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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1939.

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France and Britain -

of an event rich

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

Star U.S.

"Junior wants you to see his report card, dear-ho thinks he has a libel suit against his school!"

Hot? This is why

M*

AN has always tried to į puzzle out the wea ther, to foretell the rain and

to sunshine, understand the reason for sudden heat and great cold.

For thousands of years he has noled the signa; damp walls before the rain, fine weather after a clear white silver moon,

weather lore

the Mediterranean, where

writers debate

WAR v. PEACE

The columnists are the voice of America. What do they say about war... and peace? Where do they imagine America stands if it comes to a show-down in Europe?

President Roosevelt says that if there is war, then America takes an active part. The issue splits the country. It is No. 1 Talking Point, so the American news-magazine, "Life," has just run a symposium of the leading columnists views. Here are some of their opinions:

Walter Winchell

.. And

(150 Newspapers, 8,570,000 Circulation). ONCE again Europe is rolling the loaded dice of destiny..

once again Amerlea is asked to play the role of Internatlonni sucker. "The time has come for us to pause and consider.

"If we must have another Unknown Soldier-let us not ask him to die for an unknown reason! And just what will be accomplished by dying In the mud? He will not increase America's resources; the Inst. wor nearly ruined our fertile lands. He will not increase America's wealth; in the last war we loaned our gold and were gold-bricked In return,...

"America must learn that her sons abroad will bring monuments, to her glory-but her sons at home are a monument to her common sense. The future of American youth is on top of American soll-not underneath European dirt,"

Eleanor Roosevelt ·

(68 Newspapers, 4,438,000 Circulation)

"T seems to me that the newspapers these days are full of wars and rumours of wars, but I do not think that the contenton that this country is in need of a society to keep us out of war is very well founded. I wonder whether we have decided to hide behind neutrality? It la safe, perhaps, but I am not sure that it is always right to be safe..

"Every time a nation which has known freedom loses it, other free nations lose something, too. They find themselves undergoing a gradual process of amputation. This country knows that at some time amputations of freedom must cease, and the world knows that the weight of our re- sources must be thrown on the side that will permit us to open a news- paper without wondering what new nation has been enslaved,"

Bosko Carter

(03 Newspapers, 7,187,000 Circulation)

HERE is nothing about 'morality' or the saving of democracy' In the whole affair in Europe to-day. We point out that France merely got in on the ground foor in Tunisia and, having gained possession, tries to kid the rest of the world-especially Americans that those who would take Tunisia from her are brigands and scollywags for copying her.

"In view of this, where does the not want to help one gang of thieves Roosevelt Administration derive the against another gang of thieves? idea that Americans want to go We saved the first crop of thieves gallivanting forth to play Sir Galahad twenty years ago-and made the world safe for a new set of thieves." again?

"The question that Americans

Derathy Thompson should remember is: Do we or do we

(100 Newspapers, 7,555,000 Circulation)

"

WHEN the readings of many years were collated and statistics were collected at the be- ginning of last century, the result often proved worse than complete ignorance.

Napoleon's weather expert. La place, told him that the coldest wea- ther came in

Russia in January, Napoleon made his plans accordingly. That year the cokest weather came

In the course of the earth's four- ALL that has dowed from Chris in December and Napoleon's army ney round the sun and of its revolu- · tianliy in the centuries is He passed those observations, ac was destroyed.

tions upon its axis, the sun's rays being done to death: chivalry; res- TO-DA

TO-DAY is the sesquicentenary cumulated over generations, on to his So man began to despair of his fall most directly upon liongkong at peet for human rights; reverence for weather solence. He despaired for midday on June 22, Actually at this the human soul; democracy; freedom; a great In political children till

two hundred years after Galileo, itme the sun is about iwo million law; truth; civilisation; honour.... - simißconce the 150th anniversary was built up.

Real knowledge pt weather was miles further of than it 13 in The Nazl-Fascist movement of the Storming of the Bastille,

In the early Western civilisations only made possible by the invention January.

cannot be isolated except by resist- Out of this incident was born around

ance.

We are already engaged **♦♦ | gren! Democracy, and it is fitting people spent most of their lives out of the electrle telegraph, about 1850. From the middle of the nine-

VET midday on June 22 In a struggle.which will certainly in Yardy, do hottest the will defent against the rain. It was important to cellency. the Governor and the

ly. Makera of weather maps learned period of the year. There is a time of this whole American way of life be able to read such signs.

from observatories what the baro- lag. We do not get our heat direct without war, unless we are willing French Consul General should ex-

Learned, men like Aristolle meter readings were in different from the stun.

to use right now the political and change Toasts thai re-affirm the

Ancient Greece collected them and parts of the world.

