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IS 4 P. M. YOUR DANGER HOUR?
Well, Professor Hans von Hentig May Think So, But-
Is four o'clock in the afternoon the "danger hour” for family crises and major catastrophes?
In the opinion of Professor Hans von Hentig, former Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the Uni- versity of Bonn, people tend to become more nervous and irritable at that hour than any other.
Speaking at the American Sociological Society's convention at Atlantic City, he said:
EMPIRE NEWS
ASSAM ASSEMBLY AND
COMMISSIONERS
Calcutta, Wednesday. An Interesting situation which is being exaggerated Into a constitij- tional crisis has arisen in Assam result of the abolition by the Assembly of the posts of Com- missioners who are the senior Indian Civil Service officials. The Assembly refuses to vote three months' CX-
for penses
tho Commissioners establishment.
to
The Governor of Assam, Sir Robert Reid, conveyed a message
the Assembly that the Commissioners were protected under the India Act. He desired the Premier to present a demand for £1,123, the cost of the establishment for three months, and to postpone abolition of the pasta until the end of March.
The Premier, Sir Mohammed Sandullah, declared that he disagreed with the Governor and declined to present the motion for the grant in the Assembly.
It is expected that the grant will be eventually sanctioned under the
"No revolution ever started in the early morning or at noon. They have all started about 4 p.m.
The same time of day produces the largest crop of family catas trophes, divorces, broken engage ments and momentous political de- cisions.
"Perhaps the experience of such a danger period has introduced the cocktail hour into our social tech- nique to lead us acrosa. the slippery ice of our psychic instability,"
No evidence in support of the pro- fessor's assertion could be discovered recently,
IN REVOLUTION LAND Portugal, a country that hos years, has always selected late at specialised in revolutions In recent night or carly in the morning. The proclamation of the Republie and overthrow of the House of Braganza in 1910 was at night. The attempted revolution in 1021 woo at dawn. Another attempt in 1927 was in the carly morning, and yet another in 1931 was at the same time.
in the evening and finished in the The Fascist march on Rome started momng. The Hitler outbreak, in November, 1923, was in the evening. The attempted Nazi revolution Austria and murder of Dollfuss were at about midday. and Queen Draga of Serbia were King Alexander assassinated in 1903 in the small hours of the morning. President Lincoln was shot in the evening,
King Zog, Moslem monarch of Albania, watches a review of his army near the capital of Tirana. The event was the celebration of the nation's 25th year of independence. Two years ago the bachelor King looked around for an American girl with $1,000,000 for queen of his Balkan kingdom.
BACHELOR'S SCORN FOR GOOD-TIME
GIRLS
Governor's special powers. The only indeed, at a loss to trace any big 66MUCH-PAWED-OVER remnanta from the bargain
question is one of
leaflets appealing to peasants told four o'clock is the domestic danger Professor Philpot, of University College, London, and Recorder of the Psychology Section of the British breakfast the most dangerous time, Association. thought round about
The Netes Chronicle Library was, event that happened at Rent Arrears-The Congress Gov- four in the afternoon. ernment of the United Provinces has distributed hundreds of thousands of fose to produce any evidence that Psychologists were equally at a
arrears hitherto withheld. Otherwise the Provinces will
be hour, bankrupt. The only alternatives are coercive measure or the resignation of the Government
the
Beat Congress. The Mosiem League has won the rubber in the by-election contest in United Provinces, defeating the Con- gress party by four seats to one- Reuter
South Africa.
BANNED BOOK
Cape Town, Wednesday. The fate of 2,000 copies of "Turning Wheels," banzied by the Minister of the Interior, Mr. J. H. Hofmeyr, and now held by the Cape Town Customs,
na yet unknown. The Com missioner of Customs at Pretoria will decide whether the books shall be returned to the publishers or destroy- ed.
London
"My C.O. in France," he said, wasn't considered it to be faced till after lunch. The best time was after dinner,” Certainly, I wouldn't care to ask anyone a favour at breakfast time,"
Individuals varied, he added, but he was confident there was nothing In Professor Hentig's four o'clock theory.
Another psychologist, who prac- tises in Harley Street thought that between eight and nine in the morn- preferably Monday morning, was the most probable "danger hour."
