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June 27, 1940.
We Can Still Talk About
The
Weather
By ROBERT LYND
XTE in. England are no he could not have discovered for
32420 $1000.00 W longer allowed to read himself.
the 52410 $1800.00) about
weather in the newspapers. So far as printed $1800.00 matter 18 concerned it is. IT is a good thing, think, that this erty of speceli 15362 $2000.00 easier to discover what the is periniited to us, for there is no weather was like in the time of subject in which human beings are 1934
31819 $1200.00 Noah than what it was like more generally interested than they Vauxhall 10-1 Sulmon
weather. Talk about the 1930
0000 $2200.00 yesterday at the various seaside are in the weather.
weather is one of the surest means Studebaker Champlon Sedun
resorts of England.
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How many fruitful conversations All cars serviced the same as
papers and the wireless have been silenced on the subject we have begun with a simple "Srems for new cars
are still allowed to discuss the be getting warmer"! I was once in- troduced te intellectual young weather by word of mouth. It man who, when I said to him that it
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The
statements such as that snow is i black body that hapress scientific writings,
me
In
I should not have the same falth
when we greet an acquaintance a very original reimark: But few foretelling the weather. I can for- with "Beautiful morning!" or, original remarks are worth making.
I alternatively, "Filthy day!" we prefer a man why on meeting me give him for costing doubt on the are indulging in careless talk, the wind is cold to one who starts tried to shake my faith in the old tells me (what i know already) that in's Day, but I wish he had not meteorological influence of St. Swit- and perhaps, giving away vital off with a Chinese cracker,
of an rhyme about the ash and the vak. I secrets.
epigram.
Nor is it only in the weather of have always believed that this rhyme Even if the stranger in the
was scientifically true: the moment that human beings have saloon bar to whom you mention from the remoteat times been in-
If the oak's before the ash, Stubby Rond. the fact that it looks like rain terested. They have always also
Then you'll only get a splash; is a German spy, it is very un- peered into the future In
But, if the ash precedes the oak, enger
Then you may expect.a senk. likely that you are telling him quest of the weather that was com. ing to them. Some of the Arst anything that with a little effort poetry that we learn as children is spring I have been keeping my eye in the necuracy of modern weather poetry that tells us how to forecast on the onk and the ush in order to forecasts, and It pains ine to read
such high authority as make sure what kind of sumner Benstead's that "the really success- the weather.
we may expect; yet here comes Mr. Benstead to tell me that, according ful forecaster is not he who once in while predicts the weather ac- to authorities on forestry, "priority of budding depends on the nature curately, but he whose predictions
the I have just been reading a new vientific fact, but I cannot believe
sub-sall." This may ben are couched in language that admits
of sufficient interpretations
to cover any variety of weather that may
Thongkong Telegraph.
Thursday, June 27, 1940.
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Good morning, sunshine i
"! Go to blaxes /"
“Now, now -- temper | That's not like mummy's little blup eyed boy."
** Oh, go and climb a tree. I hope you get a thich head like mine.
Teach you to jeer."
**"Thank you, I can feer perfectly well I don't need any lessons. As for the thick head so long as I stick to Gimlets or have a stiff glass of Rose's lime juice before I glide beneath my mos-- quito net I'll never get one.”
"You'll get one now if you don't clear_out." [Pause.] What did you say about lime juice ?”.
My dear fellow the path. ology of the common hangover is interesting. The blood alcohol
content falls rapidly after ad-
and New Zealand troops in England. Although they are by no means the first Anzacs to cross the oceans for the war area they are the first to lond un English soll since the 1914-10 war, the earlier contingents proceeding to Palestine and Egypt.
The arrival of these Diggers in the Homeland
again emphasises the world significance of Australla and New Zealand, particularly in the event of a sudden development in the Pacife.
British-nurtured Australia is the antipodean stronghold of democracy. In-area-this--continent-is-approxi- | mately equal to the United States;.in population it approaches seven mill- lions. Australia Is rich in gold, sliver, lead, zinc, tin, copper. I yields coni, dry chemicals, fertilisers; is world famous for exports of wool, beef, wheat and mutton. But these are only material symbols of its underlying wealth of clear-thinking exemplifted in a democracy.
Hewing to the line of much that is
best in democratie principles the Dominion of New Zealand stand
Commonwealth of Australia and the
bulwarks for the smaller democratic units of the Pacific: Dutch, British and French possessions in the East Indles archipelago to the north, and farther north, the Philippines, French Indo-China and the British Colonics, In one of which readers of this news- paper reside.
It is said with reason that the future of democracy in the Paclic may be shaped in Queensland, This rich Slate is vulnerable to attack directed through the largely unpro- tected hinterland of the west. And Queensland is the gateway to the choice domains of south-eastern Aus tralia.
