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EXPLANATIONS OF TO-DAYS CARTOON
Miracle Of Dwanna Lee
J.
October 25, 1933, little 0 Dr Lee Newman, then
Here There
and
Everywhere.
The crown on the flagstaff at
that
ARMISTICE DAY
DAY IN
LONDON
“MAFEKING NIGHT” ALL
OVER AGAIN
MANY PROBLEMS RAISED BY A NEW TO-MORROW”
All communications intended for just 2, of Eureka, Utah. had the UNCROWNING ST. JAMES'S publicaties zhould be addressed to Elwrowest kind of escape from the Editer, and be accompanied by death. The little tot was crossing the Writer's Name and Address the D. & R.G.W. tracks when she St. James's Palace is to disappear. not necessarily for insertion, but was hit by a freight train travel-It was placed there at the begin- ling at a speed of about 20 miles ning of the year when the Royal as a guarantee of good faith.
per hour. The locomotive pilot Standard was down over the Palace HE end of the War at last! where about this time it began to krocked her 10 feet in the air. she as the King's official residence.
We couldn't, some of us, be- rain, but nobody cared. From an authority од alighted on the cross-ties exactly
Court lieve it, although our newspapers In Trafalgar-square, where the between the rails and the entire etiquette it is learned the had prepared us for it for some fountains were playing again, peo-
the weeks past. freight train passed over her. Acrow should only surmount
ple were ringing huge handbells Eureka resident, Gordon Tindar, staff where the Royal Standard
At eleven o'clock on the morning and letting off detonators, while was close enough to see exactly ties. This is no longer at St of the eleventh of November, 1918 the pigeons circled
overhead in Hong Kong. Wednesday, Nov. 11, 1935 what happened. but not Close James's Palace but at Buckingham two years at least, too early terror. As night fell the crowds.
Jenough to rescue the little girl. Palace.
for wireless the maroons an-augmented, surged through the When picked up, she was found to
Marlborough nounced it as a fact, however, with streets while the face of Big Ben, be unconscious, but soon revived. House, where now flies Queen strident voice, writes Beatrice lighted again after an interval of Armistice Day
and examination disclosed the fact Mary's personal standard, is sur Kean Seymour.
four years, looked down upon the that aside from a bump on the fore-mounted by a coronet similar
We'd ofter wondered what scene. There is a peculiar quality bead, she was uninjured. And that she wears at State functions would happen when the war really about the commemoration Believe It or Not, the little spoon At Buckingham Palace the came to an end. Well, now we
To The Palace every year of Armistice Day in with which she was playing at the crown tops the 30ft mast. This kaew London, at least, for one the British Empire. The cere time was cut in two by the train is the only fagstaff in London whole night and day, went mad.
Carnival, earlier in the day the riot of youth, had become more monies are concerned not only wheels, ret she still clasped the which correctly should be so sur with commemoration of the spoon handle in her tiny hand mounted.
general. Men and women danced with strangers in the road; every- glorious dead, though this may when brought home.
be their primary purpose. But there is something more in the ¡day of remembrance which the whole Empire keeps some deeper significance, some less:
the same
The staff over
+
FILMING THE CORONATION
The fact that the
to
Sad Thoughts
..
2
the
and I
A young woman, married dur-body carried a flag. People rode ing the war. I was living then in on the tops of taxicabs and clung Deaf-Mute Speaks 3
Coronation a small house on the edge of Rich- to their sidesten, twenty, and Languages
procession is to be televised willmond Park. My husband was still more on one cab- and surged up in no way interfere with the ar-in the Army, though on his way to crowd the drivers of THOUGH classifed as a deaf- rangements made to show it on home on furlough, and two days crawling ommibuses. The throngs obvious reason. for the hold T
before, when Foch was announcing a great volcanic eruption of which this annual commemora- mate, Miss Laila Lee of the talking-picture screen.
