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UNICII was a gay and fascinat- ing city in the spring and early summer of 1914. To one who had but recently left school and was enjoying a first taste of independence it was enchanting.

They used in those days to display the latest news in the streets on yellow bills. It was from one of these that we learned of the assassination of an arch- duke in the remote and unpronounceable town of Sarajevo. The affair was dis- cussed in shocked terms at the pension that evening, but discrectly, for there was L Serbian gentleman among our number. Cer- tainly it occurred to no one that this distant event was going to influence all our lives.

the

He told I that

he had passed a

man

stumb ling a 10 a from inn...

tha

It is difficult to remember stout gentle-

distance exactly at this what was the first, real in- dication of impending war. Was it the mobilisation notices, posted outside barracks, and the replacing of the gay sky-blue uniforms by unfamiliar field grey? Or was it those photographs they took to throwing on the cinema screen at the music-halls — the aged Em- peror Francis Joseph, the

DID IT HAPPEN?

You may think this story really King of Italy, and finally, to happened and you may be wrong!.

But you COULD be right... The answer will be published tomorrow

thunderous acclamation, the Kaiser in heroic pose?

Speculation

came fact. Russia were at war,

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CAN ONLY BE DONE IN A "ZORIC" UNIT. THERE IS BUT ONE IN THE COLONY.

IT IS USED AT ..

songs.

The

him, I began to advance argument put forward by the knowledgeable young man Three weeks and then economic collapse, Ho made a sound of wheezy derision.

"Theories! Do you think the Germans are out for a three- week Jaunt?

of Tho duys comic opera war are over. We are seeing the break-up of the always known,

world we've

nothing less. It doesn't matter much to me. I'm almost finished with it anyway, but I'm sorry for you young ones,”

DO-IT-YOURSELF

CRAZE SWEEPS UNITED STATES

By RUSSELL HOWE

class"

CX-

New York. corporal fourth ILLIONS of Ameri- Perience, were the first to gyp when mechanics charged $3 to cans are today trying change a TV valve or when to circumvent the plumbers naked (18 much to American tradition of being unclog a sink.

M

in debt from the cradle to As the handyman habit spread the grave by doing repaira from veterans to their neigh- and building furniture or bours, manufacturers began to cash in on the thrift craze with Feven housey --- themselves.

"Do-It-Yourself" kits,

This is the much talked

Today 20,011 "DIY" clubs about Do-It-Yourself craze boast a membership of 1,200,000 which has filled American men about the house, and magazines and books since millions more buy DIY kits for occasional jobs like reboring the war and which has now the family car, putting up grown to fantastic propor- bookshelves, building a 24-incit tions.

screen TV set or replastering aging city

apartments. Profit margins are exorbi- Especially the last..for three

of New Yoric 13 tantly high here, but credit quarters

scheduled for destruction in the course of the next 25 years.

is long and easy, and most Americans have accepted for years to pay a high price for services so long as they can pay it gently.

Returned servicemen, how ever, with a little "echnical

by

Adrian

Alington

AUTHOR Adrian Alington went to

the first world was with the Witshire Regiment, finished with the rank of captain. In the second world war he was a private in the Home Guoré. Aliagion woz educated at Marlborough and Magdalen. Married, he fires in Kensington, kos two step-children and three step- grandchildren, He is 40.

would be a drog on us and I believe he just walked out in- to the fields and hid. Perhaps alone down ho just lay

all and-"

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pay

Ambitious DIY-ers can $2,000 for a Ave-room prefab

house which its manufacturers claim can be put up by on average handyman during his annual 14 days holiday.

The set includes concealed wiring-do comply with laws In most cities and drainage, though city sanitation authorl- ties insist on laying the last "lap (from the garden fence to the main) themselves,

One over-thrifty Milwaukee resident who "mained up" him- self switched off his street's water for an hour and left the local Bremen without water, with the result that the latter had to pay the owner of a burned house $8,000 for damages.

