1939-01-11 — Page 6

THE HONGKONG TE LEgraph, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1989,

CONSPICUOUS

IN EVERY ROUND

DEWAR'S

"White Label BEST SCOTCH WHISK OF GREAT AGE

Dewar & Sons PERT

DISTILLERS

"White Label"

Your FINAL choice

Sate Agent A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

WINE DEPT.

Tel. 20616

H.M.V. RECORDINGS

DECEMBER RELEASE

Suitable for the Festive

Season.

ORIGINAL ARTISTS IN "THE LAMBETH WALK"

BD596

Days are

Direction of Min

The Earth is Getting late longer... Sun-spots are upsetting Radio...

INEW-

VAUXHALL

TWELVE-FOUR

It

NOW

HERE

THIS 1939 SUPER TWELVE-

FOUR CAR INVITES YOUR INSPECTION,

We shall be glad

to demonstrate.

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE

Stubbs Road...Phone: 27778-9.

The

may be

The Driest Period

O

for Years

BSERVATIONS made the

past

FLOH 2

KABIN PULL DISTANTE

, purection of EARTH'S Rotation

←TIVAL

18

at Greenwich have months may be shown that the Moon a result of this.

Last year was

is departing from its cal- the driest year

At the culated course. present time it is farther from its position, according to the theory of gravitation, than it has been at any time since 1680.

Hongkong Telegraph. our own

Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 January 11, 1939

When Is a War?

Let's all join in the Chorus-With Tommy Handley and His Pals GREAT BRITAIN, thus far, has

Thero Foolish Things

C3034 Selection.-London Palladium Orchestra

C3032

Folk Dance. Draper's Maggot; The Holo in the Wall

B8807

March Medley-H. M. Coldstream Guards

C3035

Hare Comes the Band.

Deep River; Co Down. Moses-Fats Waller on the Organ

DB816 Medley-New Mayfair Orchestra Hits of the Moment.

BD600 Puszta: The Wind has told me a story-R, Foort-Organ BD595

Woodcutters' Song-Comedy Harmonists B8814

Sho was, she was, the was: Just for fun-Max Milier

BD597

B8802 China Doll Parade: Dainty Debutante-Two Pianos BDS27

When you dream about Hawaii-G. Fitzgerald

Messrs. S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd.

YORK BUILDING

Tol. 20527.

Mutiny ON THE BOUNTY"

know no fiercer rebellion than that which smouldered white hot in the heart of this "gentleman" sent to common sallois school. •••

"CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS" offered no greater battles of character...no grander adventures..... than this hearly-stormy drama of men in the making!

· MICKEY FREDDIE

BARTHOLOMEW ROONEY

STARTS TO-MORROW

Powers.

In the detention in Hongkong

in

Hongkong

for 40 years.

Though it seems that sun- spots do have

some effects on weather- the

BULGE

the

This drawing

shows how the

Aloon exerts its pull on the tides, which, in turn, by their friction on the ocean beds act as n brake slowing down rotation. Earth's

The blame for this apparently erratic behaviour is to be put on as indicated, for instance, by the our own Earth.

The Earth provides us with variations in our standard of time: the day, the widths of If the length of the day changes because the Earth does not turn the annual rings round on its axis at a constant of trees (shown in cross sections rate, the Moon will be in slightly different place in heavens from that in which we of the trunks] appearing to which swarms with jelly-fish of men where they should fish to.

coincide with the number of sun- all kinds. the spots those effects are largely expect to find it.

the

obtain good catches.. 1819 Over Again? WHEN the Gulf Stream is MANY people are anxious to

Gulf

meteoro-

steered clear of the ticklish

Other bodies, such as international problem created by the hostilities between China Sun, Mercury or Venus are also concealed by the many other Guide to Fishermen

know whether sun-spots will found to be in positions that are complicated factors that continue

strong, catches of these fish and Japan. Neither China nori

It is not fair to blame sun- Japan will admit that a war is slightly different from their cal- to make the weather.

