SILENCE IS GOLDEN.

Waipa Post, Volume 39, Issue 3089, 14 December 1929, Page 2

SILENCE IS GOLDEN.

It seems a far cry back to the time when the strains of a German band in the streets were the only sounds to break our domestic quiet (says the Sunday Times). In these days of wireless loud speakers we are more likely to complain of noise from Australia; and if the speed records go on we shall be asking the maid just to fly out to Delhi and give a copper to the street musician to make him stop. The wireless loud speakers have been too much even for New York, which proposes to establish a police "noise squad"; and an attempt is being made to restrain the people who loud-speak all night, And silence like a polutice comes to heal the blows of sound. But it is growing more and more difficult to get any silence at all. A philanthropist has already invented a { piano which can be heard only by its player. Why not extend the idea to a lecture which can be the lecturer —or a road drill audible only to the driller? And, perhaps, there will come a blissful age when every man will be compelled by law to carry a self-silencer.