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for Jarvis N had been followed strictly the Mysâ€" tery S of Segrave and the Bluebird of Campbell would resemble airplane fuselages more than they do,. They would have egaâ€"shaped fronts and fine tails. As it is, their forms are almost lined pres Auto Racers Near ___ Limit of Speed «10 po wr;ml:f Fast swimming birds and fAish are correctly designed. Nature discovered~ long ago that the prow blew across the course. If Segrave';r'i';;; carries out his intention of trying to !flywh beat Campbell‘s record, the lines of top 8 his Mystery 8 plus her power may Yar. A set a new mark. cor.dl As a highâ€"speed machine â€"rushes | gitior along it creates a suction behind itâ€" | tipes, what the â€" engineer calls “noutlvo'd”p‘ pressure." Any one who has @YeT | factu stood on the platftorm of an observ@Aâ€"| rig q tion car has seen stones sucked UD | qyar, from the tracks and dropped. A llttlelc‘m' cyclone is created. Bleycle riders are | if ng alded by the suction of motorcycle pacers. This suction tends to push the rear end of an incorrectly designâ€" Aft ed machine upward. Hence there is a boun! tendency at high speed for the maâ€" befor chine to capsize. have Because the pressure of the air "'”f from every angle must be considered, Wt: the designers of Segrave‘s and Campâ€" i‘“ C bell‘s machines had to depart trom|"::dy the rules established by airplane :m n' builders. It Is the practice to test mach the air resistance of every part of an fleult alrplane in a wind tunnel and thus to ci discover the shape which can be ::‘y" driven through the air with the least ks amount of energy. Windâ€"tunnel reâ€" 150 search proved that the traditional vot;s sharp prow of a ship is lclenflflcfllx'hnm must have a rounded, rather blunt To drive an automobile, an earthâ€" bound vehicle, at the unprecedented rate of 206.95602 miles an hour, as Cap sanc volv Blue Nerves of the Drivers, Air Reâ€" sistance and Other Condiâ€" tions Stand in the Way of a Much Higher Velocity I P UP U vidker "vcstmt o > Pic disnd hss 4 Captain Malcolm Campbell did on the sancs of Daytona Beach last week, inâ€" volves more than engine power. His Bluebird Special had a twelveâ€"cylindeor engine of 450 horsepower. Yet he broke the record of 203.792 miles an hour made by Major H. 0. L. Segrave last year in the Mystery S, an outo mobile fitted with two 500 horsepower engines. Had Frank Lockhart not swerved as he was roaring over the beach at 225 miles an hour and inâ€" jJured himself and his machine by plunging into the ocean, it is probable that the world‘s record for the fastest mile on land would now be hisâ€" If Segrave and Campbell had travâ€" eled in a vacuwum and over an ideally smooth road, they would have made their records with perhaps as little as AI a hundred horsep&wer.' Both lDOd; along in storms of their own making. Few winds attain velocities of 200‘ miles an hour, and long before thay[ do trees are uprooted and roofs are ripped off like sheets of paper. Air| resistance increases as the cube of | the speed. To make 120 miles nn! hour a car must have engines not| merely twice but eight times as powâ€"| erful as those required to make sixty . miles an hour. Every additional mile is paid for heavily. | Probably oneâ€"half ftha Rarennawaw at Campbell‘s disposal was used in overcoming air resistance. At a speed of 220 miles an hour, which he says he attained at one time, the resistâ€" ance must have been over half a ton to the square foot. Segrave has atated that the pressure on his foreâ€" head was over 100 pounds to the square foot. When Campbell was tossed up for a moment above tha To cut down this terrific wind reâ€" sistance elaborate investigations and experiments in wind tunnels must be carried out. What are called paraâ€" altle surfacesâ€"surfaces which offer extra resistanceâ€"must be suppressed. The designer strives for a form withâ€" out projections; for it is easler to drive a smooth, correctly designed bulk through the air than to rake it with many excrescences. The details of Campbell‘s Bluebird Special have not been published. Hence it is imâ€" possible to compare her lines with those of Segrave‘s Mystery S. square foot. When Campbell was tossed up for a moment above the windshield after he struck a bump in the sand his goggles were nearly torn off by the wind. i1 D P High Marks in Doubt. Neither the Bluebird nor the Mysâ€" ery S traveled at maximum speed, o that, despite the records, no one an maintain that the lines of the one re finer than those of the other. ‘ampbell‘s exposed wheels must have etarded him. On the other hand, the n at the tail of his machine made it asier to control the Bluebird lateralâ€" v in the face of the stif wind that it m it p beb robably oneâ€"halt the horsepower is