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THURSDAY,

NOVEMBER 4, 1937.

Blessings" Of Machinery

THERE may be other old fossils be-

side myself who are oppressed by n doubt whether the twentieth century Ja not rather overdoing machinery. It is a purely academic point, and should therefore arouse no very flerce Indignation on either side, for nothing is more certain than that the modern world will not change lis habits. Western civilization will per. tinaciously continue to achieve the millennium by differential gears.

It is interesting, however, to capitals whether after all we may not be pursuing an Illusion. Of course, even that would not greatly concern those philosophers who firmly hold that we and everything around us are just so many unsubstantial shadows. There is no special tragedy, though there Midnight Nov. "Midnight Nov. 19 may be some alight comedy, in the 'spectacle of shadows alertly pursuing In fact the situation, if we illusions. accept this view of our terrestial existence, simply brings us back to the

familiar but still deeply im- pressive words of the burial service, What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!

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A spectacular phase of our modern mechanism la dedicated to augment- ing our facilities for hustle. It is per- missible to wonder how far even that 0.00 p.m. Nov.

modern characteristle of hustle is not Nov.

delusion and a snare. 13 *0,00 p.m. Nov.

Nowadays we perform in a few 3.00 nm. Nov. 21 Midnight Nov. 23 days Journeys which would have ancestors slow-coach 27 taken 6.00 p.m. Nov.

several weeks or even raonths. When the

experts aviation

solve the mechanical problems of the stratos- phere we shall be able to fly from London to New York after breakfast and be back in time for dinner the same night.

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WHERE'S THE GAIN?

But does that really save us any thing even in netual time? Beenuse the easier travel becomes, the morej we travel, and in the aggregate we probably put in far more time travell. ing our quick way than our forebears did their slow ones. Take a minor Illustration of quite another side of this mechanical travel question.

Several times a week 1 journey from London Bridge Fleet Street.

to It takes about the same time either by bus or taxi. Al busy periods the day, which are the periods when I am making the journey. It takes anything from Afteen to thirty minutes. It can easily be done on] foot well within the half hour. In fact, such is the super-mechanism now of our London streets, you bear people say with entire seriousness that they are in a hurry, and must therefore) walk,

Another great

labour-and-time- saving device is the telephone. If ! ventured to say anything against that invention it is probable that the Post- master-General would have me In- dicted for treason-felony. But let any (subscriber to its mechanical tyranny

consider how far in fact the tele-l phone adds materially to. Instead of detracting from, the time and energy devoted to making and answering calls of all sorts.

What it really works out at is that one can make a call, and hold a con- versation, ever so much more quickly, though I fancy still not quite sol

Telephone 28021. effectively, over the phone than by

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1 Even when you want to make a bet of £10,000 or more, they'll take you.

Like a much faceted diamond, they have hundreds of angles, and дго worn out by laun- dresses.

10 There's nothing in the box but

a drawing.

Change here for Dover.

12 The selfless girl who

takes the blame.

13 House-room.

1 1's raining loads outside.

always

16 I doubt if you will And this

well-known lake in any alles.

17 One who knows the ropes-in

Dovon drink?

20 While the mad El Greco rallied

his dwarf (or umbrella-cartier) with fearsome jest, I led the beautiful Circassian to safely (hidden).

22 A bird of ill-omen.

23 Abraham's other nume.

26 Idden in Clue 20,

26 Pocket vessel used in the Ad-

miralty.

27 Every such breath is expelled.

20 Makes one a rigmarole.

DOWN

2 Our William IV. was its ruler.

Elidden in Clue. 20,

4 These used to make darkness

visible in the streets.

6 He sounds the very man 'to. be

an employer of labour.

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6 Diamond, for example.

7 I brace limp ent (anag).

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8 It certainly sounds a slow pup. (For chestnut lovers.) (Two words, B. 5).

10 Pain.

13 Does it count blades of grasa?.

14 "Sing or hum in an undertone,”"

says optimistle Mr. Chambers.

