The Lucknow Sentinel, 1935-02-14, Page 6OBVIOUSLY
the crowded London bus/ came
standstill, a stout; middle-aged
descended the stairs, carrying a
THE EMPIRE
THE WORLD
AT LARGE
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• Defense Attacks Wood Experts Testimony .. .
CANADA
i z NEWSPAPElis BEST. ,
- / Newspapers -provide the ;besl way
for clothing, merchants to. advertise'
their clothes ,to the pqbl.ic. This has
been agfeed by the National Associ- ■
ation of Retail Clothiers assembled
in convention in ' Chicago. They have
' decided .unanimously - on1 an advertis-.
ing program for the coming year
which is scheduled to spend by far
the bulk of the total apprOpriatlon-
. op newspaper advertising.
.’ "Thet.. clothing men know fronf long
’ experience that the buying public
.... .looks./to; jhe newspapers for? tb.et’ pn-
houncements of merchants and man
ufacturers. And the people read the...
advertisements! have a chance to
read them, a; second, or, third- timp if■■
they wish and to discuss them. Then
they act and buy. That’s why the
- clothiers are making sure they will
do the ; bulk of their advertising in
the columns,, of the newspapers. —
Border Cities Star. :
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EIGHTH GIFT OF BUFFALO
The Canadian Government has giv
en- a gift of four buffalo from.. the
"herd at Wainwright- ParK-in- Polandr
"Poland is the eighth .country to re
ceive Bhipments of buffalo from Cap-?
ada as previous shipments have bepn
presented to South Africa, Ne/w iZea-
landi England," Australia, France and
t Belgium.—-London Free Press.
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7_ RESPECT. ■
r—;. t A^Scot" was walking with? a Roman"
Catholic'friend in London. On pass
ing Westminster Cathedral his friend;
raised his hat, and the Scotsman fol-.
^..iQwed/'.auit..... 7 777.77; 7.?'?.’•?!/.•
_7__At: thi/.This.Jfriend. 'said: '“Yonlre:;
getting very pious! raising -your hat
as you' pass the /.cathedral.”
■7 , “Was that the cathedral?” the yScqt
replied. 71 thought it. was the Bank
-/•■-of. - England.”—-London Observer.7 '■
; STMDY OF -PEACE.
Princeton University has jpst now
made a change in its., curriculum
™ which is causing- wide comment; —
/ Hitherto it»has been giving cour
ses on the art of war which . were
given ir conjunction llwith the Re-
-—BervedfiicersTrainingCoTps.Tnithe
—placeofbneofthesecoursesonthe
operation of an artillery battery, in-
—Btruction-•will-;b.e“-given-on-thg -agen-J'
,^&teSLJf>r_the. promotidn/of peace, In-
H stead of another course on comihu-
. ideation systems and gun .firing will
>e one on civil, and. military law.
The subject was threshed .out by
the uni -ersity together with thie Re
serve Officers’ Training Cor/ps and;
this action taken as a result.5 Which^
■' “wetake it;- does not' mean" tiiatrThe;
Training Cprps is done away, with,
but' it: dfoeS ■ mean Tthat the- unjyer- '
??$ity"is v giving"! sprioUs, study ’ tp the'
7 agencies wfiich >7makp!/7fpr7^i>ea^.
i Which is a step upyi-H^llfax...Chron-
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not being guarded when we find, the
judiciary voicing the complaint that
juries are freeing men who should
not be made free.—Stratford Beacon-
Herald,
JtHfe Ft-EA” ANO THE EMPIRE
A flea was! the granddaddy of the
British Empire, we are told by Dr,
Thomas Wi M! Cameron* : From his
institute p.f parasitology at . Macdon
ald College, Quebec, he tells a .plaus
ible7 story. The flea, he says, caus?
ed the'Black Death ih: Europe. This
ruined' English, agriculture and shif-(
ed into sheep growing. This made
,W_Q.Q1... . anil ; broadcloth ;. Eqglanj’s.
staple products and led to the ne
cessity of finding foreign markets..
