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A Royal Thought For Youth

cessary equipment. In a single sentence, the Prince summarised

HERE THERE

MORE

and

EVERYWHERE

NOT IN NSARD

naked

expression

And low dirty the ears of the

Hansard makes

They occur in the repe

Knight's point of

WONDERS OF THE TELEPHONE

APPARATUS THAT CAN REMEMBER

PRIVATE RADIO MESSAGES BY

WIRE

T

HE

PHONE

(By A. P. Luscombe Whyte)

London have perfected the "autodial": Postmaster's eral is to an Ingenious little box which infal spend nearly £10,000.000 on libly remembers the numbers of a ssions, telephone development during the selected fifty subscribers whom you

are most likely to want. of Ar next twelve months

He keeps the telephone always in On its dial are printed the names of your friends, offices the trades the news.

What will, the news headings be people,

According to the morning news papers, when Mr. Knight persisted

In his question Mr. Maxton called saying in a few years time? You have only to move a pointer In every civilised country regi to the desired name for the obliging across to him: Don't be a bigger. booby than you have been already" ments of experts are working in box to transmit the right electric and You think you will get knight electrical laboratories so that you impulses to the exchange and get it ed, to which Mr. Knight replied: may talk clearly, rapidly cheaply to for you, "Don't be ridiculous.

MISLEADING

anyone else in the world. And they Most people have by now heard of are producing astonishing results. the "robot phone girl”—a strip of Recently an American experi sound film, constantly revolving on menter set out to combine the best a metal drum, and parroting dismal- These omissions again raise the qualities of the telephone and the ly number engaged" or "number" question whether Hansard can be radio. He succeeded, and already unobtainable," which is automatical- considered a full and authentic re United States experts are claiming ly switched on to one's line on ap cord of Parliamentary proceedings that his success will lead to the propriate occasions. But the talk- An incident such as the attack on scrapping of half the trunk lines in ing clock" is less known and far the Prime Minister might become their country. Vte

more complex. historic in certain circumstances. He decided to imprison the ether Thousands of people ring up every Certainly students of Parliamen-in a telephone line. Now, the ether day to ask the time. So the Post tary history would be misled if they in a generous but a garrulous mes-Office is now experimenting with an had to take the Hansard report as sanger. It accepta a great number untiring "policeman" to tell it to an adequate account of the episode of radio transmissions without mud-them. It will be a complicated

There have been a number of ocding them up, but it sends them all series of circular talking-film tracks, .- casions in recent years when com over the world without discrimina-mounted on revolving glass disce, plaints have been made that Miniation or privacy.com ters have altered statements before they appeared in the Official Report.

{"SWINE"!

Wireless Waves On Wire

Talking Clock

One of them will say nothing for:

The Inventor designed a rather 24 hours a day but "It is no special kind of telephone cable, con. The next will take up the theme sisting of a wire running in a thin with "so many minutes" fol- the conclusions which he has The word "liar" was once used by copper tube, and called it the ether, lowed by a third Intoning "and so- reached from first-hand contacts Mr. Kirkwood in reply to a remark He took a modified wireless trans many seconds while the last up and down, the countryside. by a Conservative member.

mitting set, much as one would use will flute triumphantly, "past blank

fo'clock.” Youth," he said "needs disci- This was recorded in Hansard.

for broadcasting, and connected It pline; it needs friends; it needs It was expunged later in the to his wire. At the other end he very complex apparatus, con- opportunity?" The proposed bound volumes

set up a wireless receiving Betected with a master clock will con- Fund offers the means of provid-

Mr. MacDonald, when Socialist Then he "broadcast" a message trol the dises so that only those

parts of them repeating the right" The Prince of Wales has again ing all three, and, what is not Prime Minister in 1933, used the along the wire, using a known wavenumbers are selected by the talking shown his remarkable gift for least important, of providing word "swine" in the House. It was length. At first nothing could be THE KWONG KWUI CO., LTD. ||interpreting and giving shape to them in the way and through during the debate on the King heard at the other end... until his apparatus at the appropriate time,

unformulated desires of the the instruments most agreeable Speech on November 4.

assistant tuned the receiver to his and the discs will work together, the British people. Recently he laid to Youh itself.

Mr. MacDonald was subjected to wave-length exactly as you tune subscriber dialling, say, TIM, hear mach interruption from the Con-your four-valver. Then the mesing one smooth sentence. before a representative gathering

A score of interesting gadgets are" of the heads of the counties and

Barvative Opposition.

sage came through perfectly. boroughs of Great Britain a pro

The Premier was, irritated. When Radio waves had been sent through There is a sort of typewriter, which already in use, or on the way. jeet which for some time has

he sat down he remarked, "That, is a distinct and private channel: ~/ been occupying his thoughts. His problem was thin What is the best form that the National Thankoffering should take w

