1947-04-12 — Page 7

The wonderful world of tomorrow is beginning today

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1947.

ONE WAY TO CURB RENT

First flying postman, RACKETEERS and the watching

that never shuts

by

O

ANDRE LABARTHE

Andre Labarthe, Doctor of Physics, was an observer at the Bikini atom bomb.) tests. Returning home across the United States he has been studying discoveries and Inventions which are transforming the life and work of men and women. Here, in the first of Д short series of articles, he describes two

them-the romantic postal helicopter and the astonishing elec

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of

tronic eye.

NE day, at Pasadena, near Los Angeles, I went to the post office to send my mail home. There was the sound of a motor in the air.

looked up.

I

A helicopter had stopped in the air above the roof of the post office. It seemed to be looking for something, Then it came down like a long pole Its wheels stood out beneath the going down a well. fuselage.

At 30 feet above the roof a brake seemed to slow down its descent. Slowly, its tyres touched down.

was

When in front of that post office heard the sound of an engine and saw a long propeller with five blades realised turning above a cablı, i that the world of tomorrow The happening before my eyes. The engine stopped.

trans- nose of the machine, in

the parent plastic, opened at side like a shutter.

green A man got out with a sack. Another man in uniform was waiting for him on the roof holding another sack.

They exchanged sacks. Then the motor roared and the if machine climbed quickly as drawn up on a windlass into the clouds.

Most difficult flying zone

I was the helicopter posl which goes from Los Angeles to Long Beach and to San Fernando, Valley. The flying postman.

for This region was chosen the first helicopter post because diflicult it is one of the most

the aeronautic trial zones in world.

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I MADE a further incursion into that fascinating new world a little later in neighbouring Hollywood.

I was invited to visit a star-very beautiful, very rich. After dinner I

went to see her daughter.

At the end of a pink room a fair haired child was sucking her thumb in a cradle,

I moved closer.

"Stap," cried the Alm will cut the ray."

A helicopter naits for the matt above the roof of a United Stater post opice.

By using different filters the tube will

to one or several respond selected colours.

It intercopts an invisible ray

The action of the cell can be used

when to open a tap in a fountain one stoops to drink.

Invisible

The head intercepta an

A switch functions and the tip ray. is opened.

eye

Speed means nothing to the elec-

tronic cell.

by “CANDIDUS”

LITTLE incident the other day concerning a' ten-cent note was eloquently indicative of Hongkong's economic infla- The electronic eye can watch with tion. Perhaps the term artifi. ense a machine turning at 7,000 re-ciality is more appropriate. volutions a minute. It can diagnose the least fault in the moving parts of the machine before it nerious.

betomes

It can examine a piece of metal passing by at more than 100 feet a minute, pick out a fault not bigger than a pin-head, mark the object, and reject it without upsetting the rhythm of production.,

Such on apparatus guarantees | man against his mistakes and pro- tects him, It will, in the world of tomorrow, control the lighting in houses, schools, factories, towns and nirfields.

It will protect our eyes by in- creasing or lowering the fighting ac cording to our needs in cloudy weather or at nightfall.

Will free men from monotonous jobs

It will light the lights when enter a room and put them when we leave it. it will count the number of people enter a room and put out light only when the last one left.

We but

The note was lying on the footpath, and nearby squatted a number of chair coolies merrily Derisive laughter gambling. greeted me when I pointed out the greasy piece of coloured paper representing money of the realm.

sudden I received a psychological jerk-from 1941 to 1947. Before the war, ten cents would have been the fare for about half-a-mile in a ricksha

or a generous cumshaw. To- day it is apurned. The same incident occurring in 1941 would have caused a scramble; for the value received would have par- chased a bowl of succulent con- gee.

