WAR AGAINST NOISE.
CAMPAIGN IN PARIS. A fresh effort is being made in Paris to reduce unnecessary noise. Chauffeurs have been warned, threatened, and even on occasions punished, for irritating the nerves of their fellew' citizens ; but so far the anti-noise campaign has not proved com;picuously effective. The trouble is acute at present since, owing to the summer heat, Parisians like to keep their windows open. They have thus recently jhad. to choose between tearsplitting noises or the heat an semi-suffocation of closed windows.
The Society for the Suppression of Noises has prepared leaflets which are to be conspicuously posted all over the city. At the head of these, in big type, appears the words: “Parisians! Insist upon silence.” Another part of text points out that if a pedestrian were seen running along the pavement and shouting with all his lung power he would undoubtedly be arrested. Why, then, the society asks, should motorists enjoy different treatment? It is true that many motorists have already been fined for making unnecessary use of their warning signals; but, as a police authority pointed out in a recent interview, the education of road users is still far from complete. It is to be completed, now by more liberal doses of punishment.-
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 222, 20 August 1931, Page 7
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208WAR AGAINST NOISE. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 222, 20 August 1931, Page 7
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