AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

REMARKABLE CHICAGO CASE. ' NEW YORK. Oct. 19.

Considerable interest has been aroused in Chicago over the trial of the Superintendent of Schools (William McAmlrew, on charges laid by Major Thompson (who is known for his antiBritish attitude) that Mo Andrew has been responsible for the dissemination of British propaganda in the Chicago schools.

Former Judge Frederick Bausmann.* of Seattle, in giving evidence, said that ho had found traces of this propaganda in the schools throughout the land. He stated that many of the children do not know the truth about England, which conquered three former world-powers, namely Spain, Holland and France; and that the children also do not know that this history has repeated itself as against Germany.

Ex-Judge Bailsman declared that the Rhodes scholarships Mere established for the purpose of bringing the United States back under the British crown. He added : “I have yet to hear any United IS'ta.tct? citizen say that he wants the United States to annex Canada. Britain is building ships, after persuading the United States to stand at the limit of eight hundred thousand tons. Britain could blockade the United Stales at a distance of t-wo tho”sand miles out at sea.” A THINKING MACHINE. (Reedved this day at 19.15 a.tn.) NEW YORK, Oct. 21. The Department- of Electrical Engineering of Massnchnssetts Institute of Technology' announces the invention of a thinking machine capable of solving mathematical problems too complex for the human brain. Doctor. Vannevar Bush, ivlio with a staff of research workers developed the machine, which is named Integrapli said “It might bo called an adding machine carried to the extreme in design. Where workers in the business world are ordinarily satisfied with addi't-ir.n, subtraction, multiplication and division, an engineer deals with curves and graphs.” Bush slates the device is operated electrically and readily supplies an answer to problems that cannot be solved by formal mathematics and requires only from eight minutes to a few hours to make computations which would take an engineer from a month to a year to work out by ordinary methods. The foundation of the Intergraph is tile Watt hour meter of the household type. From the time it adds up power is used and it records the sum on its dial. Cl lALI.EXGE ACCEPTED. VANCOUVER, Oct, 20. Coed soil has accepted Barry's challenge.