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UNITED, ARTISTS:PICTO

With: Musics

TODAY KING'S

WEDNES

JANUARY 17-1834.

HERE, THERE GAMBLING ON THEIR

EVERYWHERE.

Under The Jewish Flag

The recent report that a Jewish schooner called the EmanuelTM had put into Southampton flying the Palestinian flag is incorrect,

Palestine has no flag of its own. What the Emanuel was dying, was the Zionist flag. It is the tradi- tional ding of the Jewish race from

GOOD YEARS

PRAIRIE FARMERS WHO SPEND FREELY

FLUCTUATIONS IN CANADA

(By Julian Duguid.)

time immemorial, but is not official- To an Englishman. sccustomed to cleanhoofed cross between Clydes- ly recognised at sea.

Farmer Giles's phlegm, the prairie dale and Percheron, died out.

The top half of the flag is light cultivator" is a strange being. The Thousands of virgin acres were blue and the lower half white. boredom of the horizon and the un-forced into cultivation; and Central Superimposed on the centre is the certainty of the weather have forced Europe provided the man-power.. "Major David,” or shield of David.[him into gambling.

Directly the grain was in the

It consists of two crossed triangles. Beside him the buyer of gold elevators the farmer and his family. jin gold w

bricks is a sound business man. He climbed into a brand-new car and The Emanuel etill has a Danish would resent this description bitter-wintered in Florida and California. registry. She is a small sailing|ly, but it is true. I learned about By the following spring the mines, ship with an auxiliary motor. She him in small villages and from his was gone, the machinery had: "de- was purchased by Captain A, Grev-lown Ips in trains,

preciated and the salesman ⠀ was

Your Daily Smile.

What, Again?

Welfare Worker: "And

nov, a young Zionist. He intends to use her for coasting in the Le-Manitoba and Saskatchewan the what matter! Grain was two dol-. ¡vant.

flowing swell of wheat' ran, knee-jlars a bushel. '; On with the dancel high, to a fat horizon, On' either When The Slump Came jaide of the track continuous atag-

When conditions became normal nant sloughs provided ideal nur-again something had snapped. The: series for mosquitoes. Once every younger generation was no longer. have two or three miles a wooden house astiated. In the old days youths you any plans for the future when and barn rose out of the monotony and maidens had been content. to

like chicken-coops sen. your sentence expires?? ?

Incorrigible: "Yus, I've got the

To the north and west of each stay at home, with, maybe, a month- plans of two jewellers' and a post-Yet the land itself completely lack and hip-flask had come to stay.

was a wind-break of cottonwoods. Now they were restless.

ily dance at the village schoolroom. Cocktail: led protection. The little wayside]

For a while the farmer bluffed Istations

were dominated by grain it, and sank deeper in the mire. It

As we passed through Southern clamouring for settlement. But

office."

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Give Him the Green Light

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"Going to fre?" naked the elevators. It was a' view that mea was not for some time that the traffic officer sarcastically to the merised by its appalling sameness. mortgage companies and banks real- speeding motorist.

Mortgaged Farms :

ised that all was not well. Winnipeg, "W-well, not exactly," answered:

One scorching night between Win-which has the widest streets In the motorist. "Just trying to pre-niper and Moose Jaw I fell among Canada and the most grass between. Scota. A thick film of dust was the tram-lines, flourished on the in-

vent one."

It must, as he insisted, be near. No other centre could wish to find itself in the case of London, "Well, the boss said that's what seemed 'cool enough. They were ob-frustration. from which where is may take as long to drive he'd do if I were late again, and from the airport to the City as was hurrying to get to the office to make the flight from Liver-time."

"Yes, and how were you going to sifting through the windows; but stalment system... do that?"

this man and his wife and son To-day it has an atmosphere of it may

the Prince of Wales making it. Measuring the Press.

