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Major David Lewes, 38, company_secre- tary, of Hawkwell Chase, Hockley, Essex, was charged at Bow-street on August 18th with being in the unlawful possession of woman's clothing and jewellery.
We all know that there is a lot that Tuesday afternoon he saw Major Lawes Detective-Sergt. Lynth said that on tis ridiculous about us, and we sio are
enter the Imperial Hotel, Southampton- conscious of a blind spot in our composi- tion, and we are always dreading that row, dressed as a woman. About a quar someone is going to bowl us out. Forter of an hour later he left wearing man's this reason ridicule is extremely unpopu- clothing, and carrying a suitcase. He stopped the major and asked him what lar. Everyone dreads i
he was carrying. He replied, "The bag and its contents, with the exception of the woman's clothing, is mine." Ea also said that he did not know to when the woman's clothing belonged.
Nevertheless, we must not let our pre- judices in this respect blind us to the very, real value of ridicule. Ridicula. is at the same time a whip and a purge. It helps to establish truth. "To have a sense of the ridiculous is to have the power of perceiving where a person or an individual falls short of truth
In the solemn nonsense" which circum scribes our lives our sense of ridicule is always being tickled because wa, are being constantly made to realise that one of what Mr. Clutton Brock calls the three activities of the spirit-truth, for its pứn anke, motality, for its own sake, beauty fur its own sake one of these is being outraged, distorted, or perverted. You may ridicule pomp and circumstance, dogana and ritual, but you cannot ridicule truth.
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The difficulty, therefore, of people who lay themselves out to be ridiculous is that they are naturally ridiculous. And to be successfully ridiculous in an entertaining senso is a form of conscious art, requiring a complete grasp of truth and propor tion. The antics of Charlie Chaplin may give us a keeper prosentment of truth than the ponderous dialectics of a pro- fessor of philosophy. The dear bishop. who went to a children's party and thinking to give the children a treat, put
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He was arrested on suspicion of being in unlawful possession of the suitcase and then said, "Yes" His wife attended the court that morning and identified the clothing as hers. The detective was boW satisfied that Major Lewes was a highly respectable man.
Sir Chartres Birbe (the magistrate) : Was he staying at the hotel
Sergt. Lynch: He had booked a room out for about an hour, and during his for the night si a woman. He then went absence the manager discovered that he was a man. When be returned he was asked to leave, and 'as be did so he was
arrested.
Major Lewes told Sir Chartres that he acted in this way for a wages. It was very foolish and he would never do it again.
Sergt Lynch said that Lewes ̈ ̃War"I' major on the Reserve of Officers.
Bir Chartres Biron: That makes his conduct all the more extraordinary. The only charge is one of unlawful possession and that is not borne out by the facts. He will be discharged.
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a bear skin over his back and went into INCREASED STATE SPENDING. the room on his hands and knees growl- ing, only to find that he had made a mis take and had entered a room where there were some prim old ladies drinking tea, made a splendid beginning.
It was much more manificently ridicu lous for a Bishop to do this to a party of old ladies than to a crowd of children, Whether he kept it up the story does not say: But if as I suspect-he immediate- ly jumped up, blushed, and apologised, then he became actually ridiculous. The difficulties of being ridiculous in the en- tertaining sense were too much for him
People in the mass have an extraordi. narily keen eye for insincerity. The per son who 13 moral for reasons other than the fact of being moral, the person who speaks the truth with an ulterior motive, the person who produces, works of beauty obviously for fame or money, all these people are ridiculous, and, fortunately, if the mass does not sense it instantly, there is always someone with a keen sense of ridicule who will give them the cute. A few pedants get together and stress the virtues of an "ism. They will talk with such rhetoric and conviction that thou-
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and to be partly persuaded. Then some. "genius like Max Beerbohm will come along. He will probably say nothing, but he will make a drawing-a caricature. And then the people will look at the cari. cature, and they will see that Max's sense of proportion is the truer one, and the poor little pampered "ism" will be blown sky high..
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In the development of character the pompous young prigs in the cursery and the school owe enormous eventual debt of gratitude to their elder brothers and sisters, and schoolmates for their indus trious and painstaking system of ragging and ridiculing them into a more normal poise.
