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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1935-02-21, Page 6MJ W ■ •Mni deritial. premises.<.rieat and tidy with-1 advisement this refpjm. ' f out. the constant ^trouble of ■nin.kinff ' damL' • ’ / ■HL „ I The Catholic University ct HELPS VOC AB U LAR. Y r----j. • , .. / ■’ /Windsor. — Champions of the teaching of Latin/and "Greek in the for matm/W to- bolster their case/ ThCy TT^ve d^covered; a £._;_ written some month's ago by Charles * ‘I • • _ ■ ’ CANADA ? / /.'Nl' tj ' THE WiPIRE ; ' ... ..._...~ il /THE;WORLD . ■ ■.. AT LARGE ■? ■/ CANADA IF THEY CARRIED SIGNS, r^it*Wdid^^lnJt^p?ti^^tbraK26'w“ if’1 motoring behaviour op the. ,parte of drivers 'might not be considerably . v' improved, if the offender, in addition, to a fine,. .were’ required ..to carry a sign on his car for a week, stating; that he had been found guilty of.neg- ..jyjge'nt' driving;'" /,1 ■” ./ < .-Very few negligent drivers Would like-(to advertise their own incompe­ tence in such'fashion;—Calgary Her- ‘ aid. ./ •• IN TRANSIT Like .most sizeable. communities, Kitchener has its quota of stray or homeless pigeons. One of the birds \ has become a /practicalhitch-hiker. When tired, he alights atop a; motor car, rides a few - city blocks,, then . soars aloff and rejoins his mates. The less venturesome pigeons consider his actiofi rather "/flighty” "but it rap- hot be said that the. Creature is dumb / In the full sense of the word.—Border Cities Star. ! / ‘Man’ The Sails APPROVES LATIN AS ENGLISH AID \ Japanese, Brazilians and Filipino® . Mans? in Latin: i;he lectures *" Prbyiiiciali Education/. Body ’Officer Sees Ack vantages . . . ropto coroner’s Jury added a rider-to their verdict ‘recommending1 “that dealers te second-hand cars be re- .qqired to police department that aT ear sold is ip fit mechanical condition fo'be driv­ en on the highway.”This, suggestion cails^ attention to the face that not one province in ^Canada: caljti for an- examination • pf automobiles, before licenses lor the 4same are issued;—Petei-boro~EKaTmi: • iner. / ’ "* ■ NEAT AND TIDY/. Jt’Ms,. difficult enough to. keep resi- > . out. the constant •'trouble of picking up and disposing of a number of unwanted handbills every day. The - greatest objection to the handbill, as we see .it, is / the method of distribu­ tion, If , it i& i mailed in the (proper way, then the householder can eith- / , er read it or put it in the furnacej asi he wishes. But. when it/is thrown in •; his doorway, it usually blows out on to the lawn and, by the time he .gets --- Whig-Standard.'. ’•» J Promises. / . ’l_.Critjc.a_of Prime -Minister BennetVs- . startling, economic reform policy are harping much just'now upon his 1930 promise to/end unemployment in Can- . ada and claiming that he did not ■ keej> that promise'; for ;which>-reason they doubt whether his present pro- - -mises mean-ariything. ....-- / ’j.Tt\ may be that thoughtless people’ , in 1930 assumed/ that Mr. Bennett A. -proposed to perform- an. over-night ; miracle when he made that promise; 2 _ It, is certain-that-he—had- no sueh ■. .. idea and certainly no one with a clear , ___understanding of ■.the_e-C.onofnic..,sitm- ation as_ it-xthen_-was-could^hayo~.en'’. , . teftained so fooli&h a notibn. - As a matter of fact the Prime,Min? - Jeter has from the ^moment hp assurn-’ ’ «d office^ up to the present time lab- f - ored steadily, persistently and in considerable measure successfully, to ' \ copte. yfith/ the .untein^Oyment situa- .' / /tjon. True-^his approach to the pro-., I ' . . .-Mein was -h^: as. spectacular as was - " ’ / that ,of the United States President, / r -■—but"there™rs good reason to believT ‘ that ultimately his methods will be productive' d'f more permanent re* suits than those of, the, “New Deal/^ ^.Making the federal / authority in y genefoiiS’'sae^sure responsible for . maintenance of the iraeinproysit^he obtained sanction for. cash contribu­ tions to that fend immediately upon ; assuming office. Those contributions . have continued to this datei Wide­ spread distribution of .this govern* i ment money has certainly .prevented the unenaploymteiit eitnatlon from assuming catastrophic proportions. 