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Between Yugo-Slavia and Hun- gary, however, relations are strain- | ed. Yugo-Slavia's warlike people are in no mood for argument. They have just lost a king whom most admired and respected, of whatever party they might be, and Phone 27778-9, Stubbs Road, they have laid tho blame
BIRTH.
POTTS-On 16th October, 1934, in London, to Janet, wife of G. R. Hulton Polts, a son.
the
Hongkong Telegraph.
the
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 17, 1934.
STREET SLEEPERS' APPEAL
with some justice-ot Hun- gary's door. They declare that the terrorists who plotted the assAA- 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 Belginde protest to Budapest
away wrath,"
PUT LAND TO USE AND MEN TO WORK
By RICHARD ST. B. BAKER
The author of this article in chairman of the Forestry Asso- ciation of Great Britain and founder of The Men of the Troes. Describing the big forestry work inaugurated by President Roose volt under N.RA., ho pleads for a forestry scheme for Britain, to provide healthy employment for thousands who are out of work,
forest from being lost by aro. They have improved 5,000,000 acres by thinning, clearing and other means, and over 300,000 neres have been freshly planted with trees. In addition, cam paigns against tree diseases and harmful insects have been carried
out on 10,000,000 neres.
The Very Idea!
A DOG'S LIFE
By Georgo EAR GEORGE,
DEA
As a Peakite of considerable longevity I wish to draw your attention to the attempts being made by our local magistrates to disparage the status of Peak Dwellers and Their Dogs.
I refer, Sir, to the invidious practice of imposing a fine, of $10 on dogs which commit offen- ces on the Kowloon side as
against a mere $10 fine on this
re we on
More important, however, than To the man who enjoys three material gains ie the effect of such To
square meals a day it may or work on moral. I believe that in side. may not be of concern that there England to-day the overwhelming The Secretary of the Dear Doga are thousands for whom Hfo offers majority of unemployed who are Society has asked me to say that no prospects in their old occupa- now walking the streets and
this side feel rather tions. Tens of thousanda, more, ceiving relief would infinitely pre- piqued at the distinction. leaving school, and not knowing fer to work like the lads in the quality of the dogs on this side? Is it meant to be slur on the where to look for employment, are forest campa of America.
They if so I may point out that many suffering frm moral and physical | would like to plant up those derc-residents are proud of the fret deterioration,
llet-looking sing heaps which scar that their pets have a longer pedi- gree than their owners in many cases, whereas a Kowloon dog's pedigree is no longer than a daschund.
beautiful
To them and those concerned in the face of the land and turn the their future welfare, nows of the Black Country into success of the Forestry Camps of forest scenery. America may bring fresh hope and Forestry is of urgent import- May I beg, Sir, for the dis
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. alma n blow at the social status During the war four-fthe of our of the canine population on this. woodlands, were sacrificed, That In the meantime an attitude of is having an adverse effect on our water supply. At the present rate of planting it will take 140 years to regain the position held before
My work as Forestry Adviser in America enables me to speak from personal experience of
the
forestry work inaugurated by President Roosevelt. After his inauguration,
оло of his first measures-was the establishment of
the war.
£1 volunteer civil conservation| Furthermore, in
single year
side.
passive resistance is being main- tained here, the dogs refusing to leave the house except for the most necessary purposes.
I enclose $50 collected from Peak dwellers as a donation to the S.P.C.A.. and trust that the
corps of young men, and this we have paid to foreign countries Public will not allow matters to will be of the variety that "turneth | proved to be one of the most over £70,000,000 for timber, much remain where they are at present.
A POET
author
In
popular schemes carried through of which might have been grown under the Now Deal,
at home, providing work for thousands.
1 have seen these young men
and
It has
task, it was a standing reproach whose fatalism has been made so attive. They had hewed a home producing this value of timber
The moving finger writes; and
having writ Moves on.
Not all your piety
portance.
CUR-
Bofore the war there were about 40 uses for wood. To-day there They were thinging and imare over 4,000 uses for forest proving the forests of their land, products in one form or another. cutling fire lines. for protection. Tho USA, hud cut seven-eights of and planting trees not only to its virgin forest-and-while-It-la- moisture and reduce the risk of tomer, it is now being driven back produce timber, but to conserve already Canada's largest
droughts. -
on Russia for supplies, and that country, at the present rule of cutting, will deplete its accessible To-day there are over 350,000 of forests in thirty or forty years, 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
Although we are no longer depend. more applications than vacancies. ent upon "Wooden Walls" na bul- warks of defence, nevertheless Do they work7 Judge for wood still plays an important part
Yours etc.,
S. Pantel,
.
DUMB-BELLES LETTRES..
By Juliet Lowell, High-Low!
Ju 2 ta
Adolph C.
