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FRIDAY, SEPT. 11, 1936.
CIVIL SERVICE STAFFING
T
It is not
HE average height of
generally known that...
the buildings in New
York is less than five storeys. Another stagger- ing-to me, at least-fact is that not one human life was lost in a railway accident in the whole of the United States last year.
Ian't travel broadening? have come home simply bursting with such important discoveries. as those, And these:-
I
by H. W. SEAMAN
who has just returned from a trip across America
GENERALLY speaking, war.
I know another in Munich. The coloured boys who dive
Uncle Sam's postal There is one in Paris that dis- for shillings in Havana harbour services are much worse than penses champagne. use a stroke that any profes-
ours. In vany big towns the
amellier, and noisier than Lon- don's, but faster, and, for long distances, much cheaper. More- over, there is 'good service all night.
THE
HE Fifth-avenue buses
are of an antiquo pattern similar to "Old Bill" and the other London buses that served in the great war. New York taxis are cheap and some of the drivers are honest.
American navvies; lumber- Jacks, plumbers, .motor - mechanics, street sweepers, and all outdoor labourers gloves.
wear
A 20oz. loaf of ordinary bread anywhere in corts ·5%d. America. But milk is a little cheaper than in England.
There appear to be more Government buildings, and big- ger ones, in Ottawa than in London, and more in Washing- ton than in all the European 'capitals together.
You can get an excel- lent light supper ut any Hollywood night club for fivo pounds.
Britain has the second largest sional swimming instructor first letter delivery each day God gave the American Nia- would denounce as awkward begins at 10 am. In all but gara Falls. They thank Him by port on the Atlantic coast: Montreal, which handles more and Inefficient. It is more like central districts letters are col throwing red, white, and blue traffic in seven months than a mud-turtle's-wallow than the lected only twice a day, and no floodlights at it. Weissmuller crawl. But the later than 7 p.m. boys get the shillings all the
same.
But air mail is so good that
Boston, Philadelphia, or Balti- "Pop-Eye the Sailor," has more does in twelve. The popu
Intion of Montreal is larger than taken the place of of Glasgow or Birmingham. u letter can be sent 3,000 miles largely
You may find it hard to be- in less than twenty-four hours Mickey Mouse in fickle popular for 3d.
affection, and Jack Bennie has hieve that most of the New ousted Amos 'n' Andy from top York streets are paved with
cobblestones.
This year's Presidential elec tion in the United States will cost that country more than four times the amount of our entire No mathematical subject be- place in radio.
Civil List, including all provision yond simple arithmetic is com- The best show in Hollywood
for the Royal Family.
New York, seen from the pulsory in Massachusetts second-
are pro- Chicago, seen from the lake, Chicago's overwhelming. Seagulls are seen every day in ary schools, which are said to is the Planetarium, where the harbour, is magnificent, but
be the best high-schools in stars in their course mid-ocean, but they never roost America. A high school student jected on a black dome while als on ships. Where they do sleep can get his leaving certificate mellifluous lecturer talks of grandeur, however, is mostly is one of the facts I was unable without knowing who Char- space and time. There are also facade. to pick up, although I asked lemagne was, or Alfred the planetaria in New York and many learned people.
care
gull
CALIFORNIA now pro-
tax
on
The article from the pen of the
duces more wine than Hou. Mr. J. P. Braga, dealing
Great, and without even a nod- Chicago, and Boston is going to Germany has four,
France and Spain together. The with the staffing of the Govern-.
I did, however, add to my ding acquaintance with sound, have one.
local claret starts at 2s. a gallon. clerical service, which collection the one about the man light, heat, electricity, and the Britain none. Why?
Recommended ment
all-American Whisky can be obtained any- who thought they were.pigeons. halogen elements. appeared in our issue of Wednes-
Somebody told him they were
"Set-up" and "go for" are the feed, obtainable at any res- where in America for, 4s. 6d. a gulls, and he replied, "I don't American catch-phrases of the taurant: Fried oysters, lobster quart. Our British corrective and help to dispel day, should serve as a wholesome
whether they are
moment. "The European set- Newburg, half-brolled chicken spirits is more than Bs. 6d, a I nearly let Love go slipping through my fingers-Fox Trot many erroneous ideas concerning pigeons or boy pigeons; they for example, means the with sweet potatoes, strawberry bottle-which is iniquitous or
are mighty fine pigeons."
