Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.--Cervantes.
Test Your Mind-See How It Works
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NEW test, to discover
not how much your mind contains, but how it! works, has been devised] by Professor Victor H. Noll, of Rhode Island (U.S.A.) State College. Professor Noll places a group of ten statements · before the subject of the test.
There are the sample state. monts to which you should reply. before reading the analysis that follows them. Take a pencil and All in "Yes," "No," or "Undecid- ed" in the spaces reserved.
1. If many perving break a day like prohibition; it's all right for any- une to do so.
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2. There is no
war in working ang fmrder than in neccssury to get by.
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3.A high forehead in a sign of in- !
telligence.
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THE HONGKONG-TELEGRAPH.
A study in lights and shadow a on ong of America's largest con- struction projects the Metropolitan Water District aqueduct from Boulder Dam to Los Angeles. This is being built at à cost of 220 million dollars and the huge job includes construction of a $31,500,- 008 dni; 26 miles of tunnels; lá miley of covered conduit; 24 miles nf pressure fine and 75 miles of lined canal over the desert.
SO NOW YOUİOne
KNOW
Here is an analysis of your (mind, based by Professor Noll on
4. B'e won the world war because our your replies to the statements in
side was right.
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Column One.
People who take statements 1
5. Our wert Premier will be and 2 as true reveal intellectual
Neville Chamberlain, [State ment varied from original con cerning US. Presidency.]
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6. ałachinery rocutually will replace
manual labour completely.
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5. The Christian faith in
true one.
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dishonesty,
People who say statements 3j Land are true have a habit of j mistakenly ascribing events or phenomena to false causes,
Por statements & and 6 one:
Mongrel Lettuce
MADE A NEW
INDUSTRY
DR. W. F. BEWLEY,
D.Sc., director of the
Woman In
Red Tells-
How I Betrayed Dillinger
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TUESDAY, MAY
19, 1936.
New York, May 10. NNA SAGE, "the
Woman in Red,” who betrayed John Dillinger, America's former Public Enemy No. 1, to the bullets of the police on July 22, 1934, told her story for the first time to-day.
She told it in the hope of Javoiding deportation to her
native Rumania.
"I first met Dillinger ten days. before his death.” she said. "He was introduced as Jimmy Law- rence.'"
" discovered who Jimmy Low- rence was one day when he was rending a newspaper, and showed Polly Hamilton, friend of nion, a picture saying. They've put me somewhere else to-day. I looked ati The picture, and save It was Dillinger.
HAT-OR NO HAT
"I got scared and went to Police Sergeant Martin Zarcoviteh. I also mentioned my deportation trouble. We will take care of it, he promised.
"I told him Dillinger would pro- bably take me to a morle on Sun- day night. I would wear a hat if we were going any distance, and would be barrheaded we were
to going
the where Dillinger's favourite star, Myrna Lny, was appearing.
"We went to the Biographi Cinema, and when we came out I was shoved Iaside und shooting started,
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Salt Lake City is considering s means of warfare
drunken drivers, Installation of "D. D." pinten on he cars of those convicted. Robenia Hooper displays a model of the suggested plates.
Biograph Cinema, SIR H. AUSTIN'S
£250,000 GIFT TO SCIENCE
RESEARCH WORK AT CAMBRIDGE
* had no idea they were going to Dillinger like that, I thenight
The only should use suspended judgement, Cheshunt. Herts, Experi-yers in to arrest him,"
mental mental and Research Sta-
which
8. Aip nation that persecuter thematurity,
Come
with
Anna Sage has appealed to Miss Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labour,
her next week.
7 and 8 open-tion, wanted to produce a to reconsider the decision to deport imindedness is necessary, Almost lettuce that would grow a
Jews must be totally uncivilised. For statements.
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5. No matter what the circumstaneen, Every one bas a soft spot which good heart in winter.
one should support the home team. Jean he reached by statements in
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[volving race prejudice. enpital No such English lettige exist. jed. The Spanish and the Dutch The Inst two statements need held the market. Namn Two-and see which is aut present étt the child |
the exorcize of the critical faculty,
imentality.
10. If my irscher say a thing is so, und labour.
it mutat be no
Turn to
how your mind works.
90-AND LOOKING FOR A JOB!
R
ETIRING from his job at the age of 90, the oldest minister in the Baptist Church is determined to find another job.
He is the Rev. H. E. Stone, who, in June, is to resign from the pastorate of Gunnersbury Baptist Church.