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A Stone's Throw

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Facts You Did Not Know.

in

Iviously tried friends. Their eyes never wholly recover. The Increas

were tolerant,, A borrowed maga ing mixed farming of Ontario and zine was sufficient introduction, and, the possibility of development in the not caring to sleep, we talked until Peace River tend to diminish its three o'clock.

hopea..

It was buried under sand-drifts, hopelessly.

British Aviation.

pool to the airport. Secondly the lack of inland flying services Irish has led to the neglect in Britain A gangster on "trint for murder "Depression? Fernancial tight- Then came the slump. Nobody The recent commercial aviation of the design and manufacture of bribed an Irishman with £20 to hold ness? Mortgages?" said the old helped the farmer. Wheat fellTM conference at the Mansion House those types of high-speed civil out for a verdict of manslaughter. man." "What a way to speak among through the floor, but manufac will mark, in all likelihood, the aircraft that are being built else- After being out for a long time, the Scots! I'll no deny that cairtain turers in the East did not propor--

fulish bodies have brought trouble tionately opening of a new chapter in the where. This is a branch of en-fury returned the desired verdict.

reduce the prices of development of inland air-trans-gineering in which Great Bri- "I'm very grateful to you" the on themselves. But there was no machinery Salemen continued to port in Britain. It was held at a tain is peculiarly fitted to excel, gangster, told the Irishman, Did necessity.”

anlf. on easier terms it is true, yet I pointed to a Winniper news with even less chance of payment. moment when the springs of It ought to be the basis of an ex-you-have much trouble?" business enterprise in every form port trade as important, in time "Yes," replied the Frishman. "I paper, which stated clearly that Farmers continued to winter, in All the rest mortgage companies were the vir Florida, after a visit to the mort are beginning to flow more freely to come, as that of British motor-had a devil of a time.

tual owners of the prairies. The gigs office. In this human though - after the long drought of the cars. As matters stand. the wanted to acquit you.”. depression. This was the oppor-market for this type is supplied

old lady sniffed; while her son, distrassing manner wars the prair tunity for renewing with all pos-entirely by others. The fact is The Dear Old Soul

who had never seen Scotland, under-les frittered away, sible vigour the movement for an not to be forgotten among the "And how are you and your hus- took to explain.

Fat Times And Lean.. adequate provision of municipal more direct and immediate rea-band going to spend your Christ- The whole nature of the prairies

Now, as the Scotsman, explained airports and aerodromes in Great sons for furthering the develop.mas holiday?" the old lady asked, is absolutely different from Eng- Britain; and that opportunity ment of inland air services. "Our plans so far are tentative." land. It is different, indeed, from 10 me, there was no necessity for was improved to the utmost by

"What! You're surely not camp every other part of Canada. If the auch want. He and his father still- A good crop with had money in the bank. They bad- ing out in this wintry weather?" farmer obtains the occasion of one of the most]

good prices once in three or four reallaod the position from the out- forcible of his many appeals for

years he is lucky. In the majority set, and the hysteria of the boom.. New is the time for all newspapers practical action in a national into turn 'yellow, especially if, as but house has been recently occupied, can, and does, happen.

Prospective Tenant: "If the of seasons a selection of disasters bad passed them by. They hid terest. There has been already rarely happens, they have anything how is it all the windows are

never seen, Florida, Later, how during the past year, as his Royal to conceal.

Winds blow down off the Rockies ever, they were considering a trip For the eye of exact smashed?”

which scatter the seed-corn for to Scotland. The old people wished Highness remarked, an import-aclence is upon them. An article in ant development of regular com- Journalism Quarterly, which is will insist on satisfying every in-his acreage, three times. only to they died.

Agent: "Well, sir, my partner leagues. One man I knew planted to view Arthur's Seat again before- mercial flying in Great Britain: published in lows, explains how the quirer that, this house is only a lose it in the end. but when it is stated that this ethics of newspapers may be mea-stone's throw from the station."

