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LEAGUE BUILDING
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MONDAY
NOTES OF THE DAY
NEW WINE
Two of the most sensational legal fights in the history of the United States are at present exciting, tho intercat of Americans, and most of the rest of the world as well. Those who do not watch with tre pidation or high hope the develop- menta in the Supreme Court netion brought by Mr. Norman in defence of the "gold payment clause" in the bonds of the country's great corporations, are intent upon the trini of Bruno Hauptmann, charged with the murder of the Lindbergh baby. Everybody has theories to
of
upon
JANUARY 14, 1935.
WONDERS OF AFRICA JUNGLE
Bŋ IVAN T. SANDERSON,
a young Cambridge University zoologist, who as leader of the Percy Sladen Expedition recently penetrated several hundred miles of unexplored jungle among the Cameroon Moun- tains of West Africa in search of rare animals.
the-box.
lures.
The Very Idea!
PULLING YOUR LEG-UMES
By Horatio Bogg
OUR natural modesty has
.. we
are.
were made
precluded us hitherto from mentioning it but in view of the controversy at present raging hotly around the merits of the New Ter- ritories tomato, we feel we This Galago, for a lemur it was offer in these cases, and everybody A SMALL whale which had
never yet been seen by white far from being dead, was only a ought to let the public know In
little stunned and subsequently that essentially has a guess as to the outcome. Mr. Norman's case, the stock mar-men, squirrela with parachutes, a ket has reacted to the guesses of shrew the size of a ent, and a frog lived about our camp for many authorities on agriculture.
the day. Awnking At sundown, It
We can lay claim to this clis- Investors who have convinced them of similar proportions were
would leap about the tent catching selves that the Supreme Court will prizes that tempted us to explore moths in mid-air with its nimble tinction by reason of the fact that we have sampled more than support the New Deal and rale as the virgin jungles of West Africa.
President Roo- 'These Avere not, however, all the fingers. "constitutional”
Nor were the tree-tops the only one doubtful legumo in the raw nevelt's action in repudiating the living mysteries that the mountains places that housed strange eren--and have lived to tell the tale. "gold clause." At least that was of the Cameroons sheltered. un we
Digging in swampy ground,
It was in a local kitchen not very the position late in the week. But subsequently learned.
we came upon odd worm-like newts by Saturday observers seemed to
Our initial attack was launched that have lost their legs through long ago that we took courage from have altered their view, and to have
123 isolated, forest-clad their habit of burrowing into the Magisterial bon viveur's recom- heard something or guessed some-
to mountain in the hope of Anding soil. They pile up some mud nmendation and experimented with thing which gave them cause the Goliath frog. Nor were we the floor of the little galleries that an onion.
Since that fateful but not neces think that the Supreme Court might upset the New Deal's apple cart and mistaken in the choice of our they exenyate underground, and on
oration, a nai, je walking into our the summit of these they lay a surlly fatal duy, we have started on A new line of dietetics and have rule in favour of the "gold clause."
They coil themselves upon their thrived wonderfully on raw to- It is all very senseless, this guess camp one morning carrying a great dozen crystal-clear exxs.
gourd covered with a cloth which work, and cannot do anything but bobbed up and down like a hick-in-eggs until they are hatched and matoes and onions, and have hopes over also of including peanuts in our harm. No matter how the decision
then, like hens, they bread of the court goes, someone is going
When we raised the cloth, out them, driving away their enemies, daily menu when these have been to be seriously hurt in the market.
Garlic we take to naturally, ree- water at them, There are a good many thousands jumped not only a huge male of this the crabs, by squirting jets of perfected by our farmers.
While digging for these, we ing as how we have come from bond-holders throughout the species, with a mouth na large s country who stand to gain, of a codfish, but also half a dozen great
spider Editor: You mean Gaulic origin? course, if the "gold clause" is found fat frogs covered in crimann fur. opened a hole in which crouched Garlic origin
another proud mother: binding, but their antisfaction will Two of the zoologist's greatest felght inches long, covered with The same. But going this whole cast the Government dearly. Some prizes were served up for us in one hairs and armed with shiny, polson hog on a low vegetarian diet has ita
fangs half an inch in length. Over limitations, and we is going to ask presently dish. 615353 whether the Administration has not
and around her crawled her two painfully aware of the fact when We roamed the forests at the blundered, and whether some of the
which font of these mountains night after dozen hairy youngsters with lumin-the other fellows in this office look-
ous eyes and loathsome plumped askance at us, rather radical "reforma"
to abtain weird
bodies. It took many anxious A whisky breath, they hinted. were intended to facilitate Ameri-night hoping rats recovery will not have rather squirrels that nature has provided minutes to coax this family into politely if firmly, was not to be a retrograde effect. 11 occurs to with parachutes, by kyhose ald these
around 18. jump more than a yard, a method been disseminating one that the Administration's new creatures necompliah prodigious collecting net, for they can compared with the lour we had wine, as represented by the New leaps from true to tree. What was which they emplay in catching Cast out from the pale of decent Deal, is a sight too potent for the our surprise when, in their stead, small birds.
