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most POSSIBLY the cannot be used as a brake to hold was a gentleman named Zono,
famous-and most the car on the upgrade.
who was born around 488 B.C. maddening-of these paradoxes
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GARAGE
His most famous question is the of old is the so-called -
one about Achilles and the tur- sus," as recorded by Protagoras.
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were good
"Where are
by
Nobody's proved it so far, and it looks as though nobody evor will But "don't let that discourage
you. Nobody has over
page proved-proved, wo sald
of the
that two
and two make four. The best that can
be stated is that two and
two havo naver 'made anything other than four.
Post" HERE'S another. One
of the most mad- dening propositions offer-
but...ed by anybody is the
THESE
following, whose origin and date are lost, alas! as are those of so many nifty problems. Take a sheet of paper, a playing-card-
Phone 27778-9. Stubbs Rd. turtle a hundred yards start, and Euathlus in rhetoric, which in "What is your business there?" surface-and try to give it four
The
was equivalent to
the-you probably know it, but (Protagoras was noted Greek TRY we can bring it in by way of Sophist; he died about 411 B.C.) introduction:—
It appears that Protagoras Achilles can run ten times as instructed youth named Only two questions were asked: fast an a turtle. He gives the
you going?" and any conveniently handled flat thou tears after it. Now while those days Achilles is covering that hundred teaching him law. The two had If these questions were answered quarter-turns so that the result truthfully the person was allowed will be equivalent to one quarter- yards the turtle has travelled ten un agreement that Euathlus to preeeed, free as the mountain turn. yards; while Achilles is covering need not pay for his tuition until breezes; but if a false answer was Putting it geometrically, rotate the ten yards the turtle proceeds he had won his first case.
rendered, it was "What ho, Jack a plane through four right angles. yard; while Achilles covera
Now the young man, not unlike Ketch!" and the prevaricator was so that the affect is equivalent to some modern youthis, preferred the at once made guest of honour at a turning it through only one right primrose path to the strait and necktie-party.
angle. It can be done. But if you narrow way; he practised not at The scheme worked well until got it first time--ne, If you get it all, and seemed to have no prog one morning a notorious criminal at all—you're good. pect of ever getting a case, much was observed sauntering towards
NOTHER Protagoras be the bridge. The judges sat up less winning one.
popular
Hongkong Telegraph.
one
THURSDAY, Mar. 26, 1936.
BRITAIN'S COTTON
INDUSTRY
NOTES OF THE DAY
AERODROMES EXHIBITION
Constructora.
interesta Ini
Andoor sport among
An Aerodrome Owners' Associn- gan to get restless about his tui- with pleased grina; Jack Ketch tion was formed a year ago under tion-fee; at Inst he haled the young rolled up his sleeves, unalong a the ancients was the exercise of the auspices of the Society of Euathlus into court.
nice new rope, and whistled a bar expressing as many numbers as British Aircraft
As both were knowing in the or two of the popular ballad, "All possible by using only certain The Association. represents all law, each conducted his own case. I do is hang around." The criminal digits. They had various ay- Protagoras rose and addressed the strolled up and halted before the tems, some of them extremely court thus:
Judges. Hellenic equivalent of that title), what's your business there?" asked us
complicated; but of all the pro- "My lord (or whatever was the *xyhar
are you going, and blems that have come down to the one called the "Four decided; for if the verdict is in my husky assistants got set for any fascinating.
head judge, while Ketch's Fours Problem" is the most does not matter how this case to he favour, naturally young Euathlus ing tackle. must pay; and if the verdict is arainst me, young Euathlus will
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Anawers on Page Two.
F. G. Hartwick
An interesting example of the dovelopment of national plan-
terodrome-owning ning and Government interest in Great Britain, and the co-operation industry was recently forth- of. its members makes it possible coming in the Bill which aims at to poof knowledge and experience a reduction in the productive which will prove valuable in the
› construction and equipment of, 'capacity of the Lancashire cot- aerodromes. The membership now ton trade. The matter is one of numbers fifty, including thirty-
Here it is: sing four fours, no "Oh," said the criminal calmly, more or less, express the numbore more than passing concern to four municipal authorities, and the have won his first ease, and there. "I'm going to those gallows to be from 1 to 21 inclusive.
Association proposes to hold annual, fore must pay, by our agreement," hanged." the Far East, due to the fact conferences of its members, when
You are allowed to use the aign lle then sut down, presumably You see? If he was telling the plus (+), minus (-), multiplied that in recent years the industry progress may be reported and new with a satanic grin at his opponent, truth he must be allowed to pass by (X), and divided by (--), and has lost n considerable propor- The first of these conferences was either.
ideas and suggestions discussed. But Euathlus was no bargain, freely scross the bridge to vanish the decimal point; also paren- tion of its export trade. There held at the end of January in Lon
He yawned, rose, and into the hinterland; if he was not theses or brackets. Divisions can.
telling the truth he must are various reasons for this, one don.
be of course, be expressed as frac Delegates to the conference, y tord, my opponent is right; hanged, but if they hanged him tiona. No radical, or sign of the being that many former custom. mumbered 203, representing more for it does not matter how this he was telling the truth, and still square root, can be used. ers in the East are now
than a hundred bodies interested case is decided; if the verdict is in must be allowed to go across In pro in the ownership and operation my faveur, naturally, I shall not safety.