1 Another of : Iiisr.... moveg ’that also saved catastrophd was “‘Government assumption of the wheat export sit­ uation at a moment wheh ifblhing ■ short of a move so radical and un- 7 ’ usual could'have presented complete collapse of .the economic structure of Western Canada. That move was of / -as. great benefit .to urban Canada, as it was to the people of the farms. But . .the . truly scieritific. move inade 'by the prime minister to end unemployment was in his successful ' negotiation of the much .discussed Ottawa agreements. It was' evidently^ cle££ to Mr. Bennett’that only in'a revival of trade in export fields could -there be -any hope of permanent re­ lief from unemployment. To depend ..upon the passirig out of Government .. -*cash to remedy, permanently such’ a situation would have been as foolish’ as to hope to be able .to lift oneself by orie’sy boot-straps. 1 The Ottawa agreements are mak- ■ Ing good, .in the past' nine months Canada's Empire export trad$ has' irn created over 27 per' cent.That, .ipean^s,’’ a ' Ltecicle'fl'^in-c'tease'il ill 'gainfui em­ ployment /a’ considerable nporiber of the' unemployed'..-jn'large meas­ ure it explains why it^is that Can­ ada’s peak pf 750,000 unemployed has been reduced.to about 450,0.00. ' .: Yet there are.those who would-hrive us believe that Canada’s prime min-, ister forgot his promise to end fun- erpploymerit the moment he /inade it and that lie has done nothing since then to implement it.—Calgary^Hep- aid. :....................................' defective automobile's , Believing..fo.e„.cohd^^ the ca,rs involved was a factor in a recent1 fatal motor accident, a ,To- ■I I I * JIWf ' i; |M*W| - y i- x’z,‘ ■< \x ,. . CANi BE CONTROLLED . - < Diphtheria is essentially a disease of childhood, and it is most imports ant that all children,, especially ..young children^ be immunizted.' The records of cases and deaths in Toronto af­ ford' ample proof of the efficacy of toxoid.r—Toronto Mail arid. Empire;» THE BORSTAL SYSTEM' One of. the most interesting ‘an­ nouncements in the Speech from the Throne was the statement' that the Government was considering the ad­ option of what is known as the ‘.^dj’stal System” in connection with youths sentenced, to penitentiaries. There has been no previous intima- -tion. .that the Governmenthadrunder The Borstal system, so-cajled,. ■ is an. effort^ to segregate youths from 16 to 21 from hardened criminals. It gets its’ name from the Village of Borstal, Kent, where the early ex­ periments on youths were carried out in ah old convict prison, p^iprrtp the' passing of. ah act in 1908 carrying- . into ' effect the ; principles of those urging that /youths should not"' be [.pent to penitentiaries with pr.ofes- -sional— and • older—crinahaal®;— ‘ The rules and regulations under the act are based on-, the/, principle that uf> to a certain age every of- 7fender--may- be ^regarded-asThbtenr tially a good citizeri, that; his Jap^ ihtp- crime may be , due either to Physical degeneracy or . bad .social envirohment, and that it is fhe duty of the state at least .to fry/ to effect a cure, and not to class the offender, hhut_texper imsh t with the adult professional criminal. As a part of the system there have^ been founded iri England Borstal As- S0C1^19ns to provide for the after care-ofall personsdjschargedfrom Borstal idstitutions. This is a vital part-of-thesysteni/andit is-claim- -ed-in-rEngland~DiatXw’'0''-outz-“of-"--t-hree- Borstal/ youth® are reclaimed.—Lon­ don Free Press.- 4 - y' THEo SPEED-CRAZY. . Sir Josiah Stamp, British econom­ ist;; industrialist and president of- The executive of . the London, Mid^ land ®na Scottish Railway, 'utters a ^urd of naution ....whetf1 :‘s'd mariy •Phople-everywhere ’a-re-p-aying tribute to the god of speed.. - . \ _ It Js -refreshing toLfifid a%’man of Sir Josiah Stamp’s expert knowledge refuslrig to pay unqualified - homage. As one who is primarily concerned with the economics of the subject, .appHed to railways, he said in a recent nuu^ss that he would not be excited /by any additional accelera­ tion unti! he knew the relative^cost -?L0bta,??g what sacrifices ..there might be of other amenities or comfort and safety. .. . , To the ordinary observer the ques­ tion often arises: Why the hurry ; anyway?