But totalitarian Invasion has not yet coma. Australions prayerfully hope that it may never, eventuate. Their democratic civilisation has been achieved, through peace and order; force has been alien to the Austra lan. By the same token, deideation of the State is incomprehensible to him. In no country of the world would totalitarioplam meet tougher resistance than In Australin. For this reassuring fact many · peoples whose landa border the Pacific Ocean may one day be thankful.
ASK ME ANOTHER
By HUBERT PHILLIPS
1. Of what European states are the following cities the respective capitals?
(a) Tallinn, (b) Belgrade, (c) Riga, (d) Sofia, (c) Kovno.
2. Who occupied the British throne one hundred years ago? Whe was Prime Minister? And who, Foreign Secretary?
of
3. The Christian names of Ave
popular composers Opera are: (3)
Wolfgang
Grand
(b)
Amadeus, Giuseppe, (e) Bichard, ( Georges, (e) Glacomo.
What are their respective sur-
names?
4. The Royal Academy's annual exhibition opened, as usual, last the Royal Wien was month,
And who Academy founded? was its first President? Three scientists lunching at the
5. Atheneum described themselves as: (a) an ichthyologist, (b) a bryologist, (c) a herpetologist. That were their respective sub-
fcois of study?
raven like a writing- desk?" Who
this riddle; Dut and, when asked the answer, what was his-reply?
0.
7. What Jockey rode the Derby years running? wlaner
name the three
three
And can you winning horses?
8. Who wrote:
(a) A Passage to India, (b) The New Arabian Nights. (c) Mornings in Mexico. (a). High Wind in Jamaica. (e) The Story of An African
Farm?
9. Accordin
to the old Greek story. a daughter of the Sun became A sorceress and was banished to the island of Eca, Ilero, visited a famous traveller, she turned by his companions Inio swine. Who was the sorceress, and who her visitor?
10. Who said:
(a) The evil that men do lives
after them;
The good is oft Interred with
their bones.
(b) To-morrow, and to-morrow,
and to-morrow, Creeps, in this netty, pace
from day to day, To the last syllable of re-
corded time,
(e) Farewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content! Farewell the plumed troop,
and the big wars, That make ambition virtuel
ASK ME ANOTHER- Answers
1. (a) Estonia, (b) Yuro-Slavia, (0) Latvia (8) Bulgaria, (c) Lithuania. 2. Queen Victoria, Biel- bourne, Palmeraton, 3. (a) Mozart, (b) Verdi, (0) Wagner, (d) Bizot. (e) Puccini. 1768, Sir Joshua
4. Reynolds, 5. (a) fishem (b) (e) reptiles, 6. The Mad Hatier. "I
the slightest Idea. 7. Steve Donoghue, Humorist (1921), Captain Cuttle (1922),. Papyrus (1923). 8. (a) E. M. Forster, (b) B. L Stevenson, (e) D. H. Lawrence, (d) Richard Hughes, (e) Olive Schreiner. 9. 10. (s) Mark An- tony, (b) alanbeth, (0) Othello,
ministration of Rose's Line Sergeant. And Bride Cree, Ulyses.
Juice--the stomach .........
* Fred
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✓
A red sky at night
Is the shepherd's delight
A red sky at morning
Is the shepherd's warning.
book, "The Weather Eye," written
by Mr. C. R. Benstead, and published it.
I confess that during the present
There
in meteorology if I knew what an isobar was.
I am a confirmed bellever As It Is,
on
that gunlite causes rain. "The for years this is shattering.
Mr.
by Messrs. Robert Hale, which covers
are music-hall performers come along when the synoptic situa
Mr. Benstead, t. The art of forecasting is thus tion is obscure, or even when it is the whole range of weather pro- called illusionists.
entertaining as any of phecy, from the early rhymes and who is ns proverbs to the suppressed weather them, might be described as a dis- he art of being plausibly indefinie." He will not even allow To ong who has been piously read- Illusionist. forecasts of the B.B.C.
Many of these early prophecies, us to indulge in the common belief ing and listening to weather forecnets s he points out, were based on the
Mr. Benstead, however; will not behaviour of birds, insects and other Great War," he declares, "shook no
allow anyone
rone but himself to laugh animal animals. There is the old belief, for rain from the skies."
