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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPE, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1939.

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France and Britain

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty Star U.S.

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

Hot? This is why

ȚAN has always tried to. Mpuzzle out the wea ther, to foretell the rain and sunshine, to understand the

WHEN the readings of many

years were collated and statistics were collected At the be

writers debate

WAR v. PEACE

The columnists are the voice of America.. What do they so about war.

and peace? Where do they imagine Amerka stands if it comes to a show-down in Europe?

President Roosevelt sous that if there is war, then America Jakes an active part. The larue spillts the country, it is No, I Talking Point, as the American news-magazkie, “Life,” has just run a symposḥim of the leading columnists' vietos. Here are some of their opinions:

Waltor Winchɗi

(150 Newspapers, 0,570,000 Circulation)

"ONCE amin Europe is rolling the loaded dice of destiny... And

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

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

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

"I"

Eleanor Roosevelt

(08 Newspapers, 4,430,000 Circulation)

seems to me that the newspapers these days are full of wors and rumours of wars, but I do not think that the contention 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 is safe, perhaps, but I am not sure that it is always right to be safe.

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

Boake Carter

(83 Newspapers, 7,187,000 Circulation)

THERE is nothing about 'morality' or the 'saving of democracy in the whole affair in Europe to-day. We point out that France merely get in on the ground flour in Tunisia and, having gained possession, fries to kid the rest of the world—especially Americans—that those who would take Tunisia from her are brigands and reallywags for copying her.

"In view of this, where does the [not want to help one gang of thieves ginning of fast century, the result Roosevelt Administration derive the against another gang of thieves?... often proved worse than complete idea that Americans want to go We saved the rst crop of thieves gallivanting forth to play Sir Galahad | (wenty years ago—and made the

world safe for a new set of thieves." that Americans question

Dorothy Thompson (106 Newspapers, 7,555,000

reason for sudden heat and Ignorance. great cold.

Napoleon's weather expert, La-again? place, told him that the coldest wea- "The For thousands of years he basther came lu Russia in January, should remember is: Do we or do we noted the signs; damp walls before Napoleon made his plans accordingly. the rain, fine weather after a clear That year the coldest weather canc white silver moon.

in December and Napoleon's army was destroyed,

So man began to despair of his weather science. He despaired for two hundred years after Galileo. Real knowledge of weather was only made possible by the invention of the elcetrie telegraph, about 1850.

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THE

"TELEGRAPHS"

EVERYWHERE.

of

alne-

Circulation)

ey round the sun and of its revolu-

In the course of the earth's Jour- ALL that has flowed from Chris- He passed those observations, ac-

thunity in the centuries Is tions upon its axis, the sun's rays being done to death: chivalry; res- fall most directly upon Hongkong at pect for human rights; reverence for event rich in political children till a great weather lore

midday June 22. Actually at this the human soul; democracy; freedom; | significance→the 150th anniversary was built up,

time the sun is about two million law; truth; civilisation; honour.. of the Stonning of the Bastille.

miles further of this it is in The Nazi-Fascist movement In the early Western civilisations Oul of this incident was born around the Mediterranean, where

January.

cannot be isolated except by resist- great Demourney, and it is filting people spent most of their lives out

jance, ... We are already engaged that, in Hongkong to-day, His Ex- of doors and there was no protection

YET midday on June 22 in a struggle which will certainly in cellency

not, generally, the hottest the end result in war or in the defeat the Governor

the against the rain, it was important teenth century tags moved quick- and

be able to rend such signs.

ly. Makers of weather maps learned period of the year. There is a time of this whole American way of life French Consul General should ex-

from observatories what the baro- lag. We do not get our heat direct without war, unless we are willing. that re-affirm the Ancient Greeee collected them and parts of the world. Learned men like Aristotle change Toasts

in meter readings were in different from the sun. bonds that bind this nation of peace-wrote them down.. They did not

When it comes to us, the earth is economic weapons which are in our to use right now the political and loving people to their neighbours pretent to know, why things hup-where the readings were the same sun's rays strike the

they marked the places reflecting it back again. When the across the English Channel,

pened that way. They Just noted and drew lines joining them; line ground does not absorb their heat

ground, the hands." Circundances 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 an maps. The contour of atmosphere that are closest to the pel them to stand together to-day. body know any more, Neither lines link equal heights. The isobars, earth. That causes heat, The proximity which made them Chaucer nor Cardinal Wolsey Horns these other lines are called, link Before the earth can throw out the maximum bent each day, about two light in the Middle Ages and in the } Shakespeare understood the weather places of equal pressure.

