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Mr. J. T. O'Connor, the Ameri can Comptroller of Currency, who recently arrived in New York after a European tour, finds the Ameri can Government more stable than any. European Government.
His test is the fact that Presi- dent Roosevelt has just completed
THEY PUT ENGLAND ON THE MAP
MARCH OF PROGRESS OF THE R. E.'S
ORDINANCE SURVEY WORK
(By Ian Coster.)
London dogs on them. But it is all taken
a long travel cruise, in the know-TF a couple of soldiers leap over as part of the job. I spoke to ledge that when he returned to your back fence and begin to several of the mapmakers about Washington he would find every measure the distance between the risks they run, but they are hen-insured to insult and threat from thing just the same.
"Can you imagine," saya O'Connor, the leading
your
and
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your Mr. house there is no need to berate residents. statesmenjalarmed. They will simply be two
A corporal told me that hia
he
of Europe taking a 10,000 mile trip Royal Enginners Intent on bring worst experience was when jat present?"
ing up to date one small section was set upon by bees when he was taking observations from Hayes Mr. O'Connor has forgotten the of an Ordnance Survey map. British National Government. ・・・ One hundred and fifty men, church tower. He retreated and The Prime Minister is at present divided into parties of five and left the bees with the theodolite.
His other exciting experience well on his way towards the 10,000 scattered over Surrvey and Mid-
chased by an mile travel uark, Mr. Baldwin, dlesex, are not recording with was when he was the Acting Prime Minister, is at meticulous care all the changes elephant in Central Africa. That Aix; Mr. Chamberlain, the Acting in those areas, the new roads and was when he was sent out to con- the 80th are of meridian Prime Minister, is in a Scottish railways, the mushroom suburbs, tinue
the factories. Not a single pro-through unexplored country. When they return, they, too, will minent tree, not a shed escapes Four of them were suddenly deg- patched from a comparative tame [expect to find things exactly as they them.
They carry the last maps and mapping of suburbs to the jungle. surveyors' instrumenta with them They had an army of 700 native them. Each white and they note down in neat lines, carriors with
the march of man went off on hle own
and figures and lefters,
|mountain fastness.
were.
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It is only because a scrap metal progress since the last survey. worked fifty miles apart from each merchant deceived Parliament Their work is eventually publish- of the others. Communication during the Civil War that the ed as the maps in which town jawa occasionally possible by helio- Mininster, of Transport has been planners, motorista, property-graph. "It was good fun," said able to choose the Charing Cross owners, airmen, transport chiefs the corpopral. "The old are is not statue of Charles I as the centre and local authorities have im- Anished yet. You know It cuts of his first London motoring zone plicit trust.
through more land than any of the of silence.
manner of problems which they Of all countries In the world heads, who." regarded thern Master-General of the Ordnance..
Memorial To Ray
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there
Most of the men who do the work would be shot to the theatre
London is only one division of others. It was begun about 1857 The Civil War broke out before the Ordnance Survey (which em and it still has to be continued absolutely fundamental. The the statue, which had been carved ploys 1,100 men and costs the tax- through: Uganda.” cause of free speech is at present by Le Sueur in 1683, had been payer £200,000 a year), the other He came back to climb at its lowest ebb. What, with erected. Parliament sold lit as divisions being centred at Edin-holders at Southall and Harrow. Hong Kong, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 1934: censorship of books and foreign serap to a London metal mer-burgh, Bristol and the headquar
Work In China newspapers and propaganda by chant, appropriately named John cars at Southampton. The im- wireless and official
com-Rivet, with instructions to break mense job of mapping the British Another N.C.0, had come back The Russian Tune
muniques, it is only a small it up at once.
