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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1931.

REVELATIONS ABOUT A STAR

Mock Trial of Sir James Jeans.

NOT GUILTY.

Leaves Court Without A Star on His Character.

enough power to drive the Manreta- The Charge,

nia at full speed. If it did so drive the matter might That, being a member of the the Mauretania human race and domiciled on the be different, writes Anthony Arm- earth, he, Sir James Jeans, has wil strong in the Evening Standard. fully hitched his waggun to a star, No, I submit that the defendant, thereby causing alarm and despon-by wilfully hitching his waggon to dency among his fellowmen.

notar, is guilty of destroying Man's confidence both in himself as the highest product of nature and

Counsel for the Prusecution. My lord and members of the Jury-

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CHINA MAIL.

JUDGING MEN AT A WOMAN

GLANCE.

How to Do It Successfully.

FIRST SIGHT..

You get the job!" "Yes, I'll accept your proposition -now, let us get down to details." "Sorry, we can't entertain your

Iden."

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How do business men come to these decisions? A vacancy for a hosition is advertised and Afty or perhaps hundreds of applicants file through the manager's state their credentials, and on. One is chosen, and he la not references always the one whose

For the are the most glowing.

room, PRAS

IN FOREIGN RADIO

LEGION.

Shower Bath Parade Forthcoming.

TWINS RECALLED.

There is a strong suspicion that a woman has succeeded in enlisting in" the Foreign Legion and has, so far, escaped detection.

According to the notice from the Legion headquarters at Sidl-bel- Abbee, a watch is to be kept on all soldiers of the Legion at a forth- coming bathing parade, when every- one will have to pass under a shower bath,

The authorities mean to be cer- tain that no soldier shall take an- other's place. This happened once in the case of German twins,

in his world as the practical if not manager is a human being, and, be brother and sister, who joined the

the actual centre of the universe.

Counsel for the Defence. My lord and members of the jury:

sides reasonably sound credentials, there is a "something" about the candidate whom he accepta which has appealed to him as no amount of written testimony could possibly to

The defendant is an inhabitant of this earth. All the amenities which he enjoys are due to the exertions of ether and earlier members of the human race; at every step he has to thank Man, the highest pro- duct of nature that he-is-not-still-forward-no-single-witness-to-say "How do you" judge the men who Riving up a tree.

Therefore one might reasonably suppose that the defendant, having thas a debt of gratitude, if not

Counsel for the prosecution has apoken at length, but has brought

that my client's action

in nobly hitching his waggon to a star has caused any specific alarm. He has not even produced Mr. John Smith, duty, towards his fellowmen, should of Balham, to say that he has be- so direct his activities as to benefit come despondient or is beginning to them. Yet how does he discharge miss the 8.40. He has proved He deliberately turns nothing except that my client is a his duty? from this work and surveys re-acientist, and-to-be-a-scientist is in mote points of light in the distant these days no longer a crime. Each universe. Rather than employ him- must be judged on individual

well in the earth's affairs, he pre-merits. fers to speculate on the nature of the heavenly bodies. He has de- serted Man to toy with Betelgeuse. He.....

Judge-What are Betelgeuse? Counsel-Betelgeuse is a star, my lord.... In short, the defen- dant, gentlemen of the jury, has hitched his waggon to'a mere star, realises that a mere twinkling star The exact star is not specified. It Wolf, 359, the faintest may be

be Sirius, the known: it may brightest ....

Judge. Don't say "it may be." It is serious. Very serious.

Counsel-Sirius is just another star, my lord. Now this serious crime very well, my lord, this grave crime is made even more grave by its consequences.

Legion in 1908. At the various medical examinations the male twin passed the inspection twice-once for himself and once for his sister, who remained in hiding while her brother Impersonated her. It was -not-until-the-girl-had-served-for six months as a soldier of the Legion that the trick was discover ed through the commander's inglat- ence on the complete roll-call for the shower bath parade, says the Paris

TODAY'S PROGRAMME.

The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 356 metres:

5-7 pm.-Chinese Programme. 6-6.30 p.m.-Chinese Children's Programme.

7:10:30 pm — European Pro- gramme of Victor Records.

7.05-7.19. p.m.-Children's Pro- gramme.

Children's Overture (Quilter),

New Light Symphony Orchestra. 7.19-7.36 p.m.-Organ Salos, Introduction and Fugue (Liszt),

Funtasia (Mozart),.

Fernando Germani.

