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By

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Can Still Talk About

Weather

ROBERT LYND

X7E in England are

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$2000.00 easier to discover what the is permitled to us, for there is no weather was like in the time of subject in which human beings are 1034

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tells me (what I know already) that hin's Day, but I wish he

had "not are indulging in careless talk, the wind is cold to one who starts tried to thake my faith in the old and perhaps, giving away vital off with a Chinese cracker of an rhyme about the ash and the vals. I secrets.

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foretelling the weather.

I can for

statements such as that snow is a black body that impress inc scientific writings.

In.

I should not have the same faith. in ineteorology if I knew what an isobar was.

epigram.

Nor is it only in the weather of have always believed that this rhyme Even if the stranger in the saloon bar to whom you mention from the remotest times been in- Stubbs Rond. the fact that it looks like rain terested. They have always also is a German syp, it is very un- peered into the future in eager

As it . I ni u confirmed, bellever likely that you are telling him quest of the weather that was com- them. Some of the first

I confess that during the present In anything that with a little effort ing to

poetry that we learn as children is spring I have been keeping my eye in the accuracy of modern weather poetry that tells us how to forecast on the oak and the ash in order to forecasts, and it pains me to read. such high authority 48 Mr. the weather.

make sure what kind of summer on

that the really success- We may expect: yet here comes Mr. Benstead's Benstead to tell me that, according ful forecaster is not he who once in: weather ac- to authorities on forestry, "priority a while, predicts the

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Thursday, Juno 27, 1940.

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"Good morning, sunshine 1" "Go to blases !?" "Now, now-temper 1 That's not like mummy's little blue- eyed boy.*

**" Oh, go and climb a trie. I hope you get a thick head like mine. “Teach you to jeer?"

"Thank you, I can leer perfectly. well - I don't need any lessons. As for the thick head so long as Iarick to Gimlets or have a stiff glass of Rose's lime juice before I glide beneath my moy- quito net - I'll never get one."

* You'll get one now if you don't clear out! [Poise.] What did you say about lime juice 2." "My dear fellow -- the path- ology of the common hangover is interesting. The blood alcohol content falls rapidly after ad- ministration of Rose's Lime Juice the stomach .'.'.'

- Fred does this stuff work,

retrospectively?"!

“No harm dowrying. Send your boy out for a bottle of Rose's now.

BOY

must Hongkong listeners

have thrilled earlier this week to hear the Daventry broadcast of the arrival of the new contingents of Australian and New Zealand troops in England. Although they are by no means the first Anzacs to cross the oceans for the war area they are the first to land Onl English soil since the 1914-18 war, the earlier contingents proceeding to Palestine and Egypt.

The arrival of these Diggers in the Homeland again emphasises the world significance of Australia and New Zealand, particularly in the event of a sudden development in the Pacific.

---British-murtured-Australia-is-the. antipodean stronghold of democracy. In area, this continent is approx)- mately equal to the United States; in population it approaches seven mil- lions. Australia is rich in gold?! silver, lead, zinu,' tín, copper. It yleids cool, dry chemicals, fertilisers; | is world famous for exports of woal, beef, wheat and mutton. But these are only material symbols of Ita underlying wealth of clear-thinking Lexemplified in a deinocracy.

Hewing to the line of much that is

best in democratic principles the

Commonwealth of Australia and the

Doninion of New Zealand stand as

bulwarks for the smaller democratle units of the Pacific: Dutch, British and French possessions in the East Imties archipelago to the north, and farther north, the Philippines, French Indo-China ond the British Colonies, in one of which readers of this news- paper reside.

It sald with reason that the future of democracy in the Pacifle may be shaped in Queensland. This rich. Stato le vulnerable to attark directed through the largely unpro- tgeted hinterland of the west. And Queensland is the gateway to the chojce domains of south-eastern Aus), tralin..

But totalitarian invasion has not yet come. Australians”, prayerfully- hope that it may never eventunte. Their democratic çivilisation has been achieved through peace and order; force has been allen to the Austra Tian. the same token, deification

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of the State is incomprehensible to him. In no country of the world would totalitarianism meet lougher resistance than in Australia. For this ronsauring fact many peoples whose lands border the Pacific Occun mny óre day be thankful.

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ASK ME ANOTHER

By HUBERT PHILLIPS

1. Of what European states ure the following cities the respective capitals?

(a) Tallinn, (b) Belgrade, (e) Riga, (d) Sofia, (e) Kovno.

