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crudescence of what used to be face-fungus. As a Colony
"This may be a sign of
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tion of this increase in the incid tence of moustaches is probably for practical rather than aesthetic-
top We all for we ought to know by now, what with the Singapore war game publicity and so on that the next war is to be decided in or from the air. Before we have had time to learn that hostilities have broken out we shall be blown Phodily out of our beds and land- ed somewhere in the next street, where poison gas will complete. the work that high-explosive has so successfully begun.
Postage Abroad Extra
Friday, February 5, 1937 THE MIGRATION PROBLEM
The Government is said to be arranging for a general distribu- tion of gas masks in case of need, and the Defence Committee, or whatever its name is, is, making
away:
Hopes that the time is not far distant when migration from the British Isles to Empire arrangements to cope with the countries will be actively review warfare by transporting us ed have been encouraged by the all to the Kowloon Hills and far decision of the Government to Nevertheless, those will fare continue in an amended form best who are able to help them- the Empire Settlement Act of
selves. 1922
And nature has provided in Mr. Malcolm MacDonald has the moustache a ready-made made it clear that what the de respirator which, if intensively cision really implies is that cultivated, may furnish all the when migration revives the protection that is necessary. Government will be fully prepar- Perhaps she foresaw that man ed to take advantage of oppor would become more and more tunity. As, however, the prin- reckless and callous in the ex- cipal change in the measure is ploitation of his scientific toys, the halving the original annual and gave him face-fungus so vote of three millions, there is that he might be saved from his clearly no anticipation of re own excesses. sumption on the old scale
That authoritative opinionsAt any rate, moustaches have acquired a new utility, and seriously concerned may be, utility, we all know, is much gathered from the assurance ex-
more to the point than theore tracted that further allocations tical questions of amenity. will be made should circum- Hair on the face is an efficient stances make it possible and de- protection not only against sirable, from the numerous enemy gases but also against articles and letters in the Lon-enemy germs. The man who is don and Dominions newspapers effectively hirsuted has little to and from the speeches of public fear either from the next in- men. Lord Bledisloe and others fluenza epidemic or from the continue vigorously to combat next war. the views enunciated
Besides this he escapes the emigration would reduce Eng worst part of the annoyance, land's employment problem temper trial and blood-letting while swelling those of the incidemal to shaving. He there- Dominions..
|fore becomes a more peaceable,
Is not the fear that migration kindly and amiable citizen, nei- would add to unemployment ther beating his wife, spanking wholly misplaced? Properly or- his offspring, nor kicking the cat, ganised schemes backed by Bri- thereby earning the parchments tish capital, itself now lying un-for vellums of the societies estab employed in the banks, would lished for the protection of give not only surplus Britans those downtrodden members of from home but many who are the community. unemployed in the Dominions
their chance. To keep the stock And Now Melbourne in the Dominions British is the avowed aim of statesanen and
England can have no com- people alike It is disquieting to plaints about the result of the be reminded, as we are by the Fourth "Test" It was a grand report of the British Dominions fight of swiftly changing for- Emigration Society, that of tunes, Bradman's touch of 11,103 newcomers in
da genius in the second Australian last year only 2,049 were Bri tish. Equally disquieting other grounds is the population problem in Australia and New Zealand with their empty sp and undeveloped reso
How else than by i
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such public works
largest reservoir in the
opened by the Governor Ge Lord Gowrie in November? This
scheme have cost £15,000,000 when plete
just turning the tide in side's favour. At the same here were features in the ich England could encourage-
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