1948-03-06 — Page 6

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, · ŠATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1948.

HOW THE WAR HELPED RADIO

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...........

By Peter Lovegrove

use. Forty

THE Grst postwar Radio- veloped by the industry at te insll- lympia showed that the cation of the Home Office for police

of 130 police an British radio industry, ap- thories in England and Wales already plying in peace the lessons use VIIF raile, and new equipment is is being supplier in increasing num- learned in the recent war,

hers to police forces in other coun- still-as it has always been-

tries supreme in radio research and the application of electronics to industrial usCA,

Britain which, fifty It was Great

Gugliemo Marconi years ago, gave his chance to carry out wireless ex- priments, there "initial ments in transmitting electric

IH

Nor is it being restricted to police se; we find it working on a fleet of tugs on the Tyne and on a taxi ser- vice in Cambridge.

employed in

For high frequency heating, once' the making of Mor- quitoes, the equipment closely re- sembles ratio transmitters; similar improve pear.

components and tuned clr- 1141- pulses and signals and in apparatus sults are used, but the radio energy is concentrated and not broadcast. patent his original therefor." states. Twenty-five years ago Nobel Today, it is used in brazkit, wider- prizewinner Professor J. J. Thomson ing, annealing welding, and surface- for plasties. metais. discovered the electron, and in the hardeniat, same year the BBC was formel. And minted woods.

its steel turn ten years ago, television made

only conds! bow. Brital being still the enuntry providing a reculny visual cooking

einde. service.

It was British research too which produced the thermtanke valve, the radur Ja shortwave

system, (which was already in operation on Rome stations in 1936 and installed is warship in 1937) trid the trape- frun.

its

ten our

1 saw a bar of red-but in about And formorrow, nil may be done on this pri

ULTRASONICS

'Once more

the breach, dear unto

friends,

once more.

Into

We were nigo given a prep the world of Ultrasonics sound be-

and hearing.

fered to a vation detected by the ear, and us the vibration becomes frances World War 11, which

more rapid, higher and higher be- bany other industries to a standstill. tomes. The note, unt at 20,000 vibra- Vilrations of a very much Rave British radiu a tremendous trus Tous a second & pastes from au-

Called plus.

upon to treble out almost overnight, all its av lagher frequency can be produced, sources were devoted to De exten- lowever, and the unheard sound han sive development and production of "trange new for the armed forces. pquipment Conditions imposed by the way in the wir in the desert, in the jungle and at sea each maste their contributing

in stimulation the development

new devices and techniques.

STRONGER POSITION

9

W

wathed the effects of a crystal) funt vibrating one million times

4,000 trend, and sending out a note of tuit fuquener about

แ

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that of Mid C on the plans. It is ondible, yet it's energy is dousands domestic of Imes Phe output of loudspeaker, and will as varily shake

it and water into an emulsion

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Experiments On Living Animals

Can we justify the pain?

his

ANY people have asked MEBARNESAPERNESTAURANTZ edico who relies on the laboratory

instead of on for everything. vivi- themselves — can

own commonsense and observation of the patient.

section, or experimenta By C.J. Horrocks

This war effort was largely that of the individual firing which for the burn a finger Today, it has is uses tion on living aninuls, he just 319928200|19249289614890ca aquests at Deed R

industry toksy. Although The Ser-

lee departments had their own

It will ale- tri cracks in vastings, for instance,

TORROTLOW,

in fesling and research.

T-

The And

may launder

fied?

search and experimental work, by clothes or even help to with dishes vivisection is not cruel, they

ploneer work was largely done rivilian experts he or fem the win the Kitchen,

dustry

was

11

the

So that when the war ended, radio industry stronger purifion than in 1939--and, several jumps shend of other evan- bven alrently Jung tries, This

new valvis, translated in ponents, eireult techniques and scie73- tifle discoveries available for civi

tise,

-

Take our faithful ally, radar, for detected enemy Once 1 instance.

lenteil U-boats, and con aircraft, trolled the Runire which destroyed

OTHER DEVELOPMENTS

There is

and

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Can

But the question may arise: imagine that

the cruelty to justified? Is there a "reater rood" to humans that out- weighs the evil done to the nutmal?

Lest any may have only to consider the nature of a few experiments.

Perhons the best way to answer this is to ghee over the history of las medicine advanced to any- medicine for the unst 30 years or degree as its thing like the same sister art of surgery?

