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AIR MILLIONAIRES

CAMPBELL CAN WIN -WITH LUCK

By REID RAILTON (Designer of the Bluebird)

MAGINE yourself at the cinema, tainly, not much excuse for any

MAC watching the comic film in mechanical failure in the car. It-

which the villain's motor-car is be-self.

...

The Very Idea!

DUMB BELLES LETTRES

By Jullet Lowell

SILVER LOVE

Bobby Burns, c/o. W. O, R., Newark, New Jernay, Deat Bobby,

On her return from the Christ EXCEPTIONAL mas trip to South America the Airship "Graf Zeppelin," when passing over France on December 8, completed her one millionth kilometre in the air. Thus, the "ship of air millionaires"— Tsound and attractive used not less than 18 of her crew

1 Bobby, will you answer me some having already crossed the 1,000,- car at low cost we offer for apometre mark--became an immediate possession the follow-nir mililonairo" herself.

questions, please? Are you marri- No Ing chased through narrow streets A car like Bluebird is, however, ing:

other airship has ever been in the at what looks like at least a hun-seriously handicapped by the fact ad You see I really and truly

that there is no place in England, have a reason for asking. air over a total distance of 1,000,- dred miles an hour.

I'm not trying to dirt. You 800 1932 AUSTIN ROADSTER_with 000 kilometres, a distance equal to The buildings and the traffic where it can be tested.

When you buy a car in the ordin- I'm living with my Silent Love so be rushing towards you, Dicky Seat, 13.9 h.p.-6 Cylin- just under 24 times the circum-seem der Engine. In excellent ference of the earth. The fact and the whole thing has an air of ary way you can be sure that after I don't dare write anything before

Cordially yours, Condition

$1,150.00. that the "Graf Zeppelin" has thus unreality. You know all the time was designed, and the first few I got too far..

Victorino S...... broken all existing records is a that it is only a photographic trick,amples built, its makers subjected. it to rigorous road tests for many i VAUXHALL

P.B. Well, so long, everybody's CADET memorable event in the history of and yet it gives you a peculiar thousands of miles, and for many COUPE with Dicky Seat, aerial navigation and is perhaps thrill: at least it has that effect on months, before it became avaliable swo:theart, but mostly. Mine.

XXXXX(Kisses) 27 h.p.6 Cylinder Engine. the most notoworthy feat accom-mo..

to you. In addition to this the car I imagine that Sir Malcolm you buy is always given a text on Almost New .... $.1650.00. | plished by her during the six years

sho has now been in operation. Campbell gets the same sort of the rond. Even after all this--as 1931 HUPMOBILE SEDAN, full It may even be sald that the thrill when he is travelling along most of us know to our cost-now

5 Seater Body in Perfect Con-success achieved by her is of that narrow stretch of Daytona dition throughout.. $850.00. symbolic importance. When the beach at 270 miles an hour or tiometimes require the atten

of service stations. But Bluebird is designed on 1931 ESSEX ROADSTER with name "Graf Zeppelin" was given more.

to the LZ 127, the future develop- It may not sound a very hazard-paper, then built, and then sent Dicky Seat.

A very Attractivement of the ideas and Ideals thatous undertaking to drive a car fast 5,000 miles from the factory, with- Car in Sound Condition ..... inspired Count Zeppelin was in along a stretch of sandy beach.out any serious test, until at Day- $600.00.tentionally linked up, with the One imagines the sands at, say, tona Sir Malcolm has neither the future development of the Zep-Southport or Bognor, at low tide time nor the facilities to remedy pelin-bullt afrshipa themselves. for mile after milc, with a width any major defect, which may Now that the record figure of of perhaps a quarter of a mile be-appear. 1,000,000 kilometres has been tween the sea and the promenade. : achieved, 10 are justified in nsserting that the ideas and Ideals

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Hongkong Telegraph. According to information publiah- the day.

TUESDAY, MAR, G, 1935.

