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THOROUGHBREDS

DONT CRY

Adapted from the METRO GO

·GOLDWYN MAVER Actore HALSEY RAINES

(What has happened so far: Low in fundə” but borrowtarg enough to come to America fui at tru at the intarsiione horse racing cup, Bir Peter Gal" verton aenda hĩa young grand- Run Roger out hunting for a jac- key. Roger opproaches Timinin Donovan, a very clever but cou erited youngster who refusca la take the Tirith boy ortonatų until he has proved"his mettle in a Axt Apht. Tumain still anys ho won't ride an Kaplah berso, but in span over when Sir Petee presenta him with the famed Bnapper Garrison's riding ichty.)

leht 1937- Taww's Inr.

Chaptor Fivo

Roger followed Timinie out to the outer linli,

"In well old guy, ain't he?" asky Timmin,

m glad you think so. Timmio," Bald Roger, "He has to win the

It has to." Cup the time,

Twin it for him all right," refained Timinie confidently.

I'm sure you will, onid Roger, "I wish I could tearn to rida like you

"There ain't much to it." parrjed Timmie. "It's just the riding a bicycle, except you don't pedal."

"Wouldn't you teach me naked Roger.

"Any, what's the matter with you? ace ridin's a lough racket, and you got to be in tomate to make the grade."

"Are you a tomato?" Inquired

Roper, i deadly earnest.

"Want'd you think I wan? A Kentleman? I ain't even got any education."

"But education Bas nothing to do with ono's being a gentleman, Timmle."

"It's too deep for me." sald Tim- mie, oponing the door.

"No matter what he's done, Timmic, he's your father," Roger taid.

"But you will teach me to ride?" peralsted Roger.

Timmie grinned in amroiation as be disappeared into the darkn outside.

"Can't I coman in just for a min- uto?" che naked, naively.

lo, we're busy." called Timmle. "Girls aro siúlanco," 11

ho ex- plained to Roger, na they Batonnd lo ler retreating Prolatepa. "I nup- pono aha'd want to go to the movie witli kur tonight if abs knew wo was goin'."

"Maybe it would be all right r Bho went," suggented Roger.

"Nix. Now comca a little mara ality

"You've learned a lot of things, haven't you, Timole?" nald Ioger. admiring the after's deft handle work na ho applied the nicolul

"Yeah, I know a lot of things, fald Tiny, with somn fall right,"

bitternend. "Thinga ke how to rub Uniment on a atla jeg. Only I con't spell a word with more than four lettern in it. When you

talkin' about algebra yester day, what'd I think it was? Ony of them horces with stripes?"

You mean a zebra?”

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"Yeah, I certainly am wlɛed up. ain't 17" Timmie spoke with tense, Arm determination. "Hal Ini gonna know somethin'. As soon as I got neme dough, do you know what I'm Fonna do? I'm gonna hire me a buy Nke you wai tellin' me about a footer-und I'm gonna learn how to spell avery word they in-

Tlale gave Roger a final do claiva thump acroan the knee, and decided thaí enough had been dona for the day, Roger had barely alipped his trousers on when an other rap sounded at the door.

"It's Cricket," muttered Timmie. He turned to the door. “I told you to leave us alone!"

"Telegram for Timmie Donavan," came back the voice of Jinda, thin mald.

Timmle quickly opened the door, nelzed the yellow envelope and stared at it.

"Who's aend TO murmured Tiomie.

telegram?"

"Dunno," answered Hilda. “Hope the news ain't too bad. You know That telegrams are like."

"I bet you sent it to yourneif," erled Cricket, popping her head out jof another doorway,

"That not" cried Timmle, looking

at her diodainfully, "Well, I ain't

The next day an appointment oven interested.”

was made for the first lesson, Tim- Ho turned and ung the telegram mie, a youthful but very practicaljon the top of his drewer.

tulor, put Roger through avery "It's probably something very trick in the Vojr. He uliowed him important," said Cricket, retrieve

to ride high, how to ridejing it and scanning the outside. how enny, and how to control a horge "Importent, me eyni Somebody. with the minimum expenditure of wants me to ride a boette, most the whip.

| likely."

On the first turn Roger lost his balance, and Timmic, with great. presence of mind, saved him from 1-Bu

Feem to be rather at a dia. dvantage on any horse but The Pookah apologized Roger. "He's the only one I've practiced on be fore."

"Well, you can't keep on riding one horse all your life." rejoinci Tiramie. "Not if you want to be

"He can't even read." commented Celeftet, for the benefit of Roger. "Who can't?" cried Timmle, bölli- garently, "Gimmie that telegram?"

He fore open the envelope, stud- led the meinage with a binok ex- prenalon an his face. but made no comment.

