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With a smile and a song. Batifine The Pavement artist. Haritono..

1-8201 "Hop Press" Piano Medley Medley-1'ts. 1 and 2

Malloren Pipes and Drums of the 2nd Batt. Stots

(n) March (6) Strathspey (r) Reel Old Mammy Mine. Vocal

11-8292

1-8294

Bar Moon. Vocal

1-8300

Ye Watchers aust. Ye Holy Ones

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Hell Baker.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1945.

WORLD PLANNING

NOTES OF THE DAY

BOOM IN INVENTIONS

JUNE 22, 1935.

CASH VALUE OF A DERBY WINNER

By ERIC RICKMAN

BULLS AND INNERS

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From the Office Butts

Chinese reports say a monster has been sighted off the coast near

Te value of a derby winner for one person who owns race. Amey with an almost human head,

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real scores seek primarily the pleasures of the sport, inspired by the desire to own a really good

Since Soviet Russin under the five- tremendous impulse of the year plans, definitely joined the company of the first-class indus- trial nations, she has made pro- Kress of which sho has no reason to be ashamed, and on which her rivals may well enngratulate her by his triumph in the Great enthusiasm and determina-

greatest rev The result has an tion are apparently being concen.

extensive effect #111 bloodstock trated, in Russia to-day, on the

values and "fashion," for there horse. There is always the chance devising of mechanism; there is a

that one may come their way, Are fortunes to be made from boom in inventions. Every other day announcement is made to the

racehorseg without botting

Mr. Ben Irish, a farmer in the world of this or that contrivance

One named Peterborough district with which is to revolutionise human penny-piece on them. activity. The corps of Russian in: | Blandford, who died recently, was modest sum to spend on racing, ventors are apparently well served bringing to his owners an annual gave 260 guineas for a yearling by their publicity department; the income of about £12,000 in stud and named him Periosteum. Be Moscow Government means to s{"

feus. At the time of his death won maby races, and eventually to it that the leaders of the great

he was Insured for a rum which was good enough to win the Ascot Bolshevist advance' In mechanica

covered approximately what he Gold Cup of 1921. With the do not hide their light under a

won over. Periosteum, bushel. Special attention is being would have earned for another money he devoted to the air, whether it be three years. His fee had been 400 Mr. Irish gave 3,500 guineas for the stratosphere or lower levels, guineas and was to have been another yearling. and the Intest advance notice or

increased next year to 500 guinena, preliminary "paff from Moscow

If the insurance money is included concerns a so-called air bicycle, by which it is hoped that the pilots of | Blandford must have earned gliders mag propel themselves nearly £125,000 siner he was re- through the atmosphere by pedal-

tired from racing. Hia original ling. Since Red, like other mortals, are not given to sprout wings, it remains for them to ex- ploit the possibilities of leg-power | as applied to the air. The day may not be distant wheza Peoni rades" will be able to mount their air bicycles and pedal their way to work. That, however, suggests a aerial congestion even more alarming than that which subsists at present in our roadis and streets.

State of

TOO OLD AT.....>

When should a motorial cease to drive a car on account of advancing years? This question has bee rnisent in cunnection with a Court case la which a doctor nearly 80 Choir of St. Margaret's Westminister.

"There is less and less willing-years of age was fined for failing 1-8307 Rhapsody in Blue (Gerslawin). Banjo Soin

Ken Harvey. "Naughty Marietta" Excerpts. Banjo Solo

Ken Harvey, miss to accept the thesis that to conform to traffic lights.

Magistrates mildly advised him to B-8312 You and the night and the music. Comedienne Grace Fields, human agencies are impotent to

"Erbert Jenry éppletlovaite. Comedienne

give up driving, but be refused, Gracie Fields,

control the Bucluations of econo- Land afterwards said he would 1-8313 OM Bohemian Towa

Alfredo unt his Orchesden. Alfreto and his Orchestra,mic fortune." If one single set- carry on till forced to discontinue.