is what is meant by "streamâ€" &." No eddies must be stirred ! possible, and no wake, should be »chind. Foaming bow waves and s may gladden the »ye of the maâ€" painter, but they are the visible mees of inefficiency to the enâ€" ‘r. ‘The truth is that our locomoâ€" and steamships pay too high a : for speed in the form of engine r and therefore fuel. Probab‘y Mauretania and the Twentieth ury Limited could attain their ‘nt speeds with half the fuel that now consume if they were steartâ€" Airplanes and Automobiles the lessons of the wind tunnel il that the tail must be fine if : to be attained with little efâ€" (braln and hand capable of controlling machines evon faster? Isn‘t the difâ€" !flculty to be overcome in the future ‘psychological rather than mechantâ€" | cal? to equalize the downward pressure in front and the upward or negative pressure behind, the surfaces are ‘cnrved in forms that must seem strange to an air racer. ‘The object of | the curves is to let the air slip over ‘the machine rather than to let it batâ€" ‘ter the sides and bottom. Thus is to ibe explained the squat look of both ‘Segrave‘s and Cambell‘s machines. | Florida‘s Unique Course. ’ Florida has the only beach in any etvilized country on which Mysteri+s ;and Bluebirds can be tested at top speed. A runway of at least twenty miles is required, and it must be straight and as free from inequalities [as possible. There is no question of "taklng curves. Moreover, the runway ;must be without trees or flanking ditches. A beach of hard sand alone 'lulfllls the conditions. In Europe no \twentyâ€"mile beach free from sand |dunes can be found. Even Dayton‘s ‘beach, on which many motorcycle and ‘automobile records have been made ‘and broken, is not all that a Segrave _or a Campbell can wish. Twenty miles |of billiard table would be better, inasâ€" \much as every pebble and shell has lits effect at high speed. But Campbell‘s racer flashed over the sands at the rate of 303 feet a second. Man has attained a speed on the ground greater than that of sensation! Caimpbell‘s roaring enâ€" gine drove him on faster than his brain could order a muscle to move, faster than he could wink or shift an aye. Supose that it took him two seconds to read a speedometer on the instrumoent board. In that brief intarâ€" val he rushed over 606 feet of ground â€"three city blocks! No wonder that he was terrorâ€"stricken _ when he thought for a brief moment that he had lost control of his car and was about to plunge into the crowd halt a mile away. f Reasoning is out of the question even when danger seems fairly digâ€" tant. There is no time for the logical processes of thought. Man becomes an animel, relying on what we might call "instinct" for lack of a better As one walks along one stubs one‘s toe. How long does it take the nerâ€" vous system to signal the fact to the brain? The great German physicistt von Helmhaits made the first trustâ€" worthy measurements. He found that the speed at which a nervous excitaâ€" tlon, such as pain, is transmitted varios from 147.6 to 180.4 feet a secâ€" ound, although it seems to us that the prick of a pin is felt instantly. Campbell‘s tires were produced by | a manufacturer who had spent months! in conducting experiments to disâ€"| cover how they could be made more resistant to heat and centrifugal rm-er than those with which stock cars are | provided. Flywheels explode if a cerâ€"| tain critical speed is exceeded, and | Campbell‘s tires had to withstand cen-' trifugal force as great as that of many fAlywheels. When he was traveling at | top speed they were no longer clrcu-t lar, but oval in crossâ€"section,. No reâ€"| cords are available to judge the conâ€" dition of Segrave‘s or Campbell‘s tires, but it is safe to conclude that, despite the best efforts of the manuâ€"| facturer, rubber had parted from fabâ€"| ric after the race against time was | over. It is highly improbable that Campbell will use his old tires again If he decides to beat his own record. The Limit of Speed. After having traveled in an earv.h-' bound vehicle faster than any man | before him Campbell is reported toi have said: "There is no limit to' speed." Perhaps not from the viewâ€" point of the enginaer. . The raclng! automobiles of Segrave and Campbelli may not be the last word in poweri and ground speed, but is the human scowlike, except for the easy curves oo ue M avas io omm e entee Whatever the wind tunnel may teach about airplanes it teaches something very different for automobiles. ~ The pressure downward on the nose of a highâ€"speed automobile and upâ€" ward on the tail is terrific. Besides, air is spilled over the sides in ways that tend to cut down speed. In order We know what happens when a wire is bent back and forth or when cold steel is hammered. Heat is