'The Rubber Growers' Associstion of London have issued an interesting Little booklet entitled "Combatting Noise" which should prove of con~ iderable value to Shanghai in other ways than boosting shares by finding new. uses for rubber. The booklet describes the many different antinoise devices and products made {rom rubber and sclentifeally analyzes the character of noise. For a long time people have been familiar with Tuber road material and rubber flooring in buildings which reduce rise and vibration, but the scientific onslaught against this greatest of all modern nuisances has extended farther afield. Pheumatic-tyred coal delivery carts and mille wagons rubber" rail pads for railways. and pneumatic-tyred milk perambulators are some of the new methods of Inducing silence in the streets, or outside the home. Attention has alya been pald to the irritating "clip-clop" of the horse's iron-shod hoofs by the provision of durable rubber hors shoes. In the home, science has paid articular attention' to the annoying clatter "and banging of housel lutensiis and coal scuttles fitted with rubber rims, handles and ears find 2 Place among buckets, water jus, dusting and. kitchen utensils Atted with silencing devices made of rubber. 'A London doctor has Invented rubber basin for washing up purposes which eliminates noise and these finding their wav into opera theatres In hospitals. All these. form part of the efforts of science prevent civilization from going utterly. mad from the noisy tempo of its owa creation, but Shanghai presents an entirely different problem. Something teased on the principle of speedy and complete annihilation of all offenders represents the only effective and justifiable solution.
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