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MAN

DON'T KISS YOUR SICK PARROT

worried when they see tergant

biting the dog or licking a cat. Animal lovers that they are, the English are more worried that the child may pick up some infection from their pets rather than thut the dog or cat be hurt.

Horvey was

anxicus lest

her

children might 13:1 tract some linear in this way.

ALL IN A DOCTOR'S DAY by. CEORIC CARNE:

"I understand it is possible to catch pilo frou a budgerigar," Mrs Harvey naldi,

0

Evidently she had heard of a accent car where a boy had become infected with the pollo germ after being billen by Lingerigar. But it should be remembered that that bind was far from healthy. It had just revered from paralysis of his legs.

"It your budgerigar is i thera

worry nothing to about," I said.This is the only time that such a tragic happening has been reported.”

We have animals al over place," Mr Harvey explained "Birds, two cats, and

Is it a dog.

safe for young children to be near them all the time, doctor?".

the

She night well have asked me it were dangerous for her kids to alt on Aunt Mildred's

lap. If Aunt Mildred is healthy, then there's nothing to worry about. If she's got a streaming cold or leprosy I would advise the children be kept in another room. In the same way, there nothing to worry aunais are fit,

"Parrots

about #

dangerous.

dugs, too, may pass on the mange. Still is fairly easy to recognise a dog that lins some skin trouble, Cats with Mng- worm may be more difficult to opot. In cate it just looks of

THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1958. **

DOES YOUR SPEECH STAMP YOU?

DR. FRY OF LONDON UNIVERSITY- NOW DISCLOSES FOR THE FIRST TIME SOMETHING TOP SECRET

A typewriter you

talk to!

DRITISH scientists have achieved in their unexcited way the almost Impossible, though a litle cigarette nah has the world's first talkie-typewriter. They can talk to it, through a microphone,

bern dropped among its fur.

Only very rarely do you come and it types. This makes history. perbas an filness conveyed from

a domestic animal.

The scientists are Dr D. B. Fry who has this week conducted the voice ex-

I did have one patient, though,periments at London's University College, and Mr Peter Denes, electronics engineer,

nul gay

much

by MERRICK WINN

who developel tuberculosis. Als

Dr Fry will dog, too, had a suspicious couch. yet about this triumph be

is so far more likely thut my But it la

cause, "The thing the gave his T.B. to patient

types all very, very crude. It dog rather then the other way right, but we're lucky if what

So the typeweller's great sounds. This is imposible. It words cx- All the same, a tuber- shoul.

It types makes sense,"

value will probably be in com- cannot be put into cular dog or cat Is a danger to

instance, i copt by minicry, human beings.

at the moment munications For it can cope

enable 300 "How would I recognise T..only with 14 sounds of the 40 may eventually

cais?" Mrs

In the English langungu, and simultaneous conversations to asked.

then only with 45 per cent be sent over a telephone ne MILD FEVER

which can now take only one. She'd autice something wrong success. But even suon chough. The cat loses con regarded as impossible by moit

of the rest of the world. rapidly. shoriness breath Is evident, and tabby hur a distressing cough. If

in my

dition

It's are

though, aren't they?" Mrs Harvey asked.

"You're thinking of the ill- DEF called psittacosis," replied. "Though I wouldn't eat it dangerous, I can now be treated with penicillin or other antibiotics."

more

S

OTHER CULPRITS

probably Itsittacosis common than generally pused. Nor are parrots the only culprila who pass on the Budgerigars, pigeons, germs, chikers, and ducks can also be

of harbouring the guilty psit.ncosis virus.

The symptoms are not unlike

There is i influenza.

fever, headache, cough, and X-rays of the chest show a picture not

like a typical pneumonia. Mrs Harvey wanted to know cats and dogs about illnesses could convey.

Cute, very occasionally,

ass on

skin conditions,

Harvey

of ₤1001

it

this is stil1

I have seen the talkie-type- writer an unimpressive, al- mast a knock-up job.

Gadgets

electric,

these symptoms a cat has should be destroyed.

A new disease talked about recently is Cat-Scratch Fever.

probably not new at a Very occasionally after being cut. glords scratched by near by swell up. There may be

Just the typewriter, mild fever and malalse and three racks of gadgets. Yet

6octinh tinh sometimes even a

the feel that it works at all is seen. Usually this is the end

something the Americans and story. ihe

Recovery at

Russians are probably still only complete.

To worry about eat-scratch: dreaming about. fever would be as silly as being afraid to go to bed at night should fall lest the celling down.

is

Accent

If you doubt that the achieve- ment is a brilliant in its way as shooting up Smitniks, then consider just one difficulty: ac- cent.