"What's it may?" naked Cricket. in fll-restrained curiosity,

"Aw, l'a from my old man, Ife'd like to see me. Saya hi'a alck. That's a lotta hooey"

A sitey."

When it came to holding the "In- "How do you know?" demanded, alde track," Roger was very back-Cricket. "Maybe he is nick.” word. Bluntly but patiently Tim- "So'ro I been alck," said Tim- mie kept him trying to get themie, once again betraying tho knack of it.

strain of bitterness that bad bern

"Come on, now crowd the rali!" [noured into his make-up. “Du ha he would yell. "Mugo ilk Hootn do anything about it? I ain't goin'"* MacGuire and Dink Reld would Timmia's mother had been dead have you newed up like a sleeve for many years. His father was a in a spot like that,"

vneilaltig” ne'er-do-well, who had

"Ilow yer comin,' my

yelled Wilkins.

"Fino!"

Roger called

"There's very little to it, really."

his

At the next turn Roger caught desorted her. A self-centered nd alght of Wilkins, The Pookali'a | venturer who was always hoping trainer.

for a strike that would bring à boy"turn of fortune, he had devoted his

time to many things, but his fam back.ily and non were not included among them. Timmle had been left "Crowd too rail!" screamed Tim-to shift for himself at an early min. Look out!"

age. He was too proud and in- But it was too late. The nwervo dependent to seek ald from of the horse unseated Roger, apu father, and the latter's money- the best Timmie could do as he whenover he had any-went for leaped forward wan to lessen the drink and gambling, Impact when Roger hit the ground, Mother Ralph had heard the dia He rubbed himself ruefully as ha cussion in the hall and came bust-

ling out. rose, to his feet.

"Come on," sald Timmle, "That's What's this fussin' about?" she enough for today. I'll take you demanded. to my place an' give you a rub- mmie's father's went for him" down.

explained Cricket "e's sick, but Timmie knew an much about Timmin doesn't think it's import- how to let the klaka out of tired fant enough to go."

"You've got to go, san, if your muscles as he did about all other; phanes of the racing craft. Roger father's sick." counceled Mother grumbled about successive appit-Ralph.

cations of massage cream, oll, and "No matter what he's done, Tim- alcohol. but after Timinie lind mic, ho's your father," added Rog worked on him strenuously for er.

admit that he felt better.

half an hour he was willing to "Buppone he was your old man," replied Timmle bitterly. "Buppose "Orandfather's definitely decided he ran out on you when you was to enter The Poukah in the Ridge in little kid, and couldn't take care more Handicaps," he told Timmte.of yourself and had to eat sty "He thought it might help you where you could plek it up? May-

be you'd go to him?" not the feel of the horse."

“uf don't need to get no fuel,” nald. Timmie.

I did think it would be good idea to have a tuning-up." went on Roger

"Yes," "Timmie," "wald Roger with- Fout hesitation. "I think I would? his fists and scowled, as though Timmie turned away. He clenched

absorbed by conflicting emotions. Finntly he came to a décision, and, "Okay. There's only a prize of a with a eart good-bye to the others. thousand dollars, but I guess you he hurried down the stairs and out can use it."

There was a rap on the door. It

Who Cricket.

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of the house.

CORNS?

(To be continued)

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EMPRESS OF JAPAN vis Honolulu wants is to be left and Italian boys, without choice or whom I have been dining and say, Spain.) All he wants is to be left "It looks as though you were going alone to work peacefully and rather will, are killing those brothers whose to win all right".

lazily, to earn enough money to buy ident they don't care a straw about. He nods.

sufficient food, a little wine, and a And when all this killing is over,

shot 1 few eigarettes. He is not the kind when the inst has been fired und i don't quite know why I ask that, of man who will be easily drilled the last bomb dropped, how are For I know the answer will be the into a dictatorship robot. Even now, uneducated peasants, the Church, the same as I have received ever since I during the war, there is a remark F.E.T.. the Royalists, the landlords, able absence of that swashbuckling, the Basques, the Catalonians, let entered Nationalist Spain.

inilitaristic, endless "Heiling" which alone all the pollitent factions which The young Spaniard looks up from one associates with distatorship make up the side of the Government, his glass of brandy. Then, In reply, countries.

to be welded into this New going shrugs his shoulders. Now, ho and

The great masses in Germany, for Spain?