deâ€" veloped. Both the wire and the steel become too hot to hold. The wire eventually breaks. Rubber is a parâ€" ticularly â€" sensitive substance. _ If it were not it could not be vulcanized. The tire maker trles to make an inâ€" tegral mass out of cottton fabric and rubber, but at about 490 degrees Fahâ€" remhelt the two disintregate. At the erd of an automoBile race tires are found to be internally ruined because of the heat that has been generated. Campbell allowed himself four miles in which to get a rolling start, and then found that he had not picked up what he deemed to be sufficient speed when he crossed the line. Clutching the wheel he exerted every effort to keep on a straight course. Such was his inertia as he was flying along at what must have been 220 miles at times that the slightest swerve asâ€" sumed alarming proportions in the fraction of a second. Hence the fear of running into the crowd. Such is the centrifugal force nfi wheels spinning around at the rate of | about 2,000 revolutions a minute, or} over 33 a second, that ordinary tires are practically useless. The olightestl inequalityâ€"a mere pebble, for exâ€"| ampleâ€"is enough to make the ma~! chine hop, so that it seems almost to | Autter along if it is watched closely.| Thirty times a second each part of the; tire strikes a hammer blow on the| road. | i 69 sand alone word. As he guides a vehicle rushing Europe no over the sands at more than 200 miles from sand|an hour he is scarcely conscious of ' So it seems as if we must turn to | the air if distances are to be covered |at velocities higher than 250 miles an ‘hour. The Frenchman Bonnet has ialready made 275.48$ miles an hour in an airplane. When Lieuttenant Jas. ’H. Doolittle of the United States iArmy succeeded in performing an outâ€" \ side loop he probably traveled at the \rate of more than 300 miles an hour. | And at what risk! Such was the cen | trifugal force generated as he whirled | around that it seemed to him as if his ;eyeballs \would be torn out of their | sockets. | The craving for speed is in itself a | primordial instinct, the reason for |\ which we see in all other creatures. \Fleetness is many an animal‘s salvaâ€" \tion in the struggle for existence. An | evolutionist probably would hold that |\ when they are seated in their highâ€" lpowered racers men like Segrave, |Campbell and Lockart slip back a milâ€" illon years or more partly because they are striving to satisfy an old but { persisting instinct to flee from someâ€" \thing, partly because they must rely ron the cave man‘s instinctive coâ€"orâ€" |\ dination of brain, nerve rond muscle 'to guide themselves. lthat. Perhaps a bump in the sand ‘threw â€" him momentarily _ off the :stralght course that he was trying to ]malntaln. Such was his inertia at !225 miles an hour that his machine |tended to keep on the swerving course \that had been assumed. He landed ‘in the ocean, providentially escaping | death. + The question also arises whother a machine any faster than that built for Campbell or Lockhart can stay on the groundâ€"â€"whether it may not become a kind of airplane and soar into the air or whether it will not turn turtle. As he rushed along Campbell created & veritable hurriâ€" cane. Air pressed on his machine. That pressure could not be ignored. In a machine designed solely for traâ€" veling at the highest possible speed the pressure on the under surface might well lift the entire weight into the air. Wilbur Wright once said To prevent their necks from being snapped by centrifugal force the perâ€" formers who "loopâ€"theâ€"loop" before cireus crowds see to it that their heads are rigidly strapped in place. Yet their speeds never approach that of Bonnet or Doolittle. Even in racâ€" ing motor boats pilots have been hurled out by centrifugal force as they whirled around the marking buoys of & course. Hence even in the air the "stunt‘ maniac is restrained by his nerves and his soft tissues. There can be no short, sudden turns in any future voyage to Europe in a 300â€"mileâ€" anâ€"hour machine. Even if heads are strapped in place, who knows what the effect of centrifugal force may be on the heart and the comparatively soft brain? Lockart‘s Experience. Lockart probably does not know exâ€" actly what happened to him. He was seen to swerve first this way and then his acts. "Just before I finished the mile I glanced at my instruments and was making 220 miles an hour. Beâ€" fore I could look up I had crossed the final wire and was â€"headed for the soft sand dunes," Campbell said. Five thousand hearts stood still during that tense moment. How he managed to right his car he himself cannot exâ€" plain. He knows only that his feet left the accelerator and brake comâ€" pletely. TRIP ON A TINY TOOTâ€"TOOT A young machinist in Vienna has