Illuminating figures showing the vast increase in national expenditure since 1914 are contained in a Memorandum on present and pre-war expenditure with particulars of Government staffs at cer tain dates.”.
The memorandum shows that from 1914 | so 1696 there were the following increases in expenditure in the services men- tioned:
Debt
(interest, management, and redemption) from
£23,500,000 to £364,000,000.. Pensions from
£127,159,000.
£20,631,000 to
Grant services of all kinds, except Road. Fund (education, housing, ‹ health, police, local taxation, beet sugar subsidy, and all Irish services)—from £38,000,000 to £101,205,000. Post Office
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The increase of £62,818,000 under the head of grant services is accounted for as to £29,677,000 by the increase in educa. tion grants, following upon the Education Acts 1918, increased grants for higher education, and the substantial increase in the scales of teachers' salaries since the war.
While the total strength "of the Army and Navy in 1914 was 320,100, that of the Army, Navy, and Air Force was only 283,900 in "1826. -
When we first arrive at the conscious-On the other hand, the staffs of ness of being a human being we are apt Government departments increased from to take ourselves too seriously, and so 280,000 in 1814 to 206,258 iz 1996. The the mendicant of ridicule should be re- War Offies staff, unlike the Army, in- garded as an honoured practitioner. A creased in size from 2,800 in 1914 to 4,137 community has to form shrewd judgment in 1926. It has neither the time nor the braina to understand the complete composition of its moral and intellectual make-up. To this end a phrase may mean more to it than a treatise. But a flag means more than a phrase.
In shaping these judgments therefore, the weapon of ridicule is invaluable. Its chief virtue lies in the fact that it is powerless against truth. It only hurts the things which are patently insincere. Vain men, foolish women, absurd isms, sea-serpants, whimsies, fads, Channel swimmers, false goda and even now reh- gions have all succumbed at various times to its rapier thrusts -But nothing that has ever been worth while has ever auf fered more than a slight puncture.
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The Admiralty staff, unlike the naval forces, increased in size from 5,800 in 1914 to 8,415 in 1928. The Ministry of Labour staff has grown from 5,000 în 1914 to 14,077 this year, that of the Office of Works from 1,400 to 2,993 in the same period, and that of the Board of Trade from 2,500 to 4,810.
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The police and medical authorities of Strasbourg have just discovered a cham- pion albeper, whose awakening both anti- cipate with the greatest impatience. Ha is Georges Beck, of Weimbourg, a youth But there is, of course, a vast difference of 16 years, who was formerly a railway between a person with a gift for ridicule worker. Last December it was found and a person able to sacrifice himself or that Beek had been indulging in certain herself successfully on the altar of ridi-irregular practices in connection with his cule. One is subjective, and the other accounts, and he was dismissed, end at objective. To be able to make oneself the same time warned that he would be wilfully ridiculous in the common cause prosecuted. The shock seems to have theans that one must be able to see all plunged him into a deep sleep, which has round oneself. There must be no blind now lasted for nine months, for when spots. One must observe one's idiosyn- police officers appeared at his home to crasies as accente in an absurd concep arrest him he was found fast asleep in a tion, and be able to see them through barn, and the most violent shaking failed the eyes of the audience. Of every hun to wake him. Day after day police offi dred sound actors on the stage it is doubt cers called, only to find him still asleep, ful whether there are more than two of and though he was carefully watched Re Never before was there anything like it, nor are its warrallous properties likely ever to three capable of making themselves peter betrayed the slightest sign of robe equalled in disosses arining from impure blood. It searcher out and expels from the ridiculous in the large and classic sense. turning, consciousness. At last medical vital current every lurking trace of poisonous matter, caring blood and ikin diseases, The others are too like the bishop, having oficers were called in, but they, too, were rufalous and glandular swellings, bad legs, abaccases, ulcers, eczemas, gout, rheums perhaps the right instinct, but too apt tu baffled, for they pronounced Beek's sleep tim, goitro or Derbyshire-Neok, eta it improves the general health and quickly pick themselves up from the carpet and to be genuine and proof against surprises.
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