Nor can we produce rain by any at the meteorologist. "Odious as the example, that if seagulls fly inland
bud weather. Pigs are artificial method. The scientist as meteorologist undoubtedly is,"
writes, "there is one person more supposed to see the wind approach a rainmaker appears to be as great
"Better," odious, and that is the ignorant lay- ing and to take shelter from it. The fallure as the magician. goose has also been endowed by the says Mr. Benstead, "stick to the man who is for ever making fun of him," It is clear that Mr. Benstead country imagination with prophetic making, such as
simple proven methods of rain-
washing your car is sound at heart and if you want to powers. Even the flea has been
tulk about the weather authorita-
it will be
yelled as
ed as a weather prophet:
he
or arranging a Test match in Man- tively, you could not nak for a better
When eager bites the thirsty flen chester,” Clouds and rain you sure shall see.
Of all living creatures, however,
Abition
I have learned from his book many things that I did not know, the leech seems to be the most meteorologist. Mr.
AFTER is to surprising including the vaporation by which highly skilled
it is not cesses of evaporation. Benstead tells how at the Great to find Mr. Benstead speaking lightly water is absorbed into the atmos- of 1951 an appropriately of the barometer. All those "Fair," phere proceed at an average rate Mr. Merryweather had on "Set Fair" and "Very Dry" legends for the whole world of about apparatus on show "by which one of at least 12 leeches confined on the face of the instrument he dis- 10,000,000 tons each second, a rate
in nusses as amlable fictions,
that is equivalent to the evapora bottles rang a little bell when a tempest was expected. Apparently, Though himself a meteorological tion during one day of a layer of
officer on an afr
aircraft carrier, in water one-tenth of an inch thick even to-day, Girl Guides are taught deed, he treats the science of meteor over an area the size of the world." how to forecast the weather from ology with cheerful irreverence. You must admit that there are the behaviour of leeches.
"Frankly," he says, "I cannot take few more exhilarating subjects than a fellow seriously who talks about the weather. bolometers and solemnly declaces [R."BENSTEAD is more snow to be a black body as the Oddly enough sceptical than I like about meteorologist does1"
about bolometers tallt some of the traditional methods of IL
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THE
VISLES
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"HESE two maps both show
THESE he stories which
have been overrun by the Nazis,' but they tell different stories.
The larger map illustrates" how far Hitler's intention to draw a semi-circle of German occupied territory round Creat Britain has succeeded. **** Pelt explains his tremendous“ effort. Until he completed his conquest of France's Atlantic" seaboard he had no hope whats over of carrying safely but his
GERMANY
DALYE
and
plans against England. And there drawn after the Armistice was is stift that impregnable stretch signed. But even if Germany of water.
has the whole of France, sha
Orators Lucky To Be Arrested
TWO Hyde Park speakers who were anid to have angered. a crowd of 250 by their remarks were told by the Marlborough Street magistrate (Mr. E. Boyd) that they were lucky to have been arrested.
"It is not unlikely that later it. would have been difficult for the police to prevent the people around you from tolting the law into their own hands," he said.
Both men were becused of using insulting words Ernest W. G. Gosling (42) aircraft engineer, of Batourn
Shepherd's Gardens,
Bush, wos. bound over for 12 months, with the alternative of 21 days' imprisonment in default of finding a surety.
Norman Kennedy (31), carpenter, of Lawford Road, Kentish Town, was remanded for a week.
Sont to Prison
"When this country is fighting for our very existence, you must be taught that you may not say these things," sold the Stratford, E., chair- man (Mr. F. J. Reeve to Walter Nicholls (17), clerk, of Kenilworth Avenue, Walthamstow, who was sen- tenced to a month's imprisonment for using insulting words at Waltham- stow.
NAZIS DRILL IN
SHANGHAI
SHANGHAI police have been warned of alleged arms secre- tion at the Kaiser Wilhelm school by Shanghai Nazis and of Fifth Column formations.. which are militarily drilled. daily
Germans are busy in Tokio willi plans for joint action in China, and:--: elsewhart.
German refugees have been cele- brating reported Hitler victories in campa provided with money mainly, raised by Brilons, bays ile News: Chronicle. [Eighteen
thousand exilas swept.
Ch
...
A week after he was married, and a day before he was due to return from leave, twenty-year-old Ser- geant: Paul Gregory-Pace Moore, and | his wife Olive' were" found-dead in a gas-filled room in Handsworth Wood-rood, Birmingham, flat,
They took the fat and were last at the disposal of London authorities The small map shows the still has not conquered the Eng-from Germany, Austria and Czecho seen alive the same evening. Ser and Air Force commenders for duties area of France which Germany lish channel. The area of France Slovakia by Nazis found sanctuary.
was is 213,000 square miles, geant Moore was in the Royal En in-connection-with the protection of has invaded. The line
the country against paraghooters.
gineers.
in Shanghai International Settle-- iment, making third largest foreign group in elty.]