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NOTES OF THE DAY

DANGER SIGNALS

SIGHT-SEEING IN SEA'S DEPTHS

By MARJORIE SCHULER

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The Very Idea!

IN PIRATE HANDS By George

In response to numerous re-

Mexico has suffered more than lis share of ill usage at the hands of near and remote neighbours. France and the United States are the illustrations which immediate-

So I was told that Dr. Beebe guests from our readers we took a wallah allah out to Blas Bay. ly loap to mind. Therefore,XPLORING ORDINA ILY inj Mexico should be in a position, a fairly lonely business. From would not see me. Certainly that yesterday on our day off, to get to frat, to understand quite fully the Christopher Columbus in the gray he would not talk. But he did the bottom of yesterday's story of meaning of the phrase "good wastes of the Atlantic no reassur both, and more, he even asked me the bathing belle beauty who is neighbour," and, secondly, to re-ing wireless messages went back to to come back. I saw. I heard, and the reputed head of a bloodthirsty turn in kind what she wished her Isabella of Spain. And all of the if I tell it in my own words, rather

For hours we ploughed through. neighbours had done unto her. small boys in the world, pooling all than his, it is because of that gang of pirates, There are signs that Mexico bas of the desires of their imaginaton, National Geographic Society res-heavy acne in the direction of the forgotten her own experiences and cannot drop in for a visit with triction. Naturally, again, is practicing, in reverse; what she Commander Byrd at the South account will be "human," for the Whampoa docks before we got on scientific facts are not to be told the track of the society pirate- condemned not long ago. It is Pole. true that Mexico has not invaded How fortunate, then, to find an until Dr. Becbe returns to his Now Whor we turned the wallah's nose Boomed to guess our objective and other nations and that she is not explorer, Dr. William Beebe, who, York city studio early in Novem-through Lycemoon Pass our crew it was only by a brutal exhibition Interfering in the domestic affairs half a mile down in the ocean, talks or

Negro, gray-haired and of other peoples, but her present to his ship and is broadcast daily

an old of Cantonese that wo -prevented. activities have international algni- to the world, and who, even more rotund, drove me in

the vaga-fashioned surrey from the train them from turning back,

"Mora far," we shouted sternly ficance, affect the lives and pro-happily, as accessible perty of foreigners, and run coun- bond reporter in his Bermuda re-to the house which Dr. Boobe has

bought facing his original base on and added the first verse of Britan ter, act only to law but to justice troat. At the moment Mexico is pursuing To see the members of an ex-Nonsuch Inland and named for it. Hia, Britannia, rules the waves." We had come well-armed with a Dr. Beebe was standng on his three policies which, though in-pedition actually at work, to hear tended primarily to improve the their opinions about what the long arched porch above the beds gramophone and toys and a mah- conditions of the masses world thinks of them, to share in of water les, above the curved Jong set to pacify the florce spirits Mexico, are often realised at the the daily discoveries, and to learn stone fence in which aro sunk of these sea rovers, and were in When we had got through Lyce expense of foreigners quito in- something about their significance Spanish and Mexican tilos sont him great hopes of getting a story.

by friends. Right away he told me nocent of wrong-doing and which-that is an experience.

WAR WITH CHURCH

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Dr. Beebo pointed out the sights, the Bubble-eyed Beauty's Pirates. Across the sound and near at hand of Bins Bay or just members of a

are clearly Inconsistent and illo- Nominally, in his unique nabing that I might enjoy the four-and-a-moon Pass the coxswain suddenly gical. These policies are the con-expedition, Dr. Hoobee is in half foot hospitality of the bathya-produced a revolver and ordered we realised that we had fallen fiscation of the property of for- communicado. The National Geo-phere, but only on land-not at us to get below. To our horror right into the hands of the pirates. eigners; the attempt to transform graphic Society, by virtuo

(What will we do now that we educational institutions into centros anancing this sixth year of his

I looked at the explorer-at-home, have boon taptured by pirates? of Socialist propaganda; and work in Bermuda waters, owns the programme of nationalism and na-first rights to print his con- the man who is bringing up know Will they respect our prestige as

man lodge from the sea at a time when

an Empire builder or restore us to tionalisation.

clusions. After that, the whose sharp and pungent pen ol-other men in the stratosphere are civilisation for the sake of our road has accounted for some gathering knowledge of the upper funny column? Another horrible twenty books is to publish another, air and I thought, who says there thought--perhaps this is a punish- The present fight against the "Half a Mile Down," commemoare not frontiers to cross to-day ment for writing the column!

