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THURSDAY,
NOTES OF THE DAY
PRINCE GEORGE'S BETROTHAL
AUGUST 30, 1934.
"THERE'S A FALLING STAR!"
By an Amateur Astronomer.
ROBABLY no natural pheno-renson for this supposition, for it
The Very Idea!
SHALL WE GO GAY?
DEAR
By George George,
I see that the
monn have struck more terror could only have been some such Shanghai press are discus- into the hearts of mortals than appailing catastrophe which ended
heavens known na comets and guished its fauna and flora.
Am-
Hongkong has its own special afection for Prince George ak ho mixed freely in the life of the community during hla term of servico na a naval lieutenant on the China Station. Knowledge of him ποτα personal than it is of others of His Majesty's illustrioua sons, a circumstance that enables those strange waaderars of the the Microzole period and extin- sing with some incredulity local felicitations in his betrothal shooting stars." Man fa so ac- of all the vast variety of
Out the prospect of Hongkong to Princess Marian of Greece to customed to socing fixed points of monites which flourished in that "going gay." gain in warmth and sincerity Of fight above him that the appear-age not a single genus has aur- the Princess, who seems to haveance of a brilliant, light moving vived to this day. been carried by storm in the
It is no wonder that meteors romantle atmosphere of the Slo-wiftly across the sky arouses his
10 fears-for the earth's security, and have played a prominent part in venian Alps, very litle is know of makes him wonder if something early history. Universally regard beyond
that the fame the charm and of all three has gone wrong with the universo, ed na divine portents, they decided the fate of kings at one period in of Prince Nicholas's daughters has spread far beyond the boun- Each year in August the earth ancient Sparta, and meteoric daries of the Balkans. Tho crosses the path of a disrupted stones emissaries of the gods Prince's establishment of a Royal comet whose fragmentary remains finve been worshipped the world precedent in flying to his wooing are still traveling through space over. is thus easy of explanation!
TRUSTIFIED USURY
In the same path, and are scatter- To-day we no longer fear them, eu more or less evenly along its being aware of their true nature, length, so that the earth rushes but who still does not feel a cresp
ing of the flesh and a strango Into a swarm of them. The pawnshop monopoly scheme
They are known as the Perseid tingling of the spine when he be would trustify naury. It must meteors, na they always appear to holds a "falling star?" stand condemned if for no other come from the same point in the No attempt has been constellation of Porscus (ần thứ made to minimise. the impression north-cast at 11 o'clock). tirat a group of financiers have On August 12 last year, at about been looking about them for a pro-midnight, I counted as many an fitable means of investment of sur-ten meteors in the space of twenty plus funds and publicly nothing minutes.
rouson.
ne#9
I do hope that we shall not be stung to retallation and re-open these after midnight cabarets and those wild nights at West Point which put so much on a woman's age and so much off a man's purse.
If people won't come to admire the scenery, the Peak tramway, and the fowloon be narice Voor they might just as well stay away because we don't want to encour- age the type of visitor who wants to enjoy himself all the time and buy up everything from our own shops.
Fancy suggesting that visitors cannot find anything to do after Do they expect to come here and take all the cream off the milk? But you bet your Aunt Emma doesn't do so badly [un the quiet.
YOUR CHANGING midnight!
EYESIGHT
By AN EYE SPECIALIST.
In
I see that "M.C.A." wishes that people "would scattor the kernels and pips of beautiful foreign fruit in suitable spots when they go for country ridea, etc."
along Fedder Street giving the pip Imagine ambling to the office
all round so that our successors can crawl to work througho
has been advanced, beyond the Other swarms are to be observed consideration of increased Govern- et various periods of the year, but ment revenue, to justify ousting the Perseids, the Leonids (whichOOD sight has always been a Independent operators from bust appear during the middle of factor in every activity, and
in the
Interests of high November), and the Aquarids (in iis absence a very real handicap. finance. Accusations have been May) are the most notable. The
But in these days of rapid trane made against pawn-broking last named are believed to be the port everywhere, good sight is methods under the present system, remains of Halley's famous comet vital necessity and its absence with
that dubious Huggestions
which caused widespread con- danger to everyone concerned. side-lines have been developed sternation in 1456, when the Turks That is not all. The kind of labrynth of banana trees, pumelos, Doubtless the establishments are were devastating Europe. So vision now needed is itself differ-dandelions, and pineapples!
