India April 1931

To attract people from the fourth class to the third which means profit to the proprietors the portion of the ground allotted for the fourth class is covered with thorny shrubs and those buying a two pice ticket are constantly reminded of the same by propinquity. [...] A surprising feature of the draw is the large number of Londoners who have been favoured by the turn of the"INDIA „APril igsr wheel the more startling in view of the efforts of the British postal authorities to intercept communictions intended for the Irish Sweep promoters. [...] The Business of Government Those of us who are wondering how we are going to meet the new demands of the income tax collector at the end of this month are justfiably a little dismayed at the relutance of the Government to see the necessity for retrenchment in the matter of emoluments and salaries. [...] These new results are so revolutionary in their implications and in their effect upon older theories regarding the functioning of plant life that there was a controversy in the Times in the spring of 1920 as to the reliability of the indications of my extraordinary high magnification instruments in recording the automatic pulsations of the plant and its movement in response to external stimulation [...] The electrical power was next increased to a maximum and as soon as the circuit was completed the rattling sound of the death-dealing The Plant as a Sentient Being current indicated the passage of the high tension electrical discharge through the plant.