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FEATURES of the DAY
Combating Silverfish :
An offcctiso inotho 1 of combating
silsorfish lins been devised by the
Council of Scientific and Industiul
Research loi some years it has been
oxpeinuentnig suth ins oh ed piocesscs
of c\tci!ninntion ssillt suryiug sutces
and noss tho solution has been found
in ordinal y tis spras followed up with
T Olson baits ot staich pasto and biiiium
rino siln itc bupirsisod by oiriccrs
of tho council dopirtmcnt ii cleaning
staffs at Ciiibcirn iro engaged on i
litige stiilo c\tciinniation campaign
Llio post is pies silent in file rooms of
the departments mil «as becoming n
pioblcm
Wheat for Finland.
Hie action of the Vrgcnlino Gosciu
ment ni luthoiismg tho shipment of
50 000 tons of yilient to I inland, ssho
ssill bo permitted to pay for it svhen
md hosv she pic ises, is au expression 01
ssmpiths foi 1 inland ni her h0ht
igamst hussi i Hie ys heat ssill loi 11
a sus u ttul reseño es en if it is not
utu ills roquiicd ¡it the moment Last
season 1ml uni huisested 9,400,001)
bushels but this season the crop isas
oui) S 700 000 bushels \s tho annu ii
consumption ot the Immsh people nois
exceeds 9 000 000 bushels, tho Aigeutmt
Cioscimiieut s action means that il n
land ssill not base to ssorrs about the
puuhnse ot hoi normal import require
incuts
Industrial Freedom :
The mannei in is Inch Gieat Biitain
is tackling industrial tusks msing
ironi the ssai ss is described bs tim
Butish Minister of Labor (Mr Lrntst
BIOSMI) in i recent speech "This is a
iotmidablt task " he sud "but ssc
hase cnteitd upon it syith an asset
sslueh oin opponent does not possess
tho asset of being i tree people svith
tieo institutions Germany does not poa
SPSS that pncele s asset It is a remark
able tact ol svhich wo ue proud, that
sso syeo,e able to enter upon tho synr
svithout imposing any nosv form of
legislative control upon tho regulation
ot singes and ssorkmg conditions Dur
ing the pust 20 years, we has o been
steadily setting up in each industry
loint machiner} through which tho
representatives of employers and
vsoikpcoplo man ige the aftairs of their
industries and settle their ossn condi
tions As I speak, this -joint machiner)
is operating to adapt thoso tonditions
to smr uriunistances In tho light for
ireedom sie hast tho inestimable gain
of lighting is ith the uid of lico organ
isatioii or emploi ers and workpeople
carrsmg on their work in tho wa) they
hnso thcmselses decided "
Translators Stumped :
Bradman's last double century
raised n neu îiiteinational problem
for the tiunslutors and tnnomiceis of
\usti ilia's shoitssaso broadcasts to
foicign tountiies D10 iiesss bulletin
toséis 1 sudo tield it tunes es eu that
ot cricl et \ttei Bndman had made
Ins litest double tcntuiy, tho pioblem
fucing tho tuinslators sins boss to cou
ses intelligently to loreign listonéis
the t ict th it Biadm 111 ssas "caught m
tho slips" 1 he dorman, translator
Iel t it out Hie Spanish tianslitor
dealing suth (he transmission to South
\meuci osorcame the problem ly
idoptmg baseball technique, with the
result that Biadman vs is taken ' at
second base" Hie 1 rench transit
toi did not knoss quite yvhat to do
about it so linnlly gas 0 the English
vioids with 1 1 icncli pronunciation
T be Dutchman decided that is the
Dutch tako a linly inteiest m es cry
thing that happens outside then oisn
countrs, they ssoulcl piobably under
stand it iiist as it ssas
Problems At End of War :
' To leas e social problems that might
des elop duiing tho ssar to sottlo them
seises alter the ssnr is to court disas
tci pos=ibls t ii moro terrible tlun the
s\iu it eil de lins the Bishop of
Coull um NSW (tho Right Kos 1
li luigmunn) ' If this svar contin
usos foi gi cat length of time i ness social
ordci ssill no doubt be brought into