Today, the Colony is passing through a phase of fantastic craziness, the end of which is even difficult to foresee. The almost who pious veneer of Price Control is the much too thin to bear close in- hus

When it comes to spection. fundamentals, price control, however worthy the object, is an but a camouflage, and will re-

It strendy-controls (raffle to one-

Tomorrow, way tunnels.

ns

The celi can equally casily open a, electronte policeman, it will watchi door before us.

over traffic day and night on the main so until a method has been roads and stop the speedsters,

devised of stopping the scan-

To

the

At Boston I saw a door working at a hangor as a lorry went in. stop the lorry, get down, open door, get in the lorry again, stop once more after having crossed the

forestal,

half minute. lorry again and start takes at least

Multiply this 100 or 1.000 times absorbed and you have quickly whole working days.

4 A porter could do the job, but to- day a modern country thinks' a man is above such things.

If the porter has also to fuldt the functions of guardian, only opening the doors to certain lurries and re-

star, "you using entry to others, it is sufficient to add to the photo-cell a colbur

protected

Mary, I was warned, by an infra-red ray which sets photo-electric cell in action if any ine approaches the cradle..

Siren to defeat the kidnapper

If a gangster tries to kidnap

her,

Alter and make it work, not by cut ting off the ray of Bght when the lorry passes, but by detection of u special colour painted on the body.

The cell can also All the role of an artist.

and

In factories thousands of work-dalous racketeering which is rife men will be freed from manolonous amongst many landlords Jobs while electronic robots watch principal tenants who are un- over the presses, the rollers, the scrupulously waxing fat on the

Colony's lowest social strata, saws, the punches.

The robots will check, pack, select and number.

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Dead Will Live Again If He's Successful

BY GLENN STACKHOUSE (United Press Sla IT Correspondent)

Dr Robert Cornish, the man whe stirred the scientific world 13 years ago when he succeeded in restoring life to the bodies of dead dogs, will resume his experiments this year in a renewed attempt to solve the age-old mysteries of life.

Cornish, 42-year-old former University of California biologist, was forced to abandon his vital experiments in 1937 after a storm of anti-vivisectionist protest caused his removal from campus laboratories.

In industry, electronic inspectors are particularly useful for products BEFORE the war, many thou- sands of homes of the lowest which vary in quality.

Should there be a sudden increase i paid were merely bed-spaces or The same state of

This time, with the assistance, glucose and heparin (a Uver extract) they are there ready at any hour cubicles. for a spurt. They are

In 1934 Dr Cornish startled the indefatigable. Night affairs exists today, but there is of a new collaborator and the into the animal's veins. and day they work with

rapidity no doubt that the rents now de- aid of new equipment and world when he succeeded in Infecting and precision.

manded for such totally inade methods, Cornish said he in-life into the dead body of a dog, When production stops the cell is quite sleeping spaces have intended to carry his experiments Lazarus quite happy with its lot. There is many cases increased tenfold. through to the ultimate goal- no such thing as an unemployment Is it a wonder that there is dis. that of restoring life to a dead problem for it.

content, and that native wages human being. are soaring and soaring?

Can toll if a melon is ripe

it

The scientist said he believed this added advantage of war-developed blood plasma and the use of the Carrel-Lindbergh air pressure

It is true that the difficulty ini catching the profiteers is mainly on account of the fact that the miserable tenants themselves method would enable him to reach are frightened to protest. In |

some cases they pay extortionate hire for

furniture.

In the spectrophotometer, an D paratus in which the photo-cell is associated with a spectrometer, it is possible to distinguish not only the

so-called and 10,000 different tints which the eye of a painter can perceive, but the least variation of nuance between 2,000,000 different colours.

a siren howls, the doors lock, the police arrive by motor-cycle.

"You cannot kiss her at any time then?" 1 said.

"No," replied the star-mother, "I must first disconnect the control board and warn the station that I

The electronic cell is the basis upon wilch much of our future world will be built.

Within minutes the pilot-m_doing so." passes from the torrid climate of the San Fernando Valley to

mists along the frozen coast.

the

fers.

medium He has to fly over height mountains, oilfields, and close networks of high tension wires.

