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THOROUGHBREDS
DON'T CRY
Adopted from the MEIRO GOLDWÝN MAYER future HALSEY RAINES
What has happened no far: Low in ifasiin" "that horrowing enough to come to America fav a Awal try at the internation? huran racing cup, Sir Peter Cal- verton sanila filà poung grant- nun Koper out hunting for a jac- key, Rogor upproaches Taninte Donovan, a very clover but con- pelled youngster who refuses to take the Brilish buy aerimusty until he has proved" Ida matlig in a Лst foht, Timate stilt says
"Can't I come in just for a min- ute?" são naked, naively,
"No, we're bury," called Timmie. "Gris aro nulaaner," ho ex- plained to toger, as they listened to her retreating footstepin, “I sup- pose phe'd want to go to the movie with, a tonight if she knew wo was goin'"
"layn it would be all right if ahe weat," suggested Roger.
* How come a # ally
You've learned a lot of things
he won't sito con Bingtel Aprannaven't you, Timle sald Roger, but is won over schen Sie Peter presents him with the famed Shopper Garrison'a rétting whip.)
pyright 19 S
Chapter Five
Tar followed Timmke out to the outer half.
"He's a avet old guy, ain't he?" anded Tinusle.
in kind you think no. Mantle," Bad Roper, i hap to wins the Cup this time, 1e has to,"
Romiring the others deft landi.
"work as he' appiled the phot
"Yeah, I know a lot of things, right," nald Tim, with nome bitterne Thing ikke how to rub iniment on a stift leg. Only I can't rpel a word with more than Tour 1atters in it. When you was talkin' eboul algebra yester, One day, what'd I think it was? of them boton with stripen!"
"You mrina zebra?*** "Yeah. I certainly am whord up. ain't 17" Timmte spoke with tense, tirai determinnilon." "But 1in zunan know meinethin'. As noon nn I get nonse deugh, do you know what I'm Fonna do? I'm gonna alre guy like you was tellin' me about
mie a
a win it El right." refided Thane confidently.
"I'm Bura you wit," raid Roger. "I wbt I com to vide en Looter and I'm gonna learn you
There ain't much to 11" parried Timmie. "It's Just like riding a bicycle, except you don't pedal."
"Wouldn't you teach me anked Roger.
Say what's the matter with you: Rac ridin' a tough mekel, and you put
a tomata th
make the "grade."
"As you # tumita Inquired Beiger, lå dendly esencs.
"What'd you think
I wan?
how to spell every word they la" Time gave Roger a Arial de clsler thump across the knee, and decided that enough had been done for the day: Roger had barely allpped la trousers on when ma- other rap sounded at the door.
"It's Cricket," muttered Timmis. He turned to the door. "I told you to leave to inns!"
"Telegram for Thinle Donovan," camo birk the voice of Iida, tho
Amalit,
Timmle quickly opened the door, Kentlerinn" ain't even get any melted the yellow envelope and education,"
atured at it.
"ut education was nothing to
"Who's arnd me M telegram?"
se with one's being a gentleman, murmured Timmile, Timmie."
"Dunno," answered Ilda. "Hapa "It's too deep, for ute," cald Tim-the news ain't too bad. You know mje, openlog the door."
want telegrams are ke."
"No matter what be's dont, Timmie, be's your father," Roger Jaid.
"But you will teach me to ride?" persisted Roger.
Tinunie grimed in affirmation en he disappeared Into the darkness outside.
The next day an appointment was made for the first feston, Tim- ant, youthful but very practical
hrt you sent it to yourself." Feried Cricket, popping her hend out for snattier doorway.
"That no cried Timmle, looking at her dinininfully. "Well, I ain't men interested."
Ho turned and flung the telegram on the top of his dreamer.
tutor. But Roger through every "It's probably something vary Frict: in the . He showed him Important, and Cricket, retriev how to ride thigh, how to ride ing it and scanning the outside,
www. and hutz to control n her "Importval, me eye! Somebody
the minimum expenditure of the whip.
