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EMPIRE HEADS

NEWS

INDIAN

COMMUNIST

PROPAGANDA

Calcutta.

Mr. L. 1. Colson, Commissioner of Police for Calcuttu, writes strongly regarding incitement to mass action in his annual administration report. He says:

Com- The open prenching of mmunist Ideas and the desirability of establishing a workers' state un the Russian model, the display of Com- munist symbols and the shouting of Comununist slogans, were no less frequent than in previous recent

is becoming clearer every year) that, If a stop is to bo put to the unceasing and increasing flow of spoken incitement to violent mass nction, legislative ame

Amendment wlli have to be undertaken."

Famous Tree Revived-Calcutta's 160-year-old banyan

free in the

Royal Botanical Gardens, claimed to be the largest tree in existence, the

of life of which was despaired a few

restored years ago, has been

to

health by Judlelous pruning and grafting. The circumference of the crown of the tree is 1,251 feet, and its height 90 feet. AUSTRALIA

CARILLON TO GREET INCOMING SHIPS

Sydney,

Under the will of Mr. W. II. Nolan, a well-known Sydney dentist, the re- sidue of his estate has been left to the trustees of the Sydney National Art Gallery for the erection at North 10 Sydney Head, at the entrance

Harbour, of a carlllon to be played

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welcome Incoming ships. Unimaginative Advertising. member of the advertising sinft of one

departmental

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stores in Sydney, who has just re- turned from a trip to Britain and the United States, says that the ndver- tising abroad of Australia's

producta

was done with little, if any, imaging- lion. "Our advertisements tell people to

non.

the

Tuesday,

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CALIFORNIA YOUTH "STRUTS ITS STUFF": Beauties, chosen from more than 2,000 co-eds of Pasadena Junior College, taking part in eat Australian butter, one of the several climinating rounds of a confest held in order to find the lamb and jam, but there is no al-Queen of the Tournament of Roses. The winner presided at Pasadena's tempt to capture the imagination of New Year's Day festival.

the purchaser,'

he states. "New

Zealand is far ahead in this matter.

If Australia has not a trained adver- tising mon in Britain she should ap- point one."

SCIENTIFIC CRUISES

Melbourne.

GROCER BOY LEAVES ACTORS STRANDED

LANG,"

not help him,

to their

Members of the Melbourne Uni- versity McCoy Society are to make a

otherwise) "ls father could "MICHAEL scientif cruise to uninhabited Islands In Bass Strain in the former Harold Kiddle, eighteen-year-old He is a working man with five chil Grand Banks fishing schooner. Henrocer's assistant from Wembley, dren, an assistant in my out-fitter's

from Bideford, shop." travelled recently rletia, 90 tona, which recently sailed Devon, to his grandfather's home in

ACTRESSES RETURN from the United States to Melbourne Grimsby, leaving behind un six

Two of the actresses in the com- by way of the Straits of Magellan to members of a theatrical company to enable the owner-captain, Mr. Bailey which he was to have acted as finan-pany, Diana Cartwright and Pet-

returned rovna Lazenby, Sawyer, and his wife to see the Mel-eial backer. bourne Cup.

His show never opened. The com-homes in London. The remainder pany refused to go on without a stayed overnight in Bideford; several RANCHER USES PLANE uarantee of the money with which were unable to pay their landladies. They telephoned to British Equity, to pay for their lodgings. RICHGROVE, Cal. Harold Kiddie's grandfather, who the actors' trade union, and to Mr. Godfrey Tearle, Mr. John Gleigud, Hugh P. Burum, local rancher, be called him to Grimsby for a family M, Leslie Banks, and Dame Sybil fieves he is the ploneer in a new field conference,

καιν don't know of necessities for the future farmers

Harold Thorndike asking for help. managed to raise the and ranchers of the United States.

moncy for He has installed a hangar for his air- launching a theatrical tour. Ils plane whleir he regards us an essentinl wayes at the shop in Wembley couldn't have been more than 35s, part of any modernly equipped up- to-date tarm or raneli.

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OLD

SCHOOL TIE'

No Snobbery Has Your Ceiling

Says Ian Hay

YES,

there have been pro-

motion-by-the old-school-le methods in the Army,

No less an authority than Major- General J. H. ("Ian Hny") Belth. Director of Public Relations at the War Once admitted it to the In- Association of Head- corporated

Guildhall recently. masters at the

"While there is no denying that This bias as operated severely in the Past," he sold, "I am certola that in

the next twelve months it will have dled out.

of

He had been assailed by a number queations alleging that examining boards for places in the military colleges were actuated by snobbery. One of the masters-they are all "heads of public secondary schools set the ball rolling by suying there was little chance of a boy getting commission unless he came from a publin school.

Got Distemper?

Schoolboy howlers seem to be growing brighter.

A prize for the best howler was recently offered by the University Correspondent and Eduentional Review. The fol- lowing are selected:

Distemper is a disease Dogs and

ceilings get it, Napoleon called England a na-

tion of shoplifters. Lords and Commons are ..where ricket places played.

the is

Silence is what you don't near

when you Haten.

