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EVERYWHERE
A "Time" For London
Mr. Henry Luce, editor and creator of "Time,” America's po pular weekly, contemplates start- ing a Londan edition of his news- paper..
So far the project is not more: than an ambition. When Mr. Luce! makes up his mind to do anything,, however, he puts it through.
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MONDAY, MAY 7, 1934.
SOUTH AFRICA MAKES FRIENDS
COUNTRY OF HOSPITALITY AND ALLURING CHARM
INCOMPARABLE ARCHITECTURE
(By Neil Grant.)
The
There is a saying that Southling again. The old farmer, scarcely a word of English, Africa is a country which pulls. able to talk He started "Time" six years ago People from overseas visit it, and smoked his pipe continually. with two Tale friends, a fountain they have a trick of returning. Ladles smiled when we begged them pea, and a few thousand borrowed Mer who emigrated to it years be to leave us to our fate. The youth dollars.
fore the Boer War and have made inboured on, and the car was push- My host "Time" has proved a gold-mine. it their home have a yearning fored forward in triumph.
begged the boy to accept-a note. He Its eirculation has now passed the the natal village. 1450,000 mark.
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Making A Convert
They strike their tents and buy a refused. house in the Mother Country, but
Next week he might be stranded. our help.
the veldt calls them and they go back and he would require
to South Africa to die. For South There was a pretty and polite battle, Mr. Luce has another newspa=! per venture-"Fortune," a beauti-Africa has Barrie's "charm." and and ultimately young Piet accepted. was charming countries, like charming the solatium. But to be sure that fully printed monthly, which
Afrikaans fuartette followed launched In the early days of the people, are always sure of their ap-we would not again be stranded, the
peal. slump.
it.
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She is sur-
us
Intended principally for big. The hospitality of South Africa thirty miles off the road until we If you are British, had crossed the Piennar River. So business men, it has never paid is proverbial. like "Time," and does not do more you make many friends in a visft, much for racialism, O Doctor Malan!
Young South Africa than cover expenses.
There is and if you stay a month in Cape
Much of the
of South grace some English capital Invested in Towa or Durban you have become a
household word, especially If your African hospitality springs from After the women. The South African girl Hard-bitten and not given to surname begins with Mac.
Europe, is as natural as a deer or a wild hero-worship, Mr. Luce was form-those sordid sojourns. erly a strong critle of President where the only interest shown in flower. She spends so much of her Roosevelt until he received an invi-you is in the size of your tip, it is time in the open air that she has She knows delightful to visit a land where it no bias towards poses. tation to go to Washington.
The President received him, satis more customary to give than to that in a country where nature is perpetually springing surprises sho him down in a big chair, and said: receive.
has no time for subterfuges. "I'm here to be shot at. Ask me all
Pressing Welcome
If she is hard, well, she tells you the questions you like." A two-
If she is As soon as you land you fall she is granite.
Boft- of Roosevelt magne- Criendliness and loyalty to the hours' dose
Roosevelt manners did victim to those hospitable clutches. hearted, she coos like one of the To pretend Crawn which exists among those tism and
Only after considerable experience South African doves. can you develop enough social cun-to be what you are not Is the goal who have at some time been the trick.
ning to escape. You are beguiled of many Western young women. inimical to British rule in South
Cloud Of Witnesses into a house for a morning cup of That trick is beyond the daughters The Royal Tour. Africa. The Royal visit thus ce-
Three thousand cars, we are told,tes. At noon you rise to bid faro of the veldt. mented the bonds of allegiance scoured the shores of Loch Ness well to your hostess.
But do not imagine that the South From the day when he sailed to the Crown and gave a wide during the Easter Holiday. prised. So is your host. So are the Africans are simple and unsophisti
cated. Go to a cinema, particularly from England for South Africa vision of unity in that common It is only surprising that there sons and daughters of the house.