Mr. Stone, who is a native of Colchester, entered the Ministry
65 years ago and had his Arst church
at King's Cross, London, in 1871,
"I may be 90 but I am a pretty tough nonagenarian he said, "I wouldn't dream of stopping work. "I am resigning because 1 want to make way for a younger man, Then I'll start my carder afresh on a frees Jance minister preaching in churches
up and down the country."
WOMEN CRITICISED
This tall and dignified nona- genarian is very critical of modern
youth.
Lupescu's Name Heads
Murder List
PRINCE ACCUSED
"Young women to-day have no OF ASSASSINATION
real charm, no dignity, no proper sense of lovely womanhood.
They
harsh, bre
calculating
brazen, seeking contentment and happiness in a mad round of plea-{
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PLOT Vienna, May 10. FASCIST plot to assas sit stil aix sinate Mme. Lupescu, Religion to-day. in Mr. Stane's the friend of King Carol of opinion, has lost its individualism. Rumania, is reported here.
suro.
"Why can't they think?"
The church, he says, has become! like a chain of multiple stores.
"Where Are You,
Comrade?"
Four students and Prince Alexander Cantacuzene, a former Foreign Office official and mem- ber of
one of Rumania's leading families, are accused of being in the plot.
IRON GUARD
Dr. Bewley bought four lots of the sume kind of kettuce from four market gardeners and planted them.
Some one mixed the labels, þús Dr. Bewley hoped for the best and walt- ed. One, instead of being a pure strain, turned out to be a monggel.
He experimented, and so found the lettuce, for which be Find striven for years.
WENT ON TRYING
A visit to Covent Garden revealed a monopoly of Spanish lettuce, coarse and tough, yet selling at 6s, a crate.
Cheshunt went on trying, and soon
the doctor's Early Giants were realis ing higher prices than the largest -products-of-Holland.
Quality had made its own demand. That year the research station sold just a little seed to growers. For the 1935-36 it sold Golby. Next i year it is expecting to sell three
times as much,
year
BRIDESMAID,
THEN BRIDE
GIRL'S TWO WEDDINGS
IN THREE HOURS
Bournemouth, May 10. Within three hours Miss Ada Dorothy Palmer (now Mrs, Hopkins), of Grantham Road, Bournemouth, was bridesmaid
and bride.
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Tibet's "Tons Of Gold"
WILL AEROPLANE OPEN UP THE LAND?
Lone Explorer's Great
Journey
MONEY FOR COSTLY EXPERIMENTS
Sir Herbert Austin, the motor- car manufacturer, is making n gift of £250,000 to Cambridge University for scientific research at the Cavendish Laboratory.
The gift was made known in the following letter to Mr. Baldwin, Chancellor of the Uni- versity.
Lickey Grange, Nr. Bromsgrove, "Dear Mr, Baldwin.
April 29, 1936.
The prediction that Tibet, the "hidden land," will be opened
"I have for several years been shortly to European explorers done by Lord Rutherford and
watching the very valuable work his by means of the aeroplane, is colleagues at Cambridge in the realm made by Mr. Harrison Forman, of scientific research and knowing that
a young man who has just re-ns Chancellor you are keenly interest- turned to England from that
country.
In the account of his adventures, ("Through Forbidden Tibet," Jar rolds, 19a), Mr. Forman writes:
"With the world to-day crying, starving for gold, Tibet has literally tous of it. ... This is well known to the British, Chinese, and Russians, whose territories burder upon Tibet. But they hesitate to start a rumpas | with each other with the gold of Holy Tibet as the spoils of war--in fearful dread of a fanatical Pan- Orient uprising of the followers Buddha.
of
"But let me make a prediction here and now. The aeroplane (God's gift to the Imperialist), with its threat of bullets and bombs, thumbs its pose | at chancellery, religious and mountain barriers. And as soon as the ner "oplane shall have proved that these barriers no longer are ungculenblo→ and at the same time offer na efficient substitute for horse and yakback transportation-we may well anti- cipate a despoliation of this forbidden land comparable to that of the early Americas by the Spaniards. And that day is not far off,"
13,000 FT. LANDING GROUND As proof of his contention Mr.
faild, equip and endow a very inuch ed In obtaining sufficient funds Lo
needed addition to the present resources, I shall be very pleased indeed to present securities to the value of approximately £250,000 this purpose.
for
"I am, yours sincerely,
"H. AUSTIN." In thanking Sir Herbert, Mr. Raldwin writes:
"There
greater can be nu'
who encouragement to the devote
to themselves.
acíentific research than to feel that their work is appreciated by those eng- aged in Industry, the progress and development of whose businesses depend so much on the laboratories of our country.
