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NOTES OF THE DAY WE SHALL FLY AT 1,000 The Very Idea!

A, HEAVY LOSS.

Worldwide sympathy will go out

to France in the heavy loss she has Buffered as a result of the aerial disaster which has coat the lives of M.

MILES AN HOUR IN 1964

Says CAPTAIN J. L. PRITCHARD

December 17, 1903, Orville the Indinn post, the Australian

N. Pasquier, the brilliant Governor-Wett bar the Bet viste

notable personalities. M. Pasquier, whose career has been so tragically torminated, was eminent not only as an administrator, but also as an author. In a post bristling with economic and political difficulties, ho displayed talents of the highest

took order. Ho

"extraordinary pains to understand and appreciate the needs, temperament and idio- syncrasica of the twenty million people whom he was called upon to govern. He took due, note of the evolution of a national conscious- ness among the people, and by his liberal outlook he did much to bring about a better understanding be- tween the Government and the masses. In this work he

Was

grently aided by his deep knowledge of the country and its people.

TACTFUL AND PATIENT

on

M. Pasquier's desire to under- stand and to sympathise was early "L'Anoam demonstrated in d'Autrefois," i.c, "The Annam of Other Times," and other works which he wrote, and which won for him the respect of all sections of the population, as well as a fine reputation elsewhere as n An lettre. and which secured for him an honoured place in the Academy of Letters at Paris. His day is done, but his works will live long after him, leaving memories of n patient, tactful, wise and understanding administrator. Not only Franco, but the people to whom he gave so many years of his life will mourn

Hongkong Telegraph his passing.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1934.

THE SIXTY-CENT DOLLAR

NOISE AND RHYTHM.

plane fight in the history of the THE DAILY

world, in a machine in which he MARCH OF SCIENCE. and his brother Wilbur, who took The pilots of these machines will turn and turn about in flying it bo in constant telephoale com- had to lie prone between the wings, munication with the earth 16 or That flight lasted for 12 seconde. 20 miles below. A passenger will But those 12 seconds completely be able to call up a friend 5,000 changed the outlook of the world. miles away. He will not be com

In 1906 that erratic Brazilian,

AN ICE SITUATION....

ES

By Eddie Kelly, Ice-man

SKIMO workers havo `called = strike for the first time in kis- tory following the refusal of the authorities, to grant them $25 á ton for unloading and transporting freight News item.

A

LASKA and aluck!

We rather expected. this tit-bit of news.

As a one-time prominent explorer we know a lot about the Eskimos, and can sympathise with them.

Santos Dumont, made the first Pelled to sit in a chair the whole of the journey. He will be able flight in Europe in an aeroplane to wander about for these air which looked like a collection of craft will be giants compared with large boxes, in one of which he those of 1933-to dine in comfort. stood like some juggling Jack-in-

It snow joke working day Intenso research is taking place the-box while he made an historie in all the air laboratories on new and night in the ice-floes, hop of 104 feet.

forms of construction and how tearing lengths of blubber materials of construction, particu Three years later, on July 25, larly the latter. The first 30 years out of sardines, scrounging 1909, Bleriot crossed the Channel of flying have seen entirely new and scraping a few cents in an aeroplane. England. had materials being used, materials as together so that you can another shore to defend. In that strong as steel and of half its retire to your country igloo in year the first British Aero Show weight. First aluminium was con- was held at Olympia, and the quered, and in its light alloys re- comfort in your old age, feeding world became really interested in volutionised the making of the lost explorers, and being chased flying. In a short twelve months acroplane. Now a something ligh-over the frozen deserts by North, it had ceased to be a joke. Flying ter still has yielded to the skill of West Mounted Policemen, was being seriously studied in all the metallurgist-magnealum-and And then there's the frost- the War Offices of the world. he is eagerly studying the posel-

At the outbreak of the Great bilities of that remarkably light bites. A bite from a frost is War in 1914 the aeroplane was still and strong metal beryllium. Once much more dangerous than mos- in its experimental stage. Four he can use it as he now usos quitoes and dogs. years of intensive effort and aluminium the development of the research from 1914 to 1918 left aeroplane will be appreciably their mark. At the end of the War advanced. And he is now within the conquest of the air had been measurable distance of being able immeasurably advanced, though to do so. many problems still remained to And that is not the end of the be Holved. Some, in the sub-story. Chemists sequent fifteen years, have had new materials. One such material their solution found. Others are has already entered the aeroplane - | world, bakelite. There appears no end to the possibilities of these synthetic materials, which will re-

still waiting.

WRIGHTS'

MOMENTOUS HOP.

Even strong 'whales have been known to blubber when bitten by one.

