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Facts. The problem of the future. relations of Western Europe and the continent of Asia being in the centre of world politica, it is Enatural that the contents of a new
periodical which la avowedly to EDGAR WALLACE ble not to be provide a meeting place for the
thrilled by minds of East and West should Edgar Wallace, says a rather in- Many were the opinions given, come in for keen and critical:sur- vey Seeking, as it informs its teresting book "Jacket," comment and finally came the judgment: readers, to cover the entire fleiding on The Mind of Mr. J. G. since this man sells his foodstuffs of political, economic, and cultural Reeder" And those who know and you and others buy them, you relations between East and West Edgar Wallace in all his many their value.
must pay his vlands according to It for the food he from a constructional and for- ward-looking viewpoint and to writings must cordially agree. sells and of which he gives the interpret the Renaissance that is The latest to come the way of the useful properties he is accustom dawning over the East against Shreds man is about another of since he has sold steam which is ed to take useful money, then the background of her age-long thost unconventional detectives the vaporous part of his cooking. civilleation, it is inevitable that
the "New Orlent," a quarterly who are becoming quite an in-you, sir, must ring a piece of review still in its infancy, should teresting and untiring vogue.money, and it shall be understood raise issues over which there is Each author strikes a new char-that payment is satisfied by the
sound that comes therefrom. bound by the nature of things toacter and exercises new inventive And the Sultan ordered that
be considerable divergence of
*"The Mind of Mr. J. G. Reader" Edgar Wallace. Hodder and Stoughton.
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boy's lotter for money,
The Ford car
Harry Lauder are one!
opinion. One is, however, lsd to faculties in the pursuit of present-this judgment be observed. expect something to justify the Fing the new. And none mora so claim that the journal is to be "the than the ever-green Edgar meeting place for the keenest, Wallace. His admirers will revel most sincere and sympathetic in "The Mind of Mr. J. G. Reeder" WORLD'S SHORTEST. the school- minds of East and West" and "the whilst those who have not "dis-
LETTER. ourrent quarterly issue fails to covered" Edgar may well start convince in this respect. One with this book. The Shreds man which read: "3.0.S.; LBD, looks in vain for even the bare read it at a sitting. Each incident.S.V.P." recalla what laun merits of the case which the West is a rem of interest and has its doubtedly the shortest letter of has to offer regarding its relations own particular thrill. The book is record It was written by Victor with the Enet, and in its place one only 3/6,
Hugo, who was always impatient finds: statements such as that of
and impetuous, On the very the editor, Mr. Syud Hossain, who
evening of the day on which one when referring to incidents in
of his new works was published, India and other colonies and de-
he could not resist the temptation pendencies, speaks of "the
to inquire how the sales were motive of inordinate gain leading.
Naïve worldly going. So he wrote to his pub- to the establishment-of-political THE WISE__Wisdom abounds |lisher as follows: "2 Victor control followed every now and MEN'S ANSWER. in a book called Hugo." The publisher, was equal again by methods of frightfulness the Novelle. There is the story of to the occasion, for his reply In order that the population shall the Saracen cook who saw a
was: "" remain quiet and docile." Other penniless wretch come into his contributors to the journal are kitchen and hold his loaf over the well known in connection with the pot, letting the savoury steam democratic movement. Whilst soak into it before he ate it. He HARRY LAUDER and the undue stress they have laid was annoyed, and demanded to be 17 on that aspect of Western de-paid. The poor man refused, in this respect-that it seerns velopment in the East which is saying that he had taken nothing permissible to joke about either, concerned with the quest of things but the steam. But the coak per-and that Mr. Henry Ford and material may be due to a genuine sisted in his claim. The dispute Lauder do not seem to mind. fear lest the spirit of Asia, the went so far that it came to the Joking about the two must be get- creator of all the great religious ears of the Sultan, who was soting rather a severe test inf and philosophic ideas, raight be struck by the novelty of the argu-originality. The latest on Lauder absorbed in gross materialism, it ment that he assembled his wise to come to the Shred's man atten is difficult to grasp how the repre- men and asked their opinion: tion is the following dialogue from sentation of Western methods as There were those who held that one of London's latest plays:- those of imperialistic economic the steam did not belong to the "Who do you think has sent us development enforced against the cook, for which they adduced a wedding present?" asks sorae will of the East and to its detri-many good reasons. Steam can-one. ment, is likely to lead to the not be appropriated, for it dis- nonsense. It will not instil into creation of the spirit of harmony solves in the air, and has no useful electors the act of thinking in its such writers refer to as necessary substance or property. Therefore entirety, but it will go a long way for the ushering in of the millen- the poor man ought not to pay. ium. Mr. Bertrand Russell, for Others argued that the steam was towards that very desirable thing instance, is to the fore with an still part of the viand cooking, in It may prompt the electors to article-on-the Canton and Shangfact that it belonged to it and weigh a vote before recording it hai shooting in which he ex- and to take intelligent-thought-presses diabolier that the first A LUCKY CINDER IN THE EYE and interest in the questions Chinese, and states that in both shots at Canton came from the which vex the world. It seems to be the nearest approach to the ideal of the Referendum that, so far, has been adopted:
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under. the Edison' boiler in Man- the roof of the new Edison service hattan. We read: To grap the building at Forly fit Street, and full significance of this, one must First Avenue has been built a email know that it takes from 4,000 to observation tower at a height 6,000 tons of copt a day to generate equivalent so, the Siteenth 200 the electrical energy needed for an office building In this ton ught, heat, and power in Manhattan there is stationed the official: due and the Bronx. Before the per