w'as

Another nightmare DIY case recently from reported Miami, where a man who had decided to put glass blinds in his house discovered that the window supports were rotten and threw those out too. Tho he plaster began to crack, so pulled it off. Other defects in tx 35-year-old house appeared. Soon

nothing was left of his At the railway station, which

home but the iron fraing and wo reached just as dawn was breaking, we learned that no me questioningly. I said that the building and ordered it to She broke off and looked at the root, which began to leak. City authorities then condemned trains

were running, moro

was very possible. be demolished. thought it bridges having been blown up And, Indeed, I did. The old shend of us. Liege was

the

CURES BOREDOM

In a more successful manner

It was after midnight when we reached Charing Cross. 300 houses in Chicago have August the 4th was already been entirely DIY-built, though

nearest possibility and that was world that he had known was

was Anished anyway. far beyond walking distance. There was nothing for it but to pool our money and try to find couple of taxis, At last, after Aerco

bargaining,

wis one persuaded to take half our party, which included Miss Hill and the asthmatic gentleman. The rest of us followed after only a short wall

Adventures

During the rest of our erratic

journey I thought often of the astlimatic gentleman's. words,

The old world breaking up? As we drove through the growing daylight, we passed peasants driving their cattle the frontier, and families in

away

light, their belongings

from

loaded

here. Since then millions have died in two world wars. I like some of the builders employed sometimes to think that the expert help through the labour

exchange's unemployed list. asthmatic gentleman was the frat casualty of all. And per- haps not the least gallant

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NO

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In California, pollee interven- od when a Los Angeles dentist started marketing extraction kits and cheap Japanese drills. When the local dentists' associa- tion threatened to strike him of the Toll his ΕΠΕΝΕΤ was: "Amateurs will make such a mess of their mouths it will mean more work for us in the end."

reddish face. He stem the invasion-detachments Another story in this saries by...the churches are encouraging it

was

adventures. The other party's experience had been much the

Negley Farson

Here is!

Psychologists say the DIY crazo is also catching on as a eure for boredom, now that the TV vogue is on the wane, And on, bo carts. And hurrying to And then one warm sum- proving to us in his aggressive unhealthily

from the pulpit, as they think It mer night speculation be- slightly cockney voice that un. seemed greatly exhausted and of marching troops, dressed like

keeps men away from bars and Germany and der modern conditions a Euro- was breathing with difficulty, our friends of the barricades and

attaches them more closely to followed by light wheeled guns, pean war could not last longer in he drank his coffee.

old

It yesterday's drawn by dogs, Yes, comic opers

story home and family. Perhaps That than three weeks. And I rather

We held a council of war armies were certainly finished. Hollywood Coincidence, by C. B. does. At any rate it certainly the "Do-It-Yourself" night the streets were full think that Miss Hill was there.

Forester-actually happen? The keeps Hill was small, middle- and decided to walk to the But this one was to die with

vendors happy. answer is YES, and talkative. She lived in

nearest railway station, which splendid gesture of defiance. Binging patriotic There was still a King of trip abroad. She was obviously was about six miles distant.

They told us at Ostend that Bavaria in those days and enjoying every moment of her we took the precaution of our boat wuy the last to leave, crowd gathered unusual experience. You could hiring a hand-cart, on to which Almost the first person I met ZORIC DRY CLEANINGut the palace. Aged king almost see her formulating, the wo loaded our bags and, after upon the crowded decks

phrasest in which sho would a very short distance, the Miss Hill. She looked tired and Ludwig, uniformed, white presently tell her story over the asthmatic gentleman. For ho a little dishevelled, but as re- bearded, appeared on the teacups in Maidstone,

found it impossible to keep doubtable as ever. We swopped balcony amid a hail of

pace with us. "Hochs!" He spoke gently and paternally. urging his

Our way lay along

a dead same as ours, except that their taxi had been commandeered on straight pave people to put their trust in

road, Ilned with the road by a party of officers. God and their

It was rulers.

dark again and we poplars, the sort of seeme that That had meant another five- to become depressingly mile walk in the heat of the The next evening I left were approaching the Belgian was

frontier, when our train came familiar to some of us before day. Munich.

to a final and conclusive halt. very long. Before

had

I asked how the asthmatic The Arst stage of the journey, Once again we were turned out, walked far, we mei an obstruc-

had tared. Miss although

slow. WIS normal this time in open country. The tion in the form of a barricade, gentleman

became Hill's manner it appeared, had clumsily constructed from carts enough. It was at Cologne, Belgians,

once solemn and excited. $18.00 some time next day, that things blown up a bridge immediately and sacks. Manning it were a 1 we wanted to cross handful of Belgian infantrymen ahead.

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