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INDICTMENT OF WORLD ORDER
"The indictment of the present world order is not that it is un- just to certain nations, but that it is ruinous to all." This is not a specimen of Socialist propaganda, but an extract from the leading article in a recent issue of the Westminster Bank Review. The article is entitled "Britain and a
'DAY -
BY DAY
THAT MOST PEOPLE VERY WILLINGLY
SINISTER ORIGIN OF MIRTH
By “AN OLD STAGER”
A able old superstition. Our lough merrily over the antics of a
presses the view, that "given sound | •: future International organisation, the world has before it, not endemic depression and poverty, but auch an era of prosperity as it has never yet achloved.”
ALTHOUGH MONEY IS NO DOUBT After point- ing to the tremendous increase in THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL, IT IS A BOOT
WAY goes another comfort-lord of hearty laughter! Children the world's output of wealth in the UNDERTAKE THE JUBK OF CULTIVAT-Indefatigable scientists yours preceding the present break-ING.
are not clown fu the circus, or even at down, the writer asks: "By what
content with exploding the atom the splash of water from a weir. An eminent paychologist, im-It will take a platoon of universitzi The 5.6. Nellore, with the Austro- perverse reasoning can new oppor-lian mails, is due here on Wednesday proving on Hour! Borgaon, has professors to convince me that tunities to obtain a larger total of morning.
performed a sort of analytical When they do so, they are uncon- oconomic
post-mortem on human laughter, sciously but scientifically Imitat- goods, at an Cyer-
The P. and Oss. Rajputana in dus and pronounces it a thoroughly ing the bared fangs of the wolf decreasing cost in human effort, be here from Singapore with the English sinister thing. Bofore we know hound. What relation has the rogarded as an "explanation' of de-rails at 6 am. on Thursday,
where we are, some vigilant M.P. laughter that rocks a crowded will be bringing in a Bill, under music-hall, over the comic ges-s pression?" And the answer is Mr. and Mrs. G. Franklin Nightin- the ten minutes rule, to extend the ture of a great comedian, to that "the world's machinery of cur-gale were present at their Majesties: D.O.n.A. provisions to all forms "superior adaptation"? I signally rency, exchango and what, for want garden party at Buckingham Palace of human machinnation, and Mr. fail to detect its sinister echo.
on July 21.
George Robey will be manacled; Kents sings, in his most popular of a better torm, may be summed
under an armed guard in the poom,`of dance and provencal up in the term "good will," have
songs and sunburnt mirth. Now threatened to prove unequal to the
that when people laugh they are rural mirth
The paychologist's theory Is sunburnt mirth in rural mirth, and demands made upon it."
signifles laughter merely exhibiting the same mani-always. What sinister note in- These are
catations as a dog does when he struck by the resonant laughter shows his teeth. Laughter, we of jolly peasants at a harvest to assured, is a human evolution support But throughout the of the canine anart, and its baske latest scientific analysis of laugh- reaction to primitiva Instinct is tor thero runs a half-hinted sug
sinister. It denotes a gestion that the world to-day de- entirely thoroughly unaimable and nasty votes far too much attention to Impulse. In approved scientific humour, and that laughter is The speaker at tomorrow's meeting phraseology, to laugh is to signal much too provalent. of the Rotary Club will be Mr. Thomas a claim to "superior adaptation.”. C. Barringer, former district superis-It means, in simpler language, The Actd Test. tendent of the American relief ad-that we feel personally superior What an unfortunate epoch for ninistration in Russia. His subject to somebody or something. is to be "Sketches from the Russian classic instance, of course, is the In this post-war age, when men The the enunciation of that blasphemy. Famine, 1921-23,"
laughter that greets the spectacle it and hear each other groan, the of some other person's misfortune. more people can find to laugh at, Miss Beth Beri is making *
When we see a fat man como a and the more humour they manage welcome reappearance at the King's Theatre at present, and during the cropper on a piece of orange skin, to extract from life, the better for week-end her work has been greatly or an optimist pursue a half-us all. I prefer the religion of admired. In particular, her Fan crown with an invisible thread Gratiano:
Wen Hung-ran, 17, a shop foki, as
A fractured skuli was suffored by Tower of London.
