AIRMEN'S PART IN
METEOROLOGY
Going 30,000 Feet Up For Data
Aeroplanes are being used more and more for the purpose of collecting data on which base weather forecasts.
to
the
Information regarding upper air, states the Director of the Meteorological Office in his. annual report, is supplied from Duxford. Cambs, where a small meteorological flight, consisting of two aeroplanes with the neces- sary pilots and ground staff, has been established.
One or two flights are made daily, excluding Sundays. and heights between 25,000ft. and 30.000ft. are regularly attained.
the
So great is the keenness of the R.A.F. personnel, engaged in this work that fights are made almost independently of weather, and cloud is no obstacle, many of the flights penetrating clouds thousands of feet thick. During the year under review over 90 per cent. of the scheduled flights were actually accomplish- ed.
The Meteorological Office has a regular system under which, on request, it will bend weather. reports by telegram to private individuals and business men.
Aid To Pigeon Racing One of the most interesting: examples, states the reports, of
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ITALIAN TWINS IN LONDON
One Of Them Is Heavenly
THEIR VOICES VARY
There is an interesting pair of
THE DECLINE OF
WORSHIP.
Bishop And Lapse From Churches
"WEAK-END JUNKETINGS"
That the decline of church-
To-day's Short Story.
WINDFALLS
"YOU'LL come in for some rare windfalls, Sally," said Mrs. Vidler dreamily. "There ain't better furnished farm in Oxton, and you should know, see ing as how long you've worked here."
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By Marjorie Bowen
Making
them, coming and going. them little shirts and allers putting them back into the drawers but the one you keep out for the burying, That wears a woman, Sally."
"It 'ud have been more work if them bables had lived, mum."
Twenty year, Mrs. Vidler," re-
"Seeing your children in their turned Sally, standing heavy and coffins takes more out of you nor a awkward, her hands soft and red lot of work," returned Mrs. Vidler | from hot water, her cotton gown petulantly. "But I didn't mean to straining over her full bust, her go dwelling on them babies-the hair in wisps from the perspira- Reverend says as how I'll see them tion induced by the kitchen fire soon all in white with crowns on. "And I've brought up the last of Don't seem natural-I'd rather, see the blackberry jelly, mum.". thara' coming home to have their The dying woman moved her faces washed--home, that's a better head on the huge, coarse pillows; word than heaven." her hair, in the narrow, ash-grey
She was silent a moment; her) plaite, hung on to the shoulders of eyes, with the lids puckered and the her flannel. nightgown; her mouth pupils like spots of black light, was sucked in; her eyes filmed. glenced with loving pride round the "Keep it for the master if it's the large, spotless low-ceilinged room, last," she said slowly. "Taint go with the sloping floor and great ing to do me no good. I'm past presses, the rows of photographs, the jelly, Sally. The Reverend be the texts, the large case of stuffed ¡come to-day."
magpies.
"Twas a bad sign," admitted the servant..
"Reading prayers he was: Sarry I I hadn't been more to church. never had no time, did I, Sally, with the master wanting a hot dinner on ¡Sundays?"
"Did the Reverend say as you
MONDAY'S STORY
Monday's story will be "Fame Takes 'The 'J' Car," by George Albee.
"No, but he wouldn't have come so Chelmsford Diocesan Conference simply. "I couldn't rightly follow she asked.
"You'll stay with Mr. Vidler?" jelse," returned the sick woman "It is a plain fact that a very what he read. Them big, words. "It 'ud seem funny-going," mut-
Sally anivelled.
this use of forecasts is in connec- twins in London at present-going was due to the allurements was dying, mum?" asked the ser- tion with pigeon racing, and Beniamino and Gigli, writes of "week-end junketings" was vant fearfully-
the Evening denied by the Bishop of Chelms- several organizations controlling correspondent in long-distance pigeon flights Standard.
ford (Dr. Henry Wilson) at arrange for regular forecasts to In appearance they are be issued to them' during the much alike that you can hardly
It is now tell one from the other, in char-large proportion of the popula-But it's plain it's rest coming. And tered Sally. summer months. generally recognized that if long-acter they are about as much tion are estranged from organ- that's what I want."
