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seen a building in the Wimbledon
direction with a message in large
letters on the roof.
As the plane drew within read ng distance, the passengers could see that it ran "Film Studio. Quiet, Please."
THE MID-AUTUMN· FESTIVAL
ONE OF CHINA'S MOST IMPORTANT
THE
COLOURFUL PAGEANT
Mid-Autumn Festival, or as it is more popularly known. the Moon Cake Festival, is coming round very soon.
This festival is regarded as the most important of all those celebrated by the Chinese people. In fact, it stands second only in importance to the New Year, and because of this the house- wives dig deeper into their purses when preparing the feast and as a general rule all the cares of the day are relegated to the This is apparently a desperate background in the process of making merry. effort by a film company to per- For the joss-stick shops, this festival is a time of prosperity, SMALL FIRE IN TELEGRAPH de aircraft to By high. Other for not only are the joss-sticks and papers sold in unusually large wise the penetrating note of their quantities, but there is also a great demand for lanterns of all BAY
engines is faithfully recorded as shapes and sizes, and for weeks in advance orders keep pouring jan unwelcome obligato to filrain for these lanterns, without which the festival would lose so Road. Kowloon, at 7.50 p..
The promptness of a police con-dialogue.
| much of its colour. September 27th. Funeralstable and members of the Street It has proved more successful will pass the Monument at Boys' club prevented a fire in the than an attempt recently made by These who witnessed theland when set alight this would 5.15 p.m. to-day. Shanghai village of Telegraph Bay from a British film company to over-lantern procession in conjure-drift in the air to be carried away
and cansing Manila papers please spreading
greater come the difficulty when they were tion with the Jubilee Celebra at the mercy of the winds. Usual- damage.
taking a sequence near an aero-tions last year, were loud in ly, however, this form of celebra- According to the report the fire drome. They flew a large yellow their praise of what was tion met with disastrous results started in an unnumbered hut at flag to warn airmen to keep their described as a most pictures and many were the houses that Hong Kong. Monday, Sept. 28, 1936 about 2 pr. yesterday afternoon. distance.
que spectacle, but the un-were set on fire-as a consequence The fire is believed to have been Unfortunately, pilots misunder-organised and unrehearsed pro-jof lanterns alighting on the roofs! The most popular lantern used Ranking The Presidents started through a spark from a stood the signal and swooped down cessions which form an integral
part of the Moon Cake Festival on this occasion is the fish lantern celebrations are no less in-and as they are easily carried Your Daily Smile! teresting, serving as they do to about, it is no uncommon sight to remind us that here in Hong see little boys or giria parading Mussolini has supplied the United Kong, despite all the progress the streets with one of these for States with a valuable idea for made, we still have traces of nights before the 15th of the financing future wars. Consider ancient China.
eighth moon. The smaller draft the wedding ring potentialities of Hollywood and Reno.
And why should these lantern in the harbour also do their share processions be associated within making the night of the 15th A doctor was recently called to ancient China? This is explained one to be remembered by any for- treat a Texas man who had been by the story that in the old days, eigner to these parts who is for- talking incessantly jor, 15 days.when the country was in a tur-tunate enough to witness one of Still, when his wife's on holiday, & moil, and everyone was at logger- these spectacles, for they also man has to catch up.
beads with everybody else, an at-hoist the multi-coloured lanterns. * *
tempt was made by some of the on their masts, and as they make sages to bring about peace and their way through the water, the
boiler which ignited the roof of in, dozens to-investigate. the but. The hut was quickly
Certain political observation destroyed, with all its contents. of the official behaviour of The action of the constable and American Presidents has been boys prevented the fire from ex- that in their first terms they tending to the other huts on the perform their functions with beach.
an eye to re-election, in their second with an eye to their
places in history. Those who
accept at least the inferential EXPLANATIONS
truth of this should bear it in! mind in considering the results of a three-year experiment at Stanford University, where a class has been asked to rank)
the last ten Presidents before and after study of their careers. It applies particular- ly to the ratings given Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roose velt
OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
Church Moved By The Hand Of God
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A movement is under way to find the man who invented the collar stad A harder task might be just to find
the stud.
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lamp on their roofs on this day of While the children celebrate this days, in order to show, to the out-festival of festivals in their own
£60,000 WORTH side world at least, that they were way, the adults also do not let the OF DIAMONDS
harmony, and one of them hit upon refections thus cast on the sea the happy plan that the Mid-Au-seem to look up with the challeng Festival would be a very ing question, "where else in the tumn
for all the people world can one find such idyllic 1874, the congregation of the prove an insidious one.
