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Dana

She is my friend

And she is her brother’s keeper

He has cancer

He doesn’t have patience

He has alopecia

Making him look something

Between a Kewpie doll & Tibetan monk

She, my friend, has

Sympathy alopecia

She is his loving sister

She says she doesn’t have patience

But she does

Only her hairline recedes

Not her love

Margaret

Greece 2016

Nic, Apisata, and I left Watkinsville, Georgia, at 6 a.m. on Friday morning, July 15.  Devon picked us up on time at 6  a.m.  Before 8 a.m. we were at the Atlanta International Airport.  I was on a Delta flight to New York’s JFK Airport; they were on a United flight to Newark.  We were both expected to leave the U.S. at 10:30 a.m. on our way to Athens, Greece.  My fight arrived at 10:30 a.m., but they were delayed about 45 minutes.  They told me when I met them in baggage claim that someone had put luggage on the plane, but that individual never got aboard, so they had to locate the luggage and remove it before taking off.  They had a full flight so it was amazing they could find that luggage before departing.  No harm for them as they were at their destination and headed to their hotel.

 I would have to wait until 4 p.m. to catch my Aegean flight to Thessaloniki. 

I do want to back up and say the new Delta terminal at JFK is magnificent.  The days of feeling you are in a dungeon are gone.  The sky club was luxurious with lots of good food and drink and many comfortable places to sit and sleep or read.  There was even an outdoor area called the Skywalk.

My flight to Athens was magnificent.  Waiting at the airport for my flight to Thessaloniki was the only time I felt tired.  I’d watched the movie with George Clooney on the flight the night/day before- very boring.  Also, I saw a couple of the episodes of the serial Blackish which was clever.  I think the entire series would be useful for people doing forums on “racism” because these issues are addressed directly but with the fuse of humor.  I think they could be used to start some deeper conversations.

Nic and Apisata are supposed to be seeing the Acropolis and the Acropolis Museum as well as touring the Plaka and whatever else they want to see before they take the train to Thessaloniki.  Stell has heard that the trains may strike from Monday to Wednesday in which case our friend Alex Mordo will take them to the bus.  In Thessaloniki Costas Mamoupolos will pick them up and take them to his villa on Cassandra, then after a day and night he will bring them to the apartment here in Ierissos.  (P.S. we learn that the train strike only lasted for two hours.)

We are expecting 40-50 people at the birthday party.  Christos has made tee-shirts for everyone.  Some of Stell’s clients are bringing a goat, which they just called to say they are getting from some mountains.  The restaurant folks at Toristico will prepare the goat and other dishes.

When I arrived in Thessaloniki, I was greeted by our cousin (and taxi driver) Georgios and Stell.  Everything was fine (Paris) as far as my luggage.  We made our way to Agios Prodomos for souvlaki  salada, potatoes, and retsina.  Georgios didn’t drink because he is driving.  He’s a most unusual Greek – solid and sane.  He dropped us off at Foras’ home to get our little Peugot and we headed to the house.  You can barely see around the place because it is so lush now.  There were lots of flowers, tomatoes and peppers.  For dinner and breakfast, I had freshly plucked tomatoes,  bread, feta, and coffee. 

This morning Foras and Katerina drove up with a sesame pastry.  They looked great (I will try and include their photographs here).   They departed and Stell did his stretching exercises and we headed to Sultana’s for ouzo and meze (appetizer).  The appetizer included gavros, and they were crispy and delicious.   Greek popcorn.  As in the past, I was the only woman at Sultana’s which does not bother me in the least, although the first years I was a little concerned.  The captain was there and lots of other old guys I’ve come to know over the years.  Sultana’s husband Cristos was waiting tables bare-footed.  Stelll told me their youngest son, Costis, is working on a new glass-bottomed boat that takes folks on tours around the area.  Later Sultana arrived and we hugged and hugged.  She is such a beautiful person, inside and out.

We next took off for my first swim.  Good idea because it is hot today. I had my water weights, and we swam for about 40 minutes.  A mini crowd because it is Sunday, but Stell said they will be gone tomorrow.  After the dip in Ierissos Bay, we headed off to Katerina and Stellios Foras’ home for goat and minestra, but before we started into this (the main course) we had tsiparo that was made from our grapes (white lightening), and Stellios gave me a really hot pepper.  Also, we had their home made feta, and later home made parmesan for the goat and minestra.  Of course, there was the typical big fat Greek salad with olives from our olive trees.  They wanted to know if we could take some olive oil back to the States, but we always say “no” because if it open in your suitcase, you have a miniature Gulf Oil Spill and it is impossible to clean everything easily.

Now we have had showers and naps, and I suppose shortly a scotch or two.  Last night the coyotes serenaded us twice.  I could tell by their voices that there are a lot of babies in the pack.  Are a group of coyotes called a pack?  I don’t know, but you know what I mean.

Stell has just announced that we are going to walk in a little while.  There is a nice breeze, and the goat bells are precious.  Thank goodness, we still have goats.  The cowherd was destroyed because of some disease.  Sad for Bill the Cowherder (Stellios Foras’ brother). 

I’m going to try and imbed a few photos into this posting and then recharge this laptop.  Tomorrow we will begin to prepare for the arrival of Paris, Carrie, Jaiden and Alexander on Tuesday.  Since I am currenly completely naked, I must get dressed before we venture out on our walk.  

Margherita Cilantro Foustanella

PS:  I read Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me on the flight from Georgia. It’s superb writing and a painful story.  If I were to give it a subtitle I would call it Growing Up a Black Male in the United States.  It’s important and sad.

Now I am reading Thea Halo’s Not Even in My Name and learning more about the Pontic Greeks.  Julie Bailey sent this to me, and although more than most she knows my love of Greece, she cannot begin to fathom the relationship of this book to me and me to this book. 

 Last night we took a one hour walk to the “top” by the little church St. Nicholas. When you walk on the dirt road to this area you can see both Ierissos and the island of Amuliani.   So you are standing on the Mount Athos Peninsula also looking across to Sithonia.  The sunset was dynamic.  At first mosquitoes seemed to be finding me, but that ended and the walk was very invigorating.  We came back and had some scotch and heard the coyotes twice.  They are actually very close to the house.

Alex phoned Stell because he knew for a fact that the train strike had begun in Athens, which meant that Nic and Apisata wouldn’t be able to make the trip by train.  Frankly, I’m not the least worried.  We have now heard from Costis that they are going to take the five hour trip on the bus.  It’s a beautiful day, so they will see a lot of the country.  

Stell is doing his flexibility exercises and then we will head down for ouzos, swimming and “chores”. 

Foras was here this morning to get some tools to install the lights that I bought for outside the apartment where N and A will stay in the village. 

Our front yard is full of Queen Anne’s Lace, morning glories and butterflies. 

Okay, that’s it for now.  I’ll write more this afternoon.

We took another hour walk and I hope most days we will be able to do this.  The walk here is much more of a workout and assures you will sleep well post scotch.

The “kids” – Nic and Apisata took the bus from Athens to Thessaloniki and were met by Costis who has taken them to his villa and will bring them here later today.  Now Paris and Carrie and kids are having an adventure since they were delayed getting out of Columbus by two hours and missed the flight out of Newark.   They won’t arrive now until tomorrow.  Hopefully the airlines got them rooms in Newark last night.  Everyone will have their travel stories.

Today I will go to the lykee to buy sundries for the “guests”.   Alex Mordo just phoned to say that he and his wife are coming from Athens.  They said they have secured a hotel room, too.  Probably Thanos, our cousin, helped them.   Hotel rooms are few and far between. 

The weather here is “cool”.  No humidity and no severe heat, ideal for lounging around outside and sleeping – like early Fall. 

We tried to locate the BBC station for at least a bit of news about the convention, but never found the station.   I will try again today.  Of course, we can look at the internet.

Yesterday we had our usual ouzo and a half with meze at Sultnana’s. Foras was part of our company, then the two of us headed to Milosz for one more then swimming in the deep blue sea followed by lunch at Mouragio – octopus, colokethia (zucchini fried) and a Mediterranean salad.  Also we had the usual house wine, which is light and good with almost every dish.  After lunch we shopped at Lidal which is like Aldies in America.

Tomorrow Larry and Maxine Thomas arrive.  Hopefully they won’t be delayed.   They are coming directly to Thessaloniki by way of Munich. 

Got to go dry my hair.

Despite what it says at the top of this page, today is the 20^th.  Last night at around 9:30 p.m.  we picked up Nic and Apisata from the downtown apartment and took them to the St. Elias festival.  We were there until about 2 a.m.  It was jam packed. Georgios, the bouzouki player is a pro, so the music was spectacular.  We drank too much retsina and ate souvlaki.  At the very end of the evening Nic obtained a couple of plates of loucanako which was spicy and also delicious.  Apisata and I danced with Stell, and then lo and behold Angelos got Nic to dance.  He actually was quite good.  Apisata and I went up the steps to the church and lit two candles.  I think she may have said a Buddhist prayer alongside my Unitarian prayer.  Foras and Katerina really took care of us all with food and drink.   I took Apisata on a stroll throughout the festival to show her all the silly stuff that vendors were hawking.  She said it was just like Thailand. 

Of course, I continued to see old friends, and so Nic and Apisata went through many introductions. 

Earlier in the day Costis, Athena and little Angelos brought them from Thessaloniki.  We were swimming and they all came to Mylos Café, then we went and had a huge lunch at Mouragio’s.   We took them to the apartment which now has a new bathroom, new refrigerator and a washing machine.  

Stell had a little trouble fixing his green tea this morning because yesterday the handle fell off the old water pot when I was boiling water for my neti pot. 

Carrie, Paris and kids and Larry and Maxine arrive today.  It has been raining, but probably the sun will come out and chase the clouds away before they arrive.  Too bad for the kids – their delay really has chopped a couple of days off of their holiday. 

Time for my breakfast – same as before but I did get a half kilo of olives yesterday at the Lykee.  Jaiden loves olives as much as I do. 

Cool and breezy summer day in Ierissos.

Thursday morning- we are still waiting for Paris, Carie, and the kids.  We know they made it to Thessaloniki and Paris said they would spend the night in a hotel there and come here today.  Also, we have had a call that the airport is sending his “lost” suitcase.  I’m sure they are exhausted with the ordeal of their travel to Greece.

We had a delightful dinner last night with Larry and Maxine who are staying at Hotel Markos.  We ate at Colatzi’s.  They had arrived around 3 p.m. and rested until we picked them up at 9 p.m. for dinner.  We are going to meet them at 2 at Mylos Café.

So the days will roll out as they will- tomorrow Carrie, Apisata, and I will go and pick up a cake for the birthday partiy.  We also know the tee-shirts are arriving today.

It’s warmer and the crickets are chirping like mad.  We haven’t seen too much convention news only some reports that Melania and one other family member of Trump plagiarized big chunks of their speeches. 

At least we have everyone in the same country today. 

Today is Friday, July 22, 2016.  We finally have everyone here.  Paris and Carrie (who Nic has renamed Perry and Careless) arrived at around noon yesterday.  They headed for the beach, and we met them at around 2 p.m. at Mylos Café.  Michael, Anja, for a short time Stell’s sister Anna and niece Mary, Nic, and Aipisata, and Stell and me were all there.  Of course, the children had ice-cream and later we headed to Mouragio for a big lunch.

Tonight, some of Stell’s clients from Thessaloniki who are bringing the goat will arrive.  Carrie, Apisata and I have to go to the bakery today or tomorrow and order the birthday cake.  We will add Michael and Carrie’s names.

The best news for me this morning was that Foras came to the house with a walking stick he had made for me.   Everyone was asleep except for Stell, so I set out alone on the one hour trek.  It’s a perfect walking stick.  First I met up with a large goat herd, herder, and four dogs.  The dogs barked a little but only warning me to keep away from the goats.  The rest of the hike was very nice, except that there are multiple “fire planes” in the area.  Stell thinks the fire may be near Olympiada. 

Alexander wanted to stay up all night, and I agreed that he could.  His parents, and Nic and Apisata (aka Uncle Knuckles and Aunt Oi) went to the village.  Stell went to bed.  Jaiden, Alexander and I sat out and watched the full moon wane.  I got cold and went  in Alexander’s bed with him and Jaiden across the room.  They talked and talked and talked (still on Ohio time), and then Alexander moved into bed with Jaiden and I went down the hall to my bed with Stell.  I never heard Paris and Carrie come in last night.  Alexander no longer cares if his Mom is gone, and he’s a darling little fellow.   Jaiden is an extremely tolerant big sister.

We are peeking at the convention news, but with the peeking we don’t feel like we have missed anything of great importance.  We know about the plagiarized speeches and the appeal by Lying Ted Cruz.  We cannot imagine that people with any measure of sanity will vote for The Donald.

I finished Not Even in My Name, and I do recommend it to anyone who wants a deeper understanding of the Pontic Greeks and the tragedies they endured when they were marched out of Turkey.  It’s a story within in a story – the first is the general history of what occurred, and the inside story is the tale of one woman’s life as she struggled to survive, then married and came to America (to give birth to ten children – who themselves had great success with their lives and careers). 

Stell is doing his morning exercises, so in about thirty minutes we should be headed to Sultana’s.  It’s going to be a very busy day. 

Today is July 28, 2016.  Nic and Apisata should be home in Georgia, but we have no message.  It is very early in the morning, so probably they are sound asleep.  We are anxious to hear their adventures of Thessaloniki.  Stell’s party on Sunday was a huge success.  When we arrived at the restaurant the large goat, a gift from his friends in Karditsa, was on the spit and a man was occasionally applying brushes of oil and oregano.  Some people arrived early, around 1:30 p.m.  It was the hottest day so far, but once people had a couple of drinks, no one seemed to mind the heat.  When everyone had arrived, there were about 50 people – family, friends from the village, colleagues from across the years . . . .  Everyone had lots to eat and drink, and we had a few speeches from Stell, me, Paris, Nic, Apisata and Carrie. 

Stell had employed Georgios, a very talented bouzouki player and his associate on the keyboard, so there was about two hours of dancing.  Although he wanted no gifts, some brought booze and sweets, and Petra and Kyros gave him an authentic copy of the New York Times from the day of his birth.  I plan to read it next week when everyone has left.  His colleague Christos gave him a tome about Cyprus where they have clients. 

Nic and Apisata left that evening after the party to go to a hotel in Thessaloniki and Maxine and Larry left the next morning. 

Yesterday Petra and Kyros invited Paris and family and us to come to their place at 11 a.m. and go with them on their fancy speedboat toward Sithonia.  It was a perfect day, and we had all the adventure of walking out in the water to board the boat, then we traveled to an idyllic cove called Vouvara- the water looks like a huge swimming pool.  We jumped off the boat and swam for some time before reboarding to go to a nice restaurant that we all like on the Island of Amulani. Jaiden especially liked the speedboat.  Stell lost his red bulldog baseball cap, and although Kyros was willing to stop and fish it out of the sea, we persuaded him that we hated the cap because it was covered with mildew, so it wasn’t rescued and is probably be worn today by a dolphin.

Paris went on a guys night out last evening with some old friends from Ierissos, and Carrie popped popcorn for us.  Jaiden and Alexander have been doing lots of drawings.  Jaiden is quite talented and she creates a cartoon narrative.  Most of Alexander’s drawings are of cars “disploding” on racetracks, The Village People, or people jumping on and off sailboats. 

Everyone fixes their own breakfast.  Carrie and I tend to go for the Mediterranean one with tomatoes, feta and olives.  Alexander likes Nutella on toast. 

The tractor came up this morning and cut all the alfalfa.  Stell said they wil let it dry for several days and then flip it over to dry on the other side before actually bailing it for goat feed.

Paris set a mousetrap and caught a mouse, and today he is replacing a shower head.  Also, he has done a lot of weedeating.  Unfortunately this morning he woke up with a sinus headache.  He’s insisting that he got this from Carrie and me.  

Anja has sent a million photos and movies from the party, and Petra sent incredible photos from our “cruise” yesterday.  I can’t begin to look at all of them, because they download too slowly here, but when I’m back in the States, I will “work” with them.  Georgios the doctor from Doctors Without Borders also took lots of photos at the party with his professional camera.  His wife, Filo, said he will give us a disk.  This will be much easier to work with.  He did this two years ago as well.

We know very little from the conventions, except that Trump said that Hillary’s pick of “the former governor of NJ” was terrible.  Of course, she has not selected Tom Kearn, but she has selected the governor of Virginia.   I watched Stacey Abarams make a short speech for Hillary and our party, and saw a little of the opening.  Karen Sterk has told me that a television reporter wants to get some news about Jeannette Rankin, because Hillary Clinton has identified her as one of her (s)heroes.  Very nice.

The food is as always very excellent here, but I am being very careful and doing better than in past years because we are swimming and walking. 

I’m reading the newest Donna Leone mystery and a manuscript by Stell.  I will read more when we are alone.  The plans are to have another party at our house on Saturday, because Paris and Carrie will leave on Sunday.  We have all agreed this is the best weather ever.  It has been like “your favorite fall days” except for Stell’s birthday party that was a little bit warmer.

Hope readers of this little journal are all doing well, too.  I’m as relaxed as can be and having lots of fun with family and friends.  Stell is also doing well and he has had a great appetite.  He’s only missing his mildewed Red Bulldog cap.  

Dear Mom,

We are home safe and sound. Our trip ran a couple hours behind schedule from NYC to Atl., but Devon's guy, Larry, was great and we kept them updated from NYC so it wasn't a problem, except for being home so late, 3:30. Needless to say we are Jet lagged, but Apisata is a trooper and has gone into work. I'm at hope turning stuff back on and doing laundry and trying to get back on the time change. I will go to lunch with Michael today and learn what's been going on in my work world.

Thessonloniki was simply fantastic. I can't wait to tell you about it in person. The hotel was super modern with a pool and restaurant on top and our room looked like something from a fashion magazine. I complemented the GM on the second day about the hotel and staff and they treated us like kings and discounted our meal on the roof!!!! It was Chic and we of course were equally as chic! :)

We met with Thanasis at noon on the second day, after he got off work from the radio station. We picked right up where we left off and Apisata adored him. After lunch downtown, we went to his apartment and we all drank beer, played music and sang a sang some more, especially Apisata. It was a blast and was certainly another highlight, of many highlights from our trip to Greece. I didn't see Costis again, but we emailed back and forth and our time was so short because we left there at 4am.  All in all, Our trip started great in Athens and our bus adventure, then we had a truly wonderful family-centric middle in Ieresos. We are so lucky to have such a lovely family! And the trip concluded with the best blend of my love of modern art and ancient history. 

You, (your amazingly generous and kind way, and your massively courageous spirt) and Baba made this all possible and we could not love you anymore than we already do. Keep having fun!

All my love and admiration, 

your son, Nic

Today is August 1, 2016. Paris and family left yesterday after lunch for Thessaloniki to stay at the Iris Hotel near the Airport because their flight to Munich-Newark-Columbus was to leave Thessaloniki at 8 a.m.  They had to get up around 5 a.m. because they had to return their rental car and then get to the check in.  We are assuming they made it because we haven’t had any messages otherwise.  Hopefully their return home will go without a hitch unlike their travel here.   They really were not here long enough to get into the spirit of a vacation, but we at least had a little time together.  Alexander and Jaiden will go to the same school this Fall, St. Cecilia’s, and Carrie will work as a teaching assistant and in the office.  She also will begin her first stint on the school board, which I think will be marvelous for her and the school. 

We had a little party here at the house on Friday night with Foras and Jevilikis, but unfortunately Stell had the beginnings of an arthritic flair so he was not in full form.  Katerina prepared a stuffed goat (stuffed with rice and mushrooms), and we had salads, and cake.  Saturday was Carrie’s birthday and today is their wedding anniversary.

Now it is very quiet.  The  tractor however was in the field next to the house early because they were mowing the alfalfa.  We will get gasoline today.  We always run on fumes, but I’m used to this and since we don’t drive very far if we do run out of gas, someone will help us. 

I finished the latest Donna Leone mystery last night and am now beginning a book given to me by  Julie Bailey titled Blood and Earth:  Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World by Kevin Bales.  I’ll make sure Rich Rusk and Paris know about this as well.  The author shows the intersection between human trafficking and ecological degradation.  I’ve read the first chapter this morning and already know I will include this as a reference in my fourth option to the topic of conspicuous consumption.  This option argues that governments must intercede because people alone do not have the will nor the resources to combat these forces.  Don’t assume this is “my option” – it is only one of four as I’ve been framing this topic for several years.  This book is an excellent resource to support this option, however.

Also, perhaps tonight I will begin reading the August 26, 1936 authentic edition of the New York Times that was given to Stell as a birthday present by Petra and Kyros.

Forgot to mention that Paris found a young turtle under the holly tree when he was hanging the oregano gathered by Carrie.  I also gathered a bunch, so hopefully Foras will help us sift it so I can take some home.  There are so many patches of oregano growing along the driveway that it has been easy to collect.

I don’t have any major assignments at the moment, but I will help Stell construct a brief questionnaire for some of his clients here in Greece.  I’ve done this many times in the past, so it will not be much of a chore.

It’s very hot now – the past few days have been hot ones, but we will make our way into the sea and that will be refreshing.  As long as I have good conversation, the sea and something worthwhile to read, I’m a satisfied customer. 

Oh, Stell told me an “old” colleague/friend is bringing his “adult” daughter here to meet me.  I don’t know that I have much to say about opportunities for women in Greece, but we’ll see. 

Cool and breezy like a nice early Fall day.  My favorite weather.  Paris and Carrie are back in Columbus – this return trip on schedule.  I helped Stell this morning design a brief questionnaire for his clients at Palaplast A.E. in Thessaloniki.  It was a career aspirations questionnaire for the seven cousins who will inherit the very successful plastics company from their fathers.  At first he asked me to save it to a “dicey” thumb drive.  I was pretty sure we had lost it, but somehow I was able to recover it and now he can send it to Christos for final editing. 

Yesterday at Sultana’s (our initial ouzo stop each day), we learned from Christos Xeklis (I’m making up the spelling of his last name, since I have no idea how he spells it) that his family had been up until 3 a.m.  Their son had gone with a friend for a car ride, and the driver had run into a motorcycle (without lights) and the young girl motorcycle passenger lost a leg.  They waited three hours for an ambulance to arrive.  His son had made a tourniquet for the leg, so that is probably the only reason she didn’t bleed to death.  Motorcycles here are death vehicles.  Of course, many don’t wear any protective clothing; some don’t even wear shoes.  In addition in our community we no longer have any police.  It’s amazing that there is as much good behavior as we see.  If you do experience “crime” there is a number to call in Polygoros, which is almost one hour away.  A good sociological study would be to see what happens to a community when you remove rule of law. 

We did get some gasoline yesterday, so we are no longer traveling on fumes – takes a bit of excitement out of the day, but I’m okay with that.  Supposedly we will visit Stell’s sister Anna today, but he has said that every day since I arrived (July 16^th).   Also, today is the lykee, so I will get some olives, carrots, and bananas. 

We didn’t see Michael and Anja yesterday.  Last night they went to some party at a hotel near Ouranoupolis with 500 French people, so I imagine they were needing to recover.  I think Michael speaks some French but not Anja. 

I thought one birthday gift to Stell was the August 26, 1936 edition of the New York Times, but actually it was the London Times.  It’s intriguing to me.  The type is very small, but I read as much as my eyes could take for about an hour yesterday.   The layout is not at all like a contemporary paper.  It starts with all kinds of demographics – births, weddings, anniversaries, deaths, where to rent a car and driver, or car, and one airline is mentioned (British Airways) with flights to Germany, Denmark and France.  The funeral announcements include information on where to send flowers, or not to send flowers, and one announcement ended with the words:  No mourning.   Can you really expect many people not to mourn?  I plan to read the entire paper, and now that I have discovered we have a magnifying glass, it will be much easier. 

We continue to get little news snippets about the Presidential race in the U.S. but it seems much the same –disgusting news about Trump and increasing numbers of well-known Republicans saying they won’t vote for him.  As you might imagine, even though we have no police protection here, it is a relief to have some distance from the chatter.

We continue to swim every day for at least an hour.  I use my water weights (Adeline introduced these to me a few years ago), and they are just superb for upper body strengthening.  I ached for the first couple of days, but now I’ve worked those muscles enough that it doesn’t bother me. 

The village seems a little more economically depressed, but we don’t go down in the nights, so I can’t be real sure.  Usually the chairs at Sultana’s get replaced every two or three years, but they are older now and dilapidated.  Lots of Serbian and Bulgarian people are here and they definitely don’t eat in the restaurants.   They shop at Lidl (which is like Aldy’s). 

I made a wonderful minute and a half movie of Alexander making a “displosion” (explosion) which I’ll put on YouTube when I’m home.  I was going to skip it, but then I realized he won’t stay this little much longer and I would have missed it. He makes these displosions with his cars and toy airplane.  You will have to see the movie to really get the effects, and if you are close to him stand back,  because lots of spit is involved in making these sounds.

No more news for now.  Reading, relaxing, eating rather sensibly, and contemplating big topics like:  1)Where have the coyotes gone for several nights? And 2) Why can’t we all just get along?

Today is August 3, 2016.  It rained in the dawn, so now it is humid, but despite the stickiness there is a little bit of a breeze.  I am going to take a few minutes to tell you about what is on the front page of the August 26, 1936 issue of the London Times.  For one thing, I want to share this information with my DC “Marxist” friend, Dr. Richard Hofrichter (Google him).  He’s always challenging us on issues of social justice, and he likes to ask us to consider how our contemporary newspapers are organized- what is featured; what is missing.  So let me just today tell you what runs on the front page of this 80 year old issue of the London Times.  Keep in mind this is the front page, so this is what the editors believe was the most needed news of the day:

First, I will just give you a list of the headers:

Births

Marriages

Deaths

In Memoriam

Gardening &c.

Motor Car Hire Service

Aerial Transport

Hospital Nurses

Personal (the largest section)

Business Offers

Directors and Partners

Investments and Loans

Legal Notices

Riding and Shooting

Stamp Collecting

Clothes Turning

Club Announcements

Educational

Kennel, Farm and Aviary

Shopping by Post

Classified Advertisement Index

So Richard and other friends, Marxists and all, you can see that the front page is quite unlike the front page of the New York Times, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Washington Post, or the Athens Banner Herald.  What is most important it seems is people’s everyday social life at least on the front page. To publish in these sections costs money, and that information is at the onset of each section.  For example if you want to publish something about your dog under “Kennel, Farm and Aviary”  the cost for three lines is 4s, 6d. (minimum). I should add that this is the Late London edition and it costs 2d.

This issue is the 47,463^rd edition to be published.  There is no notice of Stell’s birth (in case you may have thought there was correspondence with Greece).  Such an article would have said that his father took is mother from Stavraqu to the village by donkey where he was the first of their four children to be born in the village house.  Ireni, you may recall, was born in 1932 at the time of the major earthquake, so she was born in a Red Cross campsite. 

