At Issue; 50; The Noisemakers

Any tier issue, noise makers, composite take one. The following program is from NET. The National Educational Television Network. The National Educational Television Network presents at issue. When was the last time you heard these sounds?

Today, many more Americans live the urban life than the outdoor life. But there are trees and birds and even a few Brooks and Urban America. What's lacking is the silence in which to enjoy them. The sound and the fury of modern life is not only drowning out life's sweeter sounds,

but rendering many people incapable of hearing or enjoying them. Noise has become synonymous with city. Simply defining noise is difficult, even for experts. Interviewed at the sound testing chamber of the University of California, Professor Verne Nutsen researcher in sound leads off with his personal definition. For all practical purposes and for most persons, noise is any unwanted sound. It may be the rock and roll demo of the teenagers next door. It may be the excessive talk of too many people at a cocktail party. It may even be some member of your own family. I think that we're being drugged without perhaps realizing it fully. That the constant in our years has begun beginning to dull our senses, and therefore prevents a real genuine experience,

just as any drug would. If a chap is scooting along on his motorcycle with his girl on the backseat, and making one awful racket, which I don't like, which I hate to hear, I'm sure that that noise is music to his ears. Well, majority of people come in because they want a quiet muffler and they need a muffler. I don't get one out of a hundred that'll come in. I say one out of a hundred. That'll come in and they want a real nosey muffler. If you get the young fellas usually do that. A couple of the most strange requests that I've got is, Mr. How do I jam the transistor radios on the beach. There's all these kids around me, and they're all playing rock and roll, and online in the sun, I want to get a little rest, a little quiet. And how can I get it so that all I get is static, all I get is noise. Well, one can get used to certain levels of noise.

At least some people can. However, we are limited by how well we can hear speech. And if there is one thing that we cannot do much about, it's our ability to talk about noise. Does the noise have any purpose? Does it have any utility? In a study, I believe it was done in Britain. People resented the noise of the neighbor's pets. But they did not resent the noise of delivery trucks in driveways, which was a more intense level. What does that sound like? Oh, well, we're just here knowing the city, and we like the noise, and it's just part of the atmosphere of transparency stuff.

Everything is not noise. There's such a thing as though it's amazing. It's amazing to come here. To modern ears, a medieval city might seem quiet indeed. The squares and streets and alleys echoed only to the sounds of children, or church bells, of a blacksmith at work, or of monks at prayer. And these were not disturbing noises. These were as natural and familiar as the wind. They bound up the fabric of daily life. The centuries of commerce and conquest tore that fabric even as it expanded. The silence seems to have made way for the mechanical loom,

but a late 19th century, machines dominated the cities, and the clang and screech of metal was a constant reminder. Within decades, roaring factories would mass produce not only good-paying jobs and soaring corporate profits, but a swelling stream of automobiles, radios, and refrigerators, and phonographs and fans, and eventually television sets and air conditioners. The century of progress was off to a noisy start. Already in the 1920s, the traffic jam with horns and motors and the hundreds of thousands had become the way the day began and ended for millions of workers. Most blessings are mixed, and to be convinced, one need only listen to the city of today.

We're going to give it a rock and air reel and stick with me by a little bit of honey.

It is part of a of this vicarious experience. It is part of this vicarious experience is constantly wanting to be dulled and escaped from something or other. If you go to a restaurant, we'll find Eckhart noted architectural critic finds many Americans are now addicted to noise. We seem to be afraid of conversation, and therefore we have piped in music and music and all this sort of thing.

There's something very odd about a society which at nine o'clock in the morning on the radio plays the kind of music and the kind of songs. It would be lovely to have at seven o'clock in the evening or at eight o'clock in the evening in a dark bar with the nice girl. But to substitute this kind of experience vicariously at nine o'clock in the morning and just drench yourself in it. It seems to me a very awkward way of looking at values and of any kind of scale of appropriateness, which we have everywhere, which we have in building an architecture, for instance. We build a motel to look like a church and a church to look like a motel. This is the same sort of thing as playing love songs at nine o'clock in the morning or at eight o'clock in the morning. So there's something kakai about our values and I think we have to start sorting things out again and seeing who we are and what we want. Love songs at breakfast are just one manifestation of the current confusions of the human ear and mind.