The typewriter would record "The cat sat on the mat in a certain way if spoken to with a London accent, but in quite an other way it with a Manchester accent.

We cannot even know, any of us, how our own voices sound. Dr Fry told me: "No one can ever hear his own volee as it really is.

This is it-the

machine

which

taps

Beir

out history

"But, my dear, it says here that it WON'T replace, my secretary!”

It conveys Instrument. about 50 per cent of our valce personality.

telo.

Suid Dr Fry: "You hoar a only "Call a man ugly and, you

on the total may not really hurt him. But charming voice

say he has an ugly volee and phone, at a charming face to go he'll never forgive you, because with it and to 'fall in love.' But the valer, even more than the when you meet the face you are just as likely to fall quickly put again." face, is the man himself,"

Can you change your volee, it It is ugly?

"It could be Sald Dr Fry: "When we talk we hear only really improved-at a cost. But what sounds in our heads, Other there's no need. We can under. stand one another well enough people hear what comes oul of because we only ever take in 40 our mouths and that is quite per cent of what people say, different,"

anyway. We guess the rest.”

This

his

ticorn it

explains why almost everyone falls to recognise own voice when he played back on a tape revorder. Dr Fry has heard himself many times during 25 years, but even sometimes wondera: now he

Good heavens, is that me?"

+

Shocked

Ho can recall only two people of thousands he has recorded who were not shocked by the first sound of themselves. can

This, in fact, is a lesser dm- and will be overcome Dr Fry warns that the talkie- culty

have But it makes the point Dr Fry typewriter may always

will Umitations. It

probably has been stressing this week in the shorthand these articles: "We know next humon To be anxious about catching never replace

about the Infection from domestle typist, even the one who cannot to nothing any

The talkie-typewriter volce. It is far, far more com- pets, provided they are reason-Spell.

of us than any plicated Jante- ably healthy, would be

cannot spell either.

ever belleve it is." τα having pri- mount hypochondria,

i haven't got that, have you, doctor?" Mrs Harvey smiled,

I ted her down the hall to our living-room. As she entered the door the dog started barking and my son wanted to show ner his pel mice. He couldn't and DIK! the snake anywhere.

сап

It cannot distinguish between As in "stuff" similar sounds and "enough.” It types phone

and may never, even teally

when fully developed, do beller than reproduce a sentence such as "Bhe would like to come lo- morrow," sa say, "Shte wud

atk ter kam termorow."*

Hard to accept? Then imagine asking someone to take a tele phone call from your wife,

someone who has never seen or heard her.

know You begin: "You'll It's my wife because her volce sounds like this...."

Criticism

But

re

Well, there you the Said Dr Fry: "You can if you bumm voles, one of the most More work very hard at it, perhaps human things about us,

Целт sight, which for years,

·Eliza human Doolittle, you'll end by becoming animals also have, and possibly

more valuable for happiness. another person,

The child born blind often "If you don't, the new volve 12

to be very happy merely a mask. Likely to slip grows up

because he cen. communleste born The child with others.

always has that dent almost I had always believed

went to America dimeult and wretched life, people who and came back in a with an American accent were putting it on, along with luggage labels.

I asked him to demonstrate in a crisis, "

wrote this, visually and he down: L-TTL J-CK H-RN-K. Eleven letters and I had a whole nursery rhyme. And the same thing works vocally,

This,

Not necessarily.

fortnight

the

Dr Fry told

Success

Д

So-back to the voice experi-

We British, it sevins, ure more sensitive about our volees than almost any other nation. asid Dr Fry, is partly because we : When I go to: America Iment. Dr Fry and his team ox- have many more local dialects end by speaking a language no pected almost total failure. But Why the shock? Because this and so more temptation to be American would call American, they had, as you have seen, re

and no Englishman, English,. Is the voice of a stronger. Not velce-snobs.

can't help it. Some people get us, or so we think. But it is

Infected by accents, We are distorted people Middle-class Londoners are us. seeing ourselves in a straigh: notable voter snubs, fearing to one of them,"

mirror.

Be

thought

reminds

This cockney. Even the Idlet volee we hear explains their dislike of the

Australian perent. from the tape-recorder is not strictly our voice, because there them of cockney. is no recording. method which reproduces perfectly.

and I'm

Charming

Said Dr Fry: "We all hate Similarly, some voices are having our volens criticised, fectious, but enly rarely Like what? You can describe

fall our people

genuinely The G.P.O. telephone, for perhaps even more how she looks, and so identity

pretty inferior appearance. her to others, but not how she instance, in a

than

love with a volco.

markable success.