Now I will try and delight you, dear reader (trying to write like a Brit), with an example of one or two entries under each of the sections above before alerting you to what appears on page two.  Totally the paper is 22 pages in length, so I may be able to provide you with an in depth report of the entire document before returning to the United States of America.

Births

Worsley.__On August 24, 1936, at Croyde Manor, Brauton, N. Devon, the residence of her parents, to STELLA (nee Church), wife of Rev. G.S. WORSLEY, C.F. __a son.

Marriages

HAMPSON:COPE__On Aug. 25, 1936 at the Chapel of the Savoy, BARRY GRANTHAM, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Hampson, of Matlock, formerly of Bombay, to NANCY CHEVERTON, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Percy Cope of Hatch End, Middlesex.

SILVER WEDDING

CHAPMAN: CLARKE.__On Aug. 26, 1911, at Holy Trinity, Hoxton, by the Rev. H.W.G. Kenrick, M.A., GEORGE HAROLD LANGSLOW CHAPMAN to LUCY EVELYN JANET CLARKE.  (Present address, Russell Cottage, Princes Risboro).

DIAMOND WEDDING

YOUNG: SWANSTON.__On Aug. 26, 1876, at St. Mark’s Bellary, India, by the Rev. Henry Pope, HENRY HOWLETT YOUNG I.S.C. to GEORGEANA OLIVIA SWANSTON. Present address: 10, Clifton Park, Bristol S.

DEATHS

SOUTHERN.__On Aug. 25, 1936, suddenly, at Lyndhurst.  ETHEL MARY, widow of WALTER HENRY SOUTHERN and eldest daughter of the late Lawrence Henry Cumberbatch, Deputy-Surveyor of the New Forest, 1849-1880.  Funeral at Lyndhurst Cemetery to-morrow (Thursday) at noon.  No mourning.

WELTON.__On Sunday, Aug. 23, 1936 HARRIET WELTON, for over 60 years the much valued friend and housekeeper in the family of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lamplugh, and of Mr. Norman Lamplugh, of the Old Court House, Hampton Court, in her 78^th year.  Internment, to-morrow (Thursday) at Chiswick Cemetery at 2 o’clock.

IN MEMORIAM

ON ACTIVE SERVICE

HASLAM__In remembrance of Major (acting Lt.-Col.) B. J. Haslam, D.S.O., R.E., and all the gallant few who against overwhelming odds fought and died to hold the gate at Baku, Aug. 26, 1918.

LOVELL.__ In grateful memory of Miss Mary Ann Lovell, who died Aug. 26, 1920, a generous benefactress by will of the National Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System, Queen Square, W.C.I.

FUNERALS AND CREMATIONS efficiently carried out in London or any part of the country, Monumental work of every kind arranged for.  Telegrams:--Barkers, Kensington.  Telephone:--Western 5432.  BARKERS, KENSINGTON, W.S. John Barker and Company, Limited.

GARDENING &c.

Be sure it’s STICTITE when buying compound for banding your fruit trees.  Stictite is the most reliable and economical.  One application lasts the whole season.  Of nurserymen, ironmngers, &c., or ABOL, Ltd, 201 Paddock Wood, Kent.  Write for interesting folder.

MOTOR CAR HIRE SERVICE

Cars for HIRE with or without driver:  reduced terms for September.___T. Morrison, Ltd., 194 Dairy Road, Edinburgh.

AERIAL TRANSPORT

British Airways, Ltd., to Holland, Germany, Denmark and Sweden.  Daily services except Sundays__Tele, Sloane 0091.

HOSPITAL NURSES

City of London Maternity Hospital, City Road, E.C.1.  EFFICIENT MIDWIVES and MATERNITY NURSES SUPPLIED at any time upon application to the Matron.  Any distance.  Phone Clerkenwell 8171.

PERSONAL

HAWTREYS, Westgate-on-Sea.__Mrs. Em Hawtrey and Mr. F.D. Cautley have received so many beautiful letters of sympathy that they are reluctantly compelled to decide that it will be quite impossible to answer them personally.  They would assure their kind friends that these letters have been of the greatest help and would ask them to excuse this form of acknowledgement.

MUST THE SUMMER PASS WITHOUT A GLIMPSE OF THE COUNTRY or the SEA?  This will be the sad lot of a number of South London Slum Children unless friends their Gift without delay. These days of holidays are anxious days for many of our boys and girls on the waiting list.  They are still wistfully hoping that their turn will come BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, but that depends upon the response to this appeal!  They live in one of the largest, poorest, and most Central Slum Areas in all London.  They are farthest away from Country Scenes than any others ----hemmed in by miles of crowded, dangerous streets.  Their only playground is the gutter.  £5 WILL SEND a TIRED OVER-BURDENED MOTHER and 3 CHILDREN TO THE SEA FOR A “RED-LETTER” FORTNIGHT.  £1 WILL SEND 10 CHILDREN FOR A “RED-LETTER” DAY TO THE COUNTRY—THEIR ONLY DAY THE WHOLE YEAR ROUND, 2s. WILL SEND ONE CHILD—Please save some eagerly expectant Slum Child from a bitter disappointment by sending your Gift to REV. WALTER SPENCER, 1 Central Hall Buildings (Child Welfare), TOWER BRIDGE ROAD, London, S.E.I.  Inquiries and visitors welcomed.

NANNIE- Can any lady recommend absolutely first-class Nannie for very happy home:  country.  Write Box G 1261, The Times, E.C.4.

BUSINESS OFFERS

Lady with ambition to succeed in the Radio Business World required:  experience unnecessary but some capital essential; good salary.__ Write Box G 1223, The Times, E.C.4.

ESTABLISHED AUTHOR requires educated gentleman or Lady Secretary; foreign travel, involving social contact high personages; substantial cash qualification, secured on royalties.__Write Box G. 1253, The Times, E.C.

BEAUTY CULTURE ___Court Hairdresser, Knightsbridge, seeks Lad with connexion for Beauty Parlour on reciprocal terms.__Write Box F, 1303, The Times, E.C.4.

DIRECTORS AND PARTNERS

Gentleman with £1,000 requires another with £500 to join him- take charge of office and London area in marketing established maritime products. Write Box 5885, The Times, 72, Regent Street, W.I.

INVESTMENTS AND LOANS

Prompt loans arranged 4-1/4 per cent, net yearly on Life Interests, Life Incomes, Reversions, Property under Wills__T.W. ELLA, 150, Regent Street, W.I.

LEGAL NOTICES

Re SARAH GOFF deceased. Pursuant to the Trustee Act 1925 Notice is hereby given that all CREDITORS and other persons having any debts, claims or demands against the Estate of SARAH GOFF late of 35 Devonshire Road in the County Borough of Southampton Spinster deceased (who died on the 3^rd day of June 1936 and whose Will was proved in the Principal Registry of the Probate Division of His Majesty’s High Court of Justice on the 14^th day of August 1936 by George Albert Waller and Charles Rowe the executors therein named) are hereby required to send in the particulars of their debts, claims or demands to us, on or before the 31^st of October 1936, after which date the said Executors will proceed to distribute the assets of the said deceased amongst the persons entitled thereto, having regard only to the claims and demands of which they shall then have had notice; and they to be liable for the assets of the said deceased or any part thereof so distributed, to any person or persons of whose debts, claims or demands they shall not then have had notice.  Dated the 24^th day of August 1936.  WALLER & McCARRAHER, Solicitors for the said Executors.

RIDING AND SHOOTING

Evening Lessons, 6s. per hour.  Lessons from 6gns. Per dozen.  Children specially catered for, Cadogan Riding School__W. J. Smith, Ltd., Little Cadogan Place, Sloane Street, S.W.I.  Slo 8201.

STAMP COLLECTING

UNSORTED! But known to contain wide variety, many Colonials and higher catalog values, An in-and-off paper mixture at £1 per lb (1/2 lb. 10ss)., post paid. Several thousand stamps to the lb.  BERNARD and WALTERS, 17, High Street, S.W. 13.

CLOTHES TURNING

SUITS TURNED by our INVISIBLE PROCESS, 35s.; OVERCOATS, 30s.:  Costumes, 30s.; Alterations and repairs.  GARMENTS MADE LARGER OR SMALLER and rebuilt to your desired fit.  Call or post garments, cars collect___ORIGINAL TURNING and REPAIRING Co., 55, Red Lion Street, High Holborn, W.C. I. (2 minutes Holborn Tube), Holborn 9416.

CLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS

THE LINGUISTS’ CLUB, 84 KINGSWAY, W.C.2 HOLB, 8065, Conversation and tuition in foreign languages.

EDUCATIONAL

NEWQUAY CORNWALL- THELEMA SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.  Highly recommended; first-class modern education under ideal conditions; marvellous air; school perfectly situated; individual attention, music, drawing, dancing a specialty, fees for which are included in general terms:  riding, domestic science courses; fully qualified staff; resident gymnastics and games mistress, matron; free, happy home life; excellent food; moderate terms, reduction for sisters.

BRANKSOME, Godalming, Surrey – Boy’s Preparatory School.  First-class Education at Moderate Fees.  Boarders only.  Prospectus on request.

CHILLON PREALPINE COLLEGE, Glion, Switzerland.  Glion is 1,100ft about Montreax, overlooking Lake Geneva, and the position and climate are ideally healthy.   Classes are small and the record of success excellent.  Games include winter sports, rowing, football, tennis &c.  For interviews in England write the Headmaster, W. G. Roberts, M.A.

KENNEL, FARM AND AVIARY

ABOUT 20 POODLE PUPPIES to choose from at Vulcan House, near Uckfield, Sussex:  apricots, creams, and chocolates.__Apply Hon. Mrs. Ionides, Buxted Park, Susses.  Phone, Buxted 5.

GOOD COMPANIONS--  a man—his dog—and a pocketful of SPRATT’S OVALS –Write for free copy of new edition (Vol. 5) “Guide to Dog Management.” 100 pages on training, feeding, care,  and conditioning—Spratt’s Patent, Ltd., 58, Mark Lane, E.C. 3.

200 RHODE 4-month –old PULLETS, 289 non-broody egg strain 5/6 each.  Sample dozen £3. Carriage paid. –Brown’s, Breeders, Formby, Lancs.

MANY RARE  BIRDS of all kinds, including Humming Birds, Softbills, Seedeaters, Crancs and Waterfowl from  large aviaries and free range __Apply Partridge Larches, near Fladbury, Worcestershire.

SHOPPING BY POST

CHOICEST PURE COFFEE – Costa Rica and Kenya Blend of remarkably rich quality and flavor. 1s. 8d per lb; 4 lb tins post paid. ___W. H. WHITTARD and Co., Victoria Warehouse, Mansell Street.  London E, 1.

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENT INDEX

Apartments and Board-Residence         2&3	In Memoriam                                       1
Appointments Vacant                           3	Investments and Loans                         3
Appointments Required                        3	Kennel                                                 1
Auctions                                             22	Land, &c.                                    21 & 22
Births                                                   1	Legal Notices                                        1
Bonds Cancelled                                  21	Marriages                                             1
Business Offers                                     1	Miscellaneous Financial                         21
Businesses for Sale                               3	Motor Car Hire Service                            1
Business Premises                               22	Motor Cars &c.                                       2
Charities                                              3	Nursing Homes and Hospitals                  3
Clothes Turning                                    1	Personal                                                1
Club Announcements                            1	Personal (Court)                                     1
Contracts and Tenders                          3	Property Investments                            22
Country Properties                       21 & 22	Public Appointments                                3
Dancing                                              10	Public Notices                                          2
Deaths                                                 1	Riding and Shooting                                 1
Directors and Partners                           1	Shipping and Tours                                  2
Educational                                           1	Shopping by Post                                     1
Engagements, &c.                                15	Situations Vacant                                     3
Entertainments                                    10	Situations Required                                  3
Flats and Chambers                              21	Stamp Collecting                                      1
For Sale and Wanted                              3	Suburban Houses                                    21
Furnished Country and Seaside Houses   22	Town Houses                                          21
Gardening                                              1	Trade Announcements Unclassified
Hospital Nurses, &c.                                1	Unfurnished Houses                         21 & 22
Hotels and Resorts                                  2

Only one message on my calendar today – Tyler’s birthday.  Tyler Kondos is my youngest friend.  I met him in the Veterans Park where many days he is there being “pushed around” by his Dad, Phil Kondos.  I haven’t met his four year-old sister because she is in PreK and his mother who works as a Plant Manager for General Mills in Covington, but I’ve seen pictures of the entire lovely family on FaceBook.  Tyler is admired by all of us walkers, because he has a precious attitude.  He’s like a little man in the body of a one-year-old. He never cries, but just gives us a sly little grin as if to say he knows what’s going on and what we are up to.

Not much to report here.   Certainly nothing bad.  The weather is like my favorite days in early Fall.  Extremely perfect to sit outside in the morning breeze and very nice for swimming and sleeping.  Today Stell has said we will visit his sister, Anna, but as I’ve said before he announces this each morning but then it never happens.

Well, I am moving to page two of the August 26, 1936 issue of The London Times.  Here are the headings for this section:

Shipping

Public Notices

Motor Cars, Motorcycles, Lorries and Accessories

London Hotels and Restaurants

British Resorts, Spas, and Hotels

Paris Hotels

Foreign Resorts and Hotels

Apartments and Board-Residence

Guidelines for Classified Advertisements

Shipping

“Shipping” takes three of the seven columns on this page and concerns the shipping of mail, passengers and freight.  Examples of companies listed are:  Viceroy of India Cruise, New Zealand Line, Canadian Australian Line and Union Royal Mail Line, Orient Line to Australia, Cunard White Star (America for Late Holidays), Royal Mail to South America, Six Week’s Holiday to the West Indies and Back, Blue Star to Brazil and Argentina.  Also included are Tour:  The Land of Gold South Africa (Reduced Return Tickets –my comment: perhaps this is because they know you are likely not to find any gold?), Visit Norway in September, Round Africa Voyages. 

The shipping notices list such information as ports, tons, dates.  For example you could take a PLEASURE CRUISE from Dover September 18^th and returning to Dover, October 5^th.  If you take this cruise you will visit Ponta Delgada (Azores), Las Palmas, Madeira, Casablanca, Teneriffe and Lisbon.  All information to get folders and other details is provided.  Or how about 1,000 MILES up the AMAZON – Delightful 7 weeks’ Tours in an Ocean Liner without change of ship.  To Portugal, Madeira and Brazil.  Tour fares, including all the organized excursions £75, £80, and £85.  S.S. HILARY, from Liverpool, Oct. 6, Dec. 8 and alternate months thereafter.  Apply for illustrated Booklet, Dept. T., BOOTH LINE, 11 Adelphi Terr., London, W.C. 2, Cunard Building, Liverpool 3, and usual Agents.

PUBLIC NOTICES

OFFICIAL NOTICE – PROPOSAL to CHANGE a SHIP’S NAME.

1. EDWARD BURTON CLARK  of Palmerston House, 51, Bishopsgate, London, hereby give notice that in consequence of change of ownership I have APPLIED TO THE BOARD OF TRADE, under Section 47 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, in respect of my ship, LANCASTER CASTLE of London, Official Number 140642, of gross tonnage 5,625 tons, of register tonnage 3,528 tons, heretofore owned by Lancashire Shipping Co., Ltd, of 3, King Street, Liverpool, for PERMISSION TO CHANGE her NAME to SEAPHARER, to be registered in the said new name at the port of London as owned by Seafarers Steamship, Ltd.  Any objections to the proposed change of name must be sent to the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen, Tower Hill, London, E.C.3, within seven days from the appearance of this advertisement.  Dated at London this 25^th day of August, 1936. E.B. CLARK.

MOTOR CARS, MOTOR CYLES, LORRIES, AND ACCESSORIES

WINDOVERS, LTD. Listed the automobile with the most horsepower and biggest price tag:  1935 Series 40/50 h.p. ROLLS-ROYCE CONTINENTAL SEDANCA COUPE; painted grey; mileage negligible; practically new; £1,575.

Other cars or limousines listed were Bentley Sports Saloons or the 3-1/2 Litre Bentley Windover Foursome Drophead Coupe.

LONDON HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS

Best value in Lancaster Gate HOTEL TUDOR, 100-103, LANCASTER GATE, W. 2, FACING HYDE PARK.  Hot and cold running water, bedside telephones, luxurious beds, gas stoves, slot meters, central heating, electric lift, night porter, best English food, well served.  Weekly terms from £3 3s. 0d.  En Pension £3 13s. 6d.  Daily from 12s.  6d.  Bed and Breakfast 8s. 6d.  SPECIAL TERMS FAMILIES & PERMANENTS, (CHILDREN’S PLAYROOM) pADD, 3014 (4 lines).  Telegrams:  OTELTUDOR.

BRITISH RESORTS, SPAS AND HOTELS

TO those seeking a JOLLY and HEALTHY HOLIDAY, we suggest WEST CLIFF HOTEL, WESTCLIFF-ON-SEA

FOREIGN RESORTS AND HOTELS

CZECHOSLOVAKIA

Pistany Spa for Rheumatism.  Splendid results. Inclusive rates from £6 2s. 6d. per week, including medical attendance, baths, &c.  Reduced return fares from £15 by rail or air.  Special letter of credit saves 1s 7d. in the pound.  Full particulars form PISTANY SPA BUREAU, 25, Cockspur Street, London, S.W. 1. Whitehall 2094.

APARTMENTS AND BOARD-RESIDENCE

LONDON AND SUBURBS

BACHELOR’S Furnished Service Rooms.  Inclusive terms with breakfast.  Reference given and required.----8, Adam Street, Portman Square, W.I, Wet. 4528

SUBSCRIPTION RATES

For INLAND, ABROAD,  THE TIMES ROYAL EDITION, THE TIMES WEEKLY EDITION, TRADE AND ENGINEERING MONTHLY.  In addition to a subscription to the times, you could add the Literary Supplement and Educational Supplement.

Not my best day (August 5, 2016).  Either I have a horrific sinus infection or I need another root canal.  I’m hoping it is just a sinus infection, so we can go to the pharmacy and get an antibiotic this morning.  If it doesn’t clear up over the weekend, I will visit a dentist here.  A few years ago I suffered so badly that I had to fly home for the root canal.  Now there are three dentists in Ierissos, so I might take my chances if this is what I need.  I didn’t drink hot coffee this morning, because last time I learned too late that this was a mistake.  Also, thank goodness you don’t need a doctor’s prescription for an antibiotic. I’ll keep you posted.  Since I have sinuses from hell, it is possible that a strong antibiotic will do the trick.  Also, if I do find that I’m having severe pain later, we have the pain killers from Dr. Tomlinson that Stell got when he had his top teeth removed.  I would take them as a last resort.  The good news is that it is not hot outside, so I’m not simultaneously tormented with hot weather.  Chris Franklin says there have been 35 days of temperatures over 90 in Watkinsville. 

No other big news (my headaches are big enough).  Stell has written a letter to the daughter in Rhodes who is now asking her father to give her $300,000, which he gave to her older brother because he (the older brother) simply wanted out of the company.  Ireni doesn’t want out – as a matter of fact a decision had been made to move her into the Managing Director slot over a couple of years.  Stell says the company is very profitable so she doesn’t need $300,000 euros.  He’s very disappointed in her.  None of the children like their father.  It’s a terrible, and too-often repeated story here in Greece.   The company he advises in Thessaloniki, however, is very positive, productive, and the family (three brothers and seven cousins) do very well as a team. 

Okay, to take my mind off my sinus pressure, I’m going to do an analysis of page three of The London Times, August 26, 1936.  It appears to be a little “richer” than page two:

Apartments and Board-Residence (continued from page 2)

Paying Guests

Seaside and Country

Nursing Homes and Hospitals

Contracts and Tenders

Businesses for Sale

For Sale and Wanted

Charities and Appeals

Chauffeurs

Public Appointments

Appointments & Situations Vacant

Advertising Journalism Printing &c.

Articled Pupils

“Also of this Parish” insert on the middle of the page

Ex-Officers and Other Ranks

Domestic Situations Vacant

·      Governesses Companions Matrons and Lady Nurses

·      Au Pair

·      Helps and Nurses

·      Lady Housekeepers Housekeepers and Cooks

·      Parlourmaids and House Parlourmaids

·      House Kitchen and Scullery Maids

·      BetweenMaids Generals and Laundrymaids

·      Grooms

·      Married Couples and Menservants

·      Private Secretaries and Secretary Housekeepers

·      Gardeners

·      Married Couples and Menservants

·      Hotel Assistants and Caterers

Rector offers healthy COUNTRY HOME:  golf, sailing, billiards, option share poultry farm – Write Box N. 357, The Times, E.C. 4.

Now it is August 6^th.  I stopped above because the pain in my face was too severe to concentrate on anything.  I was at about 20%.  I had started my anti-biotic, but that does nothing for pain.  I did go to the village with Stell.  We stopped by the apartment to check on things.  Stella was playing backgammon with Vassillis.  Then we went directly to Milos Café.  I’m on mineral water as long as I’m taking this anti-biotic.  First Anja, then Michael came by on bikes to invite us to a farewell luncheon for Michael who was returning to Pottsdam that night.  I really was feeling miserable, but what could I do?  So I suffered lunch between three smokers.  Yuck.  Michael, who is a chain smoker, got pissed because a family at a nearby table with children asked him not to smoke.  They are ADDICTED and offensive with their smoking.  I did manage to make it through lunch.  We came home and I took another anti-biotic, but as the pain increased I succumbed to a Hydrocodone which was a prescription Dr. Tomlinson had given to Stell when he extracted his teeth in March.  I told Stell to bring it to Greece for this very type of event. Gradually I took three across the afternoon and evening and that wiped me out but also kept me out of severe pain as the nerve is dying.  May it rest in peace and give me peace.   Today I am at about 75% with a dull throb in my face.  I’m not taking the painkillers any longer unless the severe pain returns. 

Jinx and Gordhan told me a long time ago that they always travel with a pain killer, and I will never leave home without one.  The first year this happened to me, I thought was the end of my life.  Now I believe, because I have the anti-biotic I can make it through to my actual departure date.  Aging is not for sissies is an understatement.

Today is warm but breezy and I have been able to concentrate a little better, so I’ll add a few more entries from page three of The London Times, August 26, 1936.  If this the actual date of Stell’s birth (which was debated between his mother and Thea Anna), then he was born on a Wednesday. 

COMFORTABLE Home for Elderly and Invalid Ladies; central heating, gravel soil; special diets; quiet neighbourhood within easy reach of London __Write Box J.284, The Times, E.C. 4.

CONTRACT FOR PROVISIONS.  THE COMMISSIONERS of the ROYAL HOSPITAL CHELSEA, S.W. 3, are prepared to receive TENDERS for SUPPLYING In-Pensioners and Staff with the following from 1^st October, 1936; __ for 3 months- Bread, Flour, Tea and Coffee

For 6 months__ Meat, Groceries, Ale, Stout, Bitter Ale, Porter Bacon, Butter, Margarine, Cheese, Eggs, Jam, Milk, Potatoes, Fresh Vegetables and Fruit, Fish, Fowls and Rabbits

For 12 months__Mineral Waters

Forms of Tenders and all information may be obtained at the Secretary’s Office.  Tenders must be sealed and sent to the Secretary, Royal Hospital, Chelsea, S.W. 3, by 11 a.m., Tuesday, 15^th September, 1936—Tender for--- The Commissioners do not pledge themselves to accept the lowest or any tender.

CHEMISTS TRADE £10,600, SOUTH COAST; £3,500; stock, fixtures, valuation.__JOLLEY, 115 Old Christchurch Road, Bournemouth.

CHAIRITIES AND APPEALS, KING GEORGE’S FUND FOR SAILORS IN AID OF MARINE CHARITIES.  CONTRIBUTIONS should be sent to H.R.H., the DUKE of CONNAUGHT, K.G., or the Hon. Treasurers, K.G.F.S., Trinity House, Tower Hill, E.C. 5

GENTLEMAN highly recommends Chauffeur, practical mechanic, suit lady or gentleman where only a superior servant would suit; 25 years’ experience private, 18 years’ Rolls; married; no ties; abstainer; thoroughly honest, trustworthy, reliable, courteous, good worker, handy about house or garden; capable driver, never runs risks, a chauffeur worth having; knows London, Midlands and North __55, Wellington Street, Manchester, 14.

THE B.B.C. invites APPLICATIONS FOR THE POST of CHILDREN’S HOUR ASSISTANT (female) who will be stationed either in Londor or at a Regional Centre (locality to be decided later).  Qualifications required; literacy and organizing ability, interest in music and a good general education.  Duties:  assisting in the organization of the children’s daily programme, including compilation, selection and adaptation of material, arrangement of rehearsals and selection of artists.  Salary according to qualifications (Contributory Pension Scheme).  Applications giving details of age, qualifications, and experience, and stating present salary, should be with the General Establishment Officer of Broadcasting House, London, W.1, nlot later than 5^th of September, 1936.  Married women are not normally eligible for appointment to the staff of the B.B.C.  Envelopes and all Applications must be clearly marked “Children’s Hour.”  [My comment:  What could married women possibly know about children?]

WIRELESS Officers urgently required for Air and Marine Wireless Service.  Young men 15 to 26___Prospectus, Dept. “A.” London, Telegraph Training College, Earls’ Court, S.W. 5.  Tel; Fla 8721.  Recent appointment to S.S. “Queen Mary.” 

SOUTH Africa – Barrister (England and South Africa) desires whole or part time position with a company or institution connected with the Union or Rhodesia--- Write Box D. 115, The Times, E.C. 4

This appreared in a box at the center of page 3 (in Column 4)

Also of this Parish

When Mr. A, who lives in the

Big house at the top of the village,

Married Miss B, who lives just

Opposite, everyone who knew

Them knew all about it.  Indeed

Mrs. X at the Manor claimed

That she had known all about it

For years.  But when Mr. A’s

Brother, who is out in Toronto,

Married a lady from Dundee the

Village had no advance informa-

Tion.  That, however, was soon

Remedied.  Mrs. X, who wanted

An under housemaid, was looking

Through her copy of The Times,

And ---“Would you believe it, my

Dear, I just happened to glance

At the marriage columns, and

That young George A., who was

Such a sheet-anchor at the bazaar,

Had gone and got married. It

Seems only yesterday that . . .”

No doubt you too, like to know

How your neighbours and friends

Are getting on.  Who doesn’t?

Read

The Times

Classified Advertisments

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LONDON £60-£65__ German, Austrian Nursery Governess, entire charge children 5-1/2, 3-1/2; knowledge health, sewer.  __Anglo-French Bureau, 308 Regent Street.

WANTED, reliable Nannie assist mother, boy 19 months, girl 3 months; going abroad October; age 26-40; state wages__Apply Mrs. Pilcher, Clearmount House, Weymouth.