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cases the shooting was the resultFifteen years ago a tiny cinder pranks are drawn off into cows and of officials in charge losing their few into the eye of a much on inled away with the ashes from: from the merits of his case (it is president of the New York Hidan tange tonnage of cinders and dust, heads. Here again; quite apart train, writes Arthur Williams, vice-the fires under the boilers. This Each difficult to see that there are any Company, in a recent press bulletin which would have been sent up party goes to the electorate with a in view of overwhelming evid- (New York). He happened to be into the air were it pot for this manifesto of its aims and ence to the contrary), one is led to an executive, na engineer and a cinder-atching device, not only objects. The issue, so far as the Western men as profiting by the cinder in this man's eye has happen-of New York but like all Edison wonder how the representation of inventor. What happened to the does not get into the atmosphere recognised Parties are concerned, weaknesses of China to inflict in-ed to cinder in millions of other cases cost and shes-is even eliminated is quite clear, and adherents and tolerable humiliations is likely to it was washed out by the natural from on city life without the waverers alike know what is tend to the creation of the "best watering of the eye. Immediately necessity of being hauled brought before them and to what, by ré. Possible relations between Britain the thought occurred: "If nature the streets. The man who invent cording a vote, they have com declared
and China" which Mr. Russell
uses a stream of tear-drops to washed this device is Thomas E necessity mitted themeleves. Thus, in the at the dinner of Chinese & cinder out of an eye, why not Murray, senior vice-president of the i election just concluded, Australia students in London. It may use a stream of water to wash the New York Edison Company. has decided on what may be tea for the West to re-adjust its point power put?This little incident nearly every country in the wel
be that the time is opportune cinders out of the blue gases of Engineers and technical men from ed constitutional government of view and code of values in re-and the expenditure of savera have taken ochaion, while Visiting Hongkong, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 1925. government along safe, and tried lation to the East but surely the million dollars led, we are told, to New York to examinedhis ingenious paths; government by evolution world of besity, humanity and the development of a device-re and efectives washing. and not by revokition. Fortunate mate helpfulness which it is the makable for its sumplicity as well equipment... Incidentally, the com - COMPULSORY “VOTING.
indeed must Australians considerament to create can hardly be built, every bit of cinder and dust out of job which doubtedly the daly object of the democratic moves for its efficiency which washes papy has created for one man a themselves in having the issue on foundations of hate fostered by gases arising from the great fires one of its kind in the world, On Australia has committed its clearly defined and defined, not anti-foreign foreigners. political destinies to what may be so much by clarity of reasoning considered safe hands. This is by men of the standard of Mr. not so remarkable as the fact that
S. M. Bruce, but by the clarity of in the elections just decided, the the consequence of "Red" domina vote taken was a compulsory one.tion as shown in various ways, bút By law it is enacted that every in no clearer way than by the re- voter must exercise his or her cent attempt to disorganise the privilege. Such an enactment, at shipping of the Commonwealth.
fection of this device is migh ag observer of the Edison Com..
pany, whose duty itais from, morn two per cent of the coal burned in ingle night to study the colour and first sight, may seem peculiar. It will be found that compulsory While in the vicinity of Castie the generating plant's escaped as the volume of the gases coming That it is a wise one cannot be voting has justified itself. Con-Foals, travelling in the direction inders and dust from the smoke from the stacks abge the Waterside denied. If troubles can be laid at scientious objectors
De Un Long on Monday evening, a stacks. This means that in New Stations directly across the street. and they Fort car came in collision with & York City a full hundred tons of The only equipment in the g the doors of politicians, it is sa figure go yoters may have area motor car returping from the ter cindera and dust would be sent u observer room is a chair-and well to apportion the blame fairly:sonable objection to such a law ritaries and overturned us the reinto the air each day was not on which are mounted hand to suggest that those who but if a "spoiled" voting paper salt of the force of the impact. for the gawaahing and conder electrical switches, one for
elect politicians must be held, in constitutes the hinge of is vote, Considerable damage was done matching device inspired by the tiny lack at Waterside. These switch part, responsible. Australia's they have an easy way out of their to the Ford but fortunately none kinder that flow into that eye, Let operate red signer lights in lead in this respect is likely to be predicament. In any case Auswas seriously injured.
SELCH of the occupants of either vehicle me describe the device briefly, boiler rooms of the generstag widely followed. Unfortunately, trails has shown a commendable The
Bisk of cach row of boilers in station. Though it is not commonly for obvious reasons, it cannot be example which should be followed Murphy, of the Piny Shan Police stations is a long horizontal tank the gas emitted from a smokestack wife of Sub-inspector aach of the Edison generating known, the colour and density of followed in Hongkong and it without delay by the Home Coun- the Ford, as were also Sergeant ful langth of this tank, extending efficiency with which, the boilere come Station, was among the passengers Kaif filled with water. Along the is one of the best indications of the significance cannot be pictured in try. Only in this way can there and Mrs Langley, of the Au Tan from the top to within a few inches below are being operated. To the local colours. But it is possible to be shown the real fealing of the Rode Bison Both ladies were of the water-level, is a sheet of steel highly trained technical combustion imagine it in operation in Home country, and encouragement be only slightly hart but were badly called a baffle plate. As the gases expert every little change in the politics. Those who have had given to bold and fear Goyer shaken up by being thrown out of and cinders leave the furnaces they colour or volume of gas has a mean experience of General Elections
ment. can speak with authority of the heart-breaking experiences of those vitally interested in such things; of the apathy of the eléc, tors, the bearing, AL, the state of,
and those
THE WRONG WAY
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SLIGHT PASSENGER INJURIES.
the car
are forced by steing draft into this ing of its own. The moment the tank. The cindere and any other fue gas coserver notes any undesir solide corried by the gades hit the able change her closes the switch
anlate and fail the war being number correspond
the numb of the stack involved.
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