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SAL-TOXNever faiU to relieve RHEUMATISM, LUMBAGO, SCIATICA, GOUT OR NEURITIS GET IT TO-DAY AND BE CURED Endorsed and recommended by thousands of relieved and gratified users. TASMANIA’S NATIONAL MEDICINE Price 3/-. Economy Size 6/6T. P. D AVERNMaker of “SAL-TOX 75 ELIZABETH STREET -HOBARTREPRESENTING 75,000 ELECTORS IN TASMXNBSRegistered at G.P.O., for transmission by Post as a Newspaper_Editor: E. Dwyer-Gray, M.H.AAssociate Editor: C D. StevensVol. 17—No. 41HOBART: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1944Items of InterestFeat Of MemoryA TERRIBLE fire once oc-curred in a commercial quarter of Copenhagen, which razed the bank. The following morning the bank directors met in a ncarbv building to discuss the situation. Anxious depositors outside were demanding their money, but the fire had reduced the records and accounts to ashes. A man named Barthold Niebuhr came to the rescue with an astonishing claim. He said he knew, by heart, every detail of the bank's 1,800 accounts.So relieved were the clients that they were being paid correctly that, soon alter this, the bank doubled its business. As a reward for his services, the directors of the bank elected Niebuhr to the board. From that time he became a great success as a noted statesman; he also earned fame as a writer.m I*. m’Famous Tin MinesMonty's PopularityBible Textshave had a unique addition to their training course. There arc a number of noises made by fish, such as purring, grunting, drumming and grinding their teeth, which set up under water vibrations that have been often mistaken for the sound of enemy submarine propellersExperts of the Navy were very surprised at the toad fish — itlt; voice has the intensity of a steamboat whistling. A number of members of the croaker family, a species that frequents the Chesapeake Bay region, make such a noise when caught on a hook that they can be heard through more than twenty feet of water.m **Smiling Through0 DO not let wrinkles of age mar your face. Check up on all your mannerisms, and if there are any that tend to wrinkle the face, get rid of them. Every time you find this habit asserting itself, draw in a deep breath and. when letting it out. relax your head, neck and shoulders.For the hard lines that may be* around the mouth, a good laugh will be found helpful. It tends to form wrinkles, but pleasant ones. There is a large tnuscle around the mouth, and once the age of thirty is attained it tends to sag. One of the best wavs of stimulating this is a good smile.# SINCE the Japanese seized Malaya, the tin mines of Bolivia, South America, have become the chief source of ore u.'Cd by the United Nations, contributing about 70 per cent, of their supplies. The mines arc situated in the range of mountains which at one time was known as the roof of the world, because from the point of view of altitude it can claim that ditinction. Of recent years it has been known as the tin roof of the world. The chief mining centre. Oruro, which is also the grand junction for the three important railways of Bolivia. stand? 12.100 feet above sea level and the famous centre of Potosi is even higher, for it is 13.600 feet above sea level.Tin is needed for all kinds of army purposes, in metals for bearings, in telephone, radio and chemical systems, and in all forms of plumbing. Silk materials contain salts of tin, which hold the loose fibres together, and silk plays an important part in the manufacture of parachutes.Advice On Murder# POLICE of Birmingham. Alabama, thought it just another practical joke when a man called and asked them over the telephone. What would happen to a fellow if he killed a negro? The desk officer answered that, whether the victim was negro or white, it depended on what he had done to deserve killing. The caller replied: Well, this one did about everything.The police forgo! the incident —till about an hour later, when the bullet-riddled body of a negro. Bilbo, railway employee, was found on the doorstep of his house.A Swallow’s Speed# AN interesting story which shows the character of Field Marshal Montgomery, and throws a light on his amazing popularity with Tommy, is told in the Jewish Chronicle. It concerns Corporal Kurt Levy, who, while serving in the Royal Engineers, was ordered to throw some camouflage netting over a staff car that was arriving. He did so. and an emergent head was struck by one of the wooden blocks that weight the netting.Levy was horrified when he realised that the head was Monty’s. He was relieved, however, when the famous Field Marshal carne forward, smiling, and aked his name. Levy replied: I am a Jewish soldier of Palestine, sir. Monty patted him on the shoulder. ‘‘You’ve done well, my lad. he said. You're the only man who has ever hit me # A YEAR or two ago. tests were made by ornithologists near Turin to establish at what speed the swallow could fly. These tests showed them to fly at 108.5 miles per hour.A mother was taken from her nest and put in a cage, with ah identity mark attached to her foot She was taken in a car a distance of 78 miles in a direct line, and then released. It took the swallow 43* minutes to return to her nest.GUY BROTHERS’ MOTOR SERVICEHOBART TO LAUNCESTON Via Great Lake—The ScenK Way Leaves Hobart Mon. A Thura. 