I daren't mention the forbidden former times, before open to criticism. Pawnshops are great was the panic it caused that ent.
fruit with Eva so close at hand. bad in themselves, although prob- Pope Calixtus issued a Bull motorlag and aviation becamo
Lots
young things I see are ably a necessary evli. But if the anathematising both the comet and modes of transport, one only need-
ed good vision to read ordinary taking up these macintosh cloaks for supervision and control, not The Leonids used to appear in print or to see distant objects with which look very nice but I don't like the display of haunches In for summary expropriation of exceptional abundance every or without the nid of ginsses. goodwill. Pawnshops are of the thirty-three years, when the earth
To-day we need something more these too, too dressen, resources of the poor when driven passed through the centre of the than this-visual judgment and to extremity. That is worth con- cluster. In 1799 and 1833 they correct and rapid focussing sideration. Occasional humauity literally streamed down the hen moving objects. in their dealings with the near- vens, but this periodic exhibition We also need correct colour destitute may fairly be expected of unusual brilliance sveoma now! of independent pawnshop proprie to have ceased. tors. The rigidity of a trust sys- tem bas no room at all in this sphere.
Hongkong Telegraph. allegations are true it is a matter the Parks.
THURSDAY, AUG. 30, 1934.
condemns
the
AIR SPEEDS
*
*
thunderous rumblings.
rooma.
clear
vision.
Lady Southorn I hear is shining of us the patroness of the Press Ball which it is to be held in January, We were nearly pressed into the headlines ourselves over this mat-.
п good excuse ter but we found for getting out when they wanted to buy a ticket. Whoever heard of a patroness buying a ticket? over his application for admission My nephew is worrying terribly to the Volunteers. He is afraid
in our
With single-aye vision you do not so clearly perceive hollowa and prominences! your external
Unhappily, in many people one
which means that the better eye is more consistently used; this is always so when one is fatigued.
niotor. A
assures me that this will be no stigma on Henry's military career.
Your loving,
Aunt Emma.
•
DUMB BELLES LETTRES. By Juliet Lowell
8-8
Hundreds of the fashionable collapers wear nothing else.
(ABOARD' FOR DEAUVILLE)
Deauville, France.
Another tremendous meteor de vastated a hundred square miles According to the degree of this of Siberian forest in 1908, so great inequality people become more or was the wind generated by its fall. less one-eyed, or monocular, as we
At Bacubirito in Mexico is 4 call it. tons, while in Arizona an enor and particularly for large meteoric stone weighing fifty That is a handicap for anyone, mous hole like a volcanic crater driver. seems to indicate a collision in pre- A still greater handicap is the Fashion Department historic times with a meteorite as inability to focus correctly. In Broadway Department Store big as a mountain. There is good. (Continued an Page 6),,,
Gentlemen:
Hore in Deauville tan shoes are worn very much this season. Hundreds of the fashion- able cottagers wear nothing elao..
Martin R
(signed) Style Adviner.
U.S. ELECTIONS The American election cam
To use the highway with reason- able safety we need the engine paign already shows signs of
driver's or the signalman's kind [getting into its full stride, al-
Meteors only become luminous of vision, because in a car or on when they enter the earth's atmo- the road our eyes are dealing though votera will not be asked
sphere, the friction due to their visually speaking, with very rapid to record votes until November.
great speed anything up to forty ly moving objects. The explanation is to be found in the fact that for the first time thansa plane to fly from Dessau to
The attempt of a German Luf-miles a second-causing them to
become hot and to flare. They are surdity indeed, of losting sight by him. However I wrote a personal The inadequacy, the very ab-that his membership of the Tem- parance Society will stand against for many years, the campaign is Hongkong in less than aix days by no means falling stars, for their reading a row of figures at a being fought on a clear-cut-issue, has an interest outside the likell average size is no bigger than a certain distance is that it testa note to the Adjutant and he New Deal or surrender to reachood of success of the effort, walnut and most of them but one only for stationary objects.
Поля (Played by Pro Arte Quartet). tion, with the curious pheno. That it is within the realm of pos- Fight up or crumble into dust
sibility, with a large commercial before they reach the ground. menon added that the fight euts
I am well aware that it may be In fact, sixty tons of meteorie clean across party lines. The plane of the type being used, is
In very long time before any really Played by Arthur Schnable (Piano) and members of the verdict of the election has almost the main thing times that which gives some indication of the gra
hat dust descend daily upon the cart, It
tests are applied In ceased to be a question of Re-thing about the establishment of number of meteors continually general sense, so far as rond users publican affiliations or Demo-its position aerially, instead of entering the air day and night, are concerned. But they were
applied for many years eratic aliations; the test is drawing imaginative pictures of although, except at times such as Royal Air Force, as in the Air whether the candidate approves future. The Junkers plane which night."
the great Kowloon airport of the the present, not more than onar Forces of other nations.