(Continued on Pagi 11); extends to the operation of no sured by means of socialization- more than a dozen air-routes in sensationalism scores. These scores, all, as against three in the pre-as their name suggests, measure the ceding year, it is clear that no-extent to which a newspaper minds thing in the nature of a general about public affairs and ́«similar realisation of the urgency of this happenings, as compared with the need exista as yet. In the days excitement it feels and imparts in differential are enclosed' In a water

The engine, transmission when inland flying services were the presence of private crima. Some tight body in a Scotch Inventor'■ establishing themselves in popu- attempts have been made to dupute automobile that can be used as a bodies and, having ruined the cul- ilar favour in every great country this clear distinction, and to argde oat. (but Britain, it used to be argued that no nice separation can in fact) that the shortness of distances in be made between politics and wrong- Invisible rays from electric frons mical to grain. This year, for in-

The prairie climate, too, is int~| England put flying outside the doing; but the sociologists are quite in a totally dark room were used stance, I want West in June. The class of real "utility" transport. clear and confident about their cate-recently to photograph inanimate Many thousands of travellers gories, and they have invented objects by New York state scien wheat showed a few inches of since then most prominent spectrum for measuring the reaction tists.

green, and everyone Jamong them the Prince himself of the various American newspapers

On my return in August it was, the road-making material, have shown by their regular The game is pisinirip for those Metal bowling balls have been fallen in the Interval Some with a long dry spell, and the sime height, but golden. Na rainThe portion tried out firat met- practice that in a busy life, with newspapers which thought they invented in France that are assert-- the modern development of air could be low trade and sensational ed to have the balance, elasticity farmers said wryly that they guess wool got thoroughly mixed with craft, inland air transport is a without anybody Ending-out, and and resistance to shock of deed it solved the Conference for the the soil. It was then straigh strictly business proposition their only satisfaction, will be that ones,

Limitation of Crops:

patened up, and later received wherever it is practicable, The their rivals will show up': just

A few packed up, taking the road several good drenchings; possession of one's own aeroplane, badly, in the light of the

to Peace River and the North. All This, it was thought, "might and the making, perhaps, of The mere knowledge that

domestic aviation, stories, and set their teeth and wondered how tend to bind the soil, but as soon private arrangements for descent investigators are measuring money, but also repres ating for they were going to live. The mad as it dried out again it broke up near one's objective, are one ethics will have a sobering

[eign problems, cifitani business, house near Winnipeg" receivd as previously, and the road war thing. The operating of regular and it is a good thing

and the International interests of small, a miraculously small pro-no better than any ordinary (public services, with their indis- method has been divulge

the United States. A wavy line portion.

app black soll road. The result of pensable basis of a proper system individuals a good deal of airports of less extensive land fog of other people's ethi ing places, is another thing. It but loses its full efect was with the provision of that methods by which basis that the proceedings were verdicts have been concerned and the argument, for smack sufficiently of the municipal action in this matter They are reached by has never hitherto been urged phers call direct Inape with such a waight of practical are the articulatio experience as has been gathered

In recent years Two points stand out prominently among business considerations that were urged the Mansion Ho

both

Breaking The Stranger Then there are caterpillars and |grass-hoppera; Jena spectacular than locusts but equally voracious. and They move in armies across a vast territory. They clear the vegeta- ition, hold the vegeta wheels spin in the slippery mess of

Įtivator, vanish,g

crowing

WOOL FOR MAKING ARM

ROADS.

Experiment In New South Wales.

FIRST EFFORTS FAIL

Sydney, N.S.W.

An experiment was made Garah, north-western New South Wales in the use of wool as

then complates, the chart, by wind- Meanwhile, the young Ecot was the experiments; la accepted as ing in and out of, the aquarem nos carnestly explain what was an indciation that wool is useless

cording ito the amount of space the wrong with prairie farming) +

for he

int devotes to with the prairies. "There Istrony In the had been born on them, Joved them

"Press, which does so an the, Scot loves hom

He had no

pleasu

beams and

folded

the

as a road-making material unless

It has some material, of a binding

nature impervious to water mix- ed with it-Reuter,

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