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MONDAY, JAN. 14, 1936.

LEAGUE BUILDING

MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1935.

S OF THE DAY

*NEW WINE

Two of the most sensational legal Aghts. In the history of the United States are at present exciting the Interest of Americans, and most of woll. the rest of the world an Those who do not watch with tre- pidation or high hope the develop ments in the Supreme Court action brought by Mr. Norman in defence of the "gold payment clause" in the bonds of the country's great corporations, are Intent upon the trini of Bruno Hauptmann, charged with the murder of the Lindbergl baby. Everybody has theories to

offer in these cases, and everybody A

WONDERS OF AFRICA JUNGLE

Bŋ IVAN T. SANDERSON,

A young Cambridge University zoologist, who as leader of the Percy Sladen Expedition recently penetrated several hundred miles of unexplored jungle among the Cameroon Moun- tains of West Africa in search of rare animals.

SMALL whale which had

The Very Idea!

PULLING YOUR LEG-UMES

By Horatio Borr

OUR natural modesty has

we

are

precluded us hitherto from mentioning it--but in view of the controversy at present raging hotly around the merits of the New Ter- ritories tomato, we feel we This Galago, for a lemur it was, far from being dead, was only ought to let the public know little stunned and subsequently that essentially lived about our camp for minus authorities on agriculture. day. Awaking at sundown, it

We can lay claim to this dis- would leap about the tent catching moths in mid-air with its nimble tinction by reason of the fact that we have sampled more than fingers.

Nor were the tree-tops the only one doubtful legume in the raw places that housed strange crea--and have lived to tell the tale. tures. Digging in swampy ground.

It was in a local kitchen not very we came upon odd worm-like newta Our initial attack was launched that have lost their legs through long ago that we took courage from дл jaqlated, forest-clad their habit of burrowing into the Magisterial bon viveus'a "recom- upon

mendation and experimented with to mountain in the hope of finding soll. They pile up some mud

were we the floor of the little galleries that an anion.

Since that fateful but not neces- they excavate underground, and on the summit of these they lay ssarily fatal day, we have started on dozen crystal-clear eggs.

a new line of dietelles and have They call themselves upon their thrived wonderfully on raw to- eggs until they are hatched and matoes and onions, and have hopes then, like hens, they brood over also of Including peanuta in our When we raised the cloth, outthem, driving away their enemies, tally menu when these have been

of perfected by our farmera. jumped not only a huge male of this the crabs, by squirting jets

Garlic we take to naturally, soc- species, with a mouth as large as water at them.

While digging for these, we Ing na how we have come from a codfish, but also half a dozen great fat frogs covered in crimson fur, opened a hole in which crouched Garlic origin

spider Editor: You mean Gaulic origin? Two of the zoologist's greatest another proud mother: a prizes were served up for us in one hairs and armed with shiny, polson hog on a law vegetarian diet has its eight Inches long. covered with The same. But going this whole dish.

fanes half an Inch in length. Over limitations, and we were made and around her crawled her two painfully aware of the fact when dozen hairy youngsters with lumin- the other fellows in this office look- OUR eyes and loathsome plumped askance at us.

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has a guess as to the outcome.

never yet been seen by white Mr. Norman's case, the stock marmen, squirrels with parachutes, a ket has reacted to the guesses of shrew the size of a cat, and a frog investors who have convinced then of similar proportions were the selves that the Supreme Court will prizes that tempted us to explore supportional"

the New Deal and rule as the virgin junglen of West Africa.

President Roo-

These were not, however, all the sevelt's action in repudiating the living mysteries that the mountains "gold clause."

At least that was of the Cameroons sheltered, as we

But the phsition late in the week.

aubsequently learned. by Saturday observers seemed to have altered their view, and to have heard something or guessed some thing which gave them causo think that the Supreme Court might the Goliath frog. Nor. upset the New Deal'a apple cart and mistaken in the choice of our rule in favour of the "gold clause."location, a native walking into our camp one morning carrying a great It is all very senseless, this guese-

gourd covered with a cloth which work, and cannot do anything but bobbed up and down like a jack-in- harm. No matter how the decision of the court goes, someone is going the-box. to be seriously hurt in the market. There are a good many thousands the of bond-holders throughout country who stand to gain, of course, if the "gold clause" is found binding, but their satisfaction will enst the Government dearly. Some one is going to ask presently whether the Administration has not blundered, and whether some of the We ronted the forests at the rather radical "reforms" which foot of these mountains night after were intended to facilitate Ameri- night hoping to obtain weird bodies. It took many anxious can recovery will not have rather squirrels that nature has provided minates to coax this family into politely if firmly, was not to be A whisky breath, they hinted, a retrograde effect. It occurs to with parachutes, by whose aid these our collecting net, for they can compared with the odour we had. on that the Administration's new creatures accomplish prodigious jump more than a yard. a method been disseminating around wine, as represented by the New leaps from tree to tree.