hours must clapse from the time it eighteenth century has also produced any better than the Ancient Greets

has been received from the sun. intercourse and cultural exchanges, had done. In the gridunt "advancTMöf ̃westora

Mixteen

PUT in the early civilisation France and Britain have Bhundreds man Kot some- progressed side by side; new ideas in thing definite to go upon. He found polities, literature, art, philosophy.a way to mensure hent, have affected both simultaneously

Galileo, discovered that hot things

grown up in the

Then

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

I

Similarly, with the scasos, takes a month for the intensity of

Hugh S. Johnson (76 Newspapers, 5.323,000 Circulation)

VERY tendency of this Adminis- tration has been toward # Rreat concentration of power in: Federal Government., It is clear So the hottest time of the day from experience that, in event of a "is"two"hours" after midday, that is, world-war-the-President would get

2 p.m.

these powers [of Wilson in war] in- it stantly a war-dictatorship....

"Woodrow Wilson gave up most of the sun's rays, as the earth travels his war powers immediately after round it, to be thrown back into the the armistice-because he detested atmosphere by the earth. So the them. Would the present Adminis- hottest 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 a single extraordinary is much water vapour about in the emergency power since March 4, form of cloud it will absorbs the heat 10337 and draw it out of the atmosphere, because water, unlike land, absorbs world war will permanently destroy "No matter who wins, the next heat easily.

the democracy of every nation that gets into it. If We want 10 save UT it is not only in its democracy for the world we will oll out together with the winds BUT

cloud form that molature directing them and calculating their reactions on each other it is absorbs heat. Rivers, lakes and the keep out of Europeon war." ble to forecast the weather with some accuracy, for at any rate the next thirty hours.

They may foun a virele, or cyclone;| or a circular kind of loop called a 14 secondary cyclone because It usually subsidiary to the cyclones.

They may forin a V, or V-shaped even they have not always pro- swell and cold ones shrink. So if depression, or an inverted V called duced the same results. They have you put a bar of mercury in a tub They may run

a wedge.

into mune Intellectual it will shoot out when it is hot and

an irrégular world, they have both harboured the shrink back when it is cold. That is blung ur anti-cyclene; or run in a nuck or col between the anti- doctrines uf "Liberty,

the principle of the thermometer, equality,

cyclones. Or they may go in fraternity," and have reached the With it men could at last com-straight line, which is called a slope, pare heat in winter with heat in In time the observers discovered same, or nearly the same, stage of

summer, heat in England with heat that every one of these forms in maturity.

in India, and acquire a standard of characteristic of a certain kind of

hot and coll.

weather, and that by mapping them Galilco also discovered the prin-

of of the barometer,

To-day Britain is so for convlaced that the safely of France is indis- pensable to his own safety that there i no challenge to the oft-repeated statement thut the frontiers Britain lay on the thine.

France and. Britain are bound to gether because they are protagonists in Europe of Western civilisation. Civilisation has reached a certain

stage in respect of humanity and

ciple

The atmosphere which surrounds our earth is held in its place, like everything else in our system, by weight. The attraction of the earth drawing towards itself holds the atmosphere down, so that there is an

oge atmosphere pressure of one

fon over every square foot.

But this pressure varies accord-

nine our weather,

Mark Sullivan (48 Newspapers, 2,881,000 Circulation)

"WE in Amerten are arming for

defence.

Defence of what?"

pes receive the sun's rays, let them penetrate down to a great depth and then hold their warmth a lerig Ume. So the temperature of water stays ATMOSPHERE moves

even, while the temperature of land over the world from one area varies from one extreme to the other.

be sure. But in the present situa- to another and it brings along with This influences all places near the Defence of our soll und our lives, to

sea, it the characteristics of the lands over

aroundtion we seek to defend more than: Countries with water them do not suffer sucht extremes our individual lives and our national which it has passed.