Industrial workers often spend their day in a welter of motion and sound whose source they do not comprehend and whose final product they seldom see. Historically, the carpenter and the blacksmith were involved in the sounds they made, but no one can be involved in an assembly line. As all these sounds become meaningless, the worker becomes accustomed to meaningless sound. Physical and psychological damage can sometimes result. Leo Baranek and his firm are acoustical consultants. In recent years, they have found a growing concern in industry over rising noise levels. For example, in the weaving industry, it's possible to build quiet machines for doing the weaving, but to replace all the weaving machines in the weaving industry would be such an enormous cost that it would not be possible and still sell a clothing at a competitive price.

So it is more sensible to provide air protection to the man the individual man involved than it is to change all machinery at once. However, no machinery should be bought to be quieter. Dr. Alexander Cohen of the United States Public Health Service has done extensive research on industrial noise and its effects. If you compare industrial work populations which have worked in industry where the noise levels are fairly high, at least they are noted as noisy energy. The oil makers, and you compare their hearing as a group, against the hearing say of an office type work population. The accounting for age sex will find quite dramatic differences between the two groups with the oil makers most certainly showing this decided losses in the hearing. The long time was as common difficult to conceive of hearing loss, constituting a basis of wage loss.

And all there are a few decisions with regards to this up in Wisconsin and in New York, wherein workers who were exposed to intense noise and demonstrated rather severe hearing losses in their audiograms were given compensation for their hearing loss. The kind of setup precedent wherein noise and do sharing loss was going to be considered as a compensable type of disease. Since then, of course, there have been any number of developments. There are blanket occupational disease statutes in many states where noise is just covered under the blanket, you might say. There are now four states, I believe, which have specific compensation laws governing noise and do sharing loss. Located on the idea that compensation for noise and do sharing loss is based upon losses for hearing and understanding everyday speech.

Not losses for hearing your IFI said, if you will. Dr. Samuel Rosen, Manhattan ear surgeon, has been investigating the effect of noise on basic body functions. When a person is subjected to a sudden loud noise, the pupil dilates. The patient holds his breath. Momentarily, there is a feeling of fear or fright or anxiety and a desire to run or to flee. All of these things happen because something is set off in our nervous system that affects the glands, the heart, the blood vessels, the lungs. Now, it is true that if you're riding in a subway, which has a great deal of noise, day after day after day, you become accustomed to it or you become used to it. But even though you are generally aware that you're used to it, nevertheless, the reflex that's going on is just the same.

As if you were having it the first time. That is why the effect of noise is just the same during sleep as it is during wakefulness. In other words, you can put on the noise of a certain intensity. Look when a person is asleep and it won't wake him up, but they'll do the same thing to his arteries and his lungs and his heart. And his heart rate and all that as if he were awake. We went to Africa because we found out that there was a tribe, a very primitive tribe isolated in the southeast of Sudan, near the border of Ethiopia, who had never been exposed to any loud noise of any sort except maybe thunder or the roar of a wild animal or something of that order.

But no constant bombardment of the nervous system by any noise at all. And we'd never had a true picture of the most efficient hearing that a human is potentially capable of in an atmosphere that's never been bombarded with all these noises. And so we went there to test their hearing. And we found, for instance, that at age 75, these tribespeople could hear as well as we do at 25. And two young men in their early 20s speaking, and they speak almost in a whisper if you don't get right close to them, you can't hear them. And they were talking to each other.

But one on one side is in tall grass and one on the other. And when we measured the distance at which they stopped talking, each one invisible to the other, it was the length of a football field. And I mean, to talk as loud as I'm talking, you just wouldn't hear anybody in this tribal area talk. And I'm talking rather softly. We also found that their hearing was so far superior to ours, but also that they had very little arteriosclerosis and that coronary heart disease, heart attacks were unknown in this tribe, and that they never have bronchial asthma or allergies or disorders of that kind. And then we purposefully subjected them to noise.

