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NOTES OF THE DAY TRAVELLING IN WORLD The Very Idea!

FEEDING THE MULTITUDE

OF TO-MORROW

By Professor H. Levy

THRILLING, ESCAPE.

By George

"Cruikshank

was like this," said

He laid down

in the

It is tragic, but not the less trae, that thousands of farmers during the past few years have let their crops rot because they could not aford to market them. The un- PROFESSOR Levy, Edinburgh- one of the now Small Scalo Gyros- halanced cost of transportation, as born, of Russian parontage, copic Submarines and by running against the market value of fruits, educated at Edinburgh, Oxford a few feet below the surface all the interval between fish and vegetables and grains, for in-and Gottingen, and now occupying way be immune from wind and a joint. "I was coming up stance, made it impossible for cer- Chair of Mathematics at the storm.

It's perfectly safe, tain communitics of American Imperial College of Science, has there's no running blind. with the path this way."

for farmers to ship to the big consum-omething to say about the modes the televisor system they've in- ing contres. And there were

of travel two hundred years from stalled, if you're running across actually people hungry in Montreal now. Because of the calculating, from Dover to Calais, you can got knives and placed the sait cellar a couple of and Toronto when British Colum-entific reasoning which brought a picture of miles of the French between them. bla producers announced that it him to the conclusions published conat and can see clearly the posi- would not pay them to ship farm below, an article which might tion of every vessel in between was a bend." produce East of the Rockies. otherwise hava seemed fanciful is that carries any metal at all.

"At the top of the path there. Meanwhile, in order to increase given the colour of truth.)

When you think of it, what an Two hundred years ago. That enormous number of developments spot. the price to the grower, Govern- mente of the western world hit would be 1934, wouldn't it? They have come from the investigations upon the idea of crop restriction Aghting and squabbling among gat going in earnest on a grand there is clump of trees" (the were stupid children in those days, into crystal structure once they Yet, from time to time, in many parts of the world, not all of them themselves for the sweets, but we scale. It gave us that long series tooth picks were whisked Into inaccessible, there ara famince got through the struggle to sanity of excessively light, but durable, position) "and just here was a which cause untold suffering, and pretty fast, after all, much faster alloys of nimost any required solitary bamboo-excuse me, your every bushel of grain the world than seemed likely at the time. degree of flexibility.

pencil please with a stone at the could produce would be snatched We killed'privilege at last,

bottom of it." up eagerly but for the lasufficiency

Looking back on Man's childish of national earning. The whole notions on how the world was to we used to place on our Intense collar further up the path, com-

Compare it with the great store

Cruikshank transferred the salt economics and the thousand and scramble, we can realiss new how the atom, and how its net outcome divesting the rest of the boarders thing is a monstrous tangle of be run as a sort of disorderly researches into the constitution of mandeered the popper and after one theories that have been

Progress nearly got sidetracked was, mainly philosophic rather of their knives, forks, spoons, and. advanced seem to have brought into Barbarism. Why, already in than socially practical. It didn't plates, sketchily indicated the sur the world no nearer naslution.

1934 they had really reduced the lead us to any, new sources of

BRITAIN'S PROBLEM

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A fork suitably indicated the

"And just where the bend is

tinued.

size of the World to that of a power after all, in apite of all the rounding neighbourhood. He con- amall dwelling house, and all their newspaper fuse. No, it was rather aquabbling amounted to little more the new applications of the old than an effort to discover how to internal combustion engine that anake darted out from the stone When suddenly a hugo It is linked up with the unem- settled that, got rid of our pro- method of making alcohol and cluster of trees at the corner of run a communal household; we followed the cheap synthetic at the foot of the bamboo near the ployment problem, this complex fiteering gangsters, and of course benzine, combined with these new the path and darted at me." business of aupply and demand. we aimply shot ahend soon after-alloys. They revolutionised fly- As the London Morning Post rewards. marked, recently: Ten years Look at that old railway map

ing, for instance.