result of a fall from a cockloft, at 303, Queen's Road West,
The first issue of the "Pictorial Review", a local journal consisting largely of photographs, is to hand. The illustrations, cover a wide range of local personalities and events, but duction. auffer somewhat through poor repro-
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strong words, but they do not appear to over-state the actual facts. Progressive thinkers in all walks of life, bankors, economista and states- men, have long since come to realize that the whole economic structure of the world is threaten- ed by the developments of the past few years. The situation will not be met by merely muddling along in the hope that, matters will eventually straighten themselves out. That way, disaster les, | since the absence of constructive and co-operative effort will only further complicate and aggravate the position. The world calls for notably a composition of his un, val baring of the teeth that cou-And let my liver rather heat with lenders who will courageously which calls for much technical skill.noted a challenge based on actual
or assumed confidence in physical Than my heart cool with mortify- grapple with the problem, nol
Fredric March and Sylvia Sidney prowessuperior to that of the ing groans." along preconceived lines, but are seen sharing the principal roles interloper.
in "Merrily We Go to Hell,” the A great many much more learu-popular opinion, whether or not with a determination to apply any current attraction at the King's ed authorities than myself have some animals" possess a sense of remedy that gives promise Theatre, and they butli emerge with accepted this theory as a true humour and the gift of laughter.
flying colours in this dramatic comedy revelation of human psychology: Scientific success. The alternative is
of fast life. The film, which is ad have the greatest imaginable either possibility. They may or psychologista dens complete breakdown of the pre-mirably produced, never fings in respect for
terest, and the casting is, almost
these pundits and may not be aciontifically correct. sent economic system.
without exception, all that could be savants, but I flatly refuse to toe Man waa long ago classified as But wished. The minor roles are in most the line with them on this Isme."an animal that laughs." capable hands, with Adrianne Allen, They presume to analyse the most of us have a feeling that Florence Britton, Esther Howard, and atavistic reactions of human laughter is the quintessence of Skeets Gallagher nil doing excellent beings. They actually do not un-civilisation, and that it signifies work. Decidedly worth seeing, derstand even the modern dog.
speelally for the fine acting of the two principals.
of
a
She has most popular number. attached to it, we are moved to with mairth and laughter lot old
the advantage of a most able Inughter. And that is just a pianist in M. Monin Litter, whose modern development of the prime-
wrinkles come; Solo efforts Are also first-cinas,
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Nothing Sinister.
wine,
It is a hotly disputed point, in
manklud's emergence from the brute creation. Scientific or other-- wise, that view appeals to me as
The health bulletin fur Eastern My dog bares his teeth if he far nearer the practical truth ports for the week ended Sept. 24, senses a personality hostile or than the doctrine of the essential. shows the following cases of infectious inimical to the house. He does the sinisterness of laughter. disenses and deaths Plague, Baghdad 1 case 1 death, when he merely wishes to express her baby, and the infant laughs therefrom same, ln a very different way.] Why, a happy mother smiles on Beltut 1 case, Colombo 3 cases
to me his intense appreciation of back. Are we seriously to belleve deaths. Cholera, Calcutta 10 cases
denths, Prom-Penh 2 cases 2 deaths, ac sunny afternoon, the near that joyous infantile crow is a Macao 1 case 1 death, Amoy 17 cases promise of a delectable bono, of a survival the primitive bared 5 deaths, Canton & cases I death, jolly walk in country lanes where teeth of caveman savagery? When Shanghai 21 cages 1 death. Small- rabbits may inhabit. Between the eminent psychologists try to tell Alexandria 2 cuses 3 deaths, laughter of human beings, when me that, it prompta me to impolite Baghdad I ease 1 death, Basrah 2 cases
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Books Authors Read. What books do authors enjoy most? A question simply answer ed: their own, of course, How- ever, In an effort to obtain * serious answer to the question, the French Line recently wrote to leading Amerlean, English and French authors asking each writer of his favourite to suggest ten books. With this information in hand, a corner of the library of the line's now cabin cruiser, the Champlain, is to be stocked with the books selected by the writers, deaths, Bombay Tenses & deaths, they are tickled to death by some rejoinder. I feel most powerfully Calcutta & casen à deaths, Madras 14 funny episode seen or narrated, moved to ejaculate a ruda America New World Order,” and its pica is and reserved as a. tempting re-
cases 1 death. Rangoon I Case, and the mocking laughter of the "Sez you!" authors may enjoy Tuticorin 7 cases 1 death, Pondicher villain in the melodrama, when he
.It was that Great Britain should take the treat where
dense R sturdy
of fancies he has the hero or the humour, and the capacity to laugh lead in an endeavour to create af their favourite books. John Gala-ry 4 cases 4 deaths, Saigon 1 case.