—Halifax Herald. . / THE EMPIRE 4 TELEVISION. 5 This much is certain,’ however. One company in Great Britain and one company in Germany are now ih a position to provide a service of high-definition television” of real entertainment value. The features and movements, of speakers or o> one .or more -artists in a studio, events of the day or other film subject matter, and Certaln'indoor and oiit- _dodr events can now be transmit­ ted either instantaneosuly or within a few seconds (depending on the / J * •//il*»1 T„ ..K- , > 1i ■ . ...................... r The Inventor’s Seldom, Says a German, Does He. BrufiL-Erom His so subject matter), for clear and faith- .? ful--reproduction in the home on a screen about/a foot square, accom-« panied by sbund oil the. same • re­ ceiver.—London Spectator. ' ■ , , * ' • I - • ART AND INDUSTRY. British industry has been; slow to' employ designer®, and artists./Deters mined and successful efforts have lately been made' to remedy . ,the weakness, of Which the* Exhibition of British z Art ih Industry, • at the Royal Aca'demy is' the latest. The tradition that beauty is just a mat­ ter of trimmings ■ and /ornamentation is dying;- ’ Simplicity and the fash­ ioning of articles to .do t,heir job, as efficiently as possible are, producing things beautiful in themselves, and proving to be good business as . well. —London Daily' Herald. DEATH ON THE ROApt. Tcleas. The path of the inventor is straight, stony and beset ■with ob- •stadesy^accordi^^ l' zinger who signs himself Business iWanaging^ehairmamofHhe,-Interna™ gloomy prticle published .in Die Umschu. . He tells us -that, of the 700,00(9 patents granted' annually in the world, bht a vanishing: small numbter are of any commercial ■ yaljie- AmateurisJiness on . the part ' of the iriventers, inability to. ap- , praise ! irid ustrial needs correctly/ general insurance, of what has been done in the past^in similar fields— what patent-- attorneys call “the 'state of the art” - are responsible, for thi® poor showing. . Although German chemists as a class are probably the best informed . technicians in the world and there- . fore less likely to rush in where angels fear to treat/, their succes­ ses are numerically no more strik- ing/than pf. inventors in gen­ eral. According to ^tizinger, £<?me„ 7,000 chemical patents are Annual­ ly applied fdr in. Germany. .Of these the German patent office, tlie most ’ efficient and exacting iri the world, grants about 2,0'00. Net more than ■~tlrirty"or forty are commercially ex­ ploited. , . Suppression Doubted - 1 ' Successful patents in any field by no means disclose the most meri­ torious inventions, if Autzinger is to be credited. He charges that ’some ar^ bought and suppressed, because, if “worked,” they would paralyze established industries. How much frith is there ih this oft-repeated tale of patentsthat are* bought onl^ to be pigeon-holed? Time and time again bills . have been, introduced in Congress which, if en­ acted in law, would- make it com- ! pulsory "to “work” a ^patent in a giv- |“en period. Failing in this the -paten- | tee ^Ould forfeit his . rights. The proposal seems sensible en­ ough; Yet when oup legislators take "/r" it is really time to examine '’critical­ ly tfie measures, wliiclf the respon­ sible authority, the /Ministry Of’ 'WariS- pdrt, is taking 'to uteal with this ter­ rifying loss ot life. The real test of that department’s suce’essL or failure lies in whether it can /bri’rig about a drastic reduction of this tragic sacrifice on our highways the security of' the /public it is- .es­ sential that the three kinds of traf­ fic—ffiptor, cycle apd pedes^fian — Sh'buld’bp separated arid provided each with its own track. Thi® task should have been takeri in hand a decade ago, blit its cost will be. immense/ and (here should be no illusions onfT j that head. It will, liowever/ save ^2L ps .attended by thousands pf^stud- - I ents from all over the .worlds, who \ | have no common language but Latin;//- : \ Japanese, Brazilians and Filipino® . ; j r exchange ideas' in Latin ; the lecture’s * . are delivered in Latin. o ' MAGAZINE PRAISE *■ In the CMay edition of. the Cana- . ‘ dian -School Journal, the official or,-‘ • gan of the Ontario Education Assoc- . iaton, an articles entitled:. : “The Engagement pf Teachers,’’ contains the' following, extracts:. • - ‘-There is a high correlation be- - . . ' twden the study of.