Icing whether sso lil o it 01 not"
the Bishop ss rites Trogiess is bs no
means inos liable and a regression to
sinrds leeper clisisters is ciuite po iblc
Iho neis socnl ordei that sull ¡ippiiu
ittci the svar ssill bo that «lu li sse
coiioiiousls or uuconsciousls ne He dm
nig the sur V veisiou ol fatalism is
tho vic« that all sso has o to do nosv
is to get on with ss miling the wur
Somehoss or othci winning tho ssar in
it elf is e-sppc-tcil to treitt i desir
ii lo ness socnl ordei It out of the
ssar tontidence inn be est iblishc 1 be
tis ecu tho people of 1 uropo ind tho
woild sse shall hive a basis tor a nosv
soi ial ordei but this confidcnct Mill
not be sson unless sie keep tleaily in
mind th it yvo are fighting foi it md
unless it is securely est iblished linong
oiusölses Hi ind duiing the touro ot
the «ai Hie smoke sull not bo dear
tiom the last gun iucd in tho ssar be
i oie the shressd mau of the svorld vsill
ce some ssay to Ins osvn pris uto ad
santate und vsill tile it ut tho e\
pense of his ossn felloss humans The
ssai ssill not chango hum m gieed It
ssill gise it ficsh oppoitumtie "
Inventive Australians :
"Tho \ustralian soldier is tho most
sersatilo and insentiso in tho world "
i commeut itoi '?aid íprently in the Ted
PI ii Government s overseas broadcast
Hie commentator told foreign listeneis
of ins entions by Australian soldiers
duiing tho last vvni ' Iho grcntest
es ¡n tuition in history-Gallipoli-svas
made possible by the uiseiitiseness of
an Austialiin Lance Coiporal Scurrs "
he s ml It ssas essential that the
Tuil should not suspect that tho troops
vseie being ssitbdiasv n Lance Coi pom 1
Stuny thought ol fi\mg a ntlo to a
trench pai ipet 'He punched a hole
in a bully beef lui tilled the tin svith
ss itor and ii\cd it to tho breech ot
the rifle Beneath this was another
bully beef lui attached to the trigger
bs i piece of strun. It caught ssater
drirpmg liom tho tin abose Hie nile,
ssas cocked mil sshcii the sscight ot
Iho water ni tho losiei tin was suffiu
mt to pull Iho triggei tho i if io ssus
fired lins ssas done all along tin line
Iho tioops stc ilthily Millidie« to
lightcis unclei cover of the i if le lue
A\oundell soldieis ssore lemoved in
i omfort iiom Sinai deseit thanks to
the invention of a fonner st ition hand
from Ccntial Australia He thought
out tho idea ot lasing mattresses ou
gals mused iron sheets mid basing them
toiipd bs camels oser the sands instead
ol i ni i y me ssouuded ou sssajiug cam
els "
A.I F. Traditions :
Arembeis of the 2nd AIT may rest
content in the I nossltdgo that the
Returned Soldiers' 1 cague is zealously
vs itching their intertsts and vsill see
that the nation lises up to each and
esery promise undo to them In these
words "Reveille" the official organ
of the Ne« South As ales br inch of
tho Returned Soldiers' league, c\
pipssed its decision to gue tho nosv
All the benefit of its 20 years' o\
penenco in looking liter tho el urns
of Austral] m soldiers not onls sshen
they leturn, but vslulc away As tho
old diggers pissed tho ness diggers
?svould I tiomo the custodians of the
proud ti iditions ot the ATP old ,aud
noss Hu league bad to bo letnincd
as ¡i bisen into sshich the nesv digger
ssould bo "bid to cntei Hie longue
the onginnl \1 I n ti the -ml \ IV
sscro intciimnabls «oven in an en
duiing iiattein Hie 1st AIT men
had to pioneci tho lotorms in ftho
lsuv of general repatriation bonefits
and pension amolioiiifioiis sshich
ssould bo extended to tho 2nd VIT,
tho members of sshich svould bo able
to asoid tho pittiills that the anginal
All eniounteied The men of the
2nd AIT were alrtads honorary
members of tho league pending their
departure abroad mid lull mombti
ship would be contened upon them ou
llicir rolum.
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