THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 29, 19:
News Snack Bar
VICAR GETS A BRIGHT IDEA
A Vicar near Sittingbourne, Kent, found a solution to the old problem of the Christmas bazaar and the village tradesmen.
Wherever gift bazaars have been held in the past, local shopkeepers have lamented they took away from the shops. This year the vicar of Lower Halstow, the Rev. W. J. Wright, invited the tradespeople to provide the goods sold at a church bazaar. The tradesmen got the money and allow- ed the church a percentage.
So both parties benefited.
It was opened by Phyllis Robbins, the crooner.
HOW SPEECH BEGAN
How man first began to talk was explained by Sir Richard Paget, the specialist on speech to the Pasteur Institute in Paris "We first began to think when our minds
were able to separate items around them," he said. "Then we used gestures to describe these things. Finally we were able to coincide these gestures in such a way that their meaning was, understood by others. speech dawned shortly afterwards."
So we have evolved to... Hitler.
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ONE IN 20 GOES INSANE
One out of every twenty babies born in the United States this year. will be committed to a mental hos- pital during its lifetime that according to a report of Washing ton's Public Health Service,
The other nineteen will, of course, do the "Big Apple" to prove their sanity.
YPRES CLOTH HALL TO BE
REBUILT
10 STARS LOST
When U.S. Ambassador Joseph Kennedy was entertained to lun- choon by the American Chamber of Commerce in London, a huge Stars and Stripes hung above the head table.
But there were only thirty-eight stars on the flag instead of forty-eight (one for each State).
One table. of Americans sent à note to the chairman asking if the missing ten States had been handed over to Britain in the res cent Trade Treaty, President of the Board of Trade Oliver Stan- Joy put their fears at rest.
MAKING SURE OF THEIR BEER
4lb. Twelve pints of beer and a of the 200 members of the Work- joint of meat were given to each
mas gift. men's Club, Blaengarw, as a Christ-
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WHERE INCOME TAX IS 6d.
--Tax of 3d, a gallon on petrol and lubricating oil was recommended in Jersey's Estimates for the year en- ding February 1, 1989.
The famous Ypres Cloth Hall is
Petrol taxes in the British Isles, shortly to be rebuilt. Here you see it, one of the most beautiful buil- is 94. & gallon. In Jersey they are dings in Europe, as it was before FEARING a rise in income tax to German shells demolished it.
9d, (now (it is 6d.). Now
a credit of £5,400 and further an nual credits of $7,000 have been voted by Belgium to provide for the "restoration," i
The thirteenth century "Hallès,” or Cloth Hall, stands in Brussels Market Square, across which troops
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SO BRIGHT HE BROKE LAW
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A young lady gymnastics expert shows how at the International Sports at Caroline Hill.
100,000, RESERVE PILOTS
FOR U.S.
STATION CHAPEL
A Roman Catholic chapel is to be included in the new building for A plan for training 100,000 civi-
the central railway station which is lian pilots and 125,000 mechanics at
being erected in Rome. "Travellers,' the American Government's expense, said an official, "are in need to supplement national air defence, spiritual guidance, and is being forwarded to President must provide all such needs.”
Roosevelt by the Army Air Corps.
PRESENTED FROM COURT
From Highgate Police Court:- Motor-cyclist: I know my ma- chine is a bit noisy, but a mian likes a bit of life.
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Police-constable (witness): told the defendant her speed and she said: "Was it really that much? I didn't feel over thirty.”.
Another police-constable: stopped defendant, pointed out "Do the offence, and he said: you know any more funny stor ies?"
Then I gave him the correct formula. ... ....
UNEMPLOYMENT IN
AMERICA
Latest motoring offence is to have. a number plate too bright to be seen, At Swindon Alexander Godwin, The number of unemployed in the Londoner, was said to have a num- United States is estimated at 9,026,- ber plate so brightly polished that 000, compared- with 9,239,000 letters and figures could not be dis- September and 6,277,000 in October tinguished... Dismissed on pay. of last year," ment of 48; costs.
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marched towards the Menin Gate SAW THE WORLD-ON. 48.
and Passchendaele. Since the war the Cloth Hall has remained a ruin.
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30 YEARS WITH ONE PLAY
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America's National Association of Purchasing Agents, in its monthly report, advises industrial purchasing executives "to follow. conservative policies with regard to forward com-
With little money, but plenty of mitments." good will, Jean Lackey, a United -States student, has arrived in Paris in the immediate offing in the way .The Association can see nothing
by air from London. She started
of an upward surge a business. a round-the-world, good will
tour
Joe Tate who for me than one dollar. In real money, that's thirty years played various parts 48.
in Wisconsin two years ago with There is no central body in US. which keeps Government statistics (as in Britain) of employed and in "The Belle of New Yorks," has She has since travelled about 100, unemployed-but 9,026,000 in a died in St. Mary (Islington) Hos 000 miles (equal to nearly four times population of 180,000,000 is twice pital, Highgate (London), aged round the world), having wandered as black an outlook as in Britain. We
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twenty-two. His last appearance through the Far East and Europe, have 1,798,000 in. a, population
was in the revival at Daly's in 1931. working her way.
47,000,000.
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of -stations
"A pearl in every can" is the guarantee given with one brand of tinned oysters now on the market. And the catch? . The oysters are packed by a Japanese firm which specialises in pearl-culture.
SAYINGS OF THE WEEK
I have consalted my own_08- sociation-that is to say, I have consulted myself and my secretary --and we have decided that there is no call for me to resign- Mr. Austin Hopkinson, M.P.
We want Vesuvias!—The Paris Students.
The tune "The Dell's Awa' wi’. the Exciseman” is not a suitable item for Sunday_morning_broad- cast. The Rev. Dr. Guthrie.
I consider it would be most un- fair to inflict my name. on any street.-The Rev. J, W. Wilkinson, the Mayor of Erith, Kent.
I suppose sometime, I don't know when, we shall have a gen- eral election. Mr. Neville Cham- berlain..
When war is declared masses of Englishmen will want to sacri- fice their lives in it, and the-pro- fessional soldiers are always pro- fessionally competent to see that they do Mr. David Garnett:
Liberty is a leaky word, and it is surprising that Communists should venture on board of it-- Mr. E. M. Forster.
It must be obvions to the mean- ́est intelligence that mechanised warfare, if carried to its logical conclusion, will finally reachTM" the pitch when a delicate pianist brought up on the nocturnes of Chopin will make as good a mes chanical soldier as the toughest of ruffians.--Mr. William. Ger- hardi.
So many American phrases are being introduced that there is a danger of the King's Engllah be coming the "President's English? ---Bir Gervala Réntool?.5L PAN 200