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HALL FRIDAY, JANUARY 31Ș1936
EXPLANATION OF Here
YESTERDAY'S
CARTOON
There
Hitching Post Of The
and Drin Everywhere
ST
New World
TTANDING within a few yards RALEIGH'S GRAVE
from the west bank of the]
publication should be addressed to Oaks River, Santo Domingo, Visitors to St. Margaret's. the Editor, and be accompanied by Dominican Republican, is "Calm Westminister, Church are always the Writer's Name and Address bus Tree", a snarled and knotted interested to know that Sir Wal- vot nacissorily for insertion, but castor bean tree, measuring aboutter Raleigh lies there, but do not as a guarantee of good faith. ten-feet în diameter at the base, and the grave.
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Ад eminent Oxford · tutor once said bitterly that the ex- amination system had made the British and the Chinese the
It is nerated as the "first Raleigh was beheaded in Old hitching post of the New World". Palace Yard, near by, on Oct. 29, because Columbus reputedly, used 1618, and is recorded to have been the tree to moar his vessel there "buried privately, under the high on one of his voyages of
dis-alter."
jim
[covery. Several hundred years The burial register gives 10
ITALY'S LANDSCAPE
TO-DAY
WHAT FOREIGN VISITORS CAN SEE
CHANGED CONDITIONS EVIDENT AMONG THE PEOPLE
(By An English Traveller)
Rome: "It is the wemeti” an indie-.
old at the time of Columbus, this more than a single line of the ALY is at the mercy of law creet friend told me. They
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Brahms' Requiem
TTo The Editor. "China Ma"]
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The present memorial brass in
*Eender-——
Should you reflect on his errors. Remember his many virtues And that he was a mortal.”
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Empty Fields
and order. And for perhaps lie in front of the trains and tree is still hale and hearty, and name. Sir Walter Raleigh, Kat. the first time since the March will not let them ga" But Hong Kong, Friday, Jan. 31, 1936. will probably continue to produce
What was the ultimate disposal on Rome everybody knows it, whether these western disciples castor beans for another few cen- of the head is not known. It is There is not a hamlet in the of Gandhi · exist outside his turies.
thought likely that it was placed country which has not, at last, Latin imagination I could.not—- with the other remains at a later been affected in one way ornar indeed did I dare-to date, possibly when Carew, Ral-another by the decrees and per-attempt to verify. eigh's son bor in the Town of sonality of the Duce.
Since we came down from London was himself laid in his That, at least, is the impres-the mountains at dawn and father's grave when Charles Ision of a traveller who has often drew up at Turin we have pass- was King.
been here before.
led through an almost deserted At three o'clock this morning country. The roads have been Dear Sir,- am informed by the church replaces an earlier we slipped beneath the feet of empty and upon the great great nations which they are. the Cathedral authorities that wooden tablet raised to the great
the Alps, the only white-helmet-trunk lines which connect the It has taken the general public the collection on the occasion of Elizabethan, and perpetuates the ed soldiers upon whose abiding northern sea ports with the some time to discover that the the singing of the Requiem original inscription, closing with loyalty this regime can rely: at capital I have seen but two British national efficiency has amounted to $176 and 5/9 in Eng-the lines:"
three o'clock to-morrow morn- private motorcars. Only 2 now come to depend on the va-llish money. This will enable us
fing we shall be upon the shores rear ago the roads were full of lidity of examination results.to send a cheque for £12 to St.
lof and flying above the Mediter-them. Entry into every profession is Dunstan's The only em of
Iranean, that British sea whose [open only to those who satisfy expense of the service was the cost |
flag Mussolini would so dearly The fields are empty, too. In the appointed examiners. Ap-of the service paper, and this will
like to change. The interven-normal times they teem with 40 YEARS OF ADVENTURE pointment in all the grades of be met by the Singers.
ing hours will have been spent life and vigour, but to-day, at a the Civil Service has to be ob- I want to take this opportunity Captain W. H. Parker, of the
in a slent and deserved coun-season when there is work to be tained by success in competi- of thanking you for the generous Olympic, whose death was recent-
try.
done, solitary mer toil fast to tive examination. Throughout publicity afforded not only to they argounced,
Even here in the terminus do the work of two or more: commerce and industry employ-service itself but also to the re-with a somewhat episcopal airwhich has given the world so all that I could closely observe was a quiet man station of this lovely yellow city Yet there are men about, and ers now generally require ap-hearsals for the Singers. Owing He would invite passengers in- plicants for positions to pro-to the holidays, the majority of terested in such matters to his silence never before apparent nail on their right hand.
much that it prizes, there is a have cut short the little finger. duce some examination certifi-our members first heard of the cabin to see his collection of en-Usually, at this busy hour of long finger nail, which used to The cate of ability. Ever the pos-service and the rehearsals in the gravings of sailing-ships. sibility of obtaining more than afternoon papers on Saturday.
the evening, the virile chatter tell the world that its possessor. "I have had so many adventures of elementary education depends
To me the outstanding feature in my forty odd years at sea." he stations are their clubs is the glory of the Italian fop; but a people whose railway did no manual labour, was the for the great mass of children of our service of tribute to the once said, "that I ought to comparamount sound, but to-night something has happened in his jon passing examinations. As memory of a beloved King was mand a ship named the "Hectic":"
the power of examiners has ex the international character of
the sounds are of feet walking life to bring his hands to more tended dissatisfaction with the both choir and audience.
