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ANNOUNCEMENT.

HOME FOOTBALL,

35 LEAGUE MATCHES PLAYED IN ENGLAND.

London, Yesterday, The following are results of the League matches played to-day--

First Division.

Aston Villa 0, Derby County 1. Burnley B, Leicester City 1. Cardiff City 2, Everton 0. Liverpool 0, Arsenal 2. Newcastle U. 3, Middlesbro* 3. Portsmouth 1, Bury 0. Wednesday 0, Huddersfield T. 5. West Ham U. 1, Sheffield U. 1.

Postponed: Tottenham Hotspur

v. Bolton Wanderers. Second Division.

Hull City S, Fulham 2. Leeds United 3, Port Vale 0.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1927.

ULTIMATE MARVEL?

CENTURIES BRIDGED BY BOOKS.

Thomas Moult (Auther of "Snow Over Eklen," "The Comely Lass," atc.) writes:-

P'RAPS-P'RAPS NOT!

With the Christmas holidays practically over many a man has to settle up before he can settle down:

There is no pleasure in fe so sure and so easily within the scope The cinema actor was suspended of everybody's enjoyment as the by a rope over two hundred feet pleasure which comes from books. above, the ground.

Let a man once taste that pleasure

"But look here," said the camera-

and not only will he make a hubit man, "suppose the rope breaks?!"

of tt, but for ever afterwards one

The producer was a man ever on

"By jove!" he exclaimed, "that's a great idea?”

•

"Can any of you tell me a great-

Notts County 3, West Bromwich people do not read books. Some are er power than the King?" asked the

A. 0.

teacher.

aim is that many of his fellow-men of the world's biggest wonders to the look-out for new stunts. seldom or never open a book at all.

There are a hundred reasons, one supposes, why numerous intelligent|

reasonable ressous, for it is not a Didham A. 5, Clapton Orient 0. crime to have no delight in litera-i Reading 1, Blackpool 0.

ture or no love of reading. It is

"Yes, ma'am" cried a little boys Southampton 3, Bristol City 2. not even a sign of imbecility. But! engerly. Stoke City 3, South Shields 1.

whatever the reason may be, we class," replied the teacher.

"Very well, you may tell the Swansea Town 0, Preston N‚E. I.

can depend on it that these intelli- Wolverhampton W. 1, Notta

"The acol" was Forest 0.

the unexpected! gant yet bookless people will to-day Postponed: Chelsen

reply. be the readiest to talk with a certain v. Grimsby Town.

glibness about man's marvellous power to annihilate space, and how a schoolboy may possess that power and demonstrate it practically by setting up a wireless installation in the back parlour at home.

Caddie. (to novice golfer): D," Such people do not

Dou seem to have an 'igh tea, sir? understand that an even more won-

Novice Golfor: "Wot's it tter

Division III-South Brighton & Hove 3, Bournemouth 2. Bristol Rovers 2, Merthyr Town 1. Coventry City 0, Queen's Park

Rangera 0,

M

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Passenger: Vell, Ikey, how is th business?

Motorist: Take de vĥeel, and vill tell you.

*

Gillingham 6, Watford 3. Millwall 2, Norwich City 1. Plymouth Athletic 1, Exeter City 2.derful power has been possessed and to you whether I as an 'iga or Swindon Town 4, Newport C. 1) used by man for many centuries, a late dinner? You put the on

and that fa the power to annihilate the "umpl

Torquay United 0, Crystal Palacé 2. Walsall 1, Charlton Athletic 0.

Division 111-North.

Barrow 2, Stockport ̊C. 8.. Bradford 4, Rochdale 1. Chesterfield 2, Rotherham U. 5.. Halifax T. 6, Doncaster R. 1. Lincoln C. 1, Hartlepools U. G New Brighton 3, Accrington 1. Tranmere Rovers 1, Nelson 1. Wigan Boro' 2, Bradford City 2. Wrexham 8, Southport ^. to snow. Router.