And we found, for instance, that when we put an instrument on their finger to measure the pressure of the artery before and during an after noise, that they had as much more severe reaction from the noise than the Westerners do. In the Western culture, but their arteries were so elastic and soft that just as soon as the noise was finished, their arteries came back to normal. Whereas in the Western culture, just as soon as the noises stopped, the contraction of the vessel continues for maybe four or five times as long as the noise itself was induced. For people who live in apartments rather than huts, the example of an African tribe offers little immediate help. Most city neighborhoods are nowhere near as peaceful as the jungle, and to make matters worse, the city dwellers' home offers less and less protection from the noise.

New York City Housing Commissioner Harold Burns sees a growing stream of complaints about the newer buildings and finds evidence to support them. Many persons who are tenants and modern apartment buildings complain that they are not insulated from the noise of their neighbours, they find that their conversations are heard in other parts of the building. Noise noises are heard throughout the halls, through the walls, through air conditioning equipment, through ventilation channels. I think this is a result of our lack of attention to this problem in the building code of New York City and certainly in building codes from what I've heard throughout the country. Years ago, when apartment buildings were built, in much more rugged fashion than they are now, walls were thicker, floors were thicker.

The floors somehow were rather had insulation if it wasn't found in the floors, it certainly was found because of heavy carpeting, which added insulation, and complaints were rarely have ever made. But in today's construction with the use of new lightweight materials, we find noises I've said to be a recurring complaint. This is Mary Carroll, a rental agent for fashionable apartments, feels that noise makes restless nomads out of many New York tenants. They are not able to get into a building where they can have some peace and fire. In buildings I've been in and discussed this with the builders and the owners. They tell me that to make a building reasonably well insulated,

it doesn't add much to the cost of the building. But there's so few buildings that really are well insulated. Mr. John Cuckins, a park avenue builder, defended new construction and blamed new noises. The age of the appliance was bound to be a noisy one. I've never had before, because we have a lot of noises in the streets, and a lot of noises in the apartment. Every apartment has a dishwasher that creates a lot of noise. We also have television sets and iPhones and everything else. We have more noises to date than we had before. I don't know if people are getting more sensitive to those noises. But another item that we wanted to talk about is that due to the air conditioning and the ideas of air conditioning, people think that they can lock the windows and have a perfect climate inside the apartment.

Well, it isn't quite so, because the air conditioning matters. We have to day depend on fresh air in part from the outside. And also we have to provide air for the air that is sucked out of the apartments due to the interior kitchens and interior bathrooms. And every once in a while you have to open the window. But I say people are accustomed to locking the windows and even sealing them in your time with the table. And you have an absolute whiteness. And that of course, obsessed the balance that you have, the air being accustomed to the sound level of the outside. So, you have more conscious of the noise. When you hear it, you object to it more because you can spot it easier. And you can hear noises between apartments easier because you don't have that sound level of the street to interfere.

You become more conscious of it. Just recently I had recourse to take a sound level meter home and measure the noise levels of reduced by garbage disposal, dishwasher, vacuum cleaner, excited children at play, TV set, and you do find that the noise conditions are rather excessive. So, if I would be in agreement with the statement that the noise levels is found in a kitchen are about as high as the noise levels found in the cockpit of a DC-3. Noise level of a garbage disposal grinding and apple core was about 85 decibels on the sound level meter. Grinding chicken bones, it was close to 90. These are rather excessive levels. Actually, they're not too far below levels that would be considered excessive. So, excessive that they might even injure hearing if they were long enough and if the exposures were all 5 to 8 hours a day for a working lifetime.

But Leo Barrenic has built up a sizable body of advice for builders who are willing to make an extra effort to sound proof apartment buildings. You can see here the concrete blocks as I'm outlining them with my hand. These blocks are about 4 inches thick and in the final construction this whole wall will be plastered so it will have a smooth finish. Now, the feature about this that makes it good is it's weight. Heavy dense concrete with plaster on both sides is a heavy wall. And effectively shuts out the noise from the other department provided we have some background noise in the room. We often refer to this background noise as noise perfume. How you say where does background noise come from? It comes with two sources. One is we're in an urban area and there is some traffic noise outside. And that air conditioning in the summertime will make a gentle sound of its own.