30.

Copsirler Kanya

af the triumphs

AMERICAN ANGLES

Bank Raid In Three Colours

A TALL dr

BY NEWELL ROGERS ·

forbliding

NEW YORK. with violating the law TALL, dark young man, trades untons to spend money for

inn overcoat, polluteal purposes.

Last July in a news-sheet published atrolled into the Bank of Man by the CO., Murray endorsed, a hattan in the Queen's suburb of Maryland candidate for Congress. New York at noon.

He decided to challenge the law and seek arrost.

After him sauntered a short, fat man in a blue overconl.

test case will be taken to the A Supreme Court, the highest in tho

Tan cont asked n elerk for change land.

of u £5 note. As the clerk turned President Truman's Attorney- for ret it. blue cont crept round the General, who will prosecute, admits in his that a dellente point of law is in- counter, pirhed a revolver back, snarled "This is a stick-up." volved under America's written and made three clerks stand with constitution,

rified the cashbox.

their faces to the wall while tan coat "It is a problem." he says, "of accommodating the constitutional client entered. But a man in a power of Congress to regulate elec- Krey overcont standing

lae fons, with constitutional freedoms of door covered him with a gun and speech and the Press," Ined him against the wall with other The C.1.0. has 0,000,000 members.

near

and grey

customers and the manageress.

Its most powerful section is that of Then tan, blue,

couls Murray's own steelworkers, with a walked out with £4,000 and drove treasury estimated at £1,500,000. off in a black car.

MOST of America's child criminals,

MOST DRIDGEPONT. a Connecticut city MI come from homes broken up by Ba

of 216,000, smells as usual now, divorce, and it has given barrister

A perfume manufacturer wanted to C. H. Morris what he thinks may redeck it with snow smelling of be a brilliant incu, lavender and rosemary as a publicity

stund. When he dropped eated In Wichita, Kansas, he is prepar- dry lee over the city not one sniff of leg a suit on behalf of ten-month-old perfimed snow game from the Bobby Woud. clouds.

The baby will ask £8,250 dam- ages troní a young womun, who will

marruze.

"It can get it through the courts."

JJOLLYWOOD wants to star Greer he accused of breaking up his parents' 11 Garson and Robert Donal les a requel to Goodbye, Mr Chips." So for the experts cannot think hose to saya Morris, "we can make philan- revive Mr Chius, who died in the derers pay and help to halt Juvenile original picture.

delinquency."

LITLER, after gobbling Polatui in MICKEY ROONEY aunces

separation" from his

1939, tried to coax Roosevell into neling as a peace "go-betwee" wife, a former beauty queen, ....

CHOSBY

have had to make fatat concessions But if the profession could shake

in the penes talks, or be branded as itself free from the fashionable (nuch,

warmonizers. craze for animal it would have to

WALTER RECTUER, its data, fund W leader.

alas, prontable) experimentation, look elsewhere for would then have to turn its atten- tion to the bedside and the study of normal health. Can any doctor of today even tell us in what normal health consists?

The abolition of vivisection, when It comes. will come through the Awakening of the medient profession to its futility.

Hopeful Signs

Animals have been starved also a development that or deformed by unnatural diets: von count electrical Impulses up to brought to the end-point of

Al the rate of Bod

fatigue by swimming or on the Cond, love the total away and re-

Another treadmill; baked in ovens to moment. rndare it any

dreads in textile ascertain the temperature that detects broken

another, the Intra-causes death under varying de

() claimed for it insulin, anti- toxin. preventive inorulations in hinery: yet fied Telescope, enables you to "se igrees of humidity; their bowels

Ipeare is dars." There is The

to the generħi, for examute. an electronic)

been subjected have of instrument for testing the latest action of corrosive ncils over still as common (enge incidence) and janisture in timber. And the

"Sklatroo" " radar daylight-viewing

long periods while the intestine is a muy people fease mor-

ality

as it did before the vaunteil Thing" the Number 10 the Italian feet at Matapan and sank Monty's name for Army Wireless Set has been ligatured; the skulls remedies or prophylactics were dis- to relate, they come from a ecuatry

Scharnhorst. Now its civilion 10 which was rated in Nor- of monkeys have been bored covered, where is the triumph? brothers guide merchant ships; assial shore autimrities to see not only the manly, and later as the link between and a virus injected directly movement of ships in port, but alsh Tactical Headquarters and the rear into the brain in an attempt to and the means by which Mr Chur-induce infantile paralysis; rub-

Commander all that is happening for ten

and the #17

Army facilitate ubi talk in

enabled her balloons inserted in the in- speret. It twelve miles out to sent

night separate two-way arcraft landing systems; protect air-

demonstrate the effects of dis craft from the risks of flying

on simul- taneously and gave Britain a lead in tension. Hunderstorms, at night, or in

centimetre wave-length techniques. visibility.

attracted which has One thing Then

miniature valves and sets.