All the postponements were

Teacher: Tommi tell me what is on the the Order of the Bath? ***

Postponed: Brentford v. South-time as well as space. How can!

end United; Luton Town v. they understand it when they refuse Northampton.

to appreciate the wonderful signi- time I have called to seaby, and Visitor: Why, this lede third ficance of books?

each time it's been 'se P By books alone that is, if old Father (grimly): Am! You'd stones and legal parchments be ex-better come at abou 2 o'clock in cepted are the years and the cen- the morning. turies and the tens d centuries bridged for the mind and. soul of man. How, unless it be printed page, are We of the Tommy: Well miss in our house twentieth century to know what it's baby firat, ien Jack, then Bob, were the thoughts and ideas, the and I come lt. emotions, aspirations, and ideals, of the men and women who gave up

On a subrban train stopping at their earthly life ages and ages ago? Summer Hill, the porter called out, Think of it, those who believe that "Summer fll!" "Summer 'lil!” to "listen-in" at Clapham or Wigan A may putting his head out of or Ipswich to a singer in Paris or the widow, said: "Eh, porter, Brussels is the "ultimate marvel," you've dropped something.

due

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LEAGUE TABLES.

The following tables show the that Ireland never positions of the teams to date, Tuesday's matches having been It is all very well for His Holi-taken into account in their com-

pilation: ness the Pope to suggest a policy.

Division I. of appeasement to the Powers in Everton..... 22 12 64 81

P. W. D. L. F. A. Pts his, Christmas message and that Leicester.... 23 10 6 7 50 40 20 Great Britain and France should Blackburn. 22 & 9.5 31 32. 25 volume entitled the lied, a mighty use their influence to secure peace Newcastle....22 9

Huddersfield .21.11 40 50 33 28 man who first spoke before the "I am awfully worried about my

67 40 43 24 beginning of the Christian era is wife," said Smith to

a friend. in China. Any such action by any Cardiff 22 97 40 40 25 still speaking-speaking directly to "She's in this downpour of rain.” of the Powers would be miscon- Tottenham 21 9 4 8 30 44 22 us who belong to an era that was "Oh, she'll be all right," said sirued not only by China but by Middlesbra' ... 22 7 37-16-18-21 beyond all his majestic Imagininga! Jones. "She's sure to take shelter

In the young beauty the other Powers with intercoto Arsenal... 20 9 5 6 42 39 23 called Songs and Poems, a Scottish

as a broadcasting enthusiast re "O that's all right," said the cently declared it, and perhaps porte. "I will pick it up at the occasionally to hear vague sounds next station."

31 80 orchestra in Pittsburg: in that tiny next call..

that are alleged to be those of an Hashfield! Hashfield!" was his

| Liverpsel -em ekk£11, 17. .7

West Ham..21 10 2 9 45 50 22

tas maresan “abopla.

"Yes," sighed

#

about tele-

"Don't talk to me phones," mapped Harrison. "Why

Smith, "that's in China. Likewise would it be Bury 22 20 1 11 41 46 21 ploughman is singing his heart out, what makes me anxiuus; she's got ` liable to be misinterpreted by the Aston Villa, 22 8 4 10 43 44 20 just as he has been singing for up-a fiver of mine!"

Sunderland.. 21 7 6 8 37 38 20 words of a hundred years, proclaim- people of Europe. It is one thingManchester U.22 8 4.10 37 40 20 lug in a way more appealing, con- "I can never understand," said to dwell on ideals, lofty though Burnley 22 10 14 42 63 21 vincing and lovely than all the other Thompson to his friend, "why you they be it is quite another Bolton 2078 30 81 19 volces of his kind, the real pathos insist on calling your new house a

Sheffield. U. 22 7 € 8 34 44 20 and sublime of human life. And bungalow." thing to suggest a concrete Derby...... 21 759 52 48 19 he will go on singing even if we do "Well, it's very easily explained," scheme that would be above the Portsmouth. 22 6 5 11 35 66 17 not listen to him. A hundred thou-was the reply. "In the first place suspicion not alone of the bene-Birmingham.. 21 4 89 83 45 16 and other voices, indeed, are sing-the job was a bungle, and in the

