ACROSS THE PACIFIC

Waikato Independent, Volume XXI, Issue 2441, 8 September 1921, Page 6

ACROSS THE PACIFIC

TABLE TALK PROM U.S.A. JANE MANDEB’S NEW BOOK (Special to Waikato Independent) NEW YORK, Sunday, July 17. The latest romance from the pen of Miss Jane Hander, the New Zealand novelist, is briefly reviewed in last Sunday’s issue of the ‘‘New York World. ” A photograph of your successful writer also appears. “Jane Mander’s new story of New Zealand, “The Passionate Puritan” (John Lane) turns upon the point, now familiar in fiction, of how far a conscientious woman may go in forgiveness of a man’s past performances,” says “The World.” “Miss Sidney Carey is Mander’s Puritan. Marked for an important position in the school system of Auckland, she must serve first a two-year term somewhere in the outside. The mill school in the Puliipuhi district falls to her lot, and there, presently, she meets Arthur Dcvereaux who first wins her by his chivalry, and then almost loses her through the complexity of his earlier affairs with women. “The Passionate Puritan” is neither so long nor so strong a story as Miss Mandcr’s earlier book, ‘‘The Story of a New Zealand River. ” It*Ts rich, however, in picturesque characters and in its descriptions of a country little known to general readers of fiction. The account of a springtime “tripping” of the dams, to run the logs' down to the lumber mills, is a piece of writer’s work particularly graphic and moving.” 12-TON CHEESE AS EXHIBIT * ' Commissioner of Agriculture George E. Hogue announces that the largest ■'•single cheese ever manufactured .will be made at Lowvillc, Albany, for exhibition at the New York State Fair, September 12-17, at Syracuse. The cheese will weigh twelve tons and will require 150,000 pounds ot milk, the milk from 7,500 cows for one day, for its manufacture. The cheese is being made under the supervision of 11. A. ReCs, cheese expert in the Division of Agriculture. Four barrels of salt arc required for this cheese, and the cheese bandage alone:will cost 100 dollars. The cheese ba.-j to be turned, to be properly cured, every three days. For this purpose a , heavy framework has been erected in a special building in which the cheese is being made, and a windlass arrangement is provided to accomplish this. The Ailk which is supplied comes from • a territory within a radius of twenty miles from Lowvillc, and is supplied by members of the Dairymen’s League who are co-operating in carrying out plans for the cheese display. The cheese will be transported from Lowvillc to the State* Fair grounds.at Syracuse a day or two prior to t'/o I opening of the State Fair and will be I cut on Syracuse Day by Governor Na- ■ Ihan L. Miller. ■ PRESS CONGRESS PROGRAMME I The programme for the Press ConHgrcss sessions at Honolulu is day by ■day taking more dcfiuite shape, and ■the names of the two newspaper men ■who will be the chief representatives Hof England and France respectively are Bto be announced soon. H It is planned to devote four and aHnalf or five days to the business scsKions of the Congress, leaving the rcHnaining time open for the schedule arHranged by the Hawaiian Entertainment The business sessions will of general meetings, when the will assemble in a single body discussing problems affecting the profession, and departmental of first interest to only a Hart of the delegates. Two afternoons will be devoted to conferences on jour

nalistic education, the newspaper press daily and weekly, and magazine writing. The Pan-Pacific Press Conference will probably meet- for an all-day session on tho last day.

Prof. Walter B. Pitkin of Columbia University and Pro. W. D. Hornaday of the University of Texas will have places on the programme of the educational conference. Their problems will have to do with training for newspaper work of all kinds. The programme committee believes that the programme now being arranged will be truly representative of the best journalism of almost every country of the world. , DRUG SMUGGLERS BUSY Clues that may lead to the discovery of an international ring of drug smugglers, working in co-operation with a vast American organisation engaged in disposing of the narcotics to addicts in New York and a dozen or more other large centres in the United States were disclosed at. the trial of Harry Stone, styled by -Federal authorities the king of American drug smugglers. He was found guilty on Thursday under a Harrison Narcotic Act charge and sentenced to six years at Atlanta Federal Penitentiary and fined 5,000 dollars.

In a small note book found in Stone’s possession was a list of several hundred names said to be those of criminals and law breakers, both men and women, living in over a dozen of the leading cities of this country. Many of those listed have recently been convicted under drug peddling charges, it is said. Oriental names numbered over a hundred, giving authorities here the impression the ring may be connected with some similar organisation in China or Japan.

Stone, is is believed, was one of the links in a chain supplying drugs to local dealers, who in turn sell to addicts. He was caught with 400,000 dollars worth of narcotics in his possession at Massena Junction, twelve miles from the Canadian line, on a train headed for Central New York. STRIKE OF CHILDREN More than a thousand thirsty but Spartan youngsters launched a soda water strike against the high cost of ico cream and flavoured soda water in the Bronx yesterday by a parade which passed scores of offending fountains on its line of march. The chief target of the parade was Borough President Henry Bruckner, who is head of one of the largest soda water manufacturing firms in the Bronx. The children blazed their way from -ltilst Street and Brook Avenue to the Borough Hall, where they voiced their protest. “President Bruckner, help us cutdown soda water prices by reducing yours. Help the kids of the Bronx get nickel sodas. Why should we be soaked 200 per cent, profits on sodas?”

These banners of the strikers made plain the object and the determination of the strikers in their campaign. Before two fountains, which should go down in history as great friends of the younger generation, the children paused to cheer. They were places where thirst may be quenched still for 11 cents. The parade continued down Third Avenue to UUst Street, where it disbanded. HERE AND THEBE An extraordinary occurrence is- re ported from Benwood, Vancouver. Through a flaw in the window pane a hot july sun focussed its rays upon the bed on which a seventeen month old infant was sleeping. The bed was set afire and the baby burned to death. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company to-day announced it has received a Government order for three large dirigibles and thirty-eight observation balloons for army and navy use. Two

patrol and scouting airships of 180,000 cubic feet gas capacity each will be built for the navy and a dirigible for the army.

A degree for a course completed 45 years ago, has just been awarded to Everett ,E. Hapgood by the Massacluis-/ etts Institute of Technology. Hapgood completed his course with the class of. 1576, with tho exception of a rec<iircd thesis, which he has just finished.

Smoking compartments for women are to be provided on Canadian Pacific Railway trains on the theory, as announced in a statement by the company, that “the equality of the sexes should be recognised in travelling.” A restaurant in West 42nd Street has a large watermelon in the window with the following carved on the rind of the melon: “My brother is-on ice. Conic in and have some.”

M. Ignaee Jan Paderewski, the pianist and former Premier of Poland, led a lire fighting force in beating out a brush and grass fire which started near his estate at Paso Robles, California, yesterday. The fire burned over , 2(5 acres before it was checked.

Thirty thousand bronze plaques of a total of (50,000 have been received bv the Department of Records, Ottawa for distribution to the next of kin of all Canadian soldiers who fell in the great war. The plaque is made of bronze, six inches in diameter, and bears the name, rank and number of the (lead soldier as well as a brief inscription. Each plaque will be accompanied by a letter from ihc King.

The stifling heat of the city yesterday drove thousands of persons to tne beaches. At Coney Island it was reported that the bath houses had one of\ the biggest day’s business in history. t From. morning until late at night they .were crowded to capacity, and at prices averaging 1 dollar. Many of those who went to bathe stayed on the beach to sleep rather than return to the civ. A. special police guard patrolled the beach all night.