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Shoes-that need. no Breaking in"

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HIGH SPEED LIFE.

TIME UNDER THE MICROSCOPE.

BY FROFESSOR A. M. LOW, AUTHOR

OF THE FUTURE.”

I wonder if many people in this world realise that most of their actions have

been decided for them by the countless generations who have gone before.

STEAMER STRIKES A REEF.

LIN-NUESTRA SENORA DE ALBA

DROWNED AT "SEA.

MEMBER OF PRESIDENT

COLN'S CREW ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED.

It is more than probable that our re gular system of thinking, breathing and.. eating, has been developed as a result of cur food coming to us from the tide id the days when life was represented by little more than a jelly fish.

The story of the death by drowning a sea of a member of the crew of the 18. President Lincoln, which arrived in port on Thursday from San Francisco rid Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai, has

come to hand.

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It appears that the man, whose name was J. Kilford, aged 24 years, was a first-class seamas. and, following fire drill, he was tying up sorte canvas over one of the Klebonts when he slipped and fell over the aide.

"The element of time is itself very re- lative. Certain people resent the ad- vancement of the clock in order that This happened prior to the arrival of electricity may be saved; they quote the liner at Honolulu. Following the that tired feeling" as proof that man raising of the usual alarm" Man over- is interfering with nature, quite forget- board, the captain gave immediate or- cing that time of the day is a relativedars for the ship to be turned around affair, and that some years ago dinner and for a boat lowered. The boat stood Was a function in certain parts of the by" the place where the man fell, but

the search was fruitless. world which could only be undertaken in the afternoon. Sunday is a relative fix- ture. Noon is a period which varies all over the earth, and with the advent of wireless, which is putting us into mental touch with every part of the world with in a few millionths of a second, the humorous nature of our system of time must be very evident.

Wireless has-made us a nation of time keepers; the right time Mister" has acquired a new significance. We have discovered that we can hear Big Ben by radio long before his chimes reach us by air, and it only remains for pocket wire less to drive to appointments in fifths of a second.

Reality and the Shadow.

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Sabsequently, the passengers made a collection of over $500 gold, and when the President Lincoln arrived at Hono

was despatched to the lulu this mother of Kilford.

The deceased was from New Orleans, and had been at sea for a number of years. He was popular among his ship- Marcy.

SERIOUSLY DAMAGED,

IMPROVEMENTS IN CINEMA PROGRAMMES,

INTERESTING REMINISCENCES.

COMPARISON OF PAST, AND PRESENT CONDITIONS.

An interesting article appeare in the current issue of the Queen's Theatre pro- gramme.

BOTTOM STOVE, IN..

The Nuestra Senora de Alba, an inter- island steamer operated by the Hercules Lumber Company, which left Manila on July 23rd, with passengers and cargo for Ceou and other southern ports, met

It shows that while prices all round with a serious accident on July 29th,have advanced tremendously, the charges. while passing through. Saragani Strait made for admission to the moving picture on her way to Davao. The steamer had houses have changed very little, during just passed Tinaca Point early in the

recent years and this notwithstanding the Svening, and about 7.30 she ran head on great improvement in the style of enter- into a teef at Buquit Point.

tainment provided.

were in

The old Victoria Theatre, which stood. to the Hongkong community in very much the same relation that the Queen's does to-day, charged 81.30 per seat ar their 9.15 performance, as compared with $1.50 charged at the Queen's new.

At the Victoria, suys the article, th overture usually started at about 9.50 prominent of whom was the trombone being, played by five musicians, the most

the ironical applause of the audience. player whose efforts flequently met with The gazette caite next, the one item îm the programme which was as excellent. then as it is to-day. Then followed the

All the passengers, who included Miss Jean Conrad, daughter of Colonel J. T Conrad, of Manila, are safe, most of them having been ashore in. launches.

As a result of the accident, a hole was stove in the bottom of the steamer..

Word of the accident was received by Manual G. Sampedro, president of the Hercules Lumber Company at midnight. At the same time he was assured that Ee immediately there was no danger. telegraphed salvage boats belonging to Fernandez Hermanos which Davao port, some 70 kilometres from the scene of the accident, to stand by and give whatever assistance was necessary.

While he has received few details of first three reels of a five part feature the accident, Mr. Sampedre said that it which was broken abruptly by an interval of ten minutes duration, during which only could be explained on the assump-ricksha coolics did a fac business rush tion that the lighthouse at Tiraca Painting patrons to the Hongkong. Hotel and had ceased to function. Had the light. The bell in the lobby then pro- house been working, he explained, the claimed that the picture was about to course of the ship would not have taken restart and the audience filed in once it near enough to where she struck.

