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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1956.

“BOGEY” OF AUTOMATION

IS NOT SO FRIGHTENING

E

By LES ARMOUR

the

to

London clues) until, in the cul NUCRATES, the neurotic small boys know all about it. electronic brain. Mat The Trainer can be used

an inculcate all sorts of "mechani- in disconsolately Edwardian munsion in the al processes" from multiplying to typing. He is more efficient Surrey downs. Eucrates was than an ordinary teacher be- and be clearly having tough cause he never trea time when i arrived. His always known which questions mechanical master, known you are finding toughest,

He muly, therefore, replace only (and somewhat mys-

teachers in terlously) as the Electronic teachers or some Trainer, was patient with some fields.

him.

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Others do jobs that it wouldn't have been feasible for men to do. Take, for instance, the check-weighing machines in a

Eucrates room below

in Surrey downs factory of Solartron Company.

Sho the

They don't do anything very ia take exetting. At they do rows and rows of packages and make sure

all that they are exactly uniform. They reject the ones that aren't exact and pass the others,

nuke Il possible to pack and 10 guranatee the that pre- weight of products viously had to reought un- packed because of the amount of tabour involved.

They Curiously. In case you're in- tested, the Trainer has never He kept asking Euerales progressed beyond Aristotle. He questions--and giving him can only deal with problems in the old fashioned SUIT of clues. For a time Eucrates Aristotelian logic-questions to would do fine. Then he which any answer is either true would come up with a flood or raise. of wrong answers. The Trainer would start Ú་༩་h་ again-dropping, this time, the questions Eucrates could answer easily and re- peating the tough ones,

The Electrumne Tramer bud an unganny knowledge of Eurrates' weaknesses and he pressed as

advantage hard.

In the end. however, Eucrates learned all the answerS.

The Electronie Tiner. and, perhaps, Euerzałem, the Automation

Another Side

He can't do Hegelian logic or modern three-termedt jogle.

which involve answers that are neither true nor false but partly both, So he will never roplace either teuchters of philosophy or teachers of history and English

Literature,

But there another side to the Trainers work with Euerates. The Trainer can trai Enerates for any other electronic brosa) tu ponforin any mathe marken operation whatever.

Lat Americno mupermarkets everything Brian spinach to chops comes in a neat, plastic paper package. The food has boco ricaned and prepared and its weight

and

consistency Without machines guaranteet. lo do the job, the housewife would have had to do without this service. The cost of em- ploying human loobur for

prohibi- jota would have been live.

Dangerous Work

Then, area of Revolutio

we dreaded crisis which, we are told, hangs

all over

heads.

Two Uses

our

Some of these, like the cul- culations of frusver and stYE İPEK Faircraft parts under a wkte array of conditions over a long perio of time, are so com- being plicated that no humTNUTI coold Is But the Interesting thing

ever get through them in hfetime. Evim muster that Eucrat

"Setting up" and his can be it to two quite different an electronte bruin is an incre- Excrates can be dible process. So one electronic kinds of use 4 used, for instance, to work out brain met be used to "set up"

logical learning pattern other electronte brains, discover the more complicated operations in a series of operu – thens and Nift them from the easy ones. He can then be used what to help men to disecver operations other inen are going 10 find dimeult

orc

This the now techniques used to do jobs that could never have been done without them- now jubs that mean new com- fort, safety, prosperity and new employment for men.

The picutre is not all black. And so it is with to other automation devices.

Some of them-like the acts of photo-electric cells and

the xnks of machines controlled by punch cards that can now be used in control a long industrial

from start DOVESS

Lo Onish

the

are

of course, there machines that do jobe that no- body wants to do.

For instance, the air force now has available a device call-

"radar simulator Before it was invented, radar operators Ind to be trained the

tity. hart Tu get the right effect on the radar screen, sumcone and airplanes had to ity real simulate un air battle,

The radar simulator" elimin- es all that it will

repeat, on the rudar Kreen, any sequence of air operations you imagine.

