SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1939.
Girls' and Boys' Corner
Name
Addres
Dear Kiddies,
This is all my own work
You neemed to find lart sverk's competition quite easy. A few of you, however, du nat discover the word "Kongway" which was in the picture. The word "gallery" was not in the picture, The prize-winners this week are:- Douglas Weddell (aged it), 611, Han Bow Road,
Peles Richards (aged (ev)), 3. Armend Huling, Kimberley Road.
. Hoger Proulx (*ced 1, **Erinville," Tylam Bay,
Crampons have been sent to Burgtlan Peter and loger which I want the la lerhigt lo 12 "Hongkong Telegraph" ofers do Wyndham Street, The coupons will then be exchanted for money prizes.
Specially commended for excellent work are the following:
Semlor: Allee her. Amy tre, Paul Waldo, Sheila 1e Timmler, Williain Oswald Sato, Mary Wong. Reynaldo Tobias, Laurence R. Becker, Trng Yern Ruby Gestion, Dwey Ip., 5. Y Yeung, Patricia Dickman, Glóris da Roza, Wilbur Mars- hall, Cynthia, Silver, Jim Silva, Frances 10.
Intermediaten: Y. O. Young. Hazel Cut- ler, Paddy Grimunte Shona Mcintyre, Dennis Ablong, S. 5. Bux, Donald Marni Jail, Patriela Ozorio, Josephi Garcia,
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Juniors: Bernard Bruwn, Jorge Garcia, Lay, Paul Silva, P. Wong. Frank Correa, linco Correa, Armando da L. Anthony Cutcher, Gerald Muential, Bertic Pilip Joy Fard, Hoy Remedies, Jose Felix,
This week, kiddien, we are going to have Guy Fawkes Day puzzle. You simply have to cut out the live inte pictures above and use any of them to complete the guy in the panel. Either of the costs and hals may be used, kecord- ing to which you think best autis klin, Having deelded on your pieturg, stick the pieces down neally with pasta or gu and cut out the panel.
Pictures may be sent on a postcard or un o abret åt paper enclosed in An envekipe. Da not forget to add your name, age and address. Pent to Uncle Eddle, c/ The Hongkong Telegrugd)." Wyndham Street. No colouring i quired. The competition closes at 2 pan. on Wednesday,
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Pelzer will be given in order af merit for the best and nistently completed pictures.
Best of luck, kiddies,
Uncle Eddie
The SNAPSHOT GUILD
ABOUT FASTER LENSES
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION
A charming snap-and you might gat it with a box camera, But with a faster tons, you could use a higher shutter speed, and be sure of a sharp -picture even if the subject moved. That's just one advantage of a fast lens.
VERYONE, at course, knows) How fast is a "fast jona"? That that the Tone of a flao camera is can be answered only by compari- "fastar" than the lens of an inex nons. For example, an f/7.7 anastik- pensivo model, Dat the question) mnt lens is four times as fast as sometimes arisea: Just how much the mealscus lens of an inexpensive natar
... and what is the main box camera. An 1/6.3 lean is six value of this extra speed?
taca a fant na the bex-camera
Huch a question is timely now-lens: an f/4.5 elevon Uimes as fast, for wo are at the sensou of stiorter and an 1/3.5, eighteen times as fast. days and duller weather, when a Aud a fine f/2 lens, such an on ceri fast lens in mont desirablo... and inin də-ture miniature cameras, is absolutely Necessary for nomo fly-six times as spoedy na the box shots!
camera lens!
In practical terms, this means
Here, then, are the major advan Fagen of a fast tena. First, it helps that the 1/7.5 Jenn will get good sure clear, fully-exposed snapshots | snapshots on days when box-camara when light in poor-os dull days, anapa would be serimaly underex. cloudy-bright days, in the rala 95 posed It means that with the f/6.3 nnow. Recond in conjunction with
you're equipped for snapshots on duil a fast shutter. R enables you to
shots under adverse conditions; whh the f/2, almost anything, day
get churp. properly exposed netlony with the 1/4.6 or 1/3.5, aetion shots. Third, it enables you to take snapshots at night with less light- sometimes just by ordinary home or night. lighting.