"You're a sensible girl, Sally, and distance flights are to be success alike as Bach and Offenbach. ied religion of all kinds," he de-
a good girl; you've done your duty ful and there is not to be loss of I met Beniamino in his hotel clared. valuable birds. unsuitable the other morning. I heard Gigli This is partly due to the hard "You didn't ought to die-you-ever since we took you out of the weather conditions must be at the Queen's Hall last night, struggle for life which faces the ain't had no bad illness," she whis-orphanage, ain't you?' And-now you'll have all the windfalls-what and I knew at once that it was wage-earners to-day; partly due pered.
Mr. Avoided.
Another example of the use not the same man.
to the general wave of a sort of "I'm wore out," said Mrs. Vidler, you've dusted and cleaned. now made of forecasts is the The distinction is a subtle onc. negative, rather than positive, "Fair wore out, like them ole sauce-Vidler, he'll marry you."
The inarticulate woman listening arrangement made by several I can best express it by saying non-belief which has chilled the Pans what's past the tinker. That's manufacturing companies which that Beniamino devotes himself religious instinct in the nation: the worst of work--it wears you slowly reddened, her jaw slightly have installed air conditioning to music while Gigli devotes music and partly to the steady diminu-out. And them babies," she added fell. machinery in their factories to to himself. Beniamino is a tion of instruction in the full in a weaker voice. receive warnings of certain de- musician; Gigli is a tenor. finite weather changes. The use made of the Meteorological Office
Oh yes--a great tenor, I grant in connection with industry and
you; a tenor with a voice like the sport increases every year. trumpets that shattered Jericho
Anyone is entitled to have read out over the telephone the latest a tenor whose control of his tone
Cause Or Effects? weather forecast, and it is be is so exquisite that he seems in-
"It is often said that the gen- coming an increasing practice capable of producing a strained for the public to ring up the office strangled note.. But a tenor who eral gaiety of life to-day, notably is not ashamed to sing "O Sole week-end parties and motor-car for this purpose. The total num.
Mio" and that Neapolitan picnics to the seaside, has dea-]) ber of inquiries from all sources increased from 8,750 in 1932-33 serenade that was the main rea troyed church-going, habit fer son for the installation of the multitudes. I do not agree.
to 10,166 in 1933-34. ·
Necessary To Progress
Exquisite Control
Christian faith in the schools of the country.
un-
"I got fretty
TURK'S PRAISE OF ENGLAND.
"I've spoke to him," added the wife, whose voice whistled more faintly still through her bare guma. "He knows there ain't none could make him more comfortable, he said. He and you-you'll work the farm, like as if I were here. You
"The religious condition of the younger population to-day is in- disputable evidence that denominational teaching in our Most Wonderful Country knows my ways and how he wants schools has proved a failure.
In World
OTHERS “DEAD” IN COMPARISON
things."
"I knows," whispered Sally, with gleaming, faithful eyen.
"And you wouldn't grudge me a few of those geranium allps for me headstone? "Takes it off-the hard Instanbul.
look, I mean-and a bunch of "That wonderful country, Eng-Rowers now and then?""
"You'll have 'em, mum," mutter-
talkie apparatus in the cinemas. That kind of argument is an land," is how a high Turkish
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I thought it a pity that Ben-illustration of the confusion often Foreign Office official described ed Sally, the long tears running "The rapid growth of flying in iamino was not there last night made between cause and effect England when he returned here down her cheeks. and above clouds on the Contin-He might have prevented his ental air routes and the practice brother from taking such liber neglect. Sunday worship because
"It is not the case that people after a long visit to that country.