This in turn led to the founding. ,of.
the overseas empire.—-Winnipeg Tri-
buiie.
As
to a
man
small girl, obviously his daughter.
Tenderly placing this burdeirbn.' the
curb, he ascended the stairs again
and shortly returned carrying ...a! tiny
dog. , Placing the dog. beside the
child, he returned upstairs and again
descended, , bearing , a second- child,
which he stood-'beside the first. Once ■ . . and
third
more • he ascended ‘ the. stairs
again returned, carrying a
youngster. . !|
These evolutions’, were 'eagerly ob-
-served-by-a-passengerseatediiiside
the bus,who, as father proceeded to
dismount with his third offspring; ex
claimed ima. loud stage whisper:-
; . ‘‘Lumme, te must- have- a_ nest- up
there! ”—Vancouver -Province, .....
EDDIECANTOR TELLS ENGLAND
Eddie Cantor receives, or is said
to receive some $10,000 for a* brief
radio'. broadcast in the • United
States' and do-perhaps it, was not
unnatural that when he spoke recent
ly over a British Broadcasting sta-
tloi, he expressed a decided prefer-
enceforthesystemofhis.owncoun-
try. His statement started a contro
versy that has been filling the letter
columns of the Manchester Guardian,
and whioh the Guardian summarizes
jn- these words: — - —« -—
“So far there has appeared .... no
sign-o^- envy -on the part -of-^British-
listeners ...... The general feeling ex-
pressedonthlssideigthatnoswell-
.ing of revenue, would compensate for
the Inescapable horrors o'f wireless
advertisements.” . . ' ;
The case, for supporting broadcast
ing by the revenues from advertising,
as<made b# Mr.. Cantor; is that the
'•cdmpetitfve- hasis./on which- jt- rests
evolves the “talent” that- the radio
needsMalent such as Mr; Cantor—
and that the advertising brings in the ■
PLATINUM production.
With continued: prosperity in the
nickel Industry, Canada^- is : capable
of supplying th| major; part of - the
world, demand for platinum and its
partment of Mines,. Ottawa! Cost' of
production in Canada of platinum and
related metals is presently well pe-
low- that of most producing countries!
‘ —Brandon Sun. “ /
| ACCIDENTS ARE CAUSED
/ The stubborn fact is that accidents
do not - happen. If cars are staridlpg
still they dd np damage. , ItVis when
people get in..and start to make them,
go that things happen, and the
people in them are responsible. The
safety of the roads and highways is,'
money to pay such entertainers on
a lavish scale. But British "listen
ers would not submit to; the invasion
of their homes by’the commercialism
that dominates the wireless in the
United States — and of which Gan- adlan radio is not entirely free; —
Ottawa Journal. ' J
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Ontario has now its fifct woman
J.P. as well. aB its first 'woman K.CJ.
•while at Ottawa there is one ?4voman
in the Commons and one in the Sen
ate! The entry of women into the
fields df law.and legislation, has been
singularly, small—Kingston Whig-
Standard. j
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HERE’S A SUGGESTION. Z
A tetter In a woman’s paper sug
gests a 7 Government' department
whose fob'it wduld be to create joy
amj happiness for one and/’ all. A
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Arthur Koehler, wood technologist, holds Lindbergh kidnap lad-
< - der- and -board from Hauptmann’s attic 'which-he linked together in '
his testimony. On table are Bruno’s tools.
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sort of Ministry of Transports, as it
were.—Regina Leader-Post,
CpUNTRY DOCTORS
Dr7 Dafoe has undoubtedly drawn
'wbrld-wid^’attention to the fact that
the-humble* rural-or small town prac-
titioner hitherto^ unhonored and un
sung, is, after all, one of the main
stays of the. human, race and a man
ofithe moment,- whether he pomes
through with quints ror prescribes for
Chickenpox.—Border Cities Star.