COOK and House-Parlourmaid required; no objection to mother and daughter or friends; good wages; separate bed rooms, sitting room__ Write Box J. 846, The Times, E.C. 4.

WANTED, experienced Stud-Groom, competent to break young horses, teach children riding, and look after three hunters; one stable hand kept. __Write Box J.845, The Times, E.C. 4.

THOROUGHLY experienced Butler, married, for country house.  Northumberland, about end of September; parlourmaid kept; age 35-45; tall, good references; valet and silver cleaner and good appearance; accustomed to country and within reason able distance for interview.__Write with full particulars, to Box J. 831, The Times, E.C. 4.

YOUNG Nurse, S.R. or S.C.M. would take charge of invalid or child voyage Australia, September, in return for full or part passage__Write Box 9381, The Times, 72, Regent Street, W.1.

GENTLEWOMAN, experienced housekeeper, needlewoman, secretary, bridge player, will give services in exchange hospitality; Town or country.__Write Box J. 868, The Times, E.C. 4.

MOTHER’S Help, age 22, disengaged; extremely nice, reliable girl, excellent with toddlers, neat sewer, knitter, darner, nice plain cook; well recommended; £36. Maud James Agency, Aylesbury.

LADY (by birth), 39, travelled, smart appearance, Domestic Science trained, competent household management, would take entire charge gentleman’s home or one lady; no salary required for refined home where daughter 16 welcomed; highest credentials given and required.___Write Box N. 866, The Times, E.C. 4.

MORNING Oddman, 51; living S.W. 1; free till midday; over 7 years present; employer says, “Can be recommended.”  Willing any domestic duties__Mrs. Wellbeck 7777.  No booking fee.

You will pleased (or not) to know that tomorrow I will analyze page four, which looks to be entirely sports news.  

August 7^th.  Sunday.  Whew.  Still dealing with my tooth issue, but not in severe pain, just general discomfort.  I’ve decided to find a dentist that hopefully will see me tomorrow.  Otherwise, I will be grossly uncomfortable for nearly a month.  Not eating much isn’t a problem – that is actually a good thing, but having an occasional shooting pain in my mouth is something I don’t care to endure much longer.  My niece, Georgia, told me yesterday that they say next to having a baby this is the most excruciating pain.  I think having a baby is less painful, but since I haven’t done that for 47 years, maybe I have conveniently forgotten.  I would say I have a moderate threshold for pain. 

Stell just showed me that he just accidently broke the coffee pot.  He thinks we might be able to replace the glass part, which is what broke, but my experience from the States is that they purposefully make sure that they don’t fit, so you have to buy a completely new coffee pot.  I’ll get him one for his birthday.  I’m not drinking hot coffee any longer, anyhow, but I am putting a couple of ice-cubes in my coffee every morning.

Georgios, the doctor from Doctors Without Borders, gave us a long CD of photographs from the birthday party.  Many of them are fantastic, but I will wait and share them when I’m back in the States. 

Okay now for page 4 of the August 26, 1936, The London Times.  Here are the sections:

Racing

Law Notices

Polo

Golf

Bloodstock Sales at Deauville

Lawn Tennis

Yacht Racing

Huge Ad for the Times Weekly Edition for people living abroad

From THE NUNTRHOPE STAKES:

As so often happens the actual race concerned only two of the runners, the top-weight Paul Beg, however, came again, and won by a head.  Slap and Tickle was third, three lengths behind the second.  Perambulator, drawn on the stands side of the course, also ran well, but the race was between the first and the second.

HARROGATE TOURNAMENT

The Chinchillas, conceding a half-goal, beat the Blue Birds in the first round of the Visitors’ Cup tournament at Harrogate by six goals to 3-1/2.

NEW ENDEAVOUR WINS AGAIN. From Our Yachting Correspondent:

A blazing sun “ate up all the wind,” as sailors say, when the Torbay Regatta was continued yesterday.  The big yachts, with the new Endeavour leading them, struggled home with the last of the dying breeze, but the vessels in the other classes were becalmed off Berry Head and drifted about the glassy sea for hour after hour.  The big yachts began with a turn to windward to a mark five miles out to sea.  There was a nice little easterly air at the start, at which three of the boats were too soon, while the old Endeavour was a fraction late in executing the gybe which would have given her the mastery of the situation.  The new Endeavour went well in the light breeze and smooth sea, and soon held a slight lead.  She drew rather more ahead all the time, and rounded, the mark 5 minutes ahead.  Astern of her came Velsheda, Astra, and Endeavour.

Page 5 is dedicated to Cricket and Bowls and a crossword puzzle. 

Page 6 is dedicated to military news with a large hilarious advertisement or Schweppes Quinine Tonic. The ad shows a picture focused on the conductor of a symphony orchestra.  The headline reads “A Brilliant Thirst Symphony” by the Music Critic.  “The other evening I tried over Schweppes’ Thirst Symphony in A Flat (and elsewhere).  The keynote is the Tonic (see “Schweppes on Liquid Harmonies”).  The symphony is equally effective taken either as a solo or with accompaniment; and her is my own arrangement.  First movement (vivace):  let bottle strike edge of glass; try this on your piano.  Second movement (andante):  let Schweppes Tonic ripple glissando into glass:  try this with tuba or trumpet, but an ordinary tumbler is easier to drink from.  Third movement (allegro con brio): listen to the genial tremolo of Tonic against vocal chords and the rise of your spirits through at least three octaves.  Try this on your friends.  Repeat ad lib.

Much of this page is dedicated to appointments and awards of military personnel.  There is a story of a training for invasion of a beach area, and a photograph of military officers and servicemen.  The servicemen are looking into a piece of equipment that looks a bit like an old-fashioned movie camera.  They are participating in Anti-Aircraft training and the machine they are using is called a Vickers Predictor.

My favorite story on the page is AN INTERNATIONAL AIR RALLY:  FIFTY FOREIGN PILOTS TO ATTEND.  Every year the Cinque Ports Flying Club holds an international air rally at Lympne Aerodrome.  It is the only event in this country that brings together foreign and British air pilots as such short intervals.  The foreign visitors are guests of the club for the week-end, and to save them the trouble of bringing evening dress – small aeroplanes being ill-adapted for carrying much luggage—they are specifically warned this will be a “rough” week-end.  The fourth of these annual rallies will be held next Saturday and Sunday.  Between 50 and 60 foreign pilots are expected – from France, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, and probably Holland.  The pilots will be entertained by Mr. Noel Coward, vice-president of the Cinque Ports Flying Club, at a cocktail party at his country home in Kent on Saturday.  The same evening will wind up with a barbecue and a dance.  A characteristic English fair will be another attraction for the guests from oversea.  Sir Phillip Sassoon, Under-Secretary of State for Air, will be the host at a party on Sunday evening.

 Medical update, August 8, 2016- By 9 a.m. we were in town.  First Stell left me off in front of the Germanos store, so I could buy an electrical adapter for my phone.  Then, when he didn’t come back I started walking toward the agora to find him, which I did.  He explained that our car had died just near the pharmacy inside the agora, and he needed me to steer while he pushed it into a slot.  He recognized quickly that he couldn’t push it alone, so he located a somewhat younger man, and together they pushed it into a parking slot.  He wasn’t sure what was wrong, but he knew his rather new battery must be the problem because the lights didn’t go on inside the car when he opened the door.  But, let’s go to the dentist, first and worry about the car later.

We headed to her office only to discover that she is on vacation until the 22^nd, so he asked a woman in the house next door, where another dentist was located.  Across from his sister Anna’s house!   Good, so we went to her office.  Dentist Panyiota – very young, Krishna Patelish, petite, perky.  Her office was very clean and very modern with all kinds of computerized equipment.  Believe it or not, I was hoping to soon be undergoing a root canal.  But she tapped on my tooth and subjected it to ice cold water and took an x-ray and sad that my problem was not my tooth.  She said it had to be my sinuses.  I don’t agree, and I think when I am home in Georgia I will be undergoing a root canal.  What she suggested was that we go to the new ear, throat, nose doctor.   So we walked back toward the agora and went into his place.  I will stop to say that something that is very different, at least in a rural place like Ierissos, is that none of these medical professionals has a receptionist.  You just sit on the couch and wait for the doctor to come out of the office. 

There were two men ahead of me, so Stell said he was going to return to see about the car.  This didn’t really please me, because this meant as far as I could guess that my translator was disappearing.  After sitting and reading for about 15 minutes, one of the men grew impatient and left.  A third man came in, and when the doctor came out of his office this man jumped up ahead wanting some information.  It looked like the doctor merely gave him a phone number, and took the second man into his office.  I was really hoping Stell would return, because I was next.  A young mother with two gorgeous little boys (one named Alexandros) had now come into the waiting area.  The boys were driving her nuts playing with the water machine.  Then the doctor came out, and I only guessed he was asking who was next, and it was me.  To my great enormous surprise he spoke very fine English, so I went into this office and explained my situation, told him about the dentist’s recommendation.  He said because my pain had been so severe it was likely a particular nerve that he named, I think a maxillary nerve.  He asked my name, and what medicines I had been taking, and then said he would like to examine my ears and nose.  His equipment was incredibly modern.  While he looked into each of my ears and both of my nostrils, I was able to look on the screen in front of me at the same time.  He didn’t see anything abnormal like a tumor, but he did find that I needed to have some of the wax removed in my left ear.  However, he said both ears registered fine.  His advice was to continue my nasal rinse twice a day, to continue to take the anit-biotic, and to take an anti-inflammatory like Ibuprofen (and Stell told him we had Naproxin- which he said was fine.).  For those of you who have been to Ierissos, I will tell you that he was from Gomati, the little farm village in the mountains just a short distance from here. 

He will see me again next Monday to see how this therapy works.  I want to be positive, but I still think I will need a root canal.  I think the dentist should have removed the filling and actually looked inside my tooth.  I don’t have a clue what you can actually see in a dental x-ray.  I liked her personally, but I don’t think she was thorough enough in her examination.  Nonetheless, I think I can limp along as long as I don’t have the severe pain, and so far it is more like a big discomfort.  By the way, the ear-nose-throat guy is Dr. Crymidis (which translates Dr. Onions).  I should add that I paid the dentist totally 10 euro, and Dr. Onions was paid 30 euro.  And I want to repeat that their offices were very, very clean, and their equipment was top-notch. 

Stell had found a man who merely tightened the battery cable, but then we went to his shop to make sure the attachment was even more secure.  I think going up the rutted goat path to our house had loosened it.  We stopped next at the Welcome Store and got a new coffee pot, because it is impossible as I said earlier to find just a carafe.  Anja was in the store looking for a vacuum cleaner part.  She was pissy, because she said she bought this little sweeper in the same store last year, and if she had been in Germany they would simply give her a new one.  Not here.  She was also giving me some heeby-geeby advice about pressing on some spots above my eyebrow to stop the pain.  As Stell says, she means well. 

We returned to the village and had Stell’s eye-glasses repaired.  One of the lenses had fallen out, then went to Sultana’s for meze.  He had the usual ouzo, but I had an Amstel.  After this (we didn’t have our swimming suits), we went to the Athos Restaurant and had beets, gavros, and peppers.  A lot of his guy friends were there having ouzo. 

I will stop and send this to some of you who are following my medical episode to let you know I am still alive and “working the problem”. 

Before I close, I have some sad news for all of you who love Katerina Foras.  Her mother died yesterday.  She was 93, so this is truly a great relief, but nonetheless.  Her mother lived on Amulani, so Katerina had been traveling back and forth to care for her.  We knew her time was near. 

Yes, I will perhaps write a book titled “My Nose and Dr. Onions.”

Two column long obituaries lead page 7 of the August 26, 1936, The London Times.  They are the obituaries of two Russians who were executed the day before, Zinovieff, and Kameneff.  Zinovieff is labled “The Bolshevist Orator” and Kameneff “Soviet Leader and Victim”.  They seemed to operate in and out of favor with Stalin, and obviously since they were executed, they ended “out of favor”.  This was a lot of presentation of Trotsky-Lenin-Stalin escapades, and they were a couple of the players. 

MR. B.C. PEARCE – Mr. Ben Cecil Pearce who died at Ripley House, Surrey on Monday, at the age of 79, was for 40 years headmaster of Durston House Preparatory School, Ealing.  His father was Mr. E. J. Pearce, a former headmaster of Great Ealing School, the school to which Newman, Thackeray, Huxley, Marryat, and many other famous men went.  Mr. B.C. Pearcewas the first captain of Ealing Rugby Football Club, 1872-76, and he was a member of Ealing Cricket Club from 1879.

This obituary is rather long, but I am going to type it in its entirety for Malcolm Sumner:

MR. W. RINTOUL

CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Mr. William Rintoul, O.B.E., F.I.C., until recently a Director of Research in Imperial Chemical Industries, died on Monday at his residence in Ardrossan, Ayrshire, at the age of 66, after nearly a year’s illness.  William Rintoul, as his name indicated, was a Scot, and he received all his education, as well as his technical and scientific training in Glasgow.  He learned chemistry at the Andersonian College, and thence entered the laboratory of the city analyst, R. R. Tatlock.  There he was first an assistant and then lecturer, for in those days the city analyst held classes for students of chemistry.

In 1891 Rintoul came to London as chemist to a paint manufacturer, and in 1894 was appointed a chemist in the Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey. There he had Mr. (now Sir) Robert Robertson as one of his colleagues (Sir Robert Robertson was his brother-in-law). As chemist in charge of the manufacture of nitroglycerine he effected (in conjunction with Nathan and Thomson) important improvements in the manufacture of that explosive –the displacement process, and in the recovery of acetone (with Robertson).

In due course he rose to the position of chief chemist, but after 15 years’ service with the Government left to join the staff of Nobel’s Explosives Company, Limited (now merged in Imperial Chemical Industries), where he remained until his death.  He started with the Nobel Company as chief chemist, and later on he became research manager at the Ardeer factory in Scotland.  He became associated with several patents, mostly on stabilizers for propellants.  The laboratories were reorganized by him and he took an active interest in biochemical investigations.  For his activities in the manufacture of explosives during the War he was made O.B.E.

About 10 years ago Rintoul was brought up to the headquarters of Imperial Chemical Industries as a manager of their research organization, and since then it has been his business to keep in close touch with the universities and institutions at which that company maintained research workers.  That gave him a wide acquaintance with many scientific men, who will miss his friendly sympathy.  His advice was constantly sought by and readily given to scientific bodies.  He served on the councils of the Chemical Society and the Institute of Chemistry, and when he died was president of the Faraday Society.  Among his other appointments may be mentioned member of the Safety in Mines Research Board, (D.S.I.R.), and member of the Science Museum Advisory Council.

His distinguished career was more than personal success, for it had a far-reaching influence on chemistry in general and on the chemical industry.  Perhaps no one deserved more credit than he for the remarkable conference on one phase of physical chemistry which was held at Cambridge last year and drew eminent scientists from all parts of the world.   It was held under the auspices of the Faraday Society.

Mr. Rintoul married twice:  first, Lottie Edwards, by whom he had two sons and a daughter; and secondly, two years ago, Jess Isabel Robertson.

A correspondent writes:---

Rintoul was one of the kindliest and most considerate of men, and many young chemists owe their success to his interest and encouragement.  His duties within the chemical world left him no time for other public or social work, but wherever he went he left his mark for he was a man of wide culture and tolerant views.  Indeed, the writer has never heard him express an uncharitable opinion either about a fellow man or his work.

DR. D.W. McMILLAN – Dr. Daniel W. McMillan, who served as a surgeon with the British Forces in the Great War, has died a Pensacola, Florida at the age of 67, states Reuter.  His death followed an operation for appendictus.

Dr. McMillan was a wealthy physician and made several big-game expeditions into Africa.  His “disappearance” in South African jungles in 1926 caused a national stir in America.  He was accompanied by Dr. H.L. Magoon, of Chicago, on his visit to Africa 10 years ago.  After they had plunged into the jungle from Salisbury, Rhodesia, in May, it was reported in Capetown the following November that no word had been received from them since descriptions of desperate privations and attacks from bushmen had been received from them two months previously.  Dr. McMillan’s relatives urged the Union Government to send relief expeditions, but the day after the two explorers reported themselves safe, though suffering from a series of misfortunes.

DAMAGED DESTROYER HOME.  VOYAGE UNDER OWN SEAM (from our correspondent).  Portsmouth, Aug. 25.  H.M.S. Keith (1,400 tons) arrived here this morning under her own steam and went on later to Chatham, her home port, to dock and repair the damage suffered yesterday in collision with the Greek steamer Antonis G. Lemos (4,410 tons).  The collision happened near Alderney, about 12 miles from the Casquets, and the Lemos was sunk.  Her crew were brought to Portsmouth by the destroyer Brilliant.  They are being cared for by the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society before being sent to their homes.  The Keith had her bows badly stove in above the water line, a hole torn in her forward plating, and had lost her topmast. 

Captain D. W. Boyd, of the Keith, said that the collision occurred at 1.20 p.m.  There was thick fog at the time.  The Keith’s topmast snapped off and fell over the side, and the Greek steamer sank in about three hours.  Captain Stefanos Samonas, master of the Lemos, said that his ship’s boiler rooms and stokehold flooded at once after the collision.  Seeing that the ship was sinking they took to the boats and the Brilliant picked them up.  Only one man, a steward was injured, and he but slightly.  There was no panic among the crew of 27, most of whom lost their personal belongings.

August 9^th, 11:15 a.m. and I am just now having my coffee.  We got a new coffee pot yesterday at Welcome, but after the storm last night we had no sunlight and no power.  Today Stell learned that he has to replace three batteries.  Now with a little sun, the coffee pot worked and soon we will have new batteries so the storms won’t matter.

I am operating at between 75-80% with no severe pain.  Based on my self-diagnosis for much of my adult life, I have concluded by reading Web MD and listening to the various diagnoses that I have trigeminal neuralgia.  This would explain the very severe pain and then the fact that this can come and go, sometimes for months.  It also explains why Dr. Alexander at Ashford Clinic gave me an anti-seizure medication for a “test” and why he recommended a neurologist. I will ask Dr. Onions what treatment he would recommend on Monday, and then follow through with the trip to the neurologist when I’m home in Georgia.  So unless I get more new information, this ends my discussion of my problem – because as Stell likes to say, “No one else can feel your pain.”

The last few parts of Page 7 of The London Times, August 26, 1936, were articles titled:

Pooling Knowledge of Accidents:  Fractures and Their Treatments

Motor Coach Speed Newmarket:  Alleged Endangering of Racehorses

Engineers and Trainees:  Joint Conference of Union and Employers

Lord Devon’s Netwton Abbot Property

And an advertisement from The Fifty Shilling Tailors

I’ll give the first couple of paragraphs from each piece:

Pooling Knowledge of Accidents:  Fractures and Their Treatments

A mass of valuable information on accidents on the road, in the factory, and in the home is being collected by the Committee on the Rehabilitation of Persons Injured by Accidents, which was appointed last April by the Home Secretary, the Minister of Health, and the Secretary of State for Scotland jointly, to inquire into the arrangements at present in use for restoring the working capacity of those injured by accidents. 

Methods of treating fractures have much improved in recent years and the problem before the committee is to discover how, by better organization and other means, the improved methods can be made more generally available so that people can be got better more quickly and with less pain and discomfort than is sometimes the case now.

Motor Coach Speed Newmarket:  Alleged Endangering of Racehorses

Stated to have ignored the signal of the rider of a colt worth 5,000 guineas and to have caused another valuable racehorse to “kiss the kerb,” the driver of a motor-coach was fined £10, and ordered to pay 14s, costs, at Newmarket Police Court yesterday for dangerous driving.  The driver of the coach, WILLIAM CLIFFORD CASE, of Portland Road, Rushden, Northampton, also had his license endorsed.

Percy Double (my comment:  I love this name), head man to J.L. Jarvis, the racehorse trainer, of Newmarket, said that he was in charge of a team of racehorses walking through High Street, Newmarket at 7:45 a.m. at “a great speed,” probably 40 miles an hour.  It almost hit a valuable mare.  The horse he was riding slipped and passengers in the rear of the coach jumped up to look out of the windows. 

. . . . Case, in evidence, said that he gave the horses three yards room.  His speed was under 30 miles an hour.

Engineers and Trainees:  Joint Conference of Union and Employers

The following official statement was made at the close: ----

The conference was of an explanatory nature and after a full exchange of views it was mutually agreed that it should stand adjourned to enable both sides to give further consideration to the questions.

The union, it is stated, does not admit that there is a definite scarcity of skilled labour, or that there is any urgent need to introduce trainees. The employers, it is believed, have offered to give consideration to the absorption of the union’s unemployed members, numbering over 8,000.

Lord Devon’s Netwton Abbot Property

Lord Devon yesterday informed Newton Abbot Urban Council that the liability on his estate for death duty was very heavy owing to the death of his father and uncle the same year, and his trustees considered it imperative that he should sell all his Newton Abbot property.  This included Ford House, which he was anxious that the council should be given an opportunity of purchasing.  The council appointed a sub-committee to interview Lord Devon, and they decided to call a meeting of ratepayers. It was suggested that the purchase of Ford House by public subscription might be a suitable commemoration of the Coronation.  Ford House is a mansion dating from the fourteenth century.  In recent years it has been a great house of interest to thousands of visitors.

Now for the advertisement under the heading Rational Tailoring.  There is a photograph of a handsome young man (Earl Haig) resting his head on right hand.  He’s dressed in a very nice fine suit and tie.  The add reads like this:

Investigation of Rational Tailoring.  Earl Haig of Bemersyde son of the famous Field-Marshal:  ON accepting the offer of the Fifty Shillings Tailors to become a member of their “Jury”, I did not expect their suits to be wearable.  I expected hurriedly and badly cut atrocities which would not fit and that they would be made from cheap materials.  I find however that, after one fitting, I have been given suits which are not only wearable but smart.  The suits are also comfortably and tastefully cut.  The materials are good Yorkshire wools and most attractive in design, all supplied direct from the Mills.  I chose suits for every use; evening suits, lounge suits and country suits.  Each is as good as one costing far more at a smart tailor’s.  I enquired whether I had been treated differently to the ordinary customer, and was told that when my order was sent to the cutters at Leeds, my nom-de-plume was Mr. Hay, and that no-one knew that the suits were for me.  Thus this Rational Tailoring method – like similar specialization in other present-day industries – seems to be the best method of tailoring.  It is equally good for the working man and for the man who in the past has had to go to Savile Row because he must appear well-dressed, even though he cannot really afford it.

Not only is the method of the Fifty Shilling Tailors good but the people themselves are very civil and conscientious.  I visited a minor branch unknown, so their behaviour was not sweeter just because they wanted a good report from me!  Finally I am very pleased with everything I have seen the Fifty Shilling Tailors, and wish them the best of luck in their excellent enterprise.  Haig of Bemersyde.  There is a star by his name with this message:  At the request of Earl Haig of Bemersyde, a cheque has been sent to the Hedingham Rover Scout Training and Employment Scheme.  This is followed with this: . . . . Each of the following well known gentlemen has carried out a personal investigation of Rational Tailoring.  Their Reports are being published in this and other papers are received.  (followed by the names of a well-known artist, an eminent sculptor, the well-known educational authority, a typical public school boy, famous sea captain, poet and critic and others). 

The day is cloudy, rainy.  Stell is working outside, but I am working inside because the wind would blow The London Times to Bulgaria.

I’ll move to page 8 this afternoon or tomorrow morning.  It begins with a letter to the editor that may be of interest to Rafe:  Signs for Inns and Shops:  Brightening the Streets.

 August 9^th.  I just finished this morning Blood and Earth by Kevin Bales.  It’s one of those books that you would like to make required reading for everyone, but when you are powerless, like I am, you can’t so all I can say is I really hope you will read it.  Now I will finish Waking Up White by Debby Irving, because it is the book I will use to lead the forum with Unitarians on September 14^th. 

I’ve narrowed my medical situation to one or two or both conditions:

1) I have an infected old molar, and I need a root canal, or

2) I have trigeminal neuralgia, or

3) Both 1 and 2

Anyhow I’m limping along.  I realize I won’t see Dr. Onions on Monday, because it is AUGUST 15^th – the biggest holiday in all of Greece.  I sent him an email to ask if I could see him later in the week.  The good news is that I don’t have the severe pain and I am able to sleep.

Today, the weather is easy-breezy and we will swim this afternoon. 

I will return to the 80 year old London Times for some edification and amusement.  Here are the topics of page 8:

Signs for Inns and Shops:  Brightening the Streets

Rebel or Patriot?

The Olympic Games:  The Big Stadium in Sport

Costs Against the Police

Overworking of Nurses

Jew and Arab

Points from Letters

Cars of 1937: New Alvis Models

From THE TIMES of 1836

Road Repairs in London

The Estate Market: Land at Hayes, A Cotswold Offer

Auctions To-day

An Advertisement for Three Nuns:  A NEW TIN FOR THE TWO-OUNCE MAN

August 11, 2016. It’s 3:35 AM in Georgia which means it is 10:35 AM in Ierissos.  We are hoping the three new batteries will arrive today, otherwise we have only green tea and no coffee for breakfast.  Actually Stell drinks Nescafe, but I can’t abide the taste of Nescafe.  So whatever I write here, know that I am not awake.  My teeth/sinus/nerve head problem is better, but I’m sure it is because of the anti-inflammatory and anti-biotic.  No severe pain, just a “stuffiness”.  I won’t complain after reading of the disastrous outcomes for so many people in the book I just finished, Blood and Earth.   Now I am studying Waking Up White for the UU Forum.

Oh forgot to say that we say Niki on the beach yesterday.  She turns 12 on August 30^th. She looks great and her English is superior now.  I told her that Adeline calls her the Ierissos Princess, but she said she wanted to be the Queen and not the Princess.  I explained that she is not old enough yet to be the Queen.  She has a lovely humor.  She described a “day of school” for me, and also told me that she plays basketball and sings.  Her Dad, Stelios, came into the sea, and I learned that she calls him “Daddy Cool”.  My phone isn’t working so I can’t get a photograph, but I will take my computer to Mylos’ Café and I should be able take a photo of her with this.  Hopefully wants we have “regular” power, I will be able to juice up my phone.

Signs for Inns and Shops:  Brightening the Streets

Sir, The appeal which Sir Guy Dawber makes for assistance in getting together an exhibition of inn signs is one that will doubtless meet with support from those who are able to contribute examples of old signboards and from artists who have made designs for present-day signs.  Such an exhibition should give an impetus to the revival of the ancient craft of the sign-painter by demonstrating to the brewers how much more attractive is a gaily painted sign of individual character than the stereotyped trade-marks which have become so rife in recent years.

Rebel or Patriot?