Now, of course, if we were in a very quiet urban area, one might have to provide a better wall than this. Those who in recent years have undertaken the great mask migration to the suburbs have sometimes found that the city problems followed them. Suburban builder Lewis Goodfriend believes that noise is no exception. Today homeowners have very little chance for escaping noise. This kind of noise, which is spreading all over the United States and even in Europe. In his own yard, he has such pleasant sounds as a power mower, a chainsaw to saw down trees and to saw the trees and to logs for his fireplace.

If they go to the woods for the Adirondacks for instance, we find that modern jet aircraft fly directly across large expanses of the Adirondacks, the Rocky Mountains and our national parks. One result of the population explosion is the increasing difficulty of choosing your neighbors. When a residential community finds itself living beside an airport, both parties may resent it. To local civic leader Thomas Noonan, the issue was clear.

Well, the jet story in South San Francisco and I guess all the nation is, in my opinion, essentially an arm wrestle to produce a result that result being one of the regulation of noise so that residents adjacent airports can enjoy a reasonable pattern of living. The community of South San Francisco, which surrounds the airport, feels that the wrestling is pretty one-sided. According to a local resident, annoyances caused by jet noise are small but constant. Well, it's a general nuisance. You can't enjoy your TV. Many times you're listening to a program that you're really interested in at a moment when it's of great importance to you. A jet goes over and the roar lasts so long that you can't even hear your program. You miss portions of it.

We are through noise abatement, trying all means of approach to this problem. For example, we are suggesting to the builders in this subdivision in the area that they sound conditioned their buildings. And why should I pay to soundproof my home so in order for the airport to operate and benefit? I'm not going to benefit by their operation. Why should I soundproof my home? And I have given it some thought and I have heard that it isn't too effective. Many of the residents around the airport derive their income directly or indirectly from it. They certainly do not want to get rid of it. But the noise of air traffic disrupts more than just television programs as school superintendent Nielsen explains. We are keenly aware that interruptions are the costliest thing that a teacher has to put up with.

Once having gained attention, then something else happens, a sound factor or someone appears on the scene that was strange. Whatever it may be, this then loses the whole trend for a class and disrupts what the teacher is trying to do. We're also aware of the other side of this coin is that certainly with 18,000 people a day coming through the airport, this means something industrially and we are supported as you know by tax monies. So we are aware of this fact. But it does cause a problem for us, this constant interruption at the same time you learn to live with us. One of the steps that's been taken is development with the airlines, the manufacturers, the FAA working with suppression devices that are actually attached to the aircraft engine. This particular device is called a daisy, which is a slang term for the exit nozzle. This configuration breaks up the sound patterns generated by the engine into different parts and tends to cancel out the more irritating sounds that the engines produce. On our newer jets, once they're known as fan jets, we don't have devices like this, we rely on quicker takeoff, getting the airplane up higher to sooner so that you get more distance between the airplane and the people.

Now the other end of it is the actual aircraft management or the way the airplanes are flown. In this case, the chief pilots, the regional pilots in charge of the airlines work with San Francisco sound abatement center to keep these airplanes up to get them up as fast as possible and to direct their roots away from the groups of people or the residences of people. I don't think there's any question about what they are compromising and passing your safety in some fashion. The very nature of the noise abatement procedure, which is to reduce the power at the most critical time, can't be anything but a certain amount of hazard. The hazard comes in by making a turn or pulling the power back at a very low altitude and low airspeed in a high angle attack of the airplane. These are all items which are most undesirable from a safety standpoint.

We've been told to just shut our doors and our windows. On a nice day now, actually you're supposed to shut your doors in your windows if you don't like the noise. In other words, if you don't like it, that's tough. We work with the people where we can. We make an effort to work with the people and we would like to work with the people more. On our own truths, let's say a truce anyway. It's a truce that we're all working in. We like to improve our truths. I'm very pessimistic about it because the advance planning that was necessary for noise abatement didn't take place. And the only really worthwhile solution is a zoning situation whereby you just simply keep people out of the noise-sensitive area. With the advent of the supersonic jet and its shattering sonic booms, the problem is likely to get worse.