It will be a mighty task. all the others to whom I address this instance, follow Hitler as though he

No question shrug their shoulders for were a god, and have become willing, wonder the young Spaniard in two reasons. First, because neither brilliant propaganda, to put up with Salomanen shrugs his shoulders in they nor anyone else knows exactly terrible privations for the aggrandise- dismay. what will happen in Spain If Franco ment of their country. But the It will be done by the ruthless wins; secondly, because their pride

people of Spain will neve

never look

Dictatorship, should upon methods of 10 pride

equals that of the Franco as anything but a successful Franco win. The vague words and Spaniard--will not allow them to General, and when the war is over promises of reform will be accom-

ine, a foreigner, their they will want to return express to

to their panied by all the withdrawals fears for the future-that future of met

DS pence-time occupations, though liberties, All the hardships and priva- Spain, for which they and all the nothing had happened; they will want tions which are part and parcel of rest of the manhood of their country to forgel all about fighting and the Nazi and Fuscist regimes. have been willing to die.

:decons.

If Franco Wins

wins?

politics.

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Everywhere one goes la

In Nationalist Spain the photographs of Illtler and This fear in something new in The Tragedy of the War.

Mussolini decorate the walls of re- Nationalist Spain. If it was there

cafes, their before and any thinking Spaniard

It is ataurants, hotels, and Already this is happening. must have felt it-t Was not ex- most noticeable where the Nationalist flags hung side by side with that of pressed. But now that victory is troops have taken territory from the Spain; German and Italian boys All

the cafes and wailt along the Corso. within sight, apprehension rather Government. 'There the peasant, than rejoicing is evident when the until lately an enemy

of Franco, Only a Beginning radio barks out another milltary goes on

on tilling his land Just as he This struck me more vividly did before. He apparently bears no The presence of such things are than almost anything during my visit hostility towards Franco, for military not without grave meaning. It is to Nationalist territory a few weeks lorries travel down the roads to the not surprising that fear instead of

Feur of the future. #go.

frant unescorled and the only milit- rejoicing fills the hearts of ary authority in the villages is a few Spaniards as they listen to the on- elderly volunteers. It is not going to nouneer on the radio telling of op- What is going to happen It Franco be easy to make such people en- proaching victory.

thusiastle for any new form of poll- It is undoubtedly true that the teal doctrine.

Germans and Italians will not occupy Franco tells his people nothing

The peasant (the

agricultural or annex any Spanish territory when very definite. His policy is little labourer makes up 60 per cent. of the war is over. But the naval bages more than words, He is going to the employed section of the popula- and aerodromes will remain as their improve the lot of the middle classes tion) takes little interest in politics. "civilian" points; the mineral wealth and the workers; there will be land it was only just before the Civil War of the

is already theirs; and reform and help for industry; the that he became aware of how back- in return for the help they have easy-going old life is to go, and ward he is, how badly educated and given, and without which no France everyone is to be made to work how disgracefully sat upon; realised ctory would be possible, they will energetically. It might be the pro- that, the Great War having left him help to build up the New Spain on gromine of any political party at an untouched, civilisation, as the rest of their Dictatorship lines.

Europe knows it, has passed him by. The danger to Great Britain is an-

And just as

the established

Government was other matter. But what is already

It does not, as yet, gives a good idea of what is to come preparing the reforms he so sorely effect

Spaniard in the. young hould Franco be victorious. Fronco required Franco led his revolt. Be- Salamanca hotel. For him the im- is a Dictator. He is head of the fore he knew where he was he was mediate fear is what will happen to State, of, the

Government. of the fighting or having arnties marching Spain is his own country.

the over political party, the Falange

Spain And for what did he fight or go on willing to die for it. He wants no Espanola Tradicionalista; he is head Ar of the Army, of the Navy, of the Air tilling his land so that the soldiers foreign interference in its rebuilling. Force. He and his eleven Ministers should eat? He fought, and is fight- How long will he be able to live rule Nationalist Spain, without any ing, for the "Nueva Espana" which under a Dictatorship? direct consultation with the people, every poster, Government or Nation- He sips his brandy and shrugs bis The only way in which the public list, promises him; for the reforms shoulders. Ile know's that the "Cense can express on opinion is through he had just woken up, to want. With fire" will be net an end out a be- the FET, and as its heads are also his fatalism and stole philosophy, he ginning-and of what he is not cer- the heads of the Government, it is has fought bravely, fearing neither tuin. hardly likely to criticise any policy, to take death from, nor give death

election.

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John Jardine.

NATIONAL INDUSTRY

IS DYING

of the

It is said that the founda- ESPERATE measures to keep up organisation, the boats being owned Britain,

were luld on fishermen themselves and tions of Amsterdam the market price by dumping by the

herring bones. tons of fish back into the sea has worked on a profit-sharing basis.