Electro- cla attention

the 15 Developed during the war, when size

Encephotograph, which assists brain was the controlling

man? erialists in their work on certain „rade possible the "walkie-talkie" so eerders such as tumours, epilepsy | used for an initial cutting operation, journal some time ago? valuable in our Commantlon-when-

the

factor.

ur

Something Wrong

Can any doctor deny that both the

rates of Incidence and mortality

since the discovery of insulin?

into conversations to be enrrier Telephone ternal organs and inflated to diabeties have increased

low

they

rauding enemy coasts and the Maquis and head injuries. The victim sits underground ma chair; electrodes are clamped to in wir unrelenting war. Now they are to be found in his skuit which pick up the impulses

(Continued on Page 10) two-way new VHF

system de-

Crisis in the

The

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Scientific Side

In how many of these rases could an anaesthetic be used, or, if it were is it not obvious-the-the-purpuse isto observe the result of the ene periment unclouded by the use of narcotics?

whose living comes motorcars face hard times.

from

ROBERT WALLING, Motoring Reporter, tells what this means in terms of £ s. d.

car industry

WO factors overshadowing

The British

dustry-steel allocation

U.S.A.

man."

the

and

A big estate agent told me he had Outside 70 orages for sale in and

at prices

from ranging London £4,000 to £70,000. But he has 50 customers on his books for garages, majority of whom had confirmed, In the past three months, their inten-

Can he deny of diphtheria that "the problem is with us today nad is increasing rather than decreasing in comlexily," as Dr H. A. Wood rull, of Melbourne, sald in a medical

There are hopeful signs already of a beginning in this direction. Strange we have mostly regarded as back- ward-Mexico where the National School of Medicine of Mexico City has made a start by abolishing ex- periments upon dogs and domestic animals.

The specious plea: "If we didn't experiment on animals we should have to experiment en humans" Is eally too absurd to need refuting. animal experi- How many of the ments would be al any use at all tested upon UNLESS subsequently

Obviously then, the more animal What of influenza, and-what-of-the-experiments._the_more_humon_ex- common cold? Read about arthritis periments; the more we encourage In the medicat press and you will vivisection, the more likely we are admire the candor with which doe to be vivisected. tors confers their ignorance and

frustration when dealing with it. The Moral Side What of the steady yearly Increase In the number of deaths from various forms of heart disease? What of the Arugle failure of cancer research? *

Isn't it obvious that there is some- thing radically wrong somewhere.

Laboratory Mind

Of course

there

a type of

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

n Labua ts demonstrating to Detroit city officials a chemical treat ment for coal which he believes could make London and Birmingham smokeless cílies.

.

But

with Brital and France, Cordell Hull discloses la hister wit: Bu street in was, made to sweep riding high then. The Allies would elected him honorary mayor of the

town.

Lilli Patiner, wife of Rex ENTER

Harrison, in the drama "Starving Britons and Loretta Young." Lorella criticised conditions in London. Lilit horrified by New York conditions. She says:

"During six months in London I gained five pounds. 1 lost that in a week of interviews and midio shows in New York, is Besides, Londoners feed Hyde Park ITAMINISED

guaranteed by a Kentucky disquirrels, but New Yorkers let those

In Central Park starve in the snow."

whitsky

tople. DRITISH RATIONS appear to be Nothing is to go into the boltle but used as balt to lure Amerienn tourists to Britain. J. B. Wallach. the New York Sun's business editor. says the British are warning dollar-

of tourists

"skyrocketing prices on the Continent," while

WHISKY

liler to prevent hangovers. imaginative

not A

whisky.

Governinent

is whisky,

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PEATRICE LILLIE, D Broadway musical, is to play a British baby-minder hauled before happy u Congressional committes in Wash- Ington for questioning.....LOUIS British food is only

above prewar cost. LÖNDON is the cloakroom girl, JOE MADRID the head waiter, and MOE BRUSSELS York's Ebony Club.

the barman nt New BIRTHDAY of

20 percent.

