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EXPLANATION OF Here
SATURDAYS There a
CARTOON
and I Everywhere
THE LOUDEST NOISE
TZRAKATOA is a volcano on theļ
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Sumatra
Sunds Strait betwee and Java. It was here that on the less station whence any-instrue Radio Nations, the League wire- night of August 26/27. 1859, the sions whole power of the Pacific came to
to
would be, transmitted rips with the unchained might of Leave members in the event of the inner fires of the earth.
a decision to apply sanctions
The result
against Italy, is only, in part a League station.
της
most
the | stupendous explosion îmi all history.
Two hundred and fifty billion,
'It is owned and controlled joint- enbic feet of dust," ashes and by the League and by the So stones were hurled 17 miles into ciete Radio-Suisse,
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to which the
OLDEN-DAY CULT OF
DIRT
GENERALLY ALLIED TO
ASCETICISM...
MORE PHILOSOPHICAL ATTITUDE
IN OTHER DAYS
DIRT
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(By Very Rev. W. R. Inge, D.D.).
IRT has been defined as; Even Samuel Pepys and his the air, and distributed all over League pays $500 gold a year_to-
matter in the wrong place. wife in the reign of Charles the globe by the upper air caswards maintenance expenses.
By agreement with the Swiss It is not a very good definition, were very merry" when sad with Radio For instance, when I come back they found that they had been. Sunsets and Amrises are to this Government very day still coloured by these Suisse, Badio Nations comes in from a holiday, and find that sleeping in a lousy bed.
Even now, in parts of Sonth Hong Kong, Monday, Dec. 30, 1935-emanations from Krakatoa. The time of crisis under the direct cu the housemaid has been at my
Secretary-General of books, they are all in their and East Europe, some of sound travelled to the island of trol of the
these little pests are taken wrong places, but not dirty.
The word dirt implies a feel philosophically. The fact is |seawaves caused by the tremend-
ing of disgust. Metaphorically, that wherever water is scarce
The Meaning Of An
Rodrigues 3,000 miles away. The the League.
Oil Embargo
$20
expresses
the
A
explosion travelled 11.000 IN TWO PARTS miles to the English Channel The
In normal times it may be, and we speak of a dirty book or cleanliness is difficult. covered the earth The crucial question before disturbance
is, used for ordinary commercial dirty conduct, and all languages The deliberate cult of dirti- use the adjective metaphorical-ness as a thing pleasing to God dark the nations is whether they will seven times. The day was
traffic. This fact caused
some in much the same sense. It is one of the most amazing support the proposed embargo all over the world. 35,000 people criticism in the League Assembly is difficult to analyse this feel things in social history, and against Italy upon supplies of lost their lives.
The noise of Krakatoa is estim/some years ago from the Italianing of disgust. It may be, makes us realise what a queer jol The progress of Italy's
delegates who feared that anti-aroused by associations which religion Christianity was 1,500 campaign in Abyssinia depends ated at 190 decibels. (The decibel Fascist matter might be broadcast affect some people and not years ago. on her oil supplies. Any short- is a mit that
under apparentir League auspices others.
Ascetic Movement Radio age would seriously cripple the smallest change the ear can detect
Nations was completed
A Roman Catholic lady, when movement of her columns: ain the level of sound). An aero early in 1932, and was extensively
-No one will suggest that it (stoppage would reduce her plane engine is computed at 125
used during the League discussions a bishop introduced his wife,
turned her back and exclaimed has anything to do with real mechanised army to an im-decibels, while the rustling of a
of Manchuria.
A Hindi, after Christianity. It was part of a mobility which must result in leaf equals 17, and the purring of
It is in two parts. The receiv-“Devoutant!"
learning with horror that Eng great escetic movement, the humiliation and retirement. The a cat 25 decibels.
Colarex, a ing stations are at sanctions already in operation
suburb of Geneva. The transmit-lishmen actually put into their beginnings of which principally affect the home po-
ters are some 15 miles from mouths an instrument made of traced in the first century, and pulation of Italy: an oil sanc-
It evidently sprang Geneva at Frangins, where the ex- the bone of a dog and the which gradually captured the
Church. bristles of a pig. regarded our tion collectively undertaken
Emperor Charles of Austria
from deep psychological causes, countrymen ever after as people which perhaps have not been land enforced would. in time,
sought refuge in 1919. paralyse the grandiose over-
Lfully explained. seas expedition on which Signor Mussolini has staked the pre- sent prestige of Italy and with it her position in Europe for: the near future. The League decision, when it is made. may New York: Trapped without have a momentous effect on the warning while they dug a cave in situation.
the steep side of a hill in River-
BOY BURIED ALIVE
Terrible Accident In New York
one of them
Your Daily Smile!
NOT SO DUME
can
be
of unutterably dirty habits.
For some obscure reason we dislike touching small living very idea of sex led those who A horror and disgust at the creatures-mice, rats, frogs and spiders but this repulsion is aspired to the higher degrees There was a young lady named Chol-often overcome. The dislike of of sanctity to hate their own Who was never known to act dolmen (vermín is much greater than it
deley.
used to be, and has no doubt been increased by the fear of microbes...
mondeley,
She went to the sea.
To bathe and be free,
came back looking even more col-
mondeley.
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He Forgot
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single
Dark Middle Ages
bodies.