On the 87-mile-trip from one township to the other, he works out his route with a road map.

He lands on the roofs of post offices, in courtyards or in town-

hall squares,

It has thus been possible to

pryanise a permanent

air post service.

12-hour

a

A letter which had taken night to come from New York to Los Angeles took seven hours mare to reach a village on

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mountain side 20 miles from Los Angeles. In the helicopter it lakes just 20 minutes.

If there are not 35 square feel to allow the hellcopter to land, it re- mains stationary in the air and lets down the post in a basket by means of a windlosa.

It is so constructed that, Immable in the air, it can even let down, a felter on u cord fixed to a windlass, to the door of an isolated house; It does not even need to land to bring the post.

Il fies at about 123 feet at the highest, saying dotours, cross roads, and hills,

In an hour it can accomplish the eight rounds which it would take postmen eight hours to do.

It already carries about 360 lb of lotters. In six months it will carry

some 870 1b, patt in eight

hours,

with its big map showing the houses,

It will cover a whole region.

Cheaper than a

car to make

Igor Sikorsky thinks it will

be

easy to manufacture a four-sealer helicopter for £375, that is to say cheaper than a car.

Its consumption of petrol is not much higher than that of a big tour- ing car.

The

In

the

It is used to select dyes.

Measure thickness or weight

In America, fruit growers save millions of dollars by using an eclec tronic cell to select their products.

Fruit which is too heavy, too light or discoloured is rejected as

ses beneath the eye of the in strument at a speed which no human Morcover, they have not been worker could stand up to.

officially encouraged to state An electronic inspector can even their cases. see if a melon is ripe and indicate) which day it will reach its best ent- ing point,

Ini ง few years

fruit merchants IT would probably tame the will have at the side of their scales!

-racketeers-if-it-was-compul- an electronic Inspection apparatus The photo-electric cell-more sen-

showing the quality of the fruit sory for them to furnish full sitive and more refined than the offered for sale.

particulars of their properties, human eye-can, by means of cer-

Coloured lights will tell the cus stating the number of people taln complementary apparatus, tomer whether the fruit is not yet housed therein together with the measure thickness or weight and, in ripe, just ripe or too ripe. general, nny physical property óf The photo-cell is ori unsteeping rents received. If the tenants uny body with an exactitude for eye.

could then pay such sum into a a exceeding that of any man-used

it equally protects the rent clearing house supervised children of film stars from being by Government, control could be instrument.

The human chemist, slowly pre kidnapped and held te ransom or exercised and a great injustice

turnips from going to rot. puring medielne measuring to tenth of a miligramme, will be re

Such cells already work factories. They even act as por-

photo-electrié cell in vacuum lamp, the flament of which is covered with caesium or some other element which emits electrons under the action of light. When the tube is illuminated, the current cir-

When

ahndow passes culates. over the tubb, the current instantly.

a

censes

the

placed in due course by the elec- tronic aid which will measure down milli- to the thousandth part of a gramme in less than a second.

Don't be so miserable, Low. Do us a cheerful cartoon for a change, say

about Franco's reported purchase

6% of a case

in Ireland

.... AN-WE BELAVE YE WILL SURROUND

YOURSILF WID LOVE AN AFFICTION HERE JUST AS YE DID IN YOUR OWN COUNTHRY BEFORE THEY

KICKED YEZ IN THE PANTS,

Out AV IT....

Today

But the future belongs to it.

Next Week

THE NEW HOUSES.

THE OʻFRANCO

to the lower classes eliminated. Certainly a difficult problem, but one which must be faced and handled very strongly.

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completu success in his experiment this time.

This time, too, he will have the assistance of the skilled hands of Dr George H. Seloroni, noted Fresno surgeon, in the delicate work of in jecting ife-giving chemicals Into the arterles of the subjects.

