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minster, London, are : amo The Columbia Studios the largest. They are situated in what appears to he an ordinary office | seems building, but which 1s quite differ in- side. There one hears strangely disordered and intermingled sounds of music. Over the door of the first studio a red light is glowing. Be- neath is is a sign reading: Silence. Recording In progress. Do not enter while light is on. When the light. goes oc, the vis. itor may enter through two sets of heavy swinging doors. The room is bare except for a grand plano, a microphone, and eight or ten chairs, There are long grey hangings, stretching from celling to floor against the walls, = These are call- ed "damping," and may be drawn to give more or less "room tone," as desired. In this first studio two well-known figures are recording, Layton and Johnstone, both famous American songsters and prime fav- orites among record buyers. 'There is a third figure present, a man hold- ing open the door of the little Te- | cording room at the far 'side of the studio. "I'm. sorry," he have to have one more of that. Chipped wax." This means that a flaw has been found in the surface of the wax after recording, although it could not be seen before. It is useless to send it to the factory for production purposes, however good the performance of the artists may have been. : "Well, can you heat' that" says Johnston, "The best one this morning, too!" "Let's hear it anyway," says Lay- ton. "The playback might give us some ideas." + The recording room walls are crowded witha maze of electrical ap- paratus and wires, The recording operator has 'a large disc of what appears to be yellow candy. It is larger in circumstance than a re- cord, and about an inch and a halt in thickness. "There's the chip--sea?" and the operator points to an almost invisi- ble pinpoint on the wax. Irrever- ently the operator jabs two small holes in the grooved surface. "Tha last note was g little too heavy, Mr. Johnstone," he . says, "the high one, and the piano was a little too loud in your solo, Mr. Layton." He can tell simply by looking at the grooves whether there are amy dangerous places--that is, places that will "blast" in playing the finished record. A recording opera- tor of long experience can even dis- tinguish between various kinds of music--plano, orchestral, vocal, etc. --by the appearance of the grooves, As he plays the newly made record says. "We'll: West, recording has Jecome an accepted thing, it always strange to see famous thea trical stars singing away on the stage {in an empty theatre--not crowded stalls, but to a little Slack box on a pedestal. : Electricity has brought almost limitless possibilities into the field of recording outside the studio. Adimals at the Zoo, New Year's Eve at St. Paul's, Beatrice Harrison and her famous nightingales, the King's speech at some opening, the "Trooping of the Colors--all these! would have been unattainable by the . Today any music, 'speech or sound acoustic (or "horn") recording of six or seven years ago, may be 'successfully recorded, even in the open air. But in spite of the expert knowledge gained in the last few years, it is still impossible to predict recording success in the case of a singer. The quality, or tim- bre, of the voice may sound quite different on the wax. The science of recording, to what. ever height of perfection it may be brought, will never be without its oceasignal 'humorous moments. In the final analysis the whole thing rests~on the personal element invol- 'ved, and the very human nature of the work brings about many very amusing incidents. So many records have been spoil- ed by artists not waiting for the "All Clear" signal at the finish, that the recording operstor is constantly on his guard against it. One famous operatic star had great difficulty with the last bars on one of his selec: tions, . They tried it several times, but never seemed able to maka a success of those last few bars. Fin- ally, when they were almost willing to give up, the opera singer decided he would try it just once more. He sang it marvelously. The studio manager was in ecstacies. Then, before the recording operator had time to lift the point from the wax, he heard, forever engraved on the last grooves, "Thank God, that's over, I couldn't make a better one it I tried for years." There is a greatly mistaken idea that making a record or haviag a song recorded is the "open Sesame" to fame and fortune, But th§ truth of it is that a song is never record- ed until it has been accepted hy a publisher, and then one record would bring the composer or author only from ten to fifteen pounds ($50 to $75). The unknown singer or player 13 lucky to receive at the be- ginning five to ten on a basis (it he. is lucky) of six records a year. -- over a lock knocking is heard as the needle passes over the first of the small holes which he made. Lay- ton and Johnstone look significant. ly at each other, realizing that this and the next hole represent the places whre the plano was tco loud and the last note too high, { Upstairs in the next studio the visitor comes across a fine, solid fanfare of brass, No warning sign is up. Evidently this is a rehearsal, | went to the local barber for a shave. A man visiting a. country town The barber made several slips with his razor, and each time he would paste a small piece of paper over the cut to stop the bleeding. When the operation was over the victim handed the man half a crown. "Keep the change, barber," he said. "It's worth half a crown to be shaved by s0 versatile an artist. Why, you're a barber, butcher, and Paperhanger "ot sound to es Sa : 4 the record. 