byilt what is claimed to be the smallest locomotive in the world, comâ€" plete in every detail. Here it is working. % BUFFALO "SNOWâ€"BIRDS" PLAY HOCKEY IN BATHING SUITS Every Boy and Girl Would Like One Double jeopardy is when the wearer suddenly realizes that both pairs beâ€" longing to the twoâ€"pants suit have seen better days. Sedan Chairs "Well, â€"confound it! what I am." These chairs require almost as much space as a motortruck. Their passage exacts a great degree of conâ€" descension on the part of the traffic police. Shanghai‘s traffic is the most diverse in the world, ranging from rickshas and wheelbarrows to the latest models of motortrucks and limousines. f that a kitchen table could be made to fiy if there were power enough to drive it. Undoubtedly the engineer can deâ€" sign and build a car that will go much faster. But what‘s the use if human nerves are unequal to the task of conâ€" trolling it? There is good reason to believe that Segrave‘s Mystery S, which held the record until Campâ€" bell‘s Bluebird broke it, can skim over the sand at 236 miles an hour, but the ironâ€"nerved Segrave himself doubts if he will ever reach that speed. It is a pity if human endurance has reachâ€" ed the breaking point, for the engin eer has not said his last word. Should Hide It. "Say, don‘t walk around all day with such a rye look on your face. You look just like an undertaker." Chinese Veterans Still Retain Oldâ€"Time Transport Shanghaiâ€"Shanghai foreign settle ment has many curious anomalies in dealing with its traffic problem, Two sedan chairs, relics of a picturesque past, with their 12â€"foot poles, green curtained windows and spare collie bearers, continue to find use as the property of two Chinese veterans who refuse to bow before the customs of the age. Fifteen years ago there were hundreds of sedan chairs in use; a year ago there were still eight on the straets, but they are now reduced to two. â€" Campbell‘s record may be beaten by a slight marginâ€"a fraction of a per cent. perhapsâ€"but there is no likelihood that there will be a sudden jump from his 207 miles an hour to 230 or 250. Because of the slowness with which the brain telegraphs its orders through the nervous system to foot and hand there is some reason to believe that the highest speed atâ€" tainable over the ground lies someâ€" where between 240 and 250 miles an hour. An Exceedingly Chilly Thrill Slow Traffic »That‘s just lWhen goofy guys on ice cavort, Oh, do not try to be a sport. 'Sit fast at home and let ‘em go, \And then you won‘t cadge such a co‘ ‘As I have got, and don‘t go out \Unless it‘s hot. â€"Hall Pege. The Allâ€"British Flight advertising campaign has made its bow to the Arâ€" gentine public. The flight is to be over some 20,000 kilometers and calls are being made at some 160 towns where over 3,000,000 leaflets will be distributed. ‘The machine circles over the towns, and leaflets are : thrown down, after which a landing is made, the wings are folded back and the maâ€" chine is towed into some suitable place for exhibition, where it remains some five or six hours in order to give everyone a chance of seeing it. The names of the firms, all of which are British, their addresses and the articâ€" les that they wish to adverise, are pained on the machine, as well as printed on the leaflets. The scheme, which is refreshingly novel, has reâ€" ceived the support of the British Amâ€" bassador, and success should attend this new venture to push British goods. My friend said much to bim it meant To lamp the starry firmament. And heâ€"was glad he did not know What then was on my radio. And there I sat in pitchy dark Without electric lights to mark Just what I was so coldly eating; And I said much I‘m not repeating He had shells, I think he gave me nothing else. I ate the shells mixed up in eggs And rapt a rug about my legs. He pointed out three little stars That make up Mister Orion; And what I said was rather tryin‘ He said they made Orion‘s belt. I told him how my ankles felt. The day was cold, the air was raw, Which ought to be against the law. The lake was on a mountain steep Where beavers are too cold to sleep I sat within my cote raccoon, And up above my hat the moon, And through my teeth the wind did play A doleful tune We travel‘d home in painful ruts And those we passed said: "Pipe the nuts." But he puts on a leather coat, Runs dowr the drawbridge ‘cross the This morning he vouchsaf‘d, "Let‘s take Our supper up beside the lake." I did not know quite what he meant, I do not know just why I went. I wonder if it‘s ever best To try to be a willing guest, When what you eat you don‘t digest moat. And when I to the window go He beans me with a ball of snow I know a man who is, I think, Peculiarly athletic. When winter blasts are far from