Dr. Harold Darke. 8 p.m.-Lecal Time & Weather Report,

7.36-8.32 pm.—A ́Concert. Violin Solo

No Ong Knows, (Gordon), Do You Know My Garden? *(Haydn Wood)... Reneo Chemet.

Piano

Under the, Palmas (Albeniz), Cradle Song (Brahms),

Song--

-Alfred-Cortot.

Last Rose of Summer

(Thomsa Moore), Home Sweet Home

(Payne-Sir H. Bishop),

came before you, seeking employ ment, or offering, you some bust ness proposition?" was the ques tion which The Sunday Sun put to number of Sydney business men "Do you put any faith in judgcorrespondent of the Daily Tele- Instrumental Trio- ment at first sight?"

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Similar precautions are, to be taken now, so that the regiment in which identities are cloaked in mystery be sure that its members are all males..

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:

Madam Amelita. Galli-Curci (Soprano).

Rondo (Haydn),

Hazel Gertrude Kjnscella (Pianist)_with_Violin Instrumental Duet-

and 'Cello.

Sonata in A Major (Mozart),

Hazel Gertrude Kinscella (Pianist) with Violin, Piano Solo-

Etude in A Minor (Mendelssohn), Etade in F Major (Mendelssohn),

Sergei Rachmaninoff,

Somewhere a Voice is Calling

(Newton-Tate), Marrhata (Schertzinger),

John McCormack (Tenor). Violin Solo

By the Waters of Minnetonka

(Lieurance), Under the Leaves (Thome),

Renee Chemet. Piano Solo-

Waltz in C Sharp Minor (Chopin), Waltz in A Flat Major (Chopin),

Sergei Rachmaninoff. 8.32-9 p.m.-Orchestral, Rustic Wedding Symphony-

Bridal Song (Goldmark), Serenade (Goldmark),

Victor Concert: Orchestra.

Life in Hungary Fantasy (Prepke),

Hungarian Rhapsody Orch. Fantasy of Melodies by Offenbach

(Ernst Urbach),

Marek Webert & Als Örch. 9-9.35 p.m. Variety. Hawaiian Orchestra-

100 Per Cent. Correct. certainly do," said the assist

manager of Amalgamated Wireless (Mr. Grime), "If you're going to ask me how I do it, I am As opposing counsel has said, the afraid. I cannot tell you-I don't,

know myself. I cannot call to praiseworthy researches of some have produced the steam-engine and mind a single serious instance in the aeroplane; others, on the con- which that first rough judgment of mitted, "but I often readjust them. trary, have given us the solo motor mine has been wrong; I fancy it My method is to come to some Song bike, which certainly causes alarm, is very nearly 100 per cent. cor- rough conclusion In the first and the dial telephone, which cerrect. Only a few days ago I inter-minutes of an interview, but to be tainly causes despondency. But my viewed a man who will occupy a careful still to keep an open mind responsible for the very important position here. A on the matter. I do not believe in client is not dial telephone, the concrete-mixer scientific job, it required definite į placing too much faith in or any other evil manifestation of academic qualifications, and as he Instincts-otherwise, an injustice the age. He has adopted à harm was a University man there was may be "done.” * less pursuit which interferes with no doubt about his. The qualifien- I recognise in a moment whe- nabody.

tions were necessary, but they were ther a man or a woman who.comes The pursuit of astronomy is not not all. It was the sort of job that along seeking a job is going to be rowdy. It does not involve shatter- would grow, and it needed a man any good to me," said the general ing noise, or the enforced use of who could grow with it.

manager of J. C. Williamson's, "The only thing was to talk to Mr. C. B. Westmacott, "I haven't complicated machanical devices by inexperienced citizens. Rather, such this chap, and to let him open him any idea how I know, but I do results as my client's action may self out a bit. I had formed a first know that they always come up to have in inducing others to interest rough judgment of him, as he walk-touch." The defendant has not concealed themselves in astronomy are actual-ed across the room to me, and

Walk And Appearance. his evil star-peeping practices; hely beneficial.

