HERE AND THERE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19999, 15 July 1920, Page 6

HERE AND THERE.

John Shell, of Kentucky, who is said to be the oldest man in tlio world, haying attained the age of 131 years (though, as usual, witn centenarians, tho figures have been questioned), is reported as saying, “ 1 never tuk but one chaw of tobacco and never smoked.’’ Vegetarians will be disappointed to learn that his ■ favourite dish is bacon and eggs. Prohibitionists will bo equally disappointed to read, “I drink two or three drinks of whisky every dajr and always -have* but I never Eofc drunk.” , ** A very interesting mystery is engaging tho attention of Scotland Yard, lb concerns the disappearance of a chestcontaining family jewels mid heirlooms valued ao £20,01)0. The chest vanished while tho owner, a man of title, wan spending a holiday in the South of Imnce. The contents include—Louis . clocks, jewelled snuff boxes, mini,aturns, pearl pendants, gold watches, diamond rings, old coins, rare porcelain. £ni <IlS \r hj ? ut , £ lass ancl u ‘ Buddhist +i Jlost °T Dm missing valuables , u The crest of the owner, and it is also of interest to note that the chest wasmoii-bound and fitted with patent M ith the over-increasing traffic in SS the'ev lmS bec> ” dec *dcd to akc the Cioydon aerodrome tlio LonS£;rr f r utmeiitai air traffic- } n l - S becn raade for a full in*s hitberto *, ” ltosioant . B m tho build- -/ itl rtolaKnvn as the officers’ mess .n 1 the Regimental Institute Mr Cecil business 011 th ° date passengers fo7tE n ght aTw’ed as doing general catering TW SL * 1 tended providing restalmn) J k m ~ dation similar to tw f , 4 (c«<minorailway termini tL ™' Londo >> isolated and them aerodrome was welcome a littie 'sthmiSint nd ?nf ’ cation was granted. ' Tft aPldl-rcct-ntlf ,i CI V I. on Appalachian America,” with von) U ;n,, ,i° . • Miss Dorothea Webb Fot'G* 1011 ® ,)y Mr Sharp Si MiS fe 0 K ? u fho midst of the United States J? tTT' Said Sharp, "is the very fe\ I m‘im{tive IVOl,lc | *! liul V of Making rlt I?, 1 T ■ peop , lo ‘ ft was tliffi" there 1 pertain how they .arrived tneio. They wore, he thought + l/, dccondants of Lowiandcrs, who ’ had cmno _ to the Southern States of America about.2oo or 300 years a-> 0 and were surprised to find a slave colour, where their labour wa.s not heeded, and where without capital they could do nothing. Having penetrated one or two ranges of mountains, thev became lost, no tradition of the outside world, reaching them. Their language was Elizabethan English,- and the Intonation a mixture of cockney and American, winch, Mr Sharp said, was tho tradition of Elizabethan speech. Everybody sang. Ho collected 17,000 ballads and songs. Children of from nine to ten years sang beautiful ballads, variation on variation of our own old ballads, and tho production of their voices was good, though they had never hod a lesson. 'Hie general standard of music of these people was of a far higher average than ho luuj ever co’lectcil elsewhere. Jackson Barnett, a Red Indian, has n fortune which accumulates at the rate of £4OO a day. Yet ho cannot even sign a cheque. Some years ago the Government presented him with 100 acres of land to cultivate. He lived on this allotment until oil was discovered on it, since when his hank balance has grown rapidly. Tn seven years this land has yielded 14,000,000 barrels of oil. Ho ia now a millionaire, but he cannot draw a cheque because lie is a ward of the Government. Ho can express a wish to spend money in a certain way and on certain things, but ho has to get tho approval of his guardian. Mr How dial Wang, of Tientsin, a, Chinese millionaire, is visiting the United States as a delegate on- the Methodist conference. In a Press interview ho states;—“ China has just awakened to tho importance of developing her resources herself. Hitherto whatever development there was has been done by British, German, Japanese, French or Belgian companies under concessions from the Chiuese Government. 'JTicse liavp exploited China for their own purposes, instead of developing it for our benefit, while our capitalists and educated classes looked on indifferent. But at last we are awnko to tho fact that we have been allowing our resources to be taken from us and used by foreigners, and that these foreigners have been exploiting us for political as well as for commercial purposes and wc propose to change all that and to develop our resources ourselves. This is why wo look to America. For industrial development, four things are necessary—raw materials, labour, capital and technical knowledge Of those we have two--raw materials and labour—and wo look to you for the others—capital and technical knowledge. Wo have gold and silver ami platinum and iron and almost all other metals; we have suck beds of coal that, a conservative estimate states that there is enough in our province alone to supply the entire world for 4000 years at tho present rate of consumption. We have oil and forests of all kinds, we have- china clays and rare earths, wo have hides and wool and silk, our fields grow wheat and rico and other grains, besides fruits and nuts and sugar cane and tobacco; in short, we have everything and in great; abundance. And the Chiuese labourer is one of the best and cheapest on earth.” Following the “Overalls” movement conios the “ shirt collar strike.” Tins now movement, which originated at Chicago University Chib, is already well organised. Mr John AY. Champion, executive secretary of the American Red Cross, has enlisted over 3500 business and professional men in a protest against profiteering laundries and hbirt and collar manufacturers. The following pronouncement is issued by the Chicago University Club in tho form of an advertisement:—“ AVanted, 1.0,000 slaves of the collar and button 1 to rise, not only to emancipate themselves from its despotic yoke, but to forswear tlio white starched collar, boiled shirt, linen, pongee and other costly shirts.” The Jewish Correspondence Bureau reports in the Loudon “Daily Telegraph ” that the nows of tho decision at San Remo regarding the British mandate over Palestine' reached Jerusalem on Monday, April 26, in the afternoon. The day had been proclaimed as a. day of fasting, and of mourning for those who fell in the Jerusalem riots. M. Ussishkin, tho head, of tho Zionist Commission, entered the irain synagogue and proclaimed the news. Rabbi Cook ordered tho (fasting to cease, and a- procession of Jews then made its way to tho Mossci Moorovi. the ancient wall where it is the custom for Jews to no to pray. They knelt praying silently. Many of them were so overwhelmed with joy that they kissed tile wall. Afterwards the precision returned tc the Sephardim Synagogue, where the Shophar was blown. : Tho Shophar is a horn which is blown on very great days in Jewish histerv. .11 has been said that It will be blown on tho occasion of the. coming of the Msssmtu