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The refusal of Pablo Casals, Kreisler, Hubermann, and Schnabel (not all of whom are Jews), to play! at the concerta of the Berlin Phil- harmonic Orchestra because of the Nazi persecutions is a sequel to the dispute between Toscunani and the authorities at Bayreuth which has peculiarly close associations with Hitler.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1933.
QUAINT ROMANCE OF RAILWAY TICKETS
WHEN SEAT PRIORITY WENT BY NUMBER
EDMONDSON'S INVENTION
"I am sorry to trouble you, but riages; they were exposed to rain I am afraid I must ask to have your and wind and dust, and cinders and seat. I bought my ticket before you who could afford it bought
| smuts from the enzine. Those
wire
If Jewish virtuoti are not invited did." A statement like this, made gauze goggles to protect their ever to perform and their non-Jewish to-day in a railway carriage, would from the flying particles. fellows decline to do so in sympathe be greeted with astonishment.
tic protest, I do not see what the
Berlin Philharmonic will do for
In 1844 the Railway. Regulation
Not so, however, in the early days Act struck a blow in the cause of the humble Third Class passenger. A search in the The Act stipulated that every rail-
soloists. A piano concerto will be a of the railways. rare occurrence, unless Herr Back-records of the companies reveals a way company must run at least one haas, who is an intimate friend of time when every ticket was num-train a day in both directions for
Hitler, is permanently and
sively installed.
Great executant musicians been for the most part Jews great composers non-Jews.
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bered progressively, not only for the Third Class passengers; that the | train must stop at every station, and have purpose of recording the number of travel not slower than 12 miles an
and passengers but to give the passen-hour.
The Clerk, Who Invented Tickets
A
gers themselves right of priority to Seats had to be provided, and the a seat in accordance with the num-fare must not be dearer than a The Assassinated Magistrate
penny a mile. This popular rate ber of their ticket. Consequently,
earned itself the title of "the Par- In his Merton days Mr. B. E. J. Burge, the magistrate who has been a standing passenger found sume-liamentary fare," assassinated by terrorists at Mid-one occupying a comfortable corner napore, was a popular representa- with a ticket of a higher number tive of Oxford's "muscular Chris-than his own he would be in tho tianity," and was, indeed, one of the position of being able, legally, to Improvements were coming from inside the railway companies them- few undergraduates to read Charles expel him.
Thomas Travel on the railways was a very selves.
Edmondson, Kingsley.
He had a slow, easy, genial smile different matter than from the pro- check clerk in the service of the broad shoulders. cedure of to-day. So much ritual Manchester and Leeds Railway, de- and immensely He played a good deal of cricket, but was observed that the ticket office signed a ticket the form of which of all recreations sailing was his ceased issuing tickets five minutes is retained in present use. favourite. On fine afternoons he before the train started in order He was a man with an idea. He would disappear in the direction of that the clerks might complete their was amazed at the waste of time Port Meadow and occasionally re-records of the train load. The occasioned by the system of writing turn drenched to the skin but un-train could not leave until the guard, aut tickets. He experimented in daunted.
known in those days as the "con-his spare time and printed some {building up for Austria A Once he saved the life of his com-ductor," had his waybill completed small cardboard tickets which he
stronger economic position, panton after a sudden capsize, for and in his pocket. which, ance achieved, would do he was a magnificent swimmer. Hong Kong, Thursday, Sept. 28, 1933. Away, ipso facto, with the prin- for efpal material inducement that country's joining itself to Germany. The French objection to such an association is of old
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Italy And Central Europe.