Sir, Although recognizing the laudable humanitarian purpose of the well-known writer Commander Stephen King-Hall, who advocates a joint demarche by Britain, France, Germany, and Italy to put an end to the bloody struggle which is devastating my beloved country, I believe that it would be more appropriate to give deserved praise in due course to a Spain emerging victorious over Red barbarism, thanks to the heroic national uprising.

To the Editor of the Times

Sir, Mr. Douglas Jerrold makes a plea for clear thinking.  May I suggest that his letter is confusing in three important particulars, (a) Whoever may be supporting in Spain the present Government, that Government, as constitutional, has rights in international law to which the opponents are not entitled.  It is playing the Bolshevist hand to give colour to the impression that these rights will be accorded to Governments of the Right. (b) Even assuming (wrongly) that there is in Spain merely a war of faith against faith, with neither of which Englishmen agree, the century-old tradition of this Liberal country must incline Englishmen, as it inclined Canning and Palmerston, to favour diplomatically the faith of the Left, (c) A successful Left revolt, unlike a revolt of the Right, would not establish in Spain a Government, under a debt to Fascist Powers, which must endanger the security of France and the prestige of Britain.

The Olympic Games:  The Big Stadium in Sport

Sir, I read with great interest the letter of Lord Decies in The Times of yesterday.  There can be no doubt that millions of marks have been spent by Germany on their preparation for the staging of the amazing spectacle I have been fortunate to witness – The Olympic Games of 1936.  It is not always realized that the amount of money spent on the Olympic Stadium, the Competitor’s Village, and the Olympic Railway Station has not been wasted.  They become a permanent asset for Germany.  May I venture to suggest as a member of the post-War generation that it is a pity we are not staging the next Olympic Games, as I feel that would have given the athletic impetus we need, and a stadium could have been built worthy of international contests.

Sir, I was greatly impressed by the letter from Lord Decies published in your issue of yesterday.  His evidence as an eye-witness in Berlin, coupled with his great experience of successive Olympiads, gives very great weight to his “conclusions” ---namely, “that if such extravagance on preparations for the Games is to continue” (1) “ . . . . there are few countries which will be able to afford to hold them.” And (2) “ . . . . there will soon be few real amateurs left.” . . . . The amateur spirit and tradition are a precious heritage in England and I for one share the belief of Lord Decies that in a view of the current trend of extravagance and regimentation “perhaps it is just as well that we withdrew our claim to stage the Games in 1940.”

Costs Against the Police

Sir, I agree with Mr. Noel Goldie that the question of costs against the police is one of interest to successful defendants.  I do not, however, share his view than when a case is dismissed on payment of costs, the defendant has, or may have, a grievance.  Mr. Goldie is, of course, aware that the statutory authority for taking this course is the Probation of Offenders Act, 1907.  Section I provides inter alia that “where any person is charged before a court of summary jurisdiction with an offence punishable by such court, and the court thinks that the charge is proved. . . the court may, without proceeding to conviction, make an order dismissing the information or charge . . .  . “

Overworking of Nurses:  Causes and Remedies

Sir, Nearly 30 years’ chairmanship of a London hospital has convinced me that the only method of obtaining proper treatment for nurses is that their hours of duty should be divided into three shifts instead of two.  This would of necessity entail the increase of the nursing staff by one-third with corresponding additions to the nurses’ quarters – a formidable fact for most hospitals to face.  If voluntary hospitals, however, cannot meet the necessary expenditure, I am reluctantly drawn to the conclusion that the only way out of the difficulty is State aid.

Sir, Though your correspondence under this head has been admirably discussed by doctors, patients, and parents of nurses, so far no nurse has put the case as she sees it.  May I, a State registered nurse, contribute another aspect?  The present dissatisfaction with the training of nurses is due to several fundamental factors: ___ (1) The enormous increase in institutional beds for which nursing service must somehow be secured. (2) The growing habit of providing this service by means of a nurse training school (the motives here are partly economic, partly desire for prestige). (3) The anomaly of a large educational scheme – the national training of nurses under State auspices – being conducted without educational grants. . . . Every student nurse should have at least one  day a week free from study or ward work.  I selected my own training school mainly because it gave this, and by so doing I lost neither my health nor my interests in the outside world.  The system is entering the student nurse for the double examinations, those of hospital and State, is archaic. 

Jew and Arab

Sir, As an archaeologist who has lived long periods in Palestine, my work has brought me into close contact with the fellahin, and I think I can claim to know them better than do many of the people in this country who accept without criticism the statements put forward by the extremists of the Arab movement.  I have recently brought to an end a six years’ campaign of the excavation in Northern Palestine, and during this time I spent many months in camp in the neighbourhood of an Arab village on the one hand and of a Jewish colony on the other.  From the beginning I was impressed by the friendly relations existing between these two communities, relations which were in no way embittered  by the riots of 1929 and the trials and executions which followed.  Colonists who visited the excavations were greeted as friends by the Arabs from another village.  In cases of sickness the fellahin readily consulted the woman doctor of the colony, within a radius of 12 miles, and who treated them for a minute fee, or, in cases of real need without charge.

Points from Letters

Capuchin Monkeys

I would like to correct a statement made in The Times of August 20 that Miss Austral’s female Capuchin monkey had a baby and that it was the second of its kind to be born in this country.  I have had a pair of Capuchins since 1927, and they have had three babies – the third born this year, and all are living.  Mrs. C. Gunning, The Manor Farm, West Kennett, Marborough

A Tarnished Palate

Mr. Andre Simon rather begs the question,  he smokes. It is worth pointing out that those who have given up smoking can judge better than he of the effects of smoking on the palate and also on the sense of smell which is an important point in connexion with the appreciation of foods. Such persons note an increased appreciation of savours and odours.—Mr. Harold D.W. Atkinson, 10, Eastbury Avenue, Northwood, Middlesex.

Cars of 1937:  New Alvis Models

There are three new Alvis chassis for 1937, and the Crested Eagle model is continued.  The aim of the designer has been to eliminate roughness and excessive noise and to provide smoothness and quietness with high speeds and rapid acceleration.

From the Times of 1836

Friday, August 26, 1836, Price 7 d.

Milton’s Watch – A poor family in this country lately received a box from America, as part of the effects of an aged relative, whose ancestors had emigrated to that continent soon after the time of the Commonwealth;  the box contained several coins of the reigns of Elizabeth, James, and Charles I, and a few of the Protectorate, but none of a later date.  With the coins there was an old watch, and the family to whom the bequest came being indigent sold the whole to a silversmith, who was also a watchmaker.  The purchaser gave the full price for the coins, but refused to give more for the watch than the value of the silver case, 2s. 9d.  The works, with the face on (which looked like iron), were left in a drawer frequently opened. After a while, the friction on the face showed it to be silver, with an inscription on it.  This being deciphered by clearing the metal, was found to be “Johani Miltono, 1621,” and contained also the name of the maker, a person in Pope’s Head-alley, London, who name appears in the tables of the Watchmaker’s Company for that period.  The watch is well made for the time, and would seem an appropriate present for a young gentleman on entering life.  The present possessor had it as a token of gratitude for some favour from the silversmith, and the relic has become an object of inquiry for purchase at a considerable price for the British Museum – Yorkshire paper.

Adverstisement:  A New Tin for the ‘Two-Ounce’ Man

SAYS THE VICAR:  ‘There is much to be said for buying your Three Nuns two ounces a time –especially at week-ends.  And more especially still since those good people in Glasgow brought out this new tin.  It is flat, compact, and airtight.  It opens easily and closes pat without wear and tear on your fingers, and it keeps Three Nuns as it should be.  Indeed there seems as little room for improvement in this new tin as in the tobacco itself.’

August 12, 2016- Friday.  No new batteries. Breezy-warm day so far.  Stell says there is a lot of rain around Greece, but nothing here so far.  Last night we went to Milos Café, because a young professor from Serres was reading from his new book about Aristotle and Political Science.  Stell said in the actual talk he spoke about Aristotle and Leisure.  Stell bought the book, and he says the author writes very well.  Perhaps, he (Stell) will have something to share with Doug Kleiber and Nic.  After the talk, there was some music – a young trio (the singer was only 15).  She had a nice voice, but I didn’t especially like the music.  Occasionally, there was a song that was pleasant, but most of them sounded like funeral dirges to me.  A good crowd of the natives gathered to this event.

A younger woman in black approached me.  Frosso, a friend of many years and herself an accomplished singer.  She was absolutely ashen.  She greeted me and then she said “I am done.”  I thought perhaps she was telling me that she had cancer or some other terminal disease, but what she did tell me was that her wonderful husband Cristos had died in November.  They had gone to Skopje and were having dinner, and he died immediately of a heart attack.  He wasn’t a smoker or drinker, but his heart took him out.  Her grief was intense. 

We did a short “volta” and ended up at Maria’s Pizza, where we had a small pizza and beer.  It wasn’t very crowded, and we were happy to meet up with the young, feisty, waiter, Stelios.  He speaks excellent English – studies geology.  Of course, we went back to the kitchen and greeted Maria, who was a usual “hot” from the pizza ovens.  Then as early as midnight (not like the good ole days) we headed home.

Today, we are hopeful the batteries will arrive and be installed.  Stell has to go to the bank.  I had an email from “Dr. Onions” suggesting I come by for my return visit on Tuesday at 10:30 a.m.  So far I am doing okay. 

I picked a huge bag full of tomatoes for Anja.  She makes tomato sauce, and this is great because then we won’t have so many tomatoes wasted.  Stelios Foras planted a huge crop this year.  

Here are the titles from page 9 of THE LONDON TIMES, August 26, 1936:

Empire Flying Boats:  Projected Trials:  Plans for the Atlantic Experiments

Two of the new Empire flying-boats should be afloat in Rochester within 10 days.  The first named Canopus, which gave great satisfaction in the maker’s trials, was returned to the construction shed about a month ago to be fitted with a double skin for sound-proofing and to be equipped with furniture.  That work is nearly finished and the second boat, to be named Caledonia is also nearly completed.  During next week both should be ready to fly.

Road Improvement Schemes:  By-Passes in Cornwall and Derbyshire

Several important schemes of road improvement, towards which grants are to be made from the Road Fund, were announced yesterday by the Minister of Transport.

Tablet Replaced in Church

A coloured alabaster tablet has been replaced in the parish church of St. Michael the Archangel at Mere, Wiltshire. It is part of an altar piece which was dug up under the Castle Baker, who bought it in 1878, and was strongly of the opinion that it came from Mere Old Chapel Castle, which has fallen into disrepair by 1660.  The tablet was formerly enclosed in a wooden frame, but in recent years it fell out.  Now it has been placed in a stone frame. The restoration has been effected by Mr. Baker’s daughter, Mrs. J.L. Lovibond, of Salisbury, in memory of her father.  The subject of the tablet is the Adoration of the Magi, and it is attributed to the fifteenth century.

London Sessions Acquittals

No evidence was offered at the London Sessions yesterday against Patrick Worsfold, 24, kitchen porter, Brian Hart, 20 labourer, and Edmund Bradley, 21, porter, who were committed from Westminster Police Court on a charge of maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm upon Hans Morrison.  They were all accordingly discharged.

Committed from Thames Police Court on a charge of burglariously breaking out of a house after stealing 11 bottles of whisky and a number of bronze coins, Sidney Lewis, 38, labourer, was found NOT GUILTY and he was discharged.

Welsh Pit Dispute:  Extent of Strike Notices

It was officially stated today, Aug. 25 by Mr. Oliver Harris, the general secretary of the South Wales Miners’ Federation, with reference to the Bedwas Colliery dispute, that, after making allowance for colliery workers who were either ill, on compensation, or unemployed over 90 per cent, of the colliery workers  in the federation had signed the individual notices yesterday to terminate their contracts with colliery companies by September 7.

Alleged Confidence Trick:  American’s £70 Loss

At the Marylebone Police Court yesterday Thomas Cherry (62), described as a merchant, professionally interested in horse-racing and gambling, of Gloucester Crescent, Regent’s Park, was charged with having defrauded Thomas Seberry, of Pittsburg, U.S.A., of £70 10s. by means of a confidence trick.  The defence, said Mr. Claude Hornby (solicitor) was an alibi.

Mr. Seberry, a retired American, staying at London hotel, said that last Thursday morning he witnessed the changing of the guard ceremony at St. James’s Palace and then went on to Buckingham Palace, where he met a man who introduced himself as a Mr. Buchanan, of Australia.  They met again the following morning by arrangement and were walking together when they saw a man in front drop a small purse out of his pocket.  They returned the purse to the man, who was overwhelmingly in his thanks, “Oh! God bless you,” he said. “I wouldn’t lose this little purse for anything.  It belongs to the family and if I lost it I would be liable to die in a month.  My father lost it and he died, and after he was buried we found it in the cabbage garden.”

He shook hands with them many times and went on to say that he was Pat O’Connor, half-brother of a Pennsylvanian who had struck oil on his farm and sold out for a million dollars.  Some that money, he said had come to him through the good offices of a Father O’Riley, and a condition of the will was that £60,000 must be distributed among the poor in all parts of the world.  He suggested that Buchanan should take £1,000 to the Australian poor, and that he (Mr. Seberry) should take £1000 back with him to America.  Father O’Riley, however, had insisted that the carriers of the money must be men of substance.  Mr. Buchanan produced an envelope with a bank note sticking out of it, and he (the witness) handed over £70 10s.  Buchanan and Pat O’Connor then left him.  Buchanan he had not seen since, but he identified the accused, Cherry, as Pat O’Connor

“THIS DREAM OF ELDORADO”

Cross-examined by Mr. Claude Hornby, Mr. Seberry said he had been successful in the real estate business in American, and retired about 10 years ago.  He was now almost 73.

Mr. Hornby – And you believed this dream of Eldorado that was held out to you, about all this money?  Well, it would take an hour and a quarter to tell you all that man said.  He talked so much that I did not know what I was doing.  Sometimes he had tears in his eyes as he told me the story of his life and his relatives.  He was always urging me to take this money to America.

Mr. Seberry said he believed that he picked out O’Connor and Buchanan in a album of photographs at Scotland Yard.

A waiter at the Great Western Hotel, Paddington, identified the defendant as one of two men he had seen with Mr. Seberry at luncheon time last Friday.

Detective Dawson stated that after being arrested, Cherry said that he knew nothing about the matter and refused his address saying, “You will find nothing there.”  Next morning, the officer said, he went to Gloucester Crescent, Regent’s Park, and in a front bedroom on the ground floor, in a black overcoat pocket,  he found 18 £1 notes, while under a number of shirts in a chest of drawers he discovered  two £5 notes and 12 £1 notes.  In a locked cabin trunk were a quantity of blank stocks and shares certificates and three newspaper cuttings relating to the Centaur Mne.  The prisoner, on being told of this discovery, said, the officer alleged, “Well you have got enough on me.  I will take a rap.”  He was afterwards identified from among nine other men by Mr. Seberry.

Cherry, giving evidence in support of his alibit, said he was convicted in 1927 of his theft of a cheque for £100.  He had never seen Mr. Seberry tuntil he attended the identification parade.

The defendant was remanded on bail.

Local Examinations at Cambridge

August 13, 2016- Celebrate Left-Handers’ Day.  Happy day Nic!  Yesterday we got our batteries, so today started with a “real cup of coffee”.  It is chrystal clear outside today because of a long bout of rain early this morning.  It’s much cooler and every day is much more like Fall than Summer.  Last night I had to put on a jacket in the last hour before going to bed.  Of course, this is glorious for me, but the natives who are counting on the tourists seeking sunshine, aren’t as happy.

Well, here’s more from page nine of The London Times in 1936:

Prison for Cruelty to Cat

At Portsmouth Police Court yesterday WILLIAM LEARMOUTH, of Orchard Road, Southsea, was sentenced to one month imprisonment for cruelty to a cat.  It was stated that Learmouth was seen by an R.S.P.C.A. inspector preparing to strike the cat with an axe.  The inspector humanely destroyed the animal because of the blows it had already received.  Other evidence was that a cat was found nearly dead in a neighbour’s garden and that Learmouth said he had, “done him in this time.” Learmouth told the Magistrates that he hit with a a bamboo stick the cat which the R.S.P.C.A. inspector subsequently destroyed, and, thinking that he had unintentionally stunned it, gave it a blow with the heavy end of the axe to put it out of pain.  The cat, he added, had been a nuisance in his garden.

Coronation Plans:  Timber Needed for Stands:  A Stimulus to Industry

Within a few months’ time those near the Coronation route will be hearing the buzz of the carpenter’s saw, the steady ring of deals, battens, and boards being place in position, and the staccato sound of the hammering of nails as the big stands for onlookers are put up.

A large number of stands will be erected also in other parts of London and in the country to enable spectators to witness various Coronation celebrations.   Apart from large construction work, shops and offices on the processional routes will be filled with seats, and large demand for timber is expected.  This country is the largest buyer of imported wood in the world, and in the near future will be a larger one still.  Not only will output in many parts of the world be stimulated but shipping, docks, railways, and other branches of transport will benefit by increased activity over a wide area.

Coronation Year Flowers

It is expected that there will be keen competition among horticulturalists next year to raise new blooms worthy of being named after the King. Already one firm has produced a new crimson gladiolus, which has been called, King Edward VIII,” and a firm of carnation growers has registered the name “Coronation” for a carnation which is being raised for next year.  Red, white, and blue flowers will be very popular for bedding schemes and for window boxes.

Gold Theft Charge:  Magistrate and “Unclean” Evidence”

The case in which four men are charged with being concerned together in the theft of bullion worth £3,700 from a railway van in Aylesbury Street, Clerkenwell, on July 15, was continued at Old Street Police Court yesterday.  The bullion has not been recovered.  The men were described as LEONARD ELLIS, 21, mechanic, of Lancing Street, N.W. 1; JAMES FRANCIS (also referred to as Murray), 48, dealer, of no fixed address; FREDERICK WILLIAM HOPPER, 26, motor driver,of Graham Street, City Road, N. 1; and HENRY JAMES BRYAN, 27, sawyer, of Packington Street, N. 1.

Nottingham Chess Congress:  Mr. Botwinnik’s Lead

Dr. Euwe and M. Botwinnik were again equal in the lead as the result of yesterday’s play, but this afternoon Botwinnik won his game against Vidmar, and his present score is nine points, with two games to play.

Typhoid Fever from a Handshake:  Unsuspected Carriers

Mr. A. H. Walters, chief technical assistant, Albert Dock Hospital, London, discussed the problem of combatting typhoid at yesterday’s sitting in Edinburgh of the conference of the Pathological and Bacteriological Laboratory Assistants’ Association, Mr. A.B. Cheyne, Edinburgh, vice-president, was in the chair.

Mr. Walters exhibited a film dealing with the investigation of a ship’s native crew for a typhoid carrier.  Until comparatively recent times, he said, enteric fevers were responsible for more deaths among British soldiers in India than cholera.   Enteric fevers also occurred in countries situated in temperate climate zones, but were generally of a much less virulent type than those contracted in the tropics.  Infection was the most dangerous source of infection was usually transmitted in food or water, but the most dangerous source of infection was from people in the acute or convalescent stage of the disease or from carriers.  The last mentioned, for reasons not year clearly understood, could swallow enteric bacilli, but they did not suffer any ill effects.  They showed no clinical symptoms or other indications to warn them of the menace they carried.   Any susceptible person could become directly infected by a friendly handshake with a carrier.  In the case dealt with in the film the carrier was found to be a member of the crew who was responsible for the handling of the ice which was placed into drinks.

Three Storks at Land’s End:  Disappearance of Two:  Shooting Feared

Three storks believed to be some of hose which began to migrate from Kent on August 12, and which left the Isle of Wight on Saturday, have been seen in Cornwall.

Speaking to The Times Office from Trewey Farm, near Land’s End, yesterday, Professor C. J. Wright of Didsbury College, Manchester, said: --

On Monday afternoon about 5 o’clock, three stately birds alighted in a field adjoining this farmhouse.  My friend drove them quietly into the farmyard; they seemed to have little fear, and we were hoping they would roost overnight on one of the farm buildings.  Unfortunately while we were away seeking fish and a camera one of the farm maids threw some corn for them a little too brusquely.  They became alarmed and took wing in a northerly direction.  Later in the evening, about 7 o’clock, a single bird returned to the field.

What has happened to the other two?  Ominous shots had been heard in the interval from not distant fields.  That is all, perhaps, that one dare say at the moment, though I heard one man say this morning that he had witnessed a vain endeavor to shoot a solitary bird at a range of 40 yards.

Charge of Murdering a Nurse:  Alleged Statement to Police

Albert Thomas Clay, of Nuneaton Road, Dagenham, was at Epping Police Court yesterday committee for trial at the Central Criminal Court on a charge of murdering Phyllis Brace, a nurse, of Papworth Everard, Cambridgeshire.

Mr. E. Clayton, solicitor, appeared for the Director of Public Prosecutions, and Mr. H.Wilkinson, solicitor, for the defence.

Mr. Clayton said that for some years Clay had been suffering from tuberculosis.  He met Miss Brace some eight years ago when he was attending a clinic.  He was undergoing treatment and she was living in the district.  She was not ill in any sense of the word.  They became very attracted to each other, but owing to the condition of the prisoner the question of marriage was not discussed at all.  Eventually she qualified as a nurse.

Miss Brace left home on July 21.  She was coming to London with the idea of taking some relatives back to Cambridge.  On July 22, about 11 a.m., she called at the Epping Institution.  Clay, against medical advice, too his own discharge, and they seemed to have taken a taxi and gone as far as the Epping omnibus stop.  They there took an omnibus in the direction of the Wake Arms and then they began to walk through the woods in the direction of Theydon Bois.  On July 23, about 7 p.m., the licensee of an Epping Green publichouse was motoring towards London when he saw Clay lying near a heap of stones in a very distressed condition.   He thought that the man had been knocked down by a motor car and asked him.  He said, “No.  I have been in the forest.  I have had some drugs.  There is a girl in the forest.  She may be dead.”

VERY MUCH IN LOVE

Detective Inspector Claud Smith, giving evidence, said that Clay made a statement in which he said:  “I first met her when I went to Papworth Everard Colony as a patient with tuberculosis.  We have kept company for some years, and I was very much in love with her.  She frequently told me she was in love with me.  We discussed the question of marriage, but it was impossible owing to my condition.  The fear of having children who may be afflicted was too great.”

Coming to the day in question, the alleged statement described how they went to Epping Forest.  “We walked into the forest toward Theydon Bois until we found a suitable spot to rest,” it went on, “Phyllis had a small suitcase and a parcel with her and I had a carrier bag with me which contained my dressing gown and other articles. We found a place to stop.  About 12:30 p.m. we commenced to take A.B.C. tablets and barbitone which Phyllis had brought with her.

“We decided about a year ago that life was not worth living and to take the best way out of it.  We decided the best way was to take tablets.  I should say we took 50 grains to sleep.  I don’t remember the time.  I remember that Phyllis was very restless during the night.  She kept getting up many times and I told her to lie down.  Then I woke up and found she was gone.  I searched for her in the dark but could not find her.  I found the dressing-gown which had been covering us was gone.

“It was still dark.  I slept again, and when I woke up it was light.  Phyllis was lying in a swamp trying to get out.  I tried to help her but could not get hold.  It was raining hard.  There was a razor in my case.  I got it out to use on myself.  I could not do it and I used it on her.

“After I had cut Phyllis’s throat I walked, staggered, and crawled towards the road.  I remember someone in a car stopping and getting out and helping me.  That is all I can say . . . . She was unhappy, and I wish now to die in any case.  I wish to say I am very sorry that I have caused suffering to her parents.”

News in Brief

Mr. C. Plumb, a Gravesend shrimper, still uses a 160-year-old fishing boat, which has been in the family’s possession most of the time.

A woman who was killed when she fell under a train at Mark Lane station on Monday night has been identified as Mrs. Jessie E. Taylor, 34, of Little Thurrock, Grays, Essex.

At an inquest at Southwark yesterday on the body of Mrs. Florence Kate Whiteheart, 43, of Old Kent Road, S.E., who died after a fish bone had penetrated her gullet and aorta, a verdict of “Accidental death” was recorded.

Mr. Samuel Reid, an Edinburgh motor agent, while flying over his native Orkney Islands, observed a sheep in distress on the cliff face at Mull Head, Deerness.  Knowing where it belonged, he dropped a note which resulted in the farmer rescuing his animal.

Cigarette Ends Resold as Tobacco

A man who admitted that he picked up cigarette ends in the streets and from cinema dustbins, extracted the tobacco, and sold it in packets to men who were waiting outside employment exchanges, was fined 40s. at Newcastle Police Court yesterday for selling tobacco without a license.  He was WILLIAM ARCHER, 67, of Back New Bridge Street, Newcastle.  Mr. D. J. Wilson, Customs and Excise solicitor, said that, fortunately for Archer, the processes through which he put the tobacco were not complicated enough to be called manufacturing, and for that reason he had been charged as retailer.  Acting on information given by a man who bought 20 or 30 packets weekly for a third party, Revenue officers found on Archer’s premises 6 lb. of tobacco and 3 lb. of sorted cigarette ends.   Archer told them that after picking up the cigarette ends he sorted them, removed the paper, put the tobacco through a sieve, and then packeted the tobacco, selling it to regular customers and to men waiting outside employment exchanges.

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August 14^th – windy, semi-sunny, quite cool.  We didn’t swim yesterday and chances are we won’t swim today.  We did visit the cheese factory yesterday morning which is about five minutes from our house.  The man who owns it graduated from the American Farm School.  It’s very modern, and in 2010 they were entered in the Guinness Book of World Records for producing the world’s largest cheese.  Stell took the owner a copy of his latest book, but the owner wasn’t there, so he left it for him.  We got gasoline and had the usual ouzo with meze at Sultana’s then went to Milos Café.  Anja found us (she always finds us), and later I discovered Demetrius Baldiz was there.  He’s the young man (Paris’ age) who has just returned from Harvard for a specialty study related to diabetes.  I got a chance to have a pretty lengthy conversation, and he told me in a few days he would like to bring a law professor from Harvard to meet who is coming for about the 30^th time to Greece.  Demetrius’ story I have printed in my journal before, but I will repeat it briefly that Stell says he comes from one of the absolute poorest families in the village (his grandfather had a pig or two).  I was awed with his story of the cultural adjustment he had to make at Harvard, and he talked at length about the differences (which I can confirm) in our two cultures.  That said, he found the American generous and warm, just not as family-oriented as the Greeks.  No one is as family-oriented as the Greeks.  He plans to work for a private hospital for the Balkans centered in Thessaloniki and he will come to his office here in Ierissos occasionally.  He said he has a great research project and has been able to publish some good papers related to his particular studies about diabetes.  He also told me that he had gone to medical school with Dr. Onions, and the he really thinks he is a superior doctor.

