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Royal Walch Fusiliers pleaded
not guilty to driving car. No. 2973
To become an Elder Brother of
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Labour's Trimming Arms Policy
By a majority of rather more than a million votes the Labour Party Conference early last month endorsed the Executive's on the emergency resolution
That question of armaments. was good as far as it goes. But
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most politiciansį
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PRIVATE ENTERPRISE AND SCIENCE
INVENTIONS THAT HAVE
HELPED MANKIND
ELECTRIC FORCES HARNESSED TO HOME REQUIREMENTS
operate graph other perform
at the instance of Lieat-Com-covet very highly. Mr. Walter TN the realm of photo electri- Another device is the colour- city many uncanny experi-scope.. which was invented in Runciman's connection with the sea mander Graves, R.N.
and a number of marvellous de- New York university and Dr. The defendant is alleged to is additional reason for personal ments have been carried out 1980 by Prof. EL H. Sheldon of in W. A. Schneider. The colour- have driven on the right side of
vices have been invented gratification
employs photo-electric the car park in Connaught Road
The last member of the present which the photo electric cell is scope
cells. Their reactions to light and to have cut out between
The photo-electric cell in its beams make them give off in- electric currents Space in the park in front of the Government to be elected an Elder employed. complainant's car, which had to Brother was Sir Samuel Hoare.
silvered internally, with this capable of operating light re stop suddenly in order to avoid He was elected at a special court simplest form is a glass bulb finitesimal
in August, his old antagonist, over silver coating lined on the inlays, which will stop or start an sccident.
The hearing was adjourned for the India Bill, Mr. Churchill, beside with a thin layer of some machinery.
In needles, or Jone week.
ing the only non-acting Elder Brometal such as potassium.
or shop service. ther present.
the centre of the bulb is arrang-laboratory
matches colourscope DRIVING WITHOUT
Other politicians who are mem-led a collecting electrode sup- The ibers of the Corporation are Mr.ported on a wire sealed directly colours more exactly than can DUE CARE
Metallic (the human eye. Baldwin, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, through the glass.
The Chicago Tribune of June Lord Monsell, Lord Crewe, and connection is made in the same! European Defendant
way with the potassium. Silver 6, 1930, had this to say of the Lord Selborne. Pleads Guilty
Elder Brethren enjoy an honour is removed from a certain area colourscope:
"This new robot is as fast as which, it is said, is unique. They of the glass to allow light to
Its decisions are in- enter, and when light does enter the eye. Ernest Peter Humphreys, chave the King for a colleague.
Its eyes are two an the bulb, electrons are ejected stantaneous.
The King George F. was also
cells. These photo-electric admission that in the present countant, was this morning charg- state of affairs in Europe Greated before Mr. W. Schofield at the Elder Brother. The Master is, of from the potassium.
electrons. are charged up posi-colours to be compared are laid A needle Britain cannot do without some Central Magistracy with driving course, the Duke of Connaught.
tively, collect on the centre in front of them. electrode, and render the latter pointer between the eyes im- measure of rearmament. "The car No. 3193 at Gap Road while
the It is upon negative
mediately swings. If armed strength of the countries under the influence of drink
phenomenon that are based match is perfect the needle loyal to the League of Nations," such an extent as to be incapabie it was declared in the first of having proper control of the
at eyes open when you go to London."any of the experiments in exactly balances between the photo-electricity. Also employ-two cells, its point at zeroon paragraph, “must be condition-vehicle, and with driving the car ed by the armed strength of the without due care and caution
"People would think you were a biting this phenomenon, a number the scale. If the match is off, If the Gap Road on Saturday. potential aggressors.” resolution had stopped there it The defendant pleaded guilty to or if you went around with them of the marvellous devices are the needle swings to one side would have meant much more. (both charges and the case was ad-shut.” Or if the first paragraph hadjourned for one week been omitted and the third had $500 was allowed. been taken as the substantive
it scarcely went beyond commit- Iting the Socialist Party to thei
one,
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"John, you had better keep your
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ST. PATRICK'S SOCIETY
Annual Meeting On
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Stay."
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"But a lot of things bought that
way haven't"
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Capid's Minion
this
put to practical application...
for too light, to the other for So far this field has not been too dark, and, moreover, it in- explored fully, but sufficient has dicates on the scale exactly how been accomplished to forecast far the match is off. It regis. its possibilities. There is the ters colour differences invisible photo-electric device that opens!
Oht Basso (with good-natured ego): "After hearing my romantic you may arive at some conclusion Conference would the
why young women leave home?" equally have known where it
The Telephone She: "Oh, yes. By the way, do you doors when persons cast their to the most expert eyes.” stood, because that said that as
hear from your sister very often shadows on the sensitive cell
The modern home without a that is the nucleus of the con- the Government was little to be
There are other in- telephone would be somewhat trusted, "the Labour Party!
