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NOTES OF THE DAY

A HEAVY LOSS

Worldwide sympathy will go out to France In the heavy loss she has suffered as a result of the aerial disaster which has cost the lives of M. Pasquier, the brilliant Governor General of Indo-China, and other notable personalities, M. Pasquier, whose career has been se tragically terminated, was eminent not only as an administrator, but also as an author. In a post bristling with economic and political difficulties. be displayed talents of the highent order. Ho took extraordinary pains to understand and appreciate the neede, temperament and idlo. syncrasies of the twenty million people whom he was called upon to govern. Ho took dye note of the evolution of a national conscious- nesa among the people, and by his liberal outlook ho did much to bring about a better understanding be- tween the Government and the

In this work ha masses. greatly aided by his deep knowledge of the country and its people.

TACTFUL AND PATIENT.

WAS

M. Pasquier's desire to under- stand and to sympathize was early on demonstrated in "L'Annam d'Autrefois," le. "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 elsewhore as a fin lettre, and which secured for him an honoured place in the Academy of Letters at Paris. His day is dono, but his works will live long after him, leaving memories of a patient, tactful, wise and understanding administrator. Not only France, but the people to whom he gave so many years of his life will mourn his passing.

NOISE AND RHYTHM

People will always differ about what constitutes a disturbing noise, but we notice a suggestion being put forward to the Anti-Nelso League in London that it should, in sixty-this connexion, investigate the pro-

THE SIXTY-CENT DOLLAR President Roosevelt's

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 owing largely to the fact that the the most important monetary rhythm of mechanical traffic is pronouncement since America's desperately

Lives broken. Our 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 the background. The new the explosions. Some people are said policy is definite, removing allcentration; but the noise employed to enjoy noise as a help to con- 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 cities is reapon ultimate success of the Presi-sible for the nervousness which is 80 peculiarly modern a disease, dent's monetary programme.

The old phrase "to get the jumps" The Great-Experiment, in the must-have-boon-derived from the monetary sphere, at least, is automatic reaction with which all healthy people greet an unexpected reduced to & comparatively noise. We don't want our whole simple process, the revaluation civilisation to succumb to "the" of the dollar within specified jumps." limits and according to sound

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 obvious. An agreement with France and Britain is essential

reason

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JANUARY 17, 1934.

WE SHALL FLY AT 1,000 The Very Idea!

MILES AN HOUR IN 1964

Says CAPTAIN J. L. PRITCHARD

Det burde the first nero-post, the American post December 17, 1903, Orville the Indian post, the Australian plane flight 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 telephonic com- had to dle prone between the wings,munication, with the earth 15 or That flight lasted for 12 seconds, 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, polled to sit in a chair the whole Santos Dumont, made the first 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 1938-to dine in comfort." stood like some juggling Jack-in- the-box while he made an historic hop of 161 feat.

materials of construction, particu-

AN ICE SITUATION

By Eddle Kelly, Ice-man ESKIMO workers have called a

strike for the first time in hip.... tory following the refusal of the authorities to grant them $25 a ton for unloading and transporing freight-New item.

ALASKA and lack!

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.

It snow joke' working day Intense research is taking place in all the air laboratories on new and night in the ice-floes, forms of construction and new tearing lengths of blubber. Three years lator, on July 25, larly the latter. The first 30 years out of sardines, scrounging 1909, Bleriot crossed the Channel or 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 ns 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 Olympin, 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 Aying. In a short twelve months aeroplane. 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-magnesium-and the War Ofcom of the world,

And then there's the frost-

quitoes and dogs.

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

At the outbreak of the Great bilities of that remarkably light much more dangerous than mos he is eagerly studying the possi- bites. A bite from a frost is War in 1914 the neroplane was still and strong metal beryllium, Once in its experimental stage. Four he can use it as he not uses 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 immensurably advanced, though to do so. many problems still remained to be solved. Some, in the rub sequent fifteen years, have had their solution found. Others are still waiting. WRIGHTS' MOMENTOUS HOP.

In 1903 the record flight made by the Wright Brothers was one of 69 seconds and the record distance 852 feet. In 1933 an aeroplane remained in the air for over 56 hours and flew '5,500 miles non-

stop; that is nearly a quarter of the way round the equator,

And that la not the end of the

story, Chemlats arc Inventing now materials. One such material has already entered the aeroplane world, bakelite. There appears no end to the possibilities of these ́synthetic materials, which will re- volutionise not the building of aeroplanes, but building of every kind, from houses to motor-cars. RECKLESS OF STORMS.

By 1963 though gales may thrash the Atlantic into 40-foot waves, giant flying boats will be Thirty years ago; the Wright rising from protected harbours, Brothers flew at 30 miles an hour and speed across the ocean in- and with difficulty raised one per- dependent of weather conditions, son from the ground. Now a 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 safely to their moorings by the flown at one time in the giant wireless beam. Already neroplanes Dornier Do.X. flying boat. The are landing at Croydon from Paris Wrights engine was 12-16-horse to time, when trains, steamships power. The engines of the Do.X and motor traffle are delayed or develop 7,000 horse power,

brought to a standstill by fog.