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the Gentlemen's Party! Swipell The next ateys were obvious. If you can now attach to any téléphone A report of this remark (not, in 1 can send one message along the line and use to type messages, with- The as Nellore is due here Hansard) thus referred to it: wire, and receive it only when the out hesitation or error, to a similar

the people at home desire to from Manila, on Wednesday morn-Fortunately the observation was receiver is correctly tuned, be res machine in another office anywhere. make to the King and Queen as

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lost in the putting of the question, soned, what is to prevent ma send More Wonders and the House quietly divided.". ing scores of messages and receiving And another device, attached to a permanent memorial of the

The 8.8. Ranchi,fa due here from

them on a number of tuned re your phone, makes an accurate re- King's Silver Jubilee? His an-

cord of the conversation in both Your Daily Smile!ceivers, swer and he has already as Singapore at noon on Wednesday,

The experimenter tried. That directions, and plays it back to you. certained that it will be entirely She is carrying the outward En-

The telephone people boast, with At a meeting of an urban district worked, too, jedna pleasing to their Majestiesglish Mails.

council; the clerk announced that be The result was a method of tole justice, I think, that they now have- that the best Thankoffering

A Charity Ball in aid of the wanted a supply of ribbons for the phony which, by the use of batteries the ideal receiver. It fa not likely,

typewriter. wherewithal on a worthy scale to Widow of the late Bi Q. M. S. Fran immediately a member pretested of tuned transmitting and receiving to be changed, except in the homes- promote the happiness and well-cis Royal Artillery, la being held against such extravagance. being of Youth, gevang in the Garrison, Lecture Hall at

kapan Such a National Fund would Pm, on Friday. be an enduring memorial of the

The monthly meeting of the first twenty-five years of a memorable reign, and the jubilee Chinese General Chamber of Com of a universally honoured and merce will be held on Wednesday at well-loved King and Queen at the Chamber's premises, is a totally different proposal

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from the Imperial Institute pro Hong Kong rainfall for the 24 Ject of Queen Victoria's Jubilee hours ending at 10.a.m. to-day, was 1887, when few apart from offi- 0.05 inch. The total since January: cials understood precisely what is 6.91 inches, against an average practical objects such an Insti- of 5.96 inches. tute was designed to serve. But

Add two towns with only one cable, back even farther in his chair, and

Independent

sets, can send as many as 200 dis, or offices of the wealthy, where it The She is a very satisfactory girl ho tinct messages along a single line at will disappear altogether. said, "but I don't see why she should the same time. But the new method wealthy broker of the future will not be provided with finery at the expense will make it possible to equip a lift a phone to call his clients. "He of the ratepayers.

generous service between the same will press a button on his desk, lean- Little Janice: My mother's just been The result? painted by famous artist

"Juniro: "Humph! My mother doesn't red an of artist she paints' herself TROL HARTA Oh, Oh! The man from Oklahoma had fast

Nearly Mistake-Proof. arrived in Boston Hey, officer R

he said to police. This is but one of the new Ideas RAJAH'S VALUABLE man, can you tell me where is a′′ good place to stop at?"

on which the 300 experts in our own

A vast saving of talk. A voice from nowhere will capital and maintenance cost with, answer him. possibly, a passed-on saving to the subscriber In the form of cheap trunk calls.

everyone will understand intui Charged with assaulting Yu Just before the at!" the officer re Fost Office Research

T have tively what the Prince has in Hung, an 18-year-old fishmonger, plied, continuing down the street, Dollis Hill are working.

Just spent a day there. mind when he issues no sympa Cheng Yuk-kwal, was bound over swinging his night-stick

The days of the much-tried opera- thetic an appeal for Youth in a bond of $25 to be of good No Doubt

urse, numbered! Moreover, he carefully stressed behaviour for a period of six Professor “What college in the tor

everyth In the the fact that he is not thinking months by Mr. QAA Macfadyen United States has produced the most within a few.

service, exca ng the sub iber and of calling any new organisation at the Central Police Court this presidents

the computation of accounts. Is likely into being. What he asks for is morning,

to be

experts have gone a long

ards: thezutome |trun true dial

a large national Fund from which

generous help may be given to The following unclaimed radio the manifold and many-sided or telegrams, are lying at the Govern ganisations already busy promot-ment Radio. Omée: Hotel Guanbon- IcPherson ing the welfare in its broadest sen from Kampot term, of Youth. Flemingo, Y.M.C.A. from Amoy Much Is being done, but not 24131 from Medan; and Lucrecia enough relatively much less 68, Arment Building from Shang than is being done for children. hai,tak

The Youth for which the Prince

pleaded recently is of the age. Pleading that he cam

from 14 to 18, much the most Hong

plastic and impressionable time count

of life. It is the period in which Cha

either young ambition is honour

able excited or habits of careless- |ness and slackness

too ten, because of

tence

form

Freshie: "The electoral college.” BANISHEE GAOLED re

Story of Passing Through

mon Colony

unem nine"

who

pleaded #just

Manch

But

Simple, really. A mic disguised as an Inkwell, on the desk, Aloud-speaker, fitted flush to the wall or the side of the desk.:

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