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10 Hair cutter,

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21 What a plaguet

24 Words of guidance.

25 Drink.

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personally getting into touch with the other party. But the not result is that one makes ever so many more -calls-and-holds-a-great-many..mord conversations, confers no advant- age on one man over, another in busi-

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TYPEWRITER TYRANNY

Yet it is as certain as anything could be in this world that no up-le- date business man would dream of dispensing with either his 'phone or his typewriter. But what a snare the latter instrument ta! It merely adds to the potential volume of work with out lightening the actual daily burden! of discharging . A fewer number! of office staff perform just as much Individual labour as though the type- writer had never been invented.

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Wrong Route to the Millennium

By "AN OLD STAGER”, nober fact it Intensifies it, and welds meatly to the nervous atrain.

Llon, suggested emphatically that our machinery had got perilously sisend of our Intellectual equipment and sense of responsibility, X am merely re-echoing the sentiments of that illustrious authority. We have great

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directed to nothing more than how to live.

The cllade! of up-to-date ma- chinery, of course, is U.S.A. In that favoured land of freedom and graft they have recently sent a convicted murderer to his legal doom on the anal verdict of a robot. The felon was cross-examined who studied his reactions as revealed

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lle-detecting machine, The tell- strong agitation of the robot's tale needle, when naked. did he corn- it the murder, completed the doom of the wretched prisoner under cafe- chism. i was taken as satisfactorily demonstrated that he was Indeed guilty, and popular opinion's cglti- mnie suspicions of the processes of American law were limppily dispelled by the infallibility of the machine.

Curiously enough, the late G, K. Chesterton wrote a defective story on that subject. He called it, "The Mis- taice of the Machine," und in this case the unknown prisoner's pulse leapt at the mention of a certain man's

It is diffcult to see, therefore, any solid progress by way of machinery along the road to the millenniunt. The delusion is that mankind by its nenns may liberate itself from the original curse of Father Adam, and, whilst muelinery does the work, be enabled to enjoy unlimited leisure. The only impressive surge in which this has hitherto been realised is in the gigantle cohorts of the unemployed workers when incelianism has put out of a job. We are all as far from even a four-hour day as we are from knowing what to do with even the seanly leisure we posress. ELUSIVE ART OF LIVING

nced to stress the There is no

machinery. side of modern lethal The neral torpedo, the submarine, 16-inch gun all the tanke, and the speak very effectively for themselves. name. On this manifestation he was The sort of millennium they envisage adjudged gully. But it turned out would be rejected by a colony of that the name that made his pulse Jump was actually his own. G.K.C.'s mentally defective apes.

Whilst the hustling West develops adorable little priest. Father Brown, genlus, the Imme unravelled this tangle, and showed its mechanical morial East, though borrowing much it up in his own inimitable manner.

His final dictum I commend to all of the best machinery, is still dedical-

engineers, and, above all, to all en- ing most of its time and attention to purely contemplative pursuits,

thusiastle believers in the infallibility Even those who take the most elate of machinery. "No machine can lie. view of the blessing of machinery said Father Brown, "neither can

It tell the truth The more this note- might perhaps be persuaded to wish

hene-worthy saying in pondered, the more that some multi-millionaire

will its profound implication be ad- Inetor would endow a few chairs of mere human reflection in the Western mired. Man remains the best ma- world. Not long ago a distinguish-chine yet invented, and the human et engineering professor, in a presi-heart will never have a robot sat- dental address to the British Assocta-

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The same view might with just as much plausibility be advanced garding an infinite number of moderni time and labour-saving meclinical gadgets. A journalist may be using The well-known Statue of Liberty at the entrance to New York har- typewriter, but though that may bour lifts her flaming torch towards the sky, while soldiers from the army increase bis earnings it in no way and navy parade before her feet with their flags during the festival to lightens his job. As a matter of mark the 150 years' jubilee of the American Constitution,

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