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December 22,
1939,
By Walt Disney
---AND THEN THE LITTLE RED MEN CRIED,
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5,500 TRAINS FOR TROOPS AND MUNITIONS
LONDON, Dec. 21 (Reu- ter). A new type of ruil- way waggon called "towfl waggon" has been developed
for the transport of gas cylinders for the balloon barrage.
Lorries with these cylin ders are a familiar sight on Britain's roads to-day and they will now be able to run directly on to waggons, saving a great deal of load- ing and unloading.
It was learned to-day that 5,500 special troop and munition trains were run by the British railways during the first three months of the
war.
King At Ministry
Of Agriculture
LONDON, Dec. 21 (British Wire-
WATCH ON FREIGHTER
Little Hope Of Nazi Ship Escaping
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLO- RIDA, Dec. 21 (UP). Seven warships are at present in this neighbourhood, apparently watching the German freighter Arauca, which has been inde- finitely interned at Port Ever glades.
Coastal observers slate that three submarines of unknown nationally I are visible from the shore, apparently four miles out in the Atlantic, while itwe cruisers, apparently British, and two destroyers, Cut of which 15 reported to be American, are in the vicinity.
Stalin's 60th Birthday
Press Waxes Poetical MOSCOW, Dec. 21 (Reuter)-The i. Soviet Press contained no news of the operations in Finland to-day but devated, large tracts of space to Stalin's 60th birthday.
Make It A Safe Nephews' Teasers
Christmas
HERE are four "Do's" and four "Ex''s" to make your Christmas kafe: DO-
Hang up paper and other lan- terns by wire, not string-39 make sure they don't swing:
Warn your family and guests i there are cales or similar surprises in Christmas prading:
Wait until the pudding is on the before pouring on lighted mirit:
Kerp af flags, paper streamers, well clear of open Ughts and elec irle fuses. DON'T-
Take any change at all in elec- trle wiring except under the direction of an electrician or dom- petent persunt
Give highly painted toys or those wh tharp ruges to very young rhtdren-who may mut (em straight bite teir mouths:
Use celluled for any decorative purpose--it's highly inflammalle,
Leave paper streamers banging or lying about after the party is over.
Roosevelt Losing Trusty Servant
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
Will
Be Worse This Christmas
By GUY RAMSEY
You
THE spate of Christmas games is upon us. know the kind of thing: "What was the maiden name of Mrs. David Copperfield?"-one given at the Liberal victim on Party ball-or, "What murderer called his egg?" which was set to the pupils of King William's College, Isle of Man, in their annual General Knowledge test,
Hitherto I have been able (more or less) to hold my own when my young nephew Roderick has returned to the bosom of his family for Christmas with a store of such teasers, specifically designed. "to make Uncle Guy look an awful juggins."
For General Knowledge tests (which ought really to be called Special Knowledge tests) are really tests of other people's intelli- gence. When Roderick, helping himself to his fourth mince-ple, to the peril of his waistcoat jone coln wasn't a 3d. bit, how did li buttons, splutters:
"Uncle, how long is the Equator?"
happen?"
141.
I found my cigarette-ease empty I
er, worse, "Who said, 'My kingdom went to the library. I used up live tor a horse'? I find my cigarette hets of a bridge pad, working it case empty (I always keep my
returned, smoking and miling. cigarette case imply when Roderick
"You can't catch me." I smirked. at home) and, on pretext of filling "I know the answer: The customer
was done." to my library and Icok up the encyclopacdin or quator in Kagdom' in an anthology of quotn- Bong, and return ostentatiously come out bat with the puffing and answer.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (UP)-Its less)The King visited the Ministry | They row quite poetic about him, as ben authoritatively stated that of Agriculture to-day where, in the speaking in lyrical terms of his Under Secretary of the United Statça company of the Minister and repre- "wisdom, ability and lovabileness." Treasury, Mr. John W. Hanes, is sentatives "af" agricultural and th It is interesting to note in conner-planning to resign carly in 1940. int interests, ho made a tour of ex- tion with the decoration of the Order Air, Hanes is desirous of returning hibition which, by maps, pictures, of Lenin, the highest order in Sovietto private slness, but he will not diagrams and films, thowed the pro- Rusia which has been bestowed on fictura to Will Street where he was gress of the ploughing of grassland Stain, that the last reciolent was the ja broker when President Roosevelt commaign in which his Majesty was Nazi Foreign Minister, Herr Joachim summoned him to office in December
1937. von Ribbentrop particularly interested.
