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Olympiads.
HERE,
THERE
and
EVERYWHERE
Pink Poetry
The American Communist Parly has been holding its annual eqn=] vention at Cleveland.
It includes several members who are knowIL 18 Parlour Pinki. Among them le Mr. Corlis Lamont,
WHAT IS TIME?
FUTURE CAN BE SEEN IN SLEEP
EARTH'S SPEED SLOWS DOWN
То
(By Gerald Heard.)
So you can now tell how old cer- asking tain rocks are, and you' have a sort.
10 most. people that doesn't seem
2 question worth younger son of Mr. Tom Lamont. Every one knows what Time is. of clock which can tell you roughly
the Morgan partner.
The star turn of the programme|
There are twenty-four hours of it in years the age of the earth.
But what if the years themselves, was the launching of the new Com-in every day, and each of them takes
and the days 'and the months which munist anthem, "Put one More exactly sixty minutes.
"Time" is when the referee blows make them up, are really not all of 'S' in the US.A." This is the
his whistle, and he blows it when his the same size? chorus:
What if our feeling that they watch shows the period is up.
You may quarrel with him about stretch at times and at other times anything else, but if his watch is shrink is not an Illusion but a fact? The radium rock clock could not right no one thinks of questioning
tell you whether that feeling is either Time.
Yet, like most obvious things, true or false, and It is precisely that Time is more obvious than simple.which we want to know about Time. And the factories to the working Time gets away with its mystery Can we find any sort of clock in
Put one more "S" in the U.S.A. To make it pure Soviet,
One more "S" in the U.S.A.. We'll live to see it yet. When the land belongs to the
farmers
men,
just as a conjurer gets away with ourselves? Some people think there The U.S.A. when we take con-his tricks-because we don't watch is. They think our sense of time-
trol
Will be U.S.S.A. then.
The author is the negro poet Langston Hughes.
"The Weary Blues" is so far his best known work. It is likely to remain so.
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The Wandering Jews The latest home suggested for European Jews is in Portuguese West Africa.
it carefully enough, we take it too depends on the deep feeling of how four body is running on and running mach for granted.
down.
Like Elastic
The pace you live at, like a little
Still, every now and then we do secret clock, tells you that time la feel a bit uncertain and uneasy about really flowing away.
it. We talk of the minutes drag-! Some experiments seem to sup- ging by when we are anxious, of a port that belief. long quarter of an hour, or, when
If you hypnotise people and tell
we are excited, of half an hour gone them that in one million seconds in a flash.
wherever they are, whether awake
Is this nonsense? It is nonsense or asicep, they will take a pencil and to talk of a ton of coal weighing a paper and write "Time is up" they Apart from the schemes in
will do so, though when you have great deal. Palestine and Soviet Russia, other! Is it absurd to talk of a long hour brought them round from their colonising plans for the Jews have or a short one? We have all ex-trance they have no memory of your been made recently, includingį
Iperienced
telling them so to do and you your- such countries Ecuador and the. Why, even in that practical place self have no idea on what date ahead never be in want; and no doubt
Argentine.
the kitchen we know "A. watched one million seconds from now actual- the original of the Discobolus'
Bound up with all these schemes kettle never boils."'
ly falls. would be lionised wherever hel
question
Jewish
Unknown Power went after his victory.
Time seems, like elustic, to stretch But al- sovereignty, Many Jews would ways there was the restraining establish a Jewish State, when we put any pull on it. That looks as though some timing inspiration of the contest; that Where in this State
In short, is clock time real Time? apparatus in them was keeping count the only thing that mattered Palestine? Africa? South America?
Summer Time at least shows that all the while. It can't be heart- was to be the best man, and that
There cannot very well be more we can play about with clock time beats, for they vary, was to find out the object
than one Jewish State, if indeed to a certain extent without upsetting Very lately it has been discovered anything really. And just to have that whether you are awake or who the best man was.
In local contests there is no
the 18
there can be one.
sovereignty.
of
to be?
bi-racial problem.
of columns of sporting gossip! tours of the 'Springbok' fifteens countenance a State within a Stat Gregorian Calendar had not been our hand seizes the pencil and makes
Your Daily Smile!