Isles goes on ceaselessly.
after plotting areas of mining minority of even educated men Rivet was an enterprising busi- It began after Culloden, when country on the Gold Coast and 400 "We intend to join the dance at the present moment that can ness man. He buried the statue an accurate map was necessary square miles of China. The back at Geneva, but we shall dance to hear news fairly stated or can in his garden at Hollborn and for the opening up of the High-of the China work was broken by our own tune" said M. Litvinoff have an opportunity of learning showed odd pieces of miscellane-landa and the establishment of aeroplane photographs, and the other day. What did he what arguments are available ous scrap tó the unsuspecting military outposts. William Roy is a suggestion that airplanes mean? It is not a waste of time that are unwelcome to the policy Parliamentarians. These he con- did the work and it developed into may be used to help with the re- to ask the question, as it would of the Government under which verted into souvenir handles for a survey of the whole of the mapping of the British Isles. have been in the days when M. they live. And the majority of knives and forks..
mainland of Scotland. In 1791, a But aerial maps cannot really Zinoviev and other amateur re-men are not educated, and have He did a roaring trade with the year after Roy's death, the sur-take the place of the "detall ob- formers of the world were Is-ino chance of checking what they Royalists, who regarded them as vey of England was begun by servation from the land which is suing pronunciamentos on all are told.
sacred relics, and with the Round-three artillery officers under the required here.
had failed to study or at least to Russia has most profited by the as symbols of their own triumph. understand. In her foreign inaccessibility of its important After the Restoration the statue
Roy, a minor military officer, of operations Immediately Britain negotiations Russia is at present centres to invasion, and the effect was dug up, and in 1674 erected
haa A memorial Hounslow was involved in a war. From represented by a trained and ablelof every new invention is great-where it stands to-day.
Heath. Two guns,, sunk vertical- 1914-18 they had the tricky job of negotiator with whom other na-est where the conditions have
ly in the ground five miles apart, showing the lay-out of the enemy. tions can deal on an equality, and been most backward in the par-
were intended to establish the re-lines, Apprentices to the Survey who will be sure to take advant- ticular activity which the inven- age of the opportunities that tion is intended to assist, Great
lative position of the French and accept the condition that they may offer themselves to promote reas the influence of the air fleet Plece in an Oklahoma paper telle of English Royal observatories, and be required for active service at cognition a point of view that is may be in England or France, in roller shooting a hole in one, after they now indicate the beginnings any time. They join at the age.cf which "he finished the round with a regarded by many people in other Russia it is revolutionary. What score of 98." In other words, he re of the first scientific survey of this 15 or 16 and undergo a lengthy countries as promising new would not Napoleon have given sumed his regular game. and better order; something that for a fleet of airplanes? In case
At first the Army paid for the if realised would indeed set the lof a Siberian war, how accessible world dancing to a new tune.
is the Railway at Lake Baikal, "What is agriculture?" asked the cost of the survey and housed the maps in the Tower of London. At the beginning of the Dis-compared with the conditions of Well," responded the pupil, "Now he Survey is a sub-depart NEW LINER FOR FAR armament Conference, in which even a few years ago. Insofar as just about the same as farming-only ment of the Ministry of Agricul M. Litvinoff has taken a pro- the long view may prompt. Min farming you do it."
ture, but its military origin is
About still obvious. minent part, each constituent na- Litvinoff to promote peace, his tion was invited to submit pro-freedom from the ordinary shae A new novel says of the hera: "He posals in writing. The Soviet kles of conventionality ought to modern heroes of Detion must certainly Engineers, and they scour the coun-
rested his chin on his elbow. These cent. of the man-makers are Royal Expected Here At End
Of March proposal was very simple and be a renovating force, giving a be wonders. drastic-that all Powers should breath of new life to discuss one immediately disarm by dismiss- which no one can accuse of any ing the whole of their forces. tendency to attract the sort of She (awkward dancer): There was a clear logic about the interest that leads men to change dance floor is certainly allypery!" proposition which was unanswer their old prejudices into an open had my shoes shined. able. But one can hardly sup-minded willingness to adopt a pose that there was any expecta- better system.
