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A NEW HELIUM GAS FIELD. AT AMARILLO IN TEXAS:

ARMY TC-A'

Helium is shipped in special railroad tank cars as shown A bly above and the smaller drums piled along the tracks.

military dirigible is shown "coming up for a drink.".

Washington, The American he This source, according to bfli- lium centre remains in Texas, buts to the bureau, ought to pro- it has been removed from Worth to Amarillo.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, JANUARY 5th, 1929.

MONEY NAMES.

WHERE THEY COME FORM.

(By David Neville,)

A writer in a recent issue of the Daily Mail refers to a "stiver" as antimismatic rarity. If he were to go to British Guiana he would find coins beaving the inscription! "One Stiver" in, dirculation. Fur thermore, they are made at the Riyal Mint.

Most of our slang names for coins are of high antiquity. They have trickled down from an era when currency and exchanges were less highly organized and, provid ed the metal and the weight were up to standardi,, it nutter little

in what and the coins had been minted,

You may see the same state of

PICTURESQUE KWANGSI.

PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT.

A section of the city of Kwellin, Kwangsi Province, taken from the roof of the three-storey Baptist Hospital there. This.

things in the Levant today. I large and interesting city boasts many fine schools, with about 18,000 students in all. At the foot of the bills, in the back of the pic-

ture, a fine motor rond is being built, which will connect the North and South highways, remember once, i Alexandretta, being given change for an English sovereign in 23 different cur curenies, including a tetradrachm of a Roman emperor!

into

FAITH IN YOUTH.

WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS

the Therefore you will find names of foreign coins living on int popular usage. A bob is the fourteenth-century French babe,

(By Sir Arthur Yapp). dollar is the gulden, first coined Fort vid mugh helium for "quite at Joachimsthal, whose name

"Joachimsthuler galden" was!

One of the most significant signs.. fow year" Such, supplies are

theler audi abbreviated

of the Hmes in which we live is helium very are, however, and there is

"Fanner" The government's new production plant is as being com a promise that the helium in this corrupted to bollars

reached Britain from India, where what might be termed the renaiss structed just itside Amariin and country will last indefinitely.

the East India Company's troops ance of youth. This phenomenon will soon be completed: Tae plant'

Besides the Petrolia and Ama found the ral tanga, the nearest is increasingly evident, not only in site covers more than 18 acres.

only one scurees, there is

West, but even more in the one. Here the helium will be separated other important one known in the ivalent of the nimble six pence the progressive counteles of the and backwar} frons the natural human-bearing Cited States, it has been found at home,

The ticky the South African lime retrograde kaa pipit down trom the Amarilo in intural gas in Canada, but in

ume for a threepenny bit was the countries of the East. company in a pin-line www being ry small percentages.

in which Kadir labourers.

Youth is claiming a more setive, Colour and size played their part affairs, and bas already received in the allocation of names. A greater measure of freestone and would have "brown" and a "yellow bog" are responsibility than

constructed, to be used in the light-

aillo

payment of wages.

ex-

er than air ships of the Army and The U. S. Government helium pro- changed for the ticket given the participation in national and world Navy, all of which are now lifted was began in 1917 and

plants were opened in Fort Worth with a piedine carrying the gas all Ahe way..

by helium.

Helium, it may be well to revdl, is one of those rare inert gase which do not turn. It has no aliuity with

The new structures at Anxerillo

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nything else and will be substantial ami adapted though some chemists believe they or fative expansion at lowest pos- have made it combine with therable cost, arcording to the Bureau things such as platinum and his Mines. The more implant the equipment will be muth ---government scientists will parts not be convinced until after furieused in steel framed boildbugs.

The mechanied equipment wi} ther investigation.

Helium has maly 92 per tent, ut, the plant for separating the Re the lifting power of agdrogen, but in will consist principally of the American Government long agoj gas rutines, Pos, compressors and low température decided that this sacrifice in lifting, apparatus for power was more than compensated liquification. Spare units are to

wice he moved in trim Fort Worth by the fact that hydrogen

Since the estraet between the dangerously jitlammable..

The helium pitant at Fort Worth government and the Amaniffs (2)

executed, farther is being abandoned only because the Company old Petrolia pool a hundred miles indications of a large helian sp

A gas will away, which has zerețufore supplies! pl; luve been found.

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as easily understandable as the, appeared possible twenty years Jerench blanche moale, but it is ago. Even the "dappers" hold the not everyone who realizes that the full statue of citizenship, while old thieves slang of hunt," for: the affairs of some of our very bit gold coin, is derived from blade business concerns are under the annale.

direction of youth, The guine was first Poined in 1663 for the use of the Royal Com

any of Adventurers trading on hears the conviction expressed the Guinea Coast of West Africa, that, in many walks of life, old men 500 thin its name iş easily bang on to the important jolia, explained, it was not until 20, with the result that youth barely years or more Later, however, thi gats a-look-in.

it became POTTERY eurrency I home. By that tine dames 1. sat upon the thrade, and it was promptly dubbela, "Jimmy","

Tonse were days when cheques were little usel and for the couvrulene of customers

banks

At the same time, one often

Old Men Who Don't Retire,

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kav zaid that it would have bezd, nothing short of a crime if he had retired when he reached the age of 60, because he had accomplish ed far more during the Inst twenty yeurs of his life than he did before he reached his 60th birthday. He is new 84.