Undaunted, San Francisco builder Carl Gelert is now building homes directly under the main flight path. We chose the site to begin with because it was about the only piece of land available close to San Francisco. It's only about three miles from the bottom line of the city, San Francisco, and also because of its accessibility to highways and freeways which make easy access to San Francisco. These people have to live somewhere and we're going to have to live close to the system employment. And as a consequence, with the shortage of land that we have here, they just forced to live and put up with some inconveniences that they probably wouldn't have to in other sections of the country where a lot more land is available. From Mr. Gelert's perspective, the price of progress is fixed and inevitable. To wolf on record, it is simply a failure of vision. Right from the beginning, look at the landscape and you see you want another apartment building and you know that an airport is coming or exists a mile and a half from there.

And you know that the noise carries a mile and a half, particularly if you have jets and you just don't put it there, but you might put something in the same spot that where the noise problem isn't so important. The factory frames, there's something else. But this we don't do. We don't do to the sufficiently to assure really what I call the art of living. We spent a great deal of money on cosmetics and on in the private sector on all kinds of comforts, on high-fi sets and whatnot. And we spent very little on the communal things that are important, such as putting a little extra money into apartment buildings to drown out the neighbors, but then we have to have a lot of loudspeakers. We've found them up. August Hexa pointed this out very well that we're really a very impoverished society spending so much on ourselves and so little on the communal aspects of our society.

Very fascinated to see in Finland, which is not in terms of income, the poorest country in the world, but they have been terribly poor because every bit of profit that anybody made, everything had to be paid off to the Russians for reparations for war, which the Russians started. So they didn't have anything and they're still terribly impoverished and yet they built school buildings, they built communities, they built apartment houses, it's noise control, so on, that we would consider sheer luxury and they built these even for poor people. How do they manage it? Well, they managed it by attaching a greater value on it and say, all right, we'll spend less on cosmetics or we spent less on fancy cars and we spent more on the things that to them really matter. The main sponsor of this wonderful new town near Helsinki called Tapula. The sponsor's name is von Harrison told me, all right, we're beginning to become a fluid. Now what are we going to do with our money? We can't eat more.

We can't really, even if we have a Cadillac, we can't go fast on our roads and we can in a less expensive car. So why don't we spend it on the art of living? Why don't we spend it on quiet apartments? Why don't we spend it on nice parks and playgrounds? And this has become very largely a national attitude in Finland. I think it could very easily become a national attitude in the United States. The United States has been almost the last of the major governments to have thought about the question of quiet between apartments. The Federal Housing Administration has issued within a year regulations which direct themselves at two kinds of noise problems in apartments. One is the noise from one apartment to that adjoining and the other is noise that goes through the floor from apartment above to apartment below.

Now the regulations read sort of indefinite. They say that it's mandatory that adequate privacy be built into the walls between two adjoining apartments, but they say the application of this mandatory rule is at the discretion of the local Federal Housing Authority. The result of these new rules is that if they're followed, people should have very little costs for complaint and we are headed in a good direction. And therefore, how much is going to affect our people is going to depend on how well the rules are enforced by the local agents or administration of the Federal Housing Administration. The important thing is that our laws should contain standards and that attention should be given to the adoption of these standards. And I think number one that the law will require it and builders will conform.

And I do believe that everyone will recognize the need to have acoustical controls built into a partner house construction. A few communities have come to grips with noise problems. In Memphis, citizens have enjoyed relatively quiet streets for 20 years. A police department program of strict control of traffic noise got its start during the years of World War II. According to Assistant Chief of Police, Brunswick Carroll, it has proved effective, especially with commercial truck traffic. We were getting complaints for people going to work early in the morning on defense jobs and such as that and they were using their automobile homes for the purpose of getting people to come to the door to go to work and such as that.