'all in one," Here's a jaunty dress for the col- lege girl. It is not content with just contrast ing 'trim, so chooses a plaided woolen in red and brown mixture for its waistcoat bodice. The skirt is plain matching shade brown woolen: It's just as snappy as can be, and so smartly appropriate for the foot-! ball games. Style No. 3337 may be had in sives 14, 16, 18, 20 years, 36 and 88 inches bust. Size 16 requires 2% yards of 36-inch material for skirt with 21 yards of 85-inch material for waist. 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For example, the motorist is warned to dim his headlights both by '"phares interdits" and "malper- mesitaj Janiomenny" id Fish Demons Demand Good The Canadian fresh fish market has been fairly, satisfactory and demand from the United States is good. Ex- porters in every line are endeavoring to reduce stocks wherever possible re-| fects, said Jesus (v. 8), so gardless of prices prevailing, -- Friction Magnetizes Topaz Heat or friction will render a true topaz electric. It will then, like am- ber, readily pick up small bits of paper.--QGas Logic. {LA simisriED SEEKER, 8: 1, 2, | II, AN UNHEARD-OF CONDITION, 3: 3-12, | IIT. cov's rer rom ALL, 8: 13-17. : IV. HOW CHRIST JUDGES MBN, 3: 18-21. ua Lesson Iti--Jesus and. oT 3: 1.16, - so loved the world, that : . only begotten Son, . that whosdever Stlizveth on him Should not ANALYSIS INTRODUCTION--Jesus' first ist to Jerusalem created something of a sen- Many "believed" on bis name @ 0), that is, believed that he was wil any moral change. sah, placed little confidence in them, 2: 24. In the case of one of them, however, he made an exception, I, A SATISFIED SEEKER, 8: 1, 2, Nicodemus, a member of the San- hedrin, is taken as an example of that imperfect faith. He knew about Jesus, The tremendous influence and the ver- sonaiity of of the fie young preacher had ap- pealed to e¢ may have had hopes of persuading him to. give up his revolutionary theories and asso- Sigte himself with the regularly nized channels of religion. He ik ke les: dangerous there. So the Roman Catholics thought about Fran- cis of Assisi. Nicodemus was not the "anxious enquirer." He came to dis- cover whether he could come to some understanding with this popular preacher which would keep the Phar risees still in their loved position of religious leadership. He came to Jesus by night (v. 2) perhaps because he did not wish to compromise either himself or his hro- ther Pharisees until he was sure of this new movement. He began with a diplomatic, if somewhat patronizing, speech. He has been accused of cow- ardice, but surely, unfairly. If it was fit for the Christian brotherhood. Just { sistent incredulity of Nicodemus (v. | Roes on with his discourse on God's Gift. by night that he came, at least he came--to learn for himself. It is true 'that he defended Jesus without ox- pissing any personal interest in him, but he defended him. He was satis- fied with his own religion, but he was open-minded enough to seek further : knowledge. II. AN UNHEARD-OF CONDITION, 3: 3-12, Jesus never wasted his time on sham. With Nicodemus he went at once to the heart of things. Nicodemus and his associates were concerned aleut this new preacher's possible connection with the Messianic king- dom. Their own fitness for that king- dom was taken for granted. Were they not orthodox children of Abra- ham? They connected Jesus with rhe kingdom because they saw external "signe." But the trath of his utter- ances had not gripped then. Jesus shattered this complacency with one sentence, "Except a man be Lorn .gain he cannot see the kingdom of God," v. 8. As mere physical birth does not make one a real Canadian, li 'ing up to the high ideals of Cana- dian citizenship, neither did his Jew- ish birth make Nicodemus a member of the new kingdom. A spiritual as well as a physical qualification was necessary. To be a member of 'the kingdom of love and brotherhood, one had to be loving and brotherly. The Pharisees' religion was not love, but law. Jesus, in Speaking of a new birth, borrowed his figure from the religious and political language of his day. A pagan, upon embracing the Jewish religion, was said to. be "re- born" in the new faith. The same tern was used in the mystery religions which flourished in Ephesus where Juhn was writing his Gospel, To be "Lorr. again" is not to experience some magical change; it is to commit our- selves so unreservedly to the Jesus way of living that the spirit that was in him will be in us also, changing our characters and our attitudes, We shall become so different from our old self-considering selves--actually liv- ing a new life--that we can be spoken of as having been "re-born," "born from above." Verse b refers to the Pharisces' re- fusal to submit to