Puting it in a nutshel—the faster Thoas advantages sinudy mean your lena, the wider your picture that, when you have a fast jena, TADKO, and the more subject, you you're botter equipped to eo with can tackle with assurance if good Any picture opportunity-whether results. If you're getting good ple conditions are good or bad, in win turen
with Inexpensive
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ter or summer, day or night, fast camera, rent, nzsured that your next Jensen "get the picture"... often in ramera-If eguloped with fast loss situations where sinwer lenses-wili nervo you even better. would mean failure.
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Features of the FRIGIDAIRE 1939
Cold Wall Models
The New Quickubo Tray will find favour with everyone. It increases the capacity of the froexor for freezing desserts, salads and ice cubes; also for storage of bulky frozen articles and highly perishablo foods.
Threa in one. All three functions of the Cold Control, the Automatic Reset Defroster and the Mastor Switch are now controllablo from a single dial which is known as the Frigidairo Uni-Matic Control.
Hore's an added refinement that usars will appreciate: a now Super Freezer Door which clusex at a finger's touch, but, most important of all, it opens all the way and stays open until you want it to closu,
Storage space for the extra ice cubes needed for parties is an added usa for the Moat Tondor. It holds all the cubes that can be frozen at one time, thus doubling the ice cube capacity of the refrigerator.
Dodwell & Co., Ltd.
Alexandra Bullding.
John van Guilder
The Book Window
1939 Essay Annual, edited by Erich A. Walter (Appleton-Century). An anthology of American magazine
essays,
Fighter
for
Liberty
-OST appropriate was the appearance recently of Pa- derowski'e memoirs. Ignace Jan Paderewski has long retired from active politics, but once again Poland, the country which he helped to free, is fight- ing for her liberty.
The old man, still at the age of 70 a compelling planist, has issued his Memoirs (Collins, 21.) In col- Iaboration with Mary Lawton. This volume finishes at 1014. The work which he did for his country after the last war will be covered in a second volume.
But even as a small boy dreams of his country filled his head. He was bred a patriot.
Of his childhood he writes: "My great hope was to become some- body and to help Poland. My sister and I were always playing soldiers when we were not playing dueta. I was a born patriot.
"There were no protests to our play- ing soldiers in the house. Patriotism and music marched hand in hand."
Was
It was n rough and startling child- hood that this grand old man knew. He was brought up in the hurly-burly of revolution.
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His father dragged off to prison. The Cossacks who took him had only blows with which to answer the plaintive ques tions of the little boy left behind.
Paderewski began to piny-on onc Anger-when he was threc. but his teachers were far from impressed. When at twelve he was sent to War- Baw to study, his professor told him he would be much better advised to take up the trombone!
Paderewski came to London first in the 100% when Shaw, then a music critic, first heard him. The kind of people who treat marie like refresh- ments at private" At Homes" annoyed the young man by talking while he played.
But," says Paderewski, "when they talked I stopped. I would say: 'I am very sorry to interrupt your converan- tlon. I deeply regret that I am obliged to disturb you, so I am going to stop for a while now and allow you to con- . tinue talking."
THE most satisfying novel I have
read this week tells of plonecring days in America. Jubal Troop, who gives his name to this novel by Paut Wellman (Ganacli, 83. Od.) began te
as a sheep-herder, but in spite of droughts. foods, earthquakes, setbacks and brutalities, he became a rich man, powerful and established in a new world.
Jubal Troop was hard a* ruthless, and uncompromising.
nalis, This
King Works 16-Hours
LONDON.
"King George, working on average of 10 hours a day, has put away Els civilian clothes and worn only ser- vice uniforms since the war started,
The King and Queen Elizabeth, who cancelled all social engage- ments at the outset of hostilities, have new dale books to record the that keep round of official visits them busy.