Abraham Lincoln was celebrated us ค national holiday, and each night in Chicago's looked IILM PRODUCER Sir Alexander historical museum guards

under Lincoln's bed," Arrested on a

to

hid

Korda, in New York, wants gel from Hollywood a four-anasted tram for waving two 1848 pistols. British frigate, 1872 model. His as Roger Anderson explained he sociate, Julien Duvivier, will search unter the bed until the museum was Tahiti

for a native girl to star in locked up for the night, and then their colour picture about à South stole the pistols. Sens Madame Butterfly.

Cantua."

and

waterfront

down

HE LIBRARY at Brooklyn could. THE

give Sherlock Holmes a case. A book borrower is cutting out every reference to the Deity in the 'library's mystery stories. The

"Oh. God, snipper "Heavens." and "Lord help us." Lord Peter Wimsey, who solves crimes for Dorothy Sayers, is a victim.

censors

HYPNOTISM RAMP, practised In American cities by scores of millions of charlatans, has taken tu

dollars from thousands of dupes.

of NINE GOVERNORS

the Southern States, all Democrats, LIGHTY TOPERS, live of them

women, are posted by name in have decided not to desert Truman though he the 11 ubs of Bedford, Pennsylvania in the elections, even

against co- (pop 3,500) farmen are forbidden by does support The law the police to serve them drinks, regation of whites and Negroes. Instead, they will combine to build a DHILIP MURRAY, Scottish-born series of colleges for all their citi- the Congress of zens, one set for whites, one set for president of Industrial Organisations, was charged Negrees.

EXIT

THE KE JAM broke in the mighty

Ohio river-and-water rose-3 feet in four hours. A million dollars worth of shipping property is endangered as a pile of lee 15 to 20 feet high moves river. Deep down at the root of human

COMPOSER Hans Eisler, an Aus- misery lurks the old hell-born leigan faeung depolation for en- that the end justifies the means." tering Amerien legally, is writin

It strikes at the very foundations for n New York concert his of Right and Wrong. It flings

honour a work entitled The Aliens perpetual denial and defiance in the face of Christ. It drags men from In something the path of decency, landing them in wrong. And the better minds in the a morass of corruption, cruelty and profession recognize the fact--notably injustice. It enabled Hitler to exult cancellations are expected from Alexis Carrel and Lord Moynihan, his bestiality into the sembiance of smaller concerns.

The trouble is that they don't seem a national religion; it enables totall-

ani-

to excuse famage equipment makers

Suly crime that factors had cancellations of orders to connect it with the craze for

purposes. de-mal experimentation.

su ite the moments the basic petrol

Carrel ("Man the Unknown"} puts Because of it we have just fought cision was announced, but, as one factories have hope munaging director told me: "They most of it down to sheer materialistic the cruellest war la human history. Ful these

did. not become alarial. Some u blindness which ignores the complex and, because of it, we may yet have Government negotiations

the smaller firms in our circle may nature of man as n being with a soul to fight another.

Shall we never

learn that "the motorcar in- el.

markets. mny reopen export

fruit of evil deeds is evil," and that and

Already Australin is reported to be find it necessary to economice in inseparable from his bodily func

soweth, that the munpower, but everybody is trying tions. basic petrol allowance--make cutting chassis imports from

to avoid this. Our employees, are Moynihan deplores the creation of "whatsoever a man shall he also reap?" and Canada by £3,000,000.

it might the "Inboratory mind," its future uncertain.

Portugal hus raised the maximum specialists. They know Most factories cannot place porte of cars that can be imported take years to replace a dismissed reliance on their steel allocation from £500 to £900.

that It 13. however. certain a few months for more than

factories suffering a steel cut in 1948 ahead.

could not exist

sparse on their exports and their small share of the new-car sales allowed in 50,000 Britain next year. At least ther would be temporary suspension of

"The small garages for their identity as current car ducers.

