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The Age Of Noise

HERE, THERE

and

EVERYWHERE

HOW RUMOURS BEGIN

During recent weeks many re- serve officers of the British Regular Army were called upon by the War Office to report their whereabouts

to the authorities.

These notices-always sent by registered post-were despatched at

HOW WOMEN CAN STOP MAJOR CRIME

ORGANISED ACTIVITIES

IN AMERICA

AMAZING SUCCESS SEEN

7OMEN CE stop kidnap-upon her 'pocketbook, such as the

W

e time when the international situa:types of murder, and most major delivery of her milk, the cleaning Hon was tense. This gave rise to crime in the United States and of her dresses and her husband's much underground comment. Many have a perfectly grand time doing sults, and a hundred others? people jumped to the wholly it."

$1 Out Of Every $5 Goes To Racketeers

ping, racketing, the venal rackets levying tributes upon the

erroneous conclusion that the sum. So declared Mary Roberta Rine- mons' was connected in some way hart, the noted author, in com with the trouble on the Continent. menting on the amazing success after careful investigation, has "By the way, Senator Capeland, The fact is that all reservist in cleaning up San Diego, Cali-estimated that these rackets boost officers must report their addresses fornis, of a group of women who the cost of living of the average to Whitehall once a year. Some of carried out suggestions made by family in a city from 20 to 25 per them forget to do this. The recent Mrs. Rinehart in a magazine cent. Think of that! One dollar notices were merely reminders of their obligation

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IF HITLER DIED

article,

some of

..

(D) Attempt to add, auto- ormatically, ten years to any sen- extence where the malefactor has

"All the women have to do,"

out of every five, or every four, of the income of the average head of Mrs. Rinehart continued, "Is to band themselves together, after

a family going to racketeers! A publisher gives some interest-terrorised the criminals of Chica-them, as follows-

the 'secret six system which so

"I laid down a thirteen-point programme in my article for ing details of Hitler risk policies

go's underworld. with insurance brokers.

Women love a cause. A glance and there to elect rellable men: "(A) Women to go to the polls Numerous books on the Nazi re-lover gime are now in process of being activities in the last few years

their organised The crimina! votes. written. "Hall Hitler" appeared proves that. But most of the time for the divorce from politics of (B) Agitate without ceasing recently. Mrs. John Strachey's the causes for which their aid is all forces of law and order. "Fasciat Germany Explains" asked are too dull and uninterest- appeared on September 3. Others ing. Yet they love to baad them through Congress, and, having "(0) Press the firearms bill. are on the way.

selves together for any objective done so, take up regulation in the Publishers, anxious to cover their which, at the moment, appeals to several states. costs, have been taking out insur-them. On the contrary, It is al- ance policies against the risk of most impossible to get such Hitler being killed or losing power:ganisations of men working an event which would rob a Hitler cept during. the emotional stress been carrying a weapon when ar- book of much of its value.

of war." Health, who expressed a desire to From the beginning rates have

rested. have fuller data

"Since outlining what I thought collected. been high. Recently they have almost women should do to put an end to

"(E) Agitate for state police: Working on exactly that line, the doubled. The American Ambassa. the horror of the crime wave community pass the crime buck "(F) Refuse to let the local National Safety Council of the dor protested officially against the which has been sweeping this to the State, and the State, to. USA. concluded, after a three practice of insuring against any country, I have been almost buried Washington. years' survey, that noise is a accident to President Roosevelt. under the mail which has poured directly contributing factor in ac- Perhaps Herr von Hoesch will now in endorsing the plan and urging local criminal courte and fight "(G) Watch the procedure in cidents, while the Noise Abate be forced to take similar action on me to start a national organisa- for quick action. ment Commission of New York behalf of Herr Hitler. decided that strident sound im-1

tion. Machinery, 50 increasingly pairs the hearing, strains the

"Taken For A Ride" In potent to destroy men's bodies nervous system, causes exhaust-

Your Daily Smile!

What San Diego Women Have

The Country by new weapons of war, is en- ing sleeplessness, and generally

Воле

(H) Watch the press and gaged during times of peace in makes for inefficiency of work.

"I have received letters from motion pictures. Do the pictures Two negroes who had not seen the International Association of emphasise either the remanse or destroying their spirits by new We are all, of course, only too each other in five years discovered Police Chiefs, from noises. As the uproar from a well aware of these things; but it each had been married during this Bureau of Investigation of the De-enter an instant protest with your men in the the ease of crime? If they do, score of different sources grows is often useful to have even the ever louder, so indignant protest clearest impressions fortified by

partment of Justice, from the local management. rises higher; yet hitherto, not statistical research and convinc-all get, Mose?" asked Rastus.

woman did you Police Chiefs of nearly all the (1) Contact and encourage nearly enough has been done to ing evidence. It has been well

large cities of the country. And the local police. See that they DrG "She's an angel, Hastus; dat's the letters from women! mitigate this Intolerable nui-said that "noise is on the payroll what she is," replied Mase.

properly, equipped. sance. Expert opinion agrees of the average business in the

"Most of the women want me to with common sense in regarding form of impaired efficiency and still living," Rastus muttered aor-would please me more, were I too, needs public encouragement,

"Boy, you sho' is lucky, Mine's head

**(J) If outside a city or town, Bn organisation. Nothing contact the county sheriff. He, street noises as being more in-nervous strain." jurious to the nerves than in- Notwithstanding all this, can it

rowfully.

physically able to do it. But it so and equipment. Bandits escape dustrial noises. because the for be said that the nuisance has "Shall we have a friendly game most

happens that I have been "al-through county roads. Men are mer are non-rhythmical, and the been checked? Is there, on the human system cannot accustom contrary, a country in which it

of cards?" sald the husband.

since writing that taken for a ride and kidnappers article. I am not even able to race their victim through country itself to them as it can to the has not grown worse?