And it got there annoying throughout the city of Memphis and the protest was received. And we put this ordinance in and we were very strict about it and we broke it up even though we were criticized quite some bit, but it has been very, very effective. It's known fact throughout the United States by the truck drivers, so come through here. They oftentimes term it as tiptoe and through Memphis and if you have a bad muffler or do not use your horn unless it's an emergency and we appreciate the fact that they respect this law. We have this sound meter that we periodically check, a spice that we have complaints on defective mufflers on trucks or automobiles or where it's undue drag racing or such is that where we can check these automobiles and we check on average or anywhere from two to three times a month. If we receive a complaint while we automatic to go out with the sound of a machine and check this and we find that it is true while we are then ticketing all vehicle that violated and normal officers.

A city can learn by the mistakes of other cities. In the San Francisco area, three counties are collaborating on a new rail transit system. Rapid transit official James Brown, an engineer AE Wolf, explain why it will be a quiet one. In San Francisco or in California generally, we are a highway state. There's been no rapid transit systems of any consequence here. In order for this to succeed and financially that is to pay operations to pay operations costs, we have to wean away the commuter which is the foundation of our patronage from his automobile or her automobile. To do this, the elimination of unnecessary noises that come for the passenger, the pampering of the passenger is in the sense our motto.

Our subway system will be as quiet or quieter than any of the primary systems today. We know this because we can build on what they have already learned. In addition to this, we have an acoustical consultant stand for research institute. The physics department is our sound consultant and they have outlined a very detailed program, which will give the most concentrated attack on noise that has ever been attempted as far as rapid transit is concerned. We will have some other advantages in that we will have sealed windows in the cars which will keep out a considerable amount of noise from the people riding in the cars themselves. We will have insulated body shell in the car, acoustical treatment of the skirts and of the under frame of the car itself.

We will have air springs which will help break up the transmission path of noise, also rubber mountings for all of the equipment on the truck and on the car. The fireplace which are not shown, which will be underneath the rail, this is the area where we will have the elastomer pad take away the noise that the rail might transmit. The rail will be a continuous welded rail which has been very effective in reducing the clickety-clack that you get from systems when they have wide joints. We will have constrained damping plate around the wheel to test its effectiveness in taking away the noise from this large area that is not objectionable particularly on curves where you get the wheel screech and the wheel to rail noise. One of the things we will rely on will be parapets which are not used in any other system. These will be used to absorb the noise which we cannot control at the source by design.

The parapets will be something like this, they will come as close to the car as possible, they will come from the side and as high as possible toward the car in order to enclose what noise does escape and absorb it. And these parapets on the inside will have an absorbent material which will eliminate most of the noise that does come into that. It will take a two-pronged approach in quieting traffic and in insulating homes. We question Leo Baranek on the methods and costs of sound conditioning. One of the features that makes this wall between the two different apartments satisfactory is that the electrical outlets are located at different points in the two different apartments.

Another feature that is desirable in building apartments is not to put the television master antenna in the common wall, thereby forcing the tenant to place his television on the opposite side of the room from the common wall between apartments. Therefore the noise is not as loud and is not likely to be heard from one room to another. This is not as good as it is. Of course if you start with apartment house, the Japanese paper wall construction you would add a great deal of the cost of the building.

But if you consider the increase in wall construction, the increase in floor construction that are needed to make an apartment good. It certainly generally except that it will cost around 10% more. Solutions and innovation have a way of getting lost somewhere between the planners and the executors. We asked the San Francisco construction form about quieter techniques for unloading materials and assembling units. You could lift them off one at a time and lower them down and slings and stuff like that rather than roll them off with them bang into one another. There seems to be a great tool of evidence that noise constitutes a hazard in the work environment and therefore it becomes a subject of interest in the division of occupational health ongoing research program concern with hazards and industry.

It is, of course, possible to control the noises perhaps which annoy us more than any other, more frequently than any other and those are the noise that come from trucks and buses and sports cars. Now, it would be a simple matter to reduce the noises from these transport vehicles to the level, say, the Cadillac automobile. It would require a good muffler that might cost of the order of $100, but such practical means are available today if we can only persuade the public to insist upon them and the manufacturers to install them in these noise makers. However, a good muffler causes a small reduction in horsepower and because a trucker is being paid or premium for getting there as soon as possible, any reduction in horsepower is objectionable to me. And even when a good muffler is put on, quite often the truck driver will take a crowbar and tear the muffler open so he'll get his extra few horsepower which may get in there a few minutes earlier.