The Italian plan of campaign may suitable time
If so, after to show good faith. They were charm?" Methodist Church in Swan-building those roads, they'll sell therefore requested to hoist an oil
Ancient Belief After study the Stanford quarter, N.C. disagreed about pur-Ethiopians motor cam. students this year rated the chasing a plot of ground on which Presidents, from the stand-to build their church, and after point of efficiency, in this or-much discussion, it was built on
unified in that they all hoisted occassion pass unnoticed. They der: Wilson, T. Roosevelt, F.jan entirely different spot. The
the same signal or flag.
wine and dine on a most generous D. Roosevelt, Cleveland, Hoover, new church did not prosper and
New Designs Each Year scale, and presents in the form of Coolidge, McKinley, Taft, Har the split factions still quarreled
Time, however, took a hand in moon cakes are exchanged freely. rison, Harding. Before study until the question was settled for
things and gradually paper lan- In the old days it was regarded their impressions had been them. On September 17, 1876
terns took the places of these oil good luck to cut open a pamelo TEA POT STANDS
that T. Roosevelt stood first violent tornado-like storm literally Ruth Chatterton, in
"Dods-lamps, and with each succeeding with one's eyes fixed on the moon, and Wilson second, but investi-picked up the little old wooden
to worth," has
diamonds year came new designs until to-bat this often resulted in cut fin- gation reversed that order. The church building and moved it 300.
|worth £60,000.
day there are lanterns of a then-gers: Still, it was often said that TABLE APPOINTMENTS others remained undiarged. yards, dropping it exactly on the
Lloyd's insured them-but
in-sand different shapes to be had this risk was worth taking, since The same change was noted in spot over which the disagreement
no for the asking. Going back to the the successful "operationTM sisted that there should be the class of 1934, but that of rose. The congregation accepted TEA STRAINERS
publicity about it until the dia-fold days, the people used a sort of pumelo meant good luck for the 1935 put Wilson at the top be-this as an act of God, were re- monds were back in the jeweller's lantern, in the shape of the crate one concerned for the rest of his fore and after study. The sta-junited, and they renamed their
now commonly used for chickens, life!FMA dents in 1936 who confessed church the "Providence Methodist safe for good.
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. Republican prejudice in ad-Church
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vance of study made, these
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three
changes afterwards: T. Boose A Staunch Democrat velt from first place to second;; F.D. Roosevelt from sixthị
HARLES F. Taylor of Bowling place to third; Coolidge, fourth Green, Ky voted for Grover to sixth; Hoover, third to Cleveland three times from fourth, and Wilson, second to different states. In 1884 at May- first. Students admitting Degville, Ky.; in 1888 at Ashland, mocratic prejudice registered Kansas; and in 1892 at Rome, ¡these alterations of opinion
Georgia. after study: McKinley, sixth to seventh: T. Roosevelt, second
to third: Taft, 7.5 to eighth; DIRECTIONS FOR
Wilson, third to first; Coolidge,
7,5 to sixth, and F. D. Roose- velt, first to second In all
EXAMINEES
classes, and in all instances, They Must Bring Their
Own Ink
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Harding trailed the list. The faculty has found it invariable that, after study, Theodore “Bring you own ink -black and Roosevelt has dropped down a red" is one of the instructions to peg or two as his career is con-candidates for second-class air fined to his Presidential acnavigators' licences at the examina- itivities alone, but the Repub-tion to be held in October in Lon- lican students have made a don, Heliopolis. Bagdad, Singapore greater alteration with him than and Karachi. the Democrats.
On the one hand,
As these things go, it is a flying power. very interesting experiment and weather conditions in the strato- something of a guide for his-sphere are relatively torians and for partisans who
and the rarefied air offers less
stabler
let their campaign hopes or resistance to the passage of the emotions get the better of machine; on the other the thin- them. Considering the lack ofness of the air involves the perspective, Mr. Hoover and the President have done well extra weight of super-charged Considering the existence of it, ment for the pilots..
engines and of special equip Mr. Cleveland seems not to have done so well in the stu- Ident estimate.
For the moment the advan-
tage in an eastward Hight
across the Atlantic lies with the lower levels because of their Via The Stratosphere promise of a following wind. But if we look forward to the From the particulars of pro-day when the world's great jected trans-Atlantic air ser-cities in either hemisphere will vices frequently published be linked by direct regular ser
the English press,
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it vices running to a time-table,
is clear that a journey we can hardly doubt that the through the stratosphere has likelihood of steady weather for now become a matter of prae- thousands of miles either way. ticable aeronautics. It is within will favour the choice of the the power of a modern plane to stratosphere. The conditions fly 3,000 miles at a height of which it offers are to be pre- over six miles. The question is feared, provided human inver- whether such a flight would]tion is able to take full advan- make the most effective use ofstage of them."
They Had To Keep It A Secret
wear
"BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
THE
CHURCH
MOVED BY THE HAND OF GOD.!
SWANQUARTER, N.C..
THE CONGREGATION SPLITOVER MOVING THE CHURCH
TO ANOTHER LOCATION~~WHEN A VIOLENT STORM CAME ALONG AND CARRIED THE BUILDING TO THE IDENTICAL. NEW LOCATION
And the Name of the Church has been "PROVIDENCE METHODIST CHURCH 'ever SINCE
LOST CHILDREN WILL BE TAKEN TO LION HOUSE
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HARVARD YALE PRINCETON
75 A SOPHOMORE BRECK ACADEMY, St.Paul
CHASF TAYLOR, JE
Bowling Green, Ky.
VOTED FOR GROVER CLEVELAND FOR PRESIDENT
IN 3 DIFFERENT STATES
of