Dr Sciaroni, a specialist in circula- tory surgery, will be able to complete this vital step of the experiment in seconds rather than the minutes re- quired for less skilled liands.

Reversing Circulation

Six minutes after the dog had been pronounced dead from asphyxiation, Dr Cornish began feeding the adrenalin mixture into its femoral artery. Within one minute from the Start of the Injection the dead dog's heart began to beat again. Artificial respiration was started and the dog last breathe and several hours

began to bark.

On Borrowed Timo Lazarus II died, for the second time, eight hours and 13 minutes later-but the scientific world was astounded to know that the dead had been brought back to life even for that short period.

In

the, months that followed. Dr Cornish brought life to several other dogs with varying success. His most satisfying experiment was with Lazarus V, who lived for a year and a half on "borrowed time" until he

of finally died pneumonia.

The scientist's newest experiments In his own work. Dr Setaroni has will be conducted at his Herkeley recently

been acclaimed for his chemical and biological laboratories, success in reversing circulation in and this time he expects to reach the brains of humans bringing relief full success.

In previous years the governors in paralytic and mental cases.

Rather than the teeter-board arti- of three states turned down Cornish's past experiments, Dr Cornish will convict to ficial respiration method used in his request for the body of an executed perform his ultimate use a mechanism developed by Dr experiment.

Undaunted, he feels that once ho Alexis Carrell and Charles Lindbergh

in keeping human organs alive. This has complete success with his animal method will be used to pump

experiments he will receive permis- mixture of whole blood, adrenalin, alon to carry his work further.

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Rhymed Song Hits Tokyo, But Sounds Terrible

BY PETER KALISCHER United Press Staff Correspondent

TOKYO.-The first classical love song in Japanese his tory with lyrics that rhyme has been written by an American, correspondent. It is being presented in recitals, recordings and by radio to an interested public by Japan's foremost exponent of Nagauta, or classical ballads.

elther.

The author is Ernest Hober- Hoberech almost chucked the pro echt, United Press Tokyo corres- ject when he found that 'love' and above don't rhyme In Japaneso pondent, and the song is called "Tokyo Romance" after Hober- echt's' novel by the same name, which is a current best-seller in Japan.

Tokyo Homance" (the song) was translated from English Into Ja- panese by Rokuzaemon Kineya, Ja- pan's leading Naguula singer, Kineya is doing most of the song-plugging. "Thyming a Japanese love, song," Kineya says, "la as revolutionary na the new constitution-but after 18 months of the occupation, Japan Is ready for

Hobertto

Haberecht (pronounced in Japanese) is the arst American to have a new novel published in Japanese since the war. He deelded It was also time to democratize Ja- panese lyrics.

Love And Above

"I was shocked to discover that Japanese love songe aren't supposed to (thyme, Hoberecht says, "but I soon found out why. The word for June in Japanese is 'rokugaisu. The word for moon la tauki. This no- turally shaped the whole course of Japanese songwriting." -

He, and Kineya, however, sat down to work out the problem, and "Tokyo Romance" was the result, A sample couplet of the three verse song roads; The memories that I have cannot

replace

The actual thrill of your embrace." In Japanese, these sentiments pre conveyed bykok "Utakata no ompled

WA Itomo hakanashi Idakareshihirio yorokobini masaru

.:'mononashi."

Fan-Wrist Motion Kincya sings Tokyo Romance"? (pronounced Tokyo Romance in Ja-. panese), accompanied himself on a three-stringed soulsen, or guitar. According to an old Nagauta custom each verse in, not to different music, but to the untrained

Occidental car it all sounds the same terrible.

Kineys is the 14th member of his

be a Nagau

Hoberecht,

family, in

in direct line, to be a

in singer, comparable to a trouba dour of the Middle Ages. who is 20 and a former war corres

Watonga, from pondent, comes.

They plan to "Introduce dance to go with the song, complete with fan and wrist motions,

Okin Japancso