St. Francis, when he Tras dying prematurely of his ans terities. confessed that he had It is an open secret that one side Park, New York, two small and
been too hard upon "my brother the ass." The cleanliness of for two British Ministers are op boys were overwhelmed by a land-
posed to an oil sanction. their slide which buried
In the Middle Ages they did the body, as Lecky sa73, chief argument being the dan-alive and the other up to his neck.
The Normandie broke the tramat-not mind. The cassock of St. regarded as a pollution of the ger of a sudden extension of the Enndreds of horrified men and
lantic speed record without two Francis was in m awful state soul, and the saints who were conflict involving England women watched frantic efforts-thirds trying. It is predicted that and so was the underclothing of most admired had become one through some outburst of Ita-rescue by police and Park Depart some day she will make the St Thomas a Beket. Cardinal hideous mass of dotted filth lian exasperation. The more ment employees. For 40 minutes trip within the life "of
***Bellarmine would not allow his St. Antoby the bermit, says St. powerful argument, till recent they worked feverishly to extri- French cabinet.
little guests to be disturbed, on Athanasius with enthusiasm, . was that unless all the lead-cate the lads. They saved Victor
the ground that, as they have never washed his feet. ing oil-producing countries, Arman, aged 10.,the boy who was A certain criminal evaded-detec-no-future life, they ought to be "Abraham, another hermit, both inside and outside the only partially buried, but whension for many months by disguising given a good time in this. never washed his face either,
His disguise League, agreed to withhold of they reached the other, Thomas himself as a woman.
and we are surprised to hear supplies, the sanction would be Walters, 13 years old, he was was not discovered until a smart
that "his countenance reflected young policeman saw him pass a mil- ineffective, because any one of dead.
Liner's shop without stopping-
madam, one is maller than the the parity of his soul” An- other"
other saint had never seen him- Shrewd
"The job is yOURÉ
self naked. vtun
We hear of a convent of 130 What A Han...... One of the claim of a certain pro nuns who shuddered at the fessional strong mat is that he is able mention of a bath. St. Augus- to lift three faly a women. Most tine, who was a cultivated husbands find it is as much as they
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the six leading producers could In the dusk, and with the aid But of portable searchlights, doctors, supply all Italy's needs.
The shoe dealer was hiring a clerk. the declaration of Mr. Cordell worked oer Walters for an hour Hull and some of the leading jou were unable to revive kim-"Suppose," he said, "a lady customer
were to remark while you were try-j oil magnates in the US en-Reuter.
ing to fit her, Don't you think one courage the belief that while
of my feet is bigger than the other What would you say?” |Amexican opinion might not fa- vour an identic or common oil policy with Geneva. it would support "a parallel and couple-t
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FOOLED HIM BY 20 YEARS
fined its interpretation of Aggrieved Husband's
neutrality. It is not in a posi
tion to enforce an actual em- bargo, nor will it be, until Con-
Appeal
Hopewell N. Y. She fooled him gress meets at the beginning of joy 20 years!
the New Year, even if an em- So says Mr. J. S. Spence of his bargo were considered desir-bride of a short while ago. She able. But strong moral suasion told him she was 35 but alas! be might be brought to bear upon found she was 66 at least, that the American oil exporters is his basis for seeking an annui- Even the continued to ex-ment of the marriage. port but not greatly in excess Mr. Spence, who is 34, has taken of the normal quantities, the his suit to the State Supreme. plight of Italy's mechanised Court-Eenter. forces would soon become suf- ficiently grave.
If this correctly interprets the American attitude it is like-
ly to carry great weight, The
FATHER'S PLACE IN
THE HOME
My husband generally looks
prime object of the suggested after the children. In his spare oil sanction is not to produce an Italian disaster that is the time he looks for work"-A wo- last thing desired but to man at Willesden. bring pressure to bear upon
upon
Signor Mussolini to call off the lieve that the object which all campaign
reasonable sanctionist constries earnestly terms. It may be said that the desire will be served and not Duce cannot afford to negotiate hindered. That the present now, since that would be tanta-situation would inevitably arise mount to คน admission of has been foreseen from the failure The Duce can always beginning. Presumably, there afford, without derogation of fore, all possible contingencies prestige, to talk with the Bri- have been taken into account, tish and French Governments and M. Laval's declaration to through their respective Am: Signor Cerruti recently, that bassadors, and as a member, of France would be bound to sup- the League of Nations Italy can port the oil sanction if adopted always enter into discussions by the League Committee, com- with other members of the bined with he co-operative Council. The real point in this policy that can reasonably, be connection is whether the ob fexpected from the United
angist ject of hastening effective peate States, should, materia
negotiations will be served or the League in its decision Any hindered by a decision to lay lack of nerve would be tal to fan embargo on oll. Whatever the whole policy at collective
the first explosion of i
wrath the fest
which in these days of
rather low most peonie
clive, sanction ith people endorsed with
"I should say, "On the coumary
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"BELIEVE IT OR NOT by Robert L. Ripley
HONEYMOON
EXPRESS
The
AND MRS. A.B.PORTER BRIDE AND GROOM: WERE STARTING ON THEIR HONEYMOON. The GROOM, TOOK THE BAGS OUT DIE AUTOMOBILE AND WHER THE BRIDE WENT TO GET IN SHE FOUND HIM DEAD.
SHE WOULD ALLOW NO ONE TO
|_ MOVE THE CAR – BUT HAD A FENCE
- BUILT AROUND IT AND THERE IT.
HAS BEEN STANDING FOR. YATEARS.
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