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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 17; 1984.
STREET SLEEPERS' APPEAL
The appeal which has been launched for a minimum sum of Tour thousand dollars to permit of the expansion of the work of the Street --Sleepers Shelter Society is one which should meet with a ready response. It is not
Between Yugo-Slavin and Hun- gary, however, relations are strain- ed. Yogo-Slavin's warlike people
no mood for are in
argument. They have just lost a king whom most admired and respected, of whatever party they might be, and they have laid the blame with Nome Justice-at Hun gary's door. They declare that the terrorists who plotted the assua- sination of King Alexander shelter- ed on Hungarian soil, and in this they are correct. But the charge that the terrorists' activities were tolerated and winked at by the Hungarian Government is another matter. That has yet to be proved, It is to be hoped that the response to the Belgrade protest to Budapest will be of the variety that "turneth away wrath,"
A POET
That imagination and the mathe- matical mind may be co-existent in
PUT LAND TO USE AND MEN TO WORK
By RICHARD ST. B. BAKER
The author of this article is chairman of the Forestry Asso-] cintion of Great Britain and founder of The Men of the Trees. Describing the big forestry work! Inaugurated by President Rooso- velt under N.R.A., he pleads for: a forestry scheme for Britain, to provide healthy employment for thousands who are cut of work.
To them and those concerned in their future welfare, nows of the success of the Forestry Camps of
The Very Idea!
A DOG'S LIFE-
By George
EAR GEORGE,
forest from being lost by fire. DEA
They have improved 5,000,000
As a Peakite
acres by thinning, clearing and of considerable longevity I other means, and over 300,000 wish to draw your attention neres have beer freshly planted to the attempts being made with trees. In addition, cam-by our local magistrates to paigns against tree diseases and | disparage the status of Peak harmful insects have been carried Dwellers and Their Dogs. out on 10,000,000 acres.
Black
forest scenery.
I refer, Sir, to the invidious practice of imposing a fine of $15 on dogs which commit offen- ces on the Kowloon side as against a mere $10 fine on this side.
May I beg, Sir, for the dis-
More important, however, than the man who enjoys three material gains is the effect of such square meals a day it may or work on moral. I believe that in may not be of concern that there England to-day the overwhelming The Secretary of the Dear Dogs are thousands for whom life offers majority of unemployed who are Society has asked me to say that on this aide fool rather no prospects in their old occupà-now walking the streets and rowe tions. Tens of thousands more, ceiving relief would infinitely pre-piqued at the distinction.
Is it meant to be a slur on the leaving school, and not knowing for to work like the lads in the quality of the dogs on this side? where to look for employment, ure forest campa of Ameriċa. They if so I may point out that many suffering frm moral and physical would like to plant up those dere residents are proud of the fact deterioration.
lict-looking slag heaps which scar that their pets have a longer podl the face of the land and turn thegree than their owners in many Country into beautiful cases, whereas a Kowloon dog's pedigree ly no longer than π daschund, America may bring fresh hope and Forestry is of urgent import continuation of a practice which, even suggest to our own Governance to England now. Although while it promotes bad feeling be ment a means of providing im-we have beautiful trees, our coun-tween the taipan and the clerk also mediate employment for many.
try is very badly off for foresta, nims a blow at the social status During the war four-fifths of our of the canine population on this
elde.
In the meantime an attitude of woodlands were sacrificed. That is having an adverse effect on our passive resistance is being main- the
water supply. At the present rate tained here, the dogs refusing to by
of planting it will take 140 years leave the house except for the to regain the position held before most necessary purposes.
I enclose $50 collected from Peak dwellers 48
a donation to the S.P.C.A. and trust that the public will not allow matters, to remain where they are at present..
Yours etc.,
S. Poniel.
My work as Forestry Adviser in America enables me to speak from personal experience of forestry work inaugurated
After his President Roosevelt. inauguration, one of his frat menaurca won the establishment of
the war.
a volunteer civil conservation Furthermore, in a single year
men, and corps of young
this we have paid to foreign countries proved to be one of the most over £70,000,000 for timber, much popular schemes carried through of which might have been grown under the New Deal.
AL home, providing work for thousands.
I have seen these young men
ja single brain has been recalled by | living very close to nature and The Forestry Association of
in
20,000
DUMB-BELLES LETTRES. By Juliet Lowell. High-Low!
Received my book for month
Would like to no if I can get another book as this months book seems to be too large for a urdinary library. It don't make difference how thick a book is
the erection recently of a canopy camped mostly In the wildest Great Britain is supporting n plan | Book of the Month Club. over the tomb of Omar Khayyam, places, for it is usually in such for a nationalis-conceived scheme New York City at Nishapur, Persin. English- speaking people are familiar with places that the forest can best bo to give employment to this duality in the case of "Lewis improved. Here la the woods people in forestry on three million of August, Carroll," author of "Alice their meals were in the open, even acres of waste land, half of which Wonderland," 2nd Rev. C. 1.
In pouring rain. They had tois in England and Wales and half Dodgson, for many years mathe-
fetch and carry water, and cut in Scotland. What is the reason at Oxford and matical lecturer writer of mathemation) works. wood for fuel. Except for their why this plan should not be put
upon themselves for everything.
day been calculated that every this plan is postponed the loss to Healthy? Of course they were the nation is over £200,000 in tim healthy, both in mind and hindy.her which might be growing on More than that, they were crea-those three million idle acres and tive. They had hewed a home producing this value of timber from the wilderness and were|daily.
too much to say that this Society They are one and the same per- daily ration they were dependent into operation at once? It hax hut the hight of it, whats bad.
