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Interesting

Where Blind

Girls Learn To Become Telephonists

Turin.

There are many schools: in Italy which train young girls to be competent tele-| phone operators but per- haps the one hero called da Feltre" is "Vittorino somewhat. out of the or- dinary-from our

point of

view,

AL first sight it appears. いく different from many athers, However there is an intangible | atmosphere of flelency In the "Vittorno

Feltro" School

and something about the gins! that you the hard to define

The

classroom where ;

40 girls sit at benches in totally neat tu! tidy and there a kind of quiet peace about them. Nothing appsrs to dis- trust them.

While the Instructor is Jusy not on other millers they do talk among themselves. During thin lull they read large text- books, their fugees runalng so strangely over the pages.

They are all so int ny what they are learning as if life i Half pends on it and they Aimilate all they can.

feet zo much does depend what they themselves learn.

Special Switchboards

For nil these 40 girls

eumpletely blind.

And the girls in the school

realize themselves how

portant it is to learn

usually relegated 10

J'a

miss.

job

pretty

For these girls,

swl chboards are specially con- structed and instead of lights | there are sounds and methods of touch Important

80 Ingers of the blind.

the

for

The girls

at the school are

to

the

"Vittorino trained period of three months. all about the

Fere

Jearn

They

invention of the telephone from bradla text-books. On the side they to through elarres

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1935.

News Stories From All Parts Of The World

The Traffic Problem Tho

From París:

A Police Chief Tacklos From. Seoul: Korea Is Now Growing Frosh Vogotablos In Napoleon Way.

Water,

From New York: Thero Are More From Turin: Blind Girls Are Trained To

Hazards In The Home Than On The Highway.

Bocomo Telephonists,

INCREDIBLE AS IT SEEMS THERE ARE MORE HAZARDS INDOORS

HOMES than

New York.

Americans were warned this

week that homes

dangerous more

Are than

highways. A nation-wide survey. dis- closed that at lenst 30,000,000 people were bruised, burned - cut,

[I worse in accidents in their own homes in the last 12 months.

more dangerous HIGHWAYS

D

non-

The National Safety Council,

820,000 estimates fatal car accidents occur each year. More than five million of those Injured at home have been dismbled they needed expert trent- ment by doctors or nurses, the survey showed.

Little

50

boys and their mothers headed the list of victims com-

SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith

their wives and children were

far more prone to accidents,

psy- the

he said.

piled by D: Alfred L. Mosvley.

Beston

consulting chologist who directed study.

Older people ranked third, Fathers and daughters were last.

14፤15,

LUXURY TOURIST TRADE

Japan Plans A Comeback With Two Big Liners

Tokyo.

Japan's bid for supremacy In the Pacific luxury pas- senger ship race is now in the blueprint stage.

About 100,000 foreigners wil visit Japan Text year, and spring and autumn reservations are expected to be sold out. Japan wants to bring in foreign ex- change in the form of passenger fares

NYK Lines announced plank to build two 20,000-ton passon-

and for ships, bigger

faster than Japan's pre-war luxury liners. Each ship win cost $12,500,000, Construction of the first de scheduled to start next

Government

Money

Government

Tho Japanese would put up the money. When completed. the ships will bo owned by the Government and chartered by NYK, which would purchase them from the

Gov- Among the "weapons proplacment within 25 years.

ships have been No lux

Juxury turn on themselves are loadedbuilt in Japan since the end of stairways without the war, although this country Moreley, who is in New York dequate railings, stored gaso has made tremendous strides in

present his undings at a

fine

and clearing fluids, power

its tanker

and rebuilding two-uny

Home Safety Con- lawnmowers, 10050 rugs, freighter fleet. Japan's pre- ference

sponsored

medicines and even hairpins, war passenger fleet, they

converted Institute Boston

Safer

Dr Moreley said.

to troop ships, was completely Living. sald in an interview "Do-it-yourself" tools inflicted a sunk in World War II. the Inerefise In household total of 700.000 disabling in- trazards had resulted mainly Juries during the last year from growing tensions of city

alone, he said. Hie. alternaty to the Jense

De

to

yourself" movement. The chlef

yدا

"Dani-

Emotional Conflicts The most common disabling in- juries listed resulted in lacora-

hief danger zone found by Dr Moreley's

lions, surveyers was

fractures, contusions, the American home occupled

burns

and scalds, Sprains by femily with an income of

puncture

wounds, poisoning, $2,000 to $5,000 a year. People

crushing. amputations and in the $5,000 to $20,000 live bites and gunshot wounds. almost as dangerously, he said.

