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America has investigated this) matter further, and a team of in-j |vestigators have been listening in to thousands of telephone conver sations. The official eaves-drop- pers made a complete data of thousands of calls and elicited that only 3 per cent, of the words used were not entirely ordinary.

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY

1932.

LENIENCY.

PUREE DE POIS

By

BESOMORO.

I shan't feel like work for a couple

of days to come." So sald a pan- senger on a Star forry on Monday morning. "You've said it," was the comment of a follow-passer-

ger.

side to this thirst for knowledge. There is a time when leniency Most of us enter a telephone box serves a useful purpose, but it | happily imagining our convara-can hardly be said to serve such a purpose in the following case.

So, I imagine, felt many another this illusion will not be shattered, A driver of a public vehicle-a ng it has been in America-Daily brought before a local court

motor-car presumably was Hong Kong worker on Black Mon- day. Holidays do exercise an un- Telegraph.

Tuesday on a charge of failing to settling effect on most workers, Railway Gardens.

stop after an accident, when and it is days before they are

standard,

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What is the connection between woman was knocked down but not caught up again in the rhythm of

injured. That, in Itself, was anthe work-a-day world. rallway

Now, that work and gardening?

is just the effect which a holiday Swedish State railways have just action, to say the least about it.

It would seem, how-should not have on a worker, He decreed that every porter, signal-

despicable. man, &c. shall be allotted a plot of had very good reasons of his own day,

or she should so benefit by a holi ever, that the driver concerned

even if it be a holiday of land for cultivation, and that gar for not stopping to face the con- only twenty-four or dening experts shall be appointed

forty-eight to advise them, as well as a staff of sequences of an accident in which hours, that when the time comes he was involved, whether or not to return to work he should be inspecters to see that they keep he was to blame., Those reasons able to return to it with zest and their gardens up to a specified were, that in 1926 he had been in- resume it without difficulty. The Judging by the floral volved in an accident in which a fact that he does not is a reflec- displays at many a country station woman had lost her life; and that,tion on the worker's attitude to throughout Britain, our own rail on another occasion, he had also work. Perhaps, it would be tra- way employees need neither experts been involved in an accident in cr to say, it is a reflection on the to advise nor inspectors to compel which a

man was injured. In attitude of work to the worker. an interest in gardening.

spite of the fact that the court Nor is there anything new about was made aware of these incl BACHELORS the connection between railway dents, the driver in question was

AND SPINSTERS workers and horticulture. The late fined-aned mind you!-$25. Sure-

ARE SHORT-LIVED. Dean Hole declared that the most ly, the least that the court might ried persons.

That is in comparison' with mar enthusiastic gardener he ever met have done was to deprive the driv-doctor

A German, woman was a level-crossing keeper on

has produced statistics a er of his driving licence, if not showing that both married men railway. On his appointment this for the remainder of his life, at and women in Germany live long man was given a barren gravel-pit, any rate for a period of years. er than single onea. which he was informed was his As it is, there are far too many is said to be borne out, by facta The theory "garden." A year later Hole saw road-hogs and reckless drivers in Britain, and an authority is re- the placa again, and found it had careering about our streets to en-corded as having said, that, while pathy. In the end, there is been turned into a floral paradise, courage them to become callous he had no information as to men, either a successful revolution or "what have you done to the gravel- tors as well.

"Why, William," he exclaimed, drivers and pedestrian elimina at least two-thirds of the women an arrangement is come to by bed?"

The motorist has who lived to a great age were, or negotiation which ought to have

his rights, but let those not be- had been, married. "Lord bless you, sir," replied come synonymous with pedesducing longevity, according to a been come to at first. Unfor-William, grinning, "I hadn't been trian's rites.

member of the Centenarian Club, tunately, the difficulties in the here a fortnight afore I swopped it

àre--Moderation in everything, Every unit of the Empire way appear to be almost insuper-

for a pond!".

particularly diet; placid tempora Which was literally true. cannot but deeply regret the un-able. The Indian representa-arrangement with

By "Holidays play the deuce with ment; good vigorous digestion; a neighbouring me. I don't feel like work at all and, at least, oight and a half fortunate turn of events in tives at the Round Table Confer-farmer he had removed his sandy this morning. And, what is more, hours' sleep in the twenty-four. India, culminating in the arrest ence were unable to agree ameng and wheeled it to the bank of an stratum to the depth of three feet) of Gandhi and other Congress themselves on such fundamental old pond, long dried up and filled leaders. Gandhi's mission to point as the safeguarding of with leaves and silt. The rich, London has meant nothing to minorities.

The demands put productive mould of the pond he him. As Britain's guest he has forward by some if not all of garden, replacing it with the sand, President Hoover.

had dug up and transported to his Shanghai yesterday by the Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Lo left caten her salt and, as soon as he them to the British Government according to his contract with the returned home, he has seen fit went beyond what can be grant- farmer. The fact that pond and to arouse all the acrimonious ed at present.

garden were a mile apart was an announced

The forthcoming marriage is of Harold Victor passions of his compatriots.

indication of the man's devotion to Pearse, Revenue. Oficer, of 76, It is exceedingly difficult for by the fact that the principal his hobby-Manchester Guardian. Morrison Hill Road, and-Elizabeth any of us, especially if we have Indian leader, instead of being

Neca Thomas, of 120, Whitfield. a practical statesman, is à man no direct personal responsibility, to take a sufficiently calm and who obscures an impracticable broad view of such a problem as visionary and obstinate extrem- was postponed on account of the is presented to us by the Indian iam under an irrelevant personal diphtheria epidemic, will now

holiness. independence.