thought he would do. His conver- has actually given them 'publicity How much better, I ask you, is sation confirmed that opinion; and Mr. D. McNeill, staff manager of by writing books. Worse, these it for the race that its young men what clenched it was the fact that David Jones's, thinks that about books have sold widely, unfortun- and girls should spend their even he was not willing to leave his 95 per cent. of his first- ately no doubt by very reason of ings quietly studying the stars of present job.at the moment, because eight judgments are correct-judg the subversive teaching they con- Heaven in the open air than the he was interested in an experiment mente which are based on the tain, their outspoken relation of the stars of Hollywood in a theatre? he was making, and he wanted to following:-Firstly, walk, appear- I have said enough to show that see it through. Later, he saw Mr. ance, and clothes; secondly, voice, intimacies of a star's life, their re- volving osteric details of the birth the defendant is not the menace you Flak, who confirmed my judgment. manner, mode of address; thirdly, of a nebula, their ....

are asked to believe, and in con- That's my method."

experience and personality, as it Judge Counsel for the Prosecu elusion I will specifically refute the Mr. W. R. Carpenter, managing expresses itself. tion must keep to the point. The charge of destroying man's self-director of two companies, did not

"People who come to me for defendant is not being charged with confidence.

wholly endorse this view, however-positions fall naturally into three "publishing obscene-literature You It-is-universally conceded_that_in_

References-are-not-s-damn-bit classes" he said. "There is the wish to say that his views on stars ages to come this earth will grow of use in sizing up a man," he said, peak class, whose personality and

highly probable that these very re-

manner, and I am influenced chiefly ately; next, the intermediate class, by his eyes. After that I talk to which can only be estimated after him, and try to see what he really very careful study; and finally the is. The only use of references is zero type, which is just as easily the people who give them. Look rejected as the peak type is accept- at the references, and then go and ed. Naturally, I make first sight them. impressions as an applicant walks imagined, more calculated to alarm So far from destroying human- see the people who wrote

ity's confidence, the defendant has you get a true reference that way into my office; but the difficulty of He has actually said. that 26 given it confidence in its future. There is the story of a gardener deciding the true worth of the big million of our suns could be packed He has actually helped Earth, Itself Inside Betelgeuse. Consider the accounted a star. If he has hitched effect of that disgraceful prohia waggon to a star, it is then to nouncement upon, say, Mr. John this star we inhabit that he has Smith, of Balham, daily eatching hitched it, the 8.49 to London. He suddenly realises that a mere twinkling star could contain 30 million earths; and incalculable · Balhame.

·Song

Sleepy Honolulu · Town, Sweet Hawaiian Dream Girl,

Hilo Hawaiian Orchestra.

It's a Habit of Mine, On Top of the World,' Alone, ·

Maurice Chevalier (Baritone) Piano Solo Dorothy, The World is Waiting for, the

Sunrise..

..Frank Banta. Vocal Duet--

When it's Springtime in the Hockles,. Sleepy Rio Grande,

Bud and Joe Billings,

are widely circulated. The point too cold to support life. 1s it not "I judge first of all by a man's intelligence Impress one immedi-Violin Solo-

is taken.

Counsel. Thank you, my lord, The defendant is widely circulating his own revolutionary belief-name ly, that the stars are more import ant than this earth and ourselves, Can anything more disturbing be

and depress the human race?

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searches of the defendant will by then have enabled the human race to select from the many stars with which it has become acquainted a warmer globe to which to transfer the torch of human life?

"

The Judge Sums. Up. This seems to be a Sirius mat- millonter. (Prolonged but anxious laugh-

who

Fagan Love Song, My Song of the Nile,

Guilietta Morina, 9.35-9.59 p.m.-Operatic. Tannhauser-Overture (Wagner),

Mitglieder der Staatskapelle, Selections from Meistofele (Bolto arr. Creatore), Mefistofele-Prologue

(Bolto arr. Creatore),

Creatore's Band. 9.53-10.11 pm Waltzes, Eva. from the Operetta "Eva"

(Lehar-Schots); Carmen Sylvin (Ivanovici),

Nat Shilkret & His Inter- national Orchestra.” 10.30 pm-Close Down.

came along with this re-intermediate class has taught me ference, from an employer who had never to make a final judgment been badly cheated by him, but until the applicant has had an op

Nat Shilkot His Inter- who did not like to say anything portunity to talk and express hin, unpleasant on paper: He has got or her personality. It is a tremen

national Orchestra. more out of my garden than any dous subject. Everything in the Unrequited Love (Lincko), one olar, he wrote, as a reference." end depends upon first-hand sight Chocolate Soldier-Waltz Medley..