The punctuality and regularity of the aeroplanes of 1983 will be 100 per cent. PARKS INSTEAD OF CITIES.

TO GET AHEAD OF THE SUN.

Acroplane designers prophesy

I foresee the decay of the big

...

For years our Eskimo comrades. have been beasts of burden.

And now, brethren, they have at Inst

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

If the Dairy Furm want any more Eskimo pies, let them get their own pastrycooks, to make them, .

Although it's the middle of win- ter, the Eskimos are going - to strike while the iron is 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 n.. 7,200 hour day.

And then there's us Eskimo women. We're fed-up with our husbands coming home, dead- huskle tired, rolling into bed, and sticking their cold fest in our back, while, our sisters in Hongkong lounge about in eskiminon,

So let's send a few cablós of to the Hongkong papers about it.

.

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

sands of Eskimo workers will down As soon as this happens, thou-

tools and hoist the red flag up the North pole.

So much for the first thirty years. What of the next thirty? cautiously; novelists with a reck- less prodigality of imagination.] city. There are some things howaver, 1 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 years.

being carried, to and fro by air in Speeds of 1,000 miles an hour, less time than it now takes to tra- for example, speeds such that time vel from the suburbs to the centre

A serious situation is almost will be overtaken. New York is of London.

certain to arise in Iceland, where -five hours behind - London. In There will be great.holiday re-the-ice-pick and shovel men threa

these 1,000 mile-an-hour aero- sorts opened for Europe in Africa, ten to cut off supplies of lee. planes it will take three hours to where at present there are desolate A representative of the Em- fly from London to New York; so wastes, but where the sun is al-ployers affected by the threatened that if a man leaves London at 8 ways shining. Great amusement strike attempted to interview the o'clock in the morning he will parks to which excursion air liners atriks leaders yesterday morning, arrive In New York at 6 o'clock will convey the world's workers on

but met with a freezing reception. the same morning.

their holidays. There will be a 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 overhend, to developed. The peoples of the fly from London to Austrofin in earth will then have elbow room. the day.

Nor will they feel that because they live on the other side of the The stratosphere will be the sky earth, they are cut off from their way of these fast-flying, herme friends; for no one will be more posted in London to-night will reach any part of the earth, carried by these machines of 1903, the fol- lowing morning.

Penguinvania, Jan. 10.

The following resolution was adopted by a mass meeting of workers at the Trades Union Igieo here this morning: of Eskimo Ple-men and Refrigera "We, the Amalgamated Society tor Salesmen, view with disgust capitalistic class, who live on the blubber of the land while the work- Ing class starve in their igloos,

if a real currency war is to be they have hitherto received. The tieally sealed aircraft. A letter than a day's journey-from any part the pin-pricking tactics of the

avoided. And in deciding on a sixty-cent dollar, the President sails as close to the wind as he dare without endangering the prospects of future international stabilisation. As it is, neither Paris nor London can view with favour an American dollar per- manently established so low as contemplated, while feeling re-

lieved that the situation is not worse and that they know at last exactly where they stand. The threat of calamitous in- flation is gone; so completely, that President Roosevelt's chief Job will be to get the dollar down

The recent opening in London by the King of the spacious new premises of the National Central Library will attract more attention to the library and its work than

library exists for the purpose of insuring that every reader in the United Kingdom, no matter how poor he may be, nor how far he may dwell from the organised book resources of great cities, shall be able to obtain any book that he needs. The reader inquires at his local library, and, if the book re quired is not in stock, application is made to the National Central Library, which acts as a national and international clearing house for books. Similar clearing-house systems are in operation in Ger many and the United States, but the National Central is believed to be the only Institution in the world whose sole function is that of a clearing house which also possesSER books of its own.

Lo the level he wants on interna- necessity for a common return tional exclianges. For into a gold standard. There is Europe, a certain confidence in interest, too, in his insistence tho 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 interna- 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 onternational 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 cease. All this, how- visuallacs an agreement among over, is in the futuro. The im nations to this end, thereby in- mediate Importance

of the dicating, (1) the readiness of Roosevelt policy le the decision the United States to return at to inflate without making use of the appropriate time to the gold the printing-press and the fixing basis, (2) a belief in the of limits of possible fluctuation.

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

of the world. PEACE FROM

THE SKIES.

By 1963 men will have no fur (Continued on Next Columɩ118.)

"You will be surprised; Indy, after you see it decorated."

•

Consternation has been caused in Ice House Street by the report that the Eskimo strikers have de- clarod 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 Arctic regions.

There is always the danger that. the South Polar regions may join In, in which event ice will be at n premium at the Hongkong Hotel.

"Don't you see what would hap pon then?" he naked the Telograpk representative,

"Icy", 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 have climinated frontiora,: for no country will be no large that It cannot be crossed in a fow hours, crossed by machines flying so high. and at auch speeds that no frontier guards could stop them,

The next thirty years will se the noroplane breaking down all, the barriera which now contain within thom the germs of war.

The tariff barrier, now.bringing economic disaster to so many: nations, will go, for the frontiers cannot be adequately guarded. against the smuggling uoroplane.

The barrior of strangeness will vanlah na nation becomes more familiar with nation.

The wings of the aeroplane will bo the wings of peace..