Cara Mia

DA-1391 Poor man's garden. Tenn

Friend Mine. Tenor

DA-1391 Love thre (Grieg). Tenar

Parted. Tenor

DA-1401 Candle Light. Tenor

E. 531

An old sarred Juilahy. Tenar

Nane but the wenry Heurt. Contralto

· Dedleation (Schumann). Contralto

E- 552 Nightingale Song. Soprano

Do not be Cruel. Soprano

E- 555 Cradle Song (Mozart). Soprano

C-272G

Warning and Up there on the 1340, Soprano

St. Patrick's Night Pis., 1 and 2

C-2733 The Nation's Loyalty Pets, 1 and 2 C-2731 Homage, March

Concert Waldz-"JaynetismeAS“

J.

R. Crooks.

The

That was Papyrus, who in due course won the Derby for him and about £20,000 in stake money.

with heavy black hair. Seems to bear a clone resemblance to soma of these Repulse Bay bathing- bench sheiks.

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Hongkong dollars are said to be in growing demand in Canton. For that matter, they are in Hong-. kang, too.

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We met a man the other day who, in discussing the situation in the North, was as militant as a pacifist.

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Louks as if the French regard the watch on the Rhine as an alarm clock.

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An optimist is a man who claims

He add the horse for a large sums to be losing money slower than he at the end of his three-year-old | slid before.

cost to his owners, Messrs, R. C. career. and the Inte S. C. Dawsoft, was 780 guineus, and when they bought him at least one man who knew

bis history thought that it would be impossible to train him.

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A County bowler recently sent for back six opposing batsmen ducks. Must have exploited the egg theory.

A Bill to make St. Patrick's Day a legal holiday was recently intro- Mr. Tom Walls's Derby winner

dived into the New York State of the April the Fifth was bred by his Legislature. The name partner Air. Sidury McGregor | sponsor is Senator Wojtkowaik! from a mare for which he gave 230 gaineas, The partnership terms Blandford was bred at the Na- were that Mr. Walls should train tiial Stud, and when he was a April the Fifth at his own ex- year old he had rheumatic fever.pouse and divide any stake money the horse won with Mr. McGregor. that the veterinary It is said

The present Duke of Portland surgeon who attended him thought

bought SL Simon for 1,600 at one time that he was a hopeless

The horse's classic en- guineas. case. The statement has

gagements were void owing to the mude that he was not of much a death of his nominator, but in the be racing career That is not course of his count as a racehorse. true. Blandford was not entered proved himself to be perhaps the best ever produced. Ormonde is for the Derby of his year, but regarded as his only rival in that

there is good reason to believe that he would have won if he could have run for it. At that time he

respect.

☐ C there's the cricketing The Adonis who has bowled many a maiden over.

0 0 One of the new talkies has a Never- most realistic golf scene. theless, the censor passed it.

St. Simon was at the stud for

There's enough nicotine in a The fees paid on behalf cigar, says a doctor, to kill nine

He has driven for some forty was as good at even weights as the 22 years.

McCormack.tence may be taken as the key | years, has never had a conviction | four-year-old Franklin, who on the luf mates who visited him during | rats. So the next time you see a of any kind, and judges himself day after Captain Cuttle's Berby that time exceeded £160,000, and irat smoking a cigar, it's a safe bet

Three allowance is made for his owner's that he's attempting suicide. won the Coronation Cup. still capable of controlling a var

of Blandford's sons have won the mares who were mated to him, St. with safely to himself and others. similar question has been raised by remarks made by the Lord Chief-Justice in a lecture on the

Acersion Memories Pris, 1 and 2 Hand of the Coldstream Cameds. New Mayfair Orchestra. New Mayfair Orchestra,

(-2735 C-2738 Jubilee Dance Memories (1910-1935)

Prts., 1 and 2

C-2739

Jubilee Music Hall Parado (1910-1917) Jubilee Music Ball Parade (1911-1921) C-2710 Jubiler Musie. Hall Parade 1922-1942) Jubilee Music Hall Parade (1933-1935)

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Derby, Trigo, Blenheim, and Simon earned at the stud approxi-

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treatment of young offenders. He races worth over £70,000 - a record. (been one of the most potent for less to say, there are no mixed

doubles.