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On the wall of the London divi- It is understood from Messrs. sion is an index of the distribu-Jebsen and Co., Agents of the tion of these 150 men. Red train. Hamburg-Amerika Linie, that the He: "It isn't the dance, Boot. I just gles indicate them; they are climb-new Motorship "Cordfilera" will be
Personal Pars
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ing up gas-holders and church put on the Far Eastern Service in towers, pacing counry lanes and the spring of 1985. She is trespassing on back gardens in scheduled to leave Genoa on her tion that it would be accepted Of all the roots of discontent
the interests of accuracy,
first outward trip to the Far East and honestly acted upon. Either that are likely to defeat the al
Mrs. I. Garrod, wife of Mr. S. H. The rush jobs for land registry on March 6, 1985, arriving in Hong the idea was intended to throw most universal wish for peace
the Garrod of the C.P.S.S. Ltd., le due are done by a mobile corps which Kong on March 31, 1935 a light of sardonic unreality over the most deeply driven is
The vessel is due to leave Hong the whole proceedings; or else it question of money and wealth to arrive here by the RM.S. gets its orders each morning from
headquarters and dashes out by Kong on her homeward voyage on was to start the discussions on and the unfair division of the Empress of Asia on Wednesday.
motorcar to that bit of a map April 16, 1935, calling at Manila, a firm basis of setting out what good things that money can buy;
But the ordinary map-making is
a more leisurely job. Each party is given a slice of country, three
had to be done. with a view to and particularly the lack of Mrs. Hamilton, wife of Mr. A. T. which requires immediate atten- Singapore, Colombo, Port Said, making necessary concessions power to earn money which is Hamilton, of the Royal Hong Kong tion. It returns each evening Naples, Genoa, Barcelona, Dover, afterwards. Probably the latter what we call unemployment. Yacht Club will, arrive in the with the new features marked Rotterdam, and Hamburg. motive was the real one; for at That problem is of course the Colony by the RMS. Empress of down. the time Russia was still increas raison d'etre of the Soviet revo Asia, which is due to arrive here ing its Red Army and improving lution, and the idea that Moscow on Wednesday, kte its munition supply, as it has has discovered a solution is the continued to do since. It is a reason of the hopes and fears Mrs. Anderson, wife of Dr. J. W.miles by four, to investigate and regrettable fact that the world with which it is regarded by Anderson, and children are return plot on paper. It will live on 'that for any period up to four is not yet ready for the logic of those who would have most rea-ling to the Colony by the RMS. area Utopia; but it is the fact that the son to be puzzled by the problem. Empress of Canada which is due to months. Familles are taken there lordinary citizen everywhere We hope that economic questions arrive here on October 12. and temporary homen made. Work begins at at 8 am and ends at 6 would like to see some big strides will be freely and openly vene made fowards a reign of reason, tilated. The necessity of actual Mrs. Drollette, wife of Mr. G. W. .m. in the summer and 4 p.m. in and the general community of ly paying for foreign imports has Drelette, of Mesars. Singer Sewing the winter.
Trials Of Surveyors civilisation is in a frame of mind led to a currency that is managed Machine and Company, is a passen-
BLOOD CARRIED BY PLANE
To Aid Transfusion
In Soviet
Leningrad.
An important service was ren- dered recently by a sanitary aero
to give every theory at least the on the same lines as any other ger on board the R.M.S. Empress Each man of the party has a plane of the Leningrad Commit compliment of a hearing and dis for that special purpose; and the of Canada, which is expected to portion of that slice to do, Protee of the Red Cross Society cussion. What the Council of indications are that the same arrive here on October 12.
minent land owners have been When a quantity of blood was the League may vote is not process will occur in other
Po told beforehand of the approach urgently needed in one of the re really so importanties the In- branches of economic life. We Among the passengers on board of the surveyor, and notices have mota districts of the Leningrad fluence that may be exercised on say this not from any conviction the RMS Empress of Canada been placed at the local police region to perform a blood trans- public opinion by a good and that our problems have been hich is due," to arrive here on stations and post offices, but it is fusion the preserved blood was open discussion. And that is the solved. If Russia can contribute October 12, will be Mr. ACL impossible to warn every resident sent from one of the Leningrad first thought that occurs. How new methods by which the good shields, of Shewan Tomes and Com The Treat
far will the Soviet Government things of life can be made avail-pany, and Mrs. Shields,
be able to join in an interna able:
tional debate without allowing
own people to kn
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