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Show Robots SeywjPuhlic If the question asked Is a "sticker," "stick-er," the man at the control station, and through him. Rupert says: "Walt a minute," and the right answer Is looked up In handy reference books. One mnn In the central office. It Is declared, de-clared, will In this way be able to handle I he questions asked of, soy, a dozen or more Robots Installed In a railway station, big shops, hotels, or even on street corners, and It Is predicted pre-dicted Hint within the nest few years these grim formidable Robot servants will be commonplace sights In all : large cities. London. Although Gngliind'a first Robot was creuted only a ffew short months ago. he already has six brothers broth-ers runglng In height from Jasper's six feet six. to little Ruiiert's Ave feet ten Despite their tender ages the services serv-ices of all seven have been hired out under the contract-labor system during dur-ing the schoolboy's exhibition at Horticultural Hor-ticultural hall, and soon after the exhibition ex-hibition rloses the Robot family will be broken up and the brothers sent oul to different railway stations ami street corners to take 24-hour-a doy Jobs answering questions and giving directions. A pathetic fate for such youngsters, that would seem to call for Intervention on the part of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children 1 ... How these dully gleaming giants of steel work bus now been revealed for the first lime In connection with the schoolboys' exhibit, where Rupert, a bright little fellow. Is to be seen with his chest and head cut open and all his InsldfS revealed. Young ,Jhn Bull, Jr., presses a button on Rupert's Ru-pert's tummy. Almost Instantly lights stare from under Rupert's heavy eyebrows eye-brows and a voice Incredibly deep for I such a youngster booms out : "What do you want to know?" Young John, startled, stutters: "P-please, where can I get a bite to eut?" . . "Take the third aisle on your left nnd walk straight on," booms the voire. Then the lights die out and Rupert Is once again a senseless structure struc-ture of cold steel. Bewildered, young John follows the directions, and sure enough,' Walks straight into a restaurant. Now what has hnppened is this: When the youth pushed (he button on Rupert's tummy a light showed on a switchboard In front of n man at a table In a control room. He tmnieilliilely "plugged In" on liu pert, lighting up Rupert's eyes and establishing a telephonic contact with a microphone hidden behind a silver gauze-covered hole in Rupert's front. Thus the limn nt the central control station heard young John's question and he promptly answered back by telephone, his words being mnpliilcd by h loud spenker In Rupert's thesL |