On the furn Roger lost bin 1 lance, and Timmie, with great pence of mind, ved him from
m to be rather at a dla mvantage on any horse but The Paniuk apologied Roger, "Io's nly one Pre practiced on he for
Well, you can't keep on riding no long your life." rejoined at if you want to be War It ennie to holding the "in- side trek." Itogter was very back- ww.ra Bluntly but pallently Tinn
#
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wants me to ride a beelie, mont 2erty"
"He can't even read," commented Cricket, for the benet of Roger. "Who can't?” cried Tinmle, bölil- serently. "Gimmie that telegram?"
He tore open the envelope, stud- led the meage with a blank ex- presalen on his face, but made no comment.
old
"What's it any?" asked Celeket, in rentrained curiosity. "Aw, i'm from my
mind. He'd ike to see me. Saya he's rick. Tibet 't lotta honey."
"How do you know?" demanded Cricket. "Maybe he is nick."
"Son I been sick," said Tim
once again betraying the strain of bitternesn that had been Come on, now crowd the rail"enred into his make-up. "Did he
nu kept him trying to get themir, Ennek of it.
he would yell "Muga ke Boote do anything about IE? I ain't gain" JúnGuiro and Diak Red would
have you setzed up like a sleeve
In a police that."
Tinte's mother had been dead
for many years. His father was a vacillating" ne'er-do-well, who had
who was always hoping
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Thus the people has practically no to his fellow-countrymen, fighting for It is for this that all those peasant attention, our arms outstretched in But the Government has much to the dictatorship salute, while the say to the people. Radio. news- youths, all those unpolitical, ball-j Reyal National Anthem was played. papers, pamphlets, and posters are all educated workmen, which make up
➡ to secure accommodation desired A few minutes ago the announcer used in the most skilful propoganda. the majority of the nation, are fight- MAKE Bookings EARLY on the radio has been telling us of It reads very much like Germany ing. They know little of the politics General Franco's victories and of and Italy. And it is. But with this of those above them.
That is the tragedy of this tragic TO CANADA, UNITED STATES and EUROPE Government's resistance being broken difference. The Spaniard, on the
any form of inter- war; brother killing brother for the whole, dislikes
While ideal.
the hustly individuallst ference. He 124
list seme I turn to the young Spaniard with (hence the prevalence of anarchy in horror of the war is that German whom I have been dining and say, Spain.) All he wants is to be left und Italian boys, without choice or looks as though you were going alone to work peacefully and rather will, are killing those brothers whose 16 win all right",
lazily, to earn enough money to buy ideal they don't care a straw about.
And when all this killing is over, sufficient food, n litle wine, and a He nods.
few cigaretten. He is not the kind when the last shot has been fired and I don't quite know why I ask that, of man who will be easily drilled the last bomb dropped, how are these For I know, the awer will be the into ni dletutorship robot. Even now, uneducated peasants, the Church, the same as 1 have received ever since I during the war, there is a remark F.F.T., the loyalists, the landlords, able absence of that swashbuckling, the Basques, the Catalonians, let entered Nationalist Spain.
militaristic, endless "Heiling" which alone all the political factions which
associates with The young Spaniard looks up from one
up the side of the Government, nake
to be welded into this New! his glass of brandy. Then, in reply, countries.
gultig shrugs his shoulders. Now, he and The great masses in Germany, for Spain?
be X1 mighty task. No all the others to whom I address this instance, follow Hitler as though he will
young Spaniard for were a god, and have become willing, wonder question shrug their shoulders two reasons. First, because neither brilliant propaganda, to put up with Salamanca shrugs his shoulders in fury or anyone else knows exactly terrible privations for the aggrandise- dismay.
the if Franco ment of their country.