The Bonapartes in America, by C. E
Macartney and Gordon Dorrance (Dorrance). A record of the mem- bers of the Bonaparte family who migrated to the United States. Adirondack Tales, by Eleanor Early (Little Brown). Latest volume from
a popular travel writer. The Power of the Charistan, by Grete de Francesco, translated by Mirlam Beard (Yale). A history of quacks; We Don't Ask Utopia, by Harry ond Rebecca Timbres (Prentice-Hall), Diary of a Quaker family in Soviet Russia. American Government and Politics, by Charles A. Beard (Macmillan). Eighth Edition, brought up to dale, of standard work. Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution, by Thorstein Veblen (Viking). A reissue of a famous work long out of print. William Saroyan's first play, "My Heart's in the glands," tus been published by Harcourt Bruce, with a Preface by Harold Clurman, director of the Group Theatre. The American Annual of Photography (American Photographic Publish- ing Co.). There are 25 articles on modern camera processes, in addi- But like all other Londoners, the tlon to a hundred reproductions King and Queen obeyed the A. R. selected from the prints of the P. wardens and took to sheller dur- year, and a Who's Who of photo-ing Landon's air raid warnings. graphers.
Scenery for the Theatre, by Harold Burris-Meyer and Edward C. Cole (Little, Brown). An encyclopedic manual that should be in the Ilbrary of every community thentre. with 575 ilustrations.
|PUZZLE CORNER
ANSWERS
Cryptogram: Recent weather re- ports do not mention dust-bowls in! Middle-western States. Nature apparently is doing her best to correct the moisture deßelency of previous scUEONS.
A Rebus: The C's on "WAS! backward-The season was back-
ward.
Letter Juggling: Reveals, several, How Many Sheep7: 10 sheep, Fun With Synonyms: Observe- nolice; decorate-beautify; vacale -leave; object-demur; penetrate Invado; resist-oppose; polish- burnish; prench-exhort; forego- precede: crush-erom.
Town Square Like Of Old
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (UP)- This town, is one that believes in the old ways. Band concerts at the park around the courthouse have at- tracted such crowds there is a elvic complaint against carcity of benches, although 140-each seating three or four persona-have been in use.
BORN PATRIOT
Also
Read-
Deeds That Held The Empire, by Major E. W. Sheppard-Iero is real blood and thunder for you- the glorious bravery of English soldiers
with who, equipped nothing but rifles and field guns, nobly stood their ground against natives armed with cruel astagals.
In these days of war there is a good deal to be learned from the military exploits described in this book-ba cause Major Sheppard is a competent. historian. But there 13 nothing to to learned from the spirit in which most of these imperial wars were fought. (Murray, 74, 68.)
story is told with a fitting grim vivid military
Dess.
WINIFRED WATSON'S flop. Blep and Jump (Methuen, 7a. Od.) is one of those whimsical romances in which everything comes right in the end. and even vice is its own reward so long as it is not too helnotis.
For those who can belleve that all 13 for the best in the best of ali possible worlds this amiable noval is just one more proof,
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PARADOC to the Rescue, by Hamp
den Gordon (Murray, 65.), is just the book to send to your little boy or girl of anything from six to ten in the country.
It is a joyous story, compounded of fantasy, whimsicality, excitement and innocence in just the right proportions.
6. F.
لله
A HANDBOOK OF FREEDOM, chosen by Jack Lindsay and Edgeli. Rickwood.-Precious records of Eng. Thero land's long fight for freedom. are eye-witness accounts of the early ' peasant revolta, speeches made by that most liberty-loving of all. British Foreign Secretaries—the poet Milton- and the flood of noble speeches and pamphlets that accompanied the birth of the working-class movement. To-day Englishmen gird themselves for Free- dom's supreme battle. This book re minds them of England's best tradi tions. Lawrence and Wishart. 63.)