The Atlantic Gulf and the Pacific more to see the two remaining parts of

show concluding at 11.15. Company boat Salvager left Manila last the feature and a two reef comedy, ti Sunday to help in getting the Nuestra Senora de Alba off the reef.

bullet passing through "a piece a piece of glass, and show the result; previously

In those days theatres were equipped unknown, as something quite as pretty as the bursting of the petals of a flower. We can make a hen lay an egg and hatch A wireless message received from the with only one machine which enabled the it in the space of a few hours, and re-Fernandez fleretanos steamer Luz, proprietors to earn quite a nice little revenue by displaying advertising slides Time is quite the only function of lative to the rate at which we live we can which is standing by, says that the bewhile the reels were being changed. The which we have relative knowledge. To illustrate miracles more wonderful than has holes in both the starboard and port average cost of a picture programme of

sides. The hold is full of water, and being in the stars you and I are not yet any of which historians have told us. born, and if he could see the earth he.Cabaret Suggestion."

the engine and dyname rooms are both eight reels was about 20 per cent of would probably be watching Nero tuning

under water.

Part of the cargo has what is paid to-day for the tea and eleven reel programme in vogue." Tae up his fiddle for his famous act in which

been taken out of Luzon Stevedoring super-production was, of course, a thing the fire brigade arrived too late, instead

Company lighters. The three passengers authought of of reading our owe placards of recent

already are in Darao. incendiarism,

When we sit in a train it is only the jolting which tells us that we are in instion if our eyes are shut. Doctors used to say that high speed would be fatal to human life, little understanding that only change of speed can be ap- preciated by our relative powers of ob- servation. It is. More than probable that time decides the difference between reality and the shadow. The past and future could be interchanged if some phenomenon faster than the speed of light were discovered. Our very lives may be imaginative, and the solid objects to which we refer when speaking of things-we-cannot-sec-depend-entirelyon. time for their position and existence.

If we were travelling at an infinite speed objects would, cenas to exist re- lative to this earth; if, the particles of which matter is composed could be moved with salcient speed it would be possible to transfer solid objects from place to place, and if we were able to catch au aeroplane travelling towards the stars at a greater speed than that of light it might not be impossible to regard the future, quite indifferent as to whether it was past, present, or as yet unborn. Rocking a Battleship.

It may seem a strange example, but to me a modern cabaret is capable of im provement by a study of this great factor of life, if it is not life itself, that is time. A night club is apparently a place which only differs from any ordinary en- tertainment in the fact that the acts of drinking and dancing are performed after a specified moment which itself is entirely relative

This surely is a matter that can easily be remedied. It is not that the babitués insist upon slcaping from what we call 4.0 am to 11.0 am. that causes the dif ficulty. Poor things! They only want à certain amount of sleep, but are not happy unless the actual moment relative to certain clock which can be altered is different to other people.

Allow me to present them with a great invention. Let the clocks of all new establishments be constructed with wheels which are elliptical. By using pval wheels instead of round, a solution can bo reached which should be perfectly satisfactory to both police and dancers. These clocks will naturally travel faster at solne, moments than at others, like a hoop which has been sat upon by a fat man and which, when rolled by its master, proceeds in a series of" dashes." Our clocks, then, will operate very simply. Towards ten o'clock or there- about the hands will imperceptibly trável rather.. more fast, and, under the It is only time which settles the dif inficence of rhythmic movement and pos ference between solids and liquids. Asibly a little hopeful intoxication, so liquid is commonly described na o sübrilliant an event will remain. unnoticed stance which will adapt itself to the shape until the happy couples can say to them- of any vessel. But the words "ina selves, "Good gracious, how quickly the short space of time" are accessary, for if time has passed!" water is poured into a jug the high-speed cinema shows that a long time must elapse before the water conforms to the necessary shape. A piece of gold placed upon a plate of lead will gradually Row through it, if sufficient time is allowed to elapse.

If I thump the table in London, the jar reaches Australia if I wait long enough for it to arrive. An aerial tied to a chimneypot will move the founda- tions of a house if sufficient time be allowed, and a child can rock a battle ahip if the necessary recurrent impulses be given at precisely the proper intervals of time.

Time in Dreams.

Time passes very quickly in dreams, which proves clearly how relative is the arbitrary definition of Big Ber. The dance will proceed with gusto, the clock will travel not very fast, but a little faster than usual over the hours of 11 and 12 Everyone will be happy, they will dance, buy cigarettes and consume liquor to their hearts' content, with the added happiness of looking at the clock and seeing that it is long past the hours of stern prohibition.

By 4 o'clock by the cabaret clock the elliptical wheels will have begun their alow process and gradually creeping back, they will at 8 o'clock in the mor- aing have reached the time where they agree with other clocks. Thus no one will be late and no one will have the opportunity to forget that they should be home in proper time with the milk.