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Your Daily Smile
COULD'T SEE IT
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placed in a rack which he also in- vented. He saw that the ticket had many disadvantages, but, 123- daunted, he invented a machine for Booking for a Journey
no printing the tickets, dating them, rapid procedure, Tickets-some-and numbering them progressively. HUSBAND: Sorry I'm late, dear,mes four and half inches in length His idea was a success, and he was standing, and the grounds of it but I punctured a tire on a bottle.were issued in books, and had to able to resign from his insignificant be endorsed with the date, time of position to enter into "engagements are obvious. Italy, on her side, WIFE: Couldn't you see the
not desire to The Italian Foreign Office has does
train, name of passenger, and des- with the railway companies wishing sce the bottle?
unation. All this information had to adopt his system of Passenger issued a statement denying the frontier of Germany extended so
HUBBY: WELL,, no! You see, it
to be recorded also on the counter-Tickets in connection with the authenticity of the Various as to march with her own, Bri-was in the chap's pocket,
folt, which remained in the poses-General Railway Clearing Office in gen- stories lately in circulation re-tish interest coincides,
* garding trade agreements be-feral, with any measures in the
sion of the railway company. The about to be established in London." EXPERIENCE IS COSTLY
His invention had placed him on tween Italy on the one hand and nature of a lowering of trade
HERBERT: She says she thinks passenger was then "ushered" into Austria
the correct compartment and after a pinnacle in the railway world. He his ticket had been taken from him was able to charge the companies other. The truth of the matter return of prosperity to
ALBERT: Well, that seems en he was locked. In. In these daya on, a mileage basis for the use of is that active imaginations have poverished areas. It is believed, couraging, and still you don't look this might not be an alarming pro- his patents. A railway line 30 miles Kone considerably beyond the moreover, that Signor Mussolini happy.
cedure, but railways then did not long brought him in £15 a year and actual facts of the situation now contemplates the possibility of
HERBERT: No. I took her out always enjoy the public confidence £5 a your was charged for every developing under the direction of France, of Czechoslovakia, even last night and the first lesson cost which rests in them to-day. additional five miles of line. Fur- Signor Mussolini. Discussions of Roumania, finding it to their me my whole week's wager,
The present day "Third Class" thermore, he charged £150 for in- have been in progress for some interest to lend themselves ac-
bis printing machine, passengers are granted a degree of stalling months past. They advanced to tively to his policy of providing
BOTH THE SAME.
comfort which exceeds by far the counting machine, and the necessary basis for Austrian an important stage with the a broader
"Come in and tell me what you luxury of First Claas travel when type, ribbons and ink. meeting between Signor Musso-economic development. It is a think of my loudspeaker."
railwave were young.
The Great Western Railway Com- lini and the Austrian Chancellor policy informed by the spirit of "I should like to, old man, but I
The so-called "very lowest order pany adopted Edmondson's inven- at Rimini. At that time it was far-sighted statesmanship. Nor promised faithfully to meet mine af of passengers (Third-Class travel- tion in 1845, paying £75 a year for possible to forecast very accan its author be unconscious of seven sharp." · curately the lines along which the irony of a situation in which
and Hungary on the barriers and a furtherance of the she can learn to love me.
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lers) were not even allowed to travel its use on the first 300 miles of on some railway lines. The Groat line, plus 6s. per annum for each mile. The earliest an improvement of the troubled Italy, stronger than she has ever
Western Railway Company, for in, subsequent Austrian situation, in particular, been, comes to the rescue of an Who cares whether Helen
stance, did not relent from this at-(example of a Great Western card- was to be sought. It was not Austria which retains no more Troy was a blonde or not? The titude until 1840, and even then board passenger ticket extant print- then suggested that anything than the name of the great reason she is famous is because she such passengers were allowed to ed on Edmondson's machine is had been settled; and in fact Power from which Italy had once gowns from Paris.
travel only on goods traina. Fur-dated July 1, 1840, and numbered But to wrest her nationhood and her nothing bas been settled.
įther, they had to sit in open car 1118. there is no doubt of its being freedom.
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# MODERN VERSION.
The evil that men do lives after
Signor Mussolini's desire to fortify the position of Austria on Organising The War On them in their friends' published re-
by
The Slums.
