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Never before has youth had Since her success in London as publication should be addressed to such an opportunity of presenting the heroine of "Bitter Sweet.” The Editor, and be accompanied by its views on vital issues as Miss Peggy Wood has made only the Writer's Name and Address carred recently when the World one appearance there In England mot necessarily for insertion, but Youth Congress, summoned by the she has appeared only in musical as a guarantee of good faith.
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NATIONAL PARKS
IN SUMATRA
PRESERVING FAUNA FOR
POSTERITY
SPECIAL LEGISLATION INVOKED
BY GOVERNMENT
(By F. Koster)
UP in end the can not set boet explored.
till the end of the third] The whole national park has There About 700 delegates, representa. Recently her first novel was
tury the movement for the pro-are some pathways along the tive of all kinds of youth move-published. It' deals with Holly-tection of Nature in the Dutch rivers, though the white man ments in 36 countries, met for wood under the appropriate. title East Indies was of very little has never been in the very eight days in the League Assem- of “Star Wagon.”
importance. It was more heart of this part of "dark Hong Kong Friday, Oct. 16, 1936. bly Hall Although the delegates One aspect of Hollywood new to theoretical than practical; in Sumatra." The environment is were young men and women no most readers is revealed by Miss nearly all parts of this beauti-better known; the region in the M. Rolin, the Belgian Senatorite after-dinner pastime age limit was set for the speakers Wood. It appears that a favour-ful world it was possible to Gajo Locos has been explored among destroy the flora and fauna by troops of the Army and presided and the speakers includ-cinema producers is
showing an malimited way, so that some travellers
On Hawkers And Some Other Things
For
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a
victim is présent.
Your Daily Smile!
Go Very Barefoot
her go barefoot all over."
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ed Dr. Mande Royden and Sir scenes from films which, due to great mammals (we call atten- The plains of this country That itinerant food-hawkers, Norman Angell
some mishap, have had to be tion to the Rhinoceros son-have a very fine climate; here "You young men and women," scrapped.
(daicus) were utterly exter-grows a fir-tree species which with their generally primitive
minated-except a few indivi-produces the effect of a moun- ideas on bygiene, are a posi-Dr. Royden exid, "will not admit
The spectacle of a famous filindrals in a reservation or in the tain landscape in middle tive menace to the general that it is cowardice or fear of health of the community. will death and pain that makes you actor "drying-up" in the middle of wildest and most remote forests Europe
Tourist Territory? surely not be disputed; and for want peace. You want peace be a love scene and appealing to the of Sumatra and Borneo. this reason the proposal of the cause you know that human pro recorded by the camera-is, it apColonies too, better times are informed us that this region prompter her help all faithfully Happily it seems that for our Some months ago De Javabose Urban Council gradually to re-gress depends upon freedom from
pears, a certain success at Holly-coming. Ten years ago Mr. P. finds still more appreciation duce the number of hawkers' this nightmare of war."
wood parties, particularly if the G. van Tienhoven, the well- among the tourists. An auto- licences issued will be generally Third-Party Judgment
known champion for the inter- road leads from Dehli to Kotat- welcomed. But, as Mr. R. R. Sir Norman Angell urged youth
national protection of Nature, jane, and from this village one Todd remarked at last Tues-to make a stand against the im- day's meeting of the Council, moralism which made nations put
founded the Dutch Committee can go to the plain mentioned for the international protection on horseback. We are sure there are many allied problems defence before. peace. "You must to be taken into consideration: protest," he declared, “and say that
of Nature. Now we are so far that the National Park will be- and it is as well that the pro-henceforth neither party to
Little Beth was watching mother that in co-operation with the come one of the future great Government of the East Indies attractions of international posed legislation governing the dispute shall be its judge, but all bathe baby sister. issue of hawkers licences is to shall submit to third-party judg-bath," she confided.
"I like to see baby sister take her the legislation has been improv-tourism.
"I like to see ed and moreover some mom- be reviewed next year.
Besides this large park the ments of Nature and game re-Peak of Indrapoera and the our part we consider that no
The British delegation was the attempt should be made entirelargest, consisting of no less than
servations have been establish- Mandor-river plain have been ly to eliminate hawkers from 50 delegates and 60 observers
led
reserved, the first a high moun- Safe Asylum the streets for several cogent
tain group on Sumatra, the "I believe I have di The most interesting sane-second an orchid reservation în reasons. As a start, it is sare-drawn from youth organisations, Professor:
Miss Brown: "How interesting! tuary is no doubt the great Borneo. A reservation for the ly not disputed that they do, in ranging in politics from Consar covered a new star, Miss Brown."