tenâ€" der, My feet are first upon the fender And 1 feel most pathetic. A Doleful Tune Boosting Business some hard boil‘d eggs in WUN IAKIVYV â€"AKLMIVESD TORONTO Under the licensing act of 1924 cerâ€" tain areas are schoduled, and the sale .ot materials that could be used in the | manufacture of poteen has to take | place under license from the police, | Nevertheless, the peasants manage to get supplies of raw material and f(o fit up now distilleries when their equipment is confiscated; but police ;vl‘flanoe is making their task ever more difficult. Experience has shown ’bho police that christenings and wedâ€" idlngl are often preceded by a "run" | of poteen for the celebratlion, and | they are on the watch when any such | event is expected in the scheduled | aroas. By watching the traveling tinkers they also find out replacement of equipment and make seizures, The fact that the number of seizures is much groater than the number of de teotions is due to he ingemuity of the poteen makers, who select bogs or other common property for their opâ€" erations so that ownership cannot be established. They are as ingenious ps bootleggers, but their occupation is becoming more and more dificult with Church and State against them, Curiously enough, the first discovâ€" ery of poteen in County Louth, in Leinster, within living memory was made recently. The seizure took place in the Ravensiale Park district, which is just off the main road to Dublin and Belfast, A man has been arrested and remanded in connection Pieâ€"eyed. Judgeâ€"â€""What is the charge, offiâ€" cer?" Officerâ€""Driving while in a state of extreme infatuation." with the seizure By Shan O‘Cuiv Dublinâ€"â€"Forty persons were impriâ€" soned and ninety fined for potecnâ€" making in the Free State in 1927. The number of detections and seizures of illicit "stills" and t>e number of perâ€" sons prosocuted were greater than in 1926. This does not denote an exâ€" tension of the manufacture and sale of illiclt spirits, but more intense Â¥otivity on the part of the police and a better knowledge of the haunts and methods and devees of the potean makers. _ The poteen makers are quickâ€"witted and ingen‘ous, but they are being beaten in the battle of wits by the police, who are making it danâ€" gerous and unprofitable elther to make or sell illicit whisky. The excise duty on whisky is a great temptation to the small farmâ€" ers and others in the mountains and glens of the west and northwest of Ireland and the islands off the coast to try their hand at whiskyâ€"making. The heavy fines and imprisonment are now beginning to tell against that temptation. Scientists Told Montrealâ€""If we went straight upâ€" ward from Toronto for seven or eight miles, we would pass through an exâ€" cessively cold layer of atmosphere, and the ninth, a layer that has about the same temperature as a warm summer‘s day," said Professor J. C. McLennan, director of the physical laboratory, University of Toronto, in addressing the Whreless Association of Ontario in the Physics Building at Montreal. Ozone also came in for consider able comment from Professor McLenâ€" nan, He said that if all the ozone contained in the atmosphere were compresseod to atmospheric pressure at sea level, the layer would be less than one and a half inches thick. Irish Poteen Gets Rude Jolt This stratum of air, thae speaker said, is but one of a series of layers that enshroud the earth, starting with air of the lower levels, with a coldâ€" er sphere next and layer on layer piled one on top of another, to a height of about 500 miles. These sevâ€" eral layers have an effect on radio transmission, â€" Professor â€" McLennan said, but the height of the "interferâ€" ence area" varies from an area about fortyâ€"five or fifty miles up in the dayâ€" time, to about $0 to 130 miles above the surface of the earth at night. The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, were also spoken of at length, and two experiments performed by Professors McLeod and Wiltelm, co workers of Professor McLennan, in showing how various scientific disâ€" coveries would be made in reference to the lights, to come through staâ€" tions being established in northern parts of Canada and through apparaâ€" tus being installed in Western Canaâ€" dian universities. Excise Duty on Whiskey Tempts Small Farmers to Make Their Own, But Heavy Penalties Are Havâ€" ing Effect; Many Stills Found Set Up in Bogs Physicist Says Heat Layer Tops Frigid Regions Nine Miles Above Toâ€" ronto Addresses Montreal Group Height of "Interference Area" Put at 50 Miles in Day Effect on Radio Of Air Stratum ' Victoria Colonist t(Cons.): (By the | end of the next financial year the Uniâ€" lvorllty of British Columbia will havg cost the people of the province $11, |000.000 since its