^Latin. and 'teach- schdols have been, digging around:, er success.' their case )They ^kav.e discovered; a statement/schools"have shown their-st-amina by ' --------------------- ------ - ----- . .,..-^-1 - ’ | p/aOPAMfc, ~ icaJLSection. of the Ontario Lfduca- tional Association. He said{r 1 J \C/-//^ST.''iS’..l;QWER'’’ ; ji In,the fiijst place*.the teaching of jLafiivapd Greek is, relatively, riot j^^lKn._. jOt-XQSts. ledsc t’o educate k student, in t.fie.’'academ.i<\ h.ifeh 'school ’ than in the vocational school. More^ '7bver, "in;the ordinary high school the teaching of languages and literatuie cost® /less than the teachihg pf science./" ■ / My. second point is that the teach­ ing of the" classics is ‘riot'^useieS^Tf has bee!n estimated that at least forty per .cent,. of, the words in the English language are Latin origin, and tweve to1 fifteen per cent. of. . Greek. ■- ’'•*,/■. • ‘ /. ■ i In the case of- medical-and- general scientific terms tee’ proportion, of classical words.is much higher, prob­ ably pearly eighty, pey cent. y’Anglo- I Saxon is the .only serious rival of the classical languages.; but the An­ glo-Saxon literature is . of relatively little, importance to the. ordinary ’ student, while the' value~6Y"MassiW‘ literature cannot be over-estimated. Moreover, while a vpry large propoif ;tion~.of:.our., Anglo-Saxon • derivatives are smiple -words (e.g., as he, there, good, child), Latin and Greek deri­ vatives ^are the harder ^and. less ob- ■ vious word^. in general use. REALLY PRACTICAL . ’ Does it ever occur to. my' severely jiractical friefids that the acquiring' of- as complete and/accurate .a know- -ledge-of-the-English language asypos-. siblte ’ is essentially practical. Tt is j/ust as practical to give bpr stud­ ents a mastery of words as of ham- mter and" sawptypewriter- or-dyname. - Do we realize that the. tools we most frequently use, in f'act are air­ ways using, are words? Words are . the vehicles /iby which thought1 is conveyed from one mind to. another. If such-vehicles are few and unskill- ■ nfully^h^dled^we-^hall--^have^-’bute-fc: poor • chance of influencing others by oUr thoughts. ; . ' .. ; , The per®on who has studied Latin has obtained a mastery of the Eri- nish language which few, “ wfitlrmro’ such linguistic training; ever achieve. ’ Sutely/nbn£?win"be' better""qualified- 'to'Yairenii^pJa^^^ men and wopieri than he wnK has acquired' a rich stojre .of words,\nd uses them , with accuracy and crimination. / :.. -Every /properly conducted: Latin, class is a laboratory, in which /niariy English words are examined; dis- •-sected-r-'rind—1t-hei4^s-igni4icance--.und.ea£ stood. Why then should’ it be con­ sidered more in keeping with modern educational requirements to analyze chemicals or dissect botanical or zoological specimens? / ' “ . ; HEARING WORDS .. One often hears it said- that the study or Latin .and Greek is ’ value­ less because few .pursue it in after years. As a rnatter of fact,/an in- teiligent^ tekcher makes Latin useful to hi® students from the very begin* ning. —r For example, (in the first few weel^s the/studeni becomes acquaint­ ed with suteh .words as: hiberna a winter camp, pugrio I fight, /gladius ri sword, specto I look. With, de­ lighted surprise /he awakens to the fact that/ here is the origin of suC/h English words as: hibernate, pugnac­ ious, gladiator, spectacles. Properly taught, he becomes an explorer in the romantic realm of f words; /words • become . familiar firiends. Before they were dead like trees in winter, now they edme to ■ life like trees in>J full leaf. . I A good classical teacher can a'dd alniost daily to the studepts’ Eng­ lish/vocabulary. Jn the course of a few* days orie teacher taught the - following/ Latin words: integer whole, repovo I renew, relinquo I abandon,, iter?1 a journey, corpus a bodj^;‘ then frpm these he enriched ttfeir English' vocabulary Witn sUch Words as'integrity, renovate, relin­ quish, itinerary,, corporal. NOT DEAD LANGUAGE “Students " who in- ■ secondary r- passing' more than two units of L»atin —i iXr „„ interest in teaching from the.upper .elementary grades .through o.n<fary. schools should be gi^n'fmst preference in : training for' /elemen-! / tary""schools.” ■ , ' ■ • NOT FAST. RULE . .