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a quarter al a mately

million Windsor Ludi,

There's a tennis club near Lon- pounds. His progeny

Need- won about don for teetotallers only. Last year he progeny woh 202550 races worth £532,500. He has

He is the sire also of the grent ever known in thoroughbred horse; Courts | French horse Brautome, and of breeding.

the unbeaten Bahrum. Brantone | has already won over £22,000 in prize money, and his owner is as sured of a huge income from the

is strongly of apinion that Magistrates in Juvenile should be of parental age, ranging grandfatherly perical that from 10 to 60, rather than of the

froni 60 to a happy, distant future.

runs

Those who sit in Juvenile Courts,

MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. Government responsibility for in old age he has not the fitness

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horse when he is retired to the fully

His services Are

Mr. H. Martin Benson gave the Maharajah of Rajpipla £50,000 for Windsor Las after he the horse's stud prospects, but Be Derby. He was investing in Windsor Lad's St. Leger victory soo provered for him £10,000 of his outlay.

At Doncaster yearling sales two wife of the Newmarket trainer years ago Mrs. Dawson Waugh, the accompanied him as he passed from box to host, inspecting the youngsters who were shortly. to enter the sale ring. She was lost in admiration for one filly.

little

We rend that for more than a century no-one has been able to And for improve on the violin. the past six months the fellow next door hasn't been able to improve on the saxophone.

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A producer says Elstree will never become a second Hollywood. For one thing, divorce takes much longer in England.

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"Blackshirt Split." reads a head-

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Later he urged her husband to

for her. A had won buy the filly

guineas, and she was knocked doubtfully, he made a bid of 100

down to him. As the mare was by Black Watch out of Little Mark, the very Mrs. Waugh gave her suitable name of Mark Time. In Solurio was bought for M,675 as her first racing season last year, a yearling and won nearly £21,000 Mark Time won four races and in stake money. His owner, the £1,700 in stake money, and recent- late Sir John Rutherford, refused by she showed herself to be one all offers for him and launched of the best three-year-old sprinters.

A political writer wants to know him successfully on his stud career by taking another race worth £550 if America is ready for a third at a fee of 500 guineas. When

J. Metormick. note of a report, which covers R. Crooks. The whole range of social and McCormack, economic conditions in the world, 1. McCormack.

the above quotation from the M. lezewakn. M. Olezewska, recently published annual report E. Schumann. of the International Labour El Schumann Office of the League of Nations. E. Schumattı. E. Schumann. written by its Diretor, Mr. II. B. Vocal talking with Orchestra. Butler, may well be chosen for that purpose. For while a vast C-2727 The Leek-Selection ('1. | and... London L'alladium Orchese variety of subjects affecting the

...Aftershut. Tattoo,

said Lord Hewart, need cool judg❘atul. Light Symphony Orchestra. Welfare of the workers in all

271:21. farge hearts. far-seeinn bouked for the first two years, as Light Symphony Orchestra.

Parts of the world are examined eyes, and keen ears. In both the

are those of Windsor Lad. and analysed in this able, im- instances prudence and common- sense should operate, It does not partial, expert survey of world follow that because here and there conditions, the one most remark-

we find a motorist of nearly 80, or over 80 and still going strong, table phenomenon, to which Mr.

a man's age does not conslittle a Butler draws supreme attentionery definitse factor in the ques.