I discussed this problem of the older men with a young man mer recently on Tyneside. The had just started in business for hiraselt. and told me something of his doubts and fears, his hopes and aspirations.

"Young fellows like me, or 28 or 30, are apt to get swelled head," he remarked, "and need a bit of a coster We lack experience, and need the guidance of men alder and more experienced than ourselves. We often grumbie about the man who is a director of several com-"), panies, but as a purchasing agent, I have found time and time again that such a man's connexion with these other companies has given' him an inside knowledge that has eaubled him to direct me in a way that would otherwise have been impossible."

It would be a positive disaster ta youth if some old mei retired from their positions, and a blessing to youth and to themselves and their families if others did give

up.

I believe there is a tendency in many directions for the older men to hang on do their jobs too long,

in most walks of life, the ideal is but I aut equally convinced of the

an active partnershing between Impossibility of drawing a bari

Youth, Vigo, and entreprise a and fust line as to when proper one hand, and ce experience Just about the same time the should retire. Much depends

on the other. I believe strongly rafloways

he circumstaners, While same 1:21.

in the policy of the understudy, introduced from Scotland, and have done their best work before

with sympathetic leadership and the ever increasing devalving of popular faney, amused by this half they rench 14, others who have sized quadruped, valled half a berome, world-famous, have done

younger shoulders, roulan, or 2 phineas a pose their niggest work after the three sensibility from the older to the The teeth is sellin common usage

years. Certainly this was in sporting ciddles,

true of Lord Stratheona.

first

it with helium, has begun to peler which extends the proved gas area out. The pool was seven years old at the land about a mile outside | issur 1 guineas in rouleaux, r when the government first begin te herwells previously contemplated | packers, of fifty, - take helium from it.

Teen rompleted. It raine in The U. S. Bureau of Mines, which with #upen Ross

a day and a has supervision, over the govern, 7.10a,tou calle fret ment helium projects, ijïvestigated, el pressure, of 725 pands to

a helium various sources of selium, festing, the stjuare inch, with samples of natural gas from over content equal to that of the other

Another well is now being a wide area. It found that by farewell the best source was at Anjoritá L

TRAPS FOR THE UNWARY.

(By Archibald Marshall,)

The question of pronunciation

raised recently by the publication

Lastly, the word money itself is very old, as old as the Roman EIFFEL TOWER WILTS. teugle af Jane Moneta, the mint

trom which it takes its mamy,

EFFECT OF SUMMER HEAT.

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July 16 last by the BBC, of an "Announcer's Vermontres in Paris registore! | Guide," is of peculiar interest to inety-four in the shade, and on English-making people, because that day, and the next the crowds English it the only European Which gathered in groups in the ! This Eiffel Tower Janguage in, which spelling is of deinty little help. The people, with not witness of a unique phenoawnon much knowledge are always try the tallest artificial structure in ing to get us to pronounce words, the world appeared to

bus bent,

as they are spelt, buy veẹn it they carving, outward toward had their way in the pronuncia outheast

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Scientific odservers tions they unsist on, they would on confirmed the fact and deeld. still leave innumerable words, ed that the heat wave had done which could not possibly

pronounced as they are spelt:

It was only about five-inches out

the perpendicular, but that was

In a few of their demands wojenough to cause a certain amount (of alarim, according to the press may sparpathize with them. T anybody brought, up to pronoun”ijeports which presently printed the in wh" it sounds the scientific reassurance, cockneyism to give "where" ami "were" exactly the same souga.. According to these, the bending of the tower had been anticipated The Scottish and the Irish make a difference, and perhaps & would and provided for by its designer- - . better if we did. But the "i" inst as he had provided for the shipped out of general as in pressure of a hurricane. The England long ago, and it is not bending was due to the fact that, wrong to ignore it now,

The pedants arepartientar alt sounting "or" and "a" at the rul of a word as they are written, and. not as "er."

while the great girders in the two iles facing the sun became hot and so expanded, just as rails expand, the other, twa

faces fotained their normal proportions. But they waste their This, it appears, had been, duly breath. The vowel is really hard allowed for by having the eyes of ly pronounced at all, whether it is the bolts on the northern side a in "or," or "er." His sound is

little larger than those on the

represented in phototies, by south. When couler weather came

inverted "e." It is the con- monost sound

on July 15 the tower ind rend-

in the English justed itself. language, and recognized by the authorities as belonging to our * peach,

Greek diphthong "eu" has, the It is wrong to sound the "C" a same sound as “use" in "obtuse," "often," or to pronousee "break- But the "" in "Timotheus" fast as "brakefast." These are, has the sound of "lus," became the favourite errers of the pedants, Greek "e" was short and followed "o." These le traps but, sa in so many cases, the com- by an mon way is the right way, although present no difficuly to the educat # those who keep to it do not knowed, but are apt to catch the un-

why.

wars.