But what will happen in Spain if
the ruthless It will be done by
of Dictatorship, should people of Spain will never look upon methods pricie wins; secondly, because their
and no pride equals that of the Franco us anything but a successful Franco win. The vague words and Spaniard will not allow them to General, and when the war is ever promises of reform will be necom
foreigner, thele rxpress to
they will want to return to their panied by all the withdrawals fears for the future-that future of prace-ilme occupations, as though ilbertles, all the hardships and priva- Spain, for which they and all the nothing had happened; they will want tions which are part and parcel of rest of the manhood of their country to forget all about fighting and the Nazi bave been willing to die.
me, a
Franco Wins
was
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What is going to happen it Franco wins?
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Bazi and Fascist regimes. Everywhere one goes in Nationalist Spain the photographs of Hitler and Mussolini decorate the walls of re-
It is
that
is something This fear
new in The Tragedy of the War. Nationalist Spalu. If it was there
It is staurants, hotels, and cafes, their before and any thinking Spaniard must have felt it-it
not ex- most noticeable where the Nationails dags hang side by side with that of pressed. But now that victory is troops have taken territory from the Spain: German and Italian boys fill the cafes and walk along the Corso. There rather Government.
the peasant, within sight, apprehension
of Franco, Only a Beginning than rejoicing is evident when the until lately an enemy radio barks out unother military on tilling his land just as he
Kucs on This struck me more vividly did before. He apparently bears nu The presence of such things are Veress han almost anything during my visit hostility towards Franco, for military not without grave meaning. to Nationalist territory a few weeks lorries travel down the roads to the not surprising that fear instead of
20. Fear of the future,
front unescorted and the only milik rejoicing is the hearts of ary authority in the villages is a few Spaniards as they listen to the an- eiterly volunteers. It is not going to mounteer on the radio telling of ap be easy to make such people en-ponching victory. thusiastic for any new form of poli- It is undoubtedly true that the tical doctrine.
Germans and Bolans will not occupy "The nothing Franco tells his
agricultural or annex any Spanish territory when peasant people very definite. Ils policy is little labourer makes up 60 per cent. of the war is over. But the naval bases more than words, He is going to the employed section of the popula- and aerodromes will remain as their mineral wealth improve the lot of the middle classes tion) takes little interest in politics. "civilian points; the
theirst
and the workers; there will be land it was only just before the Civil War of the country is already reform and help for industry; the that he became aware of how back- in return for the help they have easy-going old life is to go, and ward he is, how badly educated and given, and without which no Franca to be made to work how disgracefully sat upon; realised Vetry would be possible, they will snergetically. It might be the pro- lat, the Great War having left him help to build up the New Spain on gramme of any political party at an untouched, civilisution, as the rest of the Dictatorship lines.
Europe knows
ows it. has passed him by. The danger to Great Britain is on- clection.
established And
the Government was other matter. It does not, as yet, just as But what is already gives a good idea of what is to come preparing the reforms he so sorely effect the young Spaniard in the should Franco be victorious. Franco required Francu led his revolt, Be- Salamanca hotel. For hun the im- is a Dictator. He is head of the fore he knew where he was he was mediate tear is what will happen to State, of the
the fighting or having armies marching Spain. Government, of the
Spain is his own country. only political party,
the Falange over his land. Espanola Tradicionalista. he la
Is head
And for what did he fight or go on willing to die for it,
averyone is
He is He wants no
of the Army, of the Navy, of the Air tilling his land so that the soldiers foreign interference in its rebuilding. rule Nationalist
Spain.
pain, without any ing, for the "Nueva Espara which under a Dictatorship?
He sips his brandy and Mrugs his direct consultation with the people, every poster, Government or Nation The only way in which the pubile alist, promises hin; for the reforms shoulders. He knows that the "Cense
With Arg
will be net an end nut a be-! can express un opinion is through he had just woken up to want. the FET and as its heads are also his fatalism and stoic philosophy, he ginning-und of what he is not cer- the heads of the Government, it is has fought bravely, fearing neither fain.