Instalment buying has come to traption. declines to accept responsibility
genious apparatuses that turn like a ship without a radio, for for a purely competitive arma-
and do this or that to eliminate the outside world into the home ment policy." By combining
The annual general meeting of
on streams of water, ring bells, it is the telephone that brings
the
and throwing in a
manual effort. Virtually all of and permits the household to two
Considered handful of padding the resolu-the St. Patrick's Society of Hong tion
The young lovers were trying to these devices have been deve function properly. left in a condition Kong will be held in the 'Jacobean
find some quiet, secluded spot for loped by individual endeavour-only from the standpoint of bome use, the telephone is a which reminds one of the lady Room of the Hong Kong Hotel on
Bat everywhere by private enterprise. of vacillating and uncertainThursday next at 5:30 p.m
Uncanny Machines
vastly important instrument. The Committee's report records a long embrace. mind of whom Dr. Johnson
Among the uncanny machines In addition it is an invention said, "She is all wiggle-waggie: with the deepest regret the they went there were people, people, Suddenly the man had a bright there is nothing categorical deaths of Messrs. W. S. Bailey and People and the girl was shy.
A. F. L. Maginnis. The total idea Triumphantly he led her to a employing as their basic factor vital to business and industry. about her."
as photo-electric integraph, a cal-peace and war would be plung- So with this precious resolu- membership of 152 is made up of railway station, and, standing beside the photo-electric cell is the Without it all activities of
Ordinary the door-of a railway carriage
The telephone, like nearly all tion What the country had a 22 Life Members, 120 right to expect was not a resolu-Members and 10 Associate Mem-though seeing her off, kissed her culating machine that works ed into confusion.
After the couple had repeated the with all the speed and accuracy Stafford Cripps said, of "two pended during the year on Charity experiment at four or five different of a master mathematician. It inventions that have assisted Society platforms a sympathetic porter strol-was demonstrated not long agojmankind in its advancement, is of ied up and whispered to the young by Dr. Truman Gray of the the creation of private enter-
development of prise the completely divergent views" and The total assets of
man-Take her round to the Massachusetts which Lord Arnold justly de-amount to $7,074.06. scribed as "z masterpiece inconsistencies, ambiguities and equivocation," but a plain state- ment whether the Socialist Party
tion which admitted, as
Sir bers. The sum of $640 was
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The First Child Of St. Louis, Mo.
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ex-
Louis, Mo. which now has about a population of
to be left straddling the fence,900,000, was first settled in 1764, instead of coming down on one and in that year its population side, but come down they did to numbered about 40 families. After Ithe extent of acknowledging being ruled by France and Spain, the United the necessity of armaments, it became part of because their dominant motive States in March, 1804 Not until was fear of "the threatening July, 1870, when its population had official attitude of dictatorships, now risen to 310,864, was an increasing their armaments at registration of birth established in unprecedented rate". Dr. the city. The birth certificate of Dalton admitted that if a So-Frank Acen was the first official- cialist Government came into recorded, which makes Mr. power to-morrow it would be Aiken, now a resident of Moberly, in-Mo., "child No. 1" of the Missouri compelled to provide an crease in British armaments, metropolis. since liberties which are threa- tened by arms can only be de-
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The robust commonsense of though with such a time-serving the British people, will be re-resolution offered for its ac volted by such paltry shuffling ceptance nothing could save its with a plain duty, from which face. The TU.C. leaders know Mr. Bevin was almost the only better than the intelligentsia leading speaker to dissociate that all this venomous party himself, apart, of course, from rant against a National Govern- the Pacifist minority. "If I am ment which has put a milbon faced with the question of arm-men back into employment is ing Great Britain," he said, "recognised to be nonsense in am prepared to face it. That the great centres of employ is more than can be said forment where, as Mr. Chamber- many of his associates, who las pointed out not long ago, have for years encouraged the the rearmament programine has dufestist sections in their own scarcely yet began to make its party and now, while seeing influence seriously felt. When that rearmament is urgent, re it does their effocation as to the Huse to vote for the estimates necessity of rearmament umy because they say they cannot proceed still further.
stop, mate. They goes every three minutes from there."
Technology.
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'BELIEVE IT OR NOT” by Robert L. Ripley
AIKEN
66 YEARS OLD
IS NUMBER ONE "IN ST. LOUIS, MO. ALTHOUGH ST LOUIS WAS FOUNDED IN 1764 AIKEN'S IS THE FIRST RECORDED BIRTH.
GEORGES SIRMAN
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40 HORSES
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