Mr. Louis Beale wants to udd municipal expenditure by appointing Commissioner of Silence. The iden may be commended without pre-Judice. "It certainly would have. the support of many people in Shanghat if they felt It would produce results. England has given the lead by forming an Anti-Nolse League which has been imitated in the United Stator of America where a soclely fealled the League for Less Noise under the presidency of Mr. Ernest H Peabody has come into existence The English organization has awake ened public opinion and has trickled all forms of noise, including road-making drills (for which the invention of an effective silencer is announced) radio fanaticism, thinly partitioned dwellings, erring motorcars, and matutinal milk deliveries. 'Shanghai's own troubles cover diffe ent activities but, as Mr. Samuel Weller remarked, the principle is the same, Tt has been "authoritatively stated that noise is a direct cause of il-health. Lord Horder puts it that the Towering' of eMfeleney in the human machine as a work-producing unit, the loss of sleep and the lessened quality of sleep and the extra strain involved in. maintaining mental concentration have been proved to be the results of noise. He has urged fiat science should work 10. devise an escape "from what are literally the hammer blows of needles: noise upon the vital tissue we call. the nerves." From that expert medical opinion there can hardly be dissent, although Mr. LIG, Wells has declared that a. world without noise would be as bad of a world without Tight. Mr. Wells ventured to support a om-promise between the "excessive expressiveness in human beings, and the curious, new shrinking from noise that an. increasing minority were beginning to display."
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