Society, we were banished for a old bottles of the American con- a swarm of flying mice were dis-
couple days to the New Territor stitution. So frequently the re-lodged from a giant hollow tree,
Small surprises led to great.les. formists are in too great a hurry These tiny creatures, only a few High among the mountains, in the
"Go to Shenughaui and report on either in their creating or destroy-inches in length, with talls like an land of perpetual mists, we came the onions," the Editor commanded, Ing, and so often the greater their ostrich feather, leap into the air upon the king of the forest. After Nothing loth. we went to the of Nations, there had recently sincerity the greater is their rush. when frightened and float away ranny days fruitlessly hunting been a deal of uninformed critic-Such haste, even in an emergency. through the forest as silently as with cameras, a native rushed into Agricultural Show and there found flakes of soot from a London our camp saying he had been at- that our reputation as an expert in ism regarding the cost of the is dangeratis.
chimney. They too are equipped tacked by a huge male gorilla which matters agricultural had preceded new headquarter buildings which
with membranes stretched between he had shot dead as it advanced (8,
The Mayor of Taipo was not their legs like their larger cousins. upon him. are to be opened during the
One cannot reasonably say that
Later in the year, the Bying His tale was the truth, for we there to receive us, but in his place present year. It is of interest,
the State of New Jeracy rushed squirrels turned the tables on us, found the great ape, more than we were warmly welcomed by a therefore, to look into the actual headlong into its prosecution by appearing one night at the very five feet tall, lying among the concourse of village elders, tillers With outstretched of the soll, and sonse whose know- facts. Altogether, the buildings Bruno Hauptmann, one-time
penter and short-time and bird," door of our camp. Rustlings and undergrowth. will cost about £1,100,000 or
but it is fairly obvious that there scratchings in the darkness above arms this "grand old man of the ledge of vegetables we suspect na some 1/6 per cubic foot at par.is a growing doubt as to his guill.ent as headlong to the gun case, mountain" measured nine feet two confined to the stage when they are We were impressed, and smiled This figure compares most fa- There was a raging clamour for his Flashing a light into the tree tops, inches across, and eighteen strong ready to be digested.
four flaming eyes were revealed. men, could barely carry him down blood when the law first fastened Then, as the smoke from the guns to can. And yet we had been benignly on the onions. Likewise vourably with the cost of any suspicions apon him, and the case cleared away, there at our feet lay sured that gorillas were not to we had a favourable word for the modern public building in Eng- was black against him. But the two creatures that brought shouts be Found within hundreds of cabbages, but felt that something land, and stil more favourably longer the trial lasts the mere thef surprise even from the natives. milles of these mountains.
of a flawa
In the water also we purely circumstantial with the cost of such a building case became apparent. It is not
strange benals, living fossils nimost ransom I can but Bken these animals to in their primitiveness. Wading up in Switzerland. It is a fact that enough that part of the the new League Buildings could money, delivered to "an unknown" streamlined rats, with bushy tails the clear rocky streams at night by In a Bronx cemetery, was found and silken hair, though the para- the light of bark torches, dark have been built and would have kidden in Hauptmann's garage. Ifhute gives to the whole the appear forms were sometimes seen darting been built even more cheaply by some queer trick of fate, Bruseance of a kite, all but the string to and fro like fish. Traps, nets. The following night I sưêw a tiny and guns falling us, the roethod of had the original plans been ad-Hauptmaria has been victimised, the
American public will have its con- figure silhouetted against the catching these animals employed by hered to, but the two millionscience to deal with. Hauptmann brilliant moonlit nky, literally the natives had to be resorted to. dollar Rockefeller gift for a Is facing his ordeal with fortitude.galloping through the tree tops. We chased them with our bare Mr. Billy Sunday,
He does not act like a man guiltyfred at random, but it disappeared hands and after many attempts Rochester, Minn. Library necessitated
of the foulest of crimes. Ho Is
Dear Dr. Sunday: Sleek like an otter, these giant drafting of the plans as the fond of children, devoted to his own while I waited listening to its body were rewarded by a capture.
