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NOTES OF THE DAY TRAVELLING IN WORLD The Very Idea!..
FEEDING THE MULTITUDE
OF TO-MORROW
By Professor H. Levy
THRILLING ESCAPE By George
was like this," said
in
"Cruikshank
the
PROFESSOR Levy, Edinburgh- one of the new Small Scale Gyros- born, of Russian parentage, copic Submarines and by running educated at Edinburgh, Oxford a few feet below the surface all the interval between fish and and Gottingen, and now occupying way be immune from wind and
a joint. "I was coming up Imperial College of Science, has there's no running blind. with the path this way,"
Chair of Mathematics at the storm. It's perfectly safe, for something to say about the modes the televisor system they've in-
bent."
It is tragic, but not the less trus, that thousands of farmers, during the past few years have let their cropa rot because they could not afford to market them. The un- halanced cost of transportation, äs against the market value of fruits, vegetables and grains, for in stance, made it impossibin for cor- tnin communities of American farmers to ship to the big consum of travel two hundred years from stalled. If you're running across knives and placed the salt cellar He laid down a couple of ing contres. And there were
Because of the calculating, from Dover to Calale, you can got actually people hungry in Montreal now. and Toronto when British Colum-scientific reasoning which brought a picture of miles of the French between them. bin producers announced that it him to the conclusions published const and can see clearly the posi
"At the top of the path there would not pay them to ship farm below, an article which might tion of every vessel in between produce East of the Rockios. otherwise have scomed fanciful is that carries any metal at all. Meanwhile, in order to increase given the colour of truth.)
When you think of it, what an Two hundred years ago. That enormous number of developments apot. the price to the grower, Govern- menta of the western world hit would be 1934, wouldn't it? They have come from the investigations upon the idea of crop restriction. were stupid children in those days, into crystal structure once they Yot, from time to time, in many ghting and squabbling among got going. In earnest on a grand parts of the world, not all of them themselves for the sweets, but we seale. It gave us that long series inaccessible, there are famines got through the struggle to sanity of excessively light, but durable, which cause untold suffering, and pretty fast, after all, much faster alloys of almost any required every bushel of grain the world than seemed likely at the time. degree of flexibility. could produce would be snatched We killed privilege at Inst up eagerly but for the insufficiency of national earning. The whole thing is a monstrous tangle of economies and the thousand and been 050 theories that have advanced seem to have brought the world no nearer a solution.
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BRITAIN'S PROBLEM
Hongkong Telegraph. con
TUESDAY, OCT. 23, 1931.
HONG KONG TRADE
CO-OPERATION
•
A fork suitably indicated the
"And just where the bend
is
there is a clump of trece" (the tooth picka were whisked into foltion) "and · just here was a solitary bamboo-excuse me, your pencil plonse-with a atone at the bottom of it."
notions on how the world was to we used to place on our intense collar farther up the path, cam-
Looking back on Man's chlidfeh Compare it with the great store
Cruikshank transferred the salt be run as a sort of disorderly researches into the constitution of mandeered the pepper and after scramble, we can realise now how the atom, and how its net outcome divesting the rest of the boardera Progress nearly got sidetracked was mainly philosophie rather of their knives, forks, spoons, and 1934 they had really reduced the lead us to any new sources of rounding neighbourhood. He con- Into Barbarian. Why, already in than socially practical. It didn't pintes, sketchily indicated the sur size of the World to that of a power after all, in spite of all the tinued. small dwelling house, and all their newspaper fuss. No, it was rather squabbling amounted to little more the new applications of the old
tion,
When suddenly a huge
The table was bare of anything which could possibly indiente, a anako darting upon its prey and after a doubtful look at the cat Cruikshank decided to adopt the main role himself,
He made his fingers dash up and cutlery and then fall upon the salt down the path outlined by the
Mrs. Robinson took a tree whilst we began to clamour for our plate his imagination again. so Cruikshank had to fall back on
"If it had bitten me I should not be sitting here now," he added Impressively.
The
Chinn."
"It must have been a snake,"
bandboo
.
"No, I don't think so.”