Wind from deserts bring hot air.

of temperature as countries which life. We seek to defend our way of are land bound for many miles.

common equity from which some ing to the composition of atmosphere Powers tare tending to recede in the different condilons that deter-Polar winds bring cold air. Winds France and Britain are together be- cause in the nature of things. They stand for the maintenance of stan dards which, with some of the smaller nations of Europe and with the United States in America, they have built up. The entente, there- fore, is based upon that Inner neces- sity which Mr. Chamberlain stressed inst week--upon geography, history and national character.

from over the sen are full of mois- of the atmosphere you can to see these

So if you messure the pressure ture, and the actions and reactions of extent forecast the weather. The complicated and endless.

currents on each other are barometer does..this by exposing a Atmosphere Is compounded of ni- bar of mercury to the pressure of the | trogen and oxygen, but it is also atmosphere.

infused with water vapour rising When that pressure heavy, as from the sens ns the sun beats down

the on them. generally is in bad weather.

falls; when it is light it Sometimes when a current comes mercury

In heavy with vapour, having passed risca.

But even with their barometers to over the sen, the air becomes sur test pressure and their thermometers charged or saturated with vappur to take temperature, people found Then the vapour condenses into

clouds or falls in rain. their forecasts unreliable.

hursts of rain.

"Free government han lis principal

defend it

and

HEAT thrown off by the home in America and Great Britain.. earth never rises very If it is destroyed in England by n high off the earth. It is retained in foreign fee, then it will be more the lower, thicker layers of the at- difficult for Amerien

here.

In this situation, what mosphere.

Since the atmosphere is held down should be our present, policy to the earth, It clusters more thickly strategy? It is to recognise that near to the earth, and grows sparser England is our shield. She is our as it moves further away from 1. shield in the sheer geographic sense That is why the air is clearer and that she stands between us and Ger- rarer on mountain tops than in the many, plains.

The higher you go the colder the best form of air is. It drops about 3ders. Fahr-America can practise, at this time, in

The lesson clear. The preparedness that

E issue is whether there is 'or:

THE is not going to bo: another

The question is

Conquest of the Air

the air in D THE CONQUEST of

OFTEN when cold air meets every thousand feet until the outer to supply planes to England.”

Waither air the warmer layer of atmosphere is reached be- grand phrase, but the path of

Waltor Lippmann aerial progress is murred by tragic already been published from un-nir contracts, squeezing out its water tween five and seven miles up.

There it remains vapour as water is spread about In

fairly steady, (184 Newspapers, 7,147,600 official sources.

tho anything from 60 dogs, over

Circulation) loss, Hongkong, happily, has been The pubile has o right to know mists and fags,

Often a corrent from the sea la Poles to 100degs. Fahir, over the free of disaster during the past de- what happens in cases like this. R.

forced by mountains into the equator. It remains at that till a A. F. officers at Kal Tak have many

cooler upper air. where 1 con-height of fifteen miles. Then cade, and Uhe loss of two well-known || friends In the Colony and rumour

the tracts and discharges lis vapour in temperature suddenly grows warmer world war. and popular Royal Air Force officers-the name of a pilot who is actually on icavo was given to the "Tele-

again. It rises very rapidly. Thirty whether the power and influence of yesterday casts more than usual

graph" so one of the victims by an And all the time through the at miles up it is believed to be as much this nation can be used now, belore gloom over the community.

unoMelal source-may cause need-mosphere there comes the heat from as 170degs. Fahr, for at that height is too late, to prevent the war, to the heat of the sun's raya is no longer prevent the hideous consequences of In presenting legitimate news of Jess pain and worry to those people. the sun.

a war, to prevent our having to make Additionally, due to ocial silence, Atmosphere absorbs heat. It stops mopped up by the atmosphere. the tragedy to the publle yesterday, correspondents of London nows about a quarter of the sun's heat We know, this from the reoard- the horrible choice which will con- the "Telegraph", In comman with papers in Hongkong were forced to from reaching the earth. So the ings made by sealed thermometers front us if war breaks out, the

set up to little halloons.) cable news of the tragedy in order wider the atmospliere belt that the

cholce which will haunt us a long: 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.

"If there is another world war i official opposition and reticence to cabling the names of the victims. be the host that penetrates to the that determine the weather, the tem an astonishing degree. It was im- The effect on relatives of other, of earth.

perature, and then by which our it will be fought on every continent direct the sun's rays national character and our Individual and in every occan....There is no possible, for instance, to obtain officers attached to the R. A. Fin

guarantee against entanglement in a ficial confirmation of the names of Hongkong can be imagined when fall the less will be the distance they lives are vitally affected,

They are vast, complex and, to alworld war except diplomacy, which the two oficera lost until they had, they opened their London papers travel through the atmosphere belt

yesterday morning.

and the greater the heat,

great extent, atit incalculable.

prevents the war."

The more

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