The moving Bager writes; and
Inving writ Aloves on
Not all your piety nor wil
Can lure it back to cancel half
line,
a
Nor can your tears wipe out a
word of 11.
is discharging one of the most
sonality. Dodgson's "Euclid and humane and essential pieces of His Modern Rivals," is most notei social work ever undertaken by book, is the obverse side of the any organisation in the Colony, whimsical romances of the whole Until it began its self-imposed whose fatalism has been made so ni
"Alice" series.
The Persian poet, task, it was a standing reproach to the whole Colony that night lines, was also a mathematician. tractive in Fitzgerald's beautiful after night, during the cold win-Like Dodgson, he knee in Euclid, ter weather, hundreds of poor Indeed he was one of the most people should be found huddled prominent of mathematicians of his up on pavements and such other age, and blazed the way to the and spots as they could find in which modern union of analysis to pass the hours of sleep. For try by his clansfication and systematic study of equations. From many years, with each succes-the brain that was fall of conies, sive cold season, the plight of cubies, quadraties, biquadratics | these unfortunates was the sub- and the like, rame the compelling ject of passing comment, but the thought: difficulties of dealing with the problem which they presented were so magnified as to result in general acceptance of the view point that nothing could ready be done in the matter. Thanks,. however, to a few ardent souls. who refused to be discouraged by the admitted obstacles, a start was eventually made by It is one of the ironies of litera- adaptation of the old St. Peter's | ture that Omar's countrymen, prob- Church as headquarters, and the ably because of clericat influence experience thus gained has which considered. him a heretic, proved once and for all that the have long forgotten his verse, while problem can be tackled with natronomical researches.
remembering his mathematical and.
When large measure of success. The the late Sir Mortimer Durand, Society admits quite frankly according to The Manchester that it has go fur been able to Guardian, asked Shah Naar ed Din touch only the fringe of the whether something could not be question, but it has been so done to repair Omar's grave, the monarch laughed and said: "Do encouraged by the results al- you mean to tell me that there is a ready obtained that it has laid society in England connected with plans for the provision of Omar Khayyam? Why, he has another shelter in a locality in been dead a thousand years. Be- which a census has shown that sides, we have better poets than there are usually over five hun- Omar." Englishmen, however, who dred street sleepers nightly.may not know the Persian scientist But this is only part of, its verse. They may have never heard love the music of the "tent-maker's" scheme. The eventual hope is of Dodgson the mathematician but to establish shelters in various have taken to their heart Lewis other districts, until the time | Carroll, the dreamer. comes when street-sleeping will
AND MATHEMATICIAN
be a thing of the past. A point provided in these cities. It is which needs stressing is that also to be noted that the Society these people, who aro being given has been able to find. work for needed shelter in clean and com- some of the most deserving fortable surroundings, are gen- cases, and as its activities are uine residents of the Colony for extended it will doubtless be the greater part. They are found possible to do even more mostly unemployed, either still in this direction. A word through old age or inability to of tribute is due to the volun- get work, and are most appreciateers workers and others active- tive of what is being done forly interested in the movement, them. The old bogey that the but their greatest satisfaction opening of such institutions arises from the knowledge that would attract ne'er-do-wells they are discharging a really from places outside the Colony useful piece of communal work. has been shown to be only It is now for the public to do its bogey, a fact which is demon-part by providing the means strafed by the enquiries made without which the Society will from Canton and Swatow as to be unable to function to the full how the shelters are worked, so extent of its intentions and that similar Institutions may be desires,
ring out work of national im- Before the war there were about
portance,
40 uses for wood. To-day there They were thinning and im-are over 4,000 uses for forest proving the forests of their land, products in one Torm or another. cutting fire lines for protection. The U.S.A, had cut seven-eights of and planting trees not only to its virgin forest and while it is produce timber, but, to conserve alrendy -Canada's largent cus moisture and reduce the risk of tomer, it is now being driven back droughts.
on Russia for supplies, and that country, at the present rate of cutting, will deplete its accessible forests in thirty or forty years.
To-day there are over 350,000 of them working in the woods. Ask any one of them whether he would
In view of the present world change his life for city lights and situation it would be unwise to he would laugh at you-he simply continue to depend so greatly upon would not be in camp unless he other nations to supply our needs. wanted to be. There are many Although we are no longer depend. more applications than vacancies.ent upon "Wooden Walls" as bul-
warks of
defence, nevertheless Do they work? Judge for wood still plays an important part yourself when I tell you that this in our national safety. It hus" army of woodmes and foresters been well said that if a nation has in the course of one year naves the trees, the trees will save saved over 245,000,000 worth of the nation
"And we'll send him to some swell college, where we can drive to on week-ends."
Yours truly, Adolph C.
THESE
(signed)
DUMG
AUTHORS
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This month's book seems to be too large for a ordinary. library.
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My very heartlest con- gratulations on your election to the Senate. You are the first to. achieve the honour of going direct from prison to Congress. It lo usually the other way around.
Cordial greetings, Malcolm B
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Household Hints Column
Dear Editor
My husband always Ands fault with
my blueberry pie. Would you send me a recipe? I don't know what's wrong with mine unless perhaps I put in too much bluing.
Thanking you in advance,
Mre. Cora B-~~-~
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Fashion Column
Dear Fashion Editor!
Fashionable people are nl-.
ways ahead of the styles. I have an organdy dress, would it make me fashionable to wear it New Year's Eve?
Thanking you for a reply.
Cordelia B
Time Out.
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17 East 55th Street
New York City
woa
I was in your shop about three years ago, and made a $5.00 doposit on a dress. Thero some alteration but I forgot to come in for a fitting. Please send me the money as I can use it now.
(signed)
Myra E