concerned food-fish prefer the cold stream to be expected this year. There in progress and there has been calated ones, but as the motions

astronomer or no normal declaration. Diplom-of these bodies in the sky are spots for our dry weather. But are poor. The most valuable afford any guide to the weather

with wireless communication coming from the North, which is no

what the sun for is rich in the phosphates that logist who could predict with any this year's tically, this pretence has not slower than that of the Moon those organisations

can justly blaine only suited Japan and China but their errors are not so great. also, apparently, the Western Friction of Tides

Home of the troubles that they provide nourishment for the ani- confidence

weather will be. malcules on which the fish feed. are experiencing.

Hongkong's Not enough is yet known about

meteorological They may be receiving short of a number of Chinese soldiers, THE astronomer can use either

the Earth, the Moon, the wave wireless messages quite these changes in the

a few Stream to say whether or not records do not go further back interned in Kowloon City until Sun, Mercury or Venus, as a normally when, within

are being studied by the develop land, a hundred years ago, the presumably, the termination of clock; and the last four of these seconds, the messages will fade they are due to sun-spots; they than the Seventies. But in Eng- prent.commission on fishery mat- rainfall in the first five months of the year was double the nor- It has been established It is easy, to see why the day cently that these fadings syn-

It would indeed be fortunate mal, and one of the driest sum- total rainfall from the middle of should gradually get longer, chronise exactly with intensely If China and Japan are not at The friction of tidal waters on hot eruptions on the sun.. Such if it could be established that mera on record followed, with a

than in. "war" in the official sense of the the beds of the oceans acts as a eruptions usually occur in the sun-spots

with fair accuracy how nume-

Whether this year in Hong- word, by what authority are the brake on the rotation of the neighbourhood of sun-spots and changes, because we can predict May to the end of August of less prisoners detained? And what Earth and gradually slows it are frequent when the spots are rous sun-sopts are going to be.

numerous and rare when they It would then become possible kong will follow a similar course would be the Government's posi-down.

also to predict the course of the it is impossible to say. No pre- Gulf Stream and to advise fisher. cedent has been established.

hostilities, the Hongkong Gov-

agree in showing that the Earth away entirely. ernment appears to have set as a bad timekeeper. precedent which can quite con- unforeseen re- ceivably have sults.

tion if any Chinese or other This process will go on for are few. person took out a writ of Habeas millions of years, until at length More Sun-Spots Corpus, demanding the release the Earth will always turn the

re-

ters.

do influence those

Why I Prefer The Man of 40

In the man of 40.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

and drives a sinali, uncomfortable. jear much too fast because he thinks

decently.

•

*

*

LL the young men I know have Themselves, their Clubs, and Cars-and one qualification--they can dance.

their

The youth of to-day thinks it is. amusing to be cynical, especially to- wards women, in whose presence he kes to show off atrociously. He does not realise his own rawness, his lack of subtlety, or the emptiness of his words.

of one or more of the internees? same face to the Moon, just as AS sun-spots will become still more numerous for the next the Moon already always turns

though! CHATER ROAD. Blockade

the same face to the Earth. two years, it looks as THE DANGER in the visit to The day will then be equal to there is going to be considerable interruption in the reception of

By A Girl of 20 creature, who has uncouth manners Rome this week of the 47 of our present days.

But this gradual lengthening beam wireless messages. Premier, Mr. Neville Chamber-

Can we also blame sun-spots

youth, what a welcome antidote He appears often to be horribly lain, is that he may be induced of the day is not uniform: some- by Signor Mussolini to grant times it is accelerated, some for the changes in the course of this modern world of outspoken it is clever.

The cause of the Gulf Stream and other ocean and how Infinitely refreshing socially misted by the idea of his own im

portance, he criticises things of which. belligerent rights to Franco in times retarded.

No young man with all his pitter- he has had no experience, and sncers Spain-the right to stop, in the these variations is perhaps due currents?