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No Sun to
Shine
Ir by Gosta of Geljeratam. New York: [hood and the ownership of on Im-
Dutton,
poverished farm, but he never ns- sumed his responsibilities. At the OSTA af Geijerstam's "Iva" end, as at the beginning, he is fol
the
irall
is as bleak as his "Nothern towing
away from the Summer" and "Storevik" were farms, into the wilderness. sunny and gay. It is written Pallid flickers of light are cast by with equal skill in achieving the the faithfulness of Iva's brother, Jo, right word and sustaining a by the pure goodness of Bulbro's workworn mother, Ingri, and by the mood, but a mood that is grim author's unspoken compassion. The and words that are bitter to ex-ilves of those who were the victims press it.
of Iva's futility rouse in the reader a fierce pity, but for the most part The Author and his translator. It is only through admiration for the Joran Birkeland, are collaborators in quality of the writer's workmanship making sensitive English renderings that one endures Iva. - of the physical characteristics und in Inwardness of the Norwegian coun-
This book, is also, as were his
of realism others, by the evidence and the unquestionable sincerity of its tone, heart and marrow of Gel- jerstam's northern land.
Spain Interns Many Ships
tryside and const, In "Northern Summer" and "Storevik" the stars shone, a happy Norwegian family on a vacation romped and worked in bright, invigorating air, and not even an island winter domted them. In "Ivn" there is nothing but ruin, fog. and biting cold outside, and in the people little but savage temper, de- dant attempts at self-forgetfulness or, at best, dumb patience. The rigors of climate and economie condition strike into the hearts of the farmer folk, ns in Geljerstom's other books the keen enjoyment that the family took in life was part and parcel with weather, soll, and growing things.
Geljerslam now writes about Iva Storgaarden, who through Inziness Eighty-three merchantmen have and recklessness had become en- taken refuge al Algeciras and near- tangled with a money lender und ly 50 at Vigo, where 30 German Inst the anelent farm that he had vessels were interned after 24 had. inherited as eldest son. All that the sailed. A score of ships were scat- place had brooded aver for centuries; tered through northern Mediter- was uncovered for the curlous public ranean ports,
MADRID. Spain, seeking to keep ships mov- ing in line with its neutrality, has ordered Internment for all
bel- ligerent vessels failing to leave port on 24 hours' notice.
to look at, handle, appraise, and buy i Helping to relieve harbour conges- auction. Only his favourite alal- tion at Gibraltar, British destroyers lon Iva shot before it could be put are convoying groups of refugee up for sale, and, having repulsed his merchantmen, but 07 vessels remain- uncle's offer of help, he plunged offed there. into the woods, to hide from his former associates.
More Rapid Promotion
The rest of the story is a series of variations on Ivn's shiftlessness and perversity. By Norwegian law, the rightful heir always has the privilege of buying back any property that he an sold lost. To that end, Iva's RAPID promotion of warrant off-
K uncle and mother would have lent cers, non-commissioned officers, the young man money, but his in-
and men during the period of national nbility ever to bring himself to the emergency provided for in actual point of accomplishing any order issued by the War Office. thing, or some sudden flore of tem-
The provisions are contained in d per, made offers to help him of no Royal Warrant. It authorizes the avail. He could hunt and fish when granting of acting ranks so the mood sulted, or hunger demanded. vacaneles occurring in any unit may He would indulge in wild fits of dis- be Alled quickly. sipation. though without enjoying A soldier granted acting rank will them. He could do mischief, hut be eligible for the pay of the higher nothing constructive. He could even rank after holding it for 21 consecu- fromentch a faint vision of a really worthy tive days, The higher pay will then love, but he could not bring himself be made retrospective, Three months to mend his ways and make himself | after promotion he will be granted acceptable.
"war substantive rank,” which he He stumbled into a marriage with will retain for the duration of the poor, tle Balbro, and into father-i emergency.
While the Queen visits hospitals, air raid pressution organisations, and nursing centres, the King siudies the latest reports from the fighting forces. Outside the chlets of staff he is the best informed man in the Empire on military matters.
Be hus the only key to the red dispatch case Whitehall.
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