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But force is out of place ar a system of Governant in the modern world. I do not anticipate that Pangulos will have à long career. The Dictatorships as post- war Europe knows them are only part of the epidemic of Bolshevism, and that will assuredly pass. SIR JOHN LE BAGE
IS IT CRICKET?
A good deal of comment-some of it Amusing has been provoked hereby the decision of the Australian Cricket Board of Control to bar absolutely any wife or other feminine relatives from coming to England while the cricket team from down under " is in this country. It
Genercus tributes are paid in the sounds very business-like and profes- Press to Sir John. Le Sage whose death sional. In the brave days of old these bas taken at his home at Putney, aged international cricketing tours were ress years. After 60 years connection with garded as sporting trips, and it was quite the Daily Telegraph, being editor for the common for players to bring their wes great part of that long period, he retired with them. But it so happened that on a couple of years ago. He started as a one occasion there was a great deal of reporter on the paper in its early days friction which undoubtedly had its origin in the fifties of the last century. The among the Australian Women. The Daily Telegraph was then able to boast trouble bad something to do with the the distinction of being the first pesar social side of the tour. In 1909 the Board morning daily in London, and he was of Control aforesaid forbade wives cr fortunate in gaining the confidence of other relatives of players to accompany
Mr. Lawson... the grandfather of the the team and this has been the rule on present Lord Burnham. When Lord the last two or three tours.
Burnham's father succeeded as pro-.
The present rule, however, goes fur.prietor, Lo Sage retained this good-will, ther. There is to be no circumventing which was also extended to him by the the ban by sending wives in advance, present peer. The Daily Telegraph is and the five married players must face one of the very few remaining journals eight months of_grass widowerhood or in this country with a national status stay at home. The rule is in no sense
as an organ of opinion which is a family new. It has only been tightened up lest property. Ferhaps this personal control some one should evade its intentions, if is why it has retained its position and not its letter, by sending Madame on popularity as the great paper of the ahead. On the face of it this may seem middle classes. It is sound, trustworthy, a drastic step. It has a bearing on the well-written, moderats in tone, and it liberty of the subject which no British never engages in stunts in the hope Government would attempt to enforce of gaining new readers by sensational except in war-time; and it all seems very methods. odd to Englishmen.
CIVIL SERVANTS' HOTAS.
Sir John was something of a rebluse as modern London editors go, for he never went out to dinners, nor did he appear There is considerable, unrest in White-at ceremonials. He lived simply and hall at the report that the Government solely for his newspaper. Whoever else intends to insist upon increasing the work- might be absent from the office, be was. ing hours of Civil servants." The average always there-alert, watchful, absolutely working day of Civil servants is seven bound up in his job, He had no other hours, and the proposal is to make it aim in life. He was not a reading man, eight hours. It is, of course, quite in be took little part in general conversa. accordance with the recommendation of tion, and except for some interest in the the Anderson Committee which inquired drama he cared for nothing in the world into Civil Service 'conditions some years but the paper. No wonder he had the ago, but there was so much opposition confidense of his employers. He cer at the time that nothing was done in tainly deserved it. But in Fleet Street the matter. Now in sympathy with the be was scarcely known even by sight out- insistent cries for economy all round, and side the office. To the present genera- in view of the longer hours worked by hundreds of thousands in what are called "unsheltered occupations," it is said the time has come to put the Comme's recommendations into force..
tion of journalists he was the archetype of remorseless routine and indefatigable attention to editorial detail. The pres ent Lord Burnham was, I believe, te- Ponsible for telling the world in general About 40,000 members of different Gov of Sir John's one journalistic motto, ernment staffs are affected, and obviously When in doubt, don't." It is excel. if every one is doing another hour's work lent advice for every newspaper writer. every day dismissals will become inevit-But the point is lost if it is not recalled able, at all events among the temporary that Sir John Le Sage could work on staffs. This is sufficient to explain the that motto just because his admirable outburst of indignation which may be and swift judgment so rarely left him in heard disturbing the usual calm that doubt.
