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Cnicultu.
Mr. L. II. Colson, Commissioner of! Police for Calcutta, weilca strongly regarding Incltement to mass action in his annual administration report. ¡¡e says:
"The open preaching of Com- munist ideas and the desirability of establishing a workers' state on the Russian mdlel, the display of Com- munist symbols and the shouting of Communist logans, were no less frequent than in previous recent years.
"It is becoming clearer every year that, If a stop. la to be put to the increasing flow of mecasing and
poken incltement to violent mass action, legislative amendment will have to be undertaken."
Famous Tree Revived-Chiculio's 160-year-old banyan
tree in the
Riyal Botanical Gardens, claimed to
be
few
the largest tree in existence, the life of which was despaired of
been hos
restored years ago,
to
by Alti by judlelous pruning and} grafting The circumference of the crown of the tree is 1,251 feet, and its height 90 feet. AUSTRALIA
CARILLON TO GREET INCOMING SHIPS
Sydney.
Under the will at Mr. W. H. Nolan, a well-known Sydney dentist, the re- sidue of his estate has been left to the trustees of the Sydary National Art Gallery for the erection at North Head, at the entrance to Sydney Harbour, of a carillon to be played |
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shipg Unimaginative Advertising, - A. member of the advertising staff of one of the largest departmental stores in Sydney, who has just re- anned from a trip to Britain and the United States, says that the adver- Using abroad of Australia's products imagim- was done with litt,
"Our advertisements lell lion.
eat Australian butter, people to lamb and jam, but there is no at te apt to capture the imagination of "New the purchaser," he states. Zealand is far ahead in this matter. If Australia has not a trained adver tising man in Britain she should ap-| point one."
SCIENTIFIC CRUISES Melbourne.
CALIFORNIA YOUTH "STRUTS ITS STUFF": Beauties, chosen from more than 2,000 co-eds of Pasadena Junior College, taking part in one of the several eliminating rounds of a contest held in order to find the Queen of the Tournament of Roses. The winner presided at Pasadena's Now Year's Day festival,
GROCER BOY LEAVES ACTORS STRANDED
"MICHAEL LANG,"
atherwise
"His father could
February 14, 1939.
OLD
SCHOOL TIE?
No Snobbery Has Your Ceiling
Says Ian Hay
YES,
pro-
there have been mation-by-the old-school-tle methods in the Army.
Na less an authority than Major- General J. H. ("Ian Hay") Belth, Director of Public Relations at the
Office War
admitted it to the In- Association of Head- corporated masters at the Guildhall recently.
"While there is no denying that this.bias has operated severely in the past," he said, "I am certain that I the next twelve months it will have died out."
He had been assailed by a number of questions alleging that examining boards for places in the military colleges were actuated by snobbery. all One of the musters-they are. "hends" of public secondary schools- sot the ball rolling by saying there was little chance of a boy getting a commission unless he came from a
blic school.
Got Distemper?
Schoolboy bowlers seem to be growing brighter,
A prize for the best bowler the was recently offered by University Correspondent and Educational Review. The fol- lowing are selected: Distemper is a disease Dogs and
ceilings get it.
Napolean called England a na-
tion of shoplifters. Lords and Commons are the plazes where cricket 14 played.
Silence is what you don't hear
when you listen.
Baron Accused Of Fraud Plot
ARRESTED at 14.07 Friedrick
on New
(50).
West
Year's Day, Baron "STUPID OLD BUFFER"
Max Wilhelm von Richtofea Col. MacDougall, who accompanied General Beith, followed this up by nuthor, giving an address in
Piccadilly, was charged al asserting that there was no reason London police court recently with with Walter Heinrick why any boy in any school in the
conspiring United Kingdom, provided he had Berndt to cheat and defraud persons
or his had the School Certiflente
who might be induced to pay money Higher Certificate, should not go to
or give credit to Berndt. Sandhurst or Woolwich,
He was remanded when he will This brought Dr. Terry Thomas, of Leeds Grammar School, to his feet appear with Berndt, who is on re- mand, charged with obtaining £175 with the slatement that when he sent a boy up for a Service examination by false pretences from Miss Lillian
Rose Hall. the un
23-year-old "some stupid old buffer
Berndt, examining board asked what school stulent, is alleged to have told he was at. The boy complained that police officer that he "owned when he mentioned the school he was tobacconist's shop which he gave to "put off.".
Mr. L. J. Driver (Spalding) sald that last June he sent 'boy for an Interview, and was told that he had "not a Cambridge accent."
Appealing for closer under- standing between the public and the Army, Major-General Beith said: The soldier is petted in war-time far beyond his desires or deserts and underrated and too often shamefully neglected in time of peace."