We left Milos thinking we might eat at Mouragio’s, but it was packed with holiday people, so we went to the Athos Restaurant, and I had moussaka and Stell had stuffed peppers.  We brought half of it home, because the portions are huge, so that will probably be our lunch today.  Tomorrow is the grandest holiday of the year in Greece, and we are invited several places.

Page Ten in the 1936 London Times:

This page begins with a piece that is sponsored by Selfridge & Co., LTD that is titled “Why?”  There is a note at the beginning that reads, “This space is occupied every day by an article reflecting the policies, principles, and opinions of this House of Business upon various points of public interest.”

Next there is what I would call, to be sure, a racist advertisement for Barney’s pipe tobacco.  “Out of five officers in my ship, four smoke Barney’s . . . . is smoked wherever white men go.”

MAKING FUR BREEDING BETTER KNOWN:  EXHIBITION OF LIVE ANIMALS AT SELFRIDGE’S

The British Fur Breeders’ Association are holding an exhibition of live animals in the roof gardens of Selfridge’s, Oxford Street, which will be open to the public to-day and to-morrow.

The exhibition, though on  a small scale contains animals of great value and with fine records in the show-ring.  Fur breeding as an industry has been established in Great Britain for some years, but it is n order to make better known among a wider public that the association is holding the present exhibition.

Fur-bearing animals and skins that can be seen include a pair of silver foxes from an Essex fur farm, several pens of mink from Sussex and elsewhere, and varieties of nutria and fitch.  Apart from its technical aspect, the exhibition may be of interest to people who are not aware how well these fur-bearing animals flourish in Great Britain.

DIRECTORSHIP OF VIENNA OPERA

Herr Felix von Weingartner, musical director and conductor of the Vienna Opera, has resigned the post of musical director, but will hold himself at the disposal of the Opera as guest-conductor.  The office of musical director passes into the hands of Dr. Kerber, on whom the directorial duties have actually devolved for some time past.

THE WIRELESS EXHIBITION:  TELEVISION EXHIBITS PROMINENT

The annual exhibition of wireless apparatus, organized by the Radio Manufacturers’ Association, opens this morning at Olympia and will continue until Saturday, September 5.  The public are admitted daily from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Television exhibits will be prominent for the first time and visitors will be able to see the reception of high-definition television from the new B.B.C. station at the Alexandra Palace.  These demonstrations will be given daily for the period of the exhibition from noon to 1:30 p.m., and from 4:30 until 6 p.m. approximately.  Transmissions will be effected on alternate days by the Baird and Marconi- E.M.I. systems.  The choice as to which systems should operate at to-day’s opening was decided by the spin of a sovereign, and the Baird Company were successful.  During the period of the exhibition these experimental programmes will include excerpts from talking films and scenes in the studios and in the open air.  Complete television installations, not, of course,  in operation, will be on view and on sale at a number of the stands.

GLASCOW TO LONDON IN 7HRS. 25MIN.:  L.M.S. AUTUMN SCHEDULE

By accelerating the 10 a.m. Royal Scot express from Glasgow (Central) and Edinburgh (Princess Street) to arrive Euston at 5:25 p.m., the L.M.S. Railway will introduce in the autumn the fastest journey yet made by rail from Glasgow to London.  The change will come into effect on September 28, and represents an achievement of 15 minutes over last winter’s timing.

FIRST POLICE LIFE-SAVING COMPETITION:  CUP WON BY PORTSMOUTH CITY

Teams from 13 Police forces took part to-day at Dover in the first annual life-saving Cup.  There were entries from Brighton, Chatham, Dover (two teams), Elham, Kent, Division, Gravesend, Guildford, Hove (two teams), Margate, Portsmouth City, St. Augustine Division, Canterbury, Tonbridge Division, Kent, Wingham Division, Kent, and Worthing.

A CHAMPION SHEEP-DOG

Loos, a Border collie, is the champion sheep-dog of the 400,000-acre tract of the Romney Marshland.  Working to the command of his master, J. Kerr, a shepherd from Oxonbridge, Iden, Rye, he won the championship cup for the best dog of any age at the animal trials of the Romney Marsh Sheep Dog Society at the Pilot Field, Hastings on Saturday.  There was a triple tie, but Loos won the decider by only half a point from C. Upton’s Jack, of Guston’s Ash, Canterbury.  The farmers’ prize was won by Jeff, owned by H.N. Finn, the club’s secretary, of Broomhill Farm, Rye.  It was her second win within a week, for she took first prize at Sandwich the previous Saturday.

PROMENADE CONCERT:  BERLIOZ AND LISZT

Berlioz and Liszt represent what might be described as the platform of the Official Opposition in English musical life.  Like all Oppositions, the partisans are as vocal as the composers themselves are unreticent, so that no one can complain that their works do not get a square deal or an adequate hearing.  Still, it is one of the great advantages of a series of mighty concerts such as the “Proms” that a whole programme can be given up to the cause of a not exactly oppressed minority.

NEW FILM-RECORDING PROCESS:   WIDE INSTRUMENTAL AND VOCAL RANGE

A new system of recording sound by means of ultra-violet light, which may result in some of the favourites of “silent” films returning to the screen, has been discovered . . . . The new system, the discovery of R.C.A. Photophone, is claimed to be the greatest advance in motion picture history since the introduction of the talkies.  The first film to be recorded on R.C.A. ultra-violet, United Artists’ all-colour production entitled The Garden of Allah with Miss Marlene Dietrich, will be shown at an early date.

Titles of Plays Showing:

After October

Dante

The Two Bouquets

The Fugitives

Night Must Fall

Lilac Time

Dusty Ermine

The Lady of La Paz

Chinese White

Spring Tide

Miss Smith

Blackbirds of 1935

Storm in a Teacup

Call it a Day

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

No! No! Nanette

Blackbirds of 1936

Love’s Labour’s Lost

Whiteoaks

The Frog

Pride and Prejudice

Spread it Abroad

Heroes Don’t Care

Lady Precious Stream

Aren’t Men Beasts!

Anthony and Anna

3 Men on a Horse

Picture Theatres:

De Kribbebijter

And So They Were Married

The Devil Doll

Bed and Sofa

Forget Me Not

Sons O’ Guns

Mutiny on the Bounty

Everything is Thunder

Rhodes of Africa

My American Wife

Tudor Rose

The Good Companions

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

The Lady Consents

Kamerandschaft

Boys will be Boys

Under Two Flags

Xronia Polla from Ierissos, Greece, noon on the biggest religious holiday, Mary’s Names Day, August 15^th. The day has started beautifully for me.  I took a three mile walk alone on this breezy, warm morning and had a wee bit of adventure along the way.  When I got to the paved road part of the walk, there was a small herd of goats in front of me – not too unusual.  I assumed they would just move to the side of the road as I came upon them with my walking stick. But instead they just started to run ahead down the paved road.  I saw no sign of the herder . . . a bit unusual, but I figured he was somewhere nearby.  Three cars also going in my direction were somewhat stalled by the goats.  A young man who lived in a house came out and asked me first in Greek what was going on (he must have thought I was the herder because of my walking stick), but I explained in English that I was just walking and didn’t know where there herder was.  He replied with some so-so English and then I think he went looking for the herder.  Eventually the goats along with four dogs went into a field.  As I walked a little further I saw the herder coming from the opposite direction where he was herding at least 100 more goats.  Obviously this smaller group and been accidently left behind.  He said Kalimera; I replied Kalimera.  All’s well.  I just loved the walk with the vistas and panoramas of sea and fields.

I am also in a happy mood because my telephone is charging again.  I suspect, but can’t know for sure that the old batteries were just not working hard enough for a current to charge the phone before, but now it is at almost 90%.  Stell felt there was something wrong with my phone.  Now, if it continues to work, I will be prepared to call Devon when I have landed in Atlanta. 

Today we will do our usual trek in the village for ouzos and swimming and tonight at 8 p.m. go to the Athos Restaurant for dinner to celebrate Stell’s niece’s Names Day.  Anna her mother is the sponsor.  We think Aggelos may be here with Stell’s other sister Irini, and innumerable other family members. 

Well back to the London Times 1936 you will see more attention to the army buildup in Germany among other international stories.  Keep in mind I am half way through the paper, and only now beginning to read significant international news.  Here are the headlines:

German Army Strength:  Effect of New Decree

Lord Mayor Visits the King’s Ranch

Indian Tichborne Case: “Dead” Man’s Revival on Funeral Pyre

Situation in Palestine: Lull in Terrorist Activity

Financial Side of the Olympic Games:  Foreign Visitors Fewer Than Expected

Japanese Ambassador to Moscow

Australia and the States:  To-day’s Conference:  Premiers’ Agreement on Proposals

Australia and Ottawa Agreement

Britain and Australian Producers:  Dr. Earle Page on Need for Cooperation

Congress Party Divisions:  Election Manifesto Criticized

Moslem Unity in Bengal

Anti-Japanese Feeling in Szechwan:  A Kidnapping Accident

British Soldiers Fired at in Peking

Soil Erosion in South Australia

“Renovation in Japan”:  A Seven-Point Programme:  Cabinet Discussion

Czechoslovak Army Manoeuvres Over:  Defence Loan Yield

Canadian Air Defence:  Support for Lord Elibank

Mortgage Reduction in New Zealand:  Re-Assessment of Debts

Telegrams in Brief

Man’s Relation to the Apes:  A South African Discovery

Manitoba Coalition Negotiations

An Advertisement for BP Ethyl

German Army Strength:  Effect of New Decree

Berlin-Aug. 25—It is announced to-day that the conscripts of the 1914 class called up last year and members of younger classes now serving with the armed forces, including volunteers, will remain with the Colours in the autumn to serve a second year under the new German law.  Only volunteers of earlier classes will be discharged.

August 17, 2016.  I won’t “ho-hum” another beautiful day, but the truth is, it is simply gorgeous, baby-bear weather – not too hot, not too cold, just right.  Yesterday was good, starting with a successful trip to see Dr. Onions.  I am  taking “no medicine”, which, if you know me, is a great pleasure.  Let’s hope this lasts at least until I’m home.  I will think the best.

Stell’s nephew, Costas (Demetra’s son) is supposed to come up here at 10 a.m. (in about 15 minutes) with his lovely girlfriend, Panyiota.  He lives in Athens and works in an aluminum recycling company in management.  He has an undergraduate degree in metallurgy and his working currently on a M.B.A. in Athens that is operated by the University of Louisville (KY).  He wants to talk with Uncle Stell about his career. 

We did swim yesterday and it looks like that will happen again this afternoon.  We had a nice lunch at Athos Restaurant – chicken snittzel, potatoes and okra.  I gave the Serbian guy, Miroslav, a CD featuring the New Orleans Historic Preservation jazz group, because he is incredibly interested in American music.  I think American music is one of the world’s great glues.   His wife, Daniella, made it very clear to me that she hates Bill Clinton.  I get it.  She’s Serbian, so how could she love him.  That said, Stell and I are quite pleased to see the current poll figures for Hillary.

I haven’t had much news of the name’s day dinner for Mary, because although it was well attended, it was mostly boring.  Both Stell’s sisters were there and most of the Psemmas’ family (Thanos’ brothers, wives, etc.).  Also Aggelos Katsaggelos came with his mother, but he and I have really nothing to say to one another.  I’d much rather see his “wife”? Sally, but she definitely isn’t coming to Greece any time soon. 

Yet another Fall day and again an extraordinary early morning walk.  Today we will probably meet Stell’s nephew, Aggelos, for an ouzo and then go swimming.  I think we are supposed to have dinner with him tonight at Mouragio.  Stell is doing his daily exercises now because he wants to go to the courthouse before the ouzo.  I think that is a good idea:  Ouzo, then Courthouse – although probably many of the people who work in the Courthouse will also be leaving for ouzo. 

Lord Mayor Visits the King’s Ranch

Edmonton.  Aug. 25.  The Lord Mayor of London, Sir Percy Vincent, and his party paid a brief visit to the King’s E.P. ranch, near Pekisko, motoring the 50 miles from Calgary.  They were entertained at dinner at Calgary last night, when the Lord Mayor was given a mounted buffalo head by the Mayor.  Mr. Andrew Davison, on behalf of the city.  Lord and Lady Elibank, who have spent two days at Calgary, also visited the King’s ranch.

Indian Tichborne Case:  “Dead” Man’s Revival on Funeral Pyre

Calcutta, Aug. 25.  An Indian “Tichborne case,” which opened at Dacca in November, 1933, concluded there yesterday with a result opposite from that of the English case.  Judgment was given in favour of a Samnyassi or Yogi, who claimed to be Kumar Ramendra Narayan Roy, second son of the late Raja Bahadur Rajendra Narayan Roy of Bhowal, a wealthy landowner.   He was awarded a third share of the property.  His story, the Judge said, did not rest on the credibility of witnesses alone, but was vindicated by every possible test.  His bodily identity was proved with mathematical certainty by exceptional markings, and even if he had come back blind and deaf the conclusion would stand.

The plaintiff was thought to have died at Darjeeling in 1909, being (he alleged) the victim of a poisoning plot.  When he was placed on the funeral pyre, a rainstorm broke and the funeral party ran for the nearest shelter a mile away, leaving his pyre unlit.  The plaintiff awoke from his coma with his memory temporarily gone, and some passing holy men helped to revive him.  He lived with them until 1922 as a disciple, and then returned to Calcutta and to his home at Dacca, where gradually many people began to recognize him.  Eventually he brought a suit against his wife, her brother, and others who had benefited by his supposed death under the terms of his father’s will.  They all refused to recognize him.

The trial has involved 1,500 witnesses and large quantities of exhibits.  The defendants produced a municipal record showing that no rain fell at Darjeerling on the date of the funeral.  The plaintiff produced evidence that the record had been tampered with, and also that rain frequently fell on one side of Darjeeling and not on the other.  Public opinion in Dacca has been with the plaintiff throughout the trial, and the verdict was tumultuously received.  A daily newspaper was specially created at Dacca for reporting the case.

Situation in Palestine:  Lull in Terrorist Activity

Jerusalem, Aug. 25

Palestine is enjoying another slight lull in the terrorists’ acts.  The only serious violence reported to-day consists of an other attack on the Jerusalem water pipeline at Bab al Wad, a skirmish between troops and an Arab band north of Nablus, and the throwing of a bomb into a Jewish paint shop at Jaffa, by which three persons were slightly wounded.

Financial Side of the Olympic Games: Foreign Visitors Fewer Than Expected

Berlin, Aug. 25.  Berlin has doffed the festival garments assumed for the Olympic Games and gone into workday clothes, as Dr. Goebbels puts it.  Some time will be required to remove in its entirety the Propaganda Ministry’s elaborate and, on the whole, highly effective scheme of decorations, but the process has begun.

The economic weekly Der Deutsche Volkswirt has some interesting comments to make on the Olympic Games from the financial aspect.  It mentions that in spite of the inflow of foreign visitors the Games cost Germany more in foreign exchange than they brought in, for the visitors used registered marks, which are supplied out of money owed in Germany to foreigners, and they consumed goods which Germany had to import at the cost of foreign exchange.  They did not spend enough in registered marks to lessen the German debt appreciably.  The number of foreign visitors, in fact, fell far below expectations.  Of 350,000 rooms prepared in private houses in addition to hotel, hostel and pension, accommodation only 60,000 were taken up, and not all of these for the whole period of the Games. . . .

Lacking any others, the Berliners would find in the food shops signs that the Olympiad, and the period of plenty, was over.  Beef, pork, and eggs are again being rationed out carefully, presumably in order to repair the depredations made on the reserve supplies by the influx of visitors.  While there is no anxiety at the moment over the food position, it is evident that the authorities feel the need of husbanding supplies in case there should be a scarcity in the winter.

Japanese Ambassador to Moscow

Tokyo, Aug. 25.  Mr. Shigemitsu, as had been expected, has been appointed Ambassador in Moscow, in succession to Mr. Ota, who returned here earlier this month after being in Moscow since 1932.  Mr. Shigemitsu held diplomatic posts in England during the War and is at present in a high position in the Tokyo Foreign Office.

 Seeing the YouTubes of Nic with his robot in the College of Education was really a fun surprise.  He’s getting a lot of attention on FaceBook too.  We have the sewer guy at the house now, because a pipe was broken, so he had to jackhammer near the house to find it, and will work today to replace it.  Stell finished his book about Aristotle and the Genesis of Political Science written by the young professor from Serres.  I sent Petra and Kyros the link to my two videos about Aggelos’ church.  Our dinner last night at Mouragio’s was quite boring.  Unfortuately I was seated at the table so that I looked into the wall.  I did sit next to Costas, so at least I could have conversation. Aggelos was treating the entire crowd on the occasion of his oldest daughter, Ireni’s birthday.  She is a student at the University of Illinois-Chicago Medical School.  She was 27 yesterday, so he was sending her videos of the party here. Her roommate is a young woman from Nigeria.  Her sisters are both studying in Scotland now.  He doesn’t mention his wife? Sally nor has he attempted to bring his girlfriend around the family.  He did say that his twin brother and sister-in-law make no attempt to see him while he’s here, and they are not helpful with his mother (Stell’s sister), which is worrisome because she is getting more frail.  That said, his older cousin, Stelios, does help with Ireni a lot.  He makes sure she gets to every doctor’s appointment.  She certainly did not luck out with daughters-in-law.  So that’s the family saga for now.

Australia and the States:  To-day’s Conferece:  Premiers’ Agreement on Proposals

Adelaide, Aug. 25

All of the Premiers of the Australian States, who are assembled here for the Premiers’ Conference beginning to-morrow, conferred to-day on the proposals to be discussed, and reached a greater unanimity than has been known in the last 10 years.  They agreed that the financial relations between the Commonwealth and the States be altered so as to obtain a proper balance regarding their respective revenues available.  They also agreed that the financial agreement be amended to provide that the Commonwealth’s annual contribution towards the interest bill of each State be increased by 25 per cent.  This motion was carried by five votes to one.  There was much discussion on the 40-hour week.

Mr. Butler, the Premier of South Australia opposed it on the ground that it would hasten the mechanization of secondary industries and therefore defeat its own object, which was to increase employment.  Mr. Duncan, the Premier of Victoria, was impressed by arguments favouring the 40-hour week, but considered that the difficulties of its adoption were too great.  The Premier of Queensland, Mr. W. F. Smith, supported it strongly and favoured its adoption throughout the Commonwealth.  Mr. Collier, Premier of Western Australia, supported Mr. Smith. The Premier of Tasmania, Mr. Ogilvie, argued that the 40-hour week was bound to come, whether Australia liked it or not, and that while Commonwealth action was not necessary it was doubtful whether it was achievable by Act of Parliament.

Australia and Ottawa Agreement

Adelaide, Aug. 25.  Delivering the Presidential address at the meeting here to-day of the Australian Associated Chamber of Manufacturers, Mr. Rinder said that Australia had now taken a firm stand; it must be master in its own house and nominate the limit of its capacity to absorb imported goods.  Australia must become industrialized.

Britain and Australian Producers:  Dr. Earle Page on Need for Cooperation

Melbourne, Aug. 25.  Having travelled the 3,000 miles from Darwin, Northern Territory, in R.A.F. aeroplanes since Sunday, Dr. Earle Page, the Australian Minister of Commerce and Deputy Prime Minister, arrived here today from England and hurried to a Federal Cabinet meeting.  He observed that the air route from Darwin was ideal for land aeroplanes.

Congress Party Divisions:   Election Manifesto Criticized

Simla, Aug. 25

The election manifesto adopted by the Congress Party is the chief subject of comment here to-day.  The manifesto has been cleverly drafted to keep all conflicting elements within the party.  Socialists and anti-Socialists, opponents and proponents of acceptance of office, those who condemn the communal award outright and those who are undecided in their attitude may all go to the polls in support of the manifesto.  They find a common platform only in their hostility to the existing Administration and in the theoretical plans for independence.

Moslem Unity in Bengal

Calcutta, Aug. 25

Agreement has been reached for the constitution of a single Moslem League Parliamentary Board for Bengal, consisting of 15 representatives of the United Moslem Party lately formed (chiefly by efforts of present Moslem members in the Bengal Government and their supporters), seven representatives of the Moslem League, seven Moslem Majlis, and four independents nominated by Mr. Jinnah.  The agreement is the result of Mr. Jinnah’s visit to Calcutta.  The 33 names published include the two Moslem members of the Governor’s Executive Council and the Moslem Minister.

Anti-Japanese Feeling in Szechwan:  A Kidnapping Incident

Shanghai, Aug. 25.  Four Japanese, including two Shanghai journalists, who were visiting Chengtu, in Szechwan, are reported to have been attacked by Chinese on Monday evening.  Two were seriously injured and two were kidnapped by their assailants, according to reports received from Japanese naval sources.  Japanese consular police from Chungking have gone to the spot.

British Soldiers Fired At in Peking

Peking, Aug. 25.  Seven shots were fired at three British soldiers as they were returning in rickshaws to their barracks from a cinema here late last night. A large closed car came up behind them and slowed down.  Revolvers were thrust out, and the shots followed quickly.  None of the soldiers were hit, but one of the rickshaw coolies was struck in the leg.

Soil Erosion in South Australia

Adelaide, Aug. 25.  The South Australian Minister for Lands, Mr. McIntosh has announced that the Government, in an effort to check the erosion of soil and to rehabilitate the native flora in the pastoral country, where serious inroads are occurring, intends to grant lessees substantial  rent concessions if they agree to establish flora reserves and stock their holdings lightly.  Some lessees have notified that they are prepared to restrict the quantity of stock indefinitely, and the Government are giving considerable concessions to those who are willing not to stock their country at all for a given period.  Where holdings have been fenced to exclude vermin a noticeable improvement has already been effected.

“Renovation” in Japan:  A Seven-Point Programme:  Cabinet Discussion

Tokyo, Aug. 25.  Out of the 30 “national renovation” policies submitted by the Government Departments, the Cabinet to-day approved seven –namely:--

(1) Replenishment of armaments

(2) Improvement of education

(3) Readjustment of taxation

(4) Measures for stabilizing the people’s livelihood, comprising insurance against natural calamities, improvement of the public health service, and assistance to the farming and fishing communities.

(5) Encouragement of trade, electric power control, promotion of self-sufficiency in fuel and steel, encouragement of the fibre industry (this arises from the wool dispute with Australia), encouragement of aviation, shipping, and emigration.

(6) Emigration to and investment in Manuchukuo.

(7) Renovation of the administrative machinery.

Czechoslovak Army:  Manoeuvres Over:  Defence Loan Yield

Prague, Aug. 25. The Czechoslovak manoeuvres in Eastern Bohemia, in which more than 100,000 men, or two-thirds of the standard strength of the Army, have been taking part, ended yesterday.  President Benesh closely followed the operations throughout, and to-day watched a march-past of 35,000 troops.  He expressed satisfaction with the progress made in the equipment and training of the troops, emphasized the importance of the spirit prevailing, and thanked the Press for their endeavours to popularize the Army.  It is officially stated that the net yield of the Defence Loan is 4,000,000,000kc.

Canadian Air Defence:  Support for Lord Elibank

Toronto, Aug. 25.  Though Lord Elibank was rebuked by Mr. Ian Mackenzie, Minister of National Defence, for suggesting in a speech at Toronto that Canada should establish an adequate Air Force, he is not without defenders here.

The Toronto Globe urges Canada to take immediate steps to be able to meet a hostile aerial invasion and bear her fair share of the cost of Imperial defence.  Mr. T. L. Church, who was Mayor of Toronto during the War, defended Lord Elibank’s right to criticize Canadian policy and termed the Canadian Air Force “a few kites.”  He declared that the amount appropriated by Parliament for defence was “contemptible.”  “While Canada does most of the talking at the Empire Conference (he said) we still sponge on the Motherland for all our defence and allow the hard-pressed British taxpayers to pay for it.”

Today is the 20^th of August.  I’ve had a message from Addie that the Usual Suspect Women enjoyed a nice luncheon yesterday at the Heirloom Restaurant, and she added that I have chosen a good time to be outside of Georgia where the weather and politics are both terrible.  I do follow somewhat the U.S. political news, so I know the Terrible Trump stories.  I hope Hillary defeats him soundly in November.  The Republicans must be so ashamed of their candidate. 

We skipped the full moon festival last night and just instead sipped scotch and watched the beautiful “figari” rise over the hills behind our house last night.  It was so bright that you could see everywhere.  Tonight we will go to the local dinner-dance for people of Ierissos who live in Thessaloniki in the winter.  Other than a dinner with Foras and Katerina next Friday (Stell’s real 80^th birthday), tonight should be our final major event of the summer. 

We haven’t seen Anja for two days, so I rather suspect she will make an appearance today.  Yesterday two of Stell’s client/friends from Karditsa came through Ierissos on their way from a few days “meditating” at Mountain Athos.  We had lunch and after lunch they sang to me.  It is rather ordinary for people to sing at the dinner table.  They are two brothers, I think in their sixties, and they are very fond of one another.  Their love is genuine and it is unfortunately unusual here in Greece, where most of the siblings seem to be fighting over property. 

The end of page 11 in The London Times, August 26, 2016:

Mortgage Reduction in New Zealand:  Re-Assessment of Debts

Wellington, Aug. 25.  The Mortgages and Lessees Rehabilitation Bill, introduced in the New Zealand House of Representatives to-day provides for an immediate reduction of farmers’, home-owners’, and other mortgage or  lessee liabilities.  The aim of the Bill, it is stated, is to permit the average applicant to continue in the occupation of his property by reducing his liabilities, so that he may reasonably be expected to meet them, when due, either by repayment or by borrowing on reasonable terms.

Telegrams in Brief

The Empress Zita of Austria, accompanied by the Archduke Otto, and one of her daughters, was received in private audience by the Pope on Monday at Castel Gandolfa.

William Blessig, aged 42, who was sentenced to death for treason by a German People’s Court on February 13, was beheaded in Berlin on Monday.

Our Geneva Correspondent reports that a young Swiss climber named Blanchet feel 600ft. while making a rope descent on the Grand Moeveran, and was killed.

According to messages from Burgas, on the coast of Bulgaria, an explosion in the Tschernomore coalmine has resulted in the death of nine miners.  Two, who were severely injured, have been rescued and six more are reported missing.  Fire is raging in the mine.

Delivering the convocation address at Andhra University,  the Madras Minister of Education, Diwan Bahadur S. Kumaraswami Reddi, made an appeal for “vernacularization” of education of all grades, but added: --- “The study of English as a second language should remain a compulsory part of our higher education if our cultural life is not to suffer tragic impoverishment.”

Man’s Relation to the Apes:  A South African Discovery

Johannesburg, Aug. 24.  Dr. Robert Broom of the Transvaal Museum and his colleagues have made in the Sterkfontein caves near Krugersdorp, a discovery of great importance for the study of prehistoric man.  They have found the natural cast in limestone of the brain of a very advanced type of ape and a number of fossilized bones of the skull to which the brain belonged, including parts of the jaws and a number of teeth.