Now, over a period of some 30 years, recent period, the loudest noises to which man has been exposed have increased from something like 125 decibels to 155 decibels. That's a span of 30 decibels in 30 years, or one decibels a year. Now, this is reaching pretty close to the danger level. As a matter of fact, another 10 dB would be lethal for cockroaches, for mice and rats. And if you add another 10 dB, which would get you up to 175 decibels, you would have lethal noises for man. The noise problem and all the other problems of the city really cannot be effectively attacked individually. Yes, we should start right now tomorrow morning before breakfast, requiring builders to insulate their apartments better for privacy, for concentration, for sense of living and being alive. But this is only a small part of the answer. And all these answers are sort of intermeshed in what we need is a comprehensive attack on urban problems.

And suburban problems. This all runs together. We can't sort it out. I think our city planners have to be more aware of the noise problem. And to whom do you think we should eventually look for this unified planning? To us, to ourselves, first of all, take a greater interest in. And because we are a democracy and what we the people want, we can get eventually. The trouble has been a yawning indifference to urban problems. And here we spent a lot of tax money, a lot of enthusiasm, a lot of energy, a lot of high school training, to the aim of getting to the moon. I almost suspect that we sense that there's something wrong with our society here on earth that we want to escape. If we just have as much money and energy and then through the assament and comic strip science fiction and, you know, arousing people to the problem that we spend on trying to get to the moon on the problems of urban living, I think we could do it very quickly. This is mad daddy from where all the front begins, your jubilation station. Number one in this year nation, yeah, this is 10, 10 wins. Stick with us till 1130 honey, and you take your daddy's word when the clock rolls around to 1130, you will have flipped your bird.

The phenomenon of mad daddy in the music he plays must give optimists pause for disjockey Pete Myers states that one man's musical mad house is another's democracy of sweet sounds. Well, it's a funny thing about what people outside of the teenage bracket have to say about modern popular music to them, it's noise. Actually, pop music is getting down to more of the grassroots, there's more folk music and more of what 15 or 20 years ago would have been called ethnic music becoming popular. So-called rhythm and blues hits that Negro stations made popular some years ago now being made popular and accepted by all groups. There are a little raunch here if you want to use that word, I don't call it noise because to a great segment of the listening audience's music. The ultimate surrender comes when the public stops trying to control noise and simply tries to fight noise with noise at that point they turn to Norman Dine.

One of the greatest menaces of noise is the fact that it interferes with a sales operation here in the store as you can hear very likely there's a crane, monster out there that insists on interfering with our greatest problem and that's to satisfy our insomnia customers. This may come as a shock to many people who can't believe that infants ever have sleeping trouble but unfortunately some are predisposed it seems to poor relaxation and they do need assistance for sleeping. A pediatrician made a profound study of this problem and it is discovered that infants become accustomed to sound before they entered this world. In other words, resting in the womb, the infant becomes accustomed to the sound that's in that area and the most prominent sound is the sound of the blood moving through the arteries of the mother. This pediatrician now claims that he has been able to approximate this sound and reproduce in this mechanical, simple device that you see here and here is the sound that the infant becomes accustomed to and then when it is turned on in the infant's crib, it seems to be so reassuring and so comforting.

That the sleepless and somnic infant is very apt to fall asleep again. Many people have probably unwittingly hit upon a noise neutralizer, they may use a fan at home or an air conditioner to mask out other sounds. We have a device specifically designed for that purpose, it's electrically operated and it provides in the bedroom sufficient yet relaxing sound that preoccupies the attention of the sleeper or the individual in the bedroom. There are none so deaf, says an old English proverb, as those who will not hear.

People who do not hear the warning sounded by a white noise machine face the potential loss of those qualities and sensitivities which make them human. To continue to sacrifice peace and quiet for speed and profit is to continue the bad bargain which is led to the pollution of our water and our air. The increasing dangers surrounding our daily lives are threatening our bodies, assailing our minds and show no signs of abating. This is N-E-T, the National Educational Television Network.

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