THESE
(signed)
DUMB
AUTHORS
That imagination and the mathe- matical mind may be co-existent in a single brain has been recalled by living very close to nature and The Forestry Association of the erection recently of a canopy camped mostly in the wildest Great Britain is supporting a plan Book of the Month Club The appeal which has been over the tomb of Omar Khayyam, places, for it is usually in such for a nationally-conceived scheme New York City
English- launched for a minimum sum of at Nishapur, Persia.
Received my book for month four thousand dollars to permit penking people are familiar with places that the forest can beat be to give employment to 20,000
in the woods people in forestry on three million of August.
Would like to no if I can of the expansion of the work of this duality in the case of "Lewis improved. Here
Carroli,"
of "Alice their meals were in the open, even acres of waste land, half of which get another book as this months Street Sleepers' Shelter Wonderland," and Rev. C. L.
in pouring rain. They had tos in England and Wales and half book seems to be too large for a Society is one which should meet Dodgson, for many years mathe-
at Oxford
fetch and carry water,
cut in Scotland. What is the reason ordinary library, It don't make with a ready response. It is not matital lecturer
und writer of mathematical works. wood for fuel. Except for their why this plan should not be put a difference how thick a book in too much to say that this Society
but the bight of it, whats bad. is discharging one of the most are one and the same per- daily ration they were dependent into operation at once?
Yours truly, sonality. Dodgson's "Euclid and humane and essential pieces of His Modern Rivals," his most noted
upon themselves for everything. been calculated that every day social work ever undertaken by book, is the obverse alde of the
this plan is postponed the loss to Itealthy? Of course they were the nation is over £200,000 in tim any organisation in the Colony.whimsical romances of the whole healthy, both in mind and body, her which might be growing on Until it began its self-imposed "Allee" series. The Persian poet, More than that, they were crea, those three million idle acres and to the whole Colony that nighttractive in Fitzgerald's beautiful from the wilderness and were daily.
Hines, was also a mathematician. after night, during the cold win-Like Dodgson, he kindy his Etteilt. carrying out work of national im- 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 uge, and blazed the way to the spots as they could find in which modern union of analysis and to pass the hours of sleep. Fer eometry by his classfication and many years, with each succes- the brain that was full of comics. systematic study of equations. From sive cold season, the plight of cubics. quadratics. biquadratics these unfortunates was the sub-and the like, came 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 really be done in the matter. Thanks, however, to a few ardent souls who refused to be discouraged by the admitted obstacles, a
yourself when I tell you that this in our national safety. It has start was eventually made by
It is one of the ironies of litera-army of woodmen and foresters heen well said that if a adaptation of the old St. Peter's lure that Omar's countrymen, prob- has in the course of one year saves the trees, the trees will savo Church as headquarters, and the ably because of clerical influence saved over £45,000,000 worth of the nation. experience thus gained has which considered him a heretic, proved once and for all that the have long forgotten his verse, while remembering his mathematical and problem can be tackled with astronomical researches.
When large measure of success. The the late Sir Mortimer Durand, Society admits quite frankly according to The Manchester that it has so far 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 encouraged by the results al you mean to tell me that there is
monarch laughed and said: "Do 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." Englishman, however, who dred street sleepers nightly, may not know the Persian scientist love the music of the "tent-maker's" But this is only part of its verse. They may have never beard scheme. The eventual hope is of Dodgson the mathematician bat to establish shelters in various have taken to their heart Lowis other districts, until the time | Carroll, the dreamer, comes when street-sleeping will |
nor ivit
Can lure it back to cancel half a
line,
Nor can your tears wipe out a
word of it.
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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 are 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, aid 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 apprecia-toers 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 bogoy, a fact which is demon-part by providing the means strated 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,
many
"And we'll send him to some swell college, where we can drive to on week-onds."
nation
This month'a book acome to be too large for a ordinary library.
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Dear Congresumen F
My very heartlost con- gratulations on your election to the Senate. You are the first to achieve the honour of going direct from prison to Congress. It is usually the other way around.
Cordial greetings, Malcolm B-
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That's Bound To Make Husband Blue.
Household Hints Column Dear Editor:.
finds
My husband always fault with my blueberry pie Would you send me a recipe1 I don't know what's wrong with mine unless perhaps I put in too much bluing.
Thanking you in advance,
Mrs. Cora B
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You'd Be Surprised! Fashion Column Dear Fashion Editor:
Fashionable people are al- ways ahead of the styles. I have an organdy dress, would it make me fashionable to wear it Now. Year's Eve?
Thanking you for a reply,
Cordelia B
Time Out.
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Pearl Howard Dress Shop 17 East 55th Street New York City
I was in your shop about. three years ago, and made a $5.00 deposit on a dress. There was some alteration but I forgot to come in for a fitting. Please send me the money as I can uso it now.
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