"Accidents result mainly from The safest homes, he sold, were terlous emotional conflets and

occupied by the childless wealthy who lived in. city apartments and poverty, sirleken tenants of tenements. Farm Homes Safer "The richest don't do things for themselves that involve hazards," Dr Moseley said, "and the prorest Just let things

the and

history, cography, mathema

general culture.

of

Far

A

must to learn at the school is v, jer enirol.

So for three girls have won tomas for really exceptional

after and

much were employed

cflciency

dim:ully

rial plants in Milan and Turin.

There is

much to do after

one of the giris has learned la

be telephone operator, one of

1

the teachers said.

The muin problem is 10 convince employers that these girls are just as efficient as others. With the help of the Government that Js slowly coming atout.

Taught To Type

the

The girls loo are taught to type and are much faster than any normal typist through

fingertips. ccosivity of their They can take u remarkably fast short-band dictation, and in this fold the school here plan to teach a number of girls to run an office. All that would be required would be n number of minor changes Бо that the girls could use their sense of touch to the uimcat.

The girls at present at the school have been the best class

fer put through the

50

three

months' training. For 1hem to

be Independent and able to

work at a job normally as any girl with sight, said n

is their profound desire.

teacher,

They are never loo tired to learn something. For instance they have set about to trans- late the Turin tolephone book about into Braille..

A book two inches thick, 1,000 pages and containing as near enough to 500,000 names, United

Press.

TO THE MOON

AND BACK America's Consumption Of Frankfurters

.

2. 34. Reg. U. B. Pat OTT,

Cepro 1955 my NCA Service, fre

"Why does the boss always wait till quitting time to start showing ploturos of the big fish he caught on his vacation?"

THEY CALL HIM

homes were much safer than city dwellings, Dr. Moseley said, because country people were generally under. less stress and strain and had their lives down to more of a routine. White collar workers,

architectural problems Dr MorCity Bald. "For instance, a neighbour complains about apples failing from the next door onto his lawn. The tree owner is furious. He goes for his saw in the basement

of

Japan's new feet will bid for tho upper-bracket American tourist, There will be no third class

accommodations. Interior decorations will not copy European modos, but will

in take

the good points Japanese taste.

The pre-war NYK floot was noted for outstandingg service and good food. NYK is now confident that through, reviving this traditional service it can fully satisfy the moet dia- criminating passenger.-United Press

Mayor of London

and in his fury slips and falls Becomes A Colonel

down the stairs and breaks his leg. "Every homo is full of hazarda, Railing are missing from stair- ways. Rugs aren't fastened down. Risk-taking is part of everyone's, normal experience. We must learn to live with the risks."United Fresa,

Now They Grow

Vegetables

In Water Beds

Seoul.

M

Oklahoma, City. From now

the proper title will be Honourdy Colonel Right Honourable Lord Mayor of the City of London, Sir H. W. Seymour Howard Raymond

Oklahoma Governor

Gary conferred the additional honour on Sir Howard, who previously hnd been imown only as the Right Honourable Lord Mayor of the City of London.-United Press.

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An event unique in the history of watchmaking

The 250,000th

Korea is now growing fresh vegetables with ROLEX CHRONOMETER!

out planting them in soil.

South Korea has just opened its first hydroponic farm where plants are grown in chemically-treated water and gravel instead of soil.

NAPOLEON

(ALTHOUGH HE'S ONLY DEALING WITH TRAFFIC)

Because He

A

Plans

Grand Strategy

Paris.

Police Prefect Andre Dubois, who tackles a traffic jam the way Napoleon tackled a battle, is mapping a grand strategy to clear up the French capital's monumental traffic problém.

"

The one-acre farm, 30 miles south of Seoul at Suwon, was first suggested by President Syngman Rhec.

The 80-year-old President remembered that the US army bad first cet up a hydroponic farm in Japan to supply Tresti vegclabies for GIs here during the Korean War.