When it comes to us, the earth is economic weapons which are in our | bonds that bind this notion of peace-wrote them down. They did not Then they marked the places reflecting it back again. When the hands."

loving people to their neighbours pretend to know why things hap- where the readings were the same sun's rays strike the

ground, the across the English Channel.

pened that way. They just noted and drew lines joining them; lines ground does not absorb their heat Circumstances which made France that they did happen.

that correspond exactly to the con- but throws them back into the layers and Britain enemies in the past com→

But for two thousand years no-tour lines on maps. The contour pel them to stand together to-rlay. body knew nhy more. Neither lines link equal heights. The Isobars, The proximity which made them Chaucer nor Cardinal Wolsey nor as these other lines are called, link Bight In Middle Ages and in the Shakespeare understood the weather places of equal pressure. eighteenth century has also produced any better than the Ancient Greeks intercourse and cultural exchanges. had done, Hankow Rd., Kowloon.

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COUNT THE

"TELEGRAPHS”

EVERYWHERE

that, in Hongkong to-day, His Ex-of doors and there was no protection | teenth century things moved quick-

· In-the-gradual-advancu-of-western elvilisation France and Britain have

PUT-in-the-early-sixteen Dhundreds man got some progressed side by side: new keus in thing definite to go upon. He found polities, literature, art, philosophy, a way to measure. hrat. have affected both simultaneourly Galileo discovered that hot things even if they have not always pro- swell and cold ones shrink. So if duced the some results. They have you put a bar of mercury In a tube same intellectual it will shoot out when it is hot andi, grown up in the world, they have both harboured the shrink back when it is cold. That is

the principle of the thermometer. of doctrines

"liberty,

equality, fraternity," and have reached the sume, or nearly the same, stage ot maturity.

To-day Britain is so far convinced that the safety of France is indis- pensable to its own safety that there

are

With t men could at last com- pare heat in winter with heat in summer, heat in England with heat In India, and acquire standard of hot and cold.

Galileo also discovered the prin- ciple of the barometer.

extent

When that pressure in heavy, as it generally is in bad weather, the mercury falls; when it is light it rises.

But even with their barometers to test pressure and their thermometers to take temperature, people found their forecasta unreliable.

alt

In time it was noticed that these isobars fall into one of seven shapes.

They muy form a circle, or cyclone; or a circular kind of loop called a secondary cyclone because it is usually subsidiary to the cyclones.

They may form a V, or V-shaped depression, or an inverted V called

n wedge.

They may run into an irregular

neck or col between the anti oblong or anti-cyclone; or run in a cyclones. Or they may go in a straight line, which is called a slope,

of atmosphere that are closest to the earth. That causes heat.

Before the earth can throw out the maximum heat each day, about two hours must clapse from the time it has been received from the sun.

So the hottest time of the day

Hugh S. Johnson (70 Newspapers, 5,323,000 Circulation)'

1

In

VERY tendency of this Adminis-

tration has been toward

power concentration of great

It is clear Federal Government... from experience that, in event of a

is two hours after midday, that is, world war, the President would get those powers for Wilson in war]. in- it stantlyn wür dictatorship.

-z-p.m.

Similarly, with the

seasons,

takes a month for the intensity of

"No

"Woodrow Wlison gave up most of the sun's rays, as the earth travels, his war powers immediately after atmosphere by the earth. So the them. Would the present Adminis- round it, to be thrown back into the the armistice-because he detested holleri month is usually July.

tration give them up, having greatly But there are other factors that desired them? Has it ever willingly decide the intensity of heat. If there given up single extraordinary is much water vapour about in the emergency power since March 4, form of cloud it will absorb the heat 1933 tier who wins, the next and draw it out of the atmosphere, In time the observers discovered because water, unike land, absorbs world war will permanently destroy the democracy of every nation that

want that every one of these forms la

to save characteristic of a certain kind of

gets into it. If we Its demoerney for the world we weather, and that by mapping them

with The winds BUT it is not only in

cloud form that moisture keep out of European war." all out together directing them and calculating their absorba hent. Rivers, lakes and the seu receive the sun's rays, lol them reactions on each other it is possi-

penetrate down to a great depth and ble to forecast the weather with some

ihen hold their warmth long time. accuracy, for at any rate the next thirty hours.

So the temperature of water stays even, while the temperature of land TMOSPHERE moves

varies from one extreme to the other: This influences all places near the

over

the world from one area

to another and it brings along with It the characteristics of the lands over which It has passed.

Wind from deserts bring hot air. Polar winds bring cold air. Winds from over the tea aro full of moto jure, and the actions and reactions of currents on each other are these complicated and endless.

heat easily.

sea.

Mark Sullivan 140 Newspapers, 2,031,000 Circulation)

will

in America are arming for W defence.

Defence of what? Defence of our soll and our lives, to be sure, But in the present altun-

is no challenge to the oil-repcated The atmosphere which surrounds statement that the frontiers of our earth is held in its place, like Britain lay on the Rhine.

everything else in our system, by its France and Britain are bound in-weight. The attraction of the earth gether because they are protagonists drawing it towards Itself holds the atmosphere down, so that there is an In Europe of Western civilisation. average, atmosphere pressure of one Civilisation has reached certain ton over every square foot.