Atjeh, the great mammals in South- fact, fill a recognised demandative to Communist and in re-But you won't be sure, I suppose, national park in that many people depend almost ligion from Catholic to Quaker, until you've counted all the others?" Gajoe, and Alaslanden reserva-Sumatra, in Benkoelen, has just
tion, which is, with its 700,000 been established. wholly for their food require One of the delegations which ments on the itinerant hawker aroused the greatest interest was
hectares, one of the most valu- The prevention of the' who calls at their doors. the one from Spain, one of the
A man in search of a quiet holi-able tropical natural reserves of destruction of the remarkable. especially in
daytime. members of which was a young girl the
ele-we mention the great lizards of Secondly, the experience of the soldier of 18 who had been wound-day set out in a small sailing boat, the world. All the great fauna of the Dutch Colonies--
his only equipment consisting of pro animals of Sumatra, the local charitable societies bearsed in the civil war and who wore visions and a wireless set He sailed phants, the rhinos, the anthro-the isle of Komodo, the Varanus out the contention that street her arm in a sling.
serenely for several days, until at poid apes (orang outang) will Komodoensis, dragon-like hawking affords many people
last he sighted one of those liners find a safe asylum here in reptile of more than 12 feet Jan opportunity to make. an
which resemble small towns rather future, when their territority long, and soologically of the than ships. The appearance of the will be much smaller than now. same value, if no more, as the honest, living, when they would
little boat created otherwise starve or be an
Africa and the board the liner, which slowed down. justifiable drain on the socie
The captain was wondering whewhere. The landscape with establishment of natural re- ties' private resources; and it
ther it was a matter of going to the the volcano Goenoeng Loser serves, including their ward, rescue when the holiday maker mov-
of the most is surely preferable that people should be encouraged to fend
the message. Is there anything luxurious ed to his transmitter and tapped out has a very wild character; a belongs to one
forest vegetation pressing problems of this time. honest! for themselves in an
(Continued on Page 6) can do for you?"
covers the mountains. could be reduced to depending 13.0, between Gladewater calling rather than that they
on the nefarious practices of stealing and other non-social and Longview in East Texas, in pursuits. All this seems to us the heart of the great oilfield, is to make a strong case for the now thickly settled for the entire retention of the street-hawking distance, and because of the great principle; but where there is amount of traffic borne by this one
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EXPLANATIONS
OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
13-Mile Main Street
[THE 13-mile stretch of highway];
LANE. CRAWFORD, LTD. most scope for improvement is street, it has come to be known as
The famous "Girl" Brans
Beer
PAULI
GIRL
the conditions under which the "Main Street" of Texas. Only licences are granted and street-six years ago "Main Street" was hawkers operate.
a peaceful country road where an
First and foremost is the clent live-saks spread their leafy question of public health. No arms over the asphalt and shaded discouragement of the present a few crossroad stores. To-day conditions one sees every day the entire stretch is packed with could be too severe open a jumble of habitations and busi- stalls, displaying cooked and pess houses dependent upon the of uncooked food without any industry, and is said to be richer attempt at a covering, exposed than Wall Street, to have more to every disease-laden breath night clubs than Broadway, and of wind that swirls. And in more restaurants than State Street. this connection we inviteTM the Urban Councillors to stand at the bottom of Wyndham Street almost any morning between 6.30 and: 7 o'clock and, witness
Eggs With Black
Whites
URING February 1984 the
for themselves -another prac- D poultrymen - in south-
tice, freely indulged in, which
`great
seems to us to be the height of western Norway were startled to injudicions folly, if nothing find some of their hens laying eggs else. It is a common sight to that had black and dark coloured see two coolies, carrying slung "whites." Investigation disclosed on a pole between them, the that the hens had eaten carcase of a newly-killed bul-jamounts of oak nuts, of which lock, covered that is to say, that country had a great supply draped with a filthy piece of in 1933, and the acid in the nuts jeloth, which practice is presun had caused the albumen of eggs
ably held to fulfil all the hygenic to turn black. needs represented. We have
ourselves seen, also, a tricycle
being propelled across the be hawkers themselves or the Pedder Street Des Voeux class of the community they Road crossing, with the undrap-serve. But make your regula ed carcase of a newly-slain pig tions, at the same time, far reposing on it in fall view, more strict than they are; and absolutely unprotected in any also supervise with more regard way from the contaminated air for health principles the condi Sights like these should rottions- under, which other pur obtain in a properly run city veyors of foodstuffs operate. with some claims to modern The hawkers are not by any hygienic ideas.
other means the only offenders. The
conditions under a
are conveye
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Turning the Table
·REY.
Birds
are numerous
every-Okapi in
“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L Ripley
GUY BELLAMY
PASTOR OF "PUTNAM BARTIST CHURCH, OKLAHOMA CITY,
ISTE
HE WAS THE
Y OF A FAMILY OFF BOY
MAN IN THE
SQUAD OF THE
ANTRAIN
OF THE BRIGADE OF THE DIVISION IN THE
7 SECTION AND HIS GENERALS CAR NUMBER WAS
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