News reel organisations have his Peace Terms and receiving the humanity-streamed down through tion has upon the minds and Ossian. Iowa has command of
British three languages English. Ger-long since been hooking up the White Flag Party, I had heard of the Strand, along the Mall, and imaginations of the
down Constitution I to the Ipeople. We respectfully sug-man and Norwegian. Her voice is best vantage-points for the scores the death of my brother.
required to of cameras
But the war had made me very Palace to "Cover
cheer the King and gest that it is the sense of de-not especially strong but can bel
the Queen, who came out upon a light- liverance with which the first heard and is readily intelligible, the whole procession. Arrange-unhappy, quite apart from Armistice Day
overwhelmed And though she cannot hear, she ments have also been made for a unhappiness caused by personaled balcony.
loss, and as I sat in the window Mateking Night all over again. the nation. Amid all the "lip-reads"
three lan-film in Technicolour.
The position in the Abbey itself that morning, looking down the said the older folk. "The greatest hysterical rejoicings which guages.
has not yet been defined. In the quiet little road, and thinking of night in history," the newspapers were seen in London on that Miss Lee was born in Norway, past moving picture cameras were the scene just enacted in the cold called it next morning. unforgettable night WAS 2 came to the United States at a banned. This was presumably on early morning in the Forest of The restaurants, like the thea- deeper vein of the most pro- very tender age, and became deaf the ground that the noise, or even Compiegne, it wasn't only that Itres, were crowded out, but soon found thankfulness to Al-in childhood. At the Lutheran the sight of them, would detract felt a deep sense of relief because after eleven my husband mighty God for a deliverance School in North Detroit she was from the service.
men were no longer killing each managed to secure a supper-table from the horrors of the time. taught to read, write and
The modern sound camera is other. I.thought of all those woat an Oxford-street restaurant. I All classes in England were German. Next she attended the noiseless, however, and it is felt in men whose sons, husbands, and find it nowadays difficult to believe
would never thoroughly sick of the war and State School in Council Bluffs many circles that such an historic sweethearts
come in that restaurant - but it is still to them, and I wanted to there, though I have never, some everything it represented-the where she learned English, and occasion should not be allowed to back
record-weep-not only for the dead but how, found the courage to go in- national hatreds which were later she attended Gallaudet Col-pass without a pictorial artificially engendered, the lege in Washington. Her parents It would certainly have a huge for the living
Įside it again. lying, the deceit; the violence, have never known any language public in England and abroad. I think I might have. sat there?
What, I wonder, has happened the hysteria, and the death and except Norwegian, so
all day had not, my husband ar-to the very drunken party of men. suffering. Men ordinary obliged to master that tongue also. Professor R. Ifor Evans. M.Arived and urged me to put on my women, and young girls at the
University Professor of English things and go out. We climbed on next table to ours? peaceable, decent, God-fearing
The term "deaf-mute" does not Language and Literature, Univer to the top of a 33 omnibus and men-had found themselves.
What became of the girl who dragged into a flaming vortex, necessarily imply total inability to
danced on a table-top, a glass of called upon to perform acts and bear or speak, but rather "those sity of London. Queen Mary rode down to Piccadilly.
College, is expected in Hong Kong
The Sarging Crowds · who are deaf from
champagne in her hand? undertake a view of humanity whether able to articulate or not, has kindly agreed to give a public
November 22. on Sunday,
The scene we looked upon was
New Problems utterly alien to their inward and whether deafness is total. or lecture on "English Life as reveal- unforgettable. Already
Carnival natures. They were called
I remember telling myself that. the streets, trafic The reigned in upon to discard, at a moment's
ed in English Literature." notice, all their kindliness and
lecture, which will be open to the crawled, the motor-horn protested. without knowing it, all these peo- friendliness and replace it with:
public, will be delivered the By twelve o'clock most of the ple were celebrating not the end Great Hall of the University at shops were shut, and at three Big of something, but the begining. an unreasoning hatred against unseen and unfamiliar
5.30 p.m. on Wednesday, Novem- Ben, silent for so long, boomed out of what?
over the incredible din. Same- ber 25.
enemy; they were bludgeoned
not."
speak
Lalla was
childhood
Your Daily Smile!