John Jardinc. hardly likely to criticise any policy. to take death from, nor give death
Force. He an
and his al
eleven Ministers should eat? He fought, and is Oght- How long will he be able to live
A NATIONAL INDUSTRY
IS DYING
DESPERATE measures to keep up organisation, the boats being owned Britain. It is said that the founda-
slon,
were laid on fishermen themselves and tons of Amsterdam the market price by dumping by the
herring bones.
of the tons of fish back into the sea has worked on a proft-sharing basis.
The fluctuating quantity In recent years Scottish fishermen caused a strike of the Campbeltown
west have scarcely earned enough to meet shoals is one of the fisherman's big fish means glut of fishing fleet, biggest on the
their share of expenses and the fleet problems. A coast of Scotland.
is ruined. There The herring industry has, for some of steam drifters has declined rapid- that the market years, been in the trough of depres- ly in number. The Herring Indus are not enough hands to do the cur- and neither shermen them- tries Bill proposes the replacement ing, and much of the catch finds its
by way to the soil as manure. drifters very largely selves nor the mumerous shore work of steam
During the past three A small catch also means anan- ers dependent on the sea's barvest notor vessels. have much faith in the Bill recently or four years about 400 steam drifters cial loss, as large shore stalls have passed by the House of Commons to have been hald up and the remainder to be maintained to deal promptly with the packing and curing of the help them.
are of an average age of 25 years.
Overhead costs are Herring are caught by the oldest perishable fish. known method of netting Ash. Nets therefore high, particularly as the are "shot" in a long line, the top be- rurers have to travel about from By its nature and organisation the ing floated with corks, the bottom port to port as the feet follows the herring industry is peculiarly sus-weighted, so that they form a wall shoals. ceptible to economie slump. The just below the surface of the water. Marketing is difficult to organise on highly perishable nature of the fish. The line of nets is trailed by the a stable basis because of the varying the wide fluctuation in quantity of ship us she
"drifts."
lation.
yield,
At the next turn Roger caught deserted her. A self-centered nd- sight of Wilkins, The Pookah's venturer trainer,
for a atrike that would bring a "How yer comin, my bay"turn of fortune, he had devoted a yelled Wilking.
time to any things, but his fam- "Fine!" Ruger
exiled back.ily and son were not included "There's very fits to I, really." jamong them. Tlamle had been left "Crowd the ral!" screamed Tim to shift for himself at an ratly
nge. He was too proud neid in Te, "Look nui?”
the shoals, made it even in the fat The herring net themselves, push- But it was too late. The swerve dependent to seek ald from his
ure-war years something of a spect- ing their heads into the mests which Intter's money- of the borno titscated toger, and father, and the
will not allow the passage of their
Upon this declining Industry de the best Thumis could do na he (witenever he had any--weni far
Now the great foreign markets of bodies. When they try to withdraw leaped forward was to lessen the drink and gambling.
pends possibly the finest body of men Mother Tiph had heard the dis- impact when Roger hit the ground.
Germany and Russia leave shrunk out they are trapped by the gilis.
in character and physique to be He rubbed himself ruefully as le cussion in the hall and came built-
of recognition, and the home market
found
Their upon our Islands. rone to his fest.
ling out.
Iself contracted, the reward for
numbers are dwindling as the fleets "What's this fussin' about?" she "Come on." Asid Timmle. "That's
labour of the most arduous and dan-
The fish were originally caught in dwindle. The average age of the enough for today. I'll take you demanded,
mmie- father's seat for him"
gerous nature is inegre. to my place at give you a
cent. of the the Baltic, and the prosperity of the men is becoming higher and many explained Cricket. "He's sick, but
Hanseatle League, a famous combina languish unemployed ashore. down."