да
The recent trouble at Manila sets one thinking of these inter- national contests and their in- fluence in social and political
In Palestine most Jews have re-discovered that is a first step toward asleep, in fact till you die, a feeling; and from that rumina- lack of the proper spirit. Onenounced the ideal. They think the solving this difficult and fascinating regular electrical rhythm, which is tion easily slips on to our sport plays for the school or college or Holy Land must be a
not upset by anything you do, runs For when, in the early seventeen: across the brain every moment of ing contests in general, to ama- club against very friendly enem-entity. In Russia they may hope teurism and professionalism.ies,, who may be playing in the
It must put the calendar right there This may be the boat which counts. averages and records, publicity same team soon afterwards. The for autonomy, but certainly not for hundreds, the Government decided your life, and hero-worship, Leagues and opponent in a club game may be The authorites both in South was more popular disturbance than out the seconds to our subconscious mind until the appointed moment. their finance. pot-hunting and the colleague in an interport. In
Owing to the fact that the old comes, when, like a striking clock, the victorious America and in Africa will hardly if to-day it again cut the dole. sportsmanship. What myriads South Africa
exact (for the earth, unfortunately, the ordered record. What recriminations and explan. were quite a considerable factor
does not go round the sun in
Anyhow, it is a fact that this ex- There is clearly some in creating the feeling of Union ations!
before the political achievement
exact number of days) the calendar periment has worked so frequently thing wrong somewhere. A gen-
that there must be some unknown eration ago when games and of it. But no athletic competi- nourish 4 sentiment
Head of firm: "How long do you dates "hud got a good deal out. sport were on a much smaller tions can
want to be away on your honey. In fact, the calendar was eleven recording power at the back of our When the scale, and organisation much that does not exist.
moon?" Johnson (timidly): "Well, days behind the actual time of year minda keeping time for us. more casual. it was taken for European Olymple games were air-er-how long would you say?" where of the sun and the stars show- But doesn't that show that Time granted that they could not pos- held in Paris much bad blood Head of firm: "How do I know? Ied it ought to be. The Government is constant, that Time always takes of the day, therefore, put forward the same time? It would seem so aibly lead to anything but good was caused by the mobbing of haven't seen the bride."
Perhaps another foreign winners. A very unus-
the calendar eleven days, just as this if only there were not other facts comradeship. example of what is called Vic-ual event happened
Sunday morning we put on the clock which seem to show the raverat. torian complacency. Conditions when the Foreign Office address-
A great number of people, far It was simply a matter of clock or more than those who have carried' have been improved; training is ed an official letter to the Foot- A golden wedding in America one hour. more scientific; the records of ball Association, supported by now is one whase you are getting
calendar book-keeping.
out the million-second time-keeping the champlons have reached 2 extracts from newspapers, point-married for the fiftieth time.
Slice Of Life
test, have had previsions, have seen higher level. Only the joy of ing out that the recent tour of a
Mother: "Why are you putting The people, however, did not think events which have yet to happen. the game and the comradeship of representative team had left
Many of these cases have been told. cough-drop into the gramo-it at all so innocent. They thought, contest have, at the higher level, very bad impression. The team a
Jon the contrary, that the best part to witnesses before the event took. had failed to keep in training, phone?" evanesced.
Angel Child: "Because it is of a fortnight had been taken from place. What are we to make of such-· The revival of the Olympic and had been beaten by clubs in
their lives.
unsettling seeinge-through, seeings- games Was a rather self-con- Italy and Hungary that had no hoarse, Mummy."
"Give us back our eleven days," ahead? We have got to accept the scious and pedantic effort to pretensions to equal skill.
Teacher: "Is your father kind they shouted, as they demonstrated evidence if it is proved, and it seems imitate & fampus, almost legen- Heaven forbid that any new fuel
none too peacefully against a Govern-that it is.. dary, institution, without its should be added to the flames to animals, Tommy
On first principles Scienco по Tommy: "Yes, Miss; he said he'd ment which they held was not con- central inspiration. The Greek that flicker round the head of the
that you games were religious festivals. redoubtable Larwood, and what like to kill the man who scratches tent to take their money, but now longer rejects the iden
was also going to take a slice of might be able to see future events A number of small communities his supporters call leg-theory horses."
their lives-eleven of their precious before they actually arrive, as in an. were conscious of more cultural bowling, and his critics body.
airplane you can see far into Frances remaining days,
while you are still over England.
a year ago
And
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and racial sympathy than was line. No good can come from Died of Exposure: The gang- recognised in their political al barracking under any circum-ster who was betrayed by one of liances. What better scheme stances; but barracking players his own gang. could there have been than to who are practicing at the nets
gather at regular intervals on the simply means the end of all AFTER DINNER APHORISM
things. central plain of Greece for gamek
any
ed the object of the festival. Naturally, out of such meetings came the only attempt at a poli-
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But if we can alter the clock just as we like, what is Time? "Time is fixed," people used to say. "A year Is just as long as the earth takes to go round the sun.”