"I'm easy in my mind, Bally. of following a direct compass ties with the Dream Song from of the allurement of pleasure. world to-day," he
There is no country in the you'll be a good, capable wife-I the terminal "Manon" and the Flower Song The reverse is the real truth.
declared. course, between aerodromes have," the director from "Carmen." He might have
"where you find such follity, couldn't e-borne it if he'd married "People indulge in week-end states, "necessitated the fore talked him out of taking an Junketings because they do notary value for money.
one of them hussiesI don't want such politeness, such extraordin-
no planner or grannyphone here."- casting of much
more critical utterly unwarranted top note at want to go to church. If theyThe crowded, theatres, the
"There won't be," said the ser- ""conditions than formerly. Con- the end of "Bergere Legere."
sequently the work at Croydon Gigli enjoyed it all immensely; gious observances, even if petrol did swimming pools, and the fine emotional spécch. "It'll be as you really had an aptitude for reli- gay roadhouses with their splen-vant, flushed by the awful effort of has become highly specialized so did the vast and expensive was as cheap as water and cinemas mable visitors to enjoy had it—allers." and necessitates forecasters of audience.
motor-cars were supplied free to themselves thoroughly," he added. "I leave you them windfalls," considerable experience of the But I think Beniamino would every ratepayer, people would. peculiarities of these air routes, have hated it. which in the opinion of pilots of wide experience-are the most difficult from a meteorological point of view of any in the world.".
A comparison was made be- tween the annual frequency of thunderstorms in different parts of the world and the annual re- lative sunspot numbers. It was found that, in high northern and] ·
still go to church.
Other European countries were answered Mrs. Vidler in a confiden "dead" compared with England, tlal whisper. "Me brooches-the "If these people are to be re-he said, where he was particular chaney set, them magpies, the captured, it can only be by the ly impressed with the low price sheets and tablecloths, the parlour RICE SHORTAGE IN homes, and that cannot be done and lodgings.
church going to them in their of furniture, clothing, foodstuffs ornaments, and the pictures of me
family." with an inadequate staff of ANHWEI
"For me, mum gasped Sally. workers."
The dying woman actually smiled to see the passion of joy and grati- tude glowing in the rugged features of the servant:
Embargo Petition To Nanking
DRUG POISONING IN TANGSHAN
in tropical latitudes, there was a In view of the continued out- fair measure of agreement, thun-flow of rice from Anhwei and the derstorms being most frequent in insufficient food supplies in the ..500
in years when sunspots were province the Anhwel Provincia! Government has submitted a
numerous.
Dead During This
Year
Hundreds have died of drug justified by gales and strong impose an embargo on rice ex open sale of drugs in Tangshan poisoning as, the result of the
Of 336 gale warnings issued petition to the Government during the year 81 per cent. were urging that it be permitted, to
·winds.
TOBACCO TAX IN KWANGTUNG
CAUSES FURORE...
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sideration by the Government.
He has so impressed several of his colleagues that they, too, are planning to spend their holidays in England.
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"And the name of Vidler," she added with dignity, which there
ain't better in Sussex. And there's money, Sally. The master, he never said how much but there's money
in the Hastings Bank."
She sighed and slightly moved ber thin limbs under the honeycomb quilt, The Ministry of Railways, has ““Don't bury me in one of them
The matter is still under con- Statistics reveal that over the decided to operate a direct train best sheets," she said. "It ad spoil
"period of the past year no less
service between Peking and Talng- the set.”
than 170 people have died of drug poisoning in Tangshan and to between April 1 and Septem- Mrs. Vidler died, and the villa- 350 workers in the Tangshan coali ber 30 every year, beginning 1985. gers enjoyed a decorous, even pom- summer travelling to the Shan-mason received orders for a stone
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The next day a tall, taciturn farmer with a long, bluegrey beard and very bright little eyen, spoke to Sally
"You be going to stay and look after the house, Sally?".
Flushed Crimson, embarrassed, the woman stood awkwardly in her fragrant kitchen
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