Some of the numbers can be ex- ducers of cotton piecegoods, and of aerodromes. At the same time have to pay; while if it is against History does not record what the stance, I can be expressed as 44/44 pressed in several ways. For in- another that in some countries an aerodromes exhibition was held, me, the people are too impoverished in which eighty-one firms took case, and so will not have to pay, to imagine yourself sitting on that the simplest way of expressing 2 ehall not have won my first judges did. But you might like or 4/4 + (4—4), etc. Probably part, where nerodrome equipment under the terms of our agreement." board, and lend a hand to render is by using 4/4/+4/4; but it can to buy anything but the cheapest and supplies were on alow and aero- Now the question before the ing a just verdict. textiles. Furthermore, the in- drome acrvices were demonstrated, house is, what is wrong with either..
also be expressed by (4X4)/ (4-4), which is, of course, 16/8. ternational exchange of com- delegates to the conference and any matter can
The exhibition was open to both, or both of those arguments? The
HERE is a question Now go ahead and try to express modities is being seriously others seriously interested in air and there is a reason why; but ferent lines. The answer is 21. Some of them are easy; some
bo straightened out;
along somewhat dif- all the numbers to and including hampered by restraints and way and airport working. Three as we asked before can you man-simple, and it is not difficult to of them as you (and the ancients) regulations. From a produc- important papers were rend by ex-age it? tion point of view, the position drome organisation and their aug- perta on various aspects of aero-
arrive at it. But when you will agrees are not so easy. Re- have found it, don't try to prove member, four.fours, no more and is that there are 48,000,000 geations were keenly discussed by
of
it, for it can't be done. spindles in the Lancashire in- the delegates. The subjects chosen might try to untangle this one, smallest. number of colours a you Here it is: What is the
IN such manner, did were nerodrome radio, the building Once upon a time, when there map-maker need use in order to changed in some respects aince ancients amuse them- dustry, of which 10,000,000 are
up of an aerodromo and the
selves. Humanity may have in excess of what is needed to planning of a municipal airport, were a great many criminals, colour a map so that no con- meet current demands for yarn. There are at present some sixty the authorities selected a cer- tiguous districts will be of the then, but when it comes to liking The policy of the Government's but the vast increase in air traffic gallows on it. They then op By contiguous" sve mean coun
aerodromes in use in Great Brital i. tain bridge and act up a high game colour?
a good puzzle most of us agree Bill is to purchase the surplus and the particular designs of pointed a board of judges to sit tries whose common borders are wrinkled those august brows are
with them. 10,000,000 at a low price and modern aircraft demand that these permanently at that bridge, and represented by a line: two coun- na good to-day as they were then. Moreover, the problems that scrap them, leaving the rest to aerodromes shall conform more question all who wished to cross tries which touch at a single point
closely with modern requirements. it. be run at full time and so aa-
are not considered contiguous. courage a more efficient and SEEING BY 'PHONE economical working of the sur- Britain's own progressive Post) viving machinery. It was esti-Offee will not have failed to note mated by a committee which the Introduction in Germany of investigated the question some means
| sight-and-sound telephony. By of this, the subscriber is time ago that the cost of the able to see as well as hear the per- scheme would be £2,000,000-son at th other end of the wire, allowing for £500,000 which Such a development has been hinted would be obtained from the of the German experiment, which at for some time, and the results, sale of the metal as scrap. Is confined at present to the lines This, it la argued, is
between Berlin and Leipzig, will not
be awaited' with excessive
much interest. price to pay Many users of the telephone may to get rid of what is now not see how they will be advantaged merely an oacumbrance to the by the Innovation. They may have industry. Further, when the other end of the wire; may even no desire to see the person at tha depressing influence of the sur- hate the sight of him. Those who plus spindles is removed, it will use the instrument for social as be casier to introduce such large however, may find the addition of distinct from business reasons, measures of reorganisation as vision a distinct attraction. There the industry requires to put it may even be victims of Cupid who on a solid economic basis. It will proclaim this the greatest has long been recognised that As with all inventions, there is sciontine advance the century. nothing short of the most likely to be a debit as well as aj thoroughgoing reforms can save credit side to the account. There the industry from extinction, being seen gives added courage to are times when to speak without and there is, happily, evidence of the speaker. There must have been a determination to take such occasions when the hardiest of measures as are needed. Recent platform orators has longed for the developmonts, also, show that never knows when to stop. In the
gift of invisibility. But the industry is adapting itself to name of progress the production of new lines, thus helpless victims a multitude of in- indicating that the spirit of novations most of which, it might British enterprise is still alive. be argued, we did very well with- Admittedly, competition is still out. The worshippers of novelty severe, but there is reason to not object. Their ery always is for novelty's sake, however, will hope that when reorganisation for something new. is an accomplished fact there make their passion in life the And others will still be a market for British collecting of antiques. We humans products.
are a strange, contradictory erowi
an
Belenco
forces upon its
SIDE GLANCES By George Clark A Spirit
"Now I don't want to have to tell you again that you're vio Inting the first principles of structural engineering!"
Departs From Bali
IN Bali, East Indian island famed in song as "the Divine Island," religion demands for overy man a splendid burial. Poor men cannot pay the cost of funeral pyres and great display, so when the poor man dies he is temporarily buried, and then on the death of a noble'taken out again and thrust into a corner of hia pyre-sharing the crumbs from the rich man's table in death as ho was forced to do in life. At those tremendous funeral fires in the-old times wives hurled themselves into the flamesa practice now no longer allowed, though the other burial ritox continue as they have done for con-
turies.
The noble's corpse is carried to the burying-ground in a beautifully de- corated funeral tower. The greater the noble's riches and estate, the hieher soars his pyro. The towe aro carried to the appointed place on the shoulders of hundrods, the people, while the mourners follow sedan chairs. On arrival, the corpses ara taken out of the tower and carried down to the ground on a lightly con- structed bamboo brides.
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They are then placed in anocially. carved animal-shopal coffins of wood. Sticks and logs are heaned around them and the whole is lehind-the bodies of rich and poor flaring away untit at last they are equal in nothing