At the tomcat, while one or two, Territorial divisions were over strength the regular Army was still not help him.about 20,000 men short.
to their
Members of the Melbourne Uni- versity McCay Society are to make a scientifle cruise to uninhabited! islands In Bass Stroin in the former Harold Kidic, eighteen-year-old lie is a working man with five chil- Grand Banks Babing sehoones Hen-rer's assistant from Wembley, dren, an assistant in my out-filter's
rerently from Bideford, shop." rietta, 99 Lons, which recently salied travelled
Devon, to his grandfather's hume in
ACTRESSES RETURN from the United States to Melbourne Grimsby, leaving behind blin six
Two of the netresses in the com- Pel- by way of the Straits of Magellan to members of a theatrical company to enable the owner-captain, Mr, Bulley which he was to have acted as finan-pany, Diana Cartwright and
rovna Lazenby, returned Sawych, and his wife to see the Mel-einl backer bourne Cup.
His show never opened. The com-homer in London. The remainder loro ch without a stayed overnight in Bideford; several pany refused
They telephoned to British Equity, RANCHER, USES PLANErantee of the money with which were unable to pay their landladies.
to pay for their lodgings.
Harold Kiddle's grandfather, who the actors' trade union, and to Mr.
Tearle,
Mr. John Gielgud, Godfrey called him to Grimsby for a family Mr. Leslle Banks, and Dame Sybil (conference, said.
don't know
Thorndike asking for help. Harold! how managed to raise the money for? launching a theatrical tour. lis wages at the shop in Wembley wouldn't have been more than 35. for £2 a week.
RICHGROVE, Cыl. Hugh P. Burum, local rancher, be lieves he is the pioneer in a new field of necessities for the future farmers and ranchers of the United States. He has installed a hangar for his air- plane which he regards as an essential part of any modernly equipped up- to-date form or ranch.
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Detective-Sergeant O'Sullivan sald being read, when the warrant was Buron Richtofen interrupted, saying: "For my arrest? Fantastic. I have long time. 1 Berndt for n not see him for eight years, have known
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told him this country was not suitable The
for him, but he came here with a
tle jewellery. He had no money, and saw friends of mine who employed him as a cook."
General asserted Home-Made
that
the
reach of every young man of modest means-further than that, it was King's commission was within the
within the reach of young men of no means at all.
Here he mentioned a new
in scheme, to come operation nftor this month, by which candidates with certain educa- tional qualifications could enter Sandhurst and Woolwich without taking the Army entrance examination.
CHOOSING CAREERS
Coins
CROOKS would give a fortune to possess the secret of a coin-making machine invented by o Brighton man. He is Mr. Albert Fitness, a 47- year-old clockinaker, and he demon- strated the machine recently in his workshop.
Mr. Filtness did not invent the ma- jchine to multe coins, and he has never
society.”
Then Mr. Fillness discovered that by putting a coin on one side of the machine he could grind out a per- fect replica from solid metal on the other side.
Harold Kiddle said: "The com- At the norning session of the can-used it for that purpose, only for de
"I first made it two years ago," he pany followed me down to Bideference, Mr. Eritest Brown (Minister monstrations. ford. But though I had run out of Labour) spoke of the desirability said, "when I was asked to chtain a of cash, and was unable to pay then anything in advance, I had of cu-operation between the Ministry be for stamping badges for new. rented the theatre, and I had some and educationalists.
"According to our British traditions ond money to put into the gas
I think, will wish to electricity meters. But they would--and no one,
depart from them" he said, "educa not go on.
should not
narrowly be "On Christmas Day they insisted Lion on telephoning to my father in vocational, or, at least, not until the Grimsby. They said that if he would student had first had a good ground- send £10 they would agree, to puting in the more general subjects.
"Nevertheless, education is a failure on the show. The money did not
unless it is related to life as a whole, arrive.
"1 did not leave the company including economie life, and so it is 1stranded. 1 hnd £30 when I arrived all to the good that the Mnister of Labour and educationalists should in deford.
come together."
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"I thought that would through the opening night. I bor- rowed £8 from a man in Bideford, and sent it to the company in London for their fares down here.
"It has always been my ambition to get into show business."
Mr. Raphael Norman, producer and male lead, spoke on behalf of the actors:
"We understood Mr. Kiddle had £300 available. It was a dreadful
There was recognition in the Ministry that it was not sufficient inty to provide ordinary facilitica employment exchange ser- of the vices and the Juvenile Advisory Committee, or to publish "Choice of Carcers" series. Many chil- dren required to know something of the Intangibles which could not he put on paper and details about ProSpooklet.
which could not be put intan
"When I took my invention to the Mint they were astounded.
"At the Mint they employ, I be leve, seven different processes to get their final die.
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can do the same thing in one process only and in a fortnight less time," said Mr. Fitness.
The Mint told Mr. Fillness to con- sult them first if he was ever offered money for his invention.
Safety First, Then Death
Montreal.
The last thought of Joseph Dump- While the employment exchanges housse, 64-year-old street-car moler shock to us all to discover that all would always assist schools, there man, before he died was for his
the funds bad gone."
specialised passenger, Damphousse was strict n "We were to have played for awas need for a more
$12 he was driving a tramcar. He month in such shows ns 'George and service, and secondary school com-
had been established in immediately asked the passengers to Margaret, The Dominant Sex. The mittees Shining Hour. and While Parents various parts of the country to a disembark, and then drove the car
to the barns, where he collapsed. In the choice of careers. Sleep,
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