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Funny Business.
According to a recent report im the English press, professional comedians in Britain are disturb- ed over their inability to keep their jokes to themselves, or, at least, to prevent other per-
"OCCUPIED" CHINA [formers giving them to an audi- ence. It must naturally be up- Writers on the conflict in the setting for a comedian to see his. Far East are accustomed to div-own original jest plagiarized, and ide China into "occupied" and to find that instead of flaunting "free" China. But the division a meteor gag of England that is too facile to give the correct should yet terrific burn, he has impression. For the provinces very soon to pull a "chestnut" out that the Japanese occupy are oc- of the fire. cupied only in part, and in some It is difficult to suggest a solu- cases the lesser part.
tion. It would be hardly practi-
All told there are eleven pro-cable, to expect performers to vinces comprised in "occupied copyright material that is pro China." These provinces are duced at such a rate, and often. subdivided into 941 counties, of spontaneously; that is, anyway, which, according to Dr. A. R. ephemeral, and that, however Kepler, Executive Secretary of successful, has in many instan- the General Assembly of the ces not been wrested from in- Church of Christ in China, 583 spiration so much as rescued from are still outside Japanese autho-oblivion.
rity. In all of them Chinese offi- Nor would it be at all easy to cials loyal to the National Gov-make such a copyright secure. It. renment are in absolute control. would seem, therefore, that the This would give the high propor-comedians must continue to grin tion of 62 per cent. of "occupied" and bear it; unless, indeed, they China which by rights should be can come to some agreement. called Free China.
among themselves
One can off
Even the remaining county the laugh."
help seats are not all under Japanese feeling that such a resolution. control, either. There are 35 would find nearly all the “pros” counties where the Chinese offi- without any cons. [cials still function, though parts
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of those counties are occupied by Castle Adamant Japanese troops. In another 245 →→
counties. Chinese officials func The rules with which Oxford: tion from the adjacent country-keeps its undergraduates in or- side, though they daren't comeder in college by midnight, no near the county seat. Therefore, visits to public-houses, and the of the total 841 counties in "oc-rest-are not usually found irk- cupied" China, only 55 have wit-some and can always be evaded. nessed the entire rubbing out of But they do mark Oxford #off Chinese jurisdiction. That is, only from the Continental universities. in 6 per cent. of "occupied". China and most of the modern ones in. is Japanese occupation complete. England. The latest to com- China has sometimes been lik plain are the women. They do ened to a vast cushion. For, sit on not like the ancient academic: fft in one part and it comes out dress, which sits horridly on in another. This is proved by their shoulders: they want the this examination of occupied male privilege of b being out until. China. Japanese occupation is tafidnight with no questions ask- too piecemeal to warrant the in-ed and the right to have their ference that the word means friends from the men's colleges. what it says.
to tea in their own rooms. Their restlessness is increased the Inconsistency of the college rules. for women undergraduates. “
•In' thế quarter of a century that gay and liberal Lady Margaret has elapsed since 1914, the civic Hall many of the desired reforms. status of women in Great Britain | Have: been granted, but in other has undergone a revolutionary change. Before that date liament had steadily refused give women the vote. But mediately after the World all parties agreed in what before the war had denied!
Britain's Women
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made all
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colleges, darkest Africas,
young women- still like little- mice peep in and out.”
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