2. Who occupied the British Urone one hundred years ago? Whe was Prime Minister? And who, Foreign Secretary?

Eve

3. The Christian names uf

popular composers of Grand Opera are: (a)

A red sky at night

red sky at moming

the shepherd's delight

the shepherd's warning,

book,

1 have just been reading a

The

Wenther Eye,"

י,

CW

of budding depends on the nature curately, but he whose predictions This may be a are couched in language that admits of the sub-soll, written selentifle fact, but I cannot believe of sufflelent Interpretations to cover

that any variety of weather

ITKY by Mr. C. R. Benstead, and published it, Thre are music-hall performers come along when the synoptie situa

obscure, tion

or even when it is. Mr. Benstead,

not. The art of forecasting is thus entertaining as any

by Messrs. Robert Hale, which covers the whole

runge of weather pro- called illusionists. phecy, from the early rhymes and who is as proverbs to the

illusionist. He will not even allow the art of being plausibly indefinite." Many of these early prophecles, us to indulge in the coinmon belief Ing and listening to weather forecasts

"The for years this is shattering. Causes rain. as he points out, were based on the that

Mr. Benstend, however, will not Great behaviour of birds, insects and other

he declares, "shook no

allow anyone but himself to laugh animals. There is the old belief, for rain from the skies." example, that if seagulls fy inland artificial method. The scientist as

Nor can we produce rain by any at the meteorologist. "Odious as the meteorologist undoubtedly is," he It will be bad weather. Pigs

Forecasts of the pressed weather them, might be described as a die. To one who has been piously read

are

supposed to see the wind approach- a rainmaker appears to be as great writes, "there is one person more ing and to take shelter from it. The a failure as the magician. "Better," odious, and that is the ignorant lay- goose has also been endowed by the says Mr. Benstead, "slick to the man who is for ever making fun of It is clear that Mr. Bensicad simple with prophetic

proven methods of rain-im." country imagination (b)

washing your car is sound at heart and if you want to powers. Even the dea has been making, such as nailed ns weather prophet:

or arranging a Test match in Man- talk about the weather authorita

tively, you could not ask for a better cuide When eager bites the thirsty flen chester.” Clouds.bnd rain you sure shall see.

Wolfgang Amadeus. Giuseppe, (c) tichard, (di Georges, (e) Glacomo. What are their respective sur.j

namest

4. The Royal Academy's annual exhibition opened, as usual, last month. When was the Royal And who Academy founded? was its first President? Three

scientists lunching at the

5.

0.

Atheneum described themselves as: (a) an Ichthyologist, (b) bryologist, (c), a herpetologist. That were their respective sub-

jects of study?

"Why is a a raven like a writing- desk?" Who put this riddle- and, when asked the answer, what was his reply?

7. What Jockey rode Hie Derby

thrco winner

running? years And can you

the three name

8.

winning horses?

Who wrote:

(a) Passare to India.

(b) The New Arabian Nights.

(e) Mornings la Mexico.

(d) A

A High Wind to Jamaica. (e) The Story of An African

Farmı?

9. According to the old Greek story, a daughter of the Sun became a Borceress and was banished to the island of ca. Here, visited by a famous traveller, she turned his companions into swine. Who was the sorceress, and who her visitor?

10. Who said:

(a) The evil that men do lives

after them;

The good is oft interred with.

their bones.

(b). To-morrow, and to-morrow,

and "to-morrow, Creeps

from day

To the last

In this netty pace liable of re- to day.

corded time, (c) Farewell the tranquil mind: Farewell content! Farewell the plumed troop,

and the big wars. Thai make ambition-virtue!

ASK ME ANOTHER Answors

1. (a) Estonia, (b) Yugo-Slavla Bulgaria, (e) (b) Latvia, (d) Lithuania, 2. Queen Victoria, Mel- bourne, Palmersion. 3. (a) Mozart, (b) Verdi, (c) Wagner. (d) Bizet, braccial.