erashing to the ground through the original site was too small. little child, about the same age now branches. With the aid of a torch water shrews, when chasing their the total cost of about one the baby non of Colonel and Mrs. I eventually came upon a bundle of prey, are driven through the water I need money. I need it very badly,
Lindbergh when it was kidnapped. million pounds for the building One is tempted to feel sympathy for pale grey wool at the foot of the by a powerful fish-like tail, while more badly than you know.
their feet, which they draw up
My girl and I are en- beneath them, have developed sharp gaged to be married. I always sounds a lot," said the Treasurer this man for whose execution mer- bid crowds are begging "passen,"
Seizing my trophy I received a koels to assist them in preserving made up my mind that I would of the League of Nations, Mr. and who, when a starling flew into severe bite on the thumb and the their balance. Their jaws are never get married until I had a Jacklin, in an interview to the his prison cell told his lawyer, fur came to life, a spitting, hissing beset with, a formidable array of new barn. Things ain't what they Press recently, "find out what the thundering Irishman. Edward fury with wide-staring, amber eyes needle-sharp teeth and their eyes should be and I can't build a barn your local Town Hall costs and Reilly, that he felt a little hope at fund soft little hands, uncannily like are so small that one must search so expect you will send me $900.00.
COSTS
Amongst critics of the League
the re-
"If
HAUPTMANN'S HOPES
lust..
THESE BEGGARS
remember that we are the inter- national town hall of fifty-seven nations." This cost of something One has a generous impulse when over a million pounds may, for aged folk and little children hold example, be compared with the out their hands for coppers and plead with their eyes. Most of us following: The new London find it hard to refuse their appeal County Hall (excluding cost of even though recognising that to right wing, completed later) cost encourage such a thing is bad for the morale of a people. But there £3,239,293. The extension of
is state of affairs in Hongkong the Bodleian Library at Oxford which is destroying any feeling of is to cost £1 million. The War commiseration one may have for these poor people who cannot earn Office building, including pur- a living and who most depend upon chase of the site, cost £1,229,148. charity. When big hulking coolies One American woman, Mrs. eft hidden around the corner al W. K. Vanderbilt, built herself send half a dozen urchins to ery "Cumshaw, taipaa!" as one passes, two houses, one in New York, and when country women with the other at Newport. The babies on their backs lay a dirty former cost £600,000, the latter hand upon one's sleeve and make £1,600,000. Yet over 50 States the same demand, one commences may not spend about a million to feel some Indignation. Not long on their building without a 'tor- ago one of these little gangs of urchins followed two European rent of abuse! The bulk of this women up the hill beyond the top money, it is often forgotten, has of Wyadham Street and when their already been paid, for some years demands for "cumshaw past, into what is known as the ignored called insults and abuse as Building Fund. Contributions they dodged about these Intlles. were made in the same ratio as The hungry should be fed, it is true. But these scamps should be spank- ordinary contributions to the
ed. League Budget. For some time they were made up out of the. difference between the year's ex- among them, who contributed penditure by the League and punctually in the early years. the total contributions (the Great Britain has made a con- League has always ended the tribution of about one-tenth of fiscal year. with a surplus), the total, France and Germany. More recently a small amount about one eighth and so on. was added each year to the usual Great Britain's contribution of budget estimates and included in some £112,000, it is of interest. them. And annually. certain to note, is less than half of the sums have been refunded to annual cost of stationery for the those States, Great Britain Army and Navy.
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G
MAST EARLY
AVOID THE
Cham
found
But you don't understand, This is a New Year gift, and absolutely MUST be delivered promptly."
was vitally missing from the Ex- hibition which would have made our happiness complete.
We looked in vain for garlic.
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DUMB-BELLES LETTRES-
By Juliet Lowell Cheque Book Please
You have to help me out,
for which I could build a, barn and then I could marry my girl and be happy forever after.
Could you send this as quick as possible, for I must get married soon.
5-19
Very truly yours,
Edgar V
I made up my mind that I would never get married until
I had a ne10 barn.
A Job Well Done
Honolulu, T. H.
To Honolulu Gas Co. Ltd.
82 and 84 S. Hotel Street Dear Sir:
Having fixed the pipe last week, so this week the gas can hardly come out, so kindly sent your plumber to fix as he fixed Isat.De Vary respectfully Yours
Francisco Ariz