Aro these pirates members of Roman Catholic Church recalls the rating his descent by bathysphere as well as in the time of Vespucius, struggle of 1926. The main rea- to hitherto unknown ocean depths, or Marco Polo. son for opposing the church then was, in the words of an authorita- tive writer, that "public education Only once this year has Dr. was Nonsuch Island, named, of missionary expedition hunting for and Intellectual emancipation are Beobe broken his rule and taken course, after Queen Elizabeth's converts? Who knows? But we Almost, shall find out to-morrow. Mean- not compatible with clerical control reporters on his sca-going tug, the palace. Just beyond is of the school systems." That is Gladlafen, towing the barge Ready, the ledge eight fete under water while we have sent this dispatch in not quite achieve a sealed Tiger Beer bottle which an understandable attitude. But which some beholders have been which does it is, or should be, just as clear unkind enough to Interpret as islandhood, and Notsomuch, which we had hidden in a telescope for that "intellectual emancipation" short for Ready to Fall Apart, but Beebe, visitors have titled for its just such an emergency. If any- cannot be achieved in the schools whose long and honourable record habit of disappearing at high tide. body finds this will they please In the first few moments I learn- send to Editor and ask him to telegraph our expenses to Pirates, if they are to be maintained pri-is soon to appear from the pen of marily to indoctrinate Socialism. Milas Gloria Hollister, Dr. Beebe's ed one of the most significant facts c/o Blas Bay? If we are unable

about the discoveries by the ex- With so much taking place be- Subtly and covertly, too, according assistant.

The record of that trip, the fnet pedition. Dr. Beebe deprecates to pay for the wallah kwo expect the hind the scenes, it is by no to competent observers who have

recently returned from Mexico, the that a waiting world was told that, all this fuss about his going below pirates will be awful peaved. ocean. Dr the man-made limit of half a mile Don't you! P.S-Please tell Aunt means easy to follow intelligently state is slowly taking over proper from his set in the the course of the naval conversaties of foreigners who, in some Beobe mentioned the cold and that and thinks that if he went a thou-Emma not to worry if we are not tions in London. It is apparent, cases, have really become Mexi- Miss Hollister retorted by asking sand times to half that depth, In to dinner. Say we are writing

race. why he had not worn his red about 1,600 feet to be exact, he al- Very Idea.) all but name and tans in however, that Britain and the This threefold programme, part of flannels-well, those who have ways would find something new.

Strangely enough the zest for!

DUMB-BELLES LETTRES. United States are at one in their the Six-Year Plan, commendable watched the expeditionaries com- desire to prevent undesirable as it may be in its domestic press their lips over that account exploration runs in the Beebe aspects, is dan erous from the are apt to smile knowingly at the family, for while the husband was

by Juliet Lowell Beebe crlep

Recorta, "Never going 400 fathoms deep, the wife,! developments in the Pacific in point of view of Mexico's inter

Elswyth Thane, was delving 400 hor

Double Or Nothing the likely event of Japan de-national relations. Desirable and again."

For the expedition is made up of years back in history to necessary internal reforms can be nouncing the Washington Treaty.made within reason and courtesy natural scientists, people who are favourite historical period, the American Lady Corset Co.

book titlod, Gentlemen: Come what may, they appear de- and without turning into a "bad averse to stating conclusions, whol time of Elizabeth, which she wrote Detroit, Michigan.

shun summaries of their work, who about last year in a

I planned to gain 10 lbs. termined to stand by the basic neighbour."

are utterly unable to understand "The Tudor Wench." the chuckles of the outalde world While I eat on the porch other this summer, but put on 20 instead, principles of the existing treaties

over that simple, homely incident.(members of the expedition drifted Should I wear 2 corsets?

