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THE SHRINKING GLOBE.

GREAT INVENTIONS THAT MAY END IN ROBBING HUMANITY OF ALL LEISURE.

THE MOMENTOUS RESULTS WHICH WILL FOLLOW BROADCASTING.

[BY THE VERY REY. W. R. INGE, DEN OF SPACL's]

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By shrinkage I mean not the con-) alone number 2.303.255;` and it is traction of the earth's crust, of reported that there may be haif a which geologists tell us, but the a million more who are unlicensed. abolition of distance by modern dis- Suppose that we were menaced with coveries. The circumference of the another war, or a great national "globe"is about 23,000 miles, and we crisia when the Prime Minister are beginning to think this distance might wish to have a heart-to-heart rather small. We can talk to each talk with the people. Already ho other more than hall across it. { could address at least three million The cinema has made civilisation, persons. It has been proved that as the word is understood at Los a Government censorship of broad- Angeles, Cal., an object of "admira-casting may be very effective. The tion, as Macaulay might have said, uses of this new discovery in educa to the yellow man as he plies his tion have not yet been fully ex chopsticks in the odoriferous alleysploited. Good music is already of Canton, to the black man in the being popularised in this way; mis- malarious swamps of Sierra Leone, cellaneous short lectures on every and to the brown man among the imaginable subject are given crowded ghats of Benares. A those who want information in AIRCRAFT UNDER WIRELESS. young domestic servant, recently "tabloid form but have never formed "finished" at an LC.C. school, the babit of reading. Good litera- can probably tell us nothing what ture is read aloud by good readers. ever about the Great War, but she Foreign languages can be taught will be eloquent about the leading more easily if the pupil is able to film stare and the gorgeous pick up speeches from the stations opulence of the United States. in France, Germany, Spain,

We are delighted to hear that Italy. Even in religion there are the Schneider trophy has fallen to large numbers who are not in the Great Britain. We may make a babit of attending public worship rather poor show at Wimbledon, but but who greatly appreciate listening our champion can By 35 miles faster to a well-rendered service and an in an hour than Signor Bernardi, eloquent sermon on the radio." who won the cup in 1996. We have Whether the clergy altogether ap- rather quickly since preciate this development may be cord for 1906 with 25 miles an hour. collection by broadcasting has yet Santos Dumont established the re-doubted. No method od taking a The Arst Schneider cupwinner was been discovered the Frenchman, Prevost, in 1813. who cover 43 miles in the hour.

moved

on

Since then the numbers have climb ed like those of the National Debt, and for the same reason. Flying became really interesting when it AAA A question of bombing the enemy's towar

to

or

All Speaking Alike. One effect of broadcasting will be to establish a standard pronuncia tion of English. This will, on the whole, be a good thing. Nothing keeps classes apart so much as the fact that if a man bas

CONTROL.

INHUMANLY HUMAN,"

[BY HARRY HARFER.]

The pilotless flying machine is no longer a dream. It is a reality. For years it has beep the aim to perfect "automatic aircraft which, under wireless control, shall take

off from the ground, fly in any direction, and then alight, all with- out a hand at their contrala To day an uncanny success is crowning these efforts.

In the latest secret researches risen from Erance and the United States are the ranks," as the saying is, his to the forefront, bat our recent speech betrays him for the rest of

Will It Happen Again? This invention may conceivably be digging a grave for civilisation, That has happened before when for pirates, which, after all, is only hush," is also assuming vital a time the attack in war became the dialectical practice of that part

significance.", overwhelmingly stronger than the of England which has set the defence. In the opinion of the fashion, but he will never talk What science is "evolving and Cambridge Medieval History it English like a public school and builders are producing are mish- was a mere accident that in the waiversity, man, and this defect is less motor-driven planes which do time of Jenghiz Khan and his feriority. I do not know whether really and truly fy themselves. considered a stamp of social in-1 cessors Rome and Paris did` not, share the fate of -lfoscow and of this differences of protuntiation. Such machines are not only making Baghdad, where 600,000 corpses and according to agal position, Exists akcents and descents, pilotless, but a beap of ruins marked the site of to the same extent in France or the second city in the world. On Germany; but I am sure that with are performing automatic aerial the other hand, a squadron of aero us it is a great obstacle to that journeys of appreciable duration. planes could make short work of a social equality which we all desire

Gyroscope Brain," revolutionary mob.

to promote. It is very undesirable But flying may bring great advan-manner of talking, not as a York- that a man should be known by his tages in time of peace, especially to shireman or Deroniar or Aber:

his life. He may have mastered the British official work, though the are completely "hush- standard usage in the matter of details of

village where I

as born.

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Some of these weird assemblages ther of metal, the subject now of fur- advanced experiments iD America and France, have eles." They are inhumanly human. The brain is a gyroscope, or, balances the 'plane as it flies. The rather,

tmo gyroscopes. One OUTWARD.` other, acting as a mechanical pilot, maintains it on any given course, tabes-the "nerves" obeying the Pneumatically operated valves and

gyroscope "brain" transmit energy, to tiny, compressed-air totors. These are the muscles," and actuate the controlling sur. faces of the aeroplane.

