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HILL." SEATTLE'S "MORRISON

HOW ENGINEERS ARE REMOVING IT.

Seattle, June 12,

The faith that moves mountains evidently is sometimes nothing more or less than mankind's faith in the abilities of the steam shovel and the endless conveyor belt:

Seattle had a mountain right on the edge of its business district

a high, craggy hill that towered: above the tops of the highest office buildings. It was very much in) the way. The business district: wanted to expand and couldn't. The hill blocked its path.

So Seattle decided to move the mountain-to abolish it, scoop it; out of existence, level it at so that it could put buildings where there used to be a great, high: hill.

Finish this Year.

The job has been going for- ward for a year, now; and by Sep- tember it is to be completed. By! autumn the last trace of the hill will be gone The 5,000,000 cubic yards of earth that lay heaped in

a vast pile over 92 acres of ground

of

will be out of sight forever- dumped into the deep water Puget Sound.

The amazing thing is that all of this work has been and is be- ing done without interfering with any of the ordinary business pur- suits in the neighbourhood.. Traf- fic has not been blocked in the slightest degree. Seattle has got so used to the job that it has paid Hittle attention to it.

Denny Hill used to be the best residence district of the pioneers. But in recent years Seattle's city planners realized that Denny Hill was just an expensive nuisance.) So last spring the city councill ordered the $2,000,000 job begun.) with the city paying most of the

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, JULY 12th, 1930.

Above, one of the steam shovels and endless conveyor

belt which leads to the water front where the dirt is taken out en scows and dumped, as shown below.

expense and adjoining property an overhead track clear down to the noiseless. in its operation. In all, owners paying the remainder.

water front, over streets and busi-10,000 feet of the belting have

Seattle city planners believe

So the steam shovels got busyness houses. There it is dumped heen used. -the steam shovels, and an elab-jonto scows, which haul it out into orate system of conveyor belts." the sound and spill it into the that the advantages from the

The dirt is dumped by the water. shovels into bins adjacent to them, A Profitable Venture.. From these bins, long, rubberized A wooden shield below the belts conveyor belts 30 incnes wide prevents the dropping of dirt onto carry it to a central bin, from the streets or houses below, and which a larger belt carries it on the whole contrivance is almost poses.

ERRY and happy-full of energy and romping fan--every father" "and" mother delights in this evidence of glorious and bealth.

Quilding-up M Energy and Robust Health

The energy and vitality children are so pro digalin spending have to be made good from the energy creating elements to be obtained udy from nourishment. The children are

and mentally growing-physically

and nourishment is essential for healthy growth

During the growing years of childhood more nourishment is necessary than ordinary food ontaina. Childrea need "Ovaltine" a their daily beverage. For this delicions food beverage supplies concentrated nourish in an easily digested form.

Ovaltine is prepared from the richest of Nature's tonic food-malt, milk and eggs. It contains superabundance of the nutritive plements which build up brain and Lody and create energy and vitality. MakeUvaltino" your children's daily beverage. Note their increased energy and vitality, and see on their cheeks ther glow which comes only from the enjoyment of perfect health.

Children specially need "Ovaltine" at the beginning of the winter. It will build up a rich reserve of health and energy-thus enabling them to resist colds and epidemmie infections, and keeping them in robust health in spite of unpleasant winter conditions,

OVALTINE

project will be tremendous. The $2,000,000 cost of the job, they say, will be far outweighed by the value of the land that will be made available for building pur-

PANTO FAIRIES

DOOMED?

Ban Urged on Child Dangers.

Should young children be em- ployed in theatres at pantomime time?

Is the strain of the stage hours too much for them, and likely to be detrimental to their work in school?

These, questions were discussed at the Conference of the National Association of Head Teachers at Scarborough when a motion was carried that the Board of Educa- tion be urged that no child should be employed in pantomime or public entertainment.

Mr. J. J. Biggs (London), pro- tested against this "singling out of a handful of comparatively fortunate children, and trying to deprive them of their livelihood. | I can only imagine," he de- clared, "it is a survival of that old puritan spirit of hatred of the theatre-(eries of No)-that belief that everyone who enters a theatre-

subject-to-some-dreadful mys- larious temptation. It is pure bunkum."

"The men and women, girls and boys, who work in theatres are just as clean and straight as any- body else. They are happy and love their work.

"In nine cases out of ten people. who have risen to eminence on the stage were born and bred in the atmosphere of the theatre."

Miss Gibb (Liverpool) said that for about three months before the pantomime the children practised dancing every evening in the week, thus working from nine in the morning till nine at night. Such hours were much too long for girls of. 12 to 14.

In moving that in Children's. Courts there should be a psycho- logist and a trained social worker, Mr. Biggs said that there was no such thing as the "criminal type."

"I have frequently spoken to prisoners in gaol and the first thing that struck me about 'old lags' and young prisoners was. how extraordinarily they resem- bled an ordinary audience.".

The resolution was carried. "Male labour is being forced out of our industry by females, especially among cutters

TONIC FOOD BEVERAGE machinists," declared Mr.

Builds-up Brain. Nerve and Body

[A. P. B. 13]

and

T.

Ellison (Leeds) at the conference of the Tailors and Garments Workers' Union in London.

Mr. I. Lévy (Leeds) said that in one big business employing 1,400, there were only two men and tallers kept for dinner jackets and dress coats.”