יו

It is in words derived from the! English speech ought to be kept Latin and Greek that real errors pure, but it would not be the of pronunciation are-most common, incomparable thing it is if it were The foul "e" in "animalcule" and not always changing, and there "epitome" must be sounded; there some changes that have become name "theнcus" must But he respectable from Jong-usage and pronounced "Theshus," because the must be accepted,

Dien

Mr. Robert Dollar, the famous American shipowner who recently visited this country, is reported to

HONGKONG MEMORIALS.. LONG FORGOTTEN HEROES.

Among the largest of the military memorials which stand

In the old portion of the cemetery at Happy Valley, is the above colupan, erected to the memory of those belonging to the LIX. Regiment who lost their lives while serving in Hong- kong in the early days of the Colony.

So effaced has the lettering on the base of the memorial become that it is impossible to read all but a little of the in- scription width originally not out the dates and details.

Eloquent, however, of the rigorous conditions under which these early defenders served in the fact that there can just he ride out the, record that among those who died while the regiment served here were 24 Sergeants, 11 Coporals, 1 Drum- mer, 116 Privates, 36 Women and 107 Children..

Youth's Claim to Freedom. There is nothing unreasonable in youth's claim to liberty, or to a fall share of responsibility, as long as that liberty is not confused with heence, and that responsibility is faced with competence and hard work. Youth's claim is based on three main contentions:

our

What Youth has Dobe-After all, modern youth cannot forget what it accomplished or what it suffered in the Great War. In those never-to-be-forgotten days in Flanders, when I saw after a big

or other of battle, in one tiny improvised Y.M.C.As for the walking wounded, those terrible queues of amfering youth, lads covered with blood and mad, in agany but cheerful, wounded, and fed-up but unromplaining-I felt youth had won its claim to free- dom.

Not only on the field of battle, but on a hundred fronts of com- merce, in the laboratory, on the platform, in conference and diplo- macy, youth has shown 'what it

can do.

The Possibilities nf Youth,- Youth is the Niagara of humanity, and one of its greatest reserves of power. Ax, through the rentúries, the waters of Niagara' remained unharnessed, so has it been with the world's legions of youth. When the war dams were heard the call was inevitably to youth; and youth was quick to respond.

With the return of peace, youth has always been forced back into Now we comparative abreurity.

are beginning to realise more of. the potentialities of youth' over in times of peace. We simply can- not afford to forget that the great issues of peace and war more than ver In the hands of

foreign youth. Lost

markels again, can only be regained and held by the youth of to-day and to-morrow. The very potentialities of youth are one of its most patent elnims to freedom.

No Strength Apart from Free- don. The world is calling for really strong men, and there can be no strength apart from liberty, It is the only air in which strength. can be bred and "developed. Un- less trusted youth can never be come trustworthy. On the other hand, youth is always ready to respond to trust and responsibility. This is more than ever realised by those who are responsible to- day for the training of youth. Our public schools are homes of liberty,

for it is recognised tint mere book education is of dittle worth apart that from that other education comes from shouldering rese' | ponsibility and doing things. It at public school is the last year that is real value in the building of a boy's character, Daring the he is learning to earlier years jobey; but, in his last year, if he

il End of character is

responsibility personality, placed on him and he learns how to commaid.

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No Plot Against Youth. There is no deep-laid plot 19.

from positions of keep youth power and responsibility, any more than there is a royal road to success. Even now, mérit has á way of finding the road to the top.

But youth must be prepared to pay the price of success, and an inevitable part of that price a hard work and sustained effort. It was said of successful, men of a past generation:..

"They, while their companions

.slopt.

Were Foiling upward in The

night."

And thus must it ever be.

A prominent business man in the North of England, who is a kert observer of men, is emphatic as tó the importance of a Ind who has his way to make in busines beginning work and developing gifts of leadership in business while he is young. He even goes so far as to say, "I have not yet

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who hos great who

initiated and built up a commercial undertaking left school after the age of 15. Most have left at the age of 14. 1 or as young as 12."

My Advice to Youth. As an older mán, 1 would say to the youth of this greatly favoured geunrution: “Make the very most of the years of training.. Acquire all the general knowledge you can, and learn everything

about the job that is to be

your life work.

"Make your business your hobby, but not to the exclusion of all other interests.

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"Don't make money the be all and end all of life, because, an

infinitely greater thing is character, and the two don't always

together.

"Don't watch the clock; never cease learning; aim high, apt never lose heart."

Bon

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