Wednesday 22: 4 7 11 38 50 15 ing or speaking to us through the second I still owe for it." ficiaries but of the rest of the

Division: II. world. Mere suggestions will not Chelsea 21 13. B. 3 4 19 31 guidance, and entertainment for P. W. D. L. F. A. Paprinted page, offering Inspiration, WAY-MCKENZIE-The marriage

of Mr. William Kenneth Way to end the civil wars any more than Man, C... 21 13 3 5 40 32 29 our daily living whether we accept MB Lena Pearl McKenzie will they will bring relief to Preston..... 22 12 6 4 48 28 30 it or no. take place at St. John's Cathe-

millions stricken

Charles Dickens once made fun down Bristol C... 22 11 4 7 47 36 20 dral on Saturday, January 7th at 3.00 p.m. with a reception by, famine. There is no Netts. For. 22 11 3 8 53 41 25 of the stuffy little room in a house later at the. Hotel Savoy. 'îfo

Oldham 21.11 5 8 14 25 27 that holds the family library and formal invitations are being

Port Vale. 22 11 29 40 34 24 yet where nobody ever reads a word. leaned but all friends are cor- funds in China itself to save West Brom.. 22 8 6 8 40 46 22 He should rather have made fun of dially invited.

great numbers from a lingering Stoke 21 95.786 32 23 the people who pass outside that asked the girl. death, and, we are informed, out- Grimsby

22 8 5 0 48 46 21 room without entering it. For each "'Arrison, can't you hear?” I 21 7 7 7 37 39 21 of its neglected volumes, as Leigh roared, "Arrison-Arrison speak- Hong Kong, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 1927. side help is earnestly needed. Clapton

21-84-9-86-48-20 Hunt said, is a little body of log-hafich, hay, two bara, s hi, a That may most unfortunately be Barnsley... 21 6 7 8 30 40 19 thought that has possibly existed bese, a ho, and a hen-Arrison, a fact, but if the bandits and the Notts County 22 6 7 38 40 10 casters whose zest is fired especially lish?"

Holl 21 6 8 7 25 30 20 thousands of years. Those broad- Can't you understand plain Eng-

MILLIONS STARVING.

Gloomy in the extreme is the news from Peking that foreign-

the

hope

of raising sufficient

Leeds

Swansea

22 13.3 658 27 29

Fulham .....21 5 5 11 35 50 16

military are making it imposa Blackpool... 22 5 5 12:30 55 18 by the knowledge that they are

Exeter

10 7

the other day I was half an hour trying to make the exchange under- stand who was speaking."

"Mr. Arrison speaking,” I said. "Garrison! Which Garrison, North Head or Victoria Barracka?"

City Urchin (in the country for

to carry out famine relief mea- Reading: 22 6.5 11 31 47 17 annihilating space when they switch Old Lady: Now, what, ought a sures, it is very difficult to know Southampton. 22 5 0 11 81.44 16 on their loud-apeakers or crystal polite little boy to any when a lady ers in Shantung confirm the re-Relief Committees in the past, it

exactly what to do. The Famine Wolves 22 6 4 12 35 51 18 sets should, more than most people, gives him a penny for carrying her

Sth. Shield.. 21 2 5 14 30 62 9 be appealed to through this unique parcels?

Division II-South: aspect of literature...

Tommy: I'm too polite to tell yer, ports of the Famine. Relief So-

is true, have done really splendid Millwall..... 21 14 84 08 32 81 regarded as permanent, if incom

P. W. D. L. F. A. Pts. cieties that four million people

The harnessing of sound waves is mum. are on the verge of starvation in work in the face of unparallelled Northants... 19 14 11 57 28 29 plete. But no one. can say what that province. Great numbers obstacles, and it may be hoped Plymouth 21 12 31 16 32 25 would become of that so-called per the first time): This is just like are already subsisting on bark that they can do so again. Out- Chariton 10 3 3 3 28 27 24 manence if there happened to be a grass, ain't it?

