing, and us important, perhaps more so, to the largest possible number of vo- train and prepare the civilian popu- luntary works under the local au- lation.

thorities to spread instruction in

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If an enemy attacked London by precautions and preventive mea- air his object would be to make it sures. impossible to carry on the Govern- These things are, of course, well- ment's and the nation's business. known in the proper quarters, and This was attempted in the last the public may rest assured that war without rureang, but the raid they are the subject of earnest con ing airplates were few and the sideration. The fact remains, bombs not well adapted for their however, that war must now in- purpose. It was a crucial mistake fallibly bring dangers for now to use large high explosive bombs combatants from which they have instead of quantities of small ones, for a long time been exempt.. and the incendiary bombs were not very efficient.

In 1940 it will be a different mat- ter. A strong nation will be able to send fleets of a hundred airplanes night after night, and the bombs will, of course, be much improved.

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The result would be 500 increase the skill of another sense fires distributed over on area of when one is lost. We read four or five square miles-some-

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the voice. He believed that speech could discover the difference and could thus be communicated to the learn to speak as they should. skin. The skin could be made to

"Some deaf people obtained a real thrill from the feel of their hear.

gave them distinct pleasure. Some voices were found to be more plea sant than others. They showed sentences and some writers more that they enjoyed the feel of some

than others. Out of ten varieties of verse, the biggest thrill for the totally deaf was the following:

'How does the water Come down at Lodore From its sources that well In the tarn by the fell?" "This is due to the fact that there

STAY AT HOMES

SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE IN BRITAIN DYING?.

Whereas, only two years ago

adventure overseas, to-day there is people in England were eagere for

a marked disinclination on the part

Great op portunities are awaiting 270 Eng- fish girls every month in Australia but barely 100.girls can be obtain- ed.

of anybody to migrate.

"Careers are ready for 180 Eng- ligh boys every month yet it is dif ficult to get 80 boys to go." Director of Migration and Settle

Thus declared Colonel Wanning,

thing that no fire brigade could cope the most adaptable to increased "He utilised the ear-place of the own voices. Certain vowel sounda usea. The trained sense of touch telephone for further experiments. The same 5,000 bombs, if filled helps greatly to compensate for the The wire connecting the transmit with mustard was, would produce loss of sight. Now it has been dis-er and the ear-piece of the device an even greater moral effect. Gas covered that the sense of touch will was spliced so that he could take up bombs differ from the other natures also compensate for the loss or even his position at the transmitter end. in this, that they cannot miss.

Then, while he was talking in one the absence of hearing. Wherever they fall, on house, "Dr. Robert H. Gault, of North-| building, and the Ilstener in an street, or garden, the spot is con-western University, became in other, holding the receiver end in taminated and unsafe to pass. Irma terested in exploring the limits, of his fingers, sounds could be felt. gine the effect in a large city, this amazing sense of touch. He Naturally the meaning of the People going about their daily busi-discovered that the sensitivity of sounds at first could not be under- ness might pick it up anywhere the skin could compensate for lack stood, but some distinctions could without knowing. ledn

of the ability to hear."

be easily made, and ultimately these A Sober Picture, "A little more than five years ago, could be correctly translated. At 15 a predominating vowel quality Business would be at a standstill. Dr. Gault extended a speaking-tube this juncture, the Bell Telephone long and broad. Such sounds offer and panic would certainly follow. between two walls and the inter- laboratories extended their aid. ed as distinct a pleasure to the one Every man would be afraid vening room in his laboratory, and the vibrator which was who had never heard with his ears of his neighbour, and soon there This was his only apparatus, ex held in the hand and ex-

but now heard through the sense would be a wild rush for the coun- cepting a double-walled well-pack- tended the sound to the of touch, as the normal individualment for Australia, in an inter- skin by means of vibrations; was

would derive from any music. ✨.

"This state of affairs is most invented. Here, then, was a simple tile auditors' will be put are easily we have openings for no fewer than

"The uses to which the teletac-puzzling he declared, "Although: device that opened a whole new imagined, and the ultimate possibi-1,500 young men from 15 to 25 world to those who were deaf or lities too numerous to comprehend years of age, who can receive tree hard of hearing. The world of when applied to the sciences. of training and who bre guaranteça sound could be reached through the man behaviour, to business, and employment on arrival in Australia. gates of touch. finger-tips would answer the party offered the pleasures of the radio, appointing.

The sensitive to pleasure. There are immediate applications are surprisingly dis pose of the ears

Deaf children and deaf adults that thus will reach an audience of who were introduced to the teletac millions formerly

its beyond tor quickly learned to distinguish the pattern of the sounds they felt By understanding the pattern of It means organisation on the words by the sense of feeling. speech they easily learned the words

Leave to dismiss Mrs. Hahn's appear to prevent their girls from largest scale. Police, fire brigades, Hearing by touch was thus de and were able to hear themselves action against Sir Joseph Duveen going overseas, but we are convine. ambulances, first-aid_associations,|monstrated, der speak.” Then, by a comparison be-- with reference to the picture “La ed that 28 per cent. of those that

try. Then, with perhaps millions ed box into which one end of the on the move, not only would there fube projected. The whole was be disastrous crushing on the roads sound-proof One of his students and railways, but worse, it would be crawled into the sound-proof box impossible to provide lodging, food, and poked his arm through the and water for the crowd.

hole, placing the palm of his hand This is not a fight of imagina-tightly over the end of the long tion, but a sober picture of what tube. By his sense of touch he would be bound to follow a success could then feel the experimenter's ful gas raid on a large scale. There voice at the other end of the tube fore preparation for war means and was soon able to distinguish preparation of the civilian popula thirty-eight werds,........ tion for the inevitable results, or "Here was an amazing fact. It was proved possible to distinguish

reach

view.

"Parents are pouring cold water on any effort on the part of their children to migrate, and this will. tend to kill the spirit of adventure In youth in this country. Mothers

The Dairy Farm Ice & Cold Storage Co., Ltd. town and district counells, school Making the Skin Hear tween the feeling of their own Belle Ferrontere has been re- have gone before are happy and 75

teachers, district visitors, all would "Dr. Gault next linked a suitable | words and the feeling of the words fused. At the first trial the jury per cent. marry within two years have their task in clearing up the electrisal apparatus to the system of one who spoke correctly, they disagreed.

of their arrival."