Naturally his handicap is always present in the minds of those re- sponsible for the construction of over all dimeulties and that those tonn is not like this. The sand the car, and tends to discourage who never lost faith in the possi- that is firm enough to run on them from trying out new idens Road.bility of their practical applica-only about forty yards wide-about unless the results can be predicted

tion have been completely vindi-twice the width of a

modera fairly accurately. caled by the progress of events, arterial road, and it slopes towards

Curiously enough, the one part A fow figures may indicate the the sen.

of the car which might reasonably great Importance attained by the Furthermore, the best part is be expected to cause the most an- transoceanic air services operated uncovered for only a few hours at xiety has in previous attempts by the "Graf Zeppelin" since they low tide, so that the attempt can given no trouble whatever. were started on October 11, 1928.be made only at a certain hour of refer to the tyres. They are, of course, specially made for the job, ed by the Hamburg-American The arrangements for policing but they do not differ in principle Line, which company acts the course and for preparing the from the ordinary motor-car tyre general agents for the airship's time apparatus have to be made at of to-day, and they certainly re- passenger and freight service, she least six hours ahead, which means present a very wonderful achlere has undertaken 423 trips so far that the bench is under water when ment on the part of the British on about 90 of which she crossed Sir Malcolm has to decide whether, company which makes them. the ocean. She has been in the he is going to run. air for a total of 9,185 hours and has carried some 27,700 persons, happen. A high wind may apring What are Sir Malcolm's chances up and leave the beach rippled or of success in his forthcoming at- soft, in which case the attempt has tempt7

He has not concented the fact to be postponed, and the expense of the preparations has all gone for that the object of his present ex- nothing.

pedition is two-fold. He hopes, of When you realise that the hard- course, to bent his own record of ness of the beach varies with, the 272 miles an hour, established at tide from day to day, you begin to Daytona Beach exactly two years get some Idea of the risks and ago. At the same time he has con- difficulties of racing on the sands, fessed that it is his supreme am- compared with a permanent track bition to be the first man in the world to exceed 300 miles an hour on' land.

SOME INDUSTRIAL

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more than 5,500,000 parcels of mail, and more than 42,000 kilo- grams of fraight, without meeting with any accident.

PIONEER WORK

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In the meantime anything may

or road.

I'm living with my silent love,

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Farmyard Fun Dept "By diverting cows (etc.)-Our London Agricultural Correspondent.

Across the pasture and the loam The cows come gaily galloping

home.

Their charming facts glow with

glee,

They bump along expectantly.

A chap upon the Government

statt

Is going to call and make them

laugh.

Diverting cows is not a job For any crude or vulgar yob; The jokes that Chinese cows

prefer

Would not divert the foreigner; They like them limpid, lengthy,

kind,

Cretan in outlook, and refined:~ The things that little girls (e.g.), Say to nice clergymen at ton; Woll - bred .young •people's

escapades,

The quaint remarks of parlour-

maids;

The fun of Flanagans, McPher-

Bong,

And Comic Continental Persons; The simpler kind of hunting jost, The joke about the Nervous

Guest-

All these our native cows adore.. And (quite aincerely) mos for

moro,

It is a hopeful sign of the times that there has latterly been evidence of a desire on the part of the big employers' organisations and the Trade Union interests of Britain to get together in

It is not too much to say that An effort

efficient to devise

the airship, under the menstres for the

command of Dr. Eckener, has done absorption of as many of the pioneer work of the very first unemployed as possible into the order. In October, 1928 she made

There is no doubt that now, for i industrial life of the nation. her first trip to North America,

Another risk attaching to Day- the first time, he has a car which in August 1929 she undertook her The Government, through, the famous cruise around the world, tona beach is that it is not really should be able to reach that speed good offices of the Minister of und in July 1931, when engaged in long enough. Blue Bird needs a so long as it is favoured with ideal Labour, has taken the initiative her cruise over the Arctic regions, considerable distance to work up to conditions for the attempt. Un-

she passed over

that had 300 miles an hour. The beach is fortunately, the conditions at Dry- in this matter, and has held con- never been charted before. On about six miles long theoretically, tonn can never be "ideal." The ferences with representatives of March 20, 1932, a new era in the and if we allow this, plus the chance of the sand itself being employers and workers. The history of navigation in the air measured mile. there will be only sufficiently good and "ideally" hard was inaugurated by the opening about three and a half miles for and smooth is sufficiently remote response has been most gratify-up of the regular air service be the car to pull up in afterwards. to make it unlikely that the car ing, although it is realised that tween Europe and the South eally be too little if the surface is speed. That is almost a certainty. This is none too much, and may will be able to develop ita maximum the issues involved are of con that time the Graf Zeppelin has not in perfect condition or if any unless the conditions he finds are

