MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1932.
UNCLES AND AUNTS
Yet
You may think that uncle means no more than uncle, that we who are nephews of uncles know the meaning of the word well enough. there, as it would seem, we have been mistaken. When we named the pawnbroker as our uncle we had
THE
CHINA
R.A.F. MAN ON FIRE IN SECRET BOOK B GANGSTER'S DRIVES
THE SKY.
Parachute Descent With His Clothes Smouldering]
The thrilling adventure of a does not demand too great reverence Royal Air Force pilot is now the for his grey hairs. I could find subject of official inquiry.
name
In hard times, when the watch chain
BARRIE STOLEN
Burglar's Theft
Amazing Work.
GODSON ROBBED OF HIS .
BARGAIN.
My Freedom, Your
Money Back..
خطوب
On September 17, 1980, one of the most daring and probably
It was a lady who sent me that affection. You have the word aer-¡ tale about mine uncle, and I thank ving for any oldster, any man who her for it. We must needs live, and learn; in all the days that I
A copy of Sir James Be's the largest bank robbery in his have been living I never yet had the you many an example in the book He went up in a single-seat secret autoblography oistory took place in Lincoln, chance of learning why we or the of Shakespeare, and Shakespeare fighter to take part in battle early years one of the st Nebraska. Seven heavily-armed vulgar bort of ns-must needs call has authority enough for most of practice, and because of the height modern books that haver gun-men, in a fast car. looted
But if you have proof that at which he was operating he was been the pawnbroker by the name of us.
published haseen the Lincoln National Bank and uncle.
cur pawnbroker uncle is an uncle of equipped not only with oxygen ap- stolen, says the Daily Teleph. Trust Company of $2,000,000, But this lady had found the story that kind, not deriving his name
paratus, but with electrically-heat-
held the police at bay and then In the place from which we have from that blessed. Latin word for aed clothing.
Only about twenty co of sped away with theirs," It was hook remind yourself of what the so much of our knowledge.
Suddenly he discovered that his the book, which is entitle The which has not been recovered. in a newspaper.. So she had cut Frenchman calls him.
clothing was on fire. He tried de- Greenwood Hat: Being em the paragraph and sent it off to me. The Frenchman has his own petsperately to put out the fire, and oir of James Anon," wer int But after months of intensiveį
for his own pawnbroker, in the attempt burned his hand. Here you have it; I will give it you
ed, and it is understood the investigation by a body of Chi in a few words.
whom he does not take for an uncle. His predicament was serious be- Prime Minister, who is antim-cago business men known as the may have no watch at the end off of the necessity of disentang- ate friend of Sir JamesArrie, "Secret Six," a Chicago gangster, Gus Kinkler, now stands waiting ling himself from the oxygen and
received one. it, the young Frenchman will say heating gear
trial for complicity in the Nebras in a confined space.] that the watch is "with his aunt." The clothing consists of a wired Mr. Peter Daviest well-
The stolen copy bega to ka hold-up. Now I should like to speak with the jacket and gloves attached to a plug- known publisher, whos Sir Winkler denies any connec farned gentleman who knew the point in the cockpit; use
of the James's, godson.
His ces in tion with the affair saying that Latin for a hook and must needs a cleverer thought at the backs of guess the meaning of our English Oxygen mask involves a pipe coiling Henrietta Street were ürgled he can prove an alibi, but fears,
and the book was take
he says, that he will be "rail roaded" to prison by whatever After disconnecting the heating Unquestionably Green- jury he appears before. He does hook is also very like the French plug he found that his clothing was wood Hat" is a gre library admit, however, that he knows word tante which means an aunt? still smouldering badly, and to such rarity. Recipients one book where the stolen cash is hidden Like the lady, I have no patience an extent that a colleague flying have been asked not divulge and has offered, in return for his with these: wiseacres. I shall al-near thought that the machine was its contents by the aur, whose freedom, to procure it and re ways go on calling a spade a spade.