(signed) Addio M--- involving the Open Door and the

The League'a veterinary experts Reportere gauged its effect know-on and off the scene; Miss Glorla territorial integrity of China. It'

have worked out three Draft Con- ingly. They know that to the wait-Hollister, the research assistant; was in order to preserve respect ventlans, dealing respectively with ing world it would interpret better Mr. John Tee Van. Mies Jocelyn rare Crane, and Mrs. Elslo Bestelmann, for these principles that the the campaign against contagious than their own words the British naval delegation recently discaacs of animals, the transport courage, the gay insouciance of a who makes all the coloured plates. the man' watching his thin glass Win-Dr. Beebe is eloquent-in-praise-of of animals, meat, etc., and д suggested the conclusion of

export and Import of products of dows, not certain how long they their assistance.

The only one I did not ace was new treaty almed at the preser-animal origin, which provide for would withstand the ocean pren

co-operation between different sure; and of a woman anxiously Mr. Olla Barton, who helped to vation of peace in the Pacific, countries and, while allowing all holding the other end of that ocean develop the bathysphere, finances the un-it, and gave it to the New York altogether independent of any necessary measures of protection, telephone, listening to

по vexatious Interrupted tinkle of conversation Zoological Society for its Tropical naval understanding that might yet ensure that

restrictions shall be imposed. Ong as assurance that all was still well. Research Station. particular aspect of the question

be reached. Japan, however, has shown herself not disposed

THREE CONVENTIONS

has aroused much public Interest

tection

But this the Beebe expedition ru-!

In the laboratory on the door

over

to come into any such pact; in- in England. This is the question

of the conditions under which live fuses to understand. If reports below the porch something in Mias Hollister's deed, she resents any reopening animals are transported. Interest from Nonsuch are not to be couch teresting always is going on. !! of general Far Eastern issues at here has concentrated mainly on ed in fairly scientific terms, then peered

for in a glycerine bath and watched its next year's conference, if it the question of worn out horses the reporters in the future will shoulder at a fish she was putting

sent to Belgium, France and other have no opportunity to see ever meets. Meantime, there is countries. Thanks to the efforts themselves, but must take the pre-bone structure emerge under her an obvious effort being made by of the British League for the Pro-pared statements of the scientists red dye. Dissection, Miss Hollis-: of Worn Out Horses, after the bathysphere has been ter explained, is apt to destroy

(Continued on Page 5.), Britain and the United States to which have been seconded by the safely landed for the night. work out some plan of co-opera- League of Nations Union, a recom- tion having as its main object mendation was adopted by the League's Assembly in 1932 and the maintenance of the status passed on to the Veterinary Sub- quo in the Far East, with the Committee to discuss the question specifle object of guaranteeing of the most appropriate means of enauring for animals during tran pence. There was ↑ sugges. sport, good sanitary conditions tlon a few days ago that a plan and effective protection against might conceivably be evolved cruelty. If measures to this effect whereby the United States would can be incorporated in the League's

Convention

a great atap forward give Britain certain definite com- will have been takon towards mitments in return for British eliminating an abuse which has long been recognised in England co-operation in the Orient, but in, particular, as a blot on the this has been met with a state- name of humanity. ment that America would be dis inclined to enter into any "en-understanding between America tanglements" in this part of the and Britain. On general grounds, globe: This, of course, is in there can be no questioning the accord with traditional American value of a co-ordination of Anglo- American policy in the Far East, policy, but the time may well and as time goes on some such come when the United States. will accord appears to become in- have to make a choice between creasingly desirable. It would, some definite understanding however, be even better still were with Britain and a possible de- Japan to join wholeheartedly in concerted plan devised to generation of the. Far Eastern

preserve peace in this part of the situation in the absence of some world. The Tokyo Government's co-operative, plan. Reports to disinclination to co-operate along hand yesterday indicated that these. lines only serves to com- possible developments include plicate the situation and, at the same time, to make it In- an effort by America to arrange creasingly difficult to appreciate a general conference between the inspiring motives of her nations interested in Pacific pro objections. An all-embracive

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tween the United States and the a markedly stabilising factor League of Nations for the purjust now, and it would be wise pose of preserving peace, and the were energies concentrated on attainment of some sort of naval efforts in this direction.

"Now, what am I going to do with myself between now and Christmas?”

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