£3,000 could have been asked last There were 9 firms "employed in the making of motorcars" in 1922. summer are now worth £2,000 or which has never Today there are 32. How many less," he told me. "It is the small exported more than a few cars, docs will be showing at next October's man recently setting up for numseti not start to send the majority of its Motor Show? products overseas, it is likely to live April. cut after its steel supply when new allocations are made.

the "trade." This refers to Factory B, which was steadily in creasing its exports last summer.

livelihoot depends on the number of finds now some of its main over-

mrcors in use in this country. seas marktels closed. Today it must

Membership of the Motor Agents' DROFRILTON of a small garage into have elections of the old-fashion- try to step up sales in fhe few mar-

Association (12.700 in 1946) is 1-Hertfordshire who had a thriving sort, in which even an opponent Strabismus and

of the Government may be elected, . kets loft. Will do this in time-

day 13,000. Divisional officers re- business showed rae his accounts, before the steel allocation date?

nort garnges beginning to close down, His overheads (rent, light, power and by appearing to have freedom

TTEMPTS are being made to -Factory C, with good financial re-

mostly small firms opened by ex- and incidentals} are unchanged at of speech and of the Press, and sit sources, an energetic directorate, a

Service men and others, at distant 240 a week. But since the basic the other accompaniments of de persuade De Strabismus (Whom

the God Preserve) of Utrecht to substantial share, of raw steel, and

government. reoside resorts and in isolated coun- petrol cut he has alasted his wages mocratic an appealing saloon. le exporting e districts. Members who say they bill from £30 to £15. His repair truth is that ireland is a danger to his next assault on the moon from more and more cars, probing new

will resign total 24 to date, but most work turnover has dropped from the peace of the world, and

anywhere but Waggling Pazyu. It It may therefore Inne-established doraers are econo- £65 weekly to £32 10s, which are they making at Gloncamorra? export markets,

out that Woggling is Is pointed mixing by minimum staff dismissals, means n déficit of about receive a bigger steel allocation.

associated with nothing but fallures ways, until the lean week.

-two arrested flights to pud in other

the moon, Staff Cuts?

time Is

two fallures to move sideways in an over, Worst effect so far is on the the deficit, but they have dropped to A missed opportunity

electric drav, a falluru to quarry Factories A and B receive less

the nssociation's

the blotting-paper 7,000 feet under F

Fortunately his garage is stacked Government has not had the earth, a failure to fossilise an 心茫烧 steel. heavy dismissals of staff

A of steam, one paltry by internal pressure may follow. Or the erring factories training scheme, in which 4,000 young

registered: Firms are with parked cars: one out of every are may be given as much steel as be startuig to notify headquarters they three having been stored by petrol-nk to the three Persian virtuosi. fallure to cut water into sheets with fore, provided they make something will have to dismiss them.

less motorists. This, for him, means Such a gesture would have made it a galvanized wire, a failure to grow be

mokers The petrol pump

bare living instead of a loss. have ather than motorcars. Some may

on t whitebalt, and from abroad. "But it will be touch and go-I impossible for the Topeka Banner whiskers required, until the crisis is over, to large orders, many

sny on. But the Doctor refuses to leave produce parts for a motorcar inaker The bigger garages in this country may have to eat into my capital," he and the Chattanooga Sun to

that British see-saw is dying out for Waggling Parva. who is doing well abroad.

havo not cancelled orders, but said.

KOCS

Oficial policy of nilutting steel to the Industry on the understanding that a high percentage of its total products

abroad has been altered. Future allocations will be made after Inquiry into the exports of individual car makers.

If Factory A,

Garages Shut

pro-

NOW, toteli and women whose

men

mechanic - apprentices

tion to buy.

which

who has been hit."

Firins handling motor accessories do not yet report wholesale order cancellations from garages. "It may be too early to judge."

Income Drops

Amping the old Latin proverb- Bis dat, it says, qui cito dai-- I begin toith the tiresome intruder In the little round wickerwork

1Lat.

of

the

wood. Moreover, lack generous release of this one planks would have encouraged other see- suw teams to visit England, and would have been excellent propa- ganda for the only sport or game which is not

sonic by other. If all our see- was very acute of Mr Vishingky saw planks are to be exported, what to discover the truth about Ire Incentive will there be for men and land-that "It is ព Fascist State." women who cannot buy them in the Many people thought that this secret shops to work harder?

(Leading article), had been well kept, by pretending

The menace of Gloccamorra colony or tuinted

£10 atom bomba? Obviously... Petrol sales might have wiped out one-third of the former total.

But

eted

what

deplored that Is to bo

imagination to allot

Waggling Parva

make

80

Jebdale

“Bog pardon, sir-I believe you're sitting on this fady's hip.”