European situation, alignment shortcake. Alternative menu: good according to taste, point Cot to dance my way to Heaven--Fox Trot.
the employment by the Govern- Jay Wilbur's Orchestra.ment of locally-recruited servants.
LOS ANGELES, Cali- of Powers, etc. When a fellow Clam chowder, fried soft-shell of view, and one's opinion on fornia, is the largest tells a girl, "I could go for you," crabs, planked steak with onions the use the politicians make of I'm a learner in love-Fox Trot. Jay Wilbur's Orchestra. | Let it be stressed, first and fore-
pie a la mode.. city on earth. Eighty miles long he means he thinks she is awell, and French fried potatoes, apple all the money we give them.
L. MENCKEN'S new The Scene Changes-Fox Trot. Jay Wilbur's Orchestra. most, that the policy which the and forty miles wide.
H. and revised exition of You can stand on the rim of Johnson's Orchestra. Government is now putting grad- 8816 It's been so long-Fox Trot
the Grand Canyon in Arizona Every time I look at you-Fox Trat.Johnson's Orchestra.ually into effect is not based on
racial considerations-it rests and spit a mile.
Times
hard that are so B817 Six "Hits" of the Day (Series 5)
Missouri is using cardboard Primo Scala Accordeon Band, solely on economic grounds, and is
aluminium made necessary in order to cut
money, Colorado Charlie Kunz, 8822 Piano' Motioy' No. R.19
down the cost of government to a money, and New Mexico lead money. The coins, of one mil level which the Colony can afford.
denomination (five to a farth Even before the decline in the
ing) are used mostly to pay sterling rate of the dollar--which
sales taxes in shops, but chil- has tremendously added to admin-dren.buy. candy with them. Chater Road.istrative costs-it was yearly be-
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coming apparent that the Govern- ment was spending far too much on emoluments. The low dollar, coupled with decreased revenue, has made retrenchment absolutely Imperative. In other words, we have to cut our garment accord- ing to the cloth available. Gov- ernor after Governor coming here from other Colonies have been surprised, even astounded, at the strength of the sterling-paid per- sonnel of the service and at the relatively few openings for local men in Government positions, An analysis of various branches of the service shows innumerable instancea in which duties which could well be performed by local men have been reserved exclu- sively for Britons recruited from Home, to say nothing of many other cases in which locally- engaged Britons have been placed on sterling pay. Not only are salaries affected by many of these appointments, but there are other additional commitments in the form of passages, long leave for officers and families, pensions, and other benefits which all add to the bill. If we turn to another aspect of the question, we find
BAFFLER
"NOW
JOW, that's what I call a said Wilbur parly,"
that girl Tweedle. "Couldn't dance! Does a fellow good to have a night out with the boys once in a while."
then he
remembered
and
And Hattle. A good spouse Hattie, but she didn't seem to under- stand a fellow has to jump a few hurdles now and again. The out- line of a highly ingenious somewhat involved story to ac- count for his lateness was talking form in Wilbur's mind when he arrived home. The house was in darkness. His luck was holding. As he quietly opened the lout front door he heard the old grandfather clock back in the dining-room strike once. Taking off his shoes he noiselessly mount- ed the stairs, silently undressed, and slipped into bed beside his beloved, who was asleep.
Wilbur lay awake wondering what was the time. He didn't dare strike o light. The old clock downstairs struck once, again. Time dragged on and again the clock struck once. Wilbur was puzzled, but when after a like period of time he again heard the single note of the chime, Wilbur decided he had 'em" Finally he fell into a troubled sleep.
The clock: worked perfectly. Wilbur had heard it strike once four different times, and it sound- ed only the hours and half-hours, so perhaps you know what time he arrived home?
What time was it when Wilbur Tweedle got home?
Look at foot of Column Seven.
that the Colony has been spend- ment therein. There are thus Ing big sums annually on educa- two facets of the problem the tlon, but offering little inducement necessity for cutting down expen-' for the products of our schools to diture, and the duty which the enter the Government service. Colony owes to those who make The number of posts hitherto their homes here and many of available, and the standard of whom, whatever their race, are pay, suffice to explain the failure British subjects. The policy now of the Government to attract to being followed is therefore fully Its service young men of a typo justified; it is, in fact, inevit ominently suitablo for employable.