siders, however, whom the appeal Southend ...18 11 and 'chaff Once prosperous

07 37 31 22 audden catastrophic change brought for relief may move, must have Swindon 18 95 4.50 87 23 about by the elements which sustain farmers are disposing of

Queen's P. R. 20.9 the surest of guarantees that any Newport.... 20 8.57 35 39 21 Bince, nothing short of a universal 4 7 28 28 22 it. Yet, as a wise man said long their cattle for

funds contributed do reach the Brentford 22 0 3 10 45 44 21 convulsion of nature can destroy a song. Unhappily, we told, the peak of the famine has afflicted people and do not find Bournemonth. 21759 35 39 19 on o

Norwich 1974 8 39 34 18 their way into the pockets of Brighton.

It triumphs over brass and not yet been reached, and worse

20.848 - 38 30:20 has still to come. The local either the military or the bandi- Coventry... 20 74.9 38.47 18 marble. It is the only visible

try. And it is the bounden duty Merthyr

Crystal Pal.. 19 6 6 7 30 40 18 change which changes no farther, 22 5 0 11 31 45 10 which generates and yet is not

mere

Are

officials attribute the famine to

Little Friend: Why, it is grass. Urchin: No, It'ain't, "cos yer don't have to keep off It..

Crank: How did you cure your wife of her craze for natiques?,

Shaft: Ob, I just gave her a 1907 model motor car for her birthday.

And

Motorist: How far to the hotel? drought and locusts, but we pre of the Chinese leaders, no mat- Gillingham 10 4 69 28 41 14 destroyed, not even though "minen Thiraty Swaggle: About half a fer to believe the view of for-ter to what faction they may be Watford 20 6 3 11. 32 38 15 themselves are exhausted, elties wife. But I'd better come back Torquay 18 4 6 10 18 43 13 perish, kingdoms are swept away, and show yer It's a bit tricky to eigners that it is chiefly owing to long, to ensure that such a guar- Luton 19 6 2 12 40 40 12 and man weeps with indignation to the civil wars, banditry, and antee is forthcoming if thousands Bristol R... 20 6 2:12 35 52 14 think that his own body Is not

2002-12- of their own people are not to

28 67 14 Immortal” Division III-Northe perish of starvation.

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exorbitant taxation. The Handi- try and military are not only. accentuating the famine condi- tions, but they are making it im possible to carry out extensive relief measures under foreign supervision, such as the building of roads and canale

Walsall

Doncaster Get Bradford Photographic and Art Exhibition Halifax The opening date of the Macao Lincoln has been postponed until January Wrexham uary 18. 22. next. Entries close on Jan- Accrington

Rochdale

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Salesman (lately promoted to curio department: This necklace, madam, was originally for the

Dake of Buckingham,

to Anne of Austriai

Teacher: "Now, Bobby, tell me

quite a lot of them

21 11 37 36 31 26 which month has twenty-eight days

. 10 7 8 4 30 29 22 in it.

17 10 18 30 29 21 Boby: "They all have" Tranmere... 18 8 6 4 35 25 22

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gave it Belling

Tommy Tell me a story, Daddy. Daddy Certainly my son, what. do you want me to tell you about 7 Tommy: About a little boy whose father gave him a shilling.

We understand, says the "Pinang Southport 20 9 2 8 42 8520 Gazette," that the first two boys on Stockport 19 9 37 30 2521 The teacher wrote on the black ** Appalling as are the conditions the 1927 Queen's Scholarships list Darlington 16 8.3 8.36 33-19 board the sentence: "The toast was in Shantung Province it is only are Lim Kheng-kool and Chean Hartlepoola : 21 9 2 10 84 41 -20 drank in allence." surprising that similar conditions Free School. The final award le New Brighton 1974 884 81 28 rror in that sentence?" she asked about

Heng-aim, both of the Penang Bradford CA 10 6 8 0 41 23 18 "Can any child point out any do not prevail right throughout made by t Committee. If these wa Chesterfield 21 6 10 38 13 1921 can mida" replied one alert Hats

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