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Many Japanese women have their backs tattooed in order to be attrac tive. The procedure is said to take about three years and costs $200.

Jack Tar Goes All Savile Row

When I first put this form on, I said, as I looked in the glass,

"It's one to a million

That any civilian

My figure and form will surpass." No longer need Jack Tar reflect thus gloomily with Gilbert, for In future his uniform and over. cont are to be made to nieasure.

An expert tailor will go over him with the tape-inzasure, and net until Jack is perfectly satisfied with the fitting need he accept the uniformi.

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What is more, all garments, accord- Ing Admiralty Fleet Orders issued recently, "shall be well pressed and shall be folded and delivered in Such manner as to ensure a minimunn of creasing,

"Serge clothing shall be tried on. both basted and finished, it required by the men," and "any alterations re- quired to make garments it properly. to the satisfaction of the proper officers shall be inade promptly by the contractor."

There is no inention, however, that the Fleet Beau Brummells shall have

an issue of trouser presses.

And on a more serious note:

A scheme has been prepared by the Admiralty in enable Naval ratings and Royal Marines to effect Insurances for the beneft of their dependents covering all risks of

peace and war, The scheme also provides for the taking out of endow- ment policies,

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THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1937.

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SIGNAL ERROR COST 10 LIVES WHITEAWAY'S

TRIPLE ALLIANCE

Charles H. Kerr and Mrs. Anna Graham are husband and wife to-day for the third time, the ceremony taking place at Nokomis, Illinois.

Kerr, between his marriages to Mrs. Graham, became the husband of two other women, and Mrs. Graham, after her first divorce from Kerr, remarried a former husband.

LORD CECIL: "WAR

Rail Inspector On Steel or Wood

For Coaches

London, June 29.

The official report, issued on the Battersea rail crash on April 2, in which ten lives were lost, states that it is. obvious the onus must lie with a relief signalman who had incorrectly unscaled and manipulated semi-automatic

IS DRAWING NEAR" signalling equipment.

Peace-at-Any-Price

Speeches Deplored

London, July 1.

Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, speaking in the House of Lords in a debate on the League of Nations, deplored the frequent assertions by Ministers and others that the only thing this country cared about was to keep out of war.

"I feel that is a most dangerous thing to do," he said. "It is a direct encouragement to disorderly Powers to become more and more aggressive and to treat our re- monstrances with very scant respect.

"I am perfectly certain that there is a tremendous opinion against war. I am perfectly certain also that this country will be found exerting its true strength in the defence of our interests and the principles of justice.

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The report also deals with the controversy over steel or wooden construction of coaches, but no direct recom- mendations on this point are made..

The inspecting officer, Lieut. Col. A. H. L. Mount, Chief Inspecting Officer of Railways, recalls that the 7.31 am, electric passenger train, Coulsdon North to Victorin, running on the up local line, overtook and came into violent collision with the rear of the 7.30 a.m. electric passonger train, London Bridge to Victoria, which was about to restart after being detained at Battersea Park up local home signal.

He states that the investigation was

rendered difficult by the negative attitude of Relief Signalman F. G. THE SERVANT

Childs as to what transpired during) the crucial period from 7.57 a.m. toj 8.1 a.m.

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OVER-CONFIDENCE

Colonel Mount describes Childs as with a clear record, well spoken of, and who by temperament acemed imperturbable. He adds:

due sense of responsibility and by "But I cunclude that, in lacking over-confidence, he.deceived himself

PROBLEM

New Zealand's Novel Plan

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and others as to his intimate know the acute shortage of domestle ser

ledge of the equipment.

After outlining three

been women's

be

Christchurch, New Zealand. revolutionary scheme to solve

vanta in New Zealand has "It is a dangers thing to enemas, that during the years whleb followed

possible suggested by the leading rage countries of an aggressive type the war it falled to remedy those ele-causes which might have brought organisations In Christchurch. to doubt that. That is precisely the ments in the Treaty of Versalles out the collision. Colonel Moun!

that way wars have come in the past," whleh hardly anybody now regarded concludes

It is proposed to train a national the fundamental

of domestic workers, to as either justified or jusi.

actions which led to the accident o Lord Rennell had introdured the; debate by asking the Government if,j

were, Brst, the "cancellation" of the paid and hired out by the govern- if the League had dealt with the London Bridge train and secondly the

ment. Employers would reimburse when the question of reform of the legitimate demands of Germany In "plunge" to accept the Coulsdone

government necording to League of Nations was brought for- the rariler years after the war there train and to release the Pouparts means. ward at Geneva, discussions would, would have been no difficulty in pre-Junction starter No. 19. Both must on the first occasion, be restricted to venting the unjustified attack by Italy have emanated

A special committee has from Childs, and formed to look into the whole ques- The issue of whether revisioni was on Abyssinia or settling the aggres serious responsibility therefore restedtion. It is called the Household Ser- necessary or desirable, or whether itj ston of Signor Mussolini,

i was contemplated that definite pro-

Viscount Ceelt said: "We are faced

upon him.

posals should be submitted at that with a grave danger. There is noman

meeting.

