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MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1936.

THE TRIUMPH OF

WIRELESS

NOTES OF THE DAY

A KING'S MAXIMS

It le only people of character who take maxims as their guide in life. Maxima botoken an ideal which

those who believe in them hold in Pl

of

them give

1935.

THE HIGH COST OF

GLORY...

BY EDWARD KENT

•

The Very Idea!

POT-POURRI

In the Malay States, a somewhat elementary knowledge of English, plus a certain amount of confusion of ideas, produces remarkable ro sults from Asiatic candidates for examinations, writes a correspon- dent.

Thus we learn that:- An isosceles trianglo is a line on

A parallel is a straight line that

meet.

ILSUDSKI has died in his bed. have caused the steel rope to shave view, it may be weakly ог врав- Stalin and Attaturk Kemal the windscreen level with bonnet, modically or with strong Intention may succeed in doing so too. What and neatly to lop off any heads

up to the of Mussolini, of Hitler?

that might be behind it. to endeavour to live

In this teneta they connote.

Since they came to power Mus- Jubilee year of His Majesty some solint has never gone abroad, and It was this attempt that finally of his favourite maxima-have been

to investigate the a map joining places with equal brought to light; these are hung Hitler only once. This, and it is induced me

visit gossip about how much those per-weather. on the wall of his library. Some hardly surprising, was to

an idea of the Mussolini. In short, he exchanged feons who wish, for various reasons, thoughts which govern Royal be- one massed ring of black guards to insure in the City against the when produced to meet does not haviour, and they are of a character for another, knowing that the man deaths of Dictators have to pay na that might well be omulated by all. who protects you beat is the man premiums. Inquiries wore made,

who shares your anxiety.

this week,, at one of the biggest Days are longer in summer than Here are a fow:

Incidentally, Mussolini found firms of insurance brokers in the in winter because heat expands

everything. "Teach me to distinguish between

The sun nover sets on the British sentiment and sentimentality, ad-Hitler as fanatical and impossible world and the results wore stagger- miring the one and despising the to talk to na, according to private

If, for instance, a man has busi- Empire because the British Em- reports, Sir John Simon found him other."

In the west, later. In spite of the fact, how-ness in Germany that might bepire is in the east and the sun sets ever, that this meeting in Venice adversely affected by Hitler's sud- ended, instead of confirming, the den death, and wishes to insure it. friendship between the two coun- during this month of May only, for petition to his European employer, tries, it must have been a matter £100, he must pay as premium five delivered himself of this magnifi- of small-importance to the Fuchrer, gulnens, That is to say, if this cent and unconscious paraphrase of compared with his safe return, back quotation holds, sixty guinens n Kipling:-East is least and West.

is best! to his fnst, low; black Mercedes, year on £100. all, the crowds

"Teach me neither to proffer nor to receive cheap advice."

"If I am called upon to suffer, let me be like a well-bred animal that goes away to suffer in silence"

"Teach me to win if I can. I may not win, then, above teach me to be a good loser.”

"Teach me neither to cry for the moon hor over spilt milk."

•

If

DANGER TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Ing.

The palm, however, must be awarded to the clerk who, in a

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•

·A CALAMITY

"On the day on which my wed- ding occured

Other inquiries resulted in vari- "Yes, I see. As I was saying, the day on which my wedding oc- curred

last November, which has never All this might seem, in conclu- been mentioned in any newspaper,

*

IRISH LOGIC

Irish Magistrate--The defendant swears that he was perfectly sober.. Policeman he was absolutely If he had been sober intoxicated. he would have known he was drunk, and not have made a disturbance.

+

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QUITE RIGHT!

Chinese seaman at London dock:

am satisfied is true; and as it sion, to have little to do with the-Will you tell, please, where rail- led me to make the inquiries in the Jublice, that extraordinary festivity way station is?

Dock Hand-What's the matter City that I shall refer to later on, which has recently staggered our-

selves almost as much as the out--are you lost? I shall tell it.

side world. But it has.

was an

་

Seaman-No, me here. Station

lost.