American continent. During all

dis little hitch occurs. undertaken air voyages

The risk is minimised as much encountered on

vory much better than those be tinguished for, the wonderful

bis prevlous at- as possible, but there is no doubt tents. BOSSESSEEEESSEESHOLES |In opening up the question, the rugularity, punctuality and, above that if we could and a longer

absolute safety the

Howevor, his main object is to Minister of Labour has been characterises them all. Notwith-tretch of sand with a clear run break the existing record: and I

of fifteen miles the whole under- think that, given reasonable luck,. animated with one idea, namely, standing all climate and motcore taking would be very much easier. and with normal conditions, his to secure information and advice logical dificultics she

[object will be achieved.. What of the ear Itself? Surely concerning the practical difficul- countered and in complete

dependence of wind and weather ties that have to be surmounted, conditions, she has always stuck here is something which is not It is hoped that whatever is done to her schedule. The constantly dependent on the forces of nature

of passengers and which ought not to give trou-stantly asked, "By how much do unusual concentration. "Take you. shall be by voluntary agreement carried by her afford the best ble if the designer has done his you expect to improve on your re- on at matching for tea.

rising numbers within industry, rather than by possible proof of the growing job properly?

cord?" His reply that he has no "What seems far away?" we

"What's To a certain extent this is quite idea is generally received with asked. Government Intervention, and faith of the public in the trans true. If the designer has

worrying you un-incredulous chackles. oceanic services operated by the there is no desire on the part of dirigible. In 1032 an average of limited money at his disposal, and

Nevertheless, it is the literal "This shemozzle in Europe," said Doris. "Rebellion. assassination the Government to make politic-4 paying passengers were carried is given sufficient time to do his truth that neither he, nor I, nor.,

(Continued on Page 5.) and whatnot. Fightin' In Athens. Italy movin' troops. Hitler flyin' to places. Thank God we live in

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And when each point has boen -----explained,

Their chuckles cannot bo res-

trained.

P.S.--

This thought should make our

pleasure double. Next time we have some dental

trouble.

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Haute Politique

"All seems very far away, Dog, said the Countess of Chapsowey. She threw down the Telegraph: I know that Sir Malcolm Is con-which she had been reading with

"Maybe you'd be telling your family the truth. Chock up and seo if your business is in any shape to leave right now."

now?"

"Hear, hear, to that," said wo getting lazily out of our chair. 'But don't you forget, Dorks, that it all seemed very far away twenty умаги ада. Serajevo-whoever'd heard of that place? Belgiani nou- trality-did that Interest anyone? And, in two twos we were goin' over

the top."

You and what's the moral, said Doria. "D'you mean we might get dragged into this, or what?"

We called three and were one leg down. "Heaven knows," we said gloomily. "But. there's something wrong. Dorks. We're not in this bealness-woll, I mean to say, who'd want to be?-but the curse of it is, we're not out of it ofthor. We've got peace treaties, and pacts, and commitments aeroplanes cruisors, colonios, an empire—ali the rest of the paraphernalia of miery. Why can't we be like Switzerland or Norway, and let the whole thing go? That's what I fel like when. I see how things are driftin' in Europa."

White man's

burden and all that said the Countess crisply matting her final log. Choor up, Dog, you didn't go to, Blenkinsop for nothing. Switzerland or Nor way. Indeed you poor boob!"

But her blus oyed looked "wint- fuller than usual. She was think- Jeg of young. Piggy, who was killed. et Morlancourt. Ho'd have been thirty-seven to-day.