■ “ . may-J^ay~fh.a±.: ad- ' vocates of the classics do not seek to impose the. study of Latin', on every pupil’ entering the academic department of our high schools who , has a ..vague . hankering after some dignified calling. But is* is surely. ■■ ifoL=to oJumaieh--td/ask/.'thaUevenyXtud-^/./, tent, who seriously .contemplates en­ tering one of tile learned profess- 'iona, or 'proceeding to the'B.A.. dfr’ . grep, should.Jhav'e pome knowledge of a; language which is so intimately bound up with ourjgSgp. language and literature. •Lest, any of my remarks be mis'- ' understood by.. my vocational, ma­ thematical ,and scientific friends‘ in . the • professions, may .' I ■ say. that ■ nothing is farther,from.my thoughts’' than to underestimate. the value of , the ‘-work done in 4heiE_de.par.tm©hts.' MAN IS UNSTABLE Evolutio/i .Held To Be Partly ’ ' The .. Result Of '7 •/ .......*• Crisis ; '/'' Rose Paste (front) and Elizabeth Price raising the jib and maipsail of their trips little scooter in which they, will defend their Pacific Coast championship title during the mid-winter races on: , -.the^acifle^coasL-off JLos=AmgeIes, .Cal__‘ ,, - ... ’ /- c. /’■/L " i • ■ ' . * '= ■. ................. ' ' ■ -----——-----—------.—XL.. ' L .testipadny , jn committee, meetings and learn how inventions are con- I ceived and developed, they decide that the case for suppression is none too good. I't”turns’/oUt .that a loom, a linotype machine/a printing press, .any complicated mechanism clan achiteve~~its~ehjd modified-in doz- en7 different ways. Each is a good invention. About twelve patents , are therefore obtained for as pdany mechanisms. .'Naturally the inven-, tion -~ that- meets—rind ustr-ial- and = commercial requirements mo&t simp-- -J.y-and-— effectivelj/XisXntroudced.: :-The-others~-areXfs:U.ppr.essed-.X=-™„i^,„- Effect on the Public '.But is this “suppression” as the /Term is. usually understood? - To compel a manufacturer to “work” these Jess perfect , inventions on pain of forfeiture: is, .'clearly an* in­ justice *Nor does the public suf- “fer. W' loses nothing —by the • intro— duction of the single invention that ; presents the simples/ solution of ,a technical problem. A . patent in the U. S. expires ih seventeen years. It is rarely in­ deed that the patentee earns' royal-, ties for the complete term. If he deed that the patentee earns royal-, ties for the complete term. If he sells bis/ pate|nt as soon as it is ; granted, years must be spent tn fur­ ther development. What the public could., acquire in the form, of a for­ feited “suppressed” patent Would therefore be little eriWgh. t " ’ - Can’t Have Haircut ' Until He Pays Up . - Alimony Arrears ,-Willard -Sanborn, of Chicago, a piano tuner,. can’t have another haircut uritil he pays up his alimony ^arrears. I > . , So said Superior Judge Desort, .after counsel for Mrs/Nina San/ ■ bo/tn asserted her husband squander­ ed $5 for a haircut with all the trimmings' but couldn’t pay her $85 in | alimony; „ . Commented the, court: “five dol- > lars is tdo much for any man to /pend in a barber shop at one time; It is worse in the case of a man who owes his wife money. And /it is especially worse in the case of a piano tuner. Anyway from the pic­ tures I’ve seen in the funny papery, I thought all piano tuners had long hair.” ’ ■ "" • Wht Day, a spendthrift, rich in treasure, —ire • •' For ' / Probably no biologist doubts the validity of evolution. On the other hand, nateral selection and . the sui- - vival of the fittest, the very core, of ..Darwin’s .theory, are no longer accepted as the sole ag.ericies at . work in "the’ creation of - new.