*

ANSWERED!

wilhelmstrasse, were there crowds LTD.

af detectives, the

No one will envy the Fuhrer's ubiquitous Secret Police and, best

the sensations when he reads this-as of all, the bodyguard, with death's head on their caps, even the will-If ho belleves, an most of the least important members of us do, that prices In the City of which receive signed elgarette cases London form the most accurate

political barometer in the world. "You'll pardon the correction, to keep them in a good humour.

He may take comfort possibly from but affairs such as marriages, re- this. I am told that there have ceptions, dinners, and things of But Chere are dangers In been no applications lately for that sort 'take place. It is only The continuance of separation of Germany, oven at one hundred kilo-policies; if there had been the price calamities which occur." You see

the distinction ?” church and state is now threatened metres an hour. Anyone who has would have been worse. in the United States in one of its been there lately is familiar with most important fields. Use of the endless jokes about the regime.

Those of us who go there at nilons Interesting facts. The figures public school money to promote frequently are apt to hear more. for Mussolini are £4 on £100 for sectarian education is demanded. Three or four circumstantial stories three months, or, if the quotation holds, 10 por cent. per annum. Once granted; it would encourage of torture and injustice, and one, Stiff enough, but infinitely better the rivalry of two competing schools always one, other story-the story than Hitler's. No quotations are: systems at the public expense. of the latest attempt on Hitler's given for Roosevelt, owing, it is The religious schools in some dis- life.

said, to representations on the part many of the U.S.A. that such Inquiries It is indicative of the steady tricts would tend to drive out the I myself have heard so

some stories of all kinds that I have are mischievous; and there are no and remarkable progress made in public schools. Ultimately

learned to sift them pretty figures, at the moment, on, Kemal, the realm of wireless broadcast-school children would be forced to

lieve, I discount at least half as 5 per cent, against war between ing that scarcely an occasion of get their education in a parochial thoroughly. For every one I be- Stalin, or Schuschnigg. The rate

school, whether or not they wanted dozen. But that of the attempted France and Germany this year. British national importance oc- to, because there was no other. assassination of the first week of curs nowadays that is not flashed This issue comes up in Ohio. Two to the uttermost parts of the years ago the Roman Catholic Empire. Although complete parochial schools asked a share of perfection has not yet been at-the state funds raised for public tained, it is really little short of school assistance. Apparently the

It was confided to me by a amazing that we here in Hong-slight margin by which they lost

a personal friend. who Did Scotland Yard have to poke kong are able, on the majority encouraged them to renew their dentist, of these occasions, to obtain a drive this year. Recently the Na- actually knew the man who con- cach flower-bed for bombs with direct contact with the Mother- tional Catholic Education Associa- celved the plot. The man himself walking-sticks each hour of this ex-chauffeur of Hitler's. week at Sandringham and Bucking- land and thus enjoy an experi-tion went on record for state aid He knew the route by which Hitler ham Palace, as they did at Stresa?

I am taken with n story told me ence which would have been to religious schools in the follow habitually approached a certain Can you buy first floor seats-ex-

resolution: "We ing

protest town, the usual speed of his car, cullent sniping posts-in Berlin by a Liverpool ship's officer bear- deemed an impossibility by the against the un-American assump-and its measurements.

teashops, as you have just done in ing on the interminable and in- London, with no questions asked, exhaustible questions that land- founders of this outpost of tion that only that kind of educa-

when Hitler whizzes by?

lubbers will ask when at sea, writes Empire. Yet, as time goes on,tion should have public support

the London correspondent of the One evening he discovered the

On Hitler's birthday, in the Liverpool Pant. we tend to take all these things which is rooted and founded hour at which Hitler was expected. for granted. Such is human secularism." The project in Ohio He chose two accomplices and nature. An outstanding example calls on the State to pay the paro-method of murder which has late of the possibilities of wireless chial school about £9 annually for ly become very popular on the was provided on Jubilee Day, each grade school pupil and £5 for Continent.

Some distance

the outside when the B.B.C. excelled itself. each high school pupil. The sum

would run into millions. If the suburbs, on a long picce of tree-beautifully drilled marching songs State of Ohio should vote money lined road, he stretched a steel in Germany, but there's another turned to it in full sall. "Cap- voice of His Majesty that day out of its general state education rope between two lime trees, at kind of singing Hitler will never tain," she said, "can't you tell me

where those birds came from?" cannot be estimated with any fund for parochial schools, it may exactly the height of a man's neck hear.