Apparently

held in the Peninsula Hotel at 8.30 When we read, for example, of really sees what can be usefully.m. on Sunday next incessant outrages, of Govern-done beyond the fresh Ordinances

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The Rizal Day celebration, which

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BACK TO WORK.

Personal Pars.

PUBLIC SCHOOL ECONOMIES.

5.8. for

Eton Restricts the Use of Colours.

Factors pro-

at almost every pabiic school the question of economies is being seriously considered.

Parents to Make Proposals. One difficulty as expressed by Mr. G. C. Turner, headmaster of Marlborough, is that, since each school is differently situated, it la not a subject on which a common policy can easily be followed.

At Westminster, where there are but few "extras," boys are being encouraged to be as economical as possible in such matters as the pur- chase of new sports clothes.

At Harrow, where the whole ques- tion of economy is under considera- tion, only a comparatively small number of boys would be affected by such economies.

Several schools, including Welling. ECONOMIES IN BOOKS, ton and Shrewsbury, have in con templation, in addition to economies Public school authorities have on sports clothing and colours, an

The total output of the Kailan ment officers going about in enacted, during the last few days. Mining Administration's mines for daily peril of their lives, of the We can only go on trying in the amounted to 119,058 metric tons. the week ended December 19, glorification of assassins by what knowledge that failure may spell and the sales to 101,881 metric been considering how best to meet arrangement whereby a saving can passes for Indian public opinion, calamity if not something worse tons. we have a natural feeling of in- for India and the Empire as a dignation which prompts us to insist that crime must be put down at all costs regardless of whether or not it masquerades as patriotism.

whole.

From Other Pens.

the present financial stringency by be made in the purchase of school a simplification of education ex-books, and in other directions.

NEWSPAPER EDITOR RESIGNS.

An Indian guard, Chanan Singh, penses. was last night admitted to the At Marlborough, Westminster, Government Civil Hospital suffering and Eastbourne economies in books, from wounds to the right eye and house colours and games clothing Sir William Davies has re ear, the cause of which is unknown. have already been made... He was found at the Queen's Road!

signed the editorship of the Similar steps have now been de- "Western Mail and South Wales entrance to the Government Civil cided upon at Eton. It is not at all easy to compel

News" after more than forty Hospital.

The following natice, signed by years' association with the ourselves to engage in further

The other day I referred to the

the Captain of the Boats and the paper, but continues to be a dir serious reflection on such mat-forts which were being made to at the weekly tifin of the Rotary at Eton by order of the Athletic Ltd. He is succeeded in the edi- Mr. J. D. Bush was the speaker Captain of the Eleven, was issued ector of Western Mail and Echo,. ter. Most of us are inclined to colleges to take up Rugby football the

induce American universities and Club, yesterday when he spoke on Committee

The Dangerous Game.

welcome the news that the In-in view of the dangerous roughness about newsity of bringing "In the Interests of economy the who received his early training

dian authorities are being armed of American football. with adequate powers and intend to exercise those powers with all the severity necessary until such crimes are suppressed,

reformin the

torship, by Mr. J. A. Sandbrook, method following regulations will be en- on the "Western Mail" and who I said that nothing abort of civil animal husbandry in

of cultivation of land and forced until further notice:

has been chief assistant editor the New war would induce the American Territories, by helping and educat-worn after the end of this half.

1. No flannel knickers will be since 1922. college-boys to give up their own ing farmera in advanced science of Boys who under the present system particular game. The present im- cultivation. mense popularity of the film "The w

have their shorts will be allowed Unfortunately, that apparent United States (this picture has labour was passed on a man named 2. House colour scarves only will dom in some hames than children

Spirit of Notre Dame" in the

to wear a House colour top to their Sentence of twelve months hard stocking m ly simple and straightforward nothing to do with the Paris Chan. Fuk, who was yesterday be allowed after the end of the do in other homes. policy is not enough. Quite cathedral, but glorifies the foot charged before Mr. J. A. Fraser at Summer half. apart from the fact that we have ball achievements of an American the Kowloon Magistracy with child 3. Blazers may be worn only by made India certain promises university) seemed to lend weight stealing, by enticing away two small the Eight, the Eleven, Keepers of

to my words. which we have still to find some And yet perhaps I spoke too con- ber 19. During the proceedings, Second Eight may wear one of the boys from Shektongtau! on Decem- Rackets, and the Twenty-two. The way of fulfilling, we know from Adently. One American college, Detective Sergeant Fearson, of the boating blazers to which they are past experience that a policy of simple suppression is never ult can football following the death of connection with the case, mately successful.

one from hip in

Agitation goes on and on the moderato men on both sid

silent despair Inevita

Nebraska, hes just given up Ameri. His Worship, on his smart work in 4. No trimmed zephyrs areval St. Edward's High, School, Water Police was complimented by normally entitled

To-day's Thought.

Dogs and cats have more free

Ten Years Ago.

[From the "Chion Mail!

January 8, 1922.2

lowed except to members of the Stories of superfluity of

To-day's dollar is worth 2/7!!!

First Eight and Second Eight, and toma" and proposals to scrap at Honours for the best portrayal go to those rowing in the final of the of them because of low freights

Claude Alister in the famous House Fours,

drama "Tares Live Ghosts. No flags for Wet Bob races of it just now in Hong Kong yards;

have reached us. There, is no the Star. Theatro. are allowed except for those who where building goes on just n story deals hith the exploits roach the f

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reported

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