sense the increasing

of tion. However it a man may feel

le thinks he has. Years tell supplying the material needs of spite of all. As for Lord Hewart's

its citizens. There Was remarks

the physical and Maxis- a time when the theoretical mental qualifications of

trates in Juvenile Courts, the same view of the functions of Gov-imitations might well hold good. ernment was that it should It may be more disastrous wrong maintain order within the State fully in punish a child than

injure a pedestrian. and protect it from foreign foes. Outside these strictly limited spheres it should not stray. The TO-DAY'S MOTORING HINT private individual citizen should seek his own well-being, and the result, it was maintained, would be that economic law, regarded ns an impersonal natural force, akin to the law of gravity, would, in spite of temporary suffering and loss, in the long run produce the "best of all possible worlds." This laissez faire doctrine was never whole- heartedly put into practice. To- day even the most academic pro- fessor would not advocate its adoption, without adding except ions that would in effeel annul the rule. Planning" is indeed the master business of the times but "planning" is 710 morc likely than laissez faire to lend to the millennium or even to real improvement of conditions un- less it places a worthy goal be- fore it. Two aspects of the problem may be briefly men tioned. First, there is surely a danger in a government-controll-

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sale are excellent, for they are Thief-proof devices which are on

easily fitted and they do prevent, the criminal or joy-rider making off with the car.

Some owner-drivers have ways of their own, such as fitting an extra fuel tap. or ignition switch which is invisible to a thief.

If the car is fitted with coil ignition, one of the simplest ways

of making it thief-proof is to lift up the bonnet and pull out the lead which joins the distributor to the coil. This can generally be done easily, since in most cases the end of the lead is only pushed into n socket. With a number of lends in a group na one notices that one is out of position, even if the thief

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not.

With magneto ignition the ear- bon brush in the distributor can he removed easily. This servea the sans parpose, namely, the car cannot be driven away.

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ed community. that the instandpoint. This is especially dividual should lose his free-noticeable

tho economic dom and power of initiative. No sphere. Again and again, ex- scheme of "planning" should be perts have pointed to "economic accepted that is going to make nationalism" as the root cause of the citizens of the State into the mess we are in to-day, and slaves. The other-weakness-of-yet-the-economic-war-of-tariffs- modern-day planning is that, and currencies continues un- thanks to the historic accident of abated. Until national states- the world being divided up into men become sufficiently inter- danger of regarding every ques-operation for world welfare in tion from a narrow national the League of Nations spirit, all point of view instead of tackling their merely national plans for it, as it must be in a unified prosperity are doomed to prove Iworld, from the international Sisyphean tasks.

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Button-holes are returning, says

a fashion note. And sometimes the shirt comes back, too.

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John died, a syndicate of She is likely to win other valu- party. Not until she gets over the

the horse for able prizes this year, bat her pros-headaches from the other two.

this connection pects in secondary now to her worth as a figures glitter. They | potential brood mare. If she were dazzling prizes of | offered for sale she would fetch

several thousand pounds.

Sir

breeders bought £19,350.

These represent the

racing.

"I hope you didn't make a lot of dumb remarks when you met

the boss. It would make me jppear an awful say.”

It's funny, but even grass widows don't as a rule like spinach.

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A Hollywood couple recently celebrated 25 years of married life. Now it's America's chance to stage. a Silver Jubilee.

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fo conserve our remaining pedestrians, how about imprison- ing any driver who bags an under- sized specimen ?

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One of the hardest things to do nowadays is to keep up those easy payments.

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"In a new machine, to be shown in the Engineering and Hardware Section of the British Industries Fair, the cutting tool is guided by a tiny pin point of light." It sounds like shaving under difficult- ic8.

A Kowloon housewife complaine that this year's new potatoes are not very big. She ought to be thankful for small murphies.

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A Paris journal recently referred

to Lord Trenchard as

London'a

"Premier of Pollee." The Crime Minister?

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A London man has just rotired

after over 30 years' service as

a

beor-taster. Needless to say, he's

had many bitter XXXperiences.

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A young leopard was recently.

sold in Now York for $5,000.

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