Nobody wants to fly costly and

મુન dangerous

GTEM through "mock baitic" condi- tioni uny maro often

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necessary,

Automation

need.

eliminates

the

The "bogey man" of autome- tion is not so frightening when you get to know him.

AGENCE TOURISME

de Apache

Quartier

"Alors, Pierre! Kindly keep your eyes to the front!"

THE NEW BOOM

HAT

face

A Godless New York turns to the new- comer sailing up

the Hudson.

No churches, no spires, no steeples can be seen. Just skyscrapers -the "Cathe- drals of Mammon"-which, when darkness comes, stream harsh light from their tiered windows a if

in the same way the Elev- tromle Trainer could be used to

boys teach man

arithmetic. The Trainer would pist que tions to them, sort thự mnswers the small boys gave (by push-

buttons! Ing appropriate then keep putting the tough without human Intervention retie Eucrates, somebody has they were soulless shella lit questions (with appropriate do jobs that men used to do.

by white-hot fire,

Reliability...

He can mulce new things. eliminate tedious and danger- DILS work And, even if the Trainer

truin the

oun

now

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CHURCH

IN AMERICA

No man can fail to see the signs ...and despite the few charlatans, this revival grows every day

There is no church of their churches. God towering above New the

newcomer

Cathedral tower wondered

FULL PEWS

where.

By CHRISTOPHER DOBSON

And once

every-

Roman The

Catholic

There are some undesirable trends in this upsurge of reli-

aclivity. glous

Faith-healers and prophets are becoming in- creasingly powerful, especially with the help of

of TV And. al- though many of the bealers are modest дет who ally their faith with competent medical knowledge, there are others who become demagogues -rich demagogues at that.

mith-

and

timo

There are men like Jack Coe, a travelling falth-healer who made $22,000 (about £8,000) Episcopalian, Roman This will be a tenfold in-

fast year. Ho preaches 10 Catholic, Nonconformist, crease over 1946 and a rise Bishop Fulton J. Sheen and

audiences of thousands in a Jew, all are turning again to of 25 percent over last year. the evangelist Billy Graham huge tent which is festooned are established TV stars. with the canes and crutches' of IN INDUSTRY: Some has stared

"crusades." Sheen is be cured, York as St Paul's and West- enough at the skyscrapers, steel-workers who worked Graham we know from his the people he claims to have

enough at their during the weekend before coming increasingly power minster

And there are men like Oral the strike were demanding ful as a "converter" of in- Roberts who is the new TV above London. The churches material comforts, he can-

sensation.

Ho Is seen fluential people. are hidden away, dwarfed not miss the signs of this time off to go to church.

heard over 400 radio and TV arc revival. They by the skyscrapers.

Among his converts to channels and is understood to about $20,000 (about Roman Catholicism is Clare pend

£7,000) a week buying Boothe Luce, the U.S. Am- on these channels. He then pre- bassador to Italy. Grace sents faith-healing "miracles,” Moore, the singer, and Fritz

IKE'S EXAMPLE Kreisler, the violinist, were also converted through his Influence, He also instructed Henry Ford II before his TN spite of these men

revival a the manufacturers."

grows an everydaj, marriage to a Catholic. and

movement of everyday RESTAUR- pi IN THE IN FILMS, TV, RADIO,

in their OWT churches. The full pews are part of

AND RECORDINGS: The ANTS: Special dishes for Fittingly, a tremendous example the great revival of religion

Eastern Lent

and is being set by the man who and

are common, in America, Not since the This year another record Protestant

Icacts the nation. President be broken

Churches $900 Orthodox

are everywhere there are res- Elsenhower. first landings of the Pilgrim will Fathers has prayer played million (more than £320 spending about $5,000,000 taurants which cater for such a part in the everyday million) is expected to be (nearly £2,000,000) a year the food rules of various

religions. spent on church building. in these fields. life of this country.

