WORLD AFFAIRS

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9205, 5 April 1938, Page 2

WORLD AFFAIRS

NEWS FROM MANY QUARTERS

AN IS9S PREDICTION

SUPREME COURT JUSTICES

NEAA r YORK.—There’s been some

discussion in the past several months

concerning the value of certain jus-

tices after they have passed the 70mark. You may have heard it men-

tioned. 'Well, during the recent

Reno swindle trial in the Federal

Court in New York, one of the gentlemen referred to_ occupied the bench. His name: AVillis Van Devanter. He’s a retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Here’s how an Associated Press writer refers to the conduct of the trial: “Witnesses were treated with respect and patience. There was no badgering, no shaking of sheaves of papers, no face-making, no arm-wav-ing, no Hollywood or Broadway antics, no quibbling. Through it aU Justice Van Devanter was pace-aud-pace with the lawyers. Sometimes he was ahead of them; in no case be- | hind.”

We could quote more of the same, but this is enough to show that it’s the individual who tells the story, not the general belief about his age.

SINO-JAPANESE WAR WASHINGTON. John Barrel t, former United States diplomat, said to-day Admiral Dewey predicted in IS9S that within a half century Japan would conquer China, obtain possession of the Philippine Islands, and dominate the Far East.

Mr Barrett, who was a special diplomatic adviser to Admiral Dewey in the Philippines, stopped here en route to Florida from his home in Burlington, Vt. He said 'he had found notes of a conversation with the Admiral while the two sat on the deck of the Flagship Olympia.

THE MOON’S GEOGRAPHY LONDON.—Revision of our maps of the moon may be necessary as a result, of the discovery by Percy Wilkins, British astronomer, reported in pile Journal of the British Astronomical Association, of a series of craters and walled plains, near the edge of its visible disc. Occupying 20 degrees of latitude on the south-east edge of the moon, this tangle of walled valleys, craters and high peaks has escaped discovery for years, simply because, he says, no one looked here carefully enough until now. Dr. AARUter Goodacre, acting director of the society, recommended further observations of lunar edges to complete knowledge of the moon’s geography.

SOLID GOLD! TACOMA, AVashington.—Running ail the way from 35,000 to 140,000 dollars per ton, a shipment of gold quartz has arrived at the Tacoma smelter.

“The richest that I have seen in a Lifetime of assaying,” is what B. IP. Bennetts, local assayer, says of the* ore. “There are pieces of solid gold big enough and long enough to hang your hat on, sticking out of the quartz.

Noctka, on the west coast of Arancouver Island, furnished this remarkable ore. AA’liile there has begun a small gold rush to that region, gold ore authorities say the shipment is remarkable only for its richness, not for its size There is no evidence that there are large deposits of gold in the Nootka region.

GAMES OF CHANCE CHICAGO, Feb. 15.—The Rl. Rev. George Craig Stewart, Bishop of the Potestant Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, in an open letter to his clergy to-day ordered all games of chance and pseudo-gambling devices abolished immediately in that church. “Gambling has become a mania' in America, a cancerous invasion of our social vigour and health,” the bishop asserted.

“We must unite to stop it and to stop it now. The Church must hold up a standard higher than the standard of the world. When it permits gambling under its patronage or for its benefit it is lowering its standard not to the level of tile world but to the still lower level of the underworld. Flow can we hope to win our youth to a life above the debaucheries of (he tavern and the pool hall if our own hands are not clean?”

TOWNSHIP FOR SALE

MELBOURNE, Victoria.—An en-

tire township, with electricity and water laid on, is for sale within a few hours of Melbourne.

It is the State Rivers and Water

supply Commission’s settlement at Lildon Weir. Work on the reservoir there has been completed and the commission’s workers are moving to a new job.

The township isn’t very big but it

has a post office and a store, and is seived by a first-class motor-road to Melbourne. Its dozen or so houses stand at the foot of the Eildon reservoir spillway and are backed by some of the finest mountain scenery within 150 miles of the city. Who wants to buy a complete township? Anglers, among other people. Anglers’ clubs and holiday caterers are said to have submitted hul tenders against the single-lot aids of private fishermen.