John's baptism of repentance. Unrepentant, they are not as the wind is known only by its ef- the pres- ence of the Spirit is recognized by the i changed character of a man. The per- 1 12) convinced Jesus that nothing was to be gained by continuing the con- versation. John has now finished with Nicodemus, and dismisses him. He Golden k Miss Dorothy Pagel, nne of rich: est women in England and daugh- ter of Lord Queenborough, is be- coming prominent patron of the turf, having sunk about $100,000 in recent bloodstock sale, III. Gop's GIFT FOR ALL, 8: 13-17, Verses 14-17 are probably reflcc- tions of the author rather than the wo>ds of Jesus. They discuss the very truths which Jesus suggested Nico- demus could not understand. Not for the select few--the Jews--hut for all who accept it, is God's gift of salva- tion provided. The Son of Man, re- jected by the Jews, will bring salva- tion through his sacrifice, vs, 4, 15. For this express purpose did God send his "only begotten"--literally one who is like no other son, v. 6. Eternal life js for "whosoever believeth." "Be- lieveth" here is not an intellectual assent to a creed. It is a personal loyalty and devotion to a person. To be "saved," to 'have eternal life," and "to be like Jesus" means the same thing. IV. HOW CHRIST JUDGES MEN, 3: 18-21, The Jews thought Messiah was com- ing to punish the unbelievers, But if judgment is not the motive of the Christ's coming, it is the inevitable consequence, His coming compels men to take s'des. The stand they take shows them up in their true colors. If our deeds are svil, we shun the light because it shows up our true character. The man who has nothing to hide welcomes the investigation. He who avoids the light thereby proclaims that his deeds are evil. re po fmt Buffalo Meat Feature of Many New Menus Two delicacies have been added to the Canadian New Year menus, and the Mounted Police will benefit from the recent slaughter of 1,500 buffalo under government supervision in Wainwright National Park, where the Canadian Government maintains the largest herd -of buffalo in the world, says a recent news Item from the Canadian National Railways. Buffalo: tall soup and buffalo steaks graced many a table in Can- ada on New Year's Day. The Cana- dian National Railways have distribu- ted thirty cars of buffalo meat to vari- ous markets throughout the Dominion. The hides will be used mostly to make coats and rugs for Canada's famous red-coated police force, which still performs yeoman service in the far stretches of the northland, in many cases within the Arctic Circle. The heads, in many instances, will be sold by the government to clubs, hotels and individual citizens as wall trophies. The slaughter of the animals was necessary because there is only suf- ficient pasturage within the park to feed about 6,000 head of buffalo and also in order to maintain the quality of the stock, says the bulletin. -------- Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the accumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but ot the adopted character of another you have only 'an extemporaneous half-possession.--R. YT. Emerson. rr "The State should be our servant; | we should not be slaves of the State." , use gas,"--Sinclair Lewis. "When competition becomes intense, then business runs to the government." ~DMerle Thorpe. To own one's own home is a phy- enterprise, of independence, and of the freedom of epirit."--Herbert Hoover, "The psychology of a child is more baflling than that of men and women." --A. A. Milne. "I would not have missed the ex- perience of visiting Russia for a mil lion dollars, but I would not take a million dollars to go back again."--S. L. Rothafel (Roxy). "The systems of government in use are largely those of the eighteenth cen- tury."--John Masefield. "Man does not make rules of life and then live according to those rules; he lives and them he makes rules of life."--Clarence Darrow. "Punishment is not only meant to act as a deterrent to the criminal him- self, but as a deterrent f) others."-- Sir Henry A. McCardie. "To abolish war effectively we must contrive, by some means, to lessen the intense economic tension." -- William G. McAdoo. "Capitalism is unable to pay war debts, social relief, profits, dividends, and prepare for another war."--George Lansbury. "Such a thing as a model perform: ance of a play to-day Is quite impos- hible."--George Bernard Shaw, "One of the contemporary general ideas which are completely false is that human nature changes; that human beings have less feeling, senti- ment, whatever you like to call it, than they ever had; that we, all of us, everywhere, are any more material than we ever were."----~Hugh Walpole. "None has yet learned wheat without chaff. For every mas- terpiece of literature, painting or music produced, miles of paper have been 'wasted'."--Will H. Hays. "Never forget that 99 times out of 100 the issue is not between right and! wrong, but between right and right." Sir Arthur W. Lewis, "To-morrow's brand of civilization is to be built out of the stuff of to-day's youth."--Fannie Hurst. "Everybody must realize that even the most widely accepted theory, if overstrained, is bound to collapse in practice."