The table was bare of anything ago, even flvo yeara ago, I got in the museum. Yes, the don't you? When the old-fashion-snake darting upon its prey and You remember what stuck them, which could possibly indicate a ratis were torn up a century ago, ed rigid machine renched about after a doubtful look at the cat and we built Overhead Monorail 750 kilometres per hour they found Cruikshank decided to adopt the Instead; so we can shoot easily they had the wrong shapes for the main role himself. from John of Gronts to Land's End exposed portions. If they wanted

the persistence of anemploy ment at the million level was source of acute public anxiety. To-day a level of two million is coming to be regarded almost with in four and a half hours; that's to have higher speeds the reals down the path outlined by the complacency. Is it that we have not bad when you compare it with tance simply shot up. What was cutlery and then fall upon the salt He made his fingers dash up and grown weary in our long conflict the old expresses that used to run really needed at these higher cellar. with this most besetting of our at a paltry 60 miles per hour. national problema? True, there is What did they do with the shape for body and wing. but the reaches wasn't the blunt-nosed the difference that whorene before tracks? Well, you can see from sharp-nosed shell profile, and that moving half the path and Cruik Brown Interfered here by re- that was brimming with employ converted we were shamed in face of a world this other map that they are all was precisely what these new flex shank on the pretext that he would ment, now we are confronted with roads for fast heavy motor traffic. cause they could be made flexible

Into first-clasa ble niloys made possible. Be miss his ferry. a world that la sunk deeper than For the past ten years there has in one direction and stiff in an unemployment chart, it would of 69 tons and more at an average at once to solve this problem with ourselves in unemployment. Our been a atendy stream of vehicles other ther could be adapted t scem, like our temperature chart, speed of over 100 miles per hour out loss of strength. There's still avolds extremes of high and low, and the surface scarcely shows any a lot more to be done in that direc- un little comfort, still less do they But comparisons with others bring signs of wear. excuse our own condition. Un-

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so Cruikshank had to fall back on Mrs. Robinson took a tree whilst

his imagination again. we began to clamour for our plate-

"If it had bitten me I should not be sitting here now," he added. Impressively.

"You shouldn't anyway," snap-

"As a matter of fact I should be

We

"It must have been a bamboo. anake."

There are indications that the Commission which was appointed to report on the trade of the Colony and to indicate measures for its improvement will soon fconclude its labours and issue its employment is the modern counter-every kilometre along the side of the moment, however, is the air Yea, those white cemented stones" The really serious problem. at report. The root of the part of the plagues which swept the reads are the junctions from traille question during the rush ped Brown.. without question, to be found tensity Colony's trade depression is,

our land with greater or less in the National Main Line Water hours, with the passenger-earrying throughout the Middle Supply. You would hardly believe air buses. They are all of the In world until these show

conditions, and Ages. Just as the plagues de it, but until about a century ago autogiro type, of course, so thai dend. A fallow told me that that

п decided cimated our population, so dons they had no unified supply turn for the better, it is hardly unemployment decimate our morni for cold or for oppy ither they can hover when held up by snake was the deadliest snake in to be expected that the long-fibre, as well as lower our eficiency have settled all that now,

another passenger stream. awaited revival will be felt here. and Involve

The China." ua in incalculable course, for the scrapping of the Dart-Fly Minors

of trouble arises from these fast None the less,

material loss.

"He meant the dendest," there

with railway tracks gave them just wings.

flexible suggested. no doubt many respecta in

the opportunity they needed for they're allowed to

They can't hover, which purely local conditions AND THE REMEDY

thread all these pipe and line services. way through the queue and then give us a treatise on the deadliest their Brown paused on his way out to might meanwhile be improved,

Where do the Monorails finish? to swoop below or dart above the snake. whilst the steady growth of in-

Why, they don't finish anywhere. cross stream, dustrial enterprise points to

These, wo may be told, are

You can run straight across to changes which we cannot afford hanry platitudes, that help us not France and Germany, to Russia allowed in the towns; they're most- I don't think they should be at all to do anything about . To and Asia, by either the fast pas-ly driven by young dare-devils, to ignore. Bearing in mind the that the answer is, what have we senger-Monorail - or representative character of the seriously tried to do about it?s lower gooda-corrying types. Poll-I-suppose we'll find a way out as the rather and are really a public menace. Commission and the large variety our unemployment, in fact, any ical frontiers are as out of date we did with the Air Rocket Mails snake. It hunts with a friend. of interests which it covers, more inevitable than the mediaeval

now as county boundaries were a when they first started,, but they Wore there two of these snakes?" there is every reason for hoping sewers that annoyed the air and century ago. that the problem will be viewed disseminated, disease? Science is

keep their 15-mile height most of from all angles. In this connec-inventing for us every day bettor tortures people used to endure in body, not even the pilots them-pole near-by?"