8.30 ajn.HOBART TO QUEENSTOWN Leaves Week Days at 8 azn. Sunday 9 a.m.REMEMBER CANE’SFOR HARDWARE# A DRAMATIC story has now been told showing how texts from the Bible, signalled between a Canadian destroyer and a corvette, assisted in the sinking of a German U-boat. The incident began with a signal from the destroyer: ''Submarine located. Need assist-RICHARD DARCEY84 LIVERPOOL STREET Dial 4377 JEWELLER Buyer of Old Gold, Silver and DiamondsF. A. FUNTMuch To The Point(Conducted by Our Columnist)A WORD FOR A MANIf Saturday morning closing soon becomes universal in Tasmania, the chief honors will be due to Mr. A. J. White. M.H.A.Years before he entered Parlia mem. encouraged by the laic Mr. A. G. Ogilvic as Premier. Mr White laid the foundation of this reform by a display of organising ability and sincerity in favor of it of a tno-t fruitful character, a direct result of which was Ho hart’s Saturday morning closing, which may now soon lead ’.lt;lt; Tasmanian Saturday morning closing.Hours and working-time have to be more or less disregarded until after the war. but should not be forgotten. If full employment is to be maintained after the war. the hours of work must be radically reduced.The warning given some years ago at the Economic Society by Mr. L. J. Cerutty, Research Officer of the Zinc Company, is still true. His subject was The Menace of Industrial Research.Industrial Research, leading to improvements in processes of production, is only a menace’' . if communities under anv type of capitalism disregard the inevitable effects of the replacement of human labor bv mach inery. which otherwise would be a gain.On that occasion Mr. Cerutty expressed the opinion that if the hours of work are not gradually reduced to about four hours a day. the time must assuredly come when two-thirds of humanity will be on the dole.” and the other third, except for a fortunate few, will be kept pretty poor supporting them.The worker-ant concept of human society is out-of-date.The development of machinery, and scientific improvements in all processes of production, cannot be stayed, and post-war developments will show that the war itself will have accelerated the triumphant march c.f .science and research in these directions.A WORD FOR A WOMANAnd now a word about a woman As President of the Tasmanian Council for Mother and Child Mrs. E. A. VVatcrworth occupies a conspicuous and important position, and it was most unwise of Mr. Curtin to refuse to see her at Canberra recently if. as reported, she was there a whole week, awaiting the Prime Minister’s convenience for ten minutes.Mrs. Water worth irritates some by her persistency, but is not stickability the very quality required tp command real attention to problems affecting the position of mother and child in this very lackadaisical Australia of ours?Mrs. VVatcrworth undoubtedly* has the respect of thousands of people in Tasmania who do noi like the Non-Party League with which she is also identified. The Non-Party League is a separate matter.Mr. Curtin was also too busy to come to Tasmania for the recent Referendum campaign. It is to he trusted he will not he too busy to give his attention to the necessary legislation to abolish the Commonwealth Bank Board next January in accordance with Labor’s Financial Policy.”EDITORIALA Fight For TasmaniaTHE fight for financial justice for Tasmania under Federation is not only the fight of the present Treasurer, but the fight of every Tasmanian worth hissalt.Long years ago Sir Nicholas Lockyer, a special missioner of the Federal Government to Tasmania, reported, after an adequate investigation of the facts, that this Island State suffered from the severest disabilities under Federation of any State in the Commonwealth of Australia.Following the American Civil War of 1886, Abraham Lincoln declared: “Bloodshed and revolt failed to destroy the Commonwealth of the United States, but unless the financial relations between the States and the Commonwealth are such as to correct the differing effects of Federal policy and finance on State communities whose circumstances entirely differ, economic injustice and financial wrong will, sooner or later, destroy what war and revolt failed to destroy.”Both Canada and America heeded this grave warning, and no Provinces of Canada, and no States of America have unredressed disabilities to-day. Financial relations” effect balancing compensations to States or Provinces unprejudiced, in any way, by Federal finance and legislation.Tasmania has never suffered a more hurtful disability than that arising from the Commonwealth's unavoidably differential war expenditure, and this the Grants Commission refuses to take into account.This scandalous procedure, which is undeniably the result of a most unworthy “Federal Treasury Submission” to the Commission in April, 1942, has reduced Tasmania's Grant for 1944-45 by no less than £580,000.Yet when the late Mr. Lyons established the Grants Commission in 1933, his primary object was to secure something like financial justice for his own State, and other claimant States, by a factual measurement of each State’s relative financial position, which is most easily ascertained by “Budgetary results,” corrected to “truth in finance.”The “Standard States” of N. S. Wales, Queensland and Victoria, having in three years had more than £41Jms. of Federal “defence works” money spent in their areas, against Tasmania's £184,000, ended the year 1942-43 with surpluses totalling under £2ms. “as published, but totalling nearly £12ms. in fact, while Tasmania, though remarkably economical, ended it with a deficit of £110,000.The Commission has allotted Tasmania £860,000 for 1944-45 on account of “Budgetary results” in 1942-43 based upon the fiction that the Standard States just merely balanced their budgets and that, therefore, £12ms. is well and truly represented by £0/0/0. The correct entry for Tasmania, in this calculation, would have been £1,220,000. Is Tasmania not entitled to build up some small reserves for post-war use when the much advantaged Treasuries of the Standard States are building up huge reserves each year, for post-war use, that are created solely as a result of Federal policy? It had to share their pre-war adver-ity. The Commission saw to that.That is the question all Tasmanians should ask themselves, after which they could suitably consider the continued infliction by the Commission of fines on this State for perfectly legitimate social services. If they do not speak up strongly, they deserve what they get, and also what they don’t get.[TRANCE AS IT SEEMSare mysteriously held togetherby gravity. No cement was used.(No. 205)RUSSIA DOES NOT PLAY| KILTS were the oldest form of Christmas presents. The Egyptians used to hang them on the palm trees 4,000 years agol The kilt originally came from Egypt and was a popular# THE town that is a lady! In 1292, when a French garrison was massacred in Sicily, the town of Sperlinga sheltered 300 Frenchmen from the mob. Since then no Frenchman has ever conic to harm in Sperlinga. and the town has been called The Lady Who Said Nol
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