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PRESS.

BIGGER DEMAND FOR NEWSPAPERS,

Mr. H. A. Gwynné, Editor of the London Morning Post, was last month elected President of the Institute of Journalists.

RICKSHAS.

ONLY USED BY DEISHAS AND TOURISTS.

RICKSHAMEN YOUNG AND

ALERT.

ACROBATICS IN THE AIR.

ART OF STUNT"

FLYING.

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Mr. Blumenleld, in his Fresiden tial address, dealt, among other matters, with newspaper amalgama- tions and the broadcasting of news." Megaphoned Opinion..

In The Geisha World.

The jinrickaha-men whe pull the pilots to employ aerobatics in "geisha about (not like the geisha order to secure the defeat of an patrons) are young stalwarts, being enemy, but Major Stewart's ex the pick of their now fast windplanations also demonstrate their ling profession. Among them you

Dressed in their

and no tottering grandpas or usefulness in ordinary civilian By broken coalies.

A question that had agitated the minds of mary journalists, be re- marked, was that of newspaper

ing. amalgamations. He had read re- clean, neat cotton tights and fac

The book should be read not only kets they deliver their dainty bag- solutions put forward by gatherings gage with utmost speed and des by pilots, but also those who may of journalists deploring the new patch, especially as their runs are be passengers in a machine engag- movement towards multiple owner never long, being merely from theed in aerobatics.

There is much ship of newspapers on the ground geisha house to the teabouse or

restaurant rendezvous...

sound advice and vivid description that it had the tendency to increase

Among no circles in Tokyo is of what the passenger may expect unemployment, and also that it de etiquette and the niceties of courte

tá experience given with more than prived the public of the advantageous convention regarded with more

care than in the gay world of the an occasional touch of humour. of having its opinions given to it tea house and restaurant, and these "If you have proper respect from independent individual sources. jinzicksha-men are all gentlemen. for your breakfast," the passenger We may think what we like about decorum is observed by these good up during a spin. The ground, A strict sense of propriety and is urged, "never attempt to look

these amalgamations, Mr. Blumenfellows and they would no more while it is whizzing round, may feld proceeded, but it is generally think of making a too intimate not appear attractive-bat the sky correct to say that expansion of remark to one of their pretty fares is actively offensive."

than a dentist would of stealing a

!! The Falling Leaf.!! business has usually followed, with kiss from a fair patient. It just

What the passenger will ex the inevitable, increase, rather than ien't done. Yet they are kindly in a decrease, in employment. So far their attitude, taking care of their perience during the slow roll

The machine fair charges like a faithful and is explained thus: as salories are concerned, too, I watchfaldog will guard his performs a long gentle switchback, think there has been a slight im- mistress. provement, which grows in relation to the importance of the positions that are occupied...

So far as megaphoned opinion from Loudon headquarters is con- cerned, I feel that wise direction on the part of multiple owners will con- vince them that provincial news papers cannot, and will not, be edited from a palace in Fleet Street, and-that-so-much latitude must be allowed to the editor on the spot that, it for no other reason than that of good business, the sense of individuality will not be sacrificed.

Blaming The Prem, There appeared, Mr. Blumen- feld added, to be grow.

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ing tendency among public men who

statements to made

the Press, unsolicited more often than pot, to issue deninis, or semi- denials, of remarks they had made. Often in the enthusiasm of the moment, or for the sake of making a telling point, a man was misled into committing an indiscretion, which he found after it had appear ed in cold print either subjected him to unexpected criticism or caused him to be publicly repudiated.

The short cut for the man, was to issue a denial; to say that he never made the remarks attributed to him. It was his experience as an editor that the care and accuracy of the average fully-qualified re porter of the present time made it extremely unlikely that charges of misreporting or deliberate misrepre- sentation were either fair or cor-

rect.

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Another piece of advice "in: are not anappreciative of such faithfulness. At Obon, New Years" When flying upside down it is and on special occasions such as inadvisable to have loose change the opening of a new geisha house pencils or penknives in open poc or the "eaming out" of a new girl, kets." mones gifts, food for wine are given Describing the "falling leaf," to propitiate the risksha-men on perhaps the most exciting "stunt"

the whole programme, the: whose kind ofces the geisha must in depend on keeping their appoint author says: The earth seems ments on time, with their elaborate to come up towards the pilot with toilettes the least damaged. a sudden rush, which is exhilarat- And then there are the tips. ing-or not, according to whether Although no ricksha-man in the gay you are used to it. world would ever think of demean, Major Stewart has apparently ing himself by asking for a tip, the little time for the "man who can tea-house maids would never let learn to fly in six hours" "When him, depart, after delivering the he has done about 500 hours solo, geisha, without a 50-gen coin added he states, "the pilot has probably to bis treasury-for which he will mastered the erudities or five. make polite but not too obsequious finger exercises of flying,"

Though there are occasional thanks. We Japanese are especial. ly sensitive to kindly feeling and passages in the book with which goodwill, and to create and to some pilots: will disagree, Major maintain such an atmosphere is Stewart's opinions will be con- one of the chief aims of geish, sidered with respect, for His re- ricksha-men, tea house proprietors putation as an air cxpert is well He is the Aeronautical and servants, the principle being known.

the London that if everybody is polite there Correspondent of is no necessity for making rude farning Post, and one of his demands and creating bad feelings, books published in 1925 was con

sidered by the Aero Club de As For The Tourist Party.

France to be worthy of the award Now as for the jinricksha-men of the Club's silver medal for the who string out in long processions best work on aeronautics published carrying the kankodan (tourist) in a foreign language during the parties through the streets of Tokyo from hotel to temple, from busy mart to emporium and forth for an entire forenpon or p...they are a hybrid and tatterdemalion lot. In these days it is no easy job to get 100 jin ricksha together. on short. notice and that for only a day's work at wholesale cut-prices, so to speak,. with the result that some rather miserable specimens of humanity. and of their profession turn up. Of course the tourists could be carried. with greater comfort and despatch by motor-carn over the great dis tances of the capital, but that would never do. The travel literature about picturesque Japan, and the quaint customs of the Japanese with their strange means of public conveyance and all that have been. duly consumed, and John Doe from Missouri didn't pay his good money for a long trip to Japan to ride in a Ford, ear. 2

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