For years our Eskimo comrades have been beasts of burden,

And now, brethren, they have at Inst arc

become Arcticulate. No longer will they be the alaves of the oppressive capitalistic.

Inventing

In 1903 the record flight made by volutionlae not the building of the Wright Brothers was one of aeroplanes, but building of every 59 seconds and the record distance | kind, from houses to motor-cars. 852 feet. In 1933 an aeroplane RECKLESS OF remained in the air for over 56 STORMS. hours and flew 5,500 miles non- By 1963 though gales may stop; that is nearly a quarter of thrash the Atlantic into 40-foot the way round the oquator. waves, giant flying boate will be Thirty years ago the Wright rising from protected harbours, Brothera flew at 30 miles an hour and speed across the ocean in- and with dilcully raised one per-dependent of weather conditions, son from the ground. Now speed at ten miles a minute. In the of 423 miles an hour has been densest of fogs they will be guided reached and 179 persons have anfely to their moorings by the own at one time in the glant wireless beam. Already aeroplanes Dornier Do.X flying boat. The are landing at Croydon from Paris Vrights' engine was 12-15 horse to time, when trains, steamships power. The engines of the Do.X and motor trame are delayed or develop 7,000 horso power.

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The punctuality and regularity of the neroplanes of 1968 will be 100 per cent, PARKS INSTEAD OF CITIES.

OF THE SUN.

People will always differ about, what constitutes a disturbing noise, but we notice, a 'suggestion being put forward to the Anti-Noise League in London that it should. in this connexion, investigate the pro- President Roosevelt's sixty-blem of rhythm. It is argued cent dollar declaration clarifies that motor-car traffic is much more a host of problems and comes as distracting than was horse-traffic the most Important monetaryowing largely to the fact that the rhythm of mechanical traffic is pronouncement since America's desperately broken. Our livea abandonment of the gold suffer from a series of violent ex- plosions, varied by. the noise of the standard. The impression of a different devices required to check groping visionary is thrust into the effect or alter the character of So much for the first thirty the background. The

the explosions. Some people are said years. What of the next thirty? new

to enjoy noise as a help to con- policy is definite, removing all centration; but the noise employed the uncertainties connected with for the purpose is chiefly of a the future of the dollar and in a rhythmical character. Apart from Idiosyncrasies, however, there can fashion that will mark the end be little doubt that the excessive of many doubts regarding the clamour of modern cliles is respon-years. ultimate 'success of the Presi-sible for the nervousness which is Speeds of 1,000 miles an hour, so peculiarly modern a disease, for example, speeds auch that time dent's monetary programme. The old phrase "to get the jumps" will be overtaken. New York is The-Great-Experiment, in the must-have-been-derived from the five hours behind London.__in There will be great holiday re- monetary sphere, at least, is automatic reaction with which all these, 1,000 intle-an-hour aero- sorts opened for Europe in Africa, healthy people greet an unexpected planes' it will take three hours to where at present there are desolate reduced to a comparatively noise. We don't want our wholely from London to New York; so wastes, but where the sun is al simple process, the revaluation civilisation to succumb to the that if a man leaves London at 8 ways shining. Great amusement o'clock in the morning he will parks to which excursion air liners of the dollar within specified jumpa."

arrive in New York at 6 o'clock will convey the world's workers on limits and according to sound

the same morning.

their holidays. There will be a money principles. It is assumed BOOKS-MORE BOOKS that the upper limit of revalua- tion will turn out to be the final fixed value. The

reason

The recent opening in London is by the King of the spacious new premises of the National Contral obvious. An agreement with Library will attract more attention France and Britain is essential to the library and its work than if a real currency war is to be they have hitherto received. The library exists for the purpose of nvoided. And in deciding on a

insuring that every reader in the sixty-cent dollar, the President United Kingdom, no matter how sails as close to the wind as he poor he may be, nor how far he dare without endangering the may dwell from the organised book resources of great cities, shall be prospects of future international able to obtain any book that ho stabilisation. As it is, neither needs. The reader inquires at his Paris nor London can view with local library, and, if the book re- quired is not in stock, application is favour an American dollar per- made to the National Central manently established so low as Library, which acts as a national and international clearing house. contemplated, while feeling re- for books. Similar clearing-house lieved that the situation is not systems are in operation in Ger- worse and that they know at many and the United States, but last exactly where they stand.the National Central is believed to be the only institution in the world The threat of calamitous in- whose sole function is that of a' flation is gone; so completely, that President Roosevelt's chief Jub will be to get the dollar down

clearing house which also possesser books of its own,

to the level he walls on interna- necessity for a common return tional exchanges. For