EVEN THE POETS DIFFER Even the poets, usually the best
basement," was how "good-time girls" were des. cribed 'recently.
FEBRUARY 18. 1938,
RADIO BROADCAST
Fine Programme From Studio
REV. C. B. R. SARGENT. Radio Programame Broadcast by Z.B.W. on Frequencies of 845 k.db. 9.52 m.c's. per second.
H.K.T.
12.00-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service of Intercession from St. John's Cathedral
12.80. Songs by Richard Tauber (Tenor).
Beautiful Italy (Opereita Paganini Lahar-Herbert); Girls Wero Mode To Love. And Kiss (Opereita "Paga nini-Lehar-Herbert); Tho.Old Treo (Diana Napler-Tauber).
12.40 J, H. Squire Celeste Octet Operation (Famous Operatie Melo- dies arr. J. H.
Ave Maria,
(Schubert, GIT, TOC Spring
Song (Mendelssohn, arr. Willough by); Phantom Minuet (Hope). 1.00 Time and Weather.
1,03Albert Bandler and His Or- chestra.
Yvonne (Horatio Nicholls); Trou- blo In Paradise (Wever, Ager and Schwartz); Maruschka (Do Leur);. Cuban Serenade (G. Midgley); The Land Of Smiles Patiently Smiling (Lehar)You are
are my Heart's Delight (Lehar); Soliloquy (Alan Murray); (Nelson and Knight);
Gipsy Zigeuner Romance No. 4
Illusions
—Jacob Gado).
1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press; Weather r-and Announcements.
.The
1.40. Ilawallan Music. South Island Medley....
Sea Twilight Serenaders; Lillu E (Kou- Lizzle Alohikea) with Royal nautiful Woman
(Kohale)....
WI- liam Ewaliko) Hawaiian Gice Club; A Litlle Rendezvous in Honolulu Hawaiian Fox-Trot; Honolulu Stars And Hawalian Guitars-Hawaiian Fox-Trot....Roy Smeck and His Hawalian Sercanders; Tropical Hulas
South Sca lalanders.
2.00 Dance Records. Sving
Ciful....
Step-Don't Count Your Slow Fox-Trot House Victor Silvester and His Ballroom Orchestra; Tangoo-Mad- reelta De Pompeya; Mi Musa Cam- pera
Boliche')....Orquesta Tipica Francisco Canaro; Fox-Trot- How Could You? (film San Quen- tin).
..Eddie Carroll and The Casani Club Orchestro.
(film
2.15 Close Down.
0.00-7.00 Chinese Programme. 7.00 Variety and Dance Muste. Stompin' At The Savoy (Goodman, Webb,
WCBD Sampson); Swing, Mister Charlie (Robinson, Taylor, Brooks) ...Judy Garland (13 years old- Vocal): Big Chief Do Fox-Trot; Cross' Pavelty.
Bob Crosby and. His Orchestra; There's No One With Endurance (Crumit, Curtis); Whoa, Josephine (Crumit, Burt)... ..Front Crumit speaking at the Federation of University Conservative
Mr. J. A. F. Nolan (Liverpool)-a young bachelor-Tenor); When The Sun Says 'Good
night To The and Unionist Associations Conference at Oxford, said:
**I consider that the modern young person, and especially the modern young lady who has made pleasure her god and its pursuit her religion, is doing a very grave disservice to the future of mankind.
SOVIET CINEMA
CHIEF REMOVED use, and you
Mountain-Fox-Trot; 1 Sing You A Thousand Love Songs Fox-Trot (Blm "Cain and
Boy Fox and Els Omge
7
Heard (Don. Reman); St. Louis Blues (W. C. Handy)....The Four Crotchets (Vocal Quartetto) with Guitar: My Heart's In Old Killarney Walta....George Elle!t and fis
"You can hardly expect the aver-Sweet Music Makers, ago decent young bachelor to
7.35 Closing Local Stock Quota- pay much attention to people who have tions.
7.40 elevated the phrase 'having a good
London Relay-Food for time into their whole philosophy of
Thought".
Three short talks on cannot expect: this!
matters of average young man when he reaches topical interest. marriageable age and financial stand- 8.00 Time, Weather and Announce→ OFng to take a great deal of interest
ments. in some of these much-pawed over
Siridia Concert by Eva remnants from the bargain base Schreiber (Mezzo-Soprano) nccom- (Soprano), and Elsbeth
panied by A. T. Lay.