A few

PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT

OLDEST PARLIAMENT IN THE WORLD. FESTIVITIES HELD TO MARK MILLENIUM.

weeks ago

something like 2,000 Americans of Icelandic origin and about 1,000 Canadians from the neighbourhood of Win- nipog landed in the old homo country of Iceland to celebrate with the natives the thousandth anniversary of the Althing, the Icelandic Parliament, which is claimed to be the very oldest in the world.

Taking part in the festivities, along with the native Icelanders. and those who came back from the North American continent, were King Christian of Denmark, who

is also King of Iceland, Crown Prince Olaf of Norway, and Crown Prince Gustaf of Sweden. Great Britain recognised the unique event

by sending her crack battleship, the Rodney, on which were the representatives of the British Parliament-Lords New-

ten and Marks, representing the House of Lords, and Sir Robert Hamilton and P. J. Noel Baker, representing the House of Com-

mons.

Historical Pilgrimage.

There was something historical- ty fitting in this pilgramage of Icelandic Americans, sailing east- wards to Iceland, because in the year 1000 Leif Erikson, the Norse- man, sailed westwards from Ice- land and discovered the North American continent, starting a colony called Vinland, probably the-present site of New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Iceland was settled by Norse- men in the ninth century. Cut

off from the rest of the world, they developed their own system of government, including a projected Parliament to represent the voice of the people. Grim explored the island in search of a suitable meeting place while Ulijotur went to Norway to study law,

The one chose a site at Thing- vellir and the other drew up 4 code of law, and just one thousand years ago his first Parliment met under the open sky. It has been a going concern ever since.

The main millenium festivities took place from June 26 to 28 in-

President of the Icelandie Millenial Celebration Com- mittee, and cousin of Vilhjalmur Stefansson, famed arctic ex- plarer, Johannes Johannesson, pictured upper right, who had charge of the festivities at Reykjavik, attended by the King of Denmark and Iceland, shown lower left, as well as many At the upper Americans, Canadians and British notables. left you see a typical Icelandic beauty, and below the parlia- ment building at Reykjavik, with the cathedral at the right.

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clusive. The government arrang came to Thingvellir on their pack horses as did their ancestors 1,000 ed to house many of the visitors

no rail- years ago, for there are in tents at Thingveillir, which is about 30 miles from the capital of ways on the island.

A very extensive programme Reyjavik. Others were housed in

was prepared, opened by a mass the capital and the rest lived in the steamships which took them to assemblage of natives and visitors Iceland. On the opening day of at what is still known as the "Law the ceremonies the peasant Rock." Here speeches were made farmers from all parts of Iceland by the acting Premier and the King.

Then the Althing held a session and an address was made by the speaker. In tho afternoon speakers representing the Ice landic Americans and Canadians: delivered speeches. On the open- Ing day and those following there Was the singing of Icelandic cantatas by a great choir, his- torical plays, displays of peasant.. wrestling, folk dancing, mountain climbing and horse racing,"

Most people think of Iceland as

a tiny speck up in the frozen waters of the north Atlantic. As a matter of fact, it is 20 per cent, bigger than Ireland. It is of volcanic origin and has a number. of volcanoes, the most celebrated being Hekia, which is over a mile high and had an eruption as late- as 1912. There are over 900 hot springs and geysers in Iceland. The population is about 100,000 of whom 22,000 live in Reykjavik, the capital. Only the valleys are given over to cultivation, the main industries, being sheep, rais- ing and fishing,

Independent Republic.

Iceland was an independent re- public from 930 to 1203 when it joined Norwny. The two came under Danish rule in 1381. When Norway separated from Denmark in 1814, Iceland remained under Denmark. But the Icelanders always were a stiff and indepen- dent folk and, finally, in 1918 Denmark acknowledged Iceland as sovereign state, united with Denmark only in that the Danish King is also King of Iceland. In all else it is absolutely free, ex- cept that until 1940 Denmark has charge of its foreign relations.

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Though the little island state has no railways, it has an exten- sive system of good roads and an excellent telegraph and telephone service, schools and a university. Crime is almost unknown. Educa tion Is universal and books aro widely read. In proportion to its amall population, it has also con- tributed much to Danish art and literature.

U. S. A. AIR FORCE MANOEUVRES PICTURED.

More than 130 planes and 400 army pilots, observers, etc., participated in the US. Army Air Corps annual manoeuvres this year, with pursuit, attack, bombing and other squadrons coming from air fields throughout America. New problems and tactica involving all types. of planes were attempted, including simulated warfare for possession of San Francisco and vinicity, night and day attacks, a const defence and aerial demonstrations at Sacramento, Mills Field In San Francisco, and at Los Angeles. Photographic planes, carrying the five- lensed "all seeing cameras" for observation work took photographs embracing 400 square miles of territory from a 20,000-foot elevation. Photos show: Upper left, loading bombs in wing under attack plane; three defence and attack formations over San Francisco and Oakland, Extreme right, Lieut. Colonel Henry B. upper left, showing 91st Observation Squadron in echelon, with observers manning machine guns.. Clogett, Ninth Corps Area air officer. Middle tler, Maj-Gen. J. E. Fechet, army air corps chief; centre, a formation of fast Wasp-engined Boeing pursuit planes. Lower tier, formations of different types of army ship; Maj, Willis H. Hale, outstanding specialist in handling of heavy bombing ships.