What was which they employ in catching Cast out from the pale of decent Deal, is a sight too potent for the our surprise when. In their stend, old bottles of the American con- & Awarm of flying mice were da small birds,

Society, we were banished for a coupla days to the New Territor COSTS

stitution. So frequently the re-lodged from a giant hollow tree.

Small surprises led to great.les. formists are in too great a hurry These tiny creatures, only a few High among the mountains, in the Amongst crities of the League either in their creating or destroy- inches in length, with talls like an land of perpetual miata, we came "Go to Sheunghsul and report on of Nations, there had recently. and so often the greater their ostrich feather, leap into the air upon the king of the forest. After the onions," the Editor commanded.

sincerity the greater in their rush, when frightened and float away many days fruitlessly

Nothing loth, we went to the hunting been a deal of uninformed critic. Such haste, even in an emergency, through the forest as silently as with cameras, a native rushed into Agricultural Show and there found iam regarding the cost of the is dangerous,

flakes of soot from a London our camp saying he had been at-that our reputation as an expert in chimney. They too are equipped tacked by a huge male gorilla which matters agricultural had preceded new headquarter buildings which

with membranes atretched between he had shot dead as it advanced | Us. to be opened during the

their legs like their larger cousins. upon him.

The Mayor of Talpo was not One cannot reasonably say that present year. It is of interest,

Later in the year, the flying His tale was the truth, for we there to receive us, but in his place The State of New Jersey rushed therefore, to look, into the actual headlong into ita prosecution of squirrels turned the tables on us found the great ape, more than we were warmly welcomed by B facts. Altogether, the buildings Bruno Hauptmann, one-time car- by appearing one night at the very five feet tall, lying among the concourse of village elders, tillers Rustlings and undergrowth. With outstretched of the soil, and some whose know- will cost about £1,100,000 or penter and short-time "gaol bird," door of our camp.

but it is fairly obvious that there scratchings in the darkness above arms this "grand old man of the ledge of vegetables we suspect was some 1/6 per cuble foot at par. is a growing doubt at to his guilt, seat us headlong to the gun case. mountain" measured nine feet two confined to the stage when they are

Flashing light into the tree tops, Inches across, and eighteen strong ready to be digested. This figure compares most fa- There was a raging clamour for his four daming eyes were revealed.inen could barely carry him down

blood when the law first fastened

We were impressed, and emiled vourably with the cost of any suspicions upon him, and the case Then, as the smoke from the guna to camp. And yet we had been benignly on the onions. Likewise cleared away, there at our feet lay assured that gorillas were not to we had a favourable word for the modern public building in Eng-was black against him.

But the

found within hundreds of cabbages, but felt that something land, and still more favourably longer the trial lants the more the two creatures that brought shouts be

was vitally missing from the Ex- with the cost of such a building laws of a purely circumstantial of surprise even from the natives. miles of these mountains.

In the water also we found [hibition which would have made cur case become apparent. It is not

strange benets, living fossils almost happiness complete. in Switzerland. It is a fact that enough that part of the ransom 1 can but liken these nuimals to in their primitiveness. Wading up We looked in vain for garlic. the new League Buildings could in a Bronx cemetery, was found and aliken hair, though the para- the light of bark torchies, dark money, delivered to "an unknown" streamlined rats, with bushy tails the clear rocky streams at night by have been built and would have hidden in Hauptmann's garage. 1, chute gives to the whole the appear-forms were sometimes seen darting been built oven more cheaply by some queer trick of fate, Bruno ance of a kite, all but the string, to and fro like fish. Traps, nots, had the original plans-been ad- Hauptmann has been victimised, the

The following night Law a tiny and guns falling us, the method of American public will have its con figure silhouetted hered to, but the two millionselence to deal with. Hauptmann brilliant

against the catching these animals employed by moonlit sky, literally the natives had to be resorted to. dollar Rockefeller gift for ais facing his ordeal with fortitude. galloping through the tree tops. We chased them with our bare Mr. Billy Sunday,