It's amusing to look back on the of explosions doesn't disturb any- the time, so their steady stream tion, it is gratifying to feel that partially or wholly lost because we getting across the Channel in the selves. In any case, they're so

machines whose potential value is leaders of commercial, shipping fall to devise the means of keep the boredom of their interminable last more than a few minutes. and banking interests, both ing them running. Instead, they

little cockleshell steamers, and fast that the whole fight doesn't European and Chinese, have been stand for no great a part of their railway journeys. Now, of course, There seems no limit to the speed "They always have a bamboo working in close collaboration, I time idle that in the aggregate Monorail from Charing Cross to fact that the pilot can't stand the bave killed their man they sling. you can run straight through by they could get if it wasn't for the pole with them so that when they and the consequent pooling of they produce scarcely more than Paris, or even, if you're nervous, rapid starting and slowing down./ him over the pole and carry him ideas should be fruitful of good their inferior predecessors. Is it by the old Underground extension 1 hear the experiments they are results. This thought suggests attention on turning to profitable not time that we concentrated our the point that contact between account the machines, we posses, the leading merchants of the rather than for ever applied our Colony, irrespective of race,selves to the invention of new should be more constant than is machines we cannot use? at present the case. We have in

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this Colony two Chambera of WHAT OF THE FARM? Commerce, one representative of foreign and the other of Chinese

interests. All too seldom dotor seems to carry conviction. The argument of this commenia. they get together. Now and The same sort of theory might be then, as in such matters as advanced in agriculture, where, piecegoods contracts, they differ little by little machinery has taken in viewpoint, and it is then that the place of harvest handa. On the necessity of closer co-opera- throughout the American West, in the great Argentine ranchos, tion becomes

apparent. standing aloof one from the throughout Russia, the dream of By the Canadian prairie provinces, other, both must be the losers. the manufacturer has become a There must be many matters on reality. Motors have taken the which it would be distinctly place of horses, and mechanical advantageous to the trade of the binders the places of the lusty, Colony as a whole if the leading decade or more ago. For instance,

rod-burned harvest hands of business interests, both foreign a farm which formerly would take and Chinese, got together, work- a score or more of men for the ed in harmony and presented a reaping does the job with four or united front. The plea, there live, or fewer depending on the fore, is for some definite liaison credit of the farmer with tho between the two Chambers of manufacturers of reapers; and Commerce. This might well be binders and the tractors, and the effected by regular periodical ginning to wonder if the

like. Farmers, however, are be- joint meetings of the Commit is the more profitable in the long tees, which would be productive run. The more hands they hire, of beneficial exchanges of ideas the more grain or meat or corn and of a closer understanding of or potatoos they will sell. That each others' viewpoints. It is might be a timely point for the the common function of the consideration of all industry. Chambers to improve and expand

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the trade of the Colony; this can bringing Europeans and Chinese obviously be more effectively closer together in social and cul- done by a pooling of their know-tural relations. The same iden ledge than by continuing to needs to be encouraged as he operate in separate camps. tween the two bodies which are Much has been done latterly in representative of the trading Hongkong in the direction of interests of the Colony.

all

the way, Of COUTSO needn't yo either way. You can trolled pilotless type are beginning you making on the electrically con use your Leisure Surplus to buy to take very practical shape.

"When I wrote them that I thought a family reunion would be fine, if we held it at one of their homes this time, they just dropped the whole Iden,"

"No, I don't think so."" "You can always tell the bamboo.

"Yes."

"And did you notice a bamboo

"Yea."

off to their matshed."

"Good Lord!”.

"Yes, they learnt the habit from watching coolles. You had a nar- row. escape, old man. I congratu Inte you!"

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DUMB.BELLES LETTRES. By Juliet Lowell. So Long.

Model Brassiere Company, Empire State Building, New York City.

Your impertinent letter pressing me for payment of my bill- ia in front of me in a few mo ments it will be behind me.

P. O'Brien (signed)

Jim Studies Heredity.

Dartmouth College

Mr. Monroe C

120 Broadway

New York City Dear Dad:

In your last letter you asked mo why it is that Douglas is al ways at the head of our class while I am at the bottom. Let mo. call your attention to the fact that Douglas has very clever parents.

Love, Jint. (signed)

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Sliced Beef

The Manager, „: Railway Company, Gentlemen:

I'm titled to money for my cow, which would have moved off the tracks if your train had not heen express, or if the whistle had been blow of which it did neither, the cow would not have been injured when she was killed.

Chester P

(signed).