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Bloodhounds.
The search for the convicts who have escaped from Princetown shows how limited is the value of bloodhounds for this purpose.
It is seldom possible to give vory, clear indication of the scent they are to follow. The chances that they will hunt it over groundi
scents are very doubtful.
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the object of a man-hunt is not
pleasant.
This was the man who had laid the trail. He had dawdled on his way. As the baying of the hounds came nearer, his nerve had failed
him,
MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1933.
"WHAT I SHALL DO
AS PRESIDENT'
F. D ROOSVELT'S VIEWS
ON THE FUTURE
PROMISES HELP FOR FARMERS
(By Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt).
economic campaign attacks upon
which has been crossed by other going to restore the confidence travagance.
The new national leadership is management, has resulted in ex
that the majority of men and Bloodhounds are awe-inspiring
A changed attitude upon the but gentle creatures. They will women in this country rightfully part of officials and whole depart not attack the hunted men if they pose in their own integrity and mental forces is needed to bring
ability. come up with them.
them back to the performance of In fact, it is
It is going to bring about functions for which these depart- customary at bloodhound trials for the hunted man to mingle with a governmental action to meshments were created by the people. crowd, from which the bound has to more with the rights and the es- As Assistant Secretary of the pick him out.
sential needs of the individual Navy I saved great sums for the man and woman. It is going to people by reorganising the met- bring about a greater personal hods of purchase. I know de- security.
partmental mechanica. I shal has already faced the facts in its economies.
The new national leadership insist upon real-and not paper
Some years ago a drag line was
Domestic speculation and stock hunted by bloodhounds, As we our major problems.
thievery, personal and corporate, came over a hill, we saw what ap- The new national leadership must be put down if we are to peared to be a red balloon caught has already faced the facts in its get the confidence essential to in- in the top of a thornbush, the only economic campaign attacks upon dustrial and business progress. tree of any sort for miles.
our major problems.
Our credit structure is not only The new leadership intends to based upon but actually made of go to the heart of the agricultur- the money of small investors and al problem in a realistic way. The depositors. I shall urge Federal basic fact is that the farmers legislation to give, full, adequate must immédiately get a living and understandable publicity to He had preferred the certain dis- income from the domestic mar. the purposes for which stocks and comfort of the thornbush to an un-ket. I intend to attack the pro-bonds are issued, full publicity certain fate among the hounds, blem where it is most urgent for the accounting for these which, having come to the end of in wheat and cotion, for these aro moneys and full publicity for mer- the line, were grouped peacefully the money crops of one-third of gers, consolidations and holding below him.
our people.
To get a price for these pro
I have touched only briefly ducts which will allow the farm upon some of the plans of ers to live, they must get a tariff the new leadership. I sha!! benefit over world prices. Thigh have more to say about them is equivalent to the benefit given before the fourth of March. by a tariff for industrial pro- But I wish now to revert to ducts.
the fundamental-that my personal responsibility is con- tinuously to concern myself with the quality of life it-
cultural purchasing power should You may ask what a President give opportunity to the Govern- and an administration can do to ment to square away for legisla-improve the quality of life in this tion permanently to consolidate nation. He must decide, and and protect agriculture as a vital the administration must see eye industry. The benefit must be so to eye with him, upon that fac- applied that the increase in farm tor in the national life which can income will not stimulate over-best be used to make events production.
move. He and the administra-
Your Daily Smile,
even they would not go so far as to endorse the criticism which U. S. A. Says "Pay, Pay, Pay!" Professor Andrade makes, rather Land of the almighty holler. Hong Kong, Monday, Jan. 16, 1933. ungenerously perhaps, on the
Cold Light.