(Oscar Strauss), Wife's Instinct.

and sound judgment, plus. "In important matters, Mr. Car.

instinct." a ter from both counsel). But the penter, do you sometimes take

Breaks A Rule. Gentlemen of the jury, Mr. Smith real point at issue is not whether business acquaintance home, rely-

"A well-known author makes one will certainly not trouble to catch the defendant's action in connecting ing on the value of your wife's in- the 8.49: or probably ever to go to up his vehicle to some unspecified stinct of the sort of chap he is?" of his characters state that ho A WEEK'S DISEASES:

"No," said Mr. Carpenter, breaks a rule when he likes a man London again. He will fuat alt heavenly body has had beneficial

whether it is "Women's instincts rely оп ex- at first sight, or on a first impres- Typhoid, Diphtheria and around home in black despair of his consequences; nor own futility. Yet it is by the without any consequences at all: ternals-they are not much help." sion," said Mr. A. W. Dye: "It is, "On the whole yes, I do rely on the character soliloquises, all very humdrum labours of the John but whether it has had alarming Smiths of this world that our civil- and depressing consequences upon my first judgments," said General well to go mad about. a girl the his fellowmen. That is what you' A. T. Anderson, private secretary arst time one meets her, but it's must consider.

to the Governor. It was his busi-! wrong to file a man on first im- and deaths during the week end- Verdict.

nese to judge many men during presalons. Obviously, he con- ed August 8 is as followsyo

Casex Deaths. the war. "It is true that there are tinues, a man who makes a hit the

isation progre5805,

Doubtless the defence will say that to hitch a waggon to atar is excusable in a scientist gartering knowledge. That is no defence.

Scientific research is only excus

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Not Guilty: Commenting upon the verdict the Judge remarked that

Tuberculosis.

The official return. of diseniea.

a few faces of a neutral type, first time you meet him, is going Typhoid fever. the defendant left the court without which hide the characters of their out of his way to make you think Diphtheria

78

54

.

The returns from January 1

figures:

a star upon his character. (Pro owners, but most people show quite well of him. Normal men don't do Tuberculosis, able when it has practical resulte longed laughter in which Counsel clearly by their faces what they that. Commercial travellers do. One case of animal rables wat such as the steam-engine or the aeroplane, Even this is doubtful for the Prosecution did not this are like. I can tell at a first and actors.do; but, they are not reported.

Summary to August18,714 time trouble, to join).

glance, and that first glance le normal. when ona, conaiders other practical

asually more accurate than subac- "I agree and disagree. Being an achievements of selénce, such as the

quent observations. Second and analyst and technologist, the to August 8. give the following concrete mixer, the solo motor-bike, Grosvenor House and dial telephone. The boot and shoe industry. I third glances at a new face serve powers of observation are perhaps But knowledge, such as the defen- Canada revived strikingly In March only to confuse one's opinions the more naturally developed in one of Typhoid · dant gathers and disseminates is and April this year according to frat glance is always right My my kind than in the ordinary, type of business man. This has made not even practical. Why the very report of the Dominion Bureau of method of judgment has seldom let phrase "star gazing" signifies Inck Statistics compiled from 164 of theme down,

Small-pox,

le more or less a habit for me to Scarlet fever

Casas. DeathE. .11689

14

0

79

25

Diphtheria Judge (or perhaps, more rightly Cerebro-apina: fever 18

Puerperal fever.... te assos), at first sight

Paratyphoid fever chest of us, in indelibly outlined in Tuberculosis seedee ca

and.s train the face or appearanc of observation, coupl

of attention to one's allotted task. 170 Factories operating In the "I am reminded of Lady Mac To know that if the sun were, a country. The output in April was bath's words, "Your face, my thane, pea fi Piccadilly-circus, then the 1,669,91 pairs as against 1.574-11 as a book. So are most of our "The character, or lack of it in earest star would be a small seed 405 pairs in April, 1980, and 1,492, faces,"

y.. any 526. pairs, in April, 1929, The One of the most cautious of men job or March production figure was 17% was the Deputy Postmaster flecting 930 palms. against 1,594,865 pairs General Mr. Kitto.

and 1,712,862 pairs surface in March provide

ham

in March 1

Yes, I do make first Judge áð a.man, enters my room,che

With that Elgbteen, of the typhoid

were non-Chinese, as, wars, thres fatinet which most of us possess scarlet fever cases, one small-pox, will go far foethe Instantaneous caso, one cerebro-spinal: fever assessment of those.we.ment!

CB, and 25 diphtheria cases.

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