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A Tamed Porcupine
There and Everywhere.
MAUGHAM'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY ·
the porcupine: is a docile, peaceable little animal when left to go his own way, he Notice To Contributors.
lis, by reason of his powersfully | All communications intended 105 defensive quils, feared by years spent mainly in his Riviera After an interval of several publication should be addressed to and beast alike, when stirred to home and in London, Mr. Somerset the Editor, and be accompanied by battle. Only in very rare-i Maugham is off on his travels {the Writer's Name and Address stances have soologists-been able again. [not necessarily for insertion, but to tame a porcupine to any degree, Jas a guarantee of good faità.
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He left Southampton recently bot A Dean Lindsay, of Tampa, for the United States. Thence he Florida and Hollidaysburg, Pa. will go, to some island this time has one that he has tamed and not in the South Seas, but in the domesticated himself. He keeps it west Indies. Jaround his home at all times, and carries it with him wherever he goes
The Narrowest
Building
What Philadelphians believe to: be the narrowest building is a
IS THE AEROPLANE
SUPREME?
SECOND CORONEL MAY
VISIT ENGLAND
POPULATION ENTIRELY OPEN TO HORRIBLE AIR, ATTACKS
(By Capt. Norman Macmillan)
our front-line trenches in, "Ships' guns and land guns can- France during the height of not search out the air bases of an the shell shortage in 1915 we enemy. Aeroplanes alone can at- were battered mercilessly by tack aeroplanes and air bases. Mr. Maugham has just finished German guns. We asked our The aeroplane must be countered a novèl form of autobiography. artillery for 'counter-battery fire. by the aeroplane. If our air feet la it he describes various aspects Do you know their answer in were inefficient in performance, of his life and his attitude towards these days? They said they had if its air bases were so near our them then and now.
already fired their meagre quota east coast that they were destroy- of shells for the day and could da ed, if our bombers, were too few in nothing.
Our torture by heavy numbers and too short in range........... sbelling at the will of the enemy what then? went on Without possibility, ef],
Enemy Supreme retaliation, the flower of British
The aeroplanes of the
The book will be published shortly.
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No sooner do we get our over-iny, thin structure located on the HEBREW SCHOLAR coats out of cold storage than S. E. corner of 13th and South
Dr. Kirkpatrick, Dean of Ely, youth risked their lives in par would be supreme Neither our KY there comes an outbreak of Penn Square. The architect had flag-days, al doubt for plot of ground just 4 feet wide who is retiring at the age of 86 ment for the crass stupidity of land nor our sex forces could at worthy objects, promoted by and 75 feet long to build on, and is probably the foremost Hebrew British unpreparedness.
Air war is artillery war. The the coastline of an enemy protect- tempt to counter-attack against societies that are wofully the finished building measures ex-scholar in England and was 22 one
work actly 43 inches wide and 50 feet time Regius Professor of Hebrew bombing aeroplane is in effect, ed by mines, submarines, and underfinanced for the
long-range gun. small counter at Cambridge. they undertake. We know long, housing a
Territory lying bombing aircraft. He went to Ely in 1907. after within a range of 600 milés from that our money will be well lunch and soft drink stand, capa-
Az Coronel the British ships of any country used. But this year it is dif-ble of accommodating 20 people at nine years as Master of Selwyn the frontier
were sunk because the German cult to maintain the old rate of ja time. And tiny as it is, the College. Cambridge, his connection possessing military aeroplanes iships had greater gun range and subscription, and all the socie-building has its own heating with the University stretching front-line territory.
If air was speed. At Falkland the German ties report a falling off of plant and mechanical equipment. back wel over half a century, for breaks out in Europe -the total įships were sank because the posi
he was a tutor at Trinity as long population of Great Britain will tion revenue. We had an unusually
was, reversed. Since the long spell of hot weather, and
Dr. Kirkpatrick be in the front line and find them aeroplane in effect a long- celebrated his golden wedding last selves as we soldiers found ourLange gem), it can prevent surface that means that we shall very likely have
selves in 1915 battered a severe turn
mer ships from coming into engage- cold.
cilessly, unable to help them mens with one another, and de- selves, and, as things now stand, cide naval action at a distance without sufficient counter-battery far beyond the range of any ship's bombing aeroplanes for retalia-gan. - tion.
WOMEN SUFFER
MOST
of
Harder Times In
Prison
jago as
year.
1871
→
Your Daily Smile!
There is a widely shared bele among Italian people in the existence Kashville: Despite more.
care of a war chest
If the one in ques- treatment, women. have *tion is that of Il Duce, it has been
thrown cut.