Bachslider
The trombone player was 'quirting
into acquiescence by the crudest the dance orchestra.
"Yes," admitted the player. "Back
of propaganda, the most patent "I suppose you're going back to the of lies and a · mass hysteria Philharmonic where I got yon," said which threw their capacity for the orchestra leader. considered judgment out of to the Philharmonic to play symphon- joint. All these things theys and all the other classical music.” [did-but only after the sacrifice "Well, it's no surprise,” declared
orchestra. leader.
"I always Hof every vestige of the right to the
private judgment and an un-thought you were conditional bowing to the mob heart." mentality.
Whether they realised it at the time or not, it is surely true
*
a Bachslider at
* *
Tak! Tak! "How tall is that native hunter?” "About six feet two in his stalking
to say that the rank and file of feet."
the nation, no less than its
leaders, welcomed an Armistice
+ *
Unanimous
Excited Young Barrister (rising to
which enabled them to throw defend his first case): "My unfortu- off this artificially-produced and nate client-erer, my unfortunate inherently alien mentality.cheater er e
alien, because the general run
Judge: "Pray proceed, Mr. Smith.
of the nation does not consist of So far the court is with you.” bloodthirsty sadists who
What Price Glory
"I'm sorry
get any enjoyment out of the The nice lady entered the restau- spectacle of wholesale slaughter. rant and ordered an omelette. The greatness of the Empire waiter took the order. has not been built up on in-dam," he said, "that the price of
have to explain, ma-t human qualities such as these: omelettes has been raised. It's on rather has it been fostered by account of the war, you know.” the acceptance of immanently "My goodness!" exclaimed the nice decent rules of life-give and lady, "are they throwing eggs at each
Other now?" take, tolerance, the social sense
in the best meaning of those
Political Note
words, all the attributes which "So Slushie has been elected to the make for law and order and Senate?" something which is very imper- fectly described as the "public-
school" epde of manners.
“Yes, by a $800,000 majority.”
heroisms and sacrifices of an
If we are right in our analysis of the unexpressed earlier generation when the present generation somewhere thoughts behind the commemo- ration of Armistice Day there else is committing exactly the is immensely more significance same heinous follies. How can in today's ceremonies than the two things be reconciled? And the answer is that they there has been in recent years cannot. But if our ceremony For they are being carried out
at the Cenotaph to-day can be at a time when the world for at least one part of it is flag-translated into a beacon of hope that these things will not be ing with violence and death in the future, then it is a fane- all its beastbest forms. Indeed, tion of deep spiritual impor- there seems. to be something tance and significance, and it is almost satirical about the fact that spirit that we that here in Hong Kong, as In Swinburne well as in thousands of centres
all over the Empire and the
Hush, for
hing that fres
world, we are laying wreathe land saying prayers to recall the And here's own heart how zaar!
in
He
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“BELIEVE IT OR NOT? by Robert L. Ripley
MIRACLE
of DWANNA LEE
PARALLEL LINES THAT MEET AND CROSS
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DON'T KILL YOUR WIFE.
LET US DO YOUR DIRTY WORK
SIGN IN A
LAUNDRY
WINDOW
ARDMORE
DEAFMUTE
SPEAKS
IN 3 LANGUAGES
THE 2 YR OLD DAUGHTER OF MRS ARVID NEWMAN, of EUREKA, Utah, WAS STRUCK BY A FREIGHT TRAPE-THROWN ID FI IN THEAIR-AND THE ENGINE AND 6 CARS PASSED OVER HER BODY-WITHOUT-INJERING.
She still held on to the handled atoy spoon which was
LALLA
LEE Ossian