Countries with water Around tion we seek to defend more than But this pressure varies accord-

them do not suffer such extremes our individual Hves and our national stage in respect of humanity and

some ing to the composition of atmosphere equity from which conuuch

of temperature as countries which life. We seek to defend our way of recede. in the different conditions that deler-

are land bound for many miles. tending Powers

to

"Free government has its principal mine our weather. France and Britain are togétier be-

So if you can measure the pressure

HEAT thrown off by the home in America and Great Britain. cause In the nature of things. They'

earth never rises very it is destroyed in England by a aland for the maintenance of star of the alinosphere you can to some

It is retained in foreign toe, then it will be more forecast the weather. The

defend t of the barometer does this by exposing a Atmosphere is compounded of ni- high off, the earth. dards which, with some

what . In this situation, here. and oxygen, but it is also the lower, thicker layers of the at-difficult for America to smaller nations of Europe and with bar of mercury to the pressure of the trogen

Infused with water vapour rising mosphere,

Since the atmosphere is held down should be our present policy and": the United States in America, they atmosphere.

from the sens as the sun beats down

to the earth, it clusters more thickly strategy? It is to recognise that have built up. The entente, there-

Sometimes when a current comes near to the earth, and grows sparser England is our shield. She is our fore, I based upon that inner neces-

on them. in heavy with vapour, having passed as it moves further away from it, shield in the sheer geographic sense sity which Mr. Chamberlain stressed last week-upor. geography, history

over the sea, the air becomes sur-That is why the air is clearer and that she stands between us and Ger- The lesson is clear. The that into plains. and national character.

charged or saturated with vapour. rarer on mountain lops than in the many.

the vapour condenses

The higher you go the calder the best form of preparedness Then clouds or falls in rain.

air is. It drops about 3degs. Fahr. America can practise, at this time, Is Conquest of the Air

FTEN when cold air meets every thousand feet until the outer to supply 'planes to England."

layer of atmosphere. is reached be THE CONQUEST of the air is a

un-air contracts, squeezing out its water tween Ave and seven miles up.. grand phruse, but the path of

already been published from

vapour as water is spread about in There it remains fairly steady, aerial progress is marred by tragic official sources.

anything from 60 degs. over the right to know mials and fogs. The public has

to 100degs. Fabr. over the 1Ơ loss. Hongkong, happily, has been

Often a current from the sea is Poles

the equator. It remains at that till E Isus is whether there, is or is not going to be another forced. by mountains into free of disaster during the past de- what happens in cases like this. R. A. F. officers at. Kal Tak have many

con-height of afteen miles. Then the world war. The question is cooter upper air, where it cade, and the loss of two well-known friends in the Colony and rumour

tracts and discharges lta vapour in temperature suddenly grown warmer whether the power and Influence of and popular Royal Air Force officers-ihe name of a pilot who is actually

on leave was given to the "Tele

And all the time through the at- miles up it is believed to be as much this nation can be used now, before of yesterday casts more than usual graph" as one of the victims by on

unomcial source-may cause need-mosphere there comes the heat from as 170degs. Fahr, for at that height it is too late, to prevent the war, to

the heat of the sun's rays is no longer prevent the hideous consequences gloom over the community.

a war, to prevent our having to make Atmosphere absorbs heat. It stops mopped up by the atmosphere. In presenting legitimate news of lets pain and worry to those people. the sun.

Addiilonally, due to official llence,

We know this from the record- the horrible choice which will con- of - London news about a quarter of the sun's heat the tragedy to the publie yesterday, correspondents

reaching the earth. So the ings made by sealed thermometers front us if war breaks out, the choice which will haunt us as long the "Telegraph", In

sent up In le balloons, common with papers in Hongkong were forced to from

cable news of the tragedy in order wider the atmosphere belt that the

"If there is another world war other local newspapers, encountered to catch the morning editions without sun's rays must pierce the less will Such are a few of the Influences as it lasts..

There is no- oficial opposition and reticence to cabling the names of the victims. be the heat that penetrates to the that determine the wenther, the tem-

Iperature, and the air by which our it will be fought on every continent an astonishing degree. It was Im- The effect on relatives of other of earth,

The more direct the sun's raya national character and our individual and In every ocean...

guarantee against entanglement in a possible, for instance, to obtain officers attached to the R. A. F. in

prevents the war:"" ncial confirmation of the names of Hongkong can be imagined when fall the less will be the distance they lives are vitally plected, the two officers lost until they hand they opened their London papers travel through the atmosphere belt They are vast, complex and, to a world war except diplomnicy which

and the greater the heat. yesterday morning.

OFTEN

warmer air the warmer

hurata of rain.

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again. It rises very rapidly. Thirly

great extent, still incalculable.

Walter Lippmann (184 Newspapers, 7,147,000 Circulation)