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this time or be again postponed.. Most The Ministry of Transport are thinking people seem to think it is this time, and of using the Roads Improvemeas Act, re- that Mr. Churchill is determined. shall soon know for certain.
OLD KING COAL IN 1926. --
Wecently passed to encourage the planting of fruit trees and also other trees-along the roadsides of England. Objection is being raised that fruit trees need to ba Next week the Royal Commission on sprayed in order to keep down insect Coal will meet again after the Christmas pests, and this would be out of the ques holidays to complete the hearing of evi, tion. The result would be, therefore, dence, especially de regards the remedies that orchards would suffer in conse to be put forward by both miners and quence. This, of course, is a serious ob mine-owners for the improvement of the jection, but I understand it does not im industry. Although there has been some press the Ministry so much as another slight improvement in the coal trade d and quite different one-the psychology very solid hopes are based upon that of English schoolboys fact. It is being said that if the report The question is whether frait so of the Royal Commission is not in the temptingly displayed would not be con. hands of the Government before the end stantly raided by all the small boys of of February it will be almost impossible the neighbourhood. The Ministry have to get any legislation that may be neces- various answers to this object. The most Įsary passed before the expiry, at the end ingenious is that the boy raids fruit treDE of April, of the nine months for which only when there is a spice of adventure the subsidy was granted, Leaving aside to spur him on. If the trees simply suggestions which have been made, such stand on the roadside waiting to be raid. as the State ownership of royalties and ed he will not bother about them. An- the amalgamation of miner, it is possible other still more disarming answer is that that the Royal Commissioners may have if the fruit is raided no one will care. something very important to say on the The trees are to be planted for their distribution of coal, as a means of reblossom in the Springtime, not for their ducing the selling price.
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Already Parliament has voted £19,000,000 This is all very plausible, and rather towards the cost of the subsidy until the amusing in a way. But I think the real end of the financial year on March But.||"danger of raids is not from schoolboys It is estimated that £3,000,000mg bat from adult trippers in chars-a-banc. being £22,000,000 altogether, will be re There are few English roads in the Suri- quired to see us through April as well mer which are not frequented by these but if the subsidy is continued beyond vehicles, and although the trippers would May 1st there will be additional cost. probably not mean to do much harm one One thing seems to be taken as common can imagine the efforts of successive par- ground, namely, that whatever policy for ties to help themselves to a few tempting the future of the coal mines may be de- trophies would injure the young trees creed by Parliament, after the Royal beyond all hope of recovery. Commission has reported, it must be car HADDON HALL AGAIN. ried through without repetition of the experience of July last, when the sub- sidy was given at the last moment as the only way of averting the closing down of the mines..
DICTATOR NUMBER THREE.
The interesting announcement is made that the Duke of Butland is going back again to live at Haddon Hall. For over a hundred years the historic house had been regarded by visitors from all over the world as a national relic with its In this country where Parliamentary days of domesticity in the far past. The Government is still thought to be the best disappointment at the news that it will, method yet invented by erring mortals probably be closed to the public must be to carry on organised society, the reports tempered with some satisfaction that just published that General Pangulos has|| Haddon is fit to live in at all, become Dictator of Greece does not erdate) Its noble owners of the past have even mild excitement. General Pangalos mouldered or gone down before the proclaimed himself Dictator of Gresco at artillery of Roundhead or Cavalier. Büt a banquet given in his honour. He was in the mellowed blending of styles which until that moment merely the Prime is. Haddon the whole tale of English Minister, but as he confided to the domestic architecture from Norman to enthusiastic dinere he found that "Parlia, Stuart days is written with a clearness mentary Government is the cause of all that time has done nothing to deface. For our troubles." His plan a much better the majority of people, however, the great on be considers may be summed up in place lives in the memory and imagina the phrase, strong Army
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