"No," replied the wife, "ets walk up a flight of steps but once roads and hide them in remote sustained din of, for example, a years ago, a Noise Abatement

Three Play bridge"

a day, as I try to get a weak heart districts. Never before has the factory. While, therefore, 50- Association was formed in Bri-the Observatory, and was shown the

An old lady paid her first visit to it is imperative that I take things tion.

back somewhere near normal. And county sheriff faced such a condi- ciety is amply justified in suptain, to be followed and then join-moon and the planete through the very easily, indeed, for some time"(K) Report any failure on pressing disturbing, sounds of ed by an Anti-Noise League. telescope. every kind, it must inevitably Only a few weeks ago the two concentrate. first and foremost, bodies, now practically one, held was over, she anid, "Well, that's very woman of ability and a fair for

When her celestial sight-seeing tour

the part of the police force, and on the sounds of traffic. In this conference at Oxford no you found eat their name.”

"But I earnestly hope that some follow this report up... direction many attempts, have longer, as those who have visit-

wonderful, but what amazes me is, how

"(L) Serve on juries and be been made, and in many

such things would take my place, willing to take the witness stand tries. From London comes news calm. but a place from which counted it know, a city of colstered

and lead this movement to sac-against any lawbreaker. of the latest, in which city the Matthew Arnold's

ceas, for I know it can be done.

***(M) And form your own sounding of motor horns at night Giree would fly to-day with re-

San Diege have done! It was a

secret Bix!" is henceforward to be an offence doubled speed.

"Consider what those women in punishable by fine. This, we papers which wished that con- The English

hotbed of crime, racketeering, learn, is the first step in an anti-ference well were none too ex-

smuggling not only of ordinary the most appeal to women, 1 wares but liquor, dope and what think, and certainly its success in Inot. It was terribly corrupt. San Diego since I made the sug- where crime gestion shows what can be done.

time...

"What kind &

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Scholar WOMEN WITNESSES

SAVE HAWKER

to come.

ever

noise campaign, to be carried out pectant of seeing very much Confirm The Fact That Most places

Political Corruption The Roat "It is this last phase which has

on scientific lines, and stress is achieved by means of its efforts Constable Kicked Him flourishes are politically corrupt. But some of the other points are laid on the value of the silencer. which is stated to be now almost friends of stillness must not or any other agency. Yet the perfect. That will be good news abandon their cause. They are

The two things go hand in hand. very important, also. It is the de- lays of the law as everyone realises, but so few seek to eliminate,

The Organisation Of Secret Group

"So the women, taking their criminal

which nbat the

to the modern world if, and only not optimistic enough, whether independent women witnesses, Ma Owing to the evidence of two if, the use of silencers is insisted here or anywhere else, to dream on more firmly than has been of restoring an era in which the ed from a prison sentence before cue, I am told, from my sugges-

Yim, a hawker, was probably say- done in the past, most of all in ear was not perpetually deafened Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Cen- tions, organised secret groups are equipped with machine-guns, the case of that notorious offen- by loud-speakers within doors tral Magistracy this morning One hundred women

"It is the fact that the criminala der the spluttering motor cycle, and by motor traffic outside when he faced two charges of anonymously In each of the six while so many of our police forces Society, in truth, has been They know that there is scarcely failing to produce a license and councilmanic district of the city, are operating without proper serving bombs, and every modern facility, amazingly patient in presence of a place left in this age of noise of common assault the noise nuisance, almost as pa- for "retired Leleure that in police constable.

on an Indian and listed not by name but by weapons, without radios In patrol tient as it still remains in face of trim gardens takes his plea Ujager Singh, the constable, criminals who had not feared the makes successful culmination, of numbers, Boon confounded the cars, and that sort of thing, which the death-roll of the roads. But sure," since the klaxon and alleged that defendant failed to police mostly honest, but Im-so many crimes posible. protest has never been quite the changing gear can penetrate produce his hawker's license when potent in the face of crooked voiceless, even if the voice has almost any sanctuary. But en he asked for it, and when he took political conditions. I wish the been often a still and small one, durance and resignation have defendant up to the station, he women of other communities

(Continued on Page 10-) almost drowned in the roar of surely their limits. More and alleged that the hawker snatched would note how it was done, for the traffic Painfully little, how-more there is need of stricter his whistle and, threw it to the therein lies the peculiar appeal ever, has as yet been accomplish laws, more stringently adminis-ground. The shirt to which the which this secret snooping for a ed by expostulation Not that tered. We must not relinquish whistle was attached was torn vital cause has for all women. the quietists (if one may ber-jour natural right to enjoy, even Defendant said, that he admit "Mrs. A. L. Simpson, row an old doctrinal name) have in this comparatively minor ted that he had not his license at ed the job in San Diego, appoint been content to rely on aesthetic sense, a modicum of "peace in the time, and was sending a boy ed a No. 1' woman in each dis who d'start- or sentimental reasons only. our time.". They have wisely at all times

for it when complainant kicked strict. Each No. 1 woman ap- laid emphasis on the aspect of

him and struck him."

pointed three more, and in turn public health. In July, 1928,

Two women witnesses testified appointed others until the com the subject came prominently

that the Indian constable did kick mittee of six hundred was com before the British Medical AB80-

and strike defendant plote, ciation at its amual meeting, and special mention was made of Letters of administration for the local estate, amounting to $62,500 of city

of Madame Clotilde Mercales de the same

Inchau from

and the who

sericus pos

Minister's

FRENCH WOMAN LEAVES

$62,500 ESTATE

Hamilton, in dismissing theNow, the point in what should

charge, said that the con- these women do, once ey are

rough; and ganiaed "into" i

ht tion, for fodb