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Aeroplanes are not a screen to be thrown out in advance of
sea
It is also the usual thing that we discuss how the distress could be relieved on an adequate! scale. and come to the conclu- Ision that a remedy is hard to ful
find, or impossible. Sir Wil-worse time in prison than men.
1- The long-mnge artillery of the ships, like destroyers. Aeroplanes liam Peel took great interest according to the Warden of the
skies will shatter them as we were faze now the very guns, of the the question of overcrowding, Tennessee State Prison, Mr. A. W.
shattered But it will be worse ships themselves. Thus, and in the end admitted that he Neely.
For those strategy, must be bent toward A writer addressed a magazine than it was with us.
the could not think of any solution The reason is the lack of in-editor with: "Now I'm positive you guns of 1915 could not cut our distributing
target ships There is the Society for the terest shown in them by their don't read them all I submitted a lines of communication; they must be scattered instead of son- Protection of Children. for friends and relations “outside.”
story last week, and as a test. could not cut off our food sup-centrated. The battle' feet with pasted four pages together. When instance. which saves
many The woman prisoner has very the story was returned, these pages plies; they were immobile Mobile a heavy concentration of ship air artillery can cut off the food gunfire is rendered obsolete by might save many more. to say plained. "I can't recall a single Madam," he replied, "when I open supplies of this country by at-the modem aeroplane. And the nothing of building up better occasion when a husband came to ex a breakfast. I don't eas tacks upon our docks and upon battle feet that is scattered is no nourished and more healthy see his wife in prisan. On the all to discover it's bad."
ships within our narrow 3825. more a battle fleeë.“ children who would be happier other hand, wives never seem to
Neither sea, norland - fowces as well as more useful citizens. forget their husbands who are be
Pretty Name
Worse Plight could help the people of Great The St. John Ambulance Asso-hind the walls. It is a common
"What a pretty izme your maid Britain. Naval operations cease A Seez engaged by shore-based ciation saves an amount of pain thing to have a woman. with tear- and illness that is altogether filled eyes, plead with me for her name. out of proportion to its slender husband's release But I neverishe's always breaking.” resources. The Street Sleepers remember a husband showing? Mission is practically a neces-that much interest in his unfor- sity, for after a long spell of ranate wife"-Reuter heat such cold as we have bad. these last few nights would he fatal
Only familiarity makes callous to these demands.
has."
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"Yes. Of course, it's not her real at the land Army operations aircraft is in a still watse plight, we call her Dan be cease at the sea. Air operations for land aeroplanes are faster.
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contine over both. The aero-and have longer range and plane can attack land sea, and greater carrying capacity than under-sex forces. Neither land those operazing from ships. nor sea forces can attack the Aeroplanes designed to operate “No dorša, I have been there aeroplane. Anti-aircraft gunnery from ships are handicapped by
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the peculiar circumstances of cften." Hong Kong, with its floating
us population in süch close
Es a form of static defence-not a the limitations of the ship. Even form of defence by attack for with aircraft carriers there is a the gunners can only engage aero limit to the size of the seroplane (planes when aeroplanes them that can be accommodated in the pe can be felves attack. Initiative lies with hip and flown from its deck
the aeroplane.
(Continued on "Page 5):
Smile Awhile It feuch with a swarming popula- candidates for Council?"
"What do you think of on is a bad time to ask the Gover- tion. we: should abandon -Well, I'm glad only ment for bigger grants, though the hard and fast line drawn elected" we do think that more might between the citizen and the
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as a stranger here. The advan- This year the early crop ofitage would be that we could charity was reaped by sellers of then set out to raise the stan roses for the Confucian schools.dard of life for those who re- We should not have selected maîned. The will to help would that object as the most urgent not be chilled by the reflection and needy. In fact we should that all we could do would only not have thought it a fit cause be pouring our efforts into a for a flag-day at all. When leaky bucket.
flag days became a nuisance in Some time in the distant England they were brought future the whole problem of under regulation to prevent population will have to be andue multiplication and mis-tackled The three countries application of funds. Is there where there is the greatest any objection to adding this amount of want and consequent function to the already mani-unrest are Germany, Italy, and fold duties of the police? It Japan. They have the highest would not seem that application birth-rate, and their Govern- for a date and the issue ofments take the most lively mea badges would be a very oneroussures to encourage a still more thing to deal with Nothing rapid increase. The object is dams the stream of charity frankly avowed as the wish to more quickly than a doubt increase the military strength about whether receipts are proof the com and ~ the twili.
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