"You can always tell the bamboo.
than an effort to discover how to internal combustion engine that snake darted out from the stone run a communal household; wa followed the cheap synthetic at the foot of the bamboo near the It is linked up with the unem settled that, got rid of our pro-method of making alcohol and cluster of trees at the corner of ployment problem, thle complex fiteering gangsters, and of course benzine, combined with these new the path and darted at me.". business of supply and demand. we simply shot ahead noon after-alloys. They. revolutionised ny- As the London Morning Post rewards.
ing, for instance. marked. recently: Ten YourA Look at that old rallway map You remember what stuck them, agro. even Ave УСПГА ago, I got in the museum. Yes, the don't you? When the old-fashion- the persistence of onemploy-ralls were torn up a century ago, ed rigid machine reached about ment at the million level was a and we built Overhead Monorali: 760 kilometres per hour they found source of neuto public anxiety. Instend; so we can shoot easily they had the wrong shapes for the To-day a level of two million is from John o' Groats to Land's End exposed portions. If they wanted coming to be regarded almost within four and a half hours; that's to have higher speeds the reale. complacency. Is it that we have not bad when you compare it with tance simply shot up. What was grown weary in our long conflict the old expresses that used to run really needed at these higher cellar. with this most besetting of our at a paltry 60 miles per hour. reaches wasn't the blunt-nosed national problems? True, there is B-6511 Drifting Tide-Foxtrot Ray Noble & His Orchestra.
What did they do with the shape for body and wing, but the Brown interfered here by re- the difference that wherens before tracks? Well, you can see from sharp-nosed aholi profile, and that moving half the path and Cruik Spellbound-Foxtrot
we were shamed in face of a world thin other map that they are all was precisely what these new flex-shank on the pretext that he would Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees,
that was brimming with employ converted now into first-class ible alloys made possible. Be-miss his ferry, B-6512 Little Valley in the Mountains-F.T.
ment, now we are confronted with roads for fast heavy motor traffic. cause they could be made flexible; a world that is sunk deeper than For the past ten years there has in one direction and stiff in an Ray Noble & His Orchestra, Freckle Face. You're Beautiful-F.T.
ourselves in unemployment. Our been a steady stream of vehicles other they could be adapted at There are indications that the unemployment chart, Ray Noble & His Orchestra. Commission which was appointed seem, like our temperature chart, speed of over 100 miles per hour out loss of strength. There's still
would of 60 tons and more at an average at ones to solve this problem with Sir Harry Lauder to report on the trade of the avolds extremes of high and low, and the surface scarcely shows any a lot more to be done in that direc-
But comparisons with others bring algns of wear. Colony and to indicate measures
us little comfort, still less do they Sir Harry Louder. for its improvement will soon excuse our own condition. Un- Yes, these white cemented slonca B-8212 A Picture of Mary (Handman)
The really serious problem at Charles Fitzgerald. conclude its labours and issue its employment is the modern counter-every kilometre along the side of the moment, however, is the air "You shouldn't anyway," anap- I Never had a Chance (1. Berlin) Charles Fitzgerald.report. The Toot of the part of the plagues which awept the roads are the junctions from traffe question during the rushed Brown.
Colony's trade depression is,
our land with greater or less In the National Main Line Water hours, with the passenger-carrying 8-8151 Simple Aveu (Thomo) Marck Weber & His Orchestra. without question, to be found tensity throughout the Middle Supply. You would hardly believe air buses. They are all of the "As a matter of fact I should be.
Spring Song (Mendelssohn)
in world conditions, and Agos. Just as the plagues do it, but until about a century ago autogiro type, of course, so that dend. A fellow told me that that Marek Weber & His Orchestra..until these show a decided cimated our population, so does they had no unified supply either they can haver when held up by snake was the deadliest anake in
turn for the better, it is hardly | unemployment decimate our moral for cold or for hot water. We another passenger stream. ¡Please use number 20002 when telephoning for
to be expected that the long-fibre, as well as lower our efficiency have settled all that now, of trouble, arises from these fast "He meant the dondest," we Military Searchlight Tattoo Tickets).
in incalculable course, for the scrapping of the Dart-Fly Minors with flexible suggested, awaited revival will be felt here, and involve us
material loss," None the less,.
old railway tracks gave them just wings. there are
They can't hover, AD no doubt many respects in
the opportunity they needed for they're allowed to thread their Brown paused on his way out to which purely local conditiong
all these pipe and line services. way through the queue and then give us a treatise on the deadliest Where do the Monorails finish? to swoop below or dart above the snake. might meanwhile be improved, AND THE REMEDY whilst the steady growth of in-
Why, they don't finish anywhere. cross'stream. dustrial
You can run straight across to enterprise pointe
These, we to
may be told, are
I don't think they should be France and Germany, to Russia allowed in the towns; they're most. hoary platitudes, that help us not changes which we cannot afford at all to do anything about it. To and Asia, by either the fast pas-ly driven by young dare-devils, to ignore. Bearing in mind the that the answer le, what have we senger Monorail or the rather and are really a public menace. representative character of the seriously tried to do about it? Jsem frontiers are as out of date we did with the Air Rocket Malls snake. It hunts with a friend,
slower goods-carrying types. Poli-I suppose we'll find a way out as Commission and the large variety our unemployment, in fact, any of interests which it covers, more inevitable than the mediaeval now as county boundaries were a when they first started, but they Were there two of thene snakes?" there is every reason for hoping sewers that annoyed
air and century ago.
keep their 15-mile height most of the time, so. their, steady stream that the problem will be viewed disseminated disease? Selence is from all angles. In this connee-inventing for us every day better tortures people used to endure in body, not even the pilots them-pole near-by?"