inception). Higher education by the State is desirable in many respects, but it is accom paniod by a wastage of funds that is deplorable. â€" British Columbia will have done exceliently in providing uptoâ€"date buildings and all modern l equipment for University purposes ‘and in liquidating the capital charges 'tro these. It is unnecessary that it ,lhould do any more. Now that the ;bulldlnn are provided the students should be selfâ€"supportieg in their studies, and, for the students of the poorer families, there should be scholarships available, as there um doubtedly would be through privaté |douuonl once the taxpayers are te Heved of an annual burd=a of upwards {of half a millon dollar, The handicap thus imposed on places of great historic interest is scarcely _ realized by Englishmen themselves, so accustomed have they become to Kipling‘s viewpoint as exâ€" pressed in the lines: "What do they know of England Who only England know*" Yet it wil be greatly to the advanâ€" tage of the Empire if dwellers in out lying parts can have brought to their notice the special charms and amentâ€" ties of the Old Country that they may be led to visit and explore its countryâ€" side, obtain firstâ€"hand contact with its traditions and exchange ideas with the people of the Shires, where, after all, the heart of England is to be found. The human touch counts for much in all the affairs of life and in none more than the promotion of a proper Empire «pirit.â€"Montreal Star. For instance, at presont a borough may advertise itself as a health reâ€" sort but may apply to this purpose only such moneys as it gets by rentâ€" ing chairs, bathing machines or stalle for beach vendors and by charging for admissions to parks, Few towns have specific powers of selfâ€"advertise ment. It must be a fascinating experience to think in millions of years. Menry Fairfield Osborn, president of the American Museum of National His tory, looks at the vanishing wild life of Africa and remarks that "a milâ€" lion years ago the entire world, in cluding every continent, was filled with these glorious animals which it had taken millions of years to create." Most of us, when we see an elephant, see only a towering beast. Mr. Osâ€" born, apparently, looks upon an elophâ€" ant and sees a panorama of ten milâ€" lion years. _A little animal, barely a yard high, without as yet the tusks or the proboscis which spells elephâ€" ant to most of us browses in his vision along the river sides of North Africa, and a whole train of its desâ€" cendants marching across the conâ€" tinents through the millienniums, conâ€" nect that little anima] wit> he pachyâ€" derms of toâ€"day. Photographs of elephant herds seem to give ressurance that there will always be plenty of elephants to delight the children at the zoos. But it does not require even a palaeontoâ€" logical mind to doubt it _ Africa is changing in our generation. Despite the great Parc National Albert which the Beglian government has estabâ€" lished in equatorial Africa, it will not be many decades before the fat gorilla is as extinct as the little quagga that once tnotted in vast herds across South Africa. Carl Akeley, collecting specimens for the magnificent African Hall of the Amâ€" erican Hall of the American Musoum, noted in 1926 that the abundance of animal life which had delighted him two decades earliet was already a thing of the past. Areas once rich in game were becoming lifeless desâ€" erts or civilized and uninteresting. Never since the first spark of life, not even in the millennia when glaciers were crushing out life or when the giznt dinasaurs were being extinâ€" guished from the face of the earth, bave whole species been wiped out with the ruthless speer of this transâ€" forming age, "In Africa alone," as Mr. Osborn points out in the current issue of "Natural History," organ of his museum, "there survive the offâ€" spring of 30,000,000 years of mamâ€" malian evolution," _ Ard in Africa they are disappearing. _A few more decades, and ,unless foresight pre ents, the motion pictures and the museums will have all Wat is left. The necessity for Parliamentary gotion procceds from the fact that a municipality‘s presont powers of pubâ€" lWeity are limited to an infinitesimal tax levy whch is altogether inade quate for the busness of attracting tourists from abroad. John Buil has a reputation for proâ€" gressing slowly and surely. It is reported that the Association . of Municipal Corporations in sponsorâ€" ing a bill to confer powers on local authorities for promoting "the publiâ€" city throughout the world of Britain‘s amonities and advantages." This, of course, does not mean that an act of Parliament is needed to awaken Britons to the dollars and cents value of advertising, Advertising Britain The Vanishing Higher Education