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PAGE TEN +HiE OSHAWA Dov 1 IMES, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1928 BRITISHERS INVENT THINKING "ROBOT" Answers Unexpected Ques- tions Put to Him By Strangers London, Sept 27.--"Gieorge™ the latest robot or mechanical man, has arrived. He was born in an old barn down in the village of Gomshall in Surrey, 35 miles from London, and he celebrated his completion by making the opening speech at the Model Engineer Exhibition in Lon- don. Many years ago Mary Shelly im- agined a mechanical man--*Frank- cnstein." The idea was taken up in more dramatic form several years ago by the renowned Czech drama- tist, Karel Capek, in his famous play "R.U.R.Y It was he who in vented the term "robot." Then en- gineering genius got to work and made robots a reality, From them we got robot watchmen and light. house keepers, robot 'phone opera- tors and cats, Dut George seems to be an improvement on all of them, If you go into any stately manor house in England you are apt to see fastemed to the wall a suit of armor such as the knights of Eng- land used to wear some 600 years ago when they went to war. George is ¢lad in such a suit, The metal is partly alumium, party steel. He has metal shoes and pants, metal gloves a metal coat, a metal helt, a metal shield" and a metal vizor, In his legs, instead of flesh and hone, there are gadgets. In his abdomen, Instead of viscera, there are little motors. In his chest, instead of a heart, there is a microphone such as one uses in taking into a tele- phone, Instead of nerves, he has about three miles of fine copper wire. His eyes are little electric bulbs painted black, with red for the pupils. His mouth is toothless, except when he is talking, Then ne has teeth made of blue electric sparks. Startling Performance The inventors, Captain W. H. Richards, and A, H. Reffell, staged a special exhibit of George for newspapermen at Gomshall. The COAL-- Phone 193 W, J. SARGANT Yard--89 Bloor Street, E, Orders Promptly Delivered electric power was turned om with a little switch, "Stand up," commanded Richard to George, who was sifting down. George took his time about it, but he finally gathered himself togeth- er and stood up wearily as anyone that weight of metal clothing. "Turn your head right." George obeyed. "Now left." George did so. "Now put up both your arms." It was done. George alse put up the right without the left and vice versa. All this time there were no lights in his eyes. "Let's see the love light im your eyes, George." The lights went on and George glared at us with an insane fury, "Show your teeth, George." Flash went the electric sparks. And then came the climax to the exhibition, "How are you feeling, George?" "Not so bad." came the reply, Not Ventriloquism, I watched Richards very closely. His lips did not move, I suspected ventriliquy, but T am confident it was not this, because later I had my ear near George and the sounds certainly came from him. And the tones were the well known ones that we associate with the 'phono- graph and the broadcaster, ! "Here's a chap from America. What do you think of him?" asked Richards, . "Not so much," George replied in very uncomplimentary concise- ness. "Sit down, George." He did, "Feeling tired?" asked Rich eds. "A bit," said the robot. The thought went through my mind that perhaps, by some clever mechanics a prepared set of ques- tions and answers had been rigged up. Richards seemed to read my mind, because he suggested 1 ask a question, So I sald: "Are you coming to America?" "That depends," replied the ro- bot non-commitally, and with ad- mirable brevity. Richards pulled out his watch and showed it to George, "What time is it George?" asked Richards, "3.28," replied the robot. Part of Secret The whole talking thing may be a trick, but if it is, it's one of the cleverest I have ever been up against, The robot weighs more than 100 pounds, and his feet are fastened to a small wooden platform ahout one foot high, He is raised to a standing position by a 12 volt mot- or placed in the base, Power fis conveyed to the knees hy means of a belt drive, geared down through reduction pulleys, A se- cond motor is connected to the base of the spine' to operate head, eyes and limbs, A series of five levers, actuated by Bowden wire controls, is attached to the frame composing the body, and these controls are connected In turn with a series of pulleys. 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The prébability is that the re- bot"s movements and speech are merely a clever adaptation of broadeasting appliance, making it a clever toy. Imventor Richard) stated that he is going to make a tour of the United States and Cana- da with it. MUSSOLINI REGRETS LOWER BIRTH RATE Warns / Whites Against Growing Tide of Black and Yellow Races Rome, Sept, 27.--The dwindling birth rate in large cities was de- plored by Premier Benito Musso- lini in an article written for the press in defense of increased popu- lations. Mussolini spoke of the growing number of negroes in the United States, and warned the occidental white races that they are menaced by the black and yellow tide be- eause of their failure to increase their populations. Mussolini eriticized the modern tendency to drift towards the cities, "A city grows mary, wrote, 'not by its ofn virtue but by additions from the outside. The more a city grows, the more it swells, the more it hecomes barren, The progressive sterility of citizens is in direct relation to the rapidly monstrous increase in the size of a city, Race Endangered, "Berlin, which in a century grew from 100,000 to 4,000,000 inhabi- tants, is to-day the most sterile eity in the world, and the one with the lowest birth rate, "That which happened ence can happen again, not only as between the city and country but im greater measure--namely, the Occidental white races can be submerged by the colored races, which multiply at a rate unknown to us, The black and yellow races are now at our gates, not alone because of their fecundity, hut also because of their race consciousness and their dreams of the future. "While the whites of the United States have a miserable percentage of hirth -- which would be even worse without the injection of Irish, Jews and Ttalians-- the nee- roes of the United States are ex- tremely fecund, reaching a total ot 14,000,000 or one-sixth of the po- pulation of the republic, The Yellow Peril, "There is one great quarter in New York called Harlem where the population is exclusively negro. A great riot broke out there last July which, after a whole night of sgn- guinary conflict was finally con trolled by the police, who found themselves opposed to compact masses of negroes. 