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THE TRIUMPH OF WIRELESS

17, MONDAY, JUNE

NOTES OF THE DAY

A KING'S MAXIMS

PILS

1935.

THE HIGH COST OF GLORY

BY EDWARD KENT

It is only people of character who take maxims as their guide in life. Maxims betoken an ideal which those who believe in them hold in DILSUDSKI has died in his bed. ¡have caused the steel rope to shave Stalin and Attaturk Kemal the windscreen level with bonnet, view, it may be weakly or spus. modically or with, strong intention may succeed in doing so too. What and neatly to lop off any heads

that might be behind it. endeavour to live up. to the of Mussolini, of Hitler?

In thin tenets they connote.

Since they came to power Mus- |Jubilee year of His Majesty some rolini has never' gone abroad, and

to

It was this attempt that finally

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 re- examinations, writes a correspon- aults from Aslatic candidates for

dent.

Thus we learn that:-- An isosceles triangle is a line on to investigate thea map joining places with equal

of his favourite maximus bave been Hitler only once. This, and it is induced me brought to light; these are hung hardly surprising, was to visit gossip about how much those per-weather.

of

Here are a few:

the

"Teach me to distinguish between sentiment and sentimentality, ad- miring the one and despising the

other."

Mussolini

meet.

Days are longer in summer than

everything.

winter because heat expands

The palm, however, muat be

on the wall of his library. Some Mussolini. In short, he exchanged sons who wish, for various reasons, A parallel is a straight line that

then give an idea of thoughts which govern Royal bene 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 as that might well be emulated by all, who protects you best is the man premiums. ; Inquiries were made,

who shares your anxiety.

thig week, at one of the biggest found firma of Insurance brokers in the Incidentally,

The sun never acts on the British Hiler as fanatical and impossible world and the results were stagger-

Empire because the British Em- If, for instance, a man has bari-pire is in the east and the sun sets to talk to us, according to private in reports, Sir John Simon found him

that might be in the west. later. In spite of the fact, how-ness In Germany "Teach me neither to proffer nor ever, that this meeting in Venice adversely affected by Hitler's sud-

ended, instead of confirming, the den death, and wishes to insure awarded to the clerk who, in a to receive cheap advice."

"If I am called upon to suffer. friendship between the two coun- during this month of May only, for let me be like a well-bred animal tries, it must have been a matter £100, he must pay us premium five that goes away to suffer in silence" of small importance to the Fuehrer,guineas. That is to say, if this compared with his safe return, back quotation holda, sixty guineas a "Teach me to win if I can. to his fast, low, black Mereedes, year on £100.

the the crowds of detectives, I may not win, then, above

ubiquitous Secret Police and, best; tench me to be a good loser."

of all, the bodyguard, with the sensations when he reads this-as

"On the day on which my wed- "Teach me neither to cry for the death's head on their caps, even he will-if he believes, as most of

of us do, that prices in the City ofding occurred” the least important members

the most accurate moon nor over spilt milk,'

which receive signed cigarette cases London form

politicni barometer to keep them in a good humour.

•

If

All,

DANGER TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

ing

resolution: "We

life.

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But

there

are

It

No one will envy the Fahrer's

atum.

petition to his European employer, delivered himself of this magnifi- Kipling:-Eust is least and West cent and unconscious paraphrase of is best!

A CALAMITY

You see

IRISH LOGIC

Irish Magistrate-The defendant

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+

QUITE RIGHT!

Chinese seaman at London dock: Will you tell, please, where rail- way station is?

Dock Hund:-What's the matter are you lost? Seaman-No, me here. Station

ANSWERED!

in the work. "You'll pardon the correction; He may take comfort possibly from but affairs such as marriages, re- this.

I am told that there have ceptions, dinners, and things of dragers in een no applications lately for that sort take place. It is only

the distinction ?" The continuance of separation of Germany, even at one hundred kiln-policies; If there had been the price calamities which occur. church and state is now threatened metres an hour. Anyone who has would have been worse.

"Yes, I see. As I was saying, Other inquiries resulted in vari- in the United States in one of its been there lately in Tamiliar with Une of the enlless jokes about the regime. most important fields.

Those of us who go there at alous interesting facts. The figures the day on which my wedding oc-

for Mussolini are £4 on £100 for curred-----" public school

promote money to

frequently are apt to hear more. seelarian education is demanded. Three or four circumstantial stories three months, or, if the quotation

holds, 16 per cent. per 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 swears that he was perfectly sober.

said, to representations on the part

Policeman-he was absolutely The religious schools in some dis-

I myself have heard so many of the U.S.A. that such inquiries

If he had been snber It is indicative of the steady tricts would lend to drive out the

all kinds that I have are mischievous; and there are no intoxicated. learned 10 Aift them pretty figures, at the moment, on Kental, he would have known he was drunk. and remarkable progress made in public schools. Ultimately some stories of

school children would be forced thoroughly. For every one I be Stalin, or Schuschnigg. The rate and not have made a disturbance. the realm of wireless broadcast- ing that scarcely an occasion of get their education in a narachial Here, I discount at least half a is 5 per cent, against war between

school, whether or not they wanted dozen. But that of the attempted France and Germany this year, British national importance octo, beenuse there was to other. assassination of the first week of curs nowadays that is not flashed This issue comes up in Ohio. Two last November, which has never