WHY THE LEAGUE FAILED

doubt that war is drawing near.

"Every means of consellation should be tried. The point is. What are) the you going to do when conciliation the falls? That Is the issue.***

The Alnequls of Lothlan said League seemed inadequate for accomplishment of the vast endl which it had in view. If the world

COACH TELESCOPED

vice

their

been

Campaign Committee, and is No blame attached either to Moter-representative of all the leading wo-

A. Anthony, who, though men's organisations. seriously shaken, had a remarkable

The opinion is widely held amongst escape, or to Guard R. W. Adamson. New Zealand women that the status ful domestic workers must be raised

considerably if a good supply Dealing with rolling stock con-efficient workers is to be maintained.

They blame many employers struction, the report says that this

and accident-like those at Bow on April adopting n wrong attitude towards girls and women working in the on April 14-agoin behaviour of rolling-stock in

Crewe

of

for

was to-day-as they hoped in 1918 it State and say at the same time that drew attention to the question of the home, and an important part of the

would be-a world in which all nations in effect were democracies (and members of the League, he

thought the League.would work.

sweet reasonableness of an aggressor It was of no use to appeal to the

force would not be used. That course was really inviting disaster.

He hoped it would be a long time)

lision.

eal-campaign

will be educating Em- ployers in the art of employment.

An attempt will be made to alter Colonel Mount, who points out that the public attitude towards domestic

One of the greatest causes of the before the Government embarked on the rear motor coach of the London workers. failure of the League of Nations was extensive changes in the League,

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Bridge trai, In which nine of the The committee proposes that the fatalities occurred, was telescoped Government should "recruit" a when the leading coach of the Couls-tional domestic service don train over-rode It, adds:

two

desirable at

A

corps young women agreeable to

to entering the domestic service profession. "Had the bodies of these

Under the scheme recruils would coaches been materially stronger the be asked to undergo whatever train- results might have been different, but

ing is

is considered it is impossible to say whether they technical school, and when they would have been more or less serious" would be guaranteed so far as casualties were concerned. continuity of employment as long as

Resistance to collision was not the their services were satisfactory. primary consideration In the design The Government's Domestic Ser- of rolling-stock, nor could dynamics vice Department would ensure that be eliminated by the use of "all steel" living and working conditions were

up to standard.

construction.

WOOD SUITABLE

The service would be available to all women, but first consideration mothers convalescent after would be given to expectant mothers, child- birth, and mothers who have young families.

"Dut if wood is kept away from electrical equipment and coupling and buffer gear are adequate, the passenger carrying portion of the bodies even of motor conches on sur- face railways need not necessarily be or charged for according to the eir- composed entirely of steel if the cumstances of each case.-Reuter various other considerations con-

cerned do not justify such construc-

tion," says Colonel Mount,

The service would be either free

"It is clear that the right polley Too Comfortable

is to continue to direct available

resources towards the prevention!

of accidents rather than towards

minimising their effects.”

To this end the report makes

a

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colour-light signalling system should be extended to this section of line as soon as possible.

No Swearing Allowed In Italian Army

*Rome.

Headmaster's

View

Boys can be made too comfortable in Public Schools Mr. Norman Whalley, headmaster of Clifton College, told the conference of the National Association for the Proven- tion of Tuberculosis, at Bristol re-

cently

"The condiUons under which a boy lives

arc, on the fact of it, much healthier than they were. They are also, from the point of view of the boy, much more comfortable" he The biblical commandment against}

Amere

is, perhaps, just a danger blasphemy is being enforced cher- of their becoming too comfortable, gelically throughout the ranks of the end of the schools competing with Italian army.

one another in the luxury and at- tractions they hold out to parents. General Alberto Pariani, Under-"Some schools seem to me to have secretary of War, in a strong circular gone almost 100 far in making life

that "spiritual discipline of

most delicate of the boys will not find it strain. I feel that it is our duty, as well, to give

on

troops" states:

во сабу

the

"To command and obey is the duty a full life, and a fairly strenuous of every soldier ....He who swears life, to boys who are at for it." Incks control over his nerves, and Sleep was very important to boys. is not a good soldier... Blasphemy It was shown by the number who shows lack of discipline."

put on weight in term time but lost it in the holidays. He could not help Posters have been pasted on walls wondering whether, In the national of all military barracks. They read a "Blasphemy dishonours soldiers campaign for physical fitness, much Swearing is forbidden by article 274 more emphasis ought not to be put

on sleep. of the Penal Code and by article 51

The

ordinary English boy will of the army regulations.”

always enjoy games more than ha Partani's circular winds up with enjoys physical training, and we orders for all milliary chaplains to shall have to be very careful if the hold monthly conferences against present enthusiasm for such training | blasphemy.-Ünited Press.

is not to be followed by a reaction.

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