--Adolf Hitler, "They have no white-collar com- to grow portant to us is not important to them at all."--J. P. McEvoy. "There is a sense in which wages may become a dole if they weaken a man's initiative."--Hrnry Ford. o Allve--"uu you tell ner what you said was in strict confidence?" Ano--*"No; I didn't want her to think it was important enough to repeat." In mineral wealth, according to her area, Mexico is reputed to rank first in the whole world, - ie A "For a cold I take a pinch of bicar- bonate of soda and a spoonful of com: mon salt mixed with lemon juice and water,"--Mahatma Gandhi, Better Times Are Here Jeff Has a Job. -- THE PUBLIC ALMOST DRIVES (wes, seee, now Youve: Jar TA DAY- How DO You Like THe | TELEP "B05, IW THEM. GooFY ASKING RIDICULOUS | QUESTIONS. THEY ASK Wheke HUNDREDS OF OTHER LUIS AND THE BEST TRIPE IS EQUALLY AS } SILL = y WHY, Some PeoPLE EVEN Go So FAR AS To ASK FOR "You can't be knightly when they plexities in Russia; what seems im-' uired, as a result, a planetary, instead of a provincial out look, the whole earth is our home, It is but a single step from this, te the acquisition of an interplanetary sical expression of Individualism, of mind, and an extension of our com cept to include the solar system. If we can grasp standards beyond those merely terrestrial, millions, instead of thousands of miles, and appreciate the immense, © but perfect harmonies of our solax system, an understanding of the com: quest of space will soon follow, We will perceive then that an inter planetary journey can be ashieved through the medium of the same law of physics and chemistry that gave us the airplane and motor car. We will see that a journey to the mone map be planned with the exactitude of an airplane flight around the earth. There is nothing, in short, of the mystic, or the supernatural, in 'our reaching out to the untrodden heavens.--David Lasser, in "The Conquest of Space." -------------- The Silkworm industry In North America W. B. Holland in the Miami Her- ald gives an interesting survey of this ever-growing industry, He writes: Something more than a century age the United States of America was considerably excited over the tre. mendous profits believed to be pos- sible in raising sllkworms and put- ting them at thelr tasks of produc- ing cocoons from which silk could be spun, Congress discussed the sub- ject for some years, and then Rich. ard Rush, Secretary of the Treasury, was authorized to prepare a book telling how to grow and handle silk worms and make them valuable citi- zens, Dr. Pascalls in 1830 wrote an article for the American Journal of Science following closely on the | publication of the manual prepared by Secretary Rush, which attracted | wide attention and started a boom {in the cultivation of mulbergy trees, | which were necessary to enable silk- worms to grow and construct the cocoons that were needed if silk were to. be manufactured. The whole country went wild on the silk ques- tion, Speculation became rife and conditions were much like the Cali- fornia gold rush and the Colorado silver excitement. Churches took up the study of seri-culture and many of them began growing silkworms in order to build {new edifices or pay for old ones. Ons good deacon in New England, at a weekly prayer meeting, expressed gratification that the Lord, "seeing our great need for a church building, has kindly prepared a way for ui to get it." After a few years it was found that the labor cost of producing cocoons |in the United States was too great [to make the industry commercially ! profitable, This information was not obtained, however, until a sharp nurseryman on Long Island had ! cleaned up a fortune, much of which ! he lost when the collapse came. After 'selling supplies of mulberry | trees to nurserymen in other locall- ties, the Long Island man, having | accumulated a stock of many thous- ands, spread the news that there | was a shortage in mulberry trees and | oftered to buy all that were offered at a half dollar each. He bought few at that price, however, as the quotations began soaring, and whem the price reached a dollar he begam unloading. In some localities a twig that would take root when planted sold for $1 and trees a year old were grabbed at $5 each. Speculators and farmers in Pennsylvania bought $300,000 orth of mulberry trees in a single day. There was hardly a farmer's home that did not have a grove of mulberry trees. Children Jvere used in feeding the silkworms. The Long Island nurseryman who had made a killing sent an agent te France who paid $80,000 for a milllon trees. They reached the United States: after the market had broken. Though the great expectations were not realized, the silk industry got a footing in New BEungland, which made fortunes for many and caused sew eral towns in Connecticut to become prosperous, The names of Corticelil, Belding, McCallum, Cheney and of silk, ; Sericulture had heen introduced into the United States when were still colonies, but the silk fms . dustry had not been cularly successful and the production of the cocoons Was more profitable fm China, Japan and = other Oriental countries than in America. In col onial times bounties were several localities for the produ envision Skinner became known to all users