The Even the native servants "the in Johannesburg, and you will find and watched the Prince of Wales fealty. On one occasion, for in-are any shores left to scour
You are that the sob-stuff which melts a Lon. filip given by this incursion to local boys'--look bewildered. circling overhead in his plane asistance, a Governor's garden
given to understand that you have doj audience sends young South trade is estimated at £2,250. a farewell gesture, until his re-party, which was attended by
The monster, or its manager, has been invited to lunch. There is the Africa into roars of ribald laughter. You wait to Moreover, their treatment of nomo cent return to England. Prince 4,000 people, was followed by a studied the art of publicity at the table laid for you. George has been unremitting in
Its techni-lunch, you wait for tea. you are pos-London stage favourite la cruel-- | 1100-European reception, also Garbo-Hepburn school.
que differs radically from that ofisibly led to the dinner table, and you and salutary-in the extreme.
The star who visits South Africa This efforts to uphold the Royal
thronged by thousands, which Mr. Bernard Shaw. It is both shy are lucky if you escape before mid-
twice is ranning a risk. They are prestige and command the affec-¡
night. was the first gathering of the and reticent.
During the week-end it made two, tion of His Majesty's subjects.
You take a young lady, in to din-realists in the land of the springbok. kind ever held." And at Johan-
The Hospitality and friendliness tantalisingly brief appearances: one? ner. Tennis is casually mentioned. He visited every part of the
nesburg, often the centre
to a girl hockey player on the north Does the young lady play? She alone make a visit delightful, but Union of South Africa. the na-
trouble in the past, the tour ride of the loch, the other to a does. Would it be possible to fix up the country itself is a treasure-trove tive territories, Southern and
reached a triumphal climax of chemist on the south side.
a game? The young lady would be of beauty. During my visit almost Northern Rhodesia, the Belgian enthusiasm. Zulu warriors Iaid
Curiously enough, both these ap-delighted. You learn later that she unprecedented rains, following upon jis a chumpion, and has played with the drought, had transformed the veldt into the Congo, and Angola. During the gifts at the Prince's feet and he pearances were simultaneous.
distinction on the centre court at brown and dusty tour he travelled a total of 10,000
Wimbledon. welcomed with Afrikaans!
She is so anxious to greenness of the English country. Your Daily Smile!
Nature rejoiced, and the miles. in the Union alone travel-
songs. The Royal visit to South
please that she forgets she is a cele-side.
trees were clapping their hands, ling 4,000 miles by train and
Africa was a triumph in every A well-known poet intends to brity."
Blessed is the country with beau Do you play golf Well, yes. hut tiful trees, and South Africa CID 2,500 miles by car, visiting 44|
way, but it was a triumph in two write a poem about his next-doarj
neighbour because they are you have not brought your clubs. A boast of the jacaranda (surely one- centres, and receiving more than especial senses. It was a person-
friends, How on earth does he plus two man sends his armoury of of the loveliest trees in the world), 160 addresses of welcome, apartial triumph for Prince George, treat his enemies?
weapons. You are about to begin the flamboyant, the gumtree, with
warking from native affirmations of
and the vociferous enthusiasm "Some men stay out late at night when the plus two man,
its provocative red flower, stout oaks. loyalty. It may be said literally which greeted him, everywhere for the good of their health," says hard in distant Cape Town, sende which advertise good soll, and plan that he travelled high and low was a tribute to the charm of a doctor. Others refrain from do- his chauffeur with an urgent mes-tation after plantation of fir and for, hatless and clad in khaki "shorts," he climbed 3,000 feet! to the summit of Table Mountain. whilst in Johannesburg he don-
was
of
his personality. As has been
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ing so-for the same reason.
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A traffic light
accom-
Means "Slop" when red, But lips that are
well said, "for all his compara-By-the-way. tive youth (he is only thirty-one years of age), he is an
kage.
It appears that the licensing laws]
(Is of South Africa are peculiar. there any country in the world where the licensing laws
not Whisky cannot be pecullar?) served in the club, so the chauffeur (But only the green wall for the has been sent with a special bottle
Mean "Go ahead."
ned white overalls to descend the plished diplomat, a statesman, a shaft of the Crown mine to exman of affairs, and a man of the plore the tunnels 7,000 feet be world." At the same time the signal).