These changes are of great ing explolls can achieve the indefinat old age as something Victorian High Sens off England or any-to a slight expansion or contrae-

Herring, where else, any ship which may tion of the Earth as a whole. importance to the fishing in-able charm which characterises the which ought to be put out of life.

haddock, older man.

The modern youth, for all our ad- be carrying supplies to the An oscillation of the surface by dustry.

one or two feet above and below plaice, and sole intensely dislike miration of his enterprise and his Loyalists.

The granting of belligerent its mean value would be sufl- the warm Gulf Stream water, vitalising ideas in business, is a noisy A three topics of conversation

would not clent to account for them. rights to Franco necessarily end the war through atarving the Loyalists of arms One Second a Year

But it and war materials. would probably end the war by THE most rapid change in the length of the day occurred starving the women and chil- dren in Loyalist Spain. There between 1863 and 1875, and are 3,715,000 children and over amounted to one three-hundredth 3,000,000 refugees from other part of a second a day, giving an parts of Spain in Loyalist terri-accumulated error in the course

than tory. Theirs is a problem of of a year of more cruel distress on a mass scale. second, For the Loyalists there is nei- The best astronomical clocks almost good ther peace nor plenty, but war yet

A and scarcity. Any concession enough to check this error. to Franco will place into Insur-new form of clock, however, in gent hands the deadly weapon which the time is registered by of starvation.

the vibrations of a crystal of the quartz, is being made for Greenwich Observatory, and this FOR TWO and a half years the should be reliable to the one- Spanish people have been thousandth part of a second per

It may prove to be defending their elected Govern-day. ment against a military re- better time-keeper than bellion begun and supported by Earth. Totalitarian States.

The length of the day can While Britain and other de-change with considerable sud- mocratic countries have forbiddenness. The quickest changes den the sending of arms to the have occurred about 1790, 1896,

Lord

Jeff

CHARLES COBURN HERBERT MUNDIN GALE SONDERGAARD A SAM WOOD Predville. A Matras Galdwyn » Mayer Picture Pinduced by FRANK DAYIS

KING'S

Intervention

made

are

one

A

the

Loyalists in the name of "Non- and 1017. These were only Intervention," Italy and Ger- found by astronomical observa- many have openly sent armies, tions. Perhaps the next sud-

aeroplanes and "advisers" to

den change will be revealed by General Franco, and have pub. licly boasted of breaking "Non-our clocks.

At the present time sun-spots Intervention."

Without thelr backing, and other disturbances on the Franco's rebellion would never Bun are rapidly becoming moro have started or, at the utmost, frequent. It has been suggested that the abnormal weather of would have been stillborn..

↑ Sope: 1848 by Detial Foshan Spadesia, Jaa

"Money doesn't mean happiness! Snodgrass, over there, with his iwo million isn't a bit happler than Fugletal with le million."

You can see him everywhere, at the hotels, at the Club and at parties, hands in pockets, cigarette In mouth, smiling the smile of complete complacency, because he really be- Heves he is the salt of the earth.

The man of 40 is a very different person. He "has learned to look on. nature not as in the hour of thought- less youth" but with the chastened understanding of experience.

The lesson of his own follies has made him tolerant of other people's weaknesses. He treats women with deference and respect, because be can remember the days when we were. really placed on a pedestol. He la courteous and considerate, he knows how to pay compliments,

*

He is a chorining companion be- cause he has long since outgrown talking about himself. He is witty without being vulgar. He can choose a good dinner unostentatiously, and does not bully his. Inferiors.

He takes an interest in Life itsell not merely its pleasures. He is ympathetic, becaużo few men reach the age of 40 without some suffering. Like new wine, youth is harsh and crude to the paloto; the older mm, is mature and mellow. He may have grey hair, be unable to drive a car more than 35 miles on Hour, and detest parties, but I feel, stimulated and safe with him.

H. L