BUT

IN GAMES: One of the oldest and largest publishers of games and jigsaws has IN THE CHURCHES: brought out a new game More people went to church based on knowledge of the in America last year than Bible. It is called "Going

before. For ever

During an to Jerusalem," and la sell- average week some 49,600,00 ing in the big stores at a adults attended church, an rate which is "surprising to increase of 12,200,000 week

1950 2,600,000 over 1954.

it is only in size that they are dwarfed. they are full. As full as the churches of London are empty.

over

BING CROSBY TALKS TO MICHAEL RUDDY

ME AND

ILL

AND MY

*

GIRL FRIENDS

"Margo was offered a travel- terribly

!

unhappy since Dixie

ng job in a theatrical agency, died and has been anxious to I took her to dinner to advise start a new home for his four her about London and Paris. gons..

wear it.”

attractive

Bing Crosby with MONA FREEMAN, marry again? Is 26-year-old .Hollywood there a woman in actress and ex - model. the world who could take "They'll marry in Switzer-

"Kathy? She's a lovely girl. If Say others: "Bing Illies young the place of Dixie Lee and land this summer."

especially she's bought a wedding dress I people, restore the 22-year idyll of

RUMOUR No. 2 (In 1954) hope she gets the chance to young women. Bing thinks the publicily won't hurt Kathy: and married life which ended with her death more than hitched him

So much for the part. What might help her film career." four years ago?

of the future?

Says Bing: "I meet lots of charming women and, of course, “Of course I can't guarantee they

Want advice on their what will happen during the careers that's natural. So I take them out to dinner-It's an next two years.

obvious thing to do when you

"Maybe," says Bing, "You never can tell. But I've no plans for marrying just yet."

with attractive brunette MARGO JAMES, his brother Everett's secretary..

RUMOUR No. 3 (in 1955)- strongest of all-connected him

with 21-year-old beauty KATHRYN GRANT.

I might meet "It's possible some girl who might let me get want to tal Three times since Dixio

They were first seen together away without putting the Leu died, the gossips have link when he took her to the annual (diamond ring to us) on her ed Bing, once again one of "Oscar" awards dinner after finger."

mind?

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HIS OWN PLANS

His own plans are far from ́n honeymoon.

the world's most eligible their meeting on a TV show. Had he any more dates in men, with the names of

She won a flim contract and different women, All have Bing was seen coaching her ong

"Sure, I have dates with other ! "I want to play golf on, as been young; all have been alm sota and escorting her to girls, and I don't propose to tell many courses as I can, and buy beautiful.

film premieres, parties, night w spots. Once they even set the wedding date September 10 last year.

THE FUTURE?

to

you who they are,"k

paktings, and, o salmon fishing

A wook

or two

ago, Kathy that's the greatest thrill of all. was hostess at a party, for the "And I hope one day to Lako wife of Bill Morrow, writer and that fight over North Pold old pal of Bing, at Crosby's Bol Copenhagen and pick up a car Alr mansioning rewith a chauffeur In Denmark rooded a large plate and motor over Europe for a month or two, before winding the party said up in Paris "About 60 young women were

. But to all the rumours: Then (rumour said) Kathryn' and all the speculations Bing bought a wedding dress, and remarks with lazy,, disarm that the date was fixed. ing charm: "Do you really says Bing of thegirls: invited. I left early and comer. And I guess I'll have to go think any "girt, would have "Mona's nice, but would she like back late. It sounded like day on working, too, lika, it and ma?!?!

fatti del 17 I've taken her out to break on a poultry farm RUMOUR No.145, 1963) er overal times and I've ovakakakaint

khown her since, she, wen: that, What do his clowb. friends linked, : 02-year-old." Bing high.

think? Some any the beers,

it takes up a bit of my, umo,

-"But marringe? No,'>I've got no idea on a honeymoon."

the

pco

Moro and anono of his specches reflect his reliance on God. He is a Presbyterian, who says: "Whatever our in- dividual Church, whatever our personal orced, OUT. DOMSTYLOTE faith in God is a common bond among us

He is soldier, a leader who says: "During the war, this is what I found out about religion: It gives you", courage to make the decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to a Higher Power, "

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

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