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CARS AND THE COURTS.

JUDGE ON DRINK AND MOTORISTS.

THE EFFECT OF EVEN ONE RINT.

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Colonel Gilbert. Farraday Collett, DiS.O. of Cheltenham, was Gloucester Assizes found not guilty of the manslaughter of Alfred John Tabram, motor cyclist, and was discharged.

Colonel Collett had been ques tioned respecting the drinks he had and said he did not think they had anything to do with the accident.

Mr. Justice Swift: If you add all the drinks he had during the day together they seem an awful lot, but taken drink by drink do you suggest

was very much?

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Mr. Earanger (prosecuting): Ibeing under the influence of drink agros the drinks taken at lunch may so as to be incapable of driving a be disregarded.

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He (the judge) would not have thought the drinks taken by Collett would be excessive.

car. The Judge: Are two glasses of [shorty, one-whisky-and-soda- and a glass of port an extraordinary amount of liquor for a man to taku between six and eight o'clock ?

„Mr. Eurengey: I should think it would, for a man going to drive a

car.

DEATH OF TWO GIRLS.

"Not Excessive."

A motor smash in London-road, Mitcham, which resulted in the #Tao Judge: Some people may. think a man who is going to drive deaths of two girls and serious in a car should not take any drink for jurica to two others, was described hour before driving, but publicat Croydon, when Charles Henry upinion has not got as inr as that yet.

The judge added that even the smallest amount of Aleahol had some effect. It destroyed a man's sense of proportion and control and he drove faster and took risks he would not otherwise have done, even after one pint of boer, But that was a very different thing to

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at (18), of Sutton Common-road, Sutton, driver of the car, was sent

for trial charged with the man. slaughter of Peggy Holbrow and tene Nash, both aged 10, with dangerous driving, and with "doing bodily harm to two other girls. He denied the charges and reserved his

defence,

CABINET MINISTER SUED.

Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary for Scotland, was sued at Kingston County Court recently for 273 35.

DELIVERING THE NEW CARS..

MANUFACTURERS SPEED. UP PRODUCTION,

ON THE EVE OF BIG DISCOVERIES.

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have been oured in this way. Later, as we all know. radium has heen and is largely used for reliev ing cancer,

degree of weak Gamma radiation, altered germ cells were produced and new plante and animals have been made..

But the progress is slow, We do So we have taken a great step not know enough about the cell, toward understanding life and the unit of all life. What is becom-leaming how it is built up. For it At first, like fairy gold, the pre-ing clearer and clearer is that the was always a mystory as to how ENGINE AS A BRAKE clous stat could not be kept. But cell is sensitive to radiation, to in the different forms of life arose. If now a way has been found to fix it. immaterial inuences in a way our the germ voll can never change its Artificial food is here, though to grandparents would have thought character how can everything bave day it is only a very small and very quite impossible. Yet this radia-evolved? There came the discovery expensive, baby. Yet by now, we tion seemed at first only able to of Mutations, that is that the germs. should know how quickly science's affect the cell by killing it. It of plants and animals do every now set everything. We should watch and, if used stronger, it would kill suddenly change. babies grow into Samsons that up-could be need to kill morbid cells and then for no apparent reason that baby

But how and healthy cells

why T The answer we now see may well be by coming into contact with just the right radiation,

SPEED KINGS ANSWER A MOTORING PROBLEM.

Now that the Motor Show is over, manufacturers are busy preparing to full the contracts entered into.

This is not always such a simple matter as it would appear, writes Norman W. Rae in the Evening

Standard,

But, of course, artificial food is

only a little step for science. When we can turn out sugar and starch as to-day wo turn out soda and ammopia-which last century were

1 know of one firm which will not chemical wonders-whien we QAN

make alt food in fest tubes, science will be tackling the problem of making the living cells which build up our bodies.****

produce a single car for at least six weeks. Very often a maine turer has no real idea how a new model will "take" with the pub- He, and so production on a large scale is not attempted until a cer

Today we can't quite sco how the in number of orders have been bocked: A model hailed as a re-cell manages to grow. But a

RADIATION.

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NEW LIFE.

At last, however, it was discover ed how to use radiation not to kill. life but to make new forms of it. microscopic packets in it, all the The germ cell carvies, stored in

characteristics of the full sized animals or plant that will grow out of it. You can, of course, change the animal's or plant's characteris

hold that you could never ådd, to ties by cross-breeding, but it was them. You could shuffle the pack:

9. damages caused to a motos/volutionary" design at Olympia doubtedly radiation gives a clue. † you could nevér ædd new card.

vehicle in a collision at cross-ronds. Sir Archibald said that he was in no hurry at the time. His chauffeur was driving at from ton to fifteen

miles per hour and did nos sen the other er until it was close upon him.

