1937-09-25 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 25, 1937

AIR MINISTRY'S

THE LEAGUE They Like You To NEW SCHOOL

то BROADCAST

Try

And Hurt Yourself Here

During the Assembly of the League listeners on the short wave- length will be able to pick up a re- gular service of Assembly news, broadcast from the League's own where they like you to try to hurt building by the League's own an-yourself.

nouncers.

an-

For the duration of the Assem- bly, following services are nounced:

ed the entertainment it has to offer.it.

Training Control Officers

Ministry has star

Tottenham Court- the training of control officers, many of

be needed for Empire nd air lines.

must have special knowled- ge and traming, and its no longer them from castial

perience of flying

18 not sufficient- the school is

There is a building in London other way whenever hands

near it, so that fingers were pushed away instead of being drawn in

Anti-Meddle Devices The sombrely named Home Office

Even cardboard box making ma- Industrial Museum, known in the This is the first time in the neighbourhood of Horseferry-road, chines and sewing machines had

pilot or Westminster, as Fool-proof House, the anti-meddle dezices. It wa League's history that such an ar- rangement has been possible, and is now about to celebrate its tenth impossible to put your finger under the result will be watched with in-anniversary. Employers and work-the jabbing needle of the sewing Mr. J. J. Jeffs, who for many years ers from all over the world have machine. The small electric interwas in charge of Croydon airport, terest.

discovered its value as a place to locking guard not only pushed it and has been in control of flying at countless important flying meetings study the prevention of accidents, aside, but would not allow you but London so far has not discover work the sewing machine without and races. He trained several of the control officers at other airports. The museum staff are grateful You could, if you liked, slice In future all qualified serodrome for London's ignorance. If it be your fingers with the woodwork officers will be required to hold At 8.00 pm. nightly, except

came generally known how many planing and cutting machines, but second-class navigators licences, Sundays, to Great Britain and

ways of not getting hurt they were it was difficult if you held your for they must have close acquain- South Africa (in English).

able to demonstrate, the museum wood clamped in one of the many tance with the daily problems of would be overrun with people new and variously shaped igs both air-line and private pilots. At 7.30 p.m. New York time, nightly, except Saturdays, to anxious to practice narrow escapes designed to prevent your hands Almost needless to say, the pupils

from coming near the tools.

new school are themselves in perfect safety.

Nor could you ship against the pilots Its ground floor and its gallery

other cutting are like a great, clean factory, con- circular saws and o

The subjects taught include air The floor, which has been

egulati the law

the New taiming machines for every process, fedges.

by workers feet and

eted logy and navigation by deadTM from metal stamping, printing, polishe South neat mincing, cake mixing, wood-gyrating sawdust, was covered with reckoning and by radio direction-

working, shoe and box making, to varieties of the most obstinate non-inding Lectures on various rubber rolling, laundrying, clothes slip material.

pects of air transport, and other pressing, and zerated water bottle. It was just as difficult to fall matters with which the aerodrome filling.

downstairs. Each step which led control officer must be familiar, are to the museum's gallery had a dif- given by experts. ferent non-slip surface to show how many ways there are of not breaking your leg-

Canada and North America (în English).

At approximately 8 pm York time, nightly, except days, to Central and America (in Spanish).

Satur

English And Spanish

English and Spanish have been selected because English- and Spanish-speaking countries are the only ones which can be reached on the short wave-length to be used. Each message will last about a quar-

ter of an hour.

Muzzled

25-

But the machines all have one thing in common. They, or their

working in a refrigerator were like, have all at one time or another

The builder's crane, in the gal-curiously similar. A polar bear hurt somebody - crushed an arm or a hand, lopped off a finger, or lery, did not prevent you from suit of thick wool and felt padding even drawn their minder to death. overloading it and dropping a few for the furnace, another of wool Now they stand muzzled. At hundredweight on yourself or and leather for the refrigerator.

Two rooms devoted themselves to The announcer in English is to be tached to them are all the latest somebody else, but it did its best

of preventing anybody to warn you by making a noise like showing how not to blow up your Mr. Michael Barkway, who has been ways lent by the B.B.C. to the League for foolishly risking life and limb. The half a dozen alarm clocks whenever factory by dust explosion, or en- reached danger point. Afeeble your workmanship by inade- prove how well yon the purpose of initiating and de-only way to veloping

this experiment. The muzzled they are is to risk life and whole section of a ship's deck rig-quate lighting. And, fually, there limb among them. A Home Office ged up nearby showed what was this week's special tip - how, broadcasting in Spanish will be given by Signor & Bertholin, a factory inspector taking his month's stresses and strains your derricks by fixing a sliding metal guard, not Guatemalan, who is a member of turn-of-duty, plus refresher course. could stand if you were to load her to get your foot caught in a lift gate, and how, by using a safety the Information section of the Les-in the museum obligingly risked up in safety.

his over and over again.

Ways of not injuring yourself valve to prevent excessive pressure, -gue Secretariat.

He tried to thrust his hand under while repairing a bot furnace or not to die of a burst blow-kamp. tomatic grid shot out like a kicking ja descending power press. An all-

gate and jolted him back.

In addition to a cinema theatre, the new League building now pos- sesses a broadcasting studio and a recording roomy The League. also. has priority over the Nyon, about fifteen miles from Geneva on the

lakeside.

Two of these transmitters can be used both for telegraphy and for telephony, on the short wave-length. The third is for telegraphic pur- poses only, and is operated on the long wave-length.

In Emergencies

The next power press in which the inspector did his best to jam his fingers had a rubber-sheathed guard which leapt out horizontally and pushed his arm aside. Other guards simply refused to allow him to place his hand near the press. Not even a finger could wriggle its way past their barriers.

Special Guards

A pair of heavy steel rollers used for rubber manufacture automatic- ally stopped whenever hand or any other part of the body approached them. The guard of the heavy, paper-cutting guillotine threw him roughly back when he tried to meddle with the dropping knife.

The transmitters were in- augurated on the opening day of the Disarmament Conference, February 2, 1932, and have since

An automatic washing machine, been used for occasional news bul-] letins. The Secretary-General makes clothes round would not start until with its rotary cage for swirling extensive use of them for tele- its lid was closed and foolish hands graphic communication to the mem- bers of the Council

were out of the way and would not allow its lid to be opened until it had stopped rotating.

It is understood that, in a case of One clothes press would not do emergency, the League shall take its work unless both hands were entire possession of these transmit-applied to separate switches. Try ters, includings the whole the to smooth out a garment crease at operating staff,

the last minute as the press came down, and it simply stopped. "An- The new assembly hall of the Lea-other rotated out of reach of hands

arkably well equipped for before applying its pressure

purposes. There are A cake mixer with sinister steel ver than mine cabins from revolving arms inside its dri

may speak, and the would not allow its ard to

al raised until the

used simul-frevolving. pastry roller, Like

steel mangle, started

ating th

Cook

by

Gas