A detailed examination has yet to be made, but it seems fairly well established that the skull was of a creature of the same type as the Taungs ape discovered in 1924.  The discovery is regarded as of particular importance, because the Taungs skull was that of a six-year-old ape, whereas the Sterkfontein skull is that of an adult.  With both skulls for comparison more reliable inferences will now be possible about the relationship of these African super-apes to existing anthropoids on the one and hand and to fossil and living types of man on the other. Dr. Broom has held to the new view that in these South African types an advance towards human standards will be found.  Hence his great interest in the Sterkfontein discovery and his faith that very important evidence of the course of evolution towards humanity will be found in this country.

Manitoba Coalition Negotiation

Winnipeg, Aug. 24.  Mr. Bracken, the Premier of Manitoba, has been victorious in the deferred election at The Pas.  The negotiations by the Liberal-Progressives for a coalition with the Conservatives have been resumed.

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German Army Service: The New Decree:  French Fears Aroused: Motives for Increase

Paris, Aug. 25.  To every section of French opinion Herr Hitler’s decision to double the existing period of military service appears as and event of the utmost gravity.  Hardly a trace of the strident tone so often manifest on lesser occasions is to be observed.  Here, it is felt, is a portent which calls for cool and clear thinking, for quiet resolution, and above all, preparedness.  Rightly or wrongly, the French people see in this latest development yet one more sign that “Mein Kampf” and not the famous “peace plan” forms the mainspring of German foreign policy.

It is taken for  granted that the measure had long since been decided upon, but that its application waited characteristically upon opportunity, now provided by the Spanish civil war and the off-setting decision to accept the French neutrality proposals.  Any doubt that might otherwise arise on this point has been very effectively dispelled by the German Press campaign against Soviet Russia during the last few days.  The result is to intensify French suspicion, never difficult to arouse where Germany is concerned. . . . Mr. Thorez (Communist) writes: ____At the moment when the Fuhrer has suddenly and brutally decreed two-year service in Germany, no Frenchman can forget that according to “Mein Kampf” France is the chief enemy to be brought low.

M. Thorez made his view even clearer in a violent and bitter speech this evening at a mass meeting of the French Populaire primarily held to discuss the Spanish situation.

“No one,” he said, “except the traitors in the pay of Hitler, will contest that France is now threatened with encirclement by Germany.”  He added:  “Hitler must know that these insolent tirades and his warlike displays do not frighten us one white; we who have neither hate nor resentment against any people as such, are conscious of inheriting a glorious past which cannot divide us, for we are all proud to be French.”

Eyes on Britain

From the international point of view, interest in the British reaction transcends all else, though it may be said that General Gamelin’s recent visit to Poland is felt to have been more than ever worth while, The intention of splitting Europe into two camps, one nominally for Communism and the other against, is felt to be too obvious to escape attention across the Channel.  The reference in to-day’s leading article in The Times to “virtually an appeal for a view of a divided Europe which can never be accepted in this country” is regarded as a heartening beginning, though there are fears that the Communist bogy may be displayed to effect in some quarters.  It is realized too that British opinion may be less anxious than that of France about the actual increase in strength afforded by the latest German decree, but even here it is felt that the material effect of the measure is less important than the state of mind it reveals.  To sum up, Germany is felt to have thrown down a challenge to the world to prevent the fulfillment of her designs in the East—admitted in “Mein Kampf” to be no more than a preliminary to other things.  Dr. Schacht, the Governor  of the Reichsbank, arrived here by air this evening to return the recent visit of M. Labeyrie, the Governor of the Bank of France.  The scope of its usefulness has certainly not been increased by Herr Hitler’s decree.

Non-Intervention Agreement:  Next French Step:  Powers Being Consulted

Paris, Aug. 24. Having brought the first stage of their neutrality proposals to a successful conclusion, The French Government are now attempting to arrange an international meeting at which a concrete agreement can be drawn up and the question of “indirect” intervention discussed.  They have in mind a conference of Ambassadors or plenipotentiaries, which  might be held in London, Paris, Brussels, or any other suitable centre, and are now ascertaining the views on this subject of the Powers concerned.  It is hoped that the British Government will agree to this procedure, and thus again give a lead to those who  might otherwise be inclined to hold back. 

Russian Arms Embargo

Riga, Aug. 25.  M. Litvinoff, the Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs, and the French Ambassador in Moscow yesterday exchanged Notes agreeing to the prohibition of the export to Spain or her colonies of any sort of arms or military materials, aeroplanes (complete or in parts), and the naval ships.  The prohibition is to apply also to contracts that have already been signed.  It is proposed to communicate with other countries which are taking part in the non-intervention agreement to order to fix a date for putting the embargo into force, as soon as the countries participating in the agreement include Germany, Italy, and Portugal.

The Irish Free State Government have informed the French Government that they propose to take the necessary steps to prohibit the exportation of arms and ammunition to Spain and Spanish possessions.

Ministers’ Review of Position:  Spain and the League

Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes: ---A meeting of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Cabinet, the first Ministerial gathering since Parliament adjourned at the end of July, was held yesterday at 10, Downing Street . . . . It is understood that the Ministers fully reviewed the international situation, including the position in Spain, and proposals for the reform of the League of Nations, which will be considered at Geneva next month.

Labour Conferences

The County Cricket Championship

Derbyshire are almost certain to win the County Cricket Championship, but there is still a mathematical possibility of Yorkshire’s making it a tie. The position after yesterday’s games is that if Derbyshire lose both their remaining matches and Yorkshire win their two games, the percentages will be the same --- 53.33.  This, however, seems very unlikely to happen, for Derbyshire want only one more point from two comparatively easy matches to make certain of winning the championship. 

Insurgents’ Claims:  First Air Battle:  War Material Via Lisbon

On the Franco-Spanish Frontier, Aug. 25. The Spanish insurgents claimed a long series of successes to-day.  In Aragon, they announced, their forces, in spite of repeated attacks by the Government supporters, had gained a footing on the right bank of the Ebro between Quinto and Fuentes de Ebro.  Near Medinaceli and insurgent column, after a long night march, occupied the village of Guijoza and cut the railway, telephone lines, and high-tension cables of Siguenza.  In Asturias they claim to have occupied Cangas de Narcea, dislodging the Government forces from the Puera de Infierno and driving them back eight miles.  Insurgent forces are reported to have occupied Navafria, on the Guadarrama front, where an artillery duel has raged for 24 hours.

Air Activity on Basque Coast:  Insurgent Troops Massing

Hendaye, Aug. 25.  Three Caproni biplanes belonging to the Spanish insurgents bombed Irun and the villages along the San Sebastian road for an hour this morning.  Other machines spent two hours attacking the Government front-line positions near Behobie.  So far only four wounded and no dead have been reported, but the bombardment, taken with reports of an imminent large-scale attack in Guipuzcoa, has increased the flow of women and children to the French side of the international bridge.

No Mercy for “Trotskyists”:  Vain Appeal by Lenin’s Widow

Riga, Aug. 25.  All the 16 prisoners, including Zinovieff and Kameneff, who early on Monday morning were sentenced to death for “Trotskyist activities” have been shot.  The Praesidium of the Central Executive Committee refused the appeals of the 15 who made petition to them --- Goldman alone did not appeal – and the sentences were then carried out.  In addition to the two leaders, those shot were Smirnoff, Evdokinoff, Bakayer, Mratchovsky, Tervaganian,Dreitzer, Goldman, N. Lurie, M. Lurie, Pitel, Reingold, Olberg, Berman-Yurin, and David.  It is reported that, after vainly trying to see Stalin, Krupskaya (Lenin’s widow) wrote to him appealing for clemency and that Stalin replied he could not interfere.  The Soviet Press reports that innumerable resolutions approving the executions have been received from all parts of the Union, though Pravda adds the warning that “all the nests of enemies are not yet destroyed.”

Trotsky’s Comment:  Offer to Face Trial in Norway

Oslo, Aug. 25.  Trotsky issued the following statement today: --“All of the 16 men sentenced in the Moscow trial have been executed.  No other course was left for their accusers.  If they had been pardoned the whole network made by the Ogpu might have been pulled to pieces.” But I (he continues), who was declared to be their leader, am still alive.  My alleged terroristic activity has according to the accusations, been directed from Denmark, France, and Norway, and such activities are punishable in these countries.  I have, therefore, a claim that legal steps should be opened against me.  I have also the duty to expose one of the greatest crimes in the history of our world, and thereby inflict revenge upon it.  A leading Labour Pary member, writing in the Government paper Arbeiderbladet,  has called upon Trotsky to go to Moscow, stating:  “You belong to the barricade, and the barricade to-day is the Court in Moscow.”  Trotsky refuses, but declares himself willing to submit himself to the judgment of an impartial Court set up in Norway with Norwegian or other Judges.

Whaling Industry Dispute:  Angelo-Norwegian Talks

Mr. A. Birkeland, president of the Norwegian Seamen’s Association, who arrived in London during the week-end for discussions on the whaling situation with the British trade unions, was in consultation yesterday with representatives of the National Union of Seamen and the Transport and General Worker’s Union

No Break in Fine Spell

A somewhat cooler northerly wind was spreading yesterday across Eastern Scotland and N.E. England, and near the East Coast to-day the temperatures will not be so high as at inland and western towns; but generally no break in the fine, warm spell is probable.

Trees inn Lake District:  Big Area Exempt from Planting

An agreement with regard to the redistribution of afforestation in the Lake District is announced in the report of the Joint Informal Committee of the Forestry Commission and the Council for the Preservation of Rural England, which was set up early last year to consider how the interests of timber production and amenity could, so far as they are divergent, be reconciled.

Egyptian Treaty:  Signature To-day

An Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of Alliance will be signed in the Locarno Room of the Foreign Office at 10:30 a.m., to-day. 

Speedometers to be Compulsory:  New Order for Vehicles of Over 20 M.P.H.

Among new regulations which have been submitted to  motoring organization by the Minister of Transport is one to make compulsory the fitting of speedometers on all motor vehicles permitted to travel at more than 20 miles an hour.  It was stated yesterday that the object of the regulation was to remove some of the causes of accidents.  In the past it has been compulsory for express carriages only to be fitted with speedometers.

The King in Athens:  Visit to the Acropolis

Athens, Aug. 25.  The yacht Nahlin, with King Edward on board, anchored in Phaleron  Bay this afternoon.  The shore was crowded with people who had waited for  hours in the broiling sun to see his Majesty.  The King landed at 6 p.m., and drove to Athens with the British Minister.  He visited the Acropolis, where he stayed for an hour, and the British Legation.  While bathing on Monday at Itea, in the Gulf of Corinth, Lieutenant-Commander Richard Jessel, of H.M.S. Glow-worm, one of the destroyers escorting the Nahlin, was struck by the propeller of a motor launch and seriously injured in both legs.  He was taken to a private clinic at Patras.

Sir Samuel Hoare in Paris

Paris, Aug. 25.  Sir Samuel Hoare, the First Lord of the Admiralty, arrived here from London by air this afternoon and left this evening by train for Marseilles on his way to Malta.

First Television Broadcast:  Demonstration at Radio Show

The frsit organized television programmes in this country will be broadcast to-day.  A watching eye will appear on the television receiver screens at Radiolympia to mark the start of the first experimental transmissions to be seen at the exhibition.  The eye, and accompanying music, will allow both sight and sound to be tuned in satisfactorily before the public is admitted at noon.

Variety

The variety bill, which will be transmitted by the Marconi-E.M.I system on Thursday, comprises the “The Three Admirals,” close harmony trio, from the Cochran revue Anything Goes,  and Carol Chilton and Maceo Thomas, a coloured pair, in a tap-dancing act.  Humour will be supplied by the Griffith Brothers comedy horse, “Pogo” and Miss Lutie, an act which was featured for a year at the London Pavilion.

Time-Table (for television transmissions)

Australian Team for Bisley

Melbourne, Aug. 25. An official team of Australian riflemen will compete at Bisley next year.  Their visit to England has been made possible by a gift of £5,000 made by Mr. J. Woolcott Forbes, a Sydney business man. __ Reuter

Entertainments Index

Today is August 21, 2016.  Just like the earlier days- perfect, San Diego weather.  Not much news here.  The Ierissos-Thessaloniki party/dinner/dance was last night.  Really boring, but not so boring to the locals.  Stell has called Georgios to arrange for my taxi to the airport on September 1.  We will need to leave here at 5:30 a.m.  The Thessaloniki Airport is always a dreadful experience.  I will be ready to return to Georgia, but I will miss this weather.  However, storms are predicted today.  It doesn’t look like it at the moment.

Page 13 of The London Times, August 26, 1936  begins with the first column being devoted to an index for the entire paper, weather forecast and little one or two sentence descriptions of To-day’s News.  Here are the other headings on this page:

The Middle Way

The value of the now virtually completed international agreement to abstain from intervention in the Spanish conflict is all the plainer in the light of Herr Hitler’s decision to increase the German Army and of the reasons given for it.  The more credit is due to M. Blum’s lead, which required courage and breadth of vision in a high degree, and to the decisive support which British policy has given him.  What the merits and justification of the new Reich decree, it could only have fanned, as the German authorities have evidently been ready to see for themselves, the blaze of fears and rivalries set alight by the Spanish revolt in the absence of the undertaking is logical.  When Germany defines its extension of military service as a measure of self-defense against the interventions of Communism, it strengthens the case against interference on behalf of any political doctrine in the present disastrous and lamentable struggle in Spain.  M. Blum has had a hard task to restrain the more passionate and shortsighted among his followers, and demonstrations in Paris promise that his difficulties are not yet ended.  But it would ben act of incredible rashness, which even extreme partisans may be induced to consider twice and thrice, if the Left were the first to break the hard-won understanding which now restrains the Powers of Europe.  The hope to be cherished now is that the conflagration in Spain, deprived under an arms embargo of fuel from abroad, may burn itself out the sooner, and that external help may be given, as opportunity offers to relieve the atrocious inhumanities of civil war.

A Newcomer at Olympia

The Radio Exhibition, organized annually by the Radio Manufacturers’ Association, opens at Olympia this morning and for the first time caters for viewers as well as for listeners.  Television, an artist frequently announced but at the final moment unable to appear, takes the stage at last, and from reports received is likely to make a very successful debut.

Premiers in Conference

The Australian Premiers’ Conference, which meets in Adelaide to-day, will have, among other urgent business, to consider what action should be taken in consequence of the Privy Council’s recent judgment in the dried fruit case.  The Privy Council, overruling a previous decision of the Australian High Court, held that the Commonwealth Acts restricting inter-State trade in dried fruits and the regulations issued by the Federal authorities under these Acts were invalid as contravening Section 92 of the Australian Constitution, which declared that “trade, commerce and intercourse among the States” should be absolutely free.  The judgment is regarded as very important, not only because it cuts away the basis of the Government’s marketing policy in an important section of Australian produce, but because it maintains constitutional limitations upon the Federal power over the marketing of all produce.

The Green Belt

An article on this page reports progress with the London County Council’s scheme for a green belt around London.  In the amount of progress made during seventeen months there is nothing to be ashamed of and no cause for depression.  Of the five counties immediately concerned, Middlesex and Surrey have acquired or agreed to acquire large tracts of land, and the scheme of Middlesex for a great sweep from north-east to west shows a fine comprehension of the idea.  Buckinghamshire and Essex have schemes well forward, and Kent is negotiating while a sixth county, Hertfordshire, is considering cooperation with Middlesex.  The County Council’s offer will remain open, according to the original plan, until the end of March 1938; and the usual course of human affairs will be reversed if the last half of the period does not see a good deal more progress than the first.  Yet, if the scheme has been progressing, something else has been progressing much faster; and that is what is now called development—in plain English, building over land not built on before.

The article recalls that in Queen Elizabeth’s reign it was thought possible to prevent all building just outside the walls of London.  That was a long time ago; and it was only natural that the town must increase, although it was allowed to increase haphazard because even in those early days town-planning was defeated by one of its still irreconcilable enemies.  Three centuries later, a quarter of a century ago, it would have been possible to make a park ring within a radius of six miles from Charing Cross.  In 1934 the best that could be hoped for was a green belt with a radius of thirteen miles from Charing Cross.  And now we are encouraged to hope for open spaces within twenty-five miles of Charing Cross. With such frightful rapidity does the “wen” increase; and of so much urgency is it that its growth—since there is not hope of stopping it – should at least be controlled and arranged.  The chief difficulty is alleged to be “the rapidity of present- “day-development,” which  merely means that the land is bought up, or held up, at prohibitive prices for building before it can be saved.  That which was London thirty years ago is fortunate in her parks, her own little green belt.  Nearly all were fortuitously saved as open spaces.  It is not pleasant to think what London would be like without them.  There is not hope for the fortuitous acquisition of a green belt for the greater London; and it is not pleasant to think what Greater London will be like unless design can procure for what chance denies.

The ideal condition is one upon which all agree in principle; the accepted doctrine that no square foot of land now open to the sky within a certain distance of the centre of London should be built over unless an equal extent of land within that distance is for ever saved from building.  Experience has shown how difficult it is to attain to anything like that idea.  The authorities whose duty it is to control the outward growth of a great city are at a disadvantage in several ways.  The building concern can always move more quickly and more secretly, and can command what money it wants without question; and a mere whisper that public body would like to acquire a piece of land is often enough to send the price up with a rush.  But in that respect the councils concerned in the scheme for the Green Belt are better placed than usual.  They have at their backs the £2,000,000 which the London County Council is ready to contribute, and they have the advantage of all being concerned in a single scheme.  It is understood that their proposals will not include land that is too from London to be fitted into the scheme or land that would benefit their own people without contributing to the scheme as a whole.  But where their proposals are approved, it is open to them to gain all the weight and the power that come of union.  The best of the news is that the several councils are not acting wholly independently, for the more closely they act in concert the more the scheme will gain, not in coherence and efficiency only but also in authority.  Of all such schemes, this scheme for a green belt round London is both the greatest and most urgent that has been given a chance of realization.  Although we are not to hope for a continuous belt, it is clear that here is a unique opportunity – once lost, never to be recovered – for fitting together a number of open spaces, each ten times more valuable as part of a great whole.  The benefit of such a belt would not be confined to the absence of buildings upon it.  It would inevitably improve the planning of the housing on either side, so that it would be something better than a mere strip between two regions of bad building or overcrowding.  There is much to hope for, and good reason for hoping.  But time flies, and the prices do not fall.

Flowers for the East End

Sir, The letter in your issue of to-day, under the title of “Flowers for the East End” prompts me to write of an experiment which I have made during this summer on behalf of the sick, the aged, and the poor families known to me.  In response to a letter of mine in a monthly journal earlier in the year I have received for distribution a constant supply of garden flowers from all parts of the British Isles and from as far away as Switzerland.  In nearly every case the sender has expressed pleasure in haring of an address to which flowers can be sent and in knowing that such gifts will be warmly welcomed.

The gratitude of the recipients is beyond my power of description; enough to say that the flowers are treasured until the last vestiges of life have gone.  In several cases the initial gift has led on to a friendship by correspondence between the sender and the recipient, and I can tell of instances where this contact has proved of real help.  Perhaps not least is the interest which is created in some of the donors in the present problems of overcrowded areas.   To those who have flowers they would like to share with folk who rarely see a garden in its beauty I would suggest that they should get in touch with any social worker, settlement, or hospital, and their gifts will then be distributed to those who gratitude will be quite inexpressible.  I am, &c., Care Worker

Cookery in the Country:  Teaching Difficulties:  Work on the Women’s Institutes

Sir, I have been  much interested to read your correspondents’ views on Women’s Institutes and good cooking. For many years Women’s Institutes have realized that one of the opportunities for country women to obtain a knowledge of cooking and dietetics.  The demand exists, the difficulty is to get an adequate supply of teachers familiar with country conditions.  As regards the quality of tuition, the institutes are constantly impressing on the Board of Education and on the Domestic Science Training Colleges the need for teachers who understand the particular problems of the country woman ---who can, for instance, plan out the best-balanced weekly diet which his obtainable within the means of the cottage housekeeper . . . . G. Denman (Chairman, National Federation of Women’s Institutes).  Balcombe Place, Balcombe, Sussex, Aug. 24

The Grey Squirrel

Sir, I notice in the columns of The Times dated August 21 a letter on the subject of the plague of rats.  In Oxfordshire there a plague this year of the grey squirrel, which I understand is a cousin of the rat.  Evidently our peculiar weather this summer favours the rat tribe.  Devastating as the activities of grey squirrel always are they have developed a habit this summer which I have not noticed in previous years.  In the woods on the Chiltern Hills there is a large quantity of sycamore trees.  In an area of about 50 acres the grey squirrel has completely destroyed every young sycamore tree and even some of a goodly size.  The method this little pest adopts is completely to strip the “leader” of bark from the top down to a point half way between the top of the tree and to the roots.  At the present moment, when no healthy tree has yet shown any sign of changing its leaf, you can see the forlorn brown and yellow tops of the dead sycamore tree all over the side of the hill.

The sycamore tree is not only a very beautiful tree when it grows in profusion, as it does in these parts, it is also a very valuable wood to-day, as hard white woods are much favoured in the furniture trade, one of the industries in this part of England.  Can any of your readers supply information as to the most efficacious method of ridding the country of one of the most mischievous and voracious pests that England has ever been afflicted with?   I am, Sir, yours faithfully, Edward Cadogan. Aston Rowant, Aug. 22.

“Fera Iberia”

Sir, The chequered history of Spain, particularly during the nineteenth century, affords many examples of civil strife marked by dogged bravery and ruthless cruelty and violence.  You have hinted in your columns that the passion for wrecking churches and public buildings may derive from the Visigothic element in the nation.  I venture to suggest that the stolid courage and insensate cruelty which have characterized the present civil war may derive from the original Ibero-Celtic inhabitants of the Peninsula.

Reading and Speaking Poetry

Sir, The delightful letter of an Oxford sexagenarian recalls to me a lovely summer’s afternoon on the terrace of Nuneham, when Lord Rennell and the late Mr. Jack Tennant –both of them poets—discussed the question whether there were many people who really delighted in poetry.  The Ambassador doubted  if, in an ordinary house party, there would be more than one or two who could repeat 12 lines from 12 poets. We took up his challenge , and found that we could stand the test with Shakespeare, Milton, Gray, Keats, Shelley, Blake, Tennyson, Swinburne, and Matthew Arnold, and he added poetry too modern for me,  Watson, Masefield, Virgil and Dante. Then we listened, enchanted, to the beautiful verses of a host of poets which Lord Rennell made into music, while the birds sang, and the leaves rustled.  Septuagenarious Oxoniensis.

The Girdle of Green:  London Schemes Reviewed

    Plan and Performance

More than 18 months have passed since the London County Council announced a scheme for a green belt around London and offered to make grants to county and borough councils to meet part of the cost of acquiring or sterilizing approved lands for inclusion in the girdle. During the past year numerous proposal put forward by local authorities have been provisionally approved for the purpose of contributions, and the time has come when the progress made with the scheme may usefully be reviewed.

    An Old Problem

The outward growth of London has through many centuries proved difficult to control. Queen Elizabeth in 1580 attempted by proclamation to stay the erection of buildings just outside the wall, as was then becoming a habit; and further proclamation and ordinances followed in later reigns.  Their failure to be effective is ascribed partly to the discovery that, for those who wanted to build in the prescribed zone and could afford to pay for them, “Permits were available, and so gradually the spread of London proceeded.  Even so it would have been physically possible a quarter of a century ago to form, by linking up process, a park ring within a radius approximately six miles from Charing Cross. This type of green belt projected by the L.C.C. has not been rigidly defined. When the present scheme was outline the first desirable object was stated to be “to provide a reserve supply of public open spaces and of recreational areas and to establish a green belt or girdle of open space lands, not necessarily continuous, but as readily accessible from the completely urbanized area of London as practicable.”

    Outside the Belt

Several of the proposals referred to the L.C.C. concern land removed by many miles from such a girdle as the Greater London Regional Committee designed, and there are people who hold that by making the success of the L.C.C. scheme dependent on the cooperation of the county authorities the concentration of attention on a prearranged conception has been made more difficult than it was a few years ago.  What is feared is that there will be “a dissipation of the green belt into a series of unrelated open space.”

From page 14:

L.P.T.B. and “Honesty Boxes”:  Objections to Installation in Vehicles

World Competition in Coal Industry:  International Council Urged

Camberwell Canal Danger

Northern Ireland and Air Attacks

Six Weeks of Civil War:  An Estimate of Forces:  Coast and Inland

Seizure of Property:  Madrid Assurances to Washington

Arms for Spain from Mexico

Civil Service Clerks Pay in the Province

Chocolate Factory Fire

Rough Justice in Spain:  A “Tribunal of the People”:  Punishing “Traitors”

Faithful Service

Inquest on R.A.F. Men Killed in Crash

Italian Military Manoeuvres:  Signor Mussolini Present

Dr. Schact in Paris:  A Return Visit

New U.S. Ambassador to France

The Late Lady Schuster

Murder Charge at Clerkenwill

Irish Free State Trade

The Weather: Fair: Cooler

Health Resorts

Two Advertisements:   Empress of Britain and Canadian Pacific

Sipping coffee on August 22^nd at Stavraqu.  A little humid and we are expecting a borini tomorrow.  Helena and her boyfriend, Marios, arrive today from Pottsdam, so Anja is excited.  We have no “particular” plans for today.  Stell has decided now that he probably won’t go to Cyprus until October or November, so he won’t go with me to the airport on September 1.  He will just take me to meet Georgios at Mazouti’s Grocery early in the morning. 

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L.P.T.B. and “Honesty Boxes”:  Objections to Installation in Vehicles

There is little prospect of the London Passenger Transport Board following the example of Glasgow and Bournemouth installing “honesty boxes” in their vehicles in which short-stage passengers can drop the fares which conductors have not had time to collect.

In Bournemouth the boxes were installed by the corporation only a week ago.  In their first week they have yielded £8 16s. 8d.___equivalent to 2,120 penny fares. 

An official of the London Passenger Transport Board stated yesterday that the Board considered that the majority of London passengers were honest and understood that they were under a legal obligation to find the conductor somehow and pay their fare to him before they alighted.  Furthermore, the Board did not think that much money was lost on what might be described as original fares.  Money was lost by people overriding their stage, and that was a real difficulty where the “honesty box” would not help.  Another reason why they did not like the idea was because it would cause a great deal of delay during the rush hours through people stopping at the door waiting to put their money in the box.  But perhaps the greatest objection of all was that it would most likely lead to disputes between passengers and the conductors.

World Competition in Coal Industry:  International Council Urged

The establishment of an International Coal Council comprising all coal-producing countries to regulate production, markets, and prices, and to improve working conditions was advocated by Mr. Joseph Jones, president of the Mineworker’s Federation of Great Britain, speaking at South Kirkby, West Riding on Sunday.