But even with that simple record- ing instrument our Time difficulties
not always, and will not always, take begin. For one thing the earth has
the same time to go round the sun Earth Running Down
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TRAFFIC SUMMONS
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Officer's Statement
Queried."
There is nothing to be said always speaks after other people The star orator at the banquet in honour of Zeus, father of gods
for that sickly complaisance and men, and under his protec-
have finished. But, alas, he goes tion? Even to combatants of which pretends to be quite con- warring states there was an au- tent for the other side to win, on speaking sometimes after he
himself has finished. tomatic arm lice; strife would It rules are defective they should
Friend: "Has your husband' a
Appearing on remand, Mr. S. T. the have been impiety; and to be amended. But Charles Lamb break the rules would have been put the true formula into
Ages ago it went quicker. Like Soong and Miss Rose Ling, who sacrilege. Besides, as the ob mouth of dear old Mrs. Battle new suit?"
Star: "No."
a clock which can't be wound up, were summoned for, allowing his ject was simply to find who was as she sat down to her whist, 'A
Friend: "But he looks different." the earth is running down. That car to be driven by an unlicensed the best man, so that the god clean hearth, a bright fire, and
Star: "It's a different husband." won't affect you, you may say. But driver, and for driving a car with might contemplate the best spect the rigour of the game. By all
it does show that there is no fixed out an appropriate licence, re- means the rigour of the game;| men, of his hand work,
"What prompted you to propose timekeeper in the universe which spectively, were dismissed by Mr.. hanky panky would have defeat but no politics.
to me, dear?" "You," said he, sim-can claim to keep absolutely constant E. W. Hamilton at the Central ply and sadly.
[time. jan
F00"]Magistracy this morning.
The traffic officer said that 'on' Not many years ago radium was
• THE AWAKENING / found to give the clue to another May 7, the defendants were driv- tical union; as if four League of
Awfully ill bridegroom (gazing wonderful clock. Radium ranging in Tin Hau Temple Road, and Nations had arisen out of an ad- journment of the Great War for No. 8 To Be Demolished. at his equally if bride): Steward, down at a perfectly steady pace. As that when they were stopped, law steward, for the love of heaven far as we know, nothing any power Ling, who was driving at the time.. In honour of Pax Victrix, the Police officers stationed at. No, throw one of nå overboard; I don't can do can affect the pace at which had changed place with Mr. Soong... Song ||it slowly turns itself into load. • Mr. Horace Lo, appearing for- Goddess of Victorious Peace.", 8 Police Station, (Upper Levels) much care which
Many rocks have faint traces of the defendants, said that there The reward of victory was at Bonham, Road, evacuated "yes" m
Bacteria: Rent entrance to radio-active substances in them were three other persons. In the certainly great enough in the terday, as, the building is to be
They are all gradually running down car at the time, contrary to the old days but it was not per- demolished. A new structure is cafeteria
until in the end they will all be quite trame-ofter's": statement of two sonal, The Crown of Wild Olive being erected in the near future.. carried with it the possibility of The officers, Sub-Inspector Mist, Antious Wife: "You sold my inert people with a
for a red nose. It has now been found that you Mr J. Ackber, Mr. Wu Pak-alu, being immortalised in marble by Berg, Salber, Borrt. Wagland" and husband a reme Phidias and inson by Pindar, the Wal-het-wet and Indian con- and now his nose ha burned blue can discover how far gone each rock and Miss Cecilia Lot, the three
what la, how low. Ita radio-activity » has others, In: car, were called to. and the
own state stables, moved to the Central, To-15 Chemist: ww would sen It that he should lice Station au tamborár quarters, colour would you like it to boys. Launk or run ou
a week to hold sports at Verdun
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