U.N. Project

The new farm consists of 12 This is only the beginning. At police headquarters, M. Dubois giant concrete beds holding the vegeatbles planted in gravel, strategy is preparing a huge centre to co-ordinate traffic Four other large concrete tanks control throughout the city. It contain chemical-bearing water looks like one of the aircraft which plotling rova used during plants by four electric pumps.

World War II.

circulated to

the

The four tanks make it pos- On a gland map of Paris. sible for technicians to experi- Itramo specialists will push ment with different chemical magnetised studs representing mixtures and control the police patrol care from zone to amount and kinds of "plant zono ní traffle jame develop. food."

The city has been divided

into five "observation sectors." If patronen in one occtor - counter a jam too big for them to handle they can radio to 10 different moblie polico

teams

Officials of the United Nations Korcan Reconstruction Agency who set up the hydroponic farm it will chible Korean say scientists

tho to determine needs of different vegetables for various chernical foods.

What the scientists find out may help iperense crop yields of the Korean soil which is so Meanwhile, certain north- south traffic

worn out that it takes millions routes will bo cleared of bus stops, text stands of dollars worth of festiliser to wido Then more cars, and still and pusheart markete that tend produce the rice that feeds this

nation. to impede the Bow of cars.. more cars,

A strike had idled all sub- sway trains and buses. At the evening rush hour the streets began filling with cars.

More Underground

Parisians believe it will take a man of Napo- for help. leonic genius to do it. Chiengo, Dubois may be the man, for A scholarly study by the the nickname of Napoleon American Meat Institute shows beginning to stick. that, all the frankfurlers euten by Americans this year would siroleh to the moon and back.

And there would be enough left over to circle the earth.

To put it in more humdrum 1CTITIS,

Americans about

consume

Last year he gained renown by ordering. Parisian motorists to stop blowing their horns, and thun getting therm 'to obey the order.

year. billion frankfurtero a Thore

of the rush,

At the height

M. Dubois admits such mea- A They all uddenly stopped (sures, as these will supply re-

And, Haf but not cure. The streota moving.

themselves are partly to blame, itself

are almost 1,000,000 motor vehicles k the departi Further data gleaned from ment of the Seine which I the magazine National Livestock cludes Parks and it cloeg sub- Producer shows that the averageurbs. The number grows by 180 American cald tho meat every day, cquivalent of 33 hoge, 10 lambs, bight steers .and four yeal calves. That is provided he

lives to be 68.3 years of age, to-

Things To Come

Only Two In Asia

forming hydroponic may be expanded in It took police four hours to and Paris has allotted 3,500,000,- Korea if this arst farm, one of untangle the Jam. The experi-000 francs (about £3,600,000) the only two in Asia, proves exhausted for Improvement of main trame successful. once left patrolmen

construction of but it whetted the appetite of anterice und Profect Dubols. He is ready for underpassos. action.

'

Although only cucumbers and radishes, are now being grown,

Eventually, Parle dily As from October 1; my car no hope to sou a. nowwork of other crops will be planted this illegally markod ad hindering underground always to fake autumn and the fresh vegetables traffic on a Faris street will be through traffe; off the treats sold commercially,

day's formal Bie expectancy, frightening. preview of forthwith ( hauled ? away. No Unfortunately, however, most of

The frankfurter

camo

to what the future may hold, took bolstring with tramo tickots the space under Parts Baroud The Seoul National Univers America from the old German place 10 days of when 200,000 Meet matte have boon will taken by subway cuntals, alot ly's College

samo nome eat, these car became locked in, frus for moc: the 900 francs Cabout cousin, the Vientia,-Unlied Prost

of Agriculture

city of infermera Came" from what may rank as the worst 18 shTings), find for the privil="[ti-FREEwater_meli_) |OVITRIK VELET BULATURAks and:

traffle jam in history.

ege of parking thede car.

Prem.

and

united

tise the Government-

training-Unlled Press.

THE ROLEX OYSTER PERPETUAL DÁTE- JUST, work by the roosì fitingna mocí oď aler cinsk The 230,000th Rolex chronometer - a Databanka hi now on the wrist of one of the mosť vimine men in the work. Waterpeġof in šta Oyidled ósée, mit-wound by the Parpettsa) “ýolor" machensfont.

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