El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-08-29
BRITISH HAVE
F0URM0HTHS
WHEAT SUPPLY.
Years Yield Is Estimated at
1000, 1000 Quarters from
a Large Acreage.
INTERPRETER SYSTEM
HELP TO TRAVELLERS
BY PHILLIP EVERETT.

! T ONDoN. Eng, Aug. 2s-In times
] OF war the inadequacy Of Grea'
: Britain's home resources is al
I ways brought wildly before the eyes
OF these compact little isles Inc
stays erlng situation in which the
I country mas lately found itself IS OF
course. without precedent In the an
nals OF history. but there is one grain
OF comfort IN the announcement by the
ooard OF agriculture that the outlook
I Tor the wheat crop is better than II
mas been for many years The acre
age under cultivation was 4 per cent
greater than last year and there IS
no doubt that the final Weld viii be
more than it has been during the last
decade The official estimate places
the yield at some 1000. 600 quarters
After deductions for seed and taking
stocks into accOUnt-on which an in
qulry conducted by the board has Just
been completed-there is now in the
country sufficient wheat to supply the
whole population for about four
months This allows for the normal
rate Of consumption and is irrespective
Of all future imports.
Inspector Interpreters Helpful.
Since the beginning Of August when
the system Of having inspector inter-
prefers at all the big London termini
was instituted by the autobus com
panies OF London. foreign visitors have
found it the simplest matter in the
world TO get all the information they
required in their own tongue The
innovation has been an instantaneous
success. When the first war broke
out between Austria and Servia and
later when the German and French re-
servists were hurriedly rushing TO the
continent the interpreters were work
ing at top pressure in the stations,
but not exactly as the bus companies
intended them to work.
al p
when the Interpreters were around
The joke is that they were put at the
railroad depots to catch the CONT
mental foreigners coming TO this cOun-
try and to tell them that they could
see London through and through by
taking the autobus on route number
this and number that Unhappily for
the enterprise Of the companies there
have been no continental sightseers
coming 10 this city for weeks past, but
the usefulness Of the interpreters has
not been lessened
Pretty Blond Leads Interpreters
At Charing Cross station, the main
center Of departure for continental
traffic, is girl a pretty young blond,
who has only recently come down from
Gfrton. the most fashionable woman's
college in this country She is 1lu-
ent French and German Hnguist and
wears the uniform specially designed
Tor the new corps on the arm OF her
-AelA al g lAAN lass VI # e--A-N e---A- ~
many. denOting that she can converse
in the German and French languages
She wears a black braided frock coat
and straw topped, peaked cap, with q
trim black skirt, and presents very {
smart appearance
Helping her are IS men, who move [
% various centers as they are re-
luired. No inspector Interpreter wears l
ess than two flags. and the record is I
leld by a genius for languages who /
speaks fluently English, French, Ger /
nan. Portuguese Italian and Spanish /
L is stated by the companies that Es- I
,eranto may be added later
Ulster and Nationalist volunteers are /
deserving the truce in a spirit Of un- 1
eserved loyalty TO the empire There I
we're croakers who said that the Ma /
ionalists would view Englands /
rouble as Ireland's opportunity, but I
hat slur on the Home Rule forces has /
.een killed BY the action Of the Irish 4
arty and its adherents- The shelv- 4
ny Of the home rule question may 1
lot have pleased the extremists. but
here are saner forces at work in Ire
and than many people imagine The L
ome rule question is generally re-
-arded as one Of internal interest and
and it is in that light that
he Irish people have taken It
1t is hardly likely that the whole
0pic will come before parliament again Il
ntil such time as the situation is 1
lear for the discussion Of home prob
ems.