^^ spectesr t and varieties. Since the day’s of Mpndel .it has become apparent that the mechanism/of heredity* is both- delicate/ and . complex. Moreover,. ’ there are thp endocrine gtanits, with --their--tremendo.us_jpOtentialiti,e.s. for—_ modifying the organism’.': ta^tTy’,/the~“"'™ relation, of that organism to its. en vironment is not nearly so direct- and simple as Darwin assumed. How . _t.hp^_mqre..;_ imaginative. biologists think aboUt/evOlution and especially . . _the. > problemof man’s descent jJt....J. well - exemplified ~ by.“Thc Coming,, , of AMari,” a recently published bopk in<* which Dr. ,R. Broom, an English Authority on1'amphibians/ sets forth, his own hypothesis. z ’ .■ It is generally. |agreed that life first- developed’ Jri .teed.®ea^ ., ..iHow, then, did the first amphibian evolve? What, was the hold animal that , first ■■WenWred bii ’ wholly or partially to life under en­ tirely hew circumstances? When w.e ask silch questions it is apparent that natural selection and .the ,sur­ vival of’ the fittest do. not meet -the case. ' . Dr; Brown holds/that physical structure, courage, pugriacity., effi­ ciency were not solely responsible for the transition. There was some­ thing unstable about the first ad-' venturer that came 'oute^of the sea. He /was like, an compound that changes into 'some- thing else—something out of which/ a reptile could evolve, something that was the result of a crisis. * j ’■ Examine all the other anhmais, and ; the transition from an old to a near­ er form seems always to be the re-, suit of critical instability. . Despite the convincing array^fi^-fossils that show® plainly enough^how tee one­ toed—horse of today evolved .from /„ am ancient five-toed equine animal not much bigger than a St. Bernard dog, the . jumps are marked. Between five toes ,and four toes there is no gradual transition, nothing like a .. digital difninuendo. . _ Crisis, everywhere crisis, whether/ , it be fish or amphibian/ reptile or riiammal. With riian it is the same —K>ne of the most unstable creatures ever evolved.* In a statq of some- t thing jike ferrrientatioh, he lias al- ■ . ways be.cn in a critical turmoil. Un­ like the apt or the bee, he is. not highly specialized, if he, ever does i settle down, hjs hisotry will be Tike that of most social c.rsUikjXtes—a re­ petition over hundred^/millions Af yerii's of’ the same biological events’' and ffrets. He will cease to-evolv6. King Replies to Woman’s Letter of Good Wishes ’ Deari Lake, Ont <-—• Mrs.'■ R. Maitland has placed a\Vay for safe keeping, a letter just receiver! from the King along with one she got from Queen Alexandra many years r ago. Mrs. Maitland listened to the Again, there are many English j words of classical, origin just on the fringe b’f. .the students’, c6TjSciteh(?'e.' In tfie ordinary wasteful course of nature many oi.'these slip away and ..ate forgotten.’ But if they are link- ' ed' np ’ with their classical “ances-, tprs” in time, they are pinned down and the student ev^r after uses them With confidence a'nd "certainty. J He may never read Latin after l?e leaves high school, but he has laid up a i treasure which not fevon the most treacherous memory can dissipate;Very frequently we' hear^ the:, question asked: “What is the use! of-teaching a .dead language like. King’s Christmas Day message overi Latih?” As. a matter of fact, Latin a’telephone from a neighbor’s home sUlU has marvellous vitality/ In and wr.ote a letter to Their Maies-1 Tnodcrn formWrir-i^’tOnsfaurt^fier'^^ over mote than half the surface of Year.. The prized letter is the reply /vuy, spui’iucHOKi'r rivu .in Spills, .with lavish hand,w Golden largess” without measui Over all the land. ■ Night, his thrifty helpmate, grieving. After .him/dote range, Gathering, up bis treasure, leaving Only Silver change. , Brings it to him, softly beaming, Kisses him with pride - / „ j Sends bis wariton lrirdship gleafning Ori‘ qb.qther ride. —Ralph Mortimer.'Jones in the New York Times. a’ telephone from a neighbor’s home, Jlfe.„jah.d^plack^l.h^ . abreast ents on the roads fias^risefi to the of foreign nations,—London Daily record figure of 187 for a single' Week Mai!.'