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Hu Shih's Eight "Don'ts”
Bu Shih, the fiery little "father of the Chinese, Renaissance,” spoke [for his country at the Instituba of Pacific Relations in its sension .at |Banff, Canada. He is an ardent dlaciple of American · Idenla— health, sanitation, popular govern- ment, industrial progress.
SATURDAY DECEMBER
1933
NEWFOUNDLAND-THE NEXT MOVE
BIG OPPORTUNITY FOR
BRITISH SETTLERS
RICH RESOURCES UNTOUCHED
(By Richmond Wheeler.)
Still in his 'Torties, this scholar' [The British Government hasport them till their land becomes ly little gentleman is a graduate of offered to take over the administra- productive. And people with limit- | Columbia › University, a disciple of tion of Newfoundland, to save the ed incomes, such as pensions, should Dr. John Dewey, and for fifteen Dominion from financial collapse. find living, there cheaper than in years or more has popularised the Would recovery be assisted by mass England. -
best American ideas among - mil-immigration and more industries? Development Necessary [lions of Uhinete..
The point is discussed, in this arti-
But Individual emigration, though- Dr. Hu sums up his literary cie.]
a move in the right direction, does. ideala' in eight "Don'ts:"
"Don't]
ļuse alfusions; don't use old and Many people remain impressed by not solve the problem. Industries. trite words; don't use parallel the possible dangers and obvious should be transplanted, or new branches opened to use raw material: phrases; don't avoid colloquial drawbacks of the congestion of,117 language; don't be high-sounding too large a proportion of the whiten the spot. The first consequence stilted: don't wxaggerate; population of the Empire within would be the absorption of the un-- don't imitate the ancients; don't these islands, and wonder what the employed in the Dominion. Then |workers, mental and manual, who speak. mere words-say some remedy 18. |thing!"
were willing, would be transferred' So it is urgent to consider what from England, with their familled. »
and
Outlets for these new Industries:
He advisen Chinese students to parts of the Empire are most suit- stop parading and agitating, and able for Immigration from Great would be found in Britain as re-- to attend to their studies. "Hu Britain on a large scale..
gards fish, timber, perhaps most;
Shih, says a colleague, "has touch- There are several factors of and metals; and in Canada and the ed the pulse of a nation and be- come the spokesman of thousands who hope to bring about the salva
tion of China."
First many United States, to which transport practical importance.
hindered from even would be cheaper than from Britalu.. Feople are thinking of emigrating by the pros-The shipping used to take workers pect of long and expensive journeys. and machinery from England could:
Secondly, sheer distance is abring back cheaply "much material drawback in itself; it renders com-jat present' obtained from abroad, munication with friends and rela Newfoundland agriculture, as well! tives difficult, and makes a return, as fisheries, forestry, and mining, is A pessimist is an optimist who for reasons of health or any other full of promine, Sir Wilfred Gren- married the girl
Your Daily Smile.
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TOO COMPLICATED Under Arabic law, to divorce
used.
cause an arduous matter, even if fell and Dr. Darling have advocated there is a possibility of State ald. the use of Labrador for raising- SLIPS THAT PASS -
caribou as a new source of good red Thirdly, many look askance at "Two workmen were The China Mail self. A trillion five hundred
severely climates which seem very different meat from regions at present un- billion ounces of gold-ano one burned by catching hold of elec from that to which they are accus of the ablest chemists of our trie wives."
tomed, especially people with fami- Britain and Ulster should be ex-. The free trade between Great Hong Kong, Saturday, Dec. 22, 1933. time throws up his hands. Yet
lies or those who are no longet the living plankton that he ex-
tended to Newfoundland as far and [young.",
jas soon as possible. The two-coun-- amined in his thoroughness had
Finally, many who might settle tries could form one postal unit." managed to filch enough precious your wife you lead her to the door down comfortably in a new sphore metal for detection. How do and repeat three times, "I divorce themselves would like to feel that private enterprise, A Chartered, Thus there is scope for publie and' these little organisms do it? you.". A Reno official can't think they could occasionally take a holi- Company on the lines suggested by The Smithsonian Institution's What is it about an oyster that why they Insigt, on all these day trip to the Old Country with Sir Edward Grigg, deserves serious "Physical Tables" for 1933 is the gives it the power to extract troublesome formalities.
out waiting, to make a highly pro-consideration, Earl: Jellicoe haa last place where one would seeki
blematical fortune; or even send romance. Yet it prints figures
(Continued on Page 11). their children there for part ht to make the eyes of treasure-teria in the fermentation indus- Wife: "I can read you like a least of their education without ab- hunters open wide. They are tries without knowing in the book, John." figures of gold-gold in sea least how they work. Must we Husband:
normally "great" cost. "Why
don't
Newfoundland is therefore the water,gold enough to make harness micro-organisms and then? You skip what you don't region which should be considered. every one of the 2,000,000,000 shellfish for ocean gold? like in a book, and linger over it in it is a "white" man's country, and people on earth rich to the extent!
ime."
the nearest part of the Empire of of £5,000 at prevailing prices. Figure it out for yourself on the]
basis of a billion cubic kilometers of water, forty-five millionths of
copper and manganese from the ocean? We have harnessed bac
"Ae" In London.