"We'll never get them out on the The captain, who was well-nigh Bila thing approaching accuracy, but shortly be urged that cities should when seated in a certain type of

Hitler Invariably inbalcony unless we sing"-that kind, distraught, turned to the first do the same. State

front. If the attempt had been Remember? to say that they ran into some sectarian education can be used as

officer and plaintively asked, "Can hundreds of millions is no a precedent for local aid. Pres- successful-they were caught, to

Of course, it's only fair to add you say where those birds came exaggeration, for, besides the sure may be directed against the disappear, without trial, for ever, o

politicians who in a great many few minutes before Hitler approach that Hitler has never had a Jubilee, from 7" peoples of the Homeland and the communities control the public ed-the speed of the vehicle, which The City seams afraid he never Dominions and Colonies, many school heards. Many communities is always as fast as is safe, would will. in the United States; on the would not be able to finance out of taxation the partial support of the Continent of Europe, and in parochial schools, plus the expense other parts of the earth were of the public schools. In a strong- glad to have the opportunity to sectarian community favouring the parochial school, the public listen to such an historic occa-school would be extinguished. Then sion and to the greatest "ink- the choice which other parents in up" in the record of radio. that locality would have would be This surely is an influence not to to send their children to a religious school supported by taxation, or to be undervalued for its service in pay for private instruction, or cise uniting the peoples of the earthmove away to some spot where they in friendly understanding, Let could find a public school. war-mongering stateamen do or

Chater Road.

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THE CAR DOORS

other; that, in fact, their hearts It is taken as a sign of temper beat in sympathy to a more or a lack of manners when anyone noteworthy extent to-day thanbangs a house door. It is surpris- Ing, therefore, to find what a large lever before. The progress in number of owner-drivers treat the wireless broadcasts can also be doors of their cars in the same way. set down as an invaluable boon It is difcult to say anything to for the means it provides the passengers when they are guilty of this, but the owner should re- Sovereign to keep in personal frain from doing it. touch, with his peoples in every quarter of the Empire. That is and hinges, but it is still worse

Slamming is bad for the catches

a privilege of which the King for the paintwork, for repeated

banging cracks and chips the doors themselves as well as the surround- ing panels.

Fre-

has expressed his appreciation more than once. A blase age is apt, as we have remarked, to

When the need for slamming take the wonders of science as a arises it is usually the owner's own matter of course, without think- fault, since it implies he had failed ing how they have transformed to oil the hinges and catches. and enriched the peaceful occa- quent oiling is time well spent. sions of mankind. We hear If the doors have got into a much about the contributions of rather bad state, owing to lack of science to the horrors of war,oll, it pays to take them off and Let not the more agreeable side pad them under one or more of the of the picture be overlooked. hinges, so that they fit better.

car.

of hundreds of thousands, night On one of the cruises a species after night, hour after hour, un-of bird had followed the ship for molested, cheering, joking, crying, some time to the intense curiosity singing, there of their own Free of one of the women passengers

there Will? Singing-yes.

are who never let the subject rest..

At dinner one evening she_re

"Oh, yes, yea, of course! You're the landlord and

prob-

ably owe you a little something by now,"

"Eggs, air, eggs," replied the first officer.

That settled it.

MORE HOWLERS

A lawsuit is a long black gown and a white wig.

A hold-up is the American ex- pression for an umbrella.

Deportment is being sent abroad. to learn dancing.

A hens' convention is a nickname for a cocktail party.

Carboys Kro

learners,

youthful

tram

TAILS!

Horo's a true story (according to a London

gossip.) A small Cockney was taken by his father

to Bee a certain store's great Jubilee effort. Father pointed to the glant figure of Britannia.

"Who's that, sonný?"

"Tails, daddy!"

"QUIETUS"

Asked for a sentence to illus. trate the meaning of "qulotus," a scholor gave the following ;-

"After nurse had given baby Ita

quletus, it lapsed into slumbar,"

鹤

.

INSECT BLACKSMITH

"Jones Is employed in a restau- rant now."

"What's his job?".

"He's an insect. blacksmith." "Good Heavens, what's that ??" "He shoos Blok."