FEW years ago I saw A
the Union Jack burned. BROOKLYN BRIDGE
used to afford the best by a mob on Broadway. To-day "The American Language" weighs nearly half a stone, Even view of the New York sky that is unthinkable, Our stock at that, says Mencken, he has scrapers at nightfall, just before is higher in America than it has the lights in a million office ever been. Wherever I have only scratched the surface.
windows were switched off. Now gone Americans have spoken It is a physical impossibility that the skyscrapers have spread with admiration of British ways
people, for any human being to read all uptown I suggest the Queens British things, and British of a New York daily newspaper borough Bridge instead.
But I like Americans too. I in twenty-four hours.
Britain has nearly twice as like their shirts. You don't many motor-cars as America have to put them on over your
head.
Ontario, Niagara Falls, Canada,-la-further south than
And you can get a good cigan-
most of Massachusetts and all per mile of road. of Maine, and New York City Is Fish-and-chip shops, unknown 750 miles further south than in America ten years ago, are at a price you can afford to pay. London, which is level with the plentiful to-day. But they have Labrador coast.
a long way to go before they displace all the hot-dog and New Yorkers always lead us hamburg sandwich stands, Europeens to their Automat Restaurant, which has stood in Antediluvian tramcare still Times-square for about twenty clater along Broadway, even in- years, and expect us to goggle nt to Times-square, which is Now the marvel. But there was an York's Piccadilly-circus. The automatic, coln-in-the-slot res- underground, which is called taurant in Cardiff before the the Sub-way; is much dirtier,
BAFFLER
It was midnight when Wilbur got home, He heard the last stroke of twelve o'clock sounding The as he opened the door. next stroke he heard was 12.30, the third one o'clock, and the fourth 1.30.
OF SIEGES
BADAJOZ-CITY OF
BADAJOZ-city of
In 1811,.through the surrender t bloodshed OR a hundred years or so it was
left in comparative, peace until the Spanish Governor, Jose Ima comes into the news again with
War, when the Marshal Soult gained possession the latest report received last night the Peninsular from the battle front in Spain. It has severest of all the Battles of Badajoz the coveted city, been the scene of ferce Aghting be- brought British and French forces tween the Communist and Patriot into historie conflict. Anti-Red forces.
There followed the heaviest fight. ing of the whole Peninsular War.
Three battalions of the Allie It was in 1000 and 1809 that the troops under Beresterd were ann
made the first atlacks were
by the hilated in one terrlie drive by Frenc Grim and forbidding under shadow of Ita ancient and now crumb. French. They were the signal for cavalry. ling fortifications, Badajoz seems as four years of deadly fighting.
be if it might have been built to besieged.
OWN through the centuries it has Dow
been the key town of the Portuguese frontier.
Ils gaunt stone buildings, clustered on a filll top, can just be seen from the surrounding countrysido as they peep above the towering old fortress walls the battlements that with- stood the onslaught of armies.
Since the eleventh century, when small it became the capital of a Moorish, kingdom, tens of thousands of soldiers have been slain at its gates.
They have come, these warriors of many landavast numbers of them trom Britain-to storm this strategie city.
For a while, in 1168, the Portuguese took control; then it regained its independence, which it kept until tis capture in 1220 by Alphonso IX of Leon-years of struggle between Moors and Christians.
་་་་་་་་་ The Gates of Badajoz on the road out to the Portuguese
Frontier,
The French paid heavily, howeve and eventually Marshal Soult le 0,000 killed and wounded on the fiel It was in March 1812 that Welling ton launched his famous attac After ten days' march he reached th
city. of gates the
He fought against time, for feared that I ho took long over ti siege, it would give opportunity f the two Marshals, Soult and Ma mont, to unite in a relief attempt With his plans and preparatio unfinished he ordered the stormin of the defences after only 20 days. It was a bold move and the loss after time. H Time were terrific. men surged up to the battlemen only to be driven back by a marcile barrage. The heights of Badoj seemed well-nigh impregnable behi the massive fortifications.
The main assault on the breach falled, and it was not until two di sions gained entrance by escala that the French were forced to su render,
Five thousand men were killed wounded, but the battle proved o of the turning points of the war, a Marshal Soult in command of the only a few months later Wellingt
triumph.. Slegs after siege was launched French was handicapped by the heavy
entered Madrid in
Again Madrid is the objective one of the warring armies in Spa attack being made by the Portuguese at its stout walls a determined toll taken of his forces by starvation. in 1600. Then came the onslaughts
Wellington held his hand while and so Badajoz Europe's most i hunger depleted the ranks of the leaguered city-comes once more in
WBFIL
of the Allies in the War of the
Spanish Succession in 1705..
Enemy;
the news.