CHANGING TIMES / .
The once-famous Police Gazette is
resuming publication. It went into
bankruptcy because it became effm-
inate. Now it is to be edited by a
woman.—St. Thomas Times-Journal.
The Ottawa journal, which has
entered upon its fiftieth1 year of pub-
Jication,_Js—one—of—Canada's—out--
Atapding^. papers^. . ’ ■___,________
seems a little late. There will be
accidents on; the. roads till their us
ers
will
_o.ur. ..highways -as -single tracks. - (2>
We
th^m. (;3) We re-design our
acquire a new mentality. They
not do that till (1). We re-design
keep our homes well away from
' j -pave-
mehts to stop people" stepping . off
them, (4) We devise a-uniform'light
ing system to avoid the present- jig
saws. of.Jight and: blackness. (5) We
substitute a- national control- for the
whims of a hundred local authorities.
.^London—Sunday-r-Express. — -
WOMEN ,IN GRIME.
Women criminals in England and
Wales have increased by 10/per cent
in four years. Last year there were
6,'779JConvictions. It is by pure coin-
"ci d eifce"” fli at"'th’enar^fes^appeaF’^af"
tiie same time as the' announcement
that in Britain 18,500,000. of us go to
the pictures every week. whirh
means that onp in every- three of us
“is a" film fan. ’ But only one in'- sev
eral thousjindar of us lands in gaol
“in a "whole lifetime,"much less once
a we^k. Every now and then a mag-7
. istfate blames the films /for crimp
He is usually a very old magistrate
who never goes to the pictii.res. When
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dreadfuls/! * —- Manchester Sunday
Chronicle. ■ 7 '
THE EMPIRE—-
—THOMS'DN^OR MACTAVISH
. The kilt is becoming fashionable
among Edinburgh town councillors, ..................
and I’m .told not to be surprised if he was a boy they blamed
the: Lor-d Provost is seen in one .be
fore long. As a Thomson, hie is ’en
titled to wear the MacTayish tar-
-tany—^-‘-Thomas?t„was/.-as early... as^the
fifteenth century, written as ‘TOmaS^
of “Tamas-” and Thomson . is a
translation' of “MacTomas,” which
has““anoth'erfendering"in“MacTavish,
Sir Wiliam Thomson is of ithd nor
thern branch: The MacTomases of
Argyl are a sept , of. the^^nyjhpils.
—Glasgow Bulletin.
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LIVING ARTISTS OR DEAD ^AS-
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A curious correspondence has ar-
iseii in the EpgH&uTress-. ou/UM tha
display of the wedding presents
which were sent to the, Duke, and
Duchess/ of .Kent; Criticism has been
made of the‘number of valuable/ an
tiques which were among the gift#,
and it is i urged that public bodies
like the Royal Acaddmy and the City
Companies should have tried rather
to benefit present-day artists and de
signers.—Belfast . Telegraph/
“DIE WAYS” Not highways.
A big inquiry .into the causes df
motoring accidents is promised. - It
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Weekly Serial
Position of Modern Woman ; .
Due Largely to Typewriter
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stenographer’s
the typewriter,
Washington—-The
favorite instrument,
was described in an official -report
as an emancipator of women.
“The invention and development
of the typewriter h>as opened more
jobs to women than anyui other
single; machine, said a review by the
Jwomen’s bureau of its first extensive-
study of feminine white , collar'work
ers. * ' .
The pamphlet added that approxi
mately one out of every eight wo
men 'office -workers ’in the seven cities ■•«
studied operated .a machine having
some sort of a key ‘board. >. • ‘ *
“In the seventies and eighties, the
amanuensis turned out stilted and:,
formal tetters ih a Spencerian hand
and the word stenographer was al-,
most unknown,”. the report ‘ said, “In,
this' survey, the ^stenographic group
formed about one-third of all office
workers.” •' '-----rv—
^However, inecharicial devices wliich
have'followed the typewriter" were
said to have* resulted in' reducing,
n umbers on-eertaim- types • of~work^ n
The bureau studied some 43,000 of
the 2,000,000 women ..at work in
offices—a number larger than those
employed in industry, in stores,-or-in
any pther occupation except domestic,
and personal service.