Camberwell Canal Danger

Parents who live near the Grand Surrey Canal at Camberwell propose to make an independent effort to protect their children from the danger of the canal.  During the past year a number of Camberwell children have been drowned.  Only one Port of London Authority officer patrols the bank of the canal at Camberwell and the father of the latest victim is calling a parents’ meeting at which it will be proposed that parents should contribute 1d. a week each to pay for two men to patrol the tow-path and keep the children away.  A deputation to Camberwell Council is also to demand further safety measures, and local mothers are petitioning the Port of London Authority for more patrol men.

Northern Ireland and Air Attacks

The Northern Ireland Minister of Home Affairs appointed a committee yesterday to advise the Government of Northern Ireland on the preparation of schemes for protecting the civil population and for the maintenance of essential services in Northern Ireland in the event of attacks from the air in time of war, and for the purpose to cooperate with similar agencies in Great Britain.  Lieutenant-Colonel A.R.G. Gordon, M.P., is chairman of the committee, which includes several municipal engineers and representatives of the police and the British Red Cross.

Six Weeks of Civil War:  An Estimate of Forces:  Coast and Inland

Valencia, Aug. 24.  After six weeks of warfare in Spain, it is now useful in some measure to strike a balance between the relative positions of the Government and insurgent forces.

In spite of the insurgents’  early hopes of swiftly taking Madrid, the Government still maintains the Ministries, and the insurgents have been checked and even pressed back. The psychological effect of a swift successful blow, upon which they counted, has been lost.  In the central area the Government has held its positions and taken a few others so that here the balance of gains is rather on its side, though it has had no notable victories.  The main question now seems to be which side will most quickly become modernized.  From the standpoint of equipment, organization, and direction, the war is most unmodern.

Seizure of Property:  Madrid Assurances to Washington

Washington, Aug. 25.  The Spanish Government has assured the United States that they do not intend to confiscate the property either of their own citizens or of foreigners without just compensation, and then only in compelling circumstances.

Arms for Spain From Mexico

New York, Aug. 25.  Dispatches from Vera Cruz, Mexico, report that the liner Magallanes sailed from the port yesterday with a cargo of arms and ammunition for the Spanish Government forces.  The Magallanes, which is owned by the Spanish Transatlantic line, now operated by the Spanish Government, is stated to be carrying, besides other war material, 35,000 rifles, 5,000,000 rounds of ammunition, and a consignment of hand grenades.  The actual destination of the vessel was not known at the time of sailing and it is reported that her master received sealed orders from the Spanish Embassy in Mexico City to be opened when the ship left Mexican waters.

A Reuter message from Bayonne states that according to an announcement by Spanish Government authorities, the painter Don Ignacio Zuloaga, who was reported to have been shot in Madrid, is at present alive and well at Zumaya, a little seaside resort about 20 miles west of San Sebastian.

Civil Service Clerks Pay in the Provinces

The staff side of the National Whitley Council is in negotiations with the official side in an endeavor to obtain the extension to ex-service “S” clerks and temporary clerks in the Civil Service of a national agreement under which established officers, transferred from London to the provinces suffer no immediate reduction of pay, but are allowed to retrain their London rate on a “mark-time” basis.  At present “S” clerks and temporary clerks, when transferred to the provinces, suffer and immediate reduction in pay to the corresponding point on the provincial scale.

Chocolate Factory Fire

The factory in Dublin of the Associated Chocolate and Confectionery Company, a British combine, was destroyed by fire last night and 600 people have been thrown out of work.  Many houses were endangered by the outbreak and had to be evacuated.

Rough Justice in Spain:  A “Tribunal of the People”:  Punishing “Traitors”

Madrid, Aug. 25.  Under a decree signed by the Prime Minister and counter-signed by the President of the Republic a special tribunal has been set up to judge according to summary procedure all “traitors to the nation.”  The announcement of the creation of this tribunal, which is stated to have begun functioning on Sunday in the Model Prison, is published in the Press simultaneously with the news that five death sentences, one of life imprisonment, and five of 20 years’ penal servitude have already been pronounced.  Four of the death sentences have been executed.  They were on officers who led the rebellion of the cyclist battalion at Alcala de Henares on July 21.

Faithful Service

Harriet Welton, for over 60 years the much valued friend and housekeeper in the family of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lamplugh, and of Mr. Norman Lamplugh, of the Old Court House, Hampton Court, died on Sunday.

Society of Apothecaries

At the final examination of the Society of Apothecaries of London, the following candidates passed in the subjects stated: (names listed for these subjects:  Surgery, Medicine, Forensic Medicine, Midwifery.  The following candidates having completed the final examination, are granted the diploma of the society to practice medicine, surgery and midwifery.

Inquest on R.A.F. Men Killed in Crash

Evidence that a flight of aeroplanes had become separated because of bad visibility was given on Monday when a verdict of “Accidental death” was returned at the resumed inquest at Halton Camp Hospital, Bucks on the bodies of Sergeant Robert Simpson Horn and Corporal Oscar Wren, of No. 57 (Bomber) Squadron, Upper Heyford, who were killed when the aeroplane crashed in Hampden Woods on August 12.  Flying Officer Walter Noel Ash said he was in charge of a flight of three aeroplanes from Upper Heyford to Biggin Hill.  As they approached Princes Risborough visibility was poor and later he lost sight of the two rear machines.

Italian Military Manoeuvres:  Signor Mussolini Present

Rome, Aug. 25.  Signor Mussolini has lost no time in proceeding to the Army manoeuvres at Infinia, a hilly district north of the Avellino.  They opened at midnight and this morning he was present with King Emmanuel at the first clashes between the opposing Blue and Red Armies.

Dr. Schact in Paris:  A Return Visit

Berlin, Aug. 25.  Dr. Schacht, President of the Reichsbank and acting Minister of Economics, flew to Paris to-day to return the visit made to Berln at the beginning of the month by M. de Labeyrie, the Governor of the Bank of France.  The Press underlines not only the economic but the political importance to the visit--- the first made by a German Minister to France since Herr Hitler came into power – and generally expresses the desire of Germany for a larger exchange of goods as the foundation of more friendly relations between the two countries.  The official communiqué, however, states that the visit is principally an act of courtesy and that negotiations over actual problems are not connected with it.  The communiqué adds the German and the French sides an improvement of the international situation by the maintenance and development of personal connexions.

Certainly the moment does not seem propitious for the signature of a new trade agreement giving Germany access to French supplies of food or raw materials, or for persuading France to remove the embargo imposed 10 days ago on the export of iron ore from Lorraine.  It may, however, be regarded as politically useful that a German Minister should be Paris on a mission of peace at a moment when French opinion has been rudely disturbed by an increase of German armaments.  As a result of Dr. Schacht’s presence, the effect of the new military law on Franco-German relations may be less harmful than it otherwise would have been.

New U.S. Ambassador to France

President Roosevelt announced this evening that Mr. William C. Bullitt, the United States Ambassador in Moscow, has been appointed Ambassador to France, in succession to Mr. Jesse Isidor Strauss, who had resigned on account of ill-health.

The Late Lady Schuster

Lady Schuster, wife of Sir Claud Schuster, K.C., Clerk of the Crown in Chancery and Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor since 1915, died recently after a long and painful illness.  She was Mabel Elizabeth, younger daughter of the late Rev. Dr. W. W. Merry, Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford.  Her marriage took lace in 1896 and he had one daughter.

Murder Charge at Clerkenwell

Before the Magistrate (Mr. W.J.H. Broadrick) at Clerkenwell Police Court on Monday Robert Sheridan Moore, 57, a clerk, of Parker Street, W.C., appeared on a charge of murdering John Towers, at Wharton Street, W. C. 1, by stabbing him in the neck with a sharp instrument.  Towers, who was 50 years of age, was found dead in the bedroom of his attic flat.  Detective Inspector Hawkyard gave evidence of the arrest of the prisoner, who had been detained at King’s Cross Road Police Station on Saturday.  On Sunday the witness charged Moore with willful murder, and he replied:  “Not willful murder, sir.  He was my best pal.  It was a row, but not willful murder.  He was may best friend.  We had been drinking and had a row.”  The Magistrate remanded the accused for a week in custody, and told him that the Court would supply him with a solicitor.

The Weather:  Fair:  Cooler

Meteorological Office, Aug. 25. General Inference from observations at 7 p.m.—An anticyclone over Ireland and Scotland is moving northward.  Weather will be fair or fine most districts, but cloudier and cooler conditions are likely in the eastern counties.

Accused of stabbing a girl at a fairground, Ronald William Gardner Stanbridge, 28, an attendant, was a Brighton Police Court yesterday committed for trail charged with wounding with intent to murder.

World Cruise:  Empress of Britain

Itinerary:  Naples, Athens, Holy Land, Egypt, India, Ceylon, Penang, Singapore, Siam, Java, Bali, Manila, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Peiping Beppu, Kobe, Yokohama, Honolulu, Hollywood, Panama, New York

The ideal “design for wintering” – a magnificent four months’ voyage by the world’s wonder hip, largest ever to girdle the globe.  From Monaco, Jan. 25, 1937.  First class only.  Limited Membership, Minimum Rate:  a4a58 Gns. (including standard shore excusions).

Canadian Pacific

Next sailing to Canada and U.S.A. From Southampton and Cherbourg, Sept. 5. Further sailings:  Sep. 19, Oct 3, Oct. 17, Oct. 31.  Short tours to Canada and U.S.A.  September is the ideal month to visit Canada and U.S.A. Join one of our Short Conduced Tours (21 to 31 days) with Atlantic crossing by the “short sea” route and magnificent St. Lawrence Seaway cruise.  All tours visit Niagara Falls and itineraries include Ottawa, Toronto, French River, Chicago, Washington, New York, and Montreal.  Low “all-in” fare covers everything. 

Court News ( a few examples)

The French Ambassador has returned to London and has resumed his duties at the Embassy.

The Greek Minister has returned to London from Longniddry.  Mme. Simopoulos has gone to Knock, Isle of Mull, to stay with Viscount and Viscountess Massereene and Ferrand, and will return to London in the first week of September

Lord and Lady Askwith will return to London from Oxford in three weeks.

Mrs. Alec-Tweedie is leaving Devonshire House to motor in Holland

The Duke and Duchess of York have given their patronage to the Silver ball to be held at Grosvenor House on Thursday, November 5, in aid of the British Homeopathic Association of which Sir George Wyatt Truscott is president.  Viscountess Curzon is chairman of the ball.

Luncheon:  National Bank of Egypt

A luncheon was given by the National Bank of Egypt at the Savoy Hotel yesterday for Mustapha-el-Nahas Pasha (Prime Minister of Egypt) and members of the Egyptian delegation.

Funeral and Memorial Services

The Dowager Countess of Bradford.  Queen Mary was represented by Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Henry Bridgeman at the funeral of the Dowager Countess of Bradford which took place yesterday at St. Andrew’s Weston-under-Lizard near Wolverhampton.

Mr. H.D. Lewis.  The funeral took place yesterday at Kilndown Church near Lamberhurst, Kent, of Mr. Henry David Lewis, chairman and permanent director of the Lewis and Marks, Limited.  The Rev. L. Oliver officiated.  The coffin, which was covered by the Union Jack, was borne by six members of the Kilndown Branch of the British Legion and other members of the branch, under Captain H.M. Gosling and Mr. C.T.F. Brocklebank, formed a guard of honour. After the burial Last Post was sounded by a bugler of the British Legion.

Forthcoming Marriages and Marriages (listings)

Mr. A.W. Baldwin and Miss J.E. Tomes

The marriage of Windham, younger son of the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin and Mrs. Baldwin to Elspeth, daughter of Mrs. C.A. Tomes of Lossiemouth took place very quietly yesterday. 

Mr. P.S.P. Carpenter and Miss. A.M. Fraser

The marriage took place yesterday at Bryn Athyn Cathedral, Pennsylvania, of Mr. Philip Samuel Paul Carpenter, son of Mrs. E.R. Carpenter, of Three Chimneys, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, and Miss Angela Mary Fraser, younger daughter of the late Colonel G. I. Fraser, the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, and thee late Mrs. Fraser. The Rev. Dr. George de Charms officiated.

The bride, who was given away by Mr. Gerald Fraser Tyrrell, wore a gown of oyster-pink double satin cut on classical lines, with the train falling from the waist.  Her tulle veil was held in place by a pearl Juliet cap.  Miss Clare Robertson and Miss M. Carpenter (sister of the bridegroom) were the two bridesmaids, and they wore Princess dresses of turquoise-blue moire with coronets of deep pink roses to match their bouquets.  Mr. Edward Cravy Bostock was best man.

A reception afterwards held at Three Chimneys, and then the bride and bridegroom left to spend their honeymoon in England, on their way to Shanghai.

August 23^rd a little thunder rumbling in the background.  I did my three mile walk this morning, and I attempted to make a movie, but I only seemed to have enough juice in my camera for half of the walk, so I will try and do the other half tomorrow.  No matter, it was another glorious day for this walk. (I have checked the first half of the movie, and all’s well.)

From the August 26, 1936, The London Times:

The Lochaber Gathering:  A Historic Countryside

Duntulm, Skye, Aug. 25.   In spite of the unsettled weather which August almost invariably brings to the Western Highlands, the romantic and beautiful district of Lochaber is offering its hospitality to fully as many visitors as in former years.  Yesterday, when I crossed from Skye, the boat was so full that a special train had to run as far as Fort William.

We passed along the shore of Loch Nan Uamh, where Prince Charles Edward first set foot on the Scottish mainland in 1745.  The rainfalls had freshened the birches and oaks which clothe the banks of that beautiful sea loch, and the grass was very green.  At Glenfinan we saw the old memorial on the spot where the Prince’s standard had been raised beside the waters of Loch Sheil, and when we passed down the sunlit waters of Loch Eil we saw the small wood at Achdalieu where Lochiel and the English officer found their historic fight.

The warmth of the fine summer we in the West have experienced is seen I the earliness in the harvest at Achnacarry.  In the shelter of the fine beech-tree avenue planted in 1745 by Lochiel, a broad field of oats was being reaped by the most up-to-date methods.  Above the river flowing swift and full from Loch Arkaig was the small hill where Prince Edward lay in hiding in a hut after the failure of his expedition.  On Ben Nevis, still showing more than one snow bed in the North Corrie, the mist rose and fell.

Fort William was crowded in the evening before the gathering, for many people had come to see a film first shown in the district this week of some of the events of the rising of 1745.  The night was stormy with the heavy rain that is not stranger to Lochaber, but the morning was fine and warm and people assembled early in Fort William to watch the march to the gathering ground.

Through the main street of Fort William the pipers swung playing rousing marches.  It was interesting to notice that the first row of these pipers was composed entirely of players who had won the highest awards in the piping world.  They were Pipe Major Robertson, of the Scots Guard, Pipe Major Robert Reid, Piper Malcolm Macpherson, and Piper John Wilson.

The gathering opened with a competition in pibroch, judged by Pipe Major John Macdonald of Inverness, Mr. Seton Gordon, Mr. Balfour Paul, and Mrs. MacColl, and at the same time at the other end of the ground local pipers were judged by Mr. Allan Cameron of Lochiel, Pipe Major Gordon, and Captain Rutherford.  The opening player in the pibroch competition was Pipe Major Robertson, of the Scots Guard, and he played though scarcely in the best style of an old MacCrimmon composition called “The Kiss of the King’s Hand.” Pipe Major Reid followed his tune being “The Big Splee,” and this year at the various meetings, played that beautiful composition, “The Lament for Patrick og MacCrimmon.”  Pipe Major Johnstone, of the Camerons, put good expression into his tune “The Lament for Captain MacDougall,” but Malcolm Macpherson was not at his best in “The End of the Great Bridge,” a tune which was a great favourite with the old pipers.

Considering the warm sun and favourable conditions the piping all through in this, the premier competition might have been better, Wilson gained the third prize, Reid the second, and Johnstone, the third.

In the playing of marches Robertson led off in fine style with the old favourite, “Leaving Glenurquhart,” and when Wilson later played the same tune it was interesting to compare the two styles.  Robertson was first and Wilson second in this competition.  In the strathspeys and reels Robertson playing “The Shepherd’s Crooks” and “Pretty Marion,” was again the winner, playing with a lilt which the other pipers lacked.  Robertson is undoubtedly one of the finest players of the day of what is sometimes called ceol  beag, the lighter though no less difficult form of pipe music.

In the competitions in Highland dancing Cuthbertson was most successful, and the giant heavy-weight George Clarke defeated rivals in tossing the caber.

Many overseas visitors, including representatives from America, France, and Hungary were present at the Gathering, and were specially interested in the massed dancing displays by men of the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders and the tossing of the caber.

Sir Donald Walter Cameron of Lochiel, Chief of the Clan Cameron, presided over the Gathering, and was accompanied his three sons, Mr. Donald Hamish Cameron, Younger of Lochiel, Mr. Allan Cameron, and Mr. Charles Cameron.

The King George Memorial:  Gifts Received Yesterday

Last night the Lord Mayor’s Fund for the National Memorial to King George amounted to £210,722.

Reception: Lad MacRobert

Lady MacRobert was at home at the House of Cromar, Tarland, on Sunday afternoon. Among those present were: ----- (fifty or so names follow).

Droitwich Spa

Among those now staying at the Norbury House Hotel, Droitwich Spa, are:___ (about twenty names follow).

An Unrecorded Hoppner:  Painting’s Value Just Recognized

When Hoppner died a portrait of his wife in a white muslin dress and lare sunbonnet remained in his studio.  It was exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1787 and was later sold by his son for quite a small sum to a member of the family of J.H.B. Christie.  In 1913, at the sale of Mr. Christie’s collection, it realized the high figure of £9,765.  Later, at the S. B. Joel sale, this portrait fell to a bid of 11,500 guineas.

Now another painting, which is claimed to be a hitherto unrecorded and unknown portrait by John Hoppner of his wife, has come into the hands for Mr. Arthur DeCasseres of 27, St. James’s Street.  There is considerable justification for this attribution, for in its conception it bears a great similarity to the Joel portrait, and it also possesses characteristics which mark it as Hoppner’s work at its best.  The treatment and brushwork are very similar, and it would in fact be difficult to name any other artist who could have executed this undoubtedly charming portrait.  Of its provenance little is known.  It came from the South of England and appeared in a London sale-room curiously catalogued as by Romney.  Being included in an unimportant sale, and its beauty concealed by a thick coating of grime, it remained for its present owner to recognize its fine quality.

Dreams of the Blind:  At St. Dunstain’s Inquiry

St. Dunstan’s has been examining the question of dreams among its War-blinded ex-Service men, who still number around 2,000, and the results of the inquiry have produced some interesting facts.  Broadly it seems that, when the men dream of things with which they had been familiar before they were wounded, they see them in a perfectly natural way.  Regarding people and places met since eyesight was lost, some, who in their waking hours are in the habit of forming mental pictures say that these are accurately reproduced in sleep; others state that the personality of the person or place encountered in the dream is distinctly present, though not visible.  This, of course, is in contrast with the dreams of those have never had sight at all.  Here it seems established either that they do not dream at all or, if they do, that they dream of some story read or of impressions received though the remaining senses.

Captain Sir Ian Fraser, M.P., the War-blinded chairman of St. Dunstan’s can see perfectly in his dreams.   He states that no idea of blindness enters his mind.  Sometimes, however, an irrational thing happens, he adds, and, although he dreams that he can see, he is somehow vaguely conscious that he is blind.  Every now and then he dreams that he is taking part in some ceremonial

Today is August 24^th, Wednesday.  Stell is a little perturbed with me because he wanted me to edit some of his writing.  He had pulled some material from the Greek Google and then did online translation.  This meant that the English did not read like fully developed sentences, making it extremely frustrating to read and edit.  He needs to put these translations into his English and then I can work with it.  Last night Foras came up in the evening and I learned that Collotzi’s was not the last name of the owner of the restaurant with this name.  This name came from a nickname of his grandfather.  His real name is Demetrios Bless.  For thirty years I have thought he was Mr. Collotzi. 

Awards to Scouts:  Boy and Girls Saved from Drowning

Awards for bravery to a Wolf Club and two Scouts were announced yesterday.  The silver cross has been given to a Wolf Club Peter Roberts, 11, of the 7^th Sandwich (St. George’s) Group, Kent, and the gilt cross to Patrol Leader Alfred Carnock, 16, of the 31^st Warrington (Working Men’s Mission Sunday School) Group, and Scout Herbert Harding, 13, of the Devizes Group.

Robert jumped into the Butts Sluice, Sandwich, on May 18 and got hold of a five-year-old boy who was just going under the water.  After a struggle he got him to the side, and a Girl Guide  helped him to get the child out.

Charnock’s award has been made after his fifth rescue from the Sankey and St. Helen’s Canal, Warrington.  On June 27 he rescued a girl of 19 who had fallen in from a bicycle.  Some men on the bank had been unable to reach her.

Harding rescued a girl who could not swim from the Kennet and Avon Canal at Devizes on June 24.  He said that he knew how to save life since had watched others do it.

Electrical Engineers’ Scholarships

The following scholarships have been awarded by the Institution of Electrical Engineers for 1936 – (about 40 names follow).

Worcestershire War Memorial

The Dean of Worcester announces that the plans for the Worcestershire War Memorial Chapel in Worcester Cathedral are now complete and work is being put in hand.  The stone screen, four bays of which are now at the west of St. John Baptist Chapel, will be removed, and three additional bays added with the help of fragments now lying in the crypt. The completed screen will then be restored to its original position to enclose the Memorial Chapel.  The monument to Charlotte Elizabeth Digby will be moved a position between the easternmost columns on the north side of the lady chapel.  The memorial windows, the colours, the books of remembrance, and most of the other War memorials will be assembled in the new chapel.  The dedication has been fixed for Sunday, November 8, at 11 a.m.

Wills and Bequests

Lord Yarborough’s Estate

The Rt. Hon. Charles Alfred Worsley, Earl of Yarlborough, K.G., P.C., of Brocklesby Park, Harbrough, Lines, who died on July 12, aged 77, left unsettled estate, “so far as at present can be ascertained” of the gross value of £249,579, with net personally £217, 388.  He left £500 to the Grimsby District Hospital.

Mrs. Alice Margaret Kemp of St. George’s Square . . . left £1000 to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and £100 to the Guild of All Soul’s Clement’s Inn.

Mrs. Jessie Louisa Brasier . . . left after certain bequests the residue of the property to Carshalton War Memorial Hospital.

Mrs. Nora De Pas . . . left £1000 to the Home for Destitute Girls, Falmouth.

Mr. Alfred Clough. . . . He left all the property to Manchester Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Throat and Chest, expressing the desire that the income should be used for the maintenance of a bed or beds in the Crossley Sanatorium at Kingswood, Delamere, belonging to the institution to be used for the treatment of a poor person or persons who have lived a period of not less than 15 years in the Urban District of Northwich.

Miss Emily Parnell . . . After  various bequests she left the residue of property to Addenbrooke’s Hospital; The Cottage Hospital, Romford; The National Union of Teachers’ Orphanage for Girls, Sheffield; the National Union of Teachers’ Orphanage for Boys, Sydenham; and the Hospital for Incurables, Streatham.

Mr. Walter William Pagett . . . .  He left £100 to Corbett Hospital, Stourbridge, and £100 to the Presbyterian Unitarian Chapel at Stourbridge.

Riding in London

Under the title of “Where and How to Ride in and around London,”  The National Horse Association of Great Britain provides a valuable little book in which is given a list of 207 riding schools, all situated within a radius of 20 miles of London, together with the facilities for exercise in the open air.  Four maps, comprising the North-western, South-western, North-eastern, South-eastern areas, show the exact situation of the riding schools.  Sir Walter Gilbey has something to say on “Clothes and the Rider”; Major H. Faudel-Phillips offers hints on such things as “deportment,” “care of the horse,” and “accidents to riders”; and Mr. Horace Smith writes on “How to ride.”

Bird’s Homing Instinct

An example  of a bird’s homing instinct comes from Reading.  Two green budgerigars –George and Mary—shared the same cage outside the house of Dr. C. M. Boodle, in Clifton Park Road, Caversham.  They did not mate, and it was decided to separate them.  Mary was placed in a dark box and taken to a house in Priory Avenue, half a mile away. One day while her cage was being cleaned Mary flew out of the open door.  Two days passed and she was given up for lost.  When Mrs. Boodle went to feed George on the evening of the second day she found Mary perched on the cage, looking weary and hungry, and the pair conversing amicably through the bars.  The birds are now reunited.

Partridge Prospects:  A Patchy Season after Wind and Rain

Gameskeepers are notoriously canny folk, but they would be scarcely human did they not display a certain reticence about the seasonal outlook on the shoots they manage.  After all, partial failure of a game “crop,” following hard upon unqualified optimism, would tend as much to lower a keeper’s reputation for prescience as the contrary would enhance respect for sound administration in the eyes of an employer.  Yet even keepers will expand sometimes, under tactful pressure, although one does not recall many seasons in which the partridge outlook has provoked greater diversity of opinion.

Relay of Speech in Three Languages:  Conference Innovation

St. Andrews, Aug. 25.  For the first time at a conference in Great Britain an apparatus by which speeches will be sent out in three languages at once is being fitted up in the United College Hall, St. Andrews.  It will be used during the Scottish International Conference of Agricultural Economists next week.

The hall has been fitted up with three circuits.  A German and a Frenchman will translate as the main speaker talks, and by means of 100 sets of earphones, each fitted with a three-way switch, the delegates will hear the speech in English, German, or French.

The Bicentenary of Thomas Paine’s Birth

The Town Clerk of Thetford has received a cheque of £100 from Mr. Edward Tuck, of Paris, as a contribution towards the local fund to be raised in memory of Thomas Paine, who was born at Thetford on January 29, 1737.  Attention was directed to the impending bicentenary of the famous pamphleteer’s birth by a letter in The Times from Mr. J. Anderson of Thetford, who has, as a result, received many letters from people interested in the anniversary.  The Town Council of Thetford has given official support to the proposal for commemorating the bicentenary and a committee has been formed locally.  Mr. Tuck’s gift was sent to the office of The Times and has been forwarded to the Town Clerk.

Autumn Sowing

The illustrated bulb catalogue of Sutton and Sons, Limited, Reading, for the new season offers a comprehensive choice of varieties, whether for forcing or for culture without artificial heat. The same list gives useful advice on the treatment of lawns, which may usefully be sown or renovated during late August and September, and also includes flower and vegetable seeds for autumn sowing.

Advertisements for “Leisure” Magazine, London Section of the New York Herald Tribune, Armstrong Siddeley’s Filtrate.