He does not act like a man gallty fired at random, but it disappeared hands and after many attempts Rochester, Minn. Library necessitated the re- of the foulest of crimes. He is drafting of the plans

Dear Dr. Sunday: as the fond of children, devoted to his own while I waited listening to its body were rewarded by a capture. original site was too small. "If little child, about the same age now crashing to the ground through the branches. With the aid of a torch as the baby son of Colonel and Mrs. I eventually came upon a bundle of one Lindbergh when it was kidnapped. million pounds for the building One is tempted to feel sympathy for pale grey wool at the foot of the sounds a lot," said the Treasurer this man for whose execution mor- of the League of Nations, Mr. and who, when a starling flew into bid crowds are begging "passes," Jacklin, in an interview to the his prison cell told his lawyer Press recently, "And out what the thundering Irishman, Edward your local Town Hall costs and cly, that he felt a little hope at

are

the

total cost of about

HAUPTMANN'S HOPES

last.

THESE BEGGARS

remember that we are the inter- national town ball of fifty-seven nations." This cost of something One has a generous impulse, whon over a million pounds may, for aged folk and little children hold example, be compared with the out their hands for coppers and plead with their eyes. Most of us following: The new London find it hard to refuse their appeal County Hall (excluding cost of even though recognising that to right wing, completed later) cost encourage such a thing is bad. for the morale of a people. But there £3,239,293. The extension of In a state of affairs in Hongkong the Bodleian Library at Oxford which is destroying any feeling of is to cost £1 million. The War commiseration one may have for Office building, including pura living and who most depend upon these poor people, wlio cannot earn chase of the site, cost £1,229,148, charity. When big bulking coolles One American woman, Mrs. alt hidden around the corner and W. K. Vanderbilt, built herself and half a dozen urchins to cry "Cumshaw, taipan!" as one passes, two houses, one in New York, and when country women with the other at Newport. The bables on their backs lay a dirty former cost £600,000, the latter hand upon one's sleeve and make £1,600,000. Yet over 50 States the same demand, one commences may not spend about a million to feel some indignation. Not long on their building without a tor- ago one of these little gangs of

urching rent of abuse! The bulk of this women up the hill beyond the top followed two European money, it is often forgotten, has of Wyndham Street and when their | already been pald, for some years demands for "cumshaw" were past, into what is known as the ignored- called insults and abuse as Building Fund. Contributions they dodged about these ladies. were made in the same ratio as The hungry should be fed, it is true. ordinary contributions to the Bat these scumpe should be spank

ed. League Budget. For some time they were made up out of the difference between the year's ex-among them, who contributed penditure by the League and punctually in the early years. the total contributions (the Great Britain has made a con- Lenguo has always ended the tribution of about one-tenth of fiscal year with a surplus). the, total, France and Germany More recently a small amount abolit one-eighth and so on. was added each year to the usual Great Britain's contribution of budget estimates and Included in some £112,000, it is of interest them. And annually certain to note, is less than half of the sums have been refunded to annual cost of stationery for the those States, Great Britain Army and Navy,

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DUMB-BELLES LETTRES

By Juliet Lowel}. Cheque Book Please

Sleek like an otter, these giant water akrews, when chasing their

You have to help me out. prey, are driven through the water I need money. I need it very badly, by a powerful fish-like tall, while more badly than you know, their feet, which they draw up

My girl and I are en- beneath them, have developed sharp gaged to be married. I always severe bite on the thumb and the their balance, Their jaws are never get married until I had a Seizing my trophy I received a keels to assist them in preserving made up my mind that I would fur came to life, a spitting, hissing beset with a formidable array of new barn. Things ain't what they fury with wide-staring, amber eyes needle-sharp teeth and their eyes should be and I can't build a barn and soft little hands, uncannily like are so small that one must search so expect you will send me $900.00

those of a man in miniature.

PAREIL

HERE

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MALL EARLY

Avo1 THE

"But you don't understand. This is a New Year gift,, and absolutely MUST be delivered promptly."

for which I could build a barn and then I could marry my girl and be happy forever after.

Could you send this an quick as possible, for I must get married soon.

15-19

Very truly yours,

Edgar V

I made up my mind that I

would never get married unti

I had a new barn.

A Job Well Done

· Honolulu, T. H.

To Honolulu Gas Co. Ltd.

82 and 84 8. Hotel Street Dear Sir:

Having died the pipe last week, so this week the gas can hardly come out, so kindly sent your plumber to fix as ha fixed last.

Very respectfully Yours

Francisco Aria

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