Baron Accused Of Fraud Plot

RRESTED at 다 tum.

on New A Year's Day, Baron Friedrick "STUPID OLD BUFFER"

(50). Max Wilhelm von Richtofe.

address in Col. MacDougall, who accompanied

an author, giving an General Beith, followed this up by Plecadilly. was charged at West asserting that there was no reason

recently win London police court why any boy in any school in the

with

Ileinrick conspiring United Kingdom, provided he had Berndt to cheat and defraud persons had the School Certifiente or his who might be induced to pay money

to Higher Certiocato, should not go or give credit to Berndt. Sandhurst or

or Woolwich.

This brought Dr. Terry Thomas, of

Walter

He was remanded when he wil

1

Lerds Grammar School, to his feet appear with Berndt, who is on re- with the statement that when he sent mand, charged with obtaining £175 sent by false pretences from Miss Lillian # boy up for n Service examination Rose Hall. "some stupid old buffer" on the Berndt,

24-year-old Germon examining board asked what school student, is alleged to have told a he was at. The boy complained that police officer that he "owned when he mentioned the school he was tobacconist's shop which he gave to "put off,"

the daughter of Hitler's chaulteur because he owed her money."

Mr. L. J. Driver (Spalding) said that last June he sent boy for an interview, and was told that he had "not a Cambridge accent."

Appealing for closer under- standing between the public and the Army, Major-General Beith said: "The soldier is petted in war-time far beyond his desires or deserts and underrated and too often shamefully neglected in time of peace."

The General asserted

over

At the moment, while one or two Territorial divisions werc strength the regular Army was sill about 20,000 men short.

that the

reach of every young man of modest was King's commission was within the means further than that, it within the reach of young men of no means it all.

Here he mentioned a new

in operation scheme, to come after

this month, by which candidates with certain educa- tional qualifications could enter Sandhurst and Woolwich without

taking the Army entrance

examination.

CHOOSING Careers

A

Detective-Sergeant O'Sullivan saldi when the warrant was being read, Baron Richtofen interrupted, saying: I have "For my arrest? Fantastic.

อ Berndt for not own him for eight year

long time. I

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CROOKS would give a fortune to possess the secret of a coin-making machine Invented by a Brighton man. Ho is Mr. Albert Fitness, a 47- year-old clockmaker, and he demon- strated the machine recently in his workshop.

Mr. Filiness did not invent the ma- chine to make coins, and he has never

Harold Kiddle said: "The com- pany followed me down to Bide. ford. But though I had run out ference, Mr. Ernest Brown (Minister monstrations.

of Labour) spoke of the desirability

At the morning session of the con-used it for that purpose, only for de-

money to put into the gas and electricity meters. But they would

not go on.

"first made it two years ago," he

die for stamping budges for a new coclety."

Then Mr. Fitness discovered that by putting a coln on one side of the machine ho could grind out a per- feel replica from solid metal on the other side.

of cash, and was unable 10 pay them anything in advance, I had of co-operation between the Ministry said, "when I was asked to obtain i

and educationalists. rented the theatre, and I had some "According

to our British traditions and no one, I think, will wish to depart from them"-he said, "educa- should not ba narrowly "On Christmas Day they insisted tion on telephoning to my father in vocationst, or, at least, not until the Grimsby, They said that if he would student had first had a good ground- send £10 they would agree to put ing in the more general subjects.

"Nevertheless, education is a

fallure on the show. The money did not

unless it is related to life as a whole, arrive.

it is including economic life, and so

"When I took my Invention to the Mint they were astounded.

"At the Mint they employ, I be lieve, seven different processes to get

"I did not leave the company stranded. I had £30 when I arrived all to the good that the Mnister of their final dle. in Bideford,

"BORROWED 18"

me

"thought that would ксе through the opening night. i bor rowed £8 from a man in Bideford, and sent it to the company in London for their fares down here.

"It has always been my ambition to get into show business."

Mr. Raphael Norman, and male lead, spoke on behalf of the actors:

producer

Labour and educationalists should | "ume_together."

There was recognition in the Ministry

that it was not sufficient

only to provide ordinary facilities

"I can do the same thing in one: process only and in a fortnight less ilme," said Mr. Fitness.

The Mint told Mr. Filiness to con- sult them first if he was ever offered

money for his invention."

Safety First, Then Death

of the employment exchange ser- vices and the Juvenile Advisory Committee, or to publish "Choice of Carcers" series. Many chil- dren required to know something of the intangibles which could not. be put

paper and details about "We understood Mr. Kiddle had i prospects which could not be put £300 available. It was a dreadful

The last thought of Joseph Damp- booldet. shock to us all to discover that all would always assist schools, there man, before he

the employment exchanges housse, 54-year-old street-car motor- died was for his

the funds her gone."

into

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"We were to have played for a was need for a more specialised passengers. Damphousse was stricken month in such shows as 'George and service, and secondary school com-il as he was driving a tramcar. He Margaret, The Dominant Sex. The mittees had been established In immediately asked the passengers to Shining Hour, and While Parents various parts of the country to and disembark, and then drove the car Sleep.

n the choice of careers.

to the barns, where he collapsed.

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