He Jow the
carth's surface,
tour was a triumph of loyalty, came into personal contact with
to
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A MAN OF POLISH
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fin mines, in the cities and na
tive kraals. And everywhere, among all sections of the popu lace, regardless of colour and caste, race and creed, the people of South Africa received the Prince with open arms, and took him to their hearts. The Royal the spontaneous affection of its Engaged. visitor, with that charm of man- free subjects.
proof of the happy spirit in A Paris bootblack claims to be the people of South Africa in which the families of the British a former Bussian nobleman. town and village, on farms and Commonwealth of Nations pay
the True To Type. unswerving homage
The famous surgeon who picked Crown as symbol of its unity and up a book and burned straight strength. Whilst dictators and the appendix. oligarchies are ruling in Europe
ner and frank democratic atti- tude which we already have ex- perienced from the Prince of Wales, endeared himself to one) and all. At Capetown he had a special word for the Cape colour-
by violence and suppression, by What Is It? the forces of fear and intoler- ance, the British Crown receives
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HEALTHIEST MAN IN ONTARIO, Rolls In Snow Almost Every Night.
Sudbury, Ontario.
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Twinkle, twinkle, cheap cigar. How I wonder what you are.
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Are
of the plus two man's own brand; with apologies for the oversight.
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watile.
(Continued on Page 3).
KING GEORGE V's ACCESSION,
Anniversary Honoured By 21-Gun Salute.
Help On The Road The courtesy of South African A 21-gun salute was given from motorists amazes you in your first H.M.S. Tamar and H.MIS. Caradoc week. After you have motored at noon to-day in honour of the 24th through Zululand or the Northern anniversary of the accession to the to Transvaal, you understand the punc- throne of His Majesty, King George tilious stopping of most motorists V, which was observed in Hong Kong when the approach a stationary car, yesterday.
A diamond is a woman's idea of a stepping-stone to success.
Exactly!
Jones:
worth of oranges,
Smith: Going to buy
Jones: What on earth for? Smith: Sixpence.
"OK." "O.K., thank you." (O.K.) Prior to the firing of the salute is now a password in South Africa, the guards of both warships parad- and the "boys" love to roll it rounded the upper decks,
their good-natured tongues),
All men-of-war vessels in harbour
A breakdown in those lonely yesterday were fully dressed in hon-- spaces is a serious matter, and our of the occasion.
Our
TONKIN REMAINS AGROUND.
Salvage Operations In Favourable Weather.
motorists are brotherly unto one an- other, especially when the roads are Hello, old man, where fooded, when literally great walls of water descend on and overwhelm the are you off to 1
sixpenny-bridges, and when shrewd farmers stand by with spans of oxen to pull derelict cars along roads that have become, raging torrents. Courtesy ed contingent, especially the in
Arat is the motto in a land where
Under favourable weather, condi- Nature is too capricious to be safe. tions salvage operations are pro valided soldiers, and shook hande
In the Northern Transvaal with the Indian leader. In the Jimmie Cormack, a Sudbury milk-Yes, I'd Have to Bo
I suppose you are just crazy, to
coeding on the stranded sa. Tonkin, car was waterlogged, and the car althoughs. It is not possible to state-". klas me.' Orange Free State he frateraised, is renowned as the healthiest
burettor refused to function. The definitely when the vessel will be re- with an old Dutch soldier who He never wears a hit even when
car was a new one, and my host was fosted, was the message received had lost an arm in the Boer War, the temperature drops 28 degrees Always -"-
Begin at the bottom except when unfamiliar with its mechanism from the Talkoo Dockyard this below freezing point,
Behind us lined up a venerable, cat morning who are in communication and in Bechuanaland" he talked
Here is his recipe for keeping fit you are learning to swim.
containing an old Boer farmer, who
with their tugboat, with Tahekedl, the central figure and warm-
might have come straight from
The s.4. Tonkin ran aground on... Paul Kruger's stoep, his wife, his daughter, and his grandson, Nauchau Leland, off Fort Bayard, on The local agents are The youth stayed with us three April 25. hours, helping to get the engine go-Messageries, Maratimes, et Clé
man' in Ontario."
in the trouble there last Septem- "The reason I don't freeze is that What's the Uss Anyway.
1
ber. These may seem small inci- strip to the waist and roll in the Of having money if you don't It's know how to enjoy it, and what's snow. almost every night. dents, but they evince in un-healthy. A snow bath deniable fashion the spirit of -Bauter..
if you haven't got any!
Gardens one," the use of knowing how to enjoy