It's amusing to look back on the of explosions doesn't disturb any- tion, it is gratifying to feel that partially or wholly lost because we little cockleshell steamers, and fast that the whole flight doesn't machines whose potential value is getting across the Channel in the selves. In any case, they're 20 leaders of commercial, shipping fail to devise the means of keep the boredom of their interminable last more than a few minutes. and banking interests, both ing them running. Instead, they railway journeys. Now, of course, There seems no limit to the speed European and Chinese, have been stand for so great a part of their you can run straight through by they could get if it wasn't for the pole with them so that when they working in close collaboration, time idle that in the aggregate Monorail from Charing Cross to fact that the pilot can't stand the have killed their man they sling and the consequent pooling of they produce scarcely more than
him over the pole and carry him ideas should be fruitful of good their inferior predeccanora. Is it Paris, or even, if you're nervous, rapid starting and slowing down to their rated. results. This thought suggests attention on turning to profitable needn't go either way. You can trolled pilotless type are beginning by the old Underground extension I hear the experiments they are not time that we concentrated our
all the way. Of course you making on the electrically con the point that contact between account the machines we possess, the leading merchants of the rather, than for ever applied our
use your Leisure Surplus to bus to take very practical shape. Colony, irrespective of race, selves to the invention of new should be more constant than is machines we cannot use? ul present the case, We have in this Colony two Chambers of Commerce, one representative of foreign and the other of Chinese interests. All too seldom do tor seems to
The argument of this commenta
carry conviction. they get together. Now and The same sort of theory might be then, as in such matters na advanced in agriculture, where piecegoods contracts, they differ little by little machinery has taken in viewpoint, and it is then that the place of harvest hands. On the necessity of closer co-opera- throughout the American West, in the greal Argentine ranchos, tion becomes apparent. By the Canadian prairie provinces, standing aloof one from the throughout Russia, the dream of other, both must be the losers. the manufacturer has become a There must be many matters on reality. Motors have taken the which it would be distinctly place of horses, and mechanical advantageous to the trade of the binders the places of the lusty, Colony as a whole if the leading decade or more ago. For instance, red-burned harvest hands of a business interests, both foreign a farm which formerly would take and Chinese, got together, work- a score or more of men for the ed in harmony and presented a reaping does the job with four or united front. The plen, there five, or fower-depending on the fore, is for some definite liaison credit of the farmer with the between the two Chambers of manufacturers of reapers and Commerce. This might well be binders und the tractors, and the effected by regular periodical ginning to wonder if the easy life like. Farmers, however, are bo- joint meetings of the Commit-is the more profitable in the long toga, which would be productive run. The more hands they hire, of beneficial exchanges of ideas the moro grain or meat or corn and of a closer understanding of or, potatoes they will sell. That each others' viewpoints. It is might be a timely point for the the common function of the consideration of all industry. Chambers to improve and expand
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tween the two bodies which are Much has been done latterly in representative of the trading Hongkong in the direction of interests of the Colony,
camps.
"When I wrote them that I thought a family reunion would be fine, if we held it at one of their homes this time, they just -dropped the whole iden."
"Yes."
“And did you notice a bamboo
"Yes."
"They always have a bamboo
"Good Lord}"
"Yes, they learnt the habit from watching coolles. You had a nar- row escape, old man. I congratu- late you."
DUMB-BELLES LETTRES, By Juliet Lowell, So Long. Model Branslere Company, Empire State Building, New York City.
Your impertinent lotter pressing me for payment of my bill E in front of me in few mo- ments it will be behind me.
P. O'Brien (signed)
Jim Studies Heredity.
Dartmouth College
Mr. Monroe C–
120 Broadway New York City Dear Dad:
In your last letter you asked me why it is that Douglas is al- ways at the head of our class while I am at the bottom. Let me call your attention to the fact that Douglas has very clever parents.
Love, Jim. (signed)
Sliced Beef
The Manager, Railway Company, Gentlemen:
I'm titled to money for my cow, which would have moved off the tracks if your train had not heon express, or if the whistle had been blow of which it did neither, the cow would not have been Infured· when she was killed.
Chester P
(signed)