In recent years Scottish fishermen The fluctuating quantity caused a strike of the Campbeltown ashing feet, biggest on the west have scarcely earned enough to meet ahoals is one of the fisherman's big glut of fish means coast uf Scotland.

their share of expenses and the fleet problems. A The herring industry has, for some of steam drifters has declined rapid- that the market is ruined. There years, been in the trough of depres- ly in number. The Herring Indus- are not enough hands to do the cur- fishermen them- tries Bill proposes the replacement ing, and much of the catch finds its sion, and neither

drifters very largely by way to the soil as manure. selves nor the numerous shore work- of steam ers dependent on the sea's harvest motor vessels. During the past three A small catch also means an-

large

shore stuffs have have much faith in the Bill recently or four years about 400 steam drifters cial loss, 15 passed by the House of Commons to have been fald up and the remainder to be maintained to deal promptly are of an average age of 25 years. with the packing and curing of the help them.

Herring are caught by the oldest perishable fish. Overhead costs are known method of netting fish. Nets therefore high, particularly are "shot in a long line, the top be curers have to travel about from By Its nature and organisation the Ing floated with corks, the bottom port to port as the feet follows the herring industry is peculiarly sus weighted, so that they form a wall shoals.

slump. The just below the surface of the water. Marketing is difficult to organise on eptible to economic highly perishable nature of the fish. The line of nets is trufled by the a stable basis because of the varying the wide fluctuation in quantity of ship as she "drifts."

yield.

the shoals, made it even in the fat The herring net themselves, puah- pre-war years something of a specu- ing their heads into the mesh which will not allow the passage of their lation.

Now the great foreign markets of bodies. When they try to withdraw Germany and Russia have shrunk out they are trapped by the gills. of recognition, and the home market

contracted,

the reward

for

of it.

Our

na the

Upon this declining Industry de- pends possibly the finest body of men in character and physique to be found

Their upon

islands. iselt

numbers are dwindling as the fleets labour of the most arduous and dan- The fish were originally caught in dwindle. The average age of the gerous nature is meagre.

the Buitle, and the prosperity of the men is becoming higher and many In 1914 over 70

cent. of the Hansentic League, a famous combina languish unemployed ashore, total catch was exported in the form tion of Germe maritime cities, was

The country is the poorer because of cured herring. The total export founded on the fisheries. has now dropped at least 60 per cent., But in the early fifteenth century and home consumption by 45 per the shoals moved from the Baltic to cent

the North Sen, and the wealthy hor- Germany took over a million bar vest went to the Low Countries ond tels of herring in 1929, only 540,000 last year. This year she has con- tracted to buy so far a mere 320,- 000 barrels. Russia took 75,000 tons of cured herring in 1930, only 8,000 lans last year.

of

Despite the unquestioned nutr!- tional value of the herring-t is] particularly rich in vitamins A and Dhe appeal of the fish to the palate the home population has declined greatly. Of the two most popular forms of cured herring the bloater is quite

out fashion. The kipper has

of fas been largely supplanted as a break- fast dish by cereals and fruit.

herring cured by a A blouter is ม method which leaves it soft. It is allowed to lie in salt for 24 hours. washed, then smoked for between one and four days,. according to the time it has to be

The kippered by splitting

the fish open, cleaning it, then rub- bing it with pepper and salt and dry- ing it in the air or in smoke.

Both processes require plenty of manual fabour.

The larger part of the debing, fi done by Scottish fishermen and the Scottish destals-3:highly.Individua

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1 A Prussian probably not

oriental sullof (0).

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4 This sort of life is supposed to be abstemious, but wine is in- eluded (8).

0 Were a h this sweet would be

nothing (0).

10 Men in a doctrine make a home

(0).

12' Strong drink obviously (5).

13 "At the farm" .seems an opt

15

Anagram (9).

Card

game (3),

children

ענדיי 16

like plants thy table" (Psalms) (5). 17 An associato of Punch (4),

round

21 Pale from a throw (4).

24 Colouring matter (5).

27 Part of the body or a hedgerow

seed (3),

28 Fancy an evangelist appearing.

in this bit of uniform (0).

31 No great portion (5).

32 Prosperous (8).

33 A rising about electrical force

(0),

34 A simple way of hunting is to burst into song about fruit (8).

33 An Afelcan pensant (6).

DOWN

1 One could buy many things here but a Chinese might be disappointed (8)...

2 This sort of person would, cer- tainly be enough to upset a nice tour (8).

3 "Tax scenes" (anag) (9);

5 This in hot hid in coverts (8).

6 Oriental ruler (5)

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7 The prohibition of an ancient

elty (0)

Describes the sort of tune the

fisherman successful

on his way home? (8), 11 Seaside garment? (4), 14 Bird (3).

whistles

18 Would this sort of theatrical

painting seem suitable to hanging committee? (0).

10 Burn fuel to make fuel (8).

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22

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(0).

Colour (3).

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tion

(4).

25 Scottish school (6).

20 Scottish writer (8).

29 Powerful Irish novelist (3).

30 Half a Joiner's joint (B).

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