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French
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Here There and Everywhere
DONS DINING CLUB
The Family Dining Club, in
recently Cambridge, among the members
器
men. of which the late. Prof. House-
soon
THE FADED GLORIES OF SAMARKAND SOVIET TEACHING OF THE PEASANTRY
EXHORTATION TO “MAKE A LIFE” TO-DAY VOICED
M
TPZLS
(By Rosita Forbes)
a cotter
of a nervous
Signs Of Decay We found rooms in a clean, zew hotel with free bathrooms, never. opened unless five people agreed to
All communications intended for publication should be addressed to the Editor, and be accompanied by the Writer's Name and Address estimated that 6,000,000 not necessarily for insertion, but third of them Germans, will be man's wines are now being divid-] as a guarantee of good faith.
ready for war when Germany's ed, is a small and select body. Its
with a young ** departure from Bokhara,ed a droshki new two-years term of military membership of a dozen includes service becomes effective in Octo-the Master of Trinity.
attended by certain gineer, trimmed with astrakan, and« It meets at regular intervals dur dificulties. By six am most of a shock-worker from ber.
The statisticians reckoned thatjing term time-this used to be on the inhabitants of the lodging-farm on the verge men under arms in Europe's lead-alternate Fridays-in the houses house were helping me to look for breakdown ing military nations
will or college rooms of its members droshki, but it was not till three Hong Kong, Wednesday, Sept. 2. 1936 reach 5.369,000. They estimated The best on each occasion is res-hours later when we had ransack- that Germany, in addition to re-ponsible for the food and the ed the town that we discovered an elderly "phaetone." whose driver gular fighting units, would have wines.
To be a guest of the club is a fagreed to drive me to Kagan. 400,000 Nazi militiamen and 275,-- 000 men in labour camps, the lat-rare distinction, which comes by My roll of bedding filled the take hot baths at the same time. Wheat is rising rapidly inter also organised along military accident. When there is a mem-miniature vehicle, so that I had to and no means of getting any food. ber short the host is allowed to sit on top of it, holding my suit My door would not shut, so I had Five miles out the driver to tie the handle to the bottom of
the bed. market quotations and with it
stopped and demanded his money.
But these were only minor in- has Estimates" of army and civilian invite a friend who is usually a case bread the price of
An argument ensued and we advanced There is no reason statisticians gave the following young don of his own college- for alarm at movements caused agures on regular fighting units, to take the vacant chair.
While the "Family" dates back, rived late at Kagan. As the train conveniences. for Samarkand re was later still I was able to enlist Tealed itself as a charming new double and Germany's doubled by the smalle grain harvests based upon
it is believed, to
sometimes treble avenues, lined tary, its fellow donnish dining the help of half the population, in-town, bisected with
cluding a German-speaking
|with elm and poplar. It had an Germany, 1,365,000 men;
club, the "Society," was founded chant and an officer of the Oxpair of restrained gaiety, and since Italy. 1,250,000;
in my battle with the rapacious Russia, 1,200,000:
Neither has any political ebm-cab-driver, with the result that his it has a large niversity and a number of clinics and research in- for 11 miles was restitutes, youth predominated in France, 654,000;
plexion. In this they differ from fare Poland. 266,000;
such undergraduate dining clubsduced from 200 roubles to 20.
The Station Quene Jas the Tory True Blue and the Great Britain, 213,000;
At the station every adult in colour-washed Trucks, droshikis. Wing Beefsteak Rumania, 141,000;
habitant of the district appeared and an occasional auto-bus clat- Czechoslovakia. 109.000;
to have been camping for days 90tered over the stones. Kiosks sold Yugoslavia, 107,000; and
or about the platform in a shade! milk. sour junket, and gaily- Belgium, 63,500.
temperature approaching 95 Fal-coloured drinks, also beer at 91. a
¡lines.
of this year. Commodities in term of a military conscription: general are rising in value. Toj attain these better prices has been an object of world policy. in the belief that only when the prime producer obtains more will there be any sound basis recovery. for international Restriction schemes, such as those of Mr. Roosevelt in the United States, and control of output in tea, rubber and tin, all have as their object the securing of a fair return for capital and a living wage for
France's Plans
in 1857.
the 18th cen-
Your Daily Smile!
An Egotist
"Papa, what is an egotist?"
yourself!"
* *
*
ar-
mex-
the streets.
The
vence.
houses were clean and
Samarkand.
France was reported to be plan-
"An egotist, my boy, is a man who renheit. Plenty of food could be bor
In fact, modern Tickets placid and friendly. preoccupied the workers. In that process ning to strengthen her military tells you those things about himself bought, and the travellers had all
were issued in strict rotation first with the schooling of neighbour- nature is now taking a hand, defences. convinced that Germany which you intended to tell him about brought their bedding.
to the sick who were going to ing villagers and nomads, reminde and, so far as cereals are con-is headed toward another
sanatoriums, secondly, to Governed me of the garden towns of Pro- Add Definitions cerned, is proving a far more French opinion asserted that Ger-
But in the middle of the chancellor, Berr Adolf
Dad, what is bankruptcy?" effective check upon over-pro-many's duction than all the legislators-Hitler, in issuing decrees increas-
"Bankruptcy, my boy, is when you mert or police officials travelling
in your trousers on business, who carried red carefine new buildings proudly repre- rises the dome your creditors take thirdly to the accredited represes-senting progress, Drought in the United States
pocket and let
tatives of businesses, and lastly to
of Gur Emir, the burial-place of and, in a less degree. in Canada ing the military training period put your money
your coat."
queue of whom Tamerlane. The lower half is still the public, a has reduced the probable crops from one year to two years, had
Mary's Holiday
stretched far into the street. this year to an extent that will moved toward armed conflict.