Samobody
Oa
The Difference-
.
you,
VICIOUS CIRCLE The Manchester "Money makes money," says
financier. That explains why George Willlum
a milligram of. gold in each kilo-Guardian found gram and a weight of a trillion Russell "In a flat not far from the never have any money. kilograms for each cubic kilo Marble Arch." He will work no ·
But this is not all. Ac-more in Ireland unless he goes to meter. cording to Drs. Thompson and Donegal to paint. He may-and
SOLEMN THOUGHT It's too bad that so much that Robinson, whose analyses for the should return to America next broadens the mind also hardens
National Research Council ap-Spring. He won't go back to Tre-the arteries. pear in the "Tables," there is one land unless the political secret so- thousand times as much silver as cietles break up. Inherited from "I Say, Daddy........." gold in the ocean, so that we times when they were necessary, Before the India Commission must add somewhat to this for they continue in a State whose name Sir Samuel Hoare answered 15,000 tune of £5,000, We prefer the they belle, To Mr. Russell they are questions. What an ideal father more modest estimates of Dr. a form of intellectual cowardice. for small boys!. Fritz Haber, Nobel Prize winner"It is only the people who cannot
|which this can bë, satd.
Itancar
| world" "makes this clearer.
TESTING EARTH'S MOVEMENTS
N. America Stretching; Westwards:
SCIENTISTS AT SAN DIEGO
ness to England is obscured of dis a tances running east and west on I the familiar Mercator maps and by the wholly misleading, division of the world into two halves, "new"
San Diego, California. and "old," on other atlases. A map Scientists have arrived here to showing the northern half of the make tests to determine if the John's, the capital, is 1,900 miles shifting westward. Data were St North American Continent is from Liverpool and 1,100 miles from accumulated by similar tests New York. In other words, ita die seven years ago. tance from England is less than that. The theory was advanced by a of Malta by sea,
The population of Newfoundland tinent has shifted nine feet since
German scientist that the con-- is British, largely of West Country 1924, or at about the average of English stock; the aborigines are a foot a year. wholly extinct. The climate of
Lieut. Commander Guggen- most of the faland is much like that helm of the French Navy, John of Britain, the mean temperature E. Willes, who was among those of the capital being 42deg F It who recorded data in 1926, and lies just south of Brighton in lati Chester B. Watts, astronomer, of tude, and stands to the American Washington, District of Colum continent in much the same. con bia, will conduct the testa here. venient position, as does Britairi to
An observatory is under con Europe,
struction on North Island, at the Naval Radio Station,
and inventor of the synthetic explain themselves in public who Once is Enough ammonia process that enabled organise their politics on the lines. We are told that the present age Germany to manufacture high of secret societies and who resort is making history. We can only explosives during the war when to physical force. One does not hope that it won't repeat imelf. she was cut off from Chilean like to have one's destinies decided
nitrate. According to him, there by people you do not know, who do My Tame Typist
is somewhat more than twice as not explain themselves and whose Lost her Job at the solicitor's much silver as gold in the sea sole authority over you is superior because she took a will for a deed. We must add the bromine, cal-physical force." Mr. Russell des-
Facts You Did Not Know.
Increased Importance
The importance of Newfoundland
Short-wave radio time sigrimis
has increased, enormously since ita will, bể broadcast around the ownership of Labrador was settled world hourly, and, the times of
clum, iodine, manganese and acribes the attitude of a secret so- dozen other elements to complete ciety as "I can't argue with you the picture of marine wealth and Intellectually, but I will knock you to arrive at a figure for each on the head if you stand in my world inhabitant utterly beyond way." He has only become more Germans have invented rubber by the Frivy Council in 1927 The transmission and reception.com/ the comprehension of an Austra- averse to “five nonentities censoring tired trucks on which railway
aren* of - Newfoundland↑ Uself»»li puted that th {llian bushman or an African the reading of a nation Seen freight cars can be placed without about four-fifths that of England; By this means and by astrono- Pygmy The Smithsonian In-through his spectacles, the Irish removing their wheels and towed Labrador adds to this 110,000 square mical observation the party hopes stitution is not trying to revive Free State at present seems to ez. by automobils to store doors for miles of virgin land, rich in timber, to be able to tell if the continent
minerals and fisheries, interest in an old swindling aggerate to the point of caricature loading or unloading.
is stretching westward -Reuter, scheme. Thar's gold in that the delicate American sense of the
Newfoundland in ong of the water, but it's harder to get at proprieties and decencies as Mrs. To guide motorists on strange
world's greatest sources of fron than it ever was in "them hills," Trollope recorded them a hundred roads, a compass that records: the Copper, load, gypsum, and other Haber made what must be re years ago: "A short while ago direction in which a car is heading prea and earths occur in large quan- garded as the supreme effort at there was even a han put on a pos- by operating a dial has been invent, tities. There are at least two coal- experimental extraction with all tor of a naked baby sitting up in ed to be mounted on an instrument producing areas, and great beds of the resources of the Kaiser Will: Its bath, though in almost every board with a suction cup. helm Institute behind him, only house. in Ireland every day in the det
[oll shale, Timber, in abundant. The famous cod fishery la capable of further development, as are other iving only fisheries, Including that of excellent
wainson.** land
to find that the amount of gold year there is a naked baby being Although no larger than varies widely at different depths bathed. - In another / place, the state of Colorado and and in different latitudes. He Christian Brothers, Horrified 17 at 1,500,000 Inhabitants, even tried to coax the metal out what they took to bé Goldsmith's has ́ more than 50 of polar ice, a cubic meter of indecency, changed in a school bext which are assim which contains as much as of the em the line the shade for ment twenty milligrams — enough"to
maks a California dredging com- [pany begin to figure, "Yet he re- {tired to write for the Zeitschrift fur angewandte Chemie a pessi- mistic paper which has become a kind of classic in technical litera: ture. There is a better un (of finding the proves
lovers tion.
the
Newfoundland Itself thus offers room for a great sohits pops Increase Interest in avia: running into millions, under,
zimately, British cond
forday wiht Tab
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