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ENGLAND PREPARES
DRASTIC CAMPAIGNG
ON ALL SMUGGLERS
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Jan. 21.—Hundreds of
miles of lonely stretches along the
coastline of England and Scotland
will shortly come under the eagle
eye of the revenue department focus
ed from the skies in an airplane. A
fleet of machines has been added to
the existing equipment to protect the
northern and eastern Scottish coasts,
long suspected of being the favorite
stopping off places of international
smugglers.
Patrolling the long coastline sur
rounding England, when almost every
section is within a day’s run from
countries producing dutiable goods,
has always been a problem for the
British government except for the
few intervals when the Liberal Free
Trade party occupied Downing St.
In Victorian days only in the popu
lous sections was any permanent en
deavor made to guard the coast line
against smugglers. Revenue ships
often made circuits of the island, or
busied themselves in some locality
suspected of harboring defaulters
against Her Majesty’s rightful du
ties, but daily patrolling of some 3,
500 miles was hot even attempted.
Faster traveling, which develop
ed after 1895. found the government
also in a comparative condition of
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speed, and in a single year the per
sonnel ot the coast guard was trebled
and all ot tlie English coast and much
of the inhabited Scottish coast was
patrolled. Certain sections in north
ern Scotland where several hundred
miles are not broken by a single vil
lage or cabin always have been a
source of trouble to the revenuers.
Heavy seas have not allowed the
small revenue boats to be used, and
the cold winters made it impossible
for man or beast to make such a
long journey without shelter in sight.
During the war it was necessary to
use the personnel of the coast guard
for other work, and the smugglers
were handed over to the watchful
ness of the British Navy. The navy
and the war succeeded in reducing
smuggling to almost nothing, but
after the armistice and before the
end of the years necessary to reor
ganize the guard, smugglers became
: more active than ever before,
i According to reports there were S90
I convictions last year for smuggling
land about $15,000,000 worth of goods
jwore confiscated.
The revenue department has now
i obtained a fleet of hydroplanes which
will cover all the bare spots along
I ihe coast, and for the first time in
j history every bit of coastline of the
| islands of England, Scotland and
Wales will be under surveillance.
Prussia Shelves the
Co-Education Deal
(By Associated Press)
BERLIN, Jan. 21.—The secondary
| schools of Prussia have decided
; against co-education on the ground
| that girls are generally superior men
tally to boys up to the time they are
16. Thereafter the boys surpass the
i girls in general intelligence. This in
| equality of intelligence, it is argued
puts both the boys and the girls at a
disadvantage if they are compelled to
attend the same classes.
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Editor Gateway: I would like to
ask you how many telephones there
are in New York City and how many
operators they have?
Ans. Greater New York has 30,000
phones. There are 25,000 persons on
the payroll of the telephone company.
Editor Gateway: What percentage
of World War soldiers, residents of
the United States, were able to re
turn to duty after being wounded.
Also what percentage in our Civil
War?
Ans. In the World War over 60 per
cent of the wounded recovered and
returned to duty. This percentage
is for the Allies only. In the Civil
War but 12 per cent.
Editor Gateway: How far could a
man jump if, relative to his size, he
had the same jumping power as a flea
Ans. Across the Atlanitc Ocean j
from New York to London.
Editor Gateway: What do people
mean when they say “he has the 1
eye of an eagle”?
Ans. An eagle instinctively ad
justs the vision of its eyes so that he
can see an object just as plain at a
distance of ten miles as he can at 20
feet. This is made possible because
the eye of the eagle is surrounded by
15 little sliutter-like bones that over
lap each other a very little and com
pletely surround the ball of the eye.
If an object is a great distance away
the bones open and the eyeball flat
tens, but if the object is nearby the
shutters contract and squeeze the eye
ball in a rounder form. As the eagle
is noted for tho keenness of its vision j
so is the keen sighted man said to j
have an “eagle eye.”
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how many generations have elapsed |
since the birth of Christ?
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depends entirely upon the standard'
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j is made the usual life span there have
j been about 59 generations since the
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Ans. Seattle is not an unduly j
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vice by the present mayor, but his
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days.
Mr. Editor: If an American girl
marries an Englishman, in the U. S. •
and removes to England, what would |
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YAKIMA VALLEY IS LEFT
WITHOUT ELECTRIC POWER
SPOKANE, Jau. 22.—Failure of the
power line of the Pacific Electric Co.,
between Lind and Pasco, Wash.,
since early yesterday has cut off the
Yakima valley from obtaining elec
tric power from the Washington Wa
ter Power company’s system, it was
declared here today by A. H. Beck
with, assistant superintendent of
light and power for the latter con
cern.
Connection of the water powei
company’s system with the Pacific
concern is effected by throwing of
a switch at Lind, he said, and the
wire failure is beyond that point.
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