Judgment was given for Sir Archi-, bald, Judge Harington said that in his opinion both drivers were to blame

THIRD TRIAL ALLOWED TO

'BUS COMPANY.

The London General Omnibus Company were at Clerkenwell County Court granted an applien- tion "for a third trial of the action in which they were sued for dam ages by Richard Thomas Cribble, Hanspden-street, NW., who had his sight arm amputated after being knocked down by a 'bus,

At the first trial the jury awarded Mr. Gribble £250. There was a new trial on the 'bus company's' applica- tion, and £800 was awarded.

In opposing the application, a solicitor said it was a very serious matter for a poor man who was en- gaged in litigation with a rich con- cern if there was to be no end to the litigation.

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Judge Rowlands sympathised with the plaintiff, but "said he consider ed the verdict of the juries were inrensouable.

Judge Dumas. will hear the new artion, without a jury.

A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAW.

some time ago, was never seen

It had been noticed, as soon as ngaio. It did not appeal to the they were in use, that high-power and by radiation alene, you can add But now it seems by radiation, Average owner-driver. number of these cars had been hedge would make the hedge grow of life. For a long time researchers If a large electric cables, crossing above a new cards, you can make new forms manufactured in the expectation of taller in that place, and grass has tried all sorts of ways, by heat a brisk demand, the manufacturer been noticed to be thicker and cold, and drugs, to change the germ would have suffered heavy loss,

richer where a buried cable ran cell and make it produce new fea- under a field. Then when we be turcs. Then they tried radiation, gan to learn, nt grave loss, the and for some time that, too, secm- power that X-rays and radium have! ed a failure. to affect the skin and flesh, these germ's power of reproduction, your You could kill the radiations began to be used to alter could not change its germ cells. the living cells, and many tumours But at last, by using just the right

Mass Scale Production,

1, have received letters from read- ers who state that they went to the Motor Show prepared to buy a car on the spot and that they were un- able to obtain hell ery. This ex- planation, hope, will be satisiac- tory.

There are, of course, many firms able to give quick delivery of the cars shown at Olympia..

As a result of conferences held during the past few days, produe Gon is to be speeded up, and by the end of this week deliveries on a mass scale should have begun,

A reader has written to me ask-

ing whother, when applying the footbrake, one should disengage the elutch or leave it engaged.

I consulted Captain Sir Malcolm Campbell and Mr. Kaye Don, the "speed kings," and Professor A. M. Low. They were unanimously agreed that the clutch should be left engaged, except when the car was travelling so slowly that there, applying the footbrake with the was a risk of stalling the engine by ! clutch engaged,

"I invariably use the engine to assist me in braking," said Captain Sir Malcolm Campbell." Actually, I use the engine as a brake as often as I use the footbruke itself."

"When travelling at high speed," said Mr. Kayo Don "I always use the engine, as a brake Actually the engine is more powerful for A former employee of the London | braking purposes at high speed. General Omnibus Company. Albert Ernest George Nutt, of Valenue- "When stopping a car I leave avenue, Chadwell Heath, was sum-the clutch engaged until I am down moned at Stratford, for smoking into about 8 m.p.h-only then do I a 'bus whilst a notice was exhibited prohibiting this.

than the average brake.

disengage it."

A solicitor explained that until

A. Road Test. this year notices forbidding smoking in buses could not be enforced. assistance in pulling up. It is Naturelly, the engine is of great Nutt know the dificulties in that easily proved. Apply the footbrake respect, but he had evidently not whon passing a telephone post or read or heard of the Road Traffic field gate, with the clutch "engagad, Act, which empowered the prohibi

lifted having tion, and when he was asked to the accelerator the moment the foot" oft crase smoking he answered: It brake is applied. Measure the dis is no good your telling me-I know

tance. Then repent the law.

the perform quee, this this throwing out the clatch the moment the footbraka is. applied. It will be found that the

Nutt was fined 10%,

the

This enables the driver, by the judi- distance taken to pull up will be cious use of the engine, to keep anything from 28 to 50 per cent. control of the rear wheels. On a greater. really dangerous road it is, practic- ally fatal to disengage the clutch better to keep the clutch engaged. On a greasy road it is always unless one is trying to achieve an uncontrolled skid

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A NEW INSTRUMENT, So we cannot doubt that we have which to study, to alter, and to in radiation, a new instrument with

build up new living forins. And most lately of all, we have begun to find, as perhaps we might have expected, that living things them. solver send out radiations: These

There has been much controversy are the so-called Mytogenetic

rays,

about them, but it seems now be

true radiation. They have been. coming clear that they are really a

growing plants and it has been studied coming out of the roots of found that one growth of another by this radia

root, affects the

tion.

Yes, through the study of radio. tion we are on the threshold of such

laboratory-though that discovery discoveries about life that simply being able to cast itself completely change mar make food in the

civilisation-will seem a little thing

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