All this might seem, in conclu- to the uttermost parts of the rears ago the Roman Catholic been mentioned in any newspaper,

I am satisfied is true; and assion, to have little to do with the Empire. Although complete parochial schools asked a share of led me to make the inquiries in the Jubilee, that extraordinary festivity perfection has not yet been at the state funds raised for public City that I shall refer to later on, which has recently staggered our- selves almost as much as the out- side world. But It hun. tained, it is really little short of school assistance. Apparently the shall tell it.

to me by ul was confided amazing that we here in long-slight margin by which they last

their dentist,

Did Scotland Yard have to poke lost. a personal friend, who

with for bomba kong are able, on the majority encouraged them to renew

man who con- each lower-bed of these occasions, to obtain a drive this year. Recently the Na: actually knew the

Was n ex-chauffeur of Hitler's. week at flandringham and Bucking- direct contact with the Mother-tional Catholic Education Associa-Celved the plot. The man himself walking-sticks each hour of this

I am taken with a story told me land and thus enjoy an experi-tion went on record for state aid He knew the route by which litler ham Palace, as they did at Stresa? certain Can you buy first floor seats-CX- 44 ence which would have been to religious schools in the follow-habitually approached

protest town, the usual speed of his car, cellent swiping posts--In Berlin by a Liverpool ship's officer bear- tenshops, as you have just done in ing on the interminable and ins deemed an impossibility by the against the un-American assurip and its measurements.

London, with no questions asked, exhaustible questions that land- lubbers will ask when at sea, writes founders of this outpost of tion that only that kind of educa-

when Hitler whizzes by?

the London correspondent of the Empire. Yet, as time goes on.tion should have public support One evening he discovered the

On Hitler's birthday, in the Liverpool Post. rooted and founded in hour at which Hitler was expected. Wilhelmstrasse, were there erowds we tend to take all these things which, is

On one of the cruises a species accomplices and of hundreds of thousands, night for granted. Such is human secularism." The project în Ohiu He chose two

of bird had followed the ship for nature. An outstanding example calls on the State to pay the pare method of murder which has inte-after night, hour after hour, un-

very popular on the

molested, cheering, joking, crying, some time to the Intense curiosity of the possibilities of wireless chial school about £3 annually for y become Continent.

singing, there of their own Free of one of the women passengers

there the Will? Singing-yes,

are who never let the subject rest. was provided on Jubilee Day, each grade school pupil and £5 for

Some distance outside

At dinner one evening she re- when the B.B.C. excelled itself.cach high school pupil. The sum

If the suburbs, on a long piece of tree-beautifully drilled marching songs run into millions. ******* How many listened to the actual dio 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 cannot be estimated with any-fund for parochial schools, it may exactly the height of a man's neck bear.

"We'll never get them out on the The captain, who was well-nigh invariably sitä

#balcony unless we sing”—that kind. | distraught, turned to the first thing approaching accuracy, but shortly he urged that cities should when seated in a certain type of

dlo the same. State-aid

officer and plaintively naked, "Can to say that they ran into some sectarian education can be used as front. If the attempt had been Remember? hundreds of millions is no a precedent for locul nid. Pres- successful-they were caught, to

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

"Eggs, sir, eggs," replied the peoples of the Homeland and the politicians who in a great many few minutes before Hitler approach that Hitler has never had a Jubilee. from?"

control the public ed--the speed of the vehicle, which The City seems afraid he never Dominions and Colonies, many school boards. Many communities is always as fast as is safe, would will

That settled it. in the United States, on the would not be able to finance out of Continent of Europe, and in taxation the partial support of the 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 auch an historic oeen-school would be extinguished. Then sion and to the greatest link- the choice which other parents in up" in the record of radio. that locality would have would be to send their children to a religious This surely is an-influence not to school supported by taxation, or to be undervalued for its service in pay for private instruction, or else uniting the peoples of the earth move away to some spot where they in friendly understanding. Let could find a public school. war-mongering statesmen do or

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bear no animosity to one other; that, in fact, their hearts It is taken as a sign of temper beat in sympathy to

or a lack of manners when anyone noteworthy extent to-day than bangs a house door. It is surpris ing, therefore, to find what a large ever 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 difficult to say anything to passengers when they are guilty for the means it provides the of this, but the owner should re Sovereign to keep in personal frain from doing it, touch with his peoples in every Slamming is bad for the catches quarter of the Empire. That is and hinges, but it is still worse

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********* of the picture be overlooked. hinges, so that they fit better.

"Oh, yes, yes, of course! You're the landlord and I prob- ably owe you a little something by now."

where those birds came from?"

first officer.

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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

learners.

are youthful

TAILS!

tram

Here's a true story (according to a London gossip.) A small

Cockney was taken by his father

to

все a certain store's great

Jubilee effort. Father pointed to

the giant figure of Britahnia.

"Who's that, sonny?"

"Tails, daddy!"

"QUIETUS"

Asked for a sentence to illus- trate the meaning of "quietus," a scholar gave the following:-

"After nurse had given baby Its quietus, it lapsed into slumber."

INSECT BLACKSMITH "Jones is employed in a restau- rant now."

"What's his job?"

"He's an insect blacksmith.". "Good Heavens, what's that 7" "He shoos flies."