on fire.
strong dislike of purity has turn it from his, underworld con I shall name any pawnbroker as my; After vain attempts to master become famous.
temporaries, almost intact unele because that is
the blaze the pilot concluded that the only way of saving himself was bibliophiles has beexception- A
The demand for Bie among Known as companion-in-crime of Capone, and of Philip to leave the machine by parachute. ally strong for somears, and D'Andrea, at present cooling his he did so the this autobiography easily the heels in gaol for carrying a con- If I were living in France
he machine began to fall out of control most valuable of allssible bar-cealed revolver during Scarface's would change his gender and be This added a further danger, gains in that mark
recent trial, Winkler is said to my aunt.
Not that I have had promptly realised that if he opened
If the thief has it, he can be closely linked with Capone many dealings with him, even in his parachute too soon it would be- count himself amber of a and a powerful band of bank rob- Britain; in my poorest days I knew come entangled in the falling ma- coterie as small it is dis-bers, and more than once it has that it was better to set about earn-chine, So he let the airplane full
been tried to pin the guilt of ing some money than to lend the past him before he pulled the rip
the Lincoln hold-up on Capone's pawnbroker my silver spoons.
In cord.
Then he let the parachute
shoulders.
our heads, For what is the Latin for a hook, such a one as the hook to which we hang up coat or hat?
will he
title for our pawnbroker. tell me that the Latin word for a
My Latin is not as good as it was. Nevertheless, I think that I can re- member the world uncus for a hook of that kind. Now, says the wise gentleman who wrote the paragraph in the newspaper, that is the word. from which we have our "uncle" for fashioned name for him, not be enase he has a Latin hook some
a pawnbroker. man who had in his shop the uncus, the hook upon which was hung up any pawned cloak, any pawned cost. So he had from that hook his name of uncle.
This uncle was the
where in the back-shop.
our old-'
round the neck.
Still Smouldering,
He jumped, and as
any foreign land I should fly from open. that aunt or uncle, who would, be-'
tinguished.
Private Ciration.
I may tell you that the lady who gathered this piece of knowledge and sent it off to me is a wise Indy, She does not believe all that she finds set out in print. When she
For many year ow Barrie's Through the months, the had read the pawnbroker's pet name
He had tumbled headlong while inclination, as reds his more "Secret Six" have followed clue she doubted it. That was why she fon making me any little advance dolaying his action, but the height intimate writings has been to after clue, traversing devious sent on the stcry to me, for to her of cash upon my goods.. demand to at which he left, the machine was print only for prife circulation. and dangerous paths in quest of mind this was too clever a story. see my papers, to have proof of sufficient to give him an ample Surely the word uncle for a pawn my birthplace, to know the maiden margin of safety. broker was no more than a bit of nunie of my grandmother, Such But now old-fashioned playfulness?
From me she looked for sympathy, knowing that I myself am not among those very learned folk who
will never allow themselves to call
a spade a spade. There she was right. With all my heart I cast away this nonsense about the uncus which is a hook, and about the pawnbroker uncle who would not be
as, other uncles.
I know very little about the be- ginning of the word uncle as n title for any pawnbroker. But I have
found it in print, in some play or romance of the early eighteenth cen- tury. I remember that I made a note of Il-and lost the note, after
my fashion of mislaying little things, Yet I do not doubt that, long before that time, people had come to saluting pawnbrokers as
uncles.
And that for no more than merry
HISTORICAL FUND
IN PERAK.
Archaeological Treasure Lifted by Kinta Dredge.
Few are aware that since the beginning of December, a trea- sure of historical importance and value has reposed in the Ferak Museum at Taiping.