Those adventures' are recorded eternally in cheap nailed boots civilised proportions. It may system has steadily grown. Sir
in his "Leaves from an Unwrit of a bucket being dragged care-be for his good; it may be that Michael Sadler is assured of:
ten Log Book," a readable vol-lessly along a platform and of to have the hands. of public attention to the strong
the clanking of small pistons on mechanised warrior is now his case for reform which he made
Captain Parker was one of the the locomotive which will drag creed out at the Higher Education
many ship's officers who "solved" this train part of the way to The railway stations are full Conference of the National:
Your Daily Smile } the Marie Celeste mystery. He Brindisi But chatter there is of such young men, and to day Union of Teachers early this correspondence course in taming
was in favour of the giant squid none of that
indeed, the man of military age, month Recent investigations. lions is now available. One stares
sautering as usual, and as he Contended," had shown that them fearlessly in the eye until the
usual with nothing to do, hango the results of examinations are postman comes.
around trains for purposes as not as exact or trustworthy as the system assumes.
more than there have ever been mysterious as ever they were Mr. Belham Smith Spark, age with the exception of a small So far as the railway stations plays
of too large a part in the man but a lot of women are mar 69, retired estate agent, was found company. steel-helmeted are concerned, it is the women marking od papers. The ried to them
dead in the drawing-room at Buns dwarfs standing on
who have vanished; and at Pisa the plat- evidence is to be found in the
Istor House, Burnham-on-Sea form outside the window of "Examination. of Examina tions," by Sir Philip Hartog andi Dr. Rhodes, published month.
Chance
A S-KING,
Chairman, Hong Kong Singers.
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Is It Love",
Well maybe nobody loves a fat
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*Now Tell Me
ume.
theory.
FOUND BURNED TO DEATH
"It Is The Women”
Of soldiers there are
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I saw only one. She was a pretty girl, her face red, with They were weeping; and as she wept she
2 train"
A very nice old lady had a few (Somerset), last month. His bead this sleeping-caL Jasswords to say to her granddaughter was in the fire and he was burned there an hour ago, brass to waved frantically to
"My dear," said the oid lady, beyond recognition. He was well pets and drums in their hands, long after it had vanished into wish you would do something for me. known as an amateur engineer waiting to welcome a train that the plain Summarising the investiga-1 wish you would promise me never and meteorològist. -
¡does not arrive. tions of an authoritative com-Ito use two words. One is swell and mittee, these writers showed the other is loasy. Would you pre-
mie me that?”
"Why sure, Granny," said the girl what are the words?"
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that competent examiners gave such widely different marks to the same papers as to raise doubts whether any validity
Not Even Money Will could be attached to the Magnate. (to bard-up stitor:
how I examination result for a can. "Young man, do you know didate
made my money?" of "middling" merit Young Man: "Yes, but I can't per- Even in a viza roce test much mit that to stand in the way depended on the personnel of Muriel's happiness.” the examining board. These conclusions, it should be said. have been seriously challenged stand anyone missing a putt as short The Spectator: 1 can't under-. Dr. Cyril Norwood has declared
ļas that.”
*
A Large World
that, throughout his experience! The Golfer: "Let me remind you of 35 years in preparing boys that the hole is only inches for examinations, "speaking across, and there is the whole world roughly, the boys I have expect-
outside it
ed to fail have failed and the the evidence from other sources boys I have expected to pass have passed." The Committee Justifying satisfaction with did not propose to abolish the progress made and confidence in For the British examination system or even to eliminate from it those tests, railways 1934 was a year of considerable improvement,
the future.
41.000.000
such as questions of the essay though they were left with type, on which examiners must】
In inevitably give varying marks, much more to accomplish
further We cannot do without these 1935 they obtained a methods for selection and for increase of traffic to the amount estimating general proficiency.
of £1,551,000. Still they are capable of much all the railways made stentious From the outset of the year improvement. Sir Michael efforts to increase passenger Sadler suggested the addition of intelligence tests as devised traffic, and they have been well rewarded In the first nine by psychologists and the submis- sion of school records to the months alone there were nearly exxummers that they should
more passenger
know as much
as possible or the boy or girl as a human being-noted that the total gross in- period last year. It must be That, though it may be difficult crease of more than £1,500,000 to arrange in large-scale revenue is offset by higher examinations, would be of the working costs, and a further highest value”-
claim for wage increase is pend ing The steady growth of] Omens Of Prosperity trade and industry is shown not, only by an increase of 58 per Both the Railways and the cent in the full total of the Bankers Clearing House re-Bankers Clearing House but cently published the total even more significantly by an figures of their work in 1935.8.1 per cent. rise in the coun There could be no better cri-try figures. A large expansion terion of the development of in fin issues of new capital clearly dustrial and commercial activi-points to greater future indas- ty, and these statistics confirm, trial activity.
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GEORGE RUDROFF
of Richmond Hill, NY
DRANK 90 GLASSES OF BEER A DAY
FOR THE LAST & YEARS
FROM THE SAME MUG:
AFTER DRINKING 1560 MALE-BARRELS
THE MUG BROKE
CHAMPION
PLAYER ERNEST SCHMET PROT KANSAS. PLAYED 7 YEARS
OF BASKETBALL AND NEVER PLAYED- "OM ANY EXCEPT--
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TEAM:
OKLAHOMA
MEANS: "HOME OF THE REDMEN
BUT
A REDMAN NEVER HAD A HOPE THERE.