In 1914 over 70 per Timmle knew as much about Timmie doesn't think it's import-
lotal catch was exported in the form tion of German maritime eltles, was
The country is the poorer because how to ket the kinks out of tiredant enough to go."
of cured herring. The total export founded on the fisheries.
of it. Inselen na he did about all other "You've got to go, aun, if your
nick," counseled Mother has now dropped at least 60 per cent, But in the early fifteenth century phases of the racing craft. Roger father's
and home consumption by 45 per the shouls moved from the Baltic to Krumbled about successive appli- Ralph.
the North Sea, and the wealthy har cont. callons of innosage cream, oil, änd
vest went to the Low Countries and
rub-
"No matter what' he's done, Tim- alcohol, but after Timmin tand mic, he's your father," added Rag- worked oti latni trenuously for er.
half an hour he was willing to "Buppose he was your old man." replied Timmie bitterly. "Supporn admit that he felt better,
"Grandfather's definitely decided he ran out on you when you wan to enter The Ponkak in the Nidgo-In little kid, and couldn't take care More Handicaps," fie. told Timmie, of yourself and had to eat any- whore you could plak it up? May- "I thought it might help you
be you'd go to him?" get the feel of the horse."
"I don't need to get no foel," inid Tummie.
Ho did think it would be good idea to have a tuning-up" went on Roger.
"Okay. There's only a prize of a thousand dollars, but I guess you can use it."
There was a rap on the door. Il Was Cricket.
"Yes, Timmie." said Roger with out healiation. "I think I would.” Timmie turned away. He clenclied his fists and acowled. no though absorbed by conflicting emotions. Finally he came to a decision, and, with a curt good-bye to the others. he hurried down the stairs and out of the house.
CORNS?
(To be continued)
stop that pain instantly with
GETS-IT
the infallible
corn cure.
Germany took over a million bar rels of herring in 1920, only 540,000 last year. This year she ins con- tracted to buy so far a mere 320,- 000 barrels. Russia took 75,000 tons of cured herring in 1930, only 8,000 tons last year.
nutri-
Despite the unquestioned tional value of the herring-it is particularly rich in vitamins A und D-the appeal of the fish to the palate of the home population has declined greatly
Of the two most popular forms of cured herring the bloater is quite out of fashion. The kipper has been largely supplanted on a break- fast dish by cereals and fruit,
hering cured by a A blouter is method which leaves it soft. It is allowed to be in salt for 24 hours. washed, then smoked for between one and four days, according to the one has to
to be kept.
time
The kipper is produced by splitting the fish open, cleaning it, then rub bing it with pepper and salt and dry- ing 1 in the air or in smoke,
Both processes 'require plenty of manual labour.
The larger part of the siliing is done by Scottish kin
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1 A Prusslun probably not an
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Were a h this sweet would be nothing (0).
10 Men in a doctrine make a home
(8).
12 Strong drink obviously (5),
13 "At the farm"
anogram. (3).
15 Curd gorc (3).
18 "Thy children
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round thy table" (Fraims) (5).
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17 An associate of Punch (4).
21 Pale from a throw (4).
24 Colouring matter (5).
27 Part of the body or a hedgerow
28
seed (3).
Fancy an evangelist appearing
in this bit of uniform '(9).
31 No great portion (5).
32 Prosperous (8).
33 A rising about electrical force
(0).
34 A simple way of hunting in to burst into song about frult (8). 135 An Atrican peasant (8).
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1 One could buy many things here but a Chinese might be disappointed (8).
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3 "Tax scenes'' :(anag.) -(9).
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6 Oriental ruler; (B).
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7 The prohibition of an ancient
city (6).
1 Describes the sort of tune the
successful
fisherman
on his way home? (8),
11 Scuside garment7 (4). 14 Bird (3).
whistles
18 Would this sort of theatrical to a
painting seem suitable hanging committee? (9).
19 Burn fuel to make fuel (8). 20 Hurry to send off a message
(a).
22 Colour (3),
23 Leaders of the younger genera-
tion (4)..
25 Scottish school (6).
26 Scottish writer (8)."
20 Powerful Irish novelist (5).
30 Half a Jolner's joint (5).
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