Im-
rows
Indeed, it will be as a sur-success. Once, in a small Michi- prise to most ple that the gan town, a clue led them to a he was called upon to author of "Peteran" has ever small cottage rendezvous where a business they make of it for any face another emergency.
produced such ook. There Capone, Winkler and D'Andrea body dealing with a foreign pawn- mediately below him were
would be no exaeration in de-are said to have been meeting to broker.
of houses and other buildings. Considering the British pawn seemed inevitable that if he were most valuable edition pro-and the street in which it stood, scribing the volu stolen as the discuss "business." This place, broker, I find that I do not love him to land here he must injure himself duced in modergimes in view was strongly guarded by armed as once I loved him. This is only and possibly other people.
of the remarkab circumstances gunmen who patrolled outside it because his shop window is not-as
Down at Last. Few pawn-
of its production ..... delightful as it was.
with machine guns and did By pulling skilfully on the strings brokers can show the little sheaves of the parachute he guided himself,
If any othehuman detail "sentry duty" at the extremities of rat-tailed silver spoons that they so far as he could, towards a point book's value, it to be found in traffic or pedestrians down it.
increase the of the street, refusing to permit were, needed, showed in the of years, the old in the far distance where there the manner in ch it was pen- corals which were sucked by an- were fewer obstructions.
Another time the search led ned.
them to the Lexington Hotel, cient babies, the snuff-boxes, the Vividly present in his mind dur- duelling pistols laid up in baize- ing the whole of this manoeuvring right hand, Bale was inspired his minions had recently de
Crippled with neuritis in his Chicago, from which Capone and lined Mahogany cases. But this is was the knowledge that his, cloth by the last wopf Capt. Scott's camped. no fault of the pawnbroker; there ng was still smouldering. Ignor: Antarctic diar"courage" are so few of those pretty things ing this, and hoping that the fire to conquer haffliction."
Besides being a confederate of Ris the dethroned gang lord, Winkler about nowadays, I will still try to would not prove too serious, he autobiographic fragment was is said to be "aviator-in-chief” of think of the pawnbroker as mine calmly went on with his task of laboriously wren out with his Capone's aerial rum fleet and to uncle, because he has been our prolonging his descent. unele for such a long while, and not for the sake of any hook in his back-shop. The Londoner Evening News.
in
He succeeded so well that fifteen
consciousness.
left hand.
be an experienced pilot with more minutes clapsed before he touched puzzle many pople."
The title of the volume will than 800 flying hours to his
The ex credit. At present, the authori the ground. The landing was
planation is derstood to be a ties are nonplussed as to what to heavy one. and he temporarily lost typical exam of Sir James's do for the best.
whimsical huzur.
Should they free Winkler and The parachutist quickly recovered The Greenpd concerned is get back the cash that means so whole of the Island of Sumatra and and telephoned to his headquarters Frederick Grevood, at one time much to the people from whom also the Peninsula up to the Bay of to report what had happened.
editor of be "St. James it was stolen, or should they con- Bandon and part of Java.
Gazette." That is, a silk hat, tinue to hold him and risk the which Barrighen new to Lon-chance of the return of the don, bought order to impress money? the great Ps. lion when he called upon im for the first
" CIVILISATION GOES.”
-Bronze statues dating from this period are усту rare. In the Batavian Museum only four are Britain And U.S.A. Always Friends. extant. These were discovered inj
the neighbourhood of Palembang, General Dawes, the United States time,
as Ambassador,
the kpeaking at
Alas! Wh Greenwood was the best specimen as recently three months ago. The specimen annual dinner of the Royal Marines ready to reve his visitor an now in the Perak Museum is, ac- Old Comrades' Association (Lon- office boy raved Barrie of the cording to the eminent Doctor's don), said that there was no differ- silk hat, and e impressive entry judgment, undoubtely one of the ence between America and Britalo planned by rrie was complete beat examples of work dating from that could amount, to anything. ly spoiled. the Hindu period which has yet The two countries were cemented been discovered.
by a tie of blood. The foundation
Book ara, Warned.
UNIVERSITIES FAILING.
"Hazy" Knowledge Of Philosophy.