This cross-section sampling waf
done iu advertising, banking, ihsur-
-ance, investment, mail order, pub
lishing, and ptdjlic utilities offices i^
New York, Hartford, Philadelphia,
Atlanta, Chicago, Des Moines, and
St.- Louis, on salary, hours, promo
tion chances, and' training required.
- “More women were at ^work as
general clerks than at any other job
in the offices'* included in the survey”
the fep^'laid./T’Whne. numerically
the largest group, general clerks .re-
,ceived'>..a.;..monthly median . salary;, pjf,
only $90—-a lower median than that
received by any other plass of emr
ployees except . file clerks whose
median Ayas $81, tabulating or k^
piinchers whose median was $89, and
a smaller : number of- messengers?
■whose median was $55. . S£ehogr.a-
‘phers, „the second largest occupa
tion, group, received a higher me
dian salary—$114. __ _
“In Chicago, the -only city. . where
data on the salaries of men officers
were secured “women were found for
,the--most- part- .to- earn, considerably;
less than the men even for the same
jobs. . . ■ 7
“Negro women office workers in
cluded in the-study earned, much"
lower salaries than those of white
.women.”
Lady Ashley and /
1 Senior Fairbanks .
z May Be Married
Rome. -— Douglas Fairbanks, and.
Lady Ashley, arriving in .. Rome 're
cently smiling and . happy,-stead
fastly refused to .discuss the possi
bility of their marriage. - .
“I have nothing to say on that
subject,” . said Fairbanks when
‘asked whether, he contemplated be
ing married -in- Rome. -“Tha/t is my
own business.”
The American film actor said he
was planning a long cruise on a
yacht being prepared in the United
States.^ ___1...7.J................ ’..7....
- When asked whether Lady Ashley
would accompany -him-on '.the—voy
age, he replied that that, too, was
"■hi's“buBines’§7”~~
His attention was called to a re
mark by a newspaper correspondent
that whenever an important event
was about to. happen in. Fairbanks’
life, he came to Rome -where his
tailor lives and had a dozen suits
-made.
Fairbanks merely lauhed and
asked , how the weather had been.
Lady Ashley, who left the train
without a hat, her blond hair cas-
Cadihg to Ker'shoulders, and dressed
in a luxurious Ifur coat, told those
7vho“'^ppfdacKed7Kef' witK^questions
about the rumored wedding. I
never talk to newspapermen. I
have nothing to say about that.” -
Both Fairbanks and Lady Ashley
' kept far apart as they walked along
the station, platform to avoid.being
photographed/together. . '
Weather ^ap ~
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Shows Eight Different Kinds
7 of" Air — Will ""Assist
Aviators.
Radio Waves Give
New ,York ■— New facts about
ultra-short radio waves, showing
that they spread like soft twilight, in “
every direction,, wag reported to the.
American Institute of Electrical
Engineerayteceritly!
_ These short , wayes . were sprayed.
"alT over Boston from an antenna 130
feet above the ground. A receiving
set on a truck travelled all over the
city aind a surrounding area of abofit-
55 square miles* ’ ,7/
Never .once did the truck com-
Sletely lose the little waves. There,
ere deep radio shadows in them in
spots, as down behind buildings and
under bridges. Some streets were
brighter, than others with these
radio waYes.
The Boston "experiments strengthen
a growing belief that they have
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New York. — A new kind of
weather map, showing eight kinds
of air over the United States, -was
presented to aviation leaders at the
annual meeting of the Institute of
Aeronautical Sciences..