"Your noble gift will be invalu- able at the time to Cambridge, and the benefits arising from its up- plications will be available for the civilised worid,”
It is understood that a part of the
money will be levoted to rebuilding the research block of the laboratory and providing for costly erperiments now in progress,
London, May 14.
MANY PUBLIC GIFTS A remarkable story of how &
She first attend the wedding of Forman instances the great Ganja It is alleged that students belong
The Cavendish Laboratory, of German soldier rescued a wounding to the Iron Guard, the banned her brother, Mr. Alfred Palmer, to plain, at an elevation of over 13,000 Fascist organisation. formel eleven Miss Constanco Olive Turner, as a
feet, as an excellent landing ground which Lord Rutherford is the pre- ed British officer from a dug- terrorist groups of dive men cach, bridesmaid.
for acroplanes,
sent director, has taken a leading out nt Cambrai is told in a letter Each group was assigned the task
Originally he set out with two com-: written from Munster, Germany of
person. which has just reached London."
Mme. Lupescu's name came at the The letter, written by Wilhelm top of the list, which also included Walbert who served willi Reserve the name of the Chief of Police of Itegiment 65, runs-"Where are you Bucharest-United Press.
-comrado?
Lleut.
Anderson
of
the Lincolnshire Reg., on 27th & 28th Nov. 1917, you were seriously wound- ed and I carried you out from your dug-out in front of Epchie, after a
assassinating
one
influential
5,000,000 INJECTIONS
Singapore, May 15. More than 5,000,000 people have march of five hours we reached our been injected with anti-cholera assembly place and I handed you over
to the Medical Corps What has be- serum in Stam. According to the
send a word 7"
the
the
That ceremony over, she attended | panions in an attempt to reach the part in recent research in physics, the reception, changed into her bridal clothes and returned to the Amnyi Machin or "Mystery Moun- including "the splitting of
tain,
reported as being possibly atom" and experiments on same church-St. Clement's--where higher than Mount Everest, which is transmutation of matter. aho wan married to Mr. George situated somewhere near the head- Henry Hopkins by the same clergy waters of the, Yellow River in north- Sir Herbert Austin has made man, the Rev. 11. C. Cockerell.
eastern Tibet. Ilis friends were kill many recent public gifts. Then she returned to be the contrated by bandits before they reached the cently he announced that he would
figure at her own reception.
Mrs. Vera Venner, her sister, was matron of honour at both wedding and several of the bridesmaids acted at both weddings, changlug their dresses.
come of you....can I ask you to Government, 1,630 have died from The bridegrooms are well-known
cholera in the past two months.
WATSON'S
local footballers,
25 cts. per Bottle
BABY WATER B
ENSURES PEACEFUL SLEEP
borders of that country, but he decid- ed to go on alone. of one park-horse, and deponding for With his entire luggage on the back food on what the country had to offer. he succeeded in penetrating to places which infinitely better equipped ex- peditions had failed to reach.
At Lbabrang Gomba, one of tho largest monasteries in the country, hẹ
Re-
defray the coat, £7,000, of a
United Hospital, and he has given radlum bomb for Birmingham large sums to Toc H, the Birming ham General Hospital, the London Cancer Hospital and other hosp!- tala.
was photographed with the "grand cuckoos, gongs and chimes. An at living Buddha" of the Lamasery tendant was always on duty to keep Alakk Jamy Japa, the Arst time, the them wound up.", author claims, that a white man has
succeeded in obtaining a photograph This is an extremely, entertaining standing beside Alama of auch account of an astounding Journey, spiritual importance.
illustrated by many photographs One of his most amusing, experien- which are probably unique. Mc. cos was an encounter witt the grand Forman writes modestly, of his ex- Ilying Buddha" of Badlja Gömba, pariences, but on many occasions it whose hobby was the collection ofis obvious that his life was in extreme alarm clocks. He had a whole room dangor. full of them of avery make and do- The book is a valuable contribution scription, ranging from cheap Japan- to European knowledge of this forbid- ese alarms to expensive European den land, and the future career of the types. "Each kept its own time," author, who is at present, it is stated, avrites the author, "and added a forming a second expedition to ný :}} regular noise-making to the almost into Tibat, will ho, watched with
continuous bediam, of ringing, interest.
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