Abstract

In the Driftway

The Drifter counts himself among the original anti-noise champions, and he is always ready to break a lance, a pencil point, or a typewriter keyboard in the cause. He is glad, therefore, to salute Robert Ferrari, a lawyer of New York City, New York, who recently haled one of his neighbors into court, where he was ordered to modify somewhat his zest for turning on at all hours an unusually strident radio loud-speaker. The radio seems to have become one of the most generally annoying noises of all the city label, and it would be interesting if it were to turn out to be the straw that broke the camel's back. There has not been any genuine conviction in the past on the part of any large number of persons that noise was an evil. Therefore, there has never been any effective public opinion in favor of its abatement; the protestants against noise have been numbered among the cranks.