SUN CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 90, 20 August 1913, Page 5

SUN CABLES.

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS NEWSPAPERS OF THE FUTURE. [By 'Electric Telegraph—Copyright] iitos—Sydney Sun Special Carles. (Received B.U a.m.) London, August 19. Mr Donald, editor of the Chronicle, addressed the Journalists’ Conference at fork. Ho predicted that the papers of the future would bo smaller and containing less reading, and air ships would be used in distributing them. The morning and evening papers would be merged. Editors would be working at ’every hour of the day and night. News would be collected by wireless telephones and a reporter would have a portable telephone with I him to communicate with tne office without writing. The message would lie delivered to the sub-editor and printed in column form.

THE AMERICAN ATHLETE. Commenting on America and the Olympics, an expert asserts that the American amateur athlete begins his preparation to compete at the Olympics when little more than a child at school. He does too much; consequently it is a rare thing to seo *a man of twenty-five partaking in field snorts in America, which accounts for the constant supply of new faces in. American Olympic teams. THREATENING WAR CLOUDS. Referring to the Twentieth Peace Conference opening on the twentieth, the Times says:—War has been near us, far nearer than the public know. More than once during the past three years Governments know how suddenly the danger lias arisen, how hardly it was averted, and how there are many incalculable causes which may bring it again. SCARS MADE TO ORDER. Berlin, August 19. A German paper has discovered that scars on students, who exhibit them as evidence of duels, are often the work of the surgeon. COCAINiSM. Calcutta, August 18. Cocaine [eating has attained the most, serious dimension $ in the Indian community in Calcutta, and is the cause of a material , proportion of crime.

THE OLYMPIC GAMES, Eon don, August 19. The appeal for Olympic funds states that the Stockholm results shock everyone caring for British sport, hut must not be allowed to occur again. .•/W ( The Times, commenting on the ajr peal, says that well-built ■ boys and girls will not be demoralised or lose their better instincts, because, instead of partaking in games in a slouching V and haphazard way, they are taught the use of their muscles rightly. The ; I work the committee has undertaken I entirely deserves the support asked. I The Times has donated £SOO to the Olympic fund. CRYSTAL PALACE GROUNDS. London, August 19. ,Tho Crystal Palace grounds are being altered to accommodate 150,000 people. THE SULZER FIGHT. Wahsington, August 19. Governor Sulzer continues to exercise executive functions. Mr Lawson has offered to finance Sulzer’s fight,' provided a committee is allowed to manage the State departments, which are drafting into chaos.