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Paying Mothods
"Wrong again, Unele Guy! Ono calu wasn't a 3d. bil-but the other coln was! Hal ha!"
'An American doctor says the in- telligence declines after the age of 15. He is quite right I shall spend Chagrin (and, of course, mince-ple) thus Christmas at my club playing 1edare Roderick nurty to bursting contract. It's cazier. soil. For (with the aid of my library) I am a bit of u whale al
ng other peuple's Intelligence,
But this term. Roderick's school; has at last awakened (after 350 years of existence) to the theory that it might be a good thing to fed est not how much its pupils know, but how Intelligent they are. To this end they have evolved a system of intelligence tests.
There have filled me with dread.
No book of reference can help me, now.
Was Friend Of Mr. Gladstone
Young Roderick will mumble with Death Of Famed
his mouth full: "Brothers and sisters aure I none, but that man's father sms. father's son, Urele. Who is it. Uncle?"
Of Cours
Nonagenarian
LONDON, Dec. 21 (Reuter).
-A man who was a personal
Or he will ask me to complete the friend of Mr. Gladstone and who next two of a series of Bgures that served in the House of Commons run: 1, 3, 7, 13, 21.
under twelve Premiers, has just
He will ask me what is the oppo- died.
site of "Not in," and crow disgusting-
ly when I say testily: 'Out," of He is Lord Shuttleworth, who was
course."
I thought to be prepared for Roderick's
want
born 95 years ago.
As far back as 1869 he became a
1 home-coming. along to the National Institute of Liberal MP. for the Hastings Divi-
Industrial Psychology.
siens and he sat in the House of
3 glanced at the paper for 10-year-Commons until 1902, representing the 47 per Clitheroe Division of Lancashire for dlagd scored a superb
the last 17 ycuro.
Last Two Sons In Last War
1 inquired of the Vocational Guid- ente section what that indicated; they said that if I were 10 they would He was a member of the London advise me to go in for a manual job, School Board from 1880 to 1882, and I tried the paper for eight-year-in 1886 he was appointed Under- He olds. This was one question:
Secretary in the India Office.
If the letters in the word NOR was Secretary in the Admiralty from me In the same order as they uro 1092 to 1885, and chairman of the in the alphabet, write the number, Royal Commission on Canals from which is less than 5 by the num-1006 to 1911.
ber of letters la the word AND.
write 172.
If no, write the number 1-unies The son of the first Torunet, Lord! it in Wednesday, in which case Shuttleworth was created a Baron in 1902. He was created a Privy Coun- cilor in 1880 and was Lord Lieuten- ant of Lancashire, and President of the County Territorial Association. My tie from 1902 to 1928.
So This is Fair
I smoked three digarettes.
กะ s
was crooked, my hair (such
Two of his sons were killed in the left) was wild. 1 had my paper Great War, and the heir is his grand- checked. I had stored 95 per cent. son, Richard Paul Kay-Shuttleworth.
having taken 25 minutes for n ten-minute paper,
telephoned Outraged. I
to the Board of Educatim, ucking if they
encouraged this monstrous system for
the discomature of uncles.
"Most decidedly," they said. "In- telligence tests, provide a new instru ment to measure a child's potential-
Nazis Over Belgium
tles. It has, of course, its limitations, Government Lodge
(Paychologists co-ordinate
the
with a cate history and a personal Interview.) It tukes no account of temperament or character.
"Is great adveninge is that it does not put the wind up' children, os do ordinary examinations. They treat li jant a game,"
A Game For Whom?
A game, forsooth! If I ping it with Rederick, I fear 1 shall lose.
A. Protest
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BRUSSELS, Dec. 21 (Reuter). The Government has protested to Germany against the flights of German planes over Belgluun. It is offically stated that Belgian Bghters nnd A.A. batterics drove off
which foreign planes
flew
over.
1 knew
i Roderick has just various parts of the country today, emerged from his cab with a dirty The encounters occurred in the provinces et Luxembourg and Liege, face and a dirly work.
German plane, He asked me: "If a man bought while at Bruges a 2. thing and gave a Gd, and it which was engaged by a Belgian he got two coins in change; and patrol, opened fire without effect
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