"HORRIBLE" FILM
"TREASURE ISLAND"
GIRL HEROINE WHO DRINKS RUM
Moscow.
Boris Shumiatsky, supreme
Commisioner-Mr. te judges in a matter of this kind, differ chief of the Soviet film industry, Water denies a report that he is conhere: sidering relinquishing the position of Union High Commissioner in London Sald Shakespeare of the midnight who is well known in Britain and
is now the very witching time of night
before the end of his period of office hour: towards the end of 1939. It is known, however, that both political parties have approached him to re enter politics.
Wild Flowers Laws-The Cape's experimental legislation designed to: put an end to the wholesale destruc- on of wild flowers comes into opera lion on Jan. 1. All hawking or peddling of wild Bowers will be pro- hibited, also the plucking of flowers within 60 yards of #1 road by motorials.
Trado Fact With France. The preliminary trade agreement between the Union and France has been prolonged until March 31, 1938. I la expected that subsequently
the
When churchyards yawn and hell Contagion to this world..
self breathes out
-Hamlet, Act, Ill., Sc. 2.
America, has been dismissed.
Tnent.
bands.
8.03 Turner
1.
"Quite apart from that we have in this country at present a surplus Sopr
Duct:Gruss (Mendelssohn); 2. population of females. If the num- vergebliches Standchen, (Brahms); Der Schmied, Standchen, ber of ladies in this country who 3, Duct: Aller Berge Gipfel (Ru could not possibly hope to have hus benstein); 4. Mezza-Soprano: Re were to march past Carfax genlied (Joseph Marx); Schlummer- take them four days and four nights Uber's Jabr (Bohm). (cross roads at Oxford) it would:
Hed. (Hans Hermann); 5. Duct: to do so. That is in single nie with
(Laughter).
a space of two feet for each person 8.23 Orchestral
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Mr. Nolan, was moving a resolu- He has been charged with bullding] tion, which was adopted, viewing himself a luxurious country house, with concern the declining biru it-costing a quarter of a million roubles, rate.
equivalent to a year's average wages TEACHERS OBJECT of more than 900 Soviet workers,
TO MARRIAGE BAN
resolution wasting fabulous sums on similar
calling upon the all, falling far behind in the output remove the ban on the employment luxuries for his friends, and, worst of Government and local authorities to of married women teachers, wherever The last straw was his version of Union of Women Teachers' confer
it exists, was passed by the National Stevenson's "Treasure Island, now ence a resolution declared that the
at Swansea recently. showing, in which a disastrously clumsy attempt was made to please practice of dismissing women tea the popular taste and at the same chets on account of marriage is "n time to satisfy the "Party line."
J. R. Lowell, however, did not agree, but sang: O wild and wondrous midnight,
There is a might in thee To make the charmed body
Almost like spirit be, And give it some faint glimpses
Of immortality
THE SUMMING-UP Union will conclude a now agreement here's a summing-up by the Bard of And of all the hours of the day, with France and, also with other Avon: countries when the trade pact position:
of the United States, and Britain Is And so from hour to hour we ripe
setiled.--Router.
New Zealand
and ripe,
EXPANDING TRADE
Wellington, Wednesday, The expansion in New Zealand's foreign trade la again shown in the figures for the eleven months, Janu-| nry to November, this year, she SOUTH AFRICA-
•
plan for Alms..
Shumlatsky turned Stevenson's girl," Jenny Hawkins, who drinks hoy hero, Jim Hawkins, into "cabin
tum by the beaker-full with the anally has an affair with Dr. Livesey, pirates, dances most loosely," and
Don Juan--Symphnole. Poem, Op. tra cond, by Albert Coates. 20 (StrauS). Symphony Orches.
8.31 Studio-—Bev, C. B. E. Sargent 26th series of opers: "Excerpts from Wagner's Die Meistersinger Acta Land IL
9.30 London Belay-The News. 0.50 Violin Solos,
ki, Sarasate); Serenade Espagnole
Guitarre, Op. 45, No. 2 (Moszkows (Chaminade, arr. Kreisler)....Al- Hungarian Dance No. 1 fredo Campoll with Plano Accomp.;
Piano accompaniment by Ivor New. (Brahms- Joachim)....Grisha Goluboff with ton; Extase Reverie (Ganne).... Albert Sandler assisted by J. Sameh- tini (Cello) and J. Byield (Piano).