New Lifeboat for Isle of Wight:  237 Miles’ Range without Refueling

A motor lifeboat which the Royal National Life-boat Institution has built for its station at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, will leave the building yard at Cowes to-night, arriving at Yarmouth to-morrow morning. . . . The boat has been built by means of legacies received from the late Mr. D. Altschul, of London, the late Miss H. Gartside of Holmfirth, Yorkshire, and the late Mr. J.E.C. Edmunds, of Newport, Isle of Wight. The naming ceremony will be performed by Lady Mottistone on September 5, when the lifeboat will be presented to the Yarmouth branch by the Hon. George Colville, deputy chairman of the institution.

Arrangements for Today

Southport Flower Show

International Homeopathic Congress, Glasgow.

Fabian Summer School

Chess Congress

P.L.A. River and Docks Cruise

Racing

Marriages

Funerals

Page 16: Photographs and Advertisements

Photographs:  Moorish Troops in Burgos, A March Past in Pamplona

WITH THE INSURGENTS—Two of the first picture to arrive in the country of the Moorish troops who are helping the insurgent forces in the north of Spain.  The Moors were taken from Ceuta to Seville in aeroplanes and the journey was completed by train.  In the left-hand picture General Cabanellas, head of the provisional Government, is seen inspecting them on arrival in Burgos.  They are seen marching from the station in Burgos in the other picture.

YOUTH AND WAR – Two of the pictures above were taken by a staff photographer of The Times in Pamplona at a march past of the new youth organization of the insurgents, the Falange Espanola.  Boys carrying dummy rifles were a feature of the march past as shown in the centre picture and another picture shows girl members of the organization in uniform.  Types of the Moorish troops who are now on the northern front are seen in the left-hand picture.

THE BATTLE FOR MAJORCA –Two pictures just received of the attack on Majorca by troops of the Government forces.  That on the left shows a gun of the destroyer Almirante Miranda being loaded for the covering of the troops on landing.  The other picture shows some of the Catalan troops landing on the island.

THE GREEN BELT.  The progress of the scheme of the London County Council for a green belt round London is reviewed in an article on page 13.  Our picture was taken at Ockham Common, one of the Surrey spaces acquired for preservation. 

Also here were photos of “George Zinovieff, who was shot yesterday for plotting to murder the leading members of the Soviet Government” and “Kameneff, who was also among the sixteen men executed in Moscow yesterday”.

In addition to an ad for Radiolympia, Burberry’s advertisement was for Gamefeather Suits (Arm and Shoulder Freedom –Pivot Sleeves).  Those who appreciate perfect freedom for shoulder and arm movements when shooting should pay a visit to Burberrys Haymarket, where they see suits so cleverly planned that the skirts and body of the coat are never lifted even in overhead shots. 

40 Years’ Study:  Burberry’s have made a study of the shooting man’s dress for more than 40 years.  Most of the world’s famous game shots come to be fitted out as the seasons come round.

Invisibility to Game:  The selections of suitings are most comprehensive and amongst every type for shooting, their unique gamefeather cheviot tweeds are remarkable not only for their beauty of colourings but for the fact that they blend so perfectly with the countryside that they are invisible to rapidly moving game.

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Bank Advertisements for:

Lunghai Railway Loans:  Chinese Government Announcement

National Bank of India, Ltd.

Mercantile Bank of India, Limited

The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China

HongKong & Shanghai Banking Corporation

Bank of Nova Scotia

The National Bank of New Zealand

The Bank of Australasia

The Union Bank of Australia

P. 18 New York Stock Exchange:  Small Advances:  Gold from France.

New York, Aug. 25.  Notwithstanding the unsettled European situation, Wall Street brokers to-day reported little or no liquidation from abroad.  The previous higher levels were at least maintained in an uneventful session in which the turnover was again exactly 800,000 shares.  Gold to the value  of $1,869,000 was engaged to-day from Paris for shipping to New York.

Canadian Harvesting

Montreal Exchange

Argentine Grain Options

Traffic Receipts

Commodity Prices

American Produce Markets:  Platinum Higher

Havre Coffee

Continental Bourse Quotations:  Paris Quietly Steady

Mining News:  Western Reefs’ New Release

Recent Public Issue

Stock Exchange Prices

·      British Funds &c.

·      Dominion and Colonia Government

·      Foreign Bonds

·      British Railways

·      Dominion and Foreign Railways

·      Banks and Discount Companies

·      Insurance

·      Textile and Chemical

·      Electrical

·      Iron, Coal and Steel

·      Shipping

·      Motor and Aircraft

·      Breweries

·      Store, Catering and Hotel

·      Miscellaneous

·      Financial, Land, &c.

·      Rubber

·      Tea

·      Oil

·      Mines (South African, Rhodesian, West Australian)

·      Tin

·      Miscellaneous

City Notes:  Drastic Capital Scheme:  Chinese Railway Credit

Yesterday’s developments of a financial nature were again mostly favourable.  A moderate demand coming upon a market where floating supplies are comparatively small raised prices of the War Loan and of other British Government stocks.  Some of the buying was thought to be for foreign account, this belief being supported by the fact that the principal demand was for bearer bonds.  Anticipations of a resumption of payments on the bonds of the Canton-Kowloon Railway have been speedily realized, as will be seen in a subsequent note describing the terms outlined by the Chinese Ambassador in London.  The settlement is the fourth made with holders of Chinese Railway bonds since the beginning of the year.  Continued evidence of trade activity kept alive an active demand for the shares of industrial companies.  Provincial bank clearings for the week ended August 22 amount to £24,685,000, showing an increase of more than £4,000,000, or 20 per cent., over those for the corresponding week of 1935; the aggregate increase for the year to date --- namely, £36,308,000 --- is 4 per cent.  No important movements occurred in the foreign exchanges, but the French franc remained at gold point I relation to other currencies.

Stock Exchange:  Generally Firm:  Gilt-Edged Stocks Higher

In some directions a little hesitancy was shown on the Stock Exchange in the earlier hours yesterday, but selective buying gathered strength in the afternoon and markets finished with a generally firm tone.  Under the lead of War Loan British Funds made a moderate improvement, and, though quiet, home railways were firm.  Renewed demand for Chinese bonds on the increasing signs of China’s intention to resume interest payments on defaulted railway bonds is extremely limited.  Dullness in German bonds was attributed to the decision to increase the German Army.  Iron, coal, and steel shares were a little easier, but miscellaneous shares again provided some good features, among which Woolworth and Turner and Newall were prominent.

Port of London Traffic:  Further increase

A statement of the financial results of the Port of London Authority for the year ended March 31 last was published in The Times on July 30.  The full report shows that the total net register tonnage of vessels that used the port during the calendar year 1935 amounted to 59,762,150 tons.  This compares with 58, 947,642 tons for the previous year and with 56, 480,004 tons for l933.

Greek Exchange:  Protest Over Exclusion from Dealings

Athens, Aug. 25.  The British Legation has protested to the Greek Government because the British-French Discount Bank is excluded from foreign exchange dealings.  I understand that the other legations will follow suit in reference to other banks.

Spiller Limited:  Offer for Cornish Firm

The directors of Hosken, Trevithick, Polkinhorn and Co., Limited, millers and merchants of Plymouth and Truro, have received an offer from Spillers, Limited, to acquire the goodwill and assets of the flour milling and wholesale grain and provender sections of their business.  The offer is to be considered by the shareholders at a meeting to be held on September 17.  It is understood that if the offer is accepted, a new company will be formed under the old name of Hosken, Tevithick, Polkinhorn and Co., Limited, to take over the above sections of the business.  The management will be carried on as formerly from Plymouth and Truro by Mr. Henry Hosken and Mr. Frank H. Hosken, who will be the directors of the new company.

The directors of Leach’s Argentine Estates announce that a fire occurred at the company’s Calilegua estate during a gale which followed the recent heat wave.  The damage done is confined to the burning of standing cane ready for cutting and milling, which would probably have yielded some 700 tons of sugar towards the estimated total production of some 25,000 tons.  The fire is reported to now be under control and there has been no loss of life.

Northern Rhodesia Mineral Output

The British South Africa Company announces that the mineral output from Northern Rhodesia during July was as follows:  Comparative figures for the corresponding month last year are given in parentheses:  -- Copper 11,086 tons (12,750  tons); zinc, 1725 tons  (1,730 tons); vanadium, 38,234 lb. (28,313lb); cobalt, 195,650lb (36,857lb); mica, 600lb, (100lb.); gold, 605oz. (193 oz.)

Today is August 25, 2016 – Adeline’s birthday.  It’s a little after 8 a.m., windy, cloudy and much, much cooler.  My kind of day, but it will bring grand disappointment for people coming to the area to sunbathe and swim.  For those of you have tired from all the excerpts from the August 26, 1936 issue of The London Times, know that I have finished taking my favorite (or as the Brits would spell “favourite”) clips.  The last pages were classified ads for apartments, flats, homes- real estate.  It was rather difficult to type all these excerpts because the font size was very small – something like 6 or 7 point, so I had to work with a magnifying glass.  Glad to be done with that.  What I do like is knowing some of the historical events at the time of Stell’s birth. 

Yesterday we had ouzos at Sultana’s, and Thanassis joined us and took the coffee container to fill with oregano for us to take back to the States.  We then went for probably ten minutes to Milos Café, met with Anja, Helena, Marious, Kyros and Petra, but we didn’t get to finish our ouzos (we gave them as gifts to Helena and Marious, because we had to meet Stell’s sister, Anna, niece Mary-dog, grandniece, Christiana, and Christian’s boyfriend, Nicos, for lunch a Mouragio’s. Christiana is a “general surgeon” in Athens, Greece, and Nicos works in something called commercial securities.  I don’t know what that means.  Anja was disappointed that we had to leave because she is going back to Germany this morning.  

I think we are going to Katerina and Stelios’ Foras for ouzos later today.  Definitely we won’t be swimming.  Tomorrow I’m treating them and six others to a dinner at Colottzi’s, and I am going to give Stelios the money to buy one goat to add to his herd.  You may recall that over a year ago he lost all of his animals when there was severe flooding here.  Stell gave him $1000 (euros) to begin to rebuild his stock.  This year we are each going to buy another goat. Unfortunately he will name them Margaret and Stell.

I’ve made several little movies, which I will edit when I am home.  One a couple of minutes of Alexander demonstration with sounds a “displosion”, his way of saying explosion.  He is very demonstrative, and the couple of minutes of taping involves a lot of spit.  Then I made a little movie of Stell with Thanssis, another of the boatyard, because their were huge logs that are going to be sawed for new boats (only two locations in Greece build boats this way.)  Finally I’ve taken several clips which I will edit of the panoramas I see when I take my three mile walk. 

I’m down to one and half books – Punishing the Poor and Just Mercy.  It’s plenty for me to read, because they are both very fine but dense.  Punishing the Poor was recommended by my Marxist, life-long friend, Richard Hofricter, and it is an account of what has caused the United States to attain its exceptional status in the area of prison growth.  I don’t always agree with Richard, but on this topic the book is well-researched and demonstrates the not so surprising parallels between the loss of work opportunities and the incarceration of the urban poor. 

Some good news is that I’ve learned that the Rankin Foundation a few days ago received $100,000 from the Coca Cola Foundation.  This means instead of 40 new scholarships, we will be awarding 100 new scholarships this year.  Woo Hoo.  I’m not a coke drinker, but I will raise a glass of coke on this occasion.

Sadly, I have also had many emails telling me that my Kettering associate, Bob Kingston, passed away on Saturday.  He was our British genius, and as David Mathew’s says, an architect of the modern Kettering Foundation’s research.  He edited the Kettering Review.  I know that he had his first wife used to love to come to Greece, so I made a point of lighting a candle in the church in remembrance of Bob.   I’m sure you will find rich tributes to his life if you Google his name, Robert Kingston.  Bob Daley, another associate, and journalist will write one on behalf of the Kettering Foundation. 

Carrie has sent photos of Jaiden and Alexander on their first day of school, yesterday, at St. Cecilia’s in Galloway.  I know Alexander loves school, and we will learn if Jaiden likes it, since this is her first year to go to this particular school.  Up until now, she has been a public school student.  I hope she has a good art teacher, because she is talented artistically, and I think she can be easily inspired to expand her creativity.

People keep telling me to write a book based on my thirty years of journaling.  I have decided instead that I might take ten of my favorite stories and make a short collection.  Something else that I would like to do is make a slide show, since I have thousands of photos, mostly of people.  I’m trying to decide which stories I like most. Certainly the trip to “Omali”(Normaltown) and meeting Vasilli and Alexandra would be one, the story of Maria and helping her publish a book of her children’s stories would be another, and then I have a long list of others to consider in making my decision.  Might be a good winter project.

I’m starting to make my list of things to do when I’m home:  car regular maintenance service, mail, pay for the Rankin table, prepare for the Abrams event at the Veterans Park, send photographs to Vasso of her late father, prepare for trip to Ohio to celebrate my Dad’s 90^th birthday  (it was July 29^th,but we are celebrating at the every end of September, beginning of October. 

Oh, I almost forgot to say that last night while I was inside and Stell outside, he saw an allapo (fox) come up near where he was seated looking for food near the house.  Tah dah.  We hadn’t seen any fox until this one showed up.

The coyotes have moved and sometimes we hear them faintly in the distance. 

I should go by the “sweets shop” this morning and order a small cake for the second celebration of Stell’s birthday tomorrow night. 

 Happy 80^th Birthday to Asterios Georgios Kefalas.  Imagine, he was born where we are today, in Ierissos, Greece.  His father, Georgios, took his mother, Maria, on a donkey from Stavraqu where they worked in the fields to their house in the village, where he was born in 1936.  Now he sits at his computer reading emails from family, friends, and work associates.  Petra Papayannis just phoned to tell him (on his mobile) Happy Birthday to the Birthday child.  Some things have stayed the same, but most things have changed for him over these eight decades.  I am happy to report that he is healthier than he was a year ago, and I think this is due to taking care of his dental problems.  He’s put on some weight, too. 

I should be home next week by this time, and if things go as they usually do, it will take me three or four days to readjust my internal clock. 

Tonight, as I mentioned earlier, I will host a small dinner party at Colottzi’s Restaurant with four other couples.  I’ve ordered a small birthday cake with just one candle – otherwise we might have to employ the fire department.  I will also give Stelios and Katerina Foras $100 Euro to buy another goat who is to be named Margaret.  My Stellios is also buying one goat who is to be named Stell, so we will be like the Boodle birds encaged, George and Mary.

It’s been windy and warm all morning, so perfect for outdoor reading with my Kindle.  No one told me of the advantage of a Kindle in the Wind (unlike a Candle in the Wind), but it is helpful not to have to subdue pages blowing about as you try to read.  I’m almost halfway finished with Punishing the Poor, which is a study of the intersections of “Workfare” and “Incarceration”.  The statistics alone turn my stomach.

It is almost 11 a.m., so I think I will venture out on yet another walk of three miles.  A good idea before ouzo and mezze.  The Birthday Walk.

August 27, 2016 – cool, windy morning as we close out the month with the final weekend.  I’m winding down my stay with five more days. I think all major events are over, as we had the “official birthday party” last night with three other couples.  As everyone was arriving at the restaurant, we watched a parade with young people on bikes, and other young people carrying flames pass by.  They were celebrating a blood drive.  We had a very fine head waiter, Christos, and he took care of bringing out the birthday cake and leading the singing of Happy Birthday to You.  Stell had slept very well yesterday afternoon, so he was in great spirits for his party.  I also made my official purchase of a new goat, which Stelios Foras will buy and name Margaret.  She is going to have a lovely bell to wear as well.  I made them promise we would not eat her. 

I’m continuing to read Punishing the Poor.  When I read something like this I feel very small, because it seems impossible to think of what to do about a social problem that is so huge. 

On Tuesday and old friend/client of Stell’s is supposed to come to Ierissos  with his daughter.  He wants her to go to Harvard for her MBA and for some crazy reason thinks I can help her.  I know no one connected with the MBA program at Harvard, and actually I’m not a fan of MBA programs generally, but somehow I keep getting these false identifications.  Maybe I will suggest she look into the MBA program at the University of Mississippi.

Some bad news that I didn’t mention from our party last night was that Demetrius’ wife, Maria, looked very depressed.  Their “older” son Pavlos kept phoning her throughout the dinner.  He’s a drug addict, and apparently recently he started hitting her and throwing things at her in their home.  She’s truly afraid of him.  He showed up at the end of the party, and he was “high”.  No one knows what to do.  I think he will soon be dead or in jail.

Stell left his cell phone on the table last night, so we will have to return to Colottzi’s to retrieve it today.  He feels naked without it.  

I know that today is Saturday, but unless I look at the calendar, I never know what day it is.  This also is one of the results of retiring.  I have to remember to look at my calendar, or else all the days feel the same.   

Helena told us yesterday at the ouzo hour that her Mom, Anja, was home safe and sound.  She had purchased a train ticket for her and brought it to Greece.  Michael, her husband, decided to drive from Pottsdam to the Airport in Berlin to meet her and drive her home.  She was unaware of this, so she took the train and he had to drive back to Pottsdam without her.  A failure to communicate. 

I should do my three mile walk this morning, but I’m feeling LAZY.  Yesterday I did have some good fortune.  I met a large goat herd at St. Nicholas church, and I had taken my video camera in case this might happen.  The herd just kept passing by so I got some great shots.  One adult “aspro” (white) goat just stopped and stared into the camera.  He had a nice long white beard as well.  I said “hello” to the herder, and in very good English he replied and then asked me where I was from.  I told him Georgia, USA (there are lots of Russians here, so I always add “USA”).  I asked him where he was from and he replied, Albania and that he came to Greece to work.  None of the Greeks will herd animals today.  I admire this man and the others who do the herding.  When I’m home,  I will edit my “Goat Movie” and put it on YouTube.  Many people never have a chance in 2016 to see animals that are herded each and every day.  Actually, we’ve only seen one flock of sheep and no longer any cattle, although Billy Foras says the government has given him money to buy a new heard of cattle.  He rides a horse while he is herding, and really thinks of himself as a cowboy.  His brother, Stelios, is not so optimistic about his brother getting the money for a new herd.  I tend to think Stelios knows this isn’t going to happen.

In case you are wondering about The Crisis, I would suggest that there is all kinds of evidence, mostly in the disappearance of men who used to sit and have an ouzo around noon or 1 p.m.  The wealthy people complain, but they show no signs of wear and tear.  Ierissos has changed also in the “nature” of tourists – now it is overrun with people from Bulgaria and Serbia.  Lots of Serbs.  Also, I’ve heard that one of the major hotels in Ouranoupolis has lots of bookings from the Russians, but no longer has many German tourists.  Germans have replaced Americans as the most despicable nationality.  Merkle is a dirty word around here.  I’m sorry for the Germans, but I’m glad not to be at the bottom of the despicable list for a while.  A remaining sign of the crisis is also the ending of outside performance groups that used to be here almost every night and always on weekends, paid for by the Ministry of Culture.  Now there are a lot more performances featuring local musicians and other cultural groups. 

I guess I do have to write something “serious” about the changes, since I’ve seen them evolve over thirty years. 

 August 28, 2016- my last Sunday in Greece.  We are supposed to go to Anna’s (Stell’s sister) for fish, my least favorite food.  Hopefully she will have a salad as well.  This contributes to my ongoing weight loss, and I definitely can afford to lose 10-15 more pounds.  The best news is that I have lost maybe 5 pounds this summer, so at least I’ve been going in the right direction.

Yesterday we had ouzos, then lunch with Yiannis, the young man who owns the modern cheese factory about five minutes away from our home here.  In 2010 he was included in the Guinness Book of World Records for producing the largest cheese – 938 kilos.  He said he receives goat milk from about 180 herds in this part of Greece.  Unfortunately, when we went to his factory several days ago, he wasn’t there, so I haven’t sampled any of the cheeses.  Some are flavored with dill, hot peppers, and other herbs and foods.  Stell thought he was a graduate of the American Farm School, but actually he studied cheesemaking at a school in Ioannana. 

This morning I have already taken my 3 mile walk.  I saw two goat herds along the way.  I ate some blackberries on the last patch of the walk back to the house.  The birds get most of them, but there are still plenty for simple nibbling. 

So this is my news for the beginning of my last Sunday.  I imagine we won’t get to swim today because of the fish lunch.  This knowledge is why I was sure to finish my walk.  I’m more than half way through Punishing the Poor, but even if I finish it tomorrow, I still have Just Mercy.  The story of hyperincarceration in the United States is devastating to me.  What a waste of money and most importantly human lives. 

I won’t mention how perfect the weather is here, because I can only imagine this aggravates my family and friends in Georgia.

Monday, August 29, 2016- I will probably keep this entry short and sweet because we have to go to Anna’s for lunch.  She wasn’t at her home yesterday, because a memorial service she attended lasted longer than she expected.  Oh well, this continues to be good for my diet, because she will have fish, and I don’t like fish.  I’m a little tired today because last night we went to Galitsanos for dinner with Foras, Katerina, and Jevilikis, and we were out later than usual.  I slept okay, but it is a little more humid today and I feel sluggish.  Well, perhaps I will write more tonight.  No big news. On the way to fish. 

Tuesday, August 30, 2016.  Today is Niki’s birthday.  I think she is 12 today.  There will be the Lykee, but I won’t buy any more olives.  I have enough for today and tomorrow.

We did go to Anna’s for lunch yesterday, and in addition to the fish, she had made a delicious potato salad from a recipe she got when she attended the American Farm School.  We had ouzo, and Stell had some sardines, and we both had the potato salad.  Mainly Anna who is just lonely wanted to talk.  She was angry with her son-in-law, Yiannis, because they had gone to a memorial.  An older recently widowed woman, Elaini, was transported to the memorial, but then he refused to take her home.  Who knows why.  He’s just a little arrogant bastard who Stell says wishes he was a Brit.  Elaini is heavy set and addled by the loss of her husband, so it was a mean thing to make her walk home.  Anna was pissed with him.  I’m, as far as I know, the only one in the family who doesn’t speak to him, and I refuse to sit next or across from him at any event. 

He’s recently completed a book about some ancient Greek, and now he wants Stell and his cousin-by-marriage, Aggelos to write a little passage for the book flap.  Generally he says very negative things about Americans and has suggested to me in the past that Stell has worked for the C.I.A.  I said to Stell if he writes something, he should sign his name Asterios G. Kefalas, C.I.A. 

Yesterday, I finished the very dense and difficult book, Punishing the Poor, by Loïc Wacquant (Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Researcher at the Centre de sociologie européenne, Paris).  He writes mostly about the dark sides of workfare and hyperincarceration in the United States, and suggested that we have evolved into a penal State, because we falsely believe that it is more effective to lock people up than find decent work, education, healthcare, and psychiatric care which would more adequately address the problems that millions who are incarcerated face in society.  He has lots to say about racism as well as sex crimes, and he does devote one chapter to demonstrate how other countries, in this case, France are emulating the United States in their penal practices. 

Now I will begin reading Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson- named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times. 

The day is warming up slowly like it does in the autumn, but we were able to swim yesterday, and I imagine we will be able to swim today.  Tonight Petra and Kyros will come to the village for dinner. 

My last day in Greece for 2016.  It’s humid.  We are doing final packing and then we will go to the village, and Stell will get his “hairs cut” and we will buy a little gasoline.  We had a very light and nice dinner last night with Kyros and Petra at the Mouragio.  Helena and Marious were at another table eating a big “fish” dinner.  They said they were going to meet us at Sultana’s today.  I can’t figure out why they feel they can’t go there without us?  Sultana and Christos are very accommodating of all their customers.  Oh well.  Last day as I said.  I think it might turn out to be a little awkward for Helena, because her old Greek boyfriend’s father, Thanassis, often meets up with us there.  He’s the wonderful man who gave us another full large coffee container of oregano. 

I’m about 1/3 of the way through Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy. It’s very clear why he got so much recognition for this book.  In a way he is telling the same story that I read in Punishing the Poor, but Stevenson, a lawyer, rights with more “humanity” than the UCLA sociologist.  He takes you to meet his clients on death row, their families, and their communities.  Punishing the Poor is a much more “academic” treatment of the topic.

Stell is also cleaning out the refrigerator.  The animals who prowl around the house will appreciate the little bit of old food he is tossing out.  The feral cat loved sharing the fish with Stell yesterday. 

Petra and Kyros talked about their adjustment of moving to Greece for two years, after spending all their early years in Frankfurt.  They say they like it here, but I do think it has been a more difficult transition for Petra.  Their adult children all remain in Germany.  Melissa is now a gynecologist in Hamburg, and Nicos is an artist working in the same city.  I think Thomas, the elder adult/child, who like Kyros is an architect, lives yet in Frankfurt.  The two in Hamburg love the city.  Melissa still has her Turkish boyfriend much to her parents’ (especially father’s) dismay.  She is currently on a holiday with him in Italy.  Stell and I actually like him more than Helen’s Marious. 

We haven’t had coffee yet, because we are waiting for the sun to recharge the batteries for the solar system.  I will stop and read the next to last poem of the summer to Stell. Vermeer, by Howard Nemerov.  We will end the poetry reading sessions tonight with Repression by C. K. Williams.

This will probably end my journal keeping for this summer.  Although I may have bored some “readers” with the accounts from the August 26, 1936, London Times, I thoroughly enjoyed what I learned about some places in the world on the day of Stell’s birth.  For me, that newspaper was his best gift. 

Yassus. 

Email from Stell to Nic, Paris and me – received at the Charles DeGaulle Airport, Paris:

Thursday, September 01, 2016

Hello everybody!

The best thing about life is that all human experiences have a beginning and an end. Usually some people all of the time and all people some of the time, to paraphrase J. K. Galbraith, like the beginnings and hate the ends. Today, September 1^st, marks the beginning of the end of the summer holidays. We left the beautiful Stavrakiou at 5 AM. We went to bed around 10:45 and had set our alarms for 5 AM. Didn't need it. MEH was up at 4 AM an hour before the alarms.. I drove our great Cadillac, Paraskevas, to Foras backyard where we met out trusted taxi driver, my nephew Yioryos Sikiotis, who took us to Thessaloniki Makedonia Airport for an 8:20 Aegean departure to Athens. As I'm writing these lines MEH is most likely touching down on GCD Airport in Paris France. I'll spend the next 9 days in Thessaloniki. I have a few appointments with some of our clients that you met at my birthday party.    

This was one of the best summers. The arrival of both families, the great birthday party, and above all the great cool weather and let's not forget this, all contributed to giving MEH a great mood, no attitude all some long!!! A lot of things contributed to this nirvana but the pair Foras plaid a great role. Last night they came up to say goodbye and brought a pizza to be used as meze for the scotch. The doctor with the great camera made hundreds of great pictures. He gave us two CDs to share with you all.

I just read MEH's great Dincky Donkey story. Brilliant!!!

Well kids that's all. have fun.     

O Megalos