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companies.
self,
the modest firefly. "The light of For Women Must Work- the firefly," he says, would be a "Some mountains of China," we
An artificial or even a tempor- little trying, as
an illuminant; are told, "have never been conquer-ary measure to create this bene for it is greenish, but if we could ed by man." Other husbands, of fit for agriculture is justified. The A serious defect in our modern go so far as to imitate the me-course, help their wives to wash probable restoration of agri- lighting system, hitherto unsus-thod of production, no doubt we the dishes. pected by the general public, has would soon learn to modify the eclour." There is no mistaking!
And £ now been disclosed. Only one-
Poor fellow! Inspired by his wife, tenth, it seems, of the energy the voice of science in this pro- sent out in radiation by the moat nouncement. It is clear, at any he spent five years getting votes modern electric lamp is visible to rate, what would happen if the for women and the rest of his adult the human eye, the remainder men of science were allowed the life getting notes for women. being infra-red heat radiation, last world in the matter. Evid or "pure waste." Professor E. Nently, under the plea of enlight-
Try cleaning a car with wire This plan must go into effect tion, must support with aggres- da C. Andrade, in making these enment, they would like to spoil, wheels; try fixing the doorbell at the same time that interna-sive vigour every effort along disclosures in a recent lecture at or at least to "modify," all our
when it's gone phut; try putting ational trade is being restored that line and encourage its mo newest and brightest toys. the Royal Institution, declared they had their way, the colour ag/new hinge on a gate,
If
Then take through tariff adjustments. mentum. It should be the foun- that a huge fortune awaited any-well as
War Debts.
dation of the administration pol-. the warmth would be your hat off to the old fool who first one who could discover how to taken out of our city lights, our do it yourself."
said, "If you want a thing done well
Debts owed the United States by icy. It should under-lie all plans make "cold light." It may be
our electric whether the sky-writing, and doubted, however,
foreign Governments must be paid. on detailed issues. What is this Professor has chosen the right Christmas trees. It is small com- Something to Set Store By.
It is sound common sense to assist single factor in the United States fort, after all, that Professor moment to launch his disclosures Andrade has to offer us in this that sometimes a family owes its/18 neither practicality nor honour}
A writer an heraldry points out your debtors in every way, but there and in the world to-day?
(Continued on Page 11.) Yeah!in cancellation: The stabilisation of Look at the family whose motto is world finance can beat be achieved by a clear understanding of just "Nothing over 6d."
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KOWLOON CEREMONY.
A largely attended reception was: held at the Bank House, after which The repeal of the Eighteenth honeymoon.
the happy couple left for their
Amendment will, I trust, de initial- The bridegroom, who is more ed by the Congress and submitted popularly known as "Ronnie" True,
The new national leadership will
St. John's Cathedral on deal fairly, honestly and sanely Saturday the wedding was SO- high hopes will certainly be rais-short rays that could pass through
with this situation. It will remem-lemnleed between Mr. George ed in some quarters by Professor quartz but not through glass. Andrade's statement that "red Gurwitsch's associates found that
ber, however, that as society is now William Ewart True, of the Staff of organised we are divided into na- the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, rays are far less scattered by yeast and cancer cells had similar dust, fog, mist, and other kinds Properties. If a scientist dislikes
tions, and that it is the duty of the and Miss Constance Hallsel, who're of small particles than blue anything, it is mystery. These duction are being made of paper in national administration first to con-cently arrived from Home. The sider the welfare of its own people. Dean, Very Rev. A. Swann, M.A., rays." Might this not be a cluerays were mysterious. As in the Germany,
I strongly feel that the welfare D.B.C., officiated at the ceremony: to the manner in which the dark-early days of the cosmic rays
A mirror is included in the face of the world depends just as The bride, who was given away er and warmer regions of econo-science simply refused to believe mic controversy may yet be illu-in them. At last Summer's of a new necktie rack to be hung much upon ourselves as it does by Mr. L.C. F. Bellamy, General minated?
upon others, but there is only one Manager of the Hong Kong Tram Unfortunately not meeting of the American Asso-on a wall.
view to be taken of these great ways Ltd., was charmingly attired. For these beneficent red rays, aa ciation for the Advancement of
An Englishman, has invented a money obligations between na- The duties of beat man were dis luck will have it, are invariably Science Professor Otto Rahn an- accompanied by heat; while the nounced that rays come from golf club with a hole in its head to tions. These suma represent charged by Mr. R. A. Fawcett, also infra (or ultra-) red variety fingers, noses, blood, eyes--rays
national labour, the labour of a of the Bank pick up balla.
great mass of individuals. by some trick of fate are total. that kill yeast in five minutes.