4. 1768, 8lr Joshua

(b) (a) Reynolds. mosses, (e) reptiles. 6. The Mad"

haven't the

slightest

7. Steve Donoghue, Humorist (1922) (1021), Captain". Cuttle Papyrus (1923). 8. (a) E. M. Forster; (b) B. L. Stevenson, (c) D. II. Lawrence, (d) Richard Hughes, (e) Olive Schreiner, ' D. tony, (b) Macbeth, (c) Othello

Sergeant And Bride Circe, Ulysses, 10, (a) hark An-

Wed A Week: Gassed

A week after, lie was married, anit

a day before he was due to return

Air Cadets Aid. Defence

from lenge twenty-year-old Ser gcunt, Foul Gregory, Pace Moore, und

The Air Defence Endet Corps, Jils wife Olive were found dead in a numbering 23,000 boys between the gus-Alled room in a Hundsworth ages of 15 and 10, have been placed Wood-road, Birmingham, · dat.

Thoy took the flat and were last at the disposal of London authorities séen oliver.tha saine evening, Safe

and Air Force commanders for dulles geant Moore was in the Royal En-in connection with the protection of gineeri

the country against parashooters

Of all living creatures, however, the leech seems to be the inost

L

by

I have learned from his book.. ninny things that I did not know, that "the pro- AFTER this orgy of scene including theor Mr.

of evaporation ticism it is not surprising ceases

which highly skilled meteorologist.

atmos- Benslead tells how at the Great to find Mr. Benstead speaking lightly water is absorbed into the PCRAN

Exhibition of 1851 an appropriately of the barometer. All those "Fair." phere proceed at an average rate named Mr. Merryweather had an "Set Fair" and "Very Dry" legends for the whole world of about apparatus. on show "by which one on the face of the instrument he dis- 10,000,000 tons each second, a rate for at least 12 leeches confined in

the evapora that is equivalent to misses as amiable fictions. little tell when bottles rang a

Though himself a meteorological tion during one day of a layer of tempest was expected." Apparently. officer on an aircraft carrier, in- water one-tenth of an inch thick even to-day, Girl Guides are taught deed, he treats the science of meteor, over an area the size of the world." how to forecast the weather from ology with cheerful irreverence. You must admit that there are the behaviour of leeches,

"Frankly," he says, "I cannot take few, more exhilarating subjects than

MR

a fellow seriously who talks about the weather an bolometers and solemnly declares

R BENSTEAD is more snow to be a black body

sceptical than I like about meleorologist does!" some of the traditional methods of it is

THES

BRITISH

ISLES

the Oddly enough and talk about bolometers

MILES

FRANCIE

THESE two maps both show in black torritorios which have been overrun by the Nazis, but they tell different stories. *The larger, map illustrates how for Hitler's intention to draw a semi-circle of German, occupied territory sound Great Britain has succeeded.

ERMANY

It explains his tremendous" effort. Until he completed his conquest of France's Atlantic seaboard he had no hope what- ever of carrying safely out. his plans against England. And there drawn after the Armistice. was

Orators Lucky To Be Arrested

TWO Hyde Park speakers: who were Baid to have angered a crowd of 250 by their remarks were told by the Marlborough Street magistrate (Mr. E. Boyd) that they were lucky to have been arrested.

"It is not unlikely that later it would have been difficult for the police to prevent the people around you from taking the law into their own hands," he said...

Both men were accused of using. insulting Words Ernest W. G. Gosting 42), aircraft engineer, of Batoum. Gardens. Shepherd's Bush, bound

Who:

over for 12 months, with the alternative of 21 days' imprisonment in default of finding a surety.

Norman Kennedy (31), carpenter, of Lawford Road, Kentish Town, was remanded for a week.

Sent to Prison

"When this country is fighting for

Jour very existence, you must be taught that you may not say these- things," said the Stratford, E., chair- man (Mr. F. J. Reove) to Walter- Nicholls.(17), clerk, of Kenilworth Avenue, Walthamstow, who was sen- tenced to a month's imprisonment using Insulting words at Waltham stow,

"for"

NAZIS DRILL IN

SHANGHAI

SHANGHAI police have been warned of alleged arms BECTE- tion at the Kaiser Wilhelm school by Shanghal Nazis and of Fifth Columin formations which are militarily drilled daily.

Germans are busy in Tolto with: plans for joint action in China and elsewhere, Deaden at D

German refugees have been.cele brating reported Hitler victories in

provided with money saljily' by Beltons, hays the News - has the whole of France, sha (Eighteen thousand exiles swept The small map shows the still has not conquered the Eng from Germany, Austria and Czecho- area of France which Germany lish channel. The area of France Slovakia, by Nazis found sanctig has invaded. The line was is 213,000 square miles.

is still that impregnable stretch signed. But even if Germany Chronicle of water.

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