The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-10-19
Couple Tell Of War
In England
Continued from page u

DidthUul OH OHip
No lights were displayed outside at
night, port holes and all other OPEN
ings were covered with black cloth or
paint and close watch was kept for
submarines both night and day.
1t was relief to all when the ship
eventually docked.
Mr.. Watson left Australia last
March on a business trip that took
him first to Europe. He and his wife
will spend some time in this country
after which they will sail to AustraI-
ia.
Progressive Importer
Mr.. Watson operates one of the
most progressive importing and dis
tributing firms in Australia and New
Zealand and nearly 5000 different
times are included in the lines he rep
resents, most of which are electrical
in nature including products of sew
eral U. S. A. factories.
Through his organization he dis
tributes general electrical accessories,
vacuum sweepers, washers, ranges
and ovens, electric fans, irons, radios,
electric motors, lamps, wires and
cables, clocks. switches and metals
such as copper, brass, zinc and alum
inum and the Triplett and Readrite
companies. otpeI fula i
Australia is a land of curious
blending of industrial and agricultur-
al developments, Watson said in
speaking of his homeland.
Australia Unusual Land
1t has the largest cattle ranch in
the world, single holding of land
larger than any four of our ordinary
states, and the continent annually
produces more than five times as much
wool as the rest of the world. Wool
and meat are the principal exports,
and an unusual export item of some
Importance is canned rabbit, sold in
many places as fricassed chicken.
In Victoria, smallest state of the
dominion, it is estimated that there is
enough coal to supply the demands of
the entire world for more than 1000
years.
In fact, the entire state is hardly
more than mammoth deposit of
coal within five feet of the surface.
Altho as large as the United States,
Australia has total population of
only millions. More than any other
country, however, it can claim to be
white mans country.
There are only a bare handful of
Japanese and Chinese, and these liv-
ing in the country are not permitted
to marry. No negroes are admitted.
In Australia there are approximate
ely 10000 aborigines, native inhabi-
tants. Altho their skin is black they
lack the prominent lips and kinky
hair Characteristic of the negro race.
Natives Useless, Harmless
These natives, regarded by Austral-
ia as harmless and useless, are entire
Iy under government control. Of low
mentality and shiftless the natives
had no part in the development OF
| of the country.
Approximately 95 per cent of Aus
traIia's population are descendants OF
coionists from the British Isles, Eng
land, Ireland and Scotland. DESPITE
their British ancestry, however, Aus
tralians are becoming more American.
lied every day, especially in industry
and the tendency is to look on Brit
ish methods as too slow. They have
adopted American mass production
and American business methods, pro
cesses which England has been slow
to adopt.
| Climate and temperature of Aus
| traIia are about the same as that ol
California and the continent enjoy:
an average temperature of 68 degree.
maximum and 45 degrees minimum
| the year around.
| Live in Cities
A large portion of the Australian!
live in suburban areas and rural sec
tions are sparsely settled. Sidney
with one and quarter million resi-
dents is the largest city. Houses ar
of stone and brick construction gen
orally, altho the vast island is Gov
cred by many dense forests.
Altho maps show large part O
Australia as desert the continent ha
| no sandy areas similar to our west
ern deserts. In the driest one-thir,
portion the average yearly rainfall i
i 10 inches; in the next third it is d
II inches, and in the other third it is 9
inches.lsg a0e fifFgrfr r
/ During their stay in Bluffton, Nh
and Mrs. Watson are the guests 0
Mr.. and Mrs. r. L. Triplett on Campu
Drive. They expect to leave abou
the middle of next week, and afte
stopping at several other plants the
will return to Australia.
In the pursuit of his business, Wat
son has come to America AT times
picking up a store of interesting an
authentic knowledge pertaining t
world conditions