Our very lives only differ from those of such apparently inanimate objects as crystals in virtue of the rate at which we-live-A-butterfly-must-live in a life which to us is dreamlike, and an elephant would probably attribute to us the casuistry of the ordinary silkworm. In deed, as far as knowledge is concerned, Time is not an arbitrary affair; it is the silkworm is probably got an inapt merely a series of relative gaps which comparison relative again to somebody we are endeavouring to fill by changes who possessed a real capacity for thought. of costume, trips in closed motor cars, The rate of our lives is greatly increas- dancing, and the occasional carnivals of ing. It is in speed of communication, court. A few old hours of work are.com travel, action, and thought that we somonly interposed in order that the pure greatly differ from those gentlemen wholy relative pleasure of doing anything lived in caves and wrapped themselves may not lose its savour.. Work is only in decorative skins.

doing things that we do not want to do

We are finding the need for the usein someone else's time. of more senses in order to keep up with Unconscious life proves how relative this increase of time. We are trying is all time. It is as easy to compass a to develop the capacity for the tranamis-lifetime in our sleep as in a modern sion of thought in order that the waste novel. It is not an impossibility that of time necessary to drag our bodies from death itself is a function of time whose place to place need not continue.

terrors would be slight were the mean- Every time I read a newspaper, with ing of time sufficiently comprehended. A its description of the exquisite social child loves to sleep Christmas Eve away. function which distinguishes this century, Anxiety and worry only exist because we I am moved to compare our life with that fear the time that must elapse, but we of the Middle Ages. How little time has can take comfort from the fact that with, really elapsed in our terms of science out misery and cold the virtues of joy It is of auch recent date that religious and warmth would be quite unappro- fervour led to the denunciation of in- ciated. offensive human beings as. “ magicians,** The relativity of life is perhaps the that only a few months ago an wafor- one opinion in this life which we can tunate cleric in France was accused of really dignify by the often misapplied witchcraft because the birds in his parish word-fact. We neglect this much too were seen to be flying in certain direc casually. Our financial standing de tions,

pends on time, for many of us could live like millionaires-for a day.

A cinematograph, usually used ta por tray weeping women or galloping cow- We love our furniture because it is old, boys, is an instrument well suited to the and books which should be lovable for study of relative time. By its use we the models they portray are treated with can turn the most serious event into a contempt if we are fifty years in error screaming farce by the simple process of as to the date of their printing. Perhaps speeding up the period of events relative like platonic friendship, the utility value to our lives We can photograph is a very determinate factor of Time (Continued on next column.) and Humbug-Evening Standard.

The Queen's Theatre to-day employs. The Nuestra Senora de Alba formerly fourteen musicians, twelve of whom was the United States transport Lise provide the music at the 9.15 perfor and before that was known as the San Jan The vessel is strongly built, and if fair weather keeps up probably cna he brought to Manila. She is insured for Peuce 100,000 with the Union Insur ance Society of Canton.

LOUGHBOROUGH COLLEGE.

BRITISH EMPIRE SCHOLARSHIPS.

The number of candidates applying for these valuable scholarships in the Faculty of Engineering continues to increase from year to year,

mance. Projection is by two machines that are almost independent of the. human touch the speed at which the film runs being automatically-controlled and the carbons automatically fed. There is sort whatever Do interruption of any from the beginning of the show to the end and one has only to see again one of the old films to realize what an encor mous improvement has taken place. To those who attend the pictures night after night, and week after week, improve ment is perhaps imperceptible. But that there has been a vast change was brought home to the management of the Queen's Theatre a few evenings ago when an old gentleman' from Hoihow who had "ot This year Examination Centres have seen a picture since 1918 atopped to say been recognised at the English College, how wonderful he thought the show was He pointed out that there Jerusalem; the Academy, Sydney, Nova in comparison with that which he and Scotia, and the Trinity College: Kandy, last seen. Cevion, in addition to Loughborough was an "eatire absence of flicker, that he was not annored by advertising sides College.

every twelve minutes or so; that the photography had improved out of all be- lieving and that the settings were anr vellous. The last time I saw the pic- 9-Edward Soar Boys Grammar tures." he exclaimed. "it was a peaany gaff I-went-to-see. They are right now School, Ashby de la Zouch. 3-Leslie E. Hall-Banbury County in describing a present day Cinema as a

picture palace." School.

For 1938 the Governors of the College have made the following awards:-

1. Frank H. Williams-Cheltenham

Grammar School.

4. Charles E. C. Townsend-Epsom

College.

borough College, Leicestershire, Eng- The Scholarships are open to all land, for the period of the full Diploma British subjects residents in any part of Course.

the Empire, and are temable at Laugh-I Each scholarship is of the value of £75

(Continued at foot of next Column.) per annum.

Hongkong Weekly Press.

A LARGE PART OF THE KUOMINTANG ARMY-

IS NOW IN HUNAN, AND CANTON CITY, DURING THE PAST WEEK, HAS BEEN SUE- FERING FROM BITTER LABOUR DISPUTES.

It would appear to be a case of cause and effect. There.

seems no doubt that the Labour-Unions-in-Kwang tung are too strong to be kept in check by the Civil Administration.

The Postal Union Strike has been settled, but only by the

Canton Government, already overburdened with debt,~ agreeing to pay a subsidy which it is doubtful whether the Peking Post Office authorities will recognise.

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Cantons domestic troubles during the past few days.

throw considerable light on the difficulties which confront the Government there in arriving at any reasonable settlement of the boycott.

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