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DESIGNER'S DREAM COMES TRUE "HINDENBURG” LAST WORD IN SAFETY NETWORK OF WORLD SERVICES ENVISAGED
(By Hugo von Eckener).
Translated By Osvalt Sunne
"
Although their predecessors re- jected the offer of the Broadcast- Mr. M. J. Abbott, who prosecuting Corporation to put election ed, said that the accused was arcampaign speeches on the air. Mr.
(Following is a translation of an article written by Dr. Eckener, rested in a scavenging lane Michael Savage's Cabinet imme-
diately introduced the broadcast-designer of Germany's newest and largest dirigible, the Hindenburg, the early morning of the day question and the pistol, with a ma-ing of important debates in the for the French journal “L'Intransigeant" before his recent trip to Brasil The Hindenburg has just completed a flight to Lakehurst, gazine, was found tied to his left House of Representatives.
This has proved so popular that New Jersey, from her base at Friedrichshafen). Hong Kong, Wednesday, May 20, 1936 forearm, while two other packages,
containing the ammunition, were the Government are considering
THEN these lines appear, 1,us have considered with some the establishment of a special shall have achieved, with fear the constraction of the found on his right forearm. Where The Universities Abbott said that the pistol
Another innovation-but this is the largest dirigible, the Zeppe- latest Zeppelin.
Utility Recognised Need Reform
was quite serviceable, and looked a purely party arrangement is in L. Z. 129, the first voyage.
first of a series of test flights years, during the construction For many years the education as though it had been used rethe sharing of Ministerial and over the South Atlantic, the In the course of the last few Europe and South of the famous Hindenburg, pub- have cently. He added that the Police private members' salaries. in Britain
It reduces the Prime Minister's between authorities been endeavouring by national took a serious view of these of-
to give a fences because of the prevalence salary from £1,700 to £700. But America, before linking up Gerlie opinion was altered by and local effort
The Hindenburg L. Z. 129 The, commercial interest in university education to a larger of armed robberies in the Colony private Labour members of the many with the United States flights of the Graf Zeppeli House of Representatives, who at 5383 were the lowest-paid lexisla-must. I am assured, affirm what North Atlantic line was finally proportion of the community.
tors of any Dominion, will benefit I have always maintained in understood, and the utility of There are now more than 50,000
the course of my life on thei students 'at the universities, an
correspondingly.
subject of the security of ciri-Zeppelins for the transport of an important number of pas- disastrous increase of 11 per cent. in the
gibles, despite the More than last six years.
experiments of other nations in Sengers at a reasonable price, {without neglecting the tonnage 20.000 of these receive assist-
O TEMPORA O TEMPERANCE
There is in existence an inter-the construction and utilisation of freight, was recognised. The ance from public funds.
fact that we can transport an least 50 per cent. of those who
The world follows with great automobile from one continent go to the provincial universities
esting account given by a social of the lighter-than-air craft. chronicler of a century ago of the
to another with the Hinden- their education in the
crowd he encountered at Green-interest the first voyage of the began
Hindenburg. Both North and elementary schools. It may
dirigible on long distances. fairly be said that a university
An 11-year-old boy was sucked wich one Easter Monday.
There were about 200,000 per- South America have taken, burg shows the capacity of the
and of one may say so, an increasing
To bring the construction of career has been made open into the interior of a street va-
interest in these performances talent in every class. The an-
suum cleaner with his bicycle sons there, he estimated,
these, towards evening.
near perfection has not been an 50.000 were sober. 90,000 in since the flights of the Graf the Zeppelins to a state almost With the Graf nual expenditure of the univer
30,000 drunkish, Zeppelin, LZ. 127.
easy task. high glee.
CCT- sities has risen to more than when he fell off his machine in á
Perfect Security
Zeppelin, we have known £6.000,000 a rear, of which the street in St. Joseph (Michigan).
I still A squad of mechanics had tol
10.000 staggering tipsy, 15,000
The United States have been tain disappointments. muzzy end 5,000 dead drunk. Treasury provides a third and
Southend is perhaps the modern amazed by the results obtained remember the nightmare of the local authorities a tenth. From dismantle the cleaner to get the
In the
by the Zeppelin, which, in all first flight of long duration of the University Grants Com- boy out. He reappeared unharm
Easter Monday
fying conditions. has proved its this last dirigible, the senior of mittee. which periodically adjed except for bruises and fright equivalent of Greenwich.
The victim, Alfred Zuhl. bad early part of vises the Government
on the
perfect security, whilst they the Hindenburg.
In Germany, the L. Z. 129 needs of university education, fallen from his bicycle into the evening the Southend police had may be expected an estimate of path of the cleaner. The driver recorded no case of drunkenness themselves, in their own experi- the value of this great expan-did not notice him tatil it was and the Bank Holiday average ments, have met with some represents, to public opinion,
the too late. of direction sion. and course which future develop- The vehicle with its rotating ment should take. The Com-brush sucked the boy into the rec- Your Daily Smile! mittee's new report, though it tangular container within, then contains much fine writing, is his bicycle went after him.