Dr By

Bays now: "It has been so successful that we shall almost certainly carry out more experiments on the same lines. This may yield quite an im- portant new field for research." Excellent. Now let the Lamous do people who this week have seen In themselves as others hear them,

be comforted,

in-

For FATHER on FATHERS DAY

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What of Nato now?

BY CHAPMAN PINCHER

T Nato headquarters in Paris the other day high-rank- graphical position and large

Ang

were

yellowing fles and newspaper clippings to find out every- thing General Charles de Gaulle has ever said about Nato, Nobody cared much what the once-discarded general had said about anything until a few days ago. Now his comments on the vast Nato defence against Communism have suddenly become Cabinet agenda stuff.

For

It de Gaulle finally gets necrets now in full flood to the subjects, except the power he has sought he may French on all well press his old neutralist ptomics, since his visit to Paris policy of keeping France inde- Inst month. pendent of both East and West and seriously disorganise and possibly destroy the Nata get

up.

Security would he

even

corner-stone.

Would de Gaulle be likely to and the rest of Nota rather than

discard this political ace. forgo the elevation of France 1 the world's fourth atomic nation The events of the next few How would the American with all

whether my the power it would weeks will show

Nato's future. is people respond to the pouring-in bring when his prime purpose is alarm about

greatness?

They will be decided by the country where the Government to reassert his country's former illfounded.

sincerity with which General can be suddenly overthrown by what is virtually a milliary

I think it more likely that he Charles de Gaulle regards him- would defy coup?

the U.S., Britain, self as a new Napolcon,

of more millions of dollars to a

Ilow would they react to the widespread belief that if de Goulle founders the Communists must inevitably take over?

I cannot dispel my fear that the upsurge of de Gaulle and all

tighter with a military man in stands for would bring about a resurgence of isolationism in the U.3. Congress.

command.

The Nato newspaper searchers At Chequers, Foreign Secre-

This could have a particularly Lloyd could see have

for already found that de tary Selwyn

unfortunato cotequeños has said some highly that the peaceful settlement of Gaulle

Britain becaus Congress about Nato and the Algerian problem, for which shortly to consider the essing critical things

best of the U.8. atomic law to allow the Americans who dominate it. do Gauillem offers the

hope, would be a timely rebuff secrets to be passed to Britain

Suspicion

to Nasser's Arab ambitions. and other Nato countries.

At the Foreign Offee, diplo la it likely that Congress, mats, carefully regarding the already lettering on this issue, They are convinced that if he French affair as essentially will press it forward after the achieves power he will demand domestic malier, argued that proved political Instability of changes to ensure a bigger and though de Gaulle has a reputa- more important say for France tion for being dificult he is, in as a condition for kooping her general, "well disposed towards in the Alliance.

They suspect that he would take a much tougher line with not Noto-neighbour Germany, only because of his bitter war- lime memories but as ameans of demonstrating Freach resur-

Beliala,"

In America

T

Franco?

Both

Suspension?

Art

Britain and the U.S. have been worried about the possibility that France will soon But behind this apparent to an independent atomic Power composure and piercing the with bombs of her own. atmosphere of complacency Intelligence report to the generated by centuries of stable Government has intimated that But they seem confident that British government, was an un- the lest of France's first atomic it ho takes power constitu- resolved

is bomb in the Sahara vannot bo question, which tionally, he will inherit a situa- causing the most serious concern long delayed.

gence.

The

อ

France

tion in which he is eo hamstrung to the Cabinet: How would

.to that he will America react

I think by commithority,

that the U.S. will have to move with the North governed by "á "quasi÷military view this emergence of France as an atomic Power far more Allantic tide whether he wants diclator?.. to or not..

seriously if a military man with optimists immediately highly nationalist views is in, 'This quiet assurance pervaded point to the example of General control. the airy corridors of the British Franco, the hill-blown Fascist

It only to prevent the full- Defence Ministry and Foreign dictator with whom the Ameri

of atomle Office in spite of the flush of, cans have done milltary business scale production confidential tolegrama bringing for years to strengthen Western bombs the intest news from France, defence, - -,

by Franco, the Americans pro, near-certain to Jolo Russia in preasing for the Defence Minister Дипода But this comforting, precedent suspension of all: alomlo torta Bandys had no fear for the takes no account of the fact when their own series in tha safety of the Firish weapons" that... Zrance, with her geo- Paside ends this summer.

by Friall

"It's a pity all Generals don't take a tip from Ike and steer clear of politics!"

CAFE

TABAL

* Le BBC, 1 think it say Pilimiin, bowled Massu,

caught do Gaulle, score dought