The . eight, discovered largely by
airplane, are all- kinds -hat exist
in . North America. They contain,
and spill, all the types of weathji^
troubles - knownr~ including; those -on
which forecasters go wrong.
-" Th,e map :is a step in “air-masses”
analysis, the new system of fore
casting being inauguratea by the
U. S,. Weather Bureau. It was de
veloped, by Dr. Irving Krick of the
California Institute of Techology..
No. 1 air is polar-continental,. It
dry and “stable.” It may be chilly ■
but Contains few" storms.
2—is-polar^PacificT-col'dy^faMy^
_moist,: _„ someti mes- show e®y—--an d-
squally. There is polar-Atlantic, a
. twi.n_of ;N,o._2,7_hut„ not quite~as
nasty in disposition.
---Fou-r7s^poim--basmr ;Th'^
thing they have between the Rockies
and the Pacific /Coast It’s fa’rly
warha and the producer df nice
weather. / ' .•>
Five. is tropical-Pacific. Thi's is
.warm and moist, but surprisingly, is
usually- - “stable-/^cr^not' stormy7 be
cause. .its heat has been, cooled by
passing'over /-the waters 'of 'the Pa-
powers of reflection that may’make
them very useful. In Boston seem
ingly the little waves splashed and
reflected- from, all sorts of surfaces.
Ih spots completely hidden; from*
the sendihg antenna, the waves
.seemed to be: arriving by reflection-
from' numerous other directions. >
Ovejr salt water the rays were Usu
ally bright and strong. After pass
ing the water they lost this extra
strength. , . /'
Under .one bridge, as if under a
deep shadow, the signal strength
feel4 sharply. It rose again on each
side of the bridge.
1 Overhead trolley .wires cast deep
radio shadows, apparently interfer
ing with the shqrt waves in all dir
ections. ‘
' cific; ■ ,• •/ / 7:-7-~......./
— Six is tropical—' Gulf—and ' seven
tropical-Atlantic.; These two are
twins in/'trpublemaking. Both, are
very warm and moist.
Eight is tropical-continental — a
trouble-maker for flying. It appears
over .northern/Mexico and the south
western tier of American states. It
is hot and tdo dry for rain or clotids
with “bumps.” ...
Women Make Up 55 p.c.
,, .■•/ Of Truo’s Voters
Truro, M.S. About 55 per cent
of- the voting population of Truro
are women, it was disclosed by
voters ;hsts pompited. last fall and
made public recently. .
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DAVID COPPERFIELD
gives...A..... . '■ ■ .7 /. Soon'there is more troubte. The frail Dora die^ Jn return fpr his unselfish act,’David
At Yarmouth that night there^^tern^^ormTimrDlMd’gO^ ------------------------ ” ; —
Based! on the Novel,by,
CHARLES DICKENS
. ............... ......... . ........ ...... -r -......,- . -......-.....— ...Outside the pounding breakers a, ship-wrecked returns* worried about the Wickf^elds. Then/with family can set sail .,for4 Australia;- where they -David- and-A^XX/2+M?“^fiffs where'
vessel! is tossing', Before David carh reach Him, the aid of Micawber/ he.exposes Heep as a cheat hope to find the gob’d fortune that always Seems talking to each str*Mc
. Ham is out in the sea in “a .breeches buoy, trying and a fotger/who hhd cunningly/inade Wickfield to be just around the corner Everyone is atthe eaten uh hv wu i-y‘ Au nt. Betsey te
.. to save the tone survivor. But he is drowned when believe that he. himself, wasa.thief,,/This.was boat to see them pff and* amid loud-cheers. it*n*i^i>8.-nt, if t ■VVhat are they fnyij^t'
the ship goes down. The passenger is washed up, JtHe hold.he.haa had on him;- slowly eases away from the dock, r b??,nn‘nK and new
dead/irisSteerforthL/' v ’ "J ", / ’ . happiness for David and his childhood^