Meanwhile, General Marie
Mistress: "Did you enjoy your day
But for the help of the kindly blue. So is the facade of the en- demand a heavy draft upon the carry-over of grain from the Gamelin, chief of the French army at the seaside, Mary
ments I saw in Central Asia, it is All Ogpa officer. I should never have trance arch, but, like other monu Mary: "No, I didn't, mum.
rapidly disintegrating. years of plenty. If calculations of the American crop at 630, staff, and other military leaders
wander around the beach and watch was, I shared a wooden shelf in & third-class compartment with It was the ships all day."
From the roof of the chamber 000,000 bushels prove accurate conferred with France's Socialist the movies were closed; so we had to got on to the train at all.
two girls from an embroidery the United States will have to premier, M. Leon Blum.
least import at
30,000,000 announced that the effects of the i
artel, a mechanic, a student of bio-containing the tombs of the con- artoy! bushels to meet their own food Nazi decree creating an requirements. They will this twice the size of France's was year send nothing to the im-studied in the hope of reaching porting countries.
"a rapid and practical decision."
During the past two years the world has been steadily re-
ducing the embarrassing stocks EXPLANATIONS
of wheat-resulting from the great harvests of 1933. Cana-j
dian reserves, taken over and stored by the Canadian Govern-
OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
ment, have been absorbed to Genius In 5 Generations
the extent of 100,000,000
bushels in the past 12 months.
MONG the most outstanding
the corn being sold at prices Aamples of inherited genius
justifying the foresight of
Ministers in playing the part of is the family of the Morgensterns, painters of Frankfurt, Joseph in the 20th century. In master
two years the "carry-over" of Germany. The last representative, all the grain-producing coun-Friedrich Ernst Morgenstern, was tries has dwindled to a level born in 1853 and died in 1919. His Carl, his grandfather creating doubt whether there father
Friedrich, his great- will be any surplus at all at the Johann close of this year. No change grandfather Johann Ludwig and in weather conditions can now his great-great-grandfather Jobann affect the United States and Christoph were all master painters | Canadian harvests, which are of the first rank.
being gathered in.
The Bible Reader
European crops are good in the Danubian provinces and are believed to
EORGE KERN of Columbus in be better than normal
City, Iowa, has been a devot Russia, but any gain in these ad Bible reader ever since child- areas may be offset by shortage hood, but on his 50th birthday he in France and Spain. Europe decided to read every evening for ordinarily imports 350,000,000 5,000 nights. His quickest time bushels, of which the United
for reading the entire Bible is. 21 Kingdom takes 200,000,000.
evenings. Mr. Kern says he still because Whence this quantity is to enjoys his Bible studies. come is the problem that is
he is continually absorbing the troubling the markets.
Any satisfactory answer de- good teachings thereform pends upon the harvests in
DEBTS
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Extravagant Living And Betting
Argentina and Australia, where A CRICKETER'S crops are not reaped until December. The Southern hemisphere may redress the shortage in the North, although drought has been reported from Australia. While doubt! MARTELL & CO. exists, wheat prices will prob
Creditors of Mr. F. 2. Faster, ably rise, as they have done by 27 per cent on the Liverpool the former captain of Warwick- market within the last two shire Cricket Club and Test Match months. Bread has advanced player, met at Birmingham last in price in England to a figure mouth. His liabilities were stat- that has not been known fored to be £628, the only assets being years, although it is still below furniture valued at £30. that of the period preceding A bookmaker was the petition- the world collapse. Depression ing creditor, and Mr. Foster attri The buted his failure to beiting-and gave us a cheaper loaf.
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS,"
St George's Building Ice House Stra Dial 20125
dearer loaf may prove one of extravagant living. He hoped to the signs of recovery by enabl-make a composition of 108 in the ing the farmers of the world to pound.
become purchasers on a larger
scale. While there is no pros-
pect of shortage of food this Clear realisation of that fact year, drought in subsequent may end artificial restriction years would be serious, because and give agriculture its fall of the exhaustion of stocks, share of prosperity,
*
; Caretaker A steward stood at the gangway
As it
Conqueror's Tomb
asked serious questions about the some of his ministers, I looked of a bit liner, riving instructions to chemistry, two schoolboys, who queror, his favourite nephew, and the arriving passengers.
First-class to the left; second to pay of British workmen and whe-across the pancake roots of the old the right," he repeated st intervals. ther Russia and England were go-town to the Registan, once the A young woman stepped daintilying to fight Germany, and a Cau-finest group of public buildings' on. aboard with a baby in her arms. As
West. As such, she hesitated before the steward, hecasian Jew, who was earning, in the caravan routes from Ching to perhaps Tamerlane and Ulug Beg, leaned forward and smiled politely. three different medical posts. 4.750 India and the
he roubles (190) a month. ***First or second. 023-3.1
Arrived at Samarkand station, the scientist, conceived it, but asked.*
(Continued on Page 6) "Ok" she blushed, -neither-seven miles from the town, I shar- Tm, only the nurse!"
'BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
THE
BIBLE READER
FRIEDRICH MORGENSTERN
MASTER PAINTER-d Frankfurt
WAS THE SON OF A MASTER PAINTER
WHO WAS THESON OF A
MASTER PAINTER WHO WAS THE SON OF A MASTER PAINTER WHO WAS THE SON OF A MASTER PAINTER " :
5 GENERATIONS
GLOBE TROTTING
CAT
"Molly HAS TRAVELED 100,000 MILES.
IN 3 YEARS
GEORGE KERN of Columbos City, Iowa
Owned by
MRS. FLKIEGEL
S.Ozone Park,
NY
HAS READ AN AVERAGE OF 75 VERSES OF THE BIBLE FACH NIGHT FOR 5000 NIGHTS:
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