It pro Boy and bicycle were
A man reveals that he spends unfortunately vague. nounces that the demand for a into the dustbin along with a life repairing broken dance band struments. It is not known why.
+ university education is not like- quantity of the city's rubbish.
"Where's my school cap?" was
Off Colour ly to diminish in the near fu- ture, giving figures to show that Alfred's first question when the even now England has only one vehicle was taken to pieces to let university student to 1,013 of him out
the population, while in Ger-j many the proportion is one to 808, in France one to 480, and in
BROADMOOR
thrown
the United States one to 125. OLDEST INMATE OF But it is common knowledge that many of the American in- stitutions
on which the last In Asylum Since 1877 figure is based are not univer- sities in the full sense, and that several Continental countries
An inquest was held at Broad-
are uneasy at the numbers seek-moor Criminal Lunatic Asylum Last month on Thomas Nye, the ing university education.
Heads of the British colleges eldest inhabitant of the asylum
He was admitted in September have protested that if only
those who can make the best 1877 after being tried for assault use of universities should go at the Old Bailey. Twenty years there, they are already too full jago when the Commissioners of On this fundamental and much Lunacy visited Broadmoor, Nye
if he had any com-i disputed problem the Report was asked
It plaints. He said. "Tes. I wrote gives uncertain guidance. suggests that on the whole to the Home Secretary 20 years university career does lead safe-ago asking for my release, and I
A
One of the Commissioners ans-
ly to employment, and indus- have not had a reply yet" try and commerce are opening their doors more widely towered "You will hear in good graduates, though local authori-time. The Home Secretary does | ties are less generous. Quite nothing in a hurry.”
the rightly it lays stress on value of university years as a training not only for livelihood but for life. When we seek to discover whether the Commit-
TOWN CLERK'S COMPLAINT
Mr. W. H. Bentley, Town Clerk tee considers that the univer-jof Swindon, who was recommend- sities are overcrowded we have led by Leicester City General Pur- Ito be content with its admoni-Poses Committee as new Town tion that each must consider Clerk, but not appointed, has what its ideal bumber of stud-written to the Lord Mayor com- ents should be. Much more de-plaining that he was treated with finite and useful are the sugges-the grossest discourtesy when he of vistfed Leicester on the day of the tions for improvement methods. It is certainly high council's decision. time that university authorities the should -concentrate on strengthening of the depart- ments which they already pos- sess rather than provide for new subjects. We should like to feel confident that they will boed the exhortation to reform their lecture system, which has been the bane and the mockery of generations, and is still, by
EXPLANATION OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
THE DWARF OXEN
Sacred Running Oxen
the evidence of present under-Gaines) of Ceylon, are one graduates, as bad as it was when the century began.
FRENCH CONSULATE
of the greatest curiosities of the animal world. They attain a maximum height of 30 inches and are used to convey light loads and urgent mail matter
across cou-|
The offices of the French try. They can cover 100 miles in Consulate will be closed to the 24 hours without food or drink. general public to-morrow, being They have been known in India the Feast of the Ascension of for a thousand years, although Our Lord
their origin is a mystery.
of drunks" is two or three.
Problem
*
failures. One has only to recall what the Normandie symbo the Shenendoah, which wasilises for the French and the broken up in the course of a Queen Mary for the British. storm, causing numerous These ships are the chief works One deaths: and the loss of the of naval construction.
and the Macon, the cannot call the names of these without rendering his Akron
bomage to the magnificent latter in the Pacific. in-former in the Atlantic, and the vessels
Great Britain has abandoned efforts of the engineers. Hay the construction of dirigibles ing personally assisted in the When a blonde dyes her hair she following the tragic disaster of erection, bolt by bolt, of the frame of the L. Z. 129, which, the R.101, near Beauvais. usually tries to keep it dark
All these tragic events have coming from nothingness, re- caused a prejudice against the presents a vessel of force and lighter-than-air craft. Many beauty. I appreciate all the people have characterised the more the pride which those who dirigibles as "death traps." built the Normandie and the This opinion has naturally pro-Queen Mary can feel when they
(Continued on Page 10) duced an inauspicious reaction contemplate their ships. lat Friedrichshafen and some ofi
Improbable
"I want to tell you of an adven ture I had last night."
Is this a true story?" "Of course."
"Then go ahead."
"I stopped to pay a bill, and......” "I thought you said it was a tree story?"
"BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
EMERY TAYLOR - of Hirota Komas,
WICHITA, Kansas,
TOTALLY DEAF AND DUMB
USES AN ALARM CLOCK TO AWAKE HIM EACH MORNING.
HE PLACES IT ON KIS CHEST
The SACRED RUNNING OXEN
OF CEYLON
AND THE VIBRATION ARDUSES HIM.
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A SPECIES OF DWARF OXEN LESS THAN 30 INCHES HIGH THAT CAN TRAVEL100 MILES A DAY WITHOUT FOOD OR WATER
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