Its engine started, the manless 'plane runs a short distance and then climbs exactly as though...a balancing steelf perfectly, till it is pilot was in charge. Up it ascends, at a height which those launching it have decided upon beforehand. Whereupon, in a way which looks like witheraft to anyone gazing from below, the little machine ceases to ascend and begins to fly out of sight on a level keel.

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the British Empire, which four donian he may very reasonably be brains" "nerves" and "mus: foreign-critics-used to tellus) was too much scattered to hold together. proud of belonging to any of these In a few years we shall be much districts-but as lielonging by birth nearer to Australia and New Zea- We want to abolish these names to the lower or lower middle class, and than we were to Canada not and the noblishness which they long ago. The French, I believe, have already an

A uniform pronunciation air service to imply. Senegal; we shall soon have reguit will not be a modified Cockney) taught in the schools (we may hope lar communication by air with

wil hele in this direction. It will South Africa. One of my boys sails, he a pity to lose some of the oid for Rhodesia next week I already dialects, but I fear they are going. hope that before long letters may; One never hears now the unadulter be able to reach him in a few days, ated North Riding Yorkshire of the vid Cairo: No. part of the Empire will be so distant that a settler need feel banished while he lives there. Shipwrecked On The Moon. The range of holiday travelling will ge extended almost incredibly. We going on so fast that some have The shrinkage of the world is may spend a week-end at Athens allied with the idea of a future or Constantinople, and П short conquest of other worlds. But the Easter vacation in India. The

Fear 2000 will find us still confined general effect should be to accen- to our own earth, and I do not tuate a tendency which swift motor- think the year 200,000 will have en- traffic is already: bringing about-larged our boundaries. It is not the suburbs of a great town will wholly impossible, as far as the extend to a radius of fifty to a distance goes, that the moon, which A manless 'plane can now be fit hundred miles the city merchant is only 238,000 miles off, might be ted with an automatic installation may live in Gloucestershire or Not reached but the other difficulties which, while the machine is passing folk, or in Scotland, if he does not seem to be insuperable. Our satel through the air, sends wireless mind a two hours flight to his lite no doubt contains some fine signals to ground stations, en- office. Rich Americans will buy goldhelds, but I do not think either abling operators to plot out from country houses in England, which the Union Jack or the Stars and moment to moment where the dis- they will reach in one day from Strips will ever wave over those tant plane is in the sky. Follow- Wall-street.

gaping volcanoes which we seeing its unseen eurre mile, after through a telescope. As for the mile, they can transmit to it enter- The result will probably be in other planets it seems utterly im genty signals which, over-riding favour of "internationalism and possible that we shall ever reach the pre-arranged programme, on friendship between different peoples. Should be chosen by our imaginative working, alter ite course decording SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY Civilisation will become more uni- writers; it is very small and hor to any last-minute plan of those SUMMER HOLIDAY forra, and ignorance of foreign ribly cold. Venus is much more in control" countries less gross than it is now. But it will not necessarily make size as our earth, so that we should promising. It is nearly the same us more civilised. Mallock, in his either jump ten feet accidentally Wireless enters also into the way "New Republic," makes a Philis nor be glued to the ground. It has in which, pilotless 'plane alight tiae man of science say that & probably a moist, sticky atmos As the craft nears the 'drome a generation which travelled sixty phere, with an equable temperature wireless operator on the ground, by miles an hour must be five times of about 120 degrees But the first given signal, stops its motor and aa civilised as one which travelled shipload of immigrants would pro- cause it to glide earthward. Then, only twelve. By the same reasea-bably either be drowned or eaten tapping out another signal just be ing, the Europeace and Americans by dinosaurs. I believe we shall fore the 'plane reaches ground, the of 1850 will be five times as civil perforce have to stay where we are, operator causes a wire, with a ised as we were a few years ago. The threatened discovery of tele weight on the end of it, to unroll But this is nonsense. Many shall vision opene terrible possibilities. beneath the machine. This weight, go to and fro and knowledge shall We should certainly need a con- touching ground while the plane is he increased," says an Old Testa-sorship then. An explorer who was still some little distance up in the ment prophet. But knowledge commissioned to report on the air, causes the control-surfaces to comes and wisdom lingers." As a manners and customs of a savage set themselves in such a way that German proverb says, A gosling tribe summed up his experiences by the machine makes a smooth, safe. flew over the Rhine and came back saying, "Mariefs they have none, contact with the ground.

goose." Leisure is necessary for and, as for their customs, they are Primarily, the purpose of, the wisdom and the faster we travel, beastly." And ten nearer home pilotless plane is warlike, to act as the less leisure we have a paradox there may be sights unfitted for the a winged, engine-driven bomb, cort-

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