two may he observed on
Visual Judgment depends on our Roosevelt is coming here obviously has a policies. There could scarcely be range that would enable her to
Very occasionally a meteor is so being able to see equally well, or a higher tribute to the man or pass us by without a look if her large that it actually strikes the nearly so, with either eye. Can do so? This is binocular his methods, and it can safely be pilot was so compelled. National earth before It can burn out, in you predicted that the final result rights and principles have been which case there is anually an ac-vision, and it alone gives objecta will emphasise it. The Digest allowed to interfere with every companiment of explosions and projection: makes them stand out.. poll analysis was recently re-ment of rapid communication links past opportunity for the develop- leased and as this particular between Hongkong and important One such fell in the Shetlands world is a Batter one. organ has accurately forecast centres in China. It is high time on March G of last year, and national sentiment in a variety that we considered ourselves a caused such intense light that its eye is much inferior to the other. of ways by postcard polls, its part of China geographically as flash was ween even in lighted straw vote on the acts of the
well as in matters affecting cur- Roosevelt Administration carries
rency policy. great weight and interest. On HOW QUIET IS SILENCE? the 15,000,000 postcards sent out, two questions were asked:
"Silence is golden" is another Do you approve, on the whole, modified as a result of physical old saying that may have to be the acts and policies of Roo-science's discoveries. The experi- sevelt's first year? This is to be ence of engineers employed by a answered "Yes" or "No." For large electrical company would in whom did you vote in 19327 this dicate that silence is a good deal question being followed by three rarer than gold, but probably not squares marked "Roosevelt," desirable. Another Illusion of fat dwellers na to what they most "Hoover," and "Any other." desire runs into fact with a re- The final returns indicated 61.16 sounding crash. It seems per cent. backing the Roosevelt could hear even an illusion crash policies, 1,083,752 ballots out of in an absolutely silent room, for 1,772,163 being cast in the one's fingers in the new almost-
the engineers say that to
snap affirmative. This was more than silent chamber is to experience three out of five in favour of the sensations similar to those President's policies, or a ratio of would feel on firlag a cannon. better than three to two. Verdropped collar button would prob. mont alone, of all the States. ably blast all the picturen askew, voted against the new
while the impact of one's hend order. The shifts since 1932 also favour while looking for the button no with the corner of the chiffonier the President. Special polls con-doubt would produce an oxplosion ducted among bankers, business that
would quite cover the men, lawyers, physicians, clergy hamper's remarks on the incident. and educators elicited approval It is not really silence that men of the New Deal except in the want in any case. Those who banking group, where 52.41 per the daughter next door like to object to the singing lessons of cent opposed. About half a make their dog "speak" for million voters had changed their dinner. Those who can't stand minds about the "President since shouting always honk their motor his election. He had not gains horns when they go visiting. in twenty-eight States and net When the postman is knocking the losses in twenty. The larger door with an armful of bills--it isn't silence you want, but just losses were recorded in the South some other kind of noise. and in the agricultural sections, while the larger gains occurred in New England, the eastern in- significant or conclusive verdict. dustrial States and those on the Most persons, if honest with Pacille Coast, including former themselves, would probably say President Hoover's own State of that they approved some acts. California. How significant are and policies and disapproved the results? The Digest has others? A categorical" "yes". gained a reputation for accuracy or "no" on the Now Deal is not In its previous polls. It is fair so easy. Nevertheless, the poll to ask whether the questions in has served this useful purpose; the current poll, as worded, It has made hundreds of thou offered opportunity for a really sanda of people stop and think."
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Governor, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Albany, New York
Dear Governor Roosevelt:
I was born in this city and have never been away from it. I nover, did much actual work for the Democratic Party but at the same time. I notice that there will be a new postmaster here in my elty. I always liked and did want to be a postmaster and I have all the qualifications..
Í nover miss a day at the post-offico and I watch them working up there somoţimes. ¡late, at ' night. Nobody knowk me but that does not mean I could not do the job as well on the best postmaster, in the country, In my city I watch the postmaster, and I would spend more hours in my offico than he every day. I have sont duplicates of this lotter to my Senator and Representative and all the other members of the Democratic Party for they probably have a lot to say bo- aldak you. 1 even telephoned some of them and I know some one that has a friend who knows noma' one who is acquainted with your manager, Mr. Farley, and if you want to I will sond you my friend's name,
I was in the mail order business and packed lots of packages so I know all about parcel post and as I told you before I bought lots and lots of stamps all the time and besides I do not think It takes much brains to be a poste master, anyway, that is what I notleo about the postmaster in my city, eng
Let me hear from you soon for I might take another job,
Yours truly,
(Signed)