Props have been invented to con-
Prohibition. ly invariable to the human eye Dr. W. W. Lepseschkin of the
vert any ladder into a scaffold sup- In this matter, however, human University of California sum- auciety has something to learn marized in Science, the results ob-port or a stepladder. from the insect kingdom. The tained with necrobiotic" rays, firefly has succeeded in producing so called because they seemed to heat. Dr. Crile'a theory that we for action by conventions in the is an accomplished pianist befug a form of illumination which la him characteristic of matter in are incandescent with life is as several States, for the purpose of the leader of the Cheer O Band. both visible to the eye and at the the throes of death. At the good as any for the time being restoring jurisdiction to the several Portuguese United. same time entirely without heat. Pasteur Institute in Paris and Still, the more sober will noto States. Pending the outcome of The wedding was quietly Yet even if the wit of man prov- the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in with interest that the Eussian this action there will be immediate solemnised at the Rosary Church, ed itself equal to the task of Berlin similar effects were ob- Radium Institution has found in ly mit forward legislation to legalise Kowloon on Saturday, between emulating this ingenious insect, served. No longer can it be plants and animals minute the manufacture and sale of beer. Mr. Carlos P. Basto and Miss there are grave doubts whether denied that living organisms amounts of radium as well as This will give your Government a L. Maher. A reception, was sub- the best tradition is as unequivo, radiate invisible light that may potassium and rubidium, both proper and needed income, Itsequently held at the Club de Ro- cally on the side of cold light as sometimes stimulate growth, as slightly radioactive. Those who unnecessary for me" to claborate creio, King's Park. might at first be thought: The Gurwitsch originally observed, hold to the mechanistic conception upon the fact that an increase of philosophers and the poets are and sometimes kill. In the light of life will pursue the clue and the prohtuitive commands of Gov- hopelessly at variance on the of all this, the work that Dr. Crile ink Gurwitsch's discovery with ernment, which could never be whole question. For while the and his, associates have been do- X-rays, gamma rays and cosmic practically enforced, has resulted in poets have been inclined to being must be accepted merely as rays. The vitalists will see in a weakening of authority and many little the philosophers conclu-avertification of how farmillar the rays new evidence of the social abuses. VANAI Mr. and Mre. Bloor wish to thank sions as based on nothing better observations. We need a theory uniqueness of the living organism. It will be my Executive duty Bo all their kind friends, for their than the cold light of reason, the to explain the radiations. Dr. In either case & new avenue of to simplify the Federal Adminis deep sympathy and condolences to philosophers have been known to Crile gives us minute blazing exploration has been opened tration that Government exper them in the recent, and bereave- retort that poetic visions, when "radiogens" and a picture of pro- Whether we pursue the pulsating ditures for this purpose shall be ment also for foral tributes and examined in the cold light of day, toplsam manifestly inspired by atoms of man or the pulsating cut by no less than 25 per cent. attendance at the funeral Wo are not always what they seem that of the modern atom. We atoms in atars, it la radiation An unnecessary Increase in the especially wish to thank the It is notorious that philosophers must account for this newly die that greets us in the end. Star-agencies of Government, together Matron Blsters and Nursing Staff prefer to conduct their reasoning covered energy somehow, not to light and litelight are they one with an unbusinesslike complica at the Victoria Hospital for all
in a cool hour. But probably mention animal electricity and and the samet.
tion of their organisation, and they did.
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