Anti-noise Campaign

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 24, 26 December 1930, Page 32

Anti-noise Campaign

Commenced in Europe A By some big cities on the Continent the authorities are becoming very particular about noise and untidiness in their streets. In one or two cases the laws are now so strict that people can be arrested for throwing a cigarend on the pavement, In Berlin it is proposed to set up an anti-noise investigation department in the big towns, and a new science is coming into being for the measurement of noise in thoroughfares. In Budapest, back-fir-ing of motor-cycles is prohibited. Workmen building houses are not allowed to shout to each other on/ihe scaffolding, even the noise of carpets must not be heard. ..(What a field for salesmen with vacuum cleaners!) Laws also forbid the’ continuous sounding of motor horns, ‘suburban train whistles, and tramcar ° bells, Music lessons must be: given in soundproof rooms, and with the :windows shut, and itinerant musicians:are extinct. The use of wireless loudspeakers are only tolerated" until 10. o’clock. This is indeed a modern Utopia.