into a gold standard. There is Europe, a certain confidence in interest, too, in his insistence the dollar will replace the that gold should only be used hesitations that have prevailed for the settlement of interna- for some time past. Further tional trade balances, plainly analysis of the Presidential foreshadowing the day when all Message to Congress is not quite the world's monetary gold will so easy. A criss-cross of in-be deposited with an internia- ferences exists to intrigue the tional clearing house, an in- observer. The door is opened, stitution like the Bank of In- for instance to discussion pn ternational Settlements and the the vital problem of the redis- ebb and flow of gold from one tribution fo the world's stock of | financial centre to another will monetary gold.' The President entirely censo. All this, how- visualises an agreement among ever, is in the future. The im- nations to this end, thereby inmediato importance of the dicating, (1) the roadiness of Roosevelt policy la the decision the United States to return atto inflate without making use of the appropriate time to the gold the printing-prèss and the fixing basis, a belief in the of limits of possible fluctuation.

Aeroplane designers propresy cautiously; novelists with a reck- I foresee the decay of the big less prodigality of imagination, city. There are some things however, I see manufacturing towns with which are within the realms of a hundred-mile ring of residential certainty during the next thirty centres round them, the workers being carried to and fro by air in less time than it now takes to tra- vel from the suburbs to the centre of London.

He can be in two places at the wide movement of peoples. The same time. It will be possible to open spaces of the world will be keep the sun always overhead, to developed. The peoples of the By from London to Australia in earth will then have elbow room.

Nor will they feel that because the day.

The stratosphere will be the sky- they live on the other side of the way of these fast-flying, herme-earth, they are cut off from their tically sealed aircraft. A letter friends; for no one will be more posted in London to-night will than a day's journey from any part reach any part of the earth, carried of the world. by these machines of 1963, the fol- PEACE FROM lowing morning.

We shall not think of catching the country post. We shall catch

THE SKIES.

By 1963 men will have no fur- (Continued on Next Columns.)

"You will be surprised, indy, after you see it decors

If the Dairy Farm want any more Eskimo ples, let them get their own pastrycools to make then

Although it's the middle of win- ter, the Eskimos are going to strike while the dron la hot. "Zero" hour will be midnight.

Workers of the Midnight Sun, Unight!

First of all, we've got to obtain some concession from the capitalis- tica regarding working hours,

No more working from daylight to dusk for us. Let's insist on a 7,200 hour day.

And then thero's us Eskimo women. We're fed-up with our husbands coming home, dead- huskle tired, rolling into bod, and sticking their cold feat in our back, while our sistere in Hongkong lounge about in eskiminos,

So let's send a few cables off to the Hongkong papers about it.

I

Iglooville, Jan. 10. Zero hour for the Eskimo strike has been set at 32 Fahrenheit,

As soon as this happens, thou- sands of Eskimo workers wilt down tools and holst the red flag up the North pole.

A sorious situation is almost certain to arise in Iceland, where the-ice-pick and abovel.men threa fon to cut off supplice of Ice,

A representative of the Em- ployers affected by the threatened strike attempted to interview the strike leaders yesterday morning, but met with a freezing reception.

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Penguinvania, Jan. 10. The following resolution was: adopted by a mass meeting of

workers at the Trades Union Igloo

here this morning:

"We, the Amalgamated Society. of Eskimo Ple-men and Refrigera tor Salesmen, view with disgust the pin-pricking tactics of the capitalistic class, who live on the blubbor of the land while the work- ing class starve in their Igloos.

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Consternation has been caused in Ice House Street by the report. that the Eskimo strikers have do clared all bears to be blacklegs. A prominent broker, interviewed yesterday sald:

The outlook is decidely black, especially as the long winter night is just commencing in the Arctie regiona.

There is always the danger that` the South Polar rogions may join in, in which event ice will be at a premium at the Hongkong Hotel "Don't you see what would hap pen then?" he asked the Telegraph representative.

"Ley", wo replied.

ther fear of the skies,

The aeroplane will no longer be looked upon as a potential weapon- of destruction, but as the Invention which brought peace to the world. It will havo eliminated frontiers, for no country, will be ao large that it cannot be crossed in a fow hours, crossed by machines flying so high. and at such speeds that no frontier guards could stop them.

The next thirty years will aco the aeroplane, breaking down all the barriers which now contain within them the germs of war,gold

The tariff barrier, now bringing economic dianator to so many nations, will go, for the frontiers cannot be adequately guarded" against the smuggling aeroplano.

The barrier of strangeness will vanish as nation becomes more familiar with nation,

The wings of the aeroplane will be the wings of ponce;