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A Teen-Ager telcgraphist at qne o£ the sta-tions on the Children Bailway leading to the PioneeT-Repnbllc. i
Proper wireless installation of. fhe Pionfier-Bepuhlic
THE MOUNT UBERTY, thia 400 méter high climatic health resort of Budapest is in winter too, a fa> vorite aki slope of Budapest's sporting people. Now the Liberty Moimt received a wonderful fresh spot: a small city on its erest — The Fioneer-Republlc. The visitors.arrive with a nar-
row gauge clüldren railway ta this city. Ali is somewhat snuűler as at normál raüways. This railway is the ■ most modem railway of Europe, it proceeds with a speed of 30 Ion and its whole staff are children, educated "in systematic courses for ráiiway-men. The children are 12—14 years old. The only
A MESÉS INDIA
CSAK 13 SZÁZALÉKA TU0
(Az alanti dolgokat a hindu if> Juság Rlagj-arországon Járt képviselői mesélték el magyar fiataloknak.)
Sokat hallottunk már a távolin-, dia mesés gazdagságáról, sok embert csalogatott az évszázadok folyamán a sok kincs India felé. Most itt vaxmak ennek a titokzatos és mesés országnak a küldöttei, indus fiatalok.
— Bizony van mesés gazdagság Indiában — mondja szomorú mosollyal Uman Raitsandhuri — csak az nem a 400 mllliős indiai népé!
— India minden gazdagsága az angol uraké és a' hindu maharadzsáké — folytatja Uman férje, Di-lip, — Az indus nép szörnyű elnyomásban éh A lakosság 95%-a paraszt, mezőgazdasági mtmkás. Képzeljétek el: 380 millió paraszt közül 160 millió a maharadzsák,, nábobok, hercegek hatalmas uradalmain sinylfldik!
— Akárcsak mi a felszabadulás clöít...
Gita veszi át a szót, a hosszú lepelbe btirkolt hindu lány:
— A nép 13Ci-a tudja leimi a nevét, nőknek csak 8%-a- De ezeknek sincs nagyobb tudásuk. Szavazati joga csak a -lakosság U íí;-ának van. De nincstelen parasztnak egyáltalán nincs szavazati Joga...
— Ránk nehezedik az angol imperializmus — villan fel gyűlölettel a szeme Umannak. — Angol lordok és gj^rosok, angol kereskedők   rabszolgál   vagyunk! ^A nagybirtokokon  elviselhetetlen az élet A termény kétharmad részét a földesúrnak   kell szolgáltatni, csak egyharmad rész a paraszté. Kőt évvel ezelőtt kezdődött a foi^ radalmi mozgalom azért, hogy az arány fordiiUon meg... AngoITta-tonaság lövöldözi halomra as éhhalál ellen kapára-kaszára Itapó párasatokat Eg^&ss. falvak vonul-aak W a nagy indiai erdőségekbe, a d&mngelbe és ott szervezik a
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380 millió indus paraazt készül arra, hogy elkergesse a nyugati rabszolgatartókat és saját urait és birtokba vegye végre, ami az övé: a mesés India minden gazdagságát
aduit among them is the engine-driver. .
The children do thelr work with absolute precision, professionally, The eacpenses incunred were 6 xnü-lion Forints. The raUway, as well as the buildings have been const-ructed by the best experts of Hungary and the most reputated Hungárián artista decorated the . sta-tion biüldings with their frescos.
This wonderful railway, which will be projected in the future furthennore, was tiimed over tó thé clüldren on the first annivér-sary of the 3-Year^ Plan by Ernő Gerö, Minister of Traffic, and by the Hungárián Government
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Mama: >And why did you put this frog in sister's bed?«
Slavko: >I tried to find a mud turtle and couldn*t.«
HOLLYWOOD:
BY DAVm PIATT
ADVERTISING films áre enjoy-ing an ünprecedented prosperity" according to a survey by the Mó--tion Picture Herald, the film in-du3tty*s chief mputhpiece.
Each week s^veral huhdred of these; movie commercials averag-ing 60, 90 and 120 seconds in length are shown in 12,000 of the nations 16,0Q0 moyie theatres. They promote the salés of every commo-dity from automobiles and bana-nas to diamond rings, sow and pig feed and a concotion called Purina Rat Killer.
The Ford Motor Company, U-nited Fruit, U. S. Rubber, Mont-gomery Ward. are among the big corporations currently using ad-vertising films with considerable success. E^xhibitors claim that the commercials are bften more en-tertaining than   the Hollywood
A Barr €s túnOn oiafe ŰMása: fiatal Indiai anya éhsnhalt gyermeket
Did You Know?
The earth's surface embraces 196,000,000 squarie mUes, of which 139.000,000 is water and 57,000,000 land.
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Bamboo is really a gigantic grass.
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The Chinese were using natural gas carried through bamboo pipe-lines to heat and light their hou-sés 2000 years ago.
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da is estimated at 228,070 square nüles, larger than any simil^ area in the world.
It is esUmated 98,000 collective farma were devastated in the So-vlet Union during World War IL
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A recent estimate indlcates that 10 percent of Europe's livestock was killcd off during the conclud-ing months of the war.
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proccssed and projected on ascreen ül 15 seconds by an automatic ca-mera devcloped for rapid reconling of scientific data.
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A totál of 14,800.000 U. S. wor-
kcra were covercd by unlon ágrec-menta in 1940.
feature fOrns. They point to the superior q^xálity of the XMted Fruit cartoon Chiqiüta Banana, produced and promoted Ijy Bat-tean, Bartoh, Durstine-Oabom aná Montgomery Ward's one reelerRu-dplph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, a Christmas cartoon recently compv léted, by Jain Handy, one of tlií lairgest producers of btisiness filma
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. The EJthibítors, it should te clearly understood, are weD paid by the producer of diamond-stud-ded hairpins, rat poison, pig fefd or whatever- conunodity is being peddled, for showing these films. Since this is só, you'd think tte theatre managers would be decect enough to give their patrons^a re-bate on theür tickets when a com-mérciál is\screened. Needless to say anyone suggestíng anythiiB so radical would be tossed out cn his can. -
It is true that the HoDywocd feature pictures, most of whid are nothmg but disguised commercials advertismg ways and meaM of getting ahead at the expense a the other feUów, cost the exluKj tors heavy dough which they ÍW they must pass on to the custo-mers. This is all wrong. And lí J were ruiming a movie theatre thmgs would be dif^erent
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Ih The Fü^ place I would ij.
sist that Paramount BKO, ^ Cenuty Fox and the ^ movie outfits pay me for the P| vilege of showing their ovei^ commercials advertising about American üfe. If Gene^ Motors, Woolworths and GentB^ Foods are wUHng to grease ^ patai for- showing their ta^^ films prómottag cars, V^^^^ dog-biscuitfl, toenail whát have you, why shouldntP an equaUy mibstenüal íee for «^ vertisüig the próducta of the
vie trust I would make an esw^ tion only in cascs of advertiso peace and progress.
these I would gladly paf
Thát What I would do if I ' an exhibitor. And if iwe"'^ gular movicgoer I '""^J -^j -mysclf with cqual vigor. i tasist etrongly on being in cash. diamonds, or at
binaniS tor "^ttín'g tlirou^ r^j of tha trash that passcs lor today.