NEW TERROR FOR MEN

Taranaki Daily News, 18 November 1933, Page 9

NEW TERROR FOR MEN

tell-tale door lock. DEVICE THAT “CANNOT LIE.” Science in its overmastering passion for improving and inventing things has gone- “a bit too far,” says the _ Sunday Chronicle. In cold blood it has invented a new terror for husbands a gadget which ruthlessly records for all time the exact hour and minute at which the householder inserts his latch-key in the lock. , Worse than that. The device records in unchallenggable print the fact that it was the husband and no one else who opened the .front door. Argument tfS useless, for the lock, with inhuman accuracy, makes an exact note of every one who opens it. His wife can at will reel off to him the time of night he • has rolled home for the past five years, and there is no excuse left for him. If a man attempts to slip out during the evening “to see a man on important business” the incorruptible lock will record what time he went out, what key was used, and what time he came back. Any attempt, to trick the mechanism by leaving the door ajar is. doomed to failure, because, the lock will make a note of that, too. The new lock was on show at the recent Business Efficiency Exhibition in London. It has more useful and humane properties, however, by way of saving grace. Fitted to shops or busmess premises the device prevents the locking of the main door until every other door and window is shut, ensures that the shop was open to time and not closed before time, and permits a watchman to make a record of his rounds without having to unlock the door..