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HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
The total Expenditure in 1938 on behalf of sick and destitute children is estimated at $25,000, against which the Income to date is $12,000 only.
The Society asks for the balance of
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Flying Laboratory Six Miles High
SCIENTISTS SEEK CLUES
TO COSMIC RAYS
A
LABORATORY in the stratosphere, higher than Mount Everest, is wanted by Professor P. M. Blackett, Britain's leading authority on cosmic rays,
He told the Royal Society last month that the object was to intercept, on their way from space, the mysterious cosmic rays which constantly bombard the earth.
He is hoping that the Air Ministry, which is carrying out regular high altitude flights, will provide the "laboratory" in the cockpit of a plane.
Such an experiment, the first high altitude cosmic ray investi- gation in this country, has already! been carried out.
A FILM TAKEN
Delicate instruments which count- ed the invasion of cosmic rays were token op by the R.A.F. "high flyera"
WHAT'S
IDEAL BATHING
DRESS?
to a height of more than six miles. 400 BATH HEADS
A m record operated by the pilot -was-kept-and-was-show-
In their relentless pursuit of clues
to the mysterious origin, character: And behaviour of these invisible "bullets" from space, Professor Blackett's research workers set up a laboratory on a disused platform off the underground railway at Halborn, There, they discovered how deep and how frequently the rays penetrated. 900,000,000 VOLTS
An 11-ton vectro-magnet to "dis- cipline" the rays has also been set.
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Shorts" In
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WHAT is the ideal bathing
costume?
Four hundred men and women up in a bungalow in somsbury. from all parts of Great Britain With Its help they have studied whose work brings them into daily cosmic rays which have an energy of contact with swimmers debated 900,000,000 volts. They suspected this topic at Edinburgh at the rays with much higher voltages, but annual conference of the National the Professor calculated that Association of Bath Superinten- magnet to control thom would cost dents. anything up to £100,000,
'Blind' Flying
Test For
R.A.F. Badge
NEW SYSTEM OF TRAINING
A new system of training at R.A.F. schools includes the fol- lowing test for the award of the flying badge (wings) :-
But not one could describe the costumes which combin- ing decency with freedom of movement, would please
everyone. Mr. E. II. Whittle, manager- engineer of the Holborn Borough Baths Department, was vaguo when he introduced the subject.
"No costume should be worn in a swimming bath," he declared, "which does not ser the purpose the over- whelming majority of the British public expect it to, and that majority representing millions of people
sot a national standard of decency which should be maintained."
Mr. Baker, of Hastings, set another poser when he asked: "Why is it that the growing practice of wearing shorts in the water in decent in the sea and In open-air baths but indecent in- doors?"
But Mr. Whittle declined to bo The pupil must be able to fly a drawn. "If the conference roze as Service type of aircraft rolinbly and one man and asked me to define a accurately by day in clear air and decent costume for indoor and outdoor solely by the aid of instrument use." he said, "I should refuse." - ("blind" flying), and land consist
ently well at low speeds.
Ho must be able to execute cor rectly those normal and acrobatic manoeuvres ("stunts") appropriate to the type of aircraft on which ho Is trained; be able to recover from abnormal position salely by the, ald of instruments; have carried out on a Servico typo of aircraft an efficient climb to 10,000ft, and remained there for 30 minutes.
Officers and airmen undergoing the full course of training at a flying training school must be able to fly consistently good compass courses in clear air or in cloud, and be able to chimb with war lond, at or near maximum
rate, up to 15,000ft, or Service "coiling" if less.
of Blackpool,
Mr. Hollingsworth the practice.
described as
of a number of bathers of rolling their costumes down to their waists when leaving the baths.
"If all bathers were compelled to wear their costumen. pulled down to their walats unt they entered the water and Immediate ly after leaving it, we should find 90 per cent. both resenting it and refusing to bo dictated to," ho said.
Unfortunately, wo have no gubl- ance, even from the manufacturers, in the matter of costumes, but I think, generally speaking, that those turned out to lay are adequate.
And that was that...
Which reminded everybody-What Is the ideal bathing costume?
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