When the
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Short History of America,
1933 Brains Trust. 1934 Brains Bust.
ita economic alde; and the means which Italy could extend assistance of that kind have been
This month is a critical period in indicated. The elements are Britain in the organisation of the present, in fact, for an agree-
war against slums. ment in the nature of a recipro-Minister of Health announced In the cal tariff bargain, assuring to both Austria and Hungary frear spring the concentration of financial and administrative effort on the re- access to the Italian market and housing of the slum population, he to those of each other. There asked the local authorities to sab European imports of crude petro are also reasons why Italy might it to the Government programmes leum exceeded 25,000,000 barrels well favour the plan of offering and time labies for the operations last year. free port facilities to Austria
in their areas before Sept. 80. The
Facts You Did Not Know.
ROYAL ACADEMY.
REVIEW
Mediocre Pictures A 1933 Feature.
BARGAIN PRICES PREVAIL
London.
The 1988. Royal Academy has closed and stock can be taken
SOMETHING TO COLLECT.
£1,285 Arrears Of Alimony.
High Point, North Carolina. Seventeen years is a long time, but Mrs. Nancy Reynolds, of High. Point, probably will· collect her alimony after all,
In 1916. Mrs. Reynolds obtain- ed an order from' à court in At-
and Hungary at Trieste, and response has been very encouraging. Lifting a telephone from a new of the year's art. possibly at Fiume. If the dis The great majority of the London stand automatically quieta radio The Academy had a bad year lanta, Georgia, ordering her hus- cussions pursue their present boroughs have already made plans sets operating near by.. favourable course an arrange for new, bufiding or for the deve
mony. Then her husband, J. L
in attendances but sales of pic band to pay her £5 a_month all- tures increased alightly," ment of this character may Jopment of old property in places A French scientist has found Last year 247 pictures were Reynolds, a. contractor, disap-, would be a natural outcome of expenditure of £35,000,000 is being than two miles a minute, the decided change which has undertaken by the London County
taken place in the point of view Council, through which over
Was
pictures brought £11,000, Only Now attorneys have found Reynolds in San Diego, Call- one oil painting in seven
fornia, and they worked out the sold.
alimony with interest. It amounts Everyone seems to agree that to £1,285 and the case has been Italy, which are interested in that a quarter of a million slum-ministration. There are workers it was a mediocre Academy in docketed in the California court. maintaining the independent ex-dwellers will be given new homes, who cannot be moved far from their
of the Powers, and especially of period of ten years it is estimated
istence of Austria. In opposition The problem of the slum in London, employment, there are people who act one critic thinks it was a-Reuter. to the German effort to force a it was recognised by the Ministry, will not go away from the locality pity there was no really start- political development in that of Health from the first, stands by in which their friendships and song "problem" picture to raviva country which would make it itself. Such great aggregation of cial copnections, have been formed, interest.
SUICIDE THAT FAILED.
virtually, if not actually, a part population, auch large distances. be- If the cost of the new dwelling and Big canvasses apparently do of the German system. Recent tween employment, and available of transportation to and from it be not sell in these days of small events have convinced both Lon-building sites, create dimculties not excessive the abolition of a sipm, houses and flats. There is quite Dynamite In Mouth Only don and Paris that direct poll- comparable with those elsewhere, it has already been sadly proved, a demand for small water
Removes Teeth tical representations in Berlin la provincial, cities conditions vary may actually be injurious to the colours, however rideki must be fruitlessAn attempt greatly, and while some, can count welfare of Its inhabitanta, All There is a slump in landscapes to invoke the authority of the upon the complete, abolition of their these factors have to be allowed for and life studies — still lifes and
adel-Belgrade, League of Nations, might well alums in the near future, others in new housing - - schemes. Civic interiors were the most popular A man at Osijek, Yugoslavia, des
pictures,
QC cided to commit suicide. He placed nd- of artist is feel- a dynamite,tariridge in his mouth-
"and, pictures, arp and exploded it valuePAKAN
Even so, the B When he recovered, consologs- MONE-FIRMON Dess he found that his front teets
196 TE 1715 Kad been blown out Ou
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