'Does not United China, with its 400,000,000 people, signify some- thin for the future of the Ocel- dent? What does Russia's increase signify for the rest of Europe? "The most industrial and com- mercial nation of Europe, Great Britain, Tavokes her scientists and statesmen for a back-to-the soil government, How can numerous Londoners, 'massed in the metro- polis, retire to the country? T.on- don grows, but it makes the Eng- lish countryside deserted," WEARING 'EM OUT (Buffalo Courier-Fxpress) A lot of persons have heen talk- ing about what a strenuous cam- naign this has heen, is and is to be, Tf any of them want first-hand in- formation as jo the degree of stren- uosity, we suggest that they apply to Senator Robinson, Democratic candidate for Vice President, or to Senator Curtis, Republican eandi- date for the same office, Senator Robinson has gone into retirement in the Arkansas mount- ains for a period of rest and prep- aration, Senator Curtis, who has been making from two or fourteen speeches a day for several weeks, is suffering from an attack of acute laryngitis. It has become necessary for him to decline further appoint- ments involving outdoor speaking, These two representatives of the 'the burden of the voeal contest, They are seasoned, hardy eampaign- ers, hut after all they are merely human, And no human can hope to equal a calliope, though senators often try to rival them, PASSING OBSERVATION (Cincinnati Enquirer) It pays to be good-- But a lot of folks seem to think it doesn't pay enough, ously," he | major parties have been carrying FACING THE MICROPHONE Attacks of Stagefright Suf- fered by Radio : Artists New York, Sept 27--Great opera and concert stars, who for years have had the musical world at their feet, frequently suffer severe at- tacks of stagefright when first con- fronting a radio microphone. So says George Engles, who as man- aging director of the National Broadcasting and Concert Bureau AUTOMBILE LOANS De need some eady Cath, Are your monthly pay- ments too heavy.. We can arrange a loan on your car at Lowest Rates Availab'e PARKHILL & GREER Phone 161: 87 King St, E, comes into contact with hundreds of broadcasting artists. "I have seem singers who weat through their operatic and concert debuts without a quiver actual turn pale and tremble at thei premiere perfor inab a casting studio." Engles declared. "Where the sight of a brilliant, super-ceritical audience at the Met- ropolitan or Carmegie Hall served only to stimulate them, the pros- pect of singing for an invisible aud- ience of many millions caused acute nervousness and apprehension. Damrosch Had it, Too "So completely poised and self- possessed a person as Walter Dam- rosch, veteran of many years of concert hall appearances, had a bad case of stage fright at his first broadcasting program, probably the only experience of the sort during his long career. But it took hime only a short time to accustom hime self tp the technique of the micro- phone, - "He quickly acquired the correct perspective on his radio audience, visualizing his listeners not as one great audience of 50,000,000, but as little groups of three or four people gathered together im their homes. He adapted his broadcast- ing to meet this condition. Now he is considered one of the finest of broadcasting artists." Other great personalities have not been able to adapt themselves to broadcasting quite so readily, Engles éxplains, "The opera singer," he contin- ues, 'accustomed to express herself in action as well as voice, often gets out of range of the miero- phone, throws her voice {in the RN AL ALA manner she employs on the opera stage, sings too loudly and dramat- ically. In consequence she does not get over the air nearly as well as a young singer of less remowm who has been performing regularly over the radio for several years, whe knows the techmigue of approach- ing and withdrawing from the mliec- rophone, who realizes that by stand- ing directly in front of the imstru- ment and singing at half voice the tone come through more loudly and clearly than singing further away at full voice. Two May Not Mix "Of course, ability to sing gver the radio does mot necessarily wean that a singer would be a success on the concert stage. Some of the most popular radio artists may nev- er become great comcert artists. They have personality that gets over the air, but not over the ioot- lights, The two professions are not interchangeable. "However, it is a fact that nearly any really great singer or musician can become a successful radio per- former providing he 1s willing to devote a little time to studying the technique of broadcasting, Given inherent artistry, the technique of radio performance can be acquir- ed." AN ACT OF FAITH (Manchester Guardian) The Pact does not automatically turn the world into a Garden of Eden, It does not even take us automatically out of Bedlam, but it gives statesmanship a new start; it gives mankind a new hope, It is like the League of Nations. Any- body can point out the weaknesses Made by The Canadian Shredded Wheat Co.. Ltd. . of the league, describe its failures, analyze its vices; but the man who does not see that the creation of the league has put man's hope for peace and his nobler ambitions on a new basis is blind to the history of human institutions, The Pact is not a mere act of policy; it is an act of faith. Nobody, therefore, can measure its effect on the imagina- tion of the world. . CANADIAN AMBITION (Birmingham Dispatch) Nothing is now heard of the sug- gestion of two years ago that we should give Canada to America in payment of our war debt, Canada, as a matter of fact, has a much bigger ambition than to be annexed by the States. She dreams of being the centre of the British Empire. There is a school of thought there that thinks Britain will become played out geographically, and that the centre of the world is shift- ing westwards. Canada, lying be- tween the Atlantic and Pacific sea boards and with her vast resources, is regarded as the natural centre of the future, The idea envisages the necessity of transferring some 25,000,000 of our population. 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