10.03 Excerpts from Gilbert and Sullivan,
grave intringement of the rights of women and is ono that should not Women
Miss M. Pearson, of Tottenham, Who Would Woo & Fair Maid: be tolerated in a democratie coun-
The Yeomen of the Guard' A Man
as soon as she is married she is Goes A Wooing... Winifred Lawson, anid that the world' is allil blind to Derek Oldham, Winifred Lawson and the fact that a woman" is a person. Nellie Briercliffe; When A Wooer And then from hour to hour we rot "HORRIBLE EXAMPLE” looked upon as a dependent or an Nellie Brierclife, D. Oldham and G.
and rot,
The pirates are, moreover, featured
adjunci of man.
Boker; Rapture! Rapturel....D, Gill And thereby hangs a tale,
as living a much too free and happy.
Miss D. A. Griffin, of London, said: and P. Dawson; Comes The Pretty But of four o'clock in the after-life, driniding deep, singing loud, “If a woman wants to be an MP. Young Bride....Full.. Company noon the poets have no comments throwing dice, and at the same time she is applauded, and if she is a fum Leonard, My Loved One....Winifred
Lawson, to make.
Derek Oldham, George strictly applying their own "harsh to the will be, but the Baker and Chorus.. laws," which include the "issuing of
better sho
if
10.20 Variety and Danica Pro- warrants" for each other's liquidation wants to be a Civil Servant, n health |most. cold-heartedly?!- we visitor or a teacher-professions well Tamme,
suited to women-she must eschow Vocal-Famous
Ballads By Fre "What a horrible example for Soviet marriage..
derick Weatherley....Dennis Noble WOOL PUBLICITY : children, queue-ing up for this dimwe should not allow grand-(Baritone): Cymbatum and Orches
CAMPAIGN
exclaims the official organ, Soviet fatherly legislators to say what mac-tra-Waltz No. 1 In E Fint (Durand); Art from which I quote thesoried women are or are not to do." Red Rose....Cymbalum Solo by Elec. charges, Cape Town.
Next year's conference will be at
Race with Plano; Rakoczy March. able balance was thus £10,744,000, The South African Wool Council's
Eastbourne. Shumlatsky's position was worsen-
Colombo's
22/ganes;
Plano The compared with £12,000,000 for Janu-national campaign, Involving the ed by the way in which he dragged WHEN INTELLIGENCE
Kina's Horses - aŋd,: Graham); ary to November last year-Reuter, expenditure of £10,000, to foster the into this "bourgeois story the irish CEASES TO GROW
Medley Of Marches....halo Da use of woollen goods in all seasons, revolution
Costa; VocalGertrude La Professor Olive Wheeler, address Medley, Gertrude Lawrence (So- For the opening, begins early in 1930,
Lawrenco
and then the Associations in London sold the or Love Fox-Trot; Loata Fox-Trot the Governor-General, followed by fum launchos a treasure hunt to and general cuisenaus of psychological Guy Lombardo ...“ an intensive Preas publicity cam- the funds of the Irish rebels as if opinion to-day supports the View Canadians: Orchestra-Great Day
and his Royal South African rallwaymen are in- paiga
k? than leính - revolullonuries
could
that the average age at which the Selection, (Rose, Eliseu and You sigint at an order of the Hallways Butter Shortage Ends The coming elements, de ander probably about 10, though in some Danco: Orchestra Dance Orchestra
possibly associate with such "eriminal growth of Intelligence
crazen le maps). Jack Payne and His B.B.C, Administration forbidding those of of the rains has ended the butler them who are ex-service man to shortage in the Union Production Why didn't Shumlatsky road 17, braven. 10/0
cases development may continuo to Ciris Were Made To Love and Kiss wear Wiele medal ribbons on duty, during the week ending December Marx's letter to: Engal on Dec. 10,
Quickstep) (Love Live For Everes The describe the order atan 10 was over 100 00011s which is 64, 1889 explaining the Int
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