Professor J. 3. Haldane, sperking on "Modern Idolatry" at the Liberal
Recent dredging operations at the Sungei Kinta Tin Dredging Company's mine at Pengkelen, near Ipoh, brought to light - a›
It is reported that during the last of thefr relationship was as solid Bookselle are warned of Mr. Jewish Synagogue, St. John's-wood, bronze statue in an almost per
as the Rock of Gibraltar.
Davies's in the current w., said that it had become more "I am not afraid of rumours of issues of publishing trade fect condition. Mr. G. G. Temple- ton, the Manager of the mine,
anything which interferes with the journals inse the thief should and more a prevalling opinion that very promptly reported the dis- The Ferak Museum is to be con- firm stability of law and order, in try to dist of the copy. the universe, as represented in the
gratulated on its
few days the Bronze Lotus pedestal on which the image rested has also been raised at the same site.
récent
%
ac- Great Britain or in the United There he been few occa-physical sciences, was ultimately quisition and all concerned can only States, the British and American sions wher burglars have taken real.
orks of modern be grateful to Mr. Templeton and people will always band together valuable
This was regarded as common Mr. Jameson for this beautiful gift in times of trouble..
authors.
sense, but It seemed ultimately "Our countries, will be. friends- al- which, in the words of Doctor
"A few onths; ago a report irreconcilable with religion, Callouifels, "is a jewel of mediaevel ways. They have got to be, or from Ne York, regarding an "It is easy to reason in this way,
civilisation goes." oriental art,"
Anglo-Am can syndicate of and the extreme specialisation of book thie aroused much in present ordinary University educa torest am English book col- tion makes it much easier to do so. lectors, a dealers. But on the Multitudes pass through our Uni-
covery to Mr. C. F. S. Jameson, Senior Inspector of Mines, F.M.S., who immediately caused the status to be sent to the Perak Haseum where it was inspected by Doctor P. V.
van Stein Callenfela, the eminent. Dutch Archaeologist, who is on a visit in Taiping:de
In a special and exclusive inter view kindly granted to the Times of covery, Doctor Callenfels aafd that
In reply to a question as to the historical importance of the dis-
PARENTAL GUIDANCE.
Malayn European correspondent in It was the first proof of the in- The pre-school age from birthwhole er ts were sceptical as versities without obtaining more Taiping, Doctor Callenfels profluence of Cri Vijaya in the south-up to the fifth year was described to the exence of an organisa- than the haziest conception of what nounced the statue to be one of the ern part of the Peninsula. Up to by Dr. A. F. Tredgold as the most tion symatically engaged in philosophy consists of and what the best specimens of the art of the Cri the present time only written his important years in life from the felonies this kind, hijatr great thinkers of the past have had Vijaya period and represents a torical records had indicated the point of view of mental develop Perhan the most famous in-to say about the universe of our ex-
ment, in an address to the child stances a typo was a valuable pertencen standing upright figure of Buddha existence of that Intence.
The right hand of the figure --is broken off but the learned Doctor
cald, that. It was probably in the so-
GATHERING OF THE COLES.
called "pointhing" attitude, while the left hand gathers the end of the classical Toga worn to, this day by There was a gathering of the Buddhist priests and monks, The Coles when Mr. Edward Cole of state, according to its style, be- Bedford, Michigan, married longs to the paried about 760 A.D., | Corn Cole at South Bend when the well-known Sumatran Dr. Elmer Ward Cole performed the King of Cri Vijest, whose capital inarriage ceremony, and Mr. and was at the site of modern Palem, Mrs. D. Cole were the witne bang, had schlected to his rule the But none of them was related...
Study Society in London, U Chaucer manuscript which We, are paying a heavy price for These years, he said, were usually was stol from Lady Cardigen's this defect in University education, passed at home * under the tutelago residenc after her death in and particularly in resulting » de of parents Comparatively few 1913
fective ideas as to social obligations
parents realised how much could be › In du purse It appeared open and religion, 10: done to develop the innate mental y
nat capacity of the child, and still fewer had any understanding of the meane
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