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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 24, 1931
Page
6
A London News Chronicle report quotes Sir William Jope asserting that ancient man created a rich, expressive language thousands of years ago and that intellectual forms were fixed long before. He warns of ongoing alchemy schemes funded by city financiers and urges solid scientific education to counter charlatans.
A London report describes a conference of a UK Labour group debating the government's unemployment policy. Delegates from across the country attend as discussions center on divergent views and possible shifts in stance. The Mosley faction pushes for broader reform while awaiting the national committee's decision on future actions.
A misreadable excerpt notes claims that women receive preferred treatment while men must serve quarters. The fragment references English institutions and gender bias, urging scrutiny of educational and housing norms affecting women and men.
The Cairns Post editorial urges Australia to become the most self contained country in the world by developing date growing. It notes hand fertilisation under Mr T Vawray with one tree and argues for local effort to boost this industry, comparing progress to American examples.
Report describes the Empire State Building rising to 248 feet above ground, with 85 floors and an observatory garden. A dirigible mooring mast tower is planned to ferry trans Atlantic airships to midtown New York, with sixty two high speed elevators and a vast ground floor lobby. Total cost estimated above 1. '00,900.
In Allahabad University convocation 489 graduates receive degrees. The address by Jadunath Sarkar advocates universalism as core to higher education, urging reason over emotion, and the pursuit of shared human knowledge. It emphasizes a university as a civilized forum, fostering tolerance, global interdependence, and the liberation from parochial patriotism.
A fragment reflecting on competing ideologies and the appeal of rational order over emotion. It condemns racial hatred and calls for a measured, time-tested standard for noble action, warning against swaying by immediate party verdicts. The text critiques youthful zeal and the lure of sensationalism in public discourse.
A crowd at Mesas Temple hears Commo Hamilton argue for easy divorce and abolition of marriage, while Chesterton defends traditional ties. Hamilton warns of promiscuity and state control, Chesterton mocks the idea and advocates enduring bonds grounded in responsibility and affection. The exchange riffs on love, freedom, and the social role of marriage.
An India era passage extols steadfast patriotism and moral courage in facing wartime choices. It argues that noble restraint and devotion to country guide leaders and citizens alike, praising study of global history as a means to understand national rise and fate, with reflections on Allahabad.
A Mughal prince in the Deccan imagined a unity of religions based on shared piety morality and charity. He wrote Majmun-al-bab arain or the Union of the Two. The work promotes harmony amid sectarian differences and urges a universal ethical standard.
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