heroine at his mercy, there is just amid the crack of doom, that dis- new world order based on Inter-worthy, Christopher Morley, Booth
The Straits Settlement Retrench-jas much difference. It will take tinguished the British soldier, dur- national Co-operation.
Tarkington, Gertrude Atherton,ment Committee's report has been more than a whole waggon-load of ing the ordeal of the war. That Of pro-
Edgar Lee Masters and many itaued. The chief recommendations | paychologists persuado me laughter may have been Homeric, hibitive tariffs, exchange restricther famous authors bit their provide for cats of 13 per cent. that honest laughter. from the but it certainly was never akin to
in personal emolumenta Ax tions and other devices which are pencil tops. But they answered pared to 1931, and 13 per cent. In teeth.
com lungs and not merely with the the canine snarl.
has anything sinister throttling world trade, and which the questionnaire. Perhaps they the annually recurrent charges for the either in its import or its ancestry, always gravely offended the un- The truth is that humour has are ostensibly emergency defen- more than liked the idea of brows. 1933 estimates to be made effective by
December of that year. Other pro Hamlet moralises over the grim humorous. Thero is an order of sive measures, it is remarked that Ing among books which they had nosals include the following: All fact that a man may smile, and dismal mortals, of the category "in effect they intensify the crisis selected, wanted to read, but overtime allowances to be abolished, be a villain. But nowhere does friend Gratiano invelghed against, they are designed to counteract. never had time at home even to office; no new money for public works Shakespeare suggest that laughter to whom laughter is always "mis- is the hall-mark of the sinister. (timed in tragic presences." A policy based on the assumption glance through. Authors have al-extraordinary for the next two years; Ha was much too acute a psycho-Laughter in other people's tragic
ways been interested in what the no new recruitment in any branch of that every separate nation can public thinks of their books. And sonable
Government and no additions to pen- logist for that. Is there anything presences is an insult. In our
establishment until the in the least sinister about honest own tragedies it may be an epic. suspend its purchases from other they probably are just as Interest-situation improves.
Jack Falstaff, the very source and nations and simultaneously per- ed in knowing how other writers
judge their work. At the top of the French Line's list, ticing for first place, were "Moby Dick! nud "Babbitt." The third group In "Arrowsmith,"
Buade the latter to buy as much of its own goods as before is no obviously self-contradictory that no conference of any large group favour included of nations representing a con- by Sinclair Lewis, and "The Age siderable share of the world's of Innocence," by Edith Wharton, trade can be expected to give it Other books which were selected any but the shortest shrift." more than once are "The Auto- Regarding the forthcoming biography of Lincoln Steffens," World Economie Conference, the "McTengue," by Frank Norris, view is expressed that if it is re-Thornton Wilder's "The Bridge of San Luis Roy," Panri Buck's "The solutely to endeavour to build a
Good Earth," Stendahl's "Le new world order, it would appear Rouge et le Noir," Edith Whar essential that no relevant part of ton's "Ethan Frome." Still other, its field of Inquiry should be barred books selected were "Poems of from consideration, for political Emily Dickinson," Emerson's or any other reasons, Those upon "Essays," "Kim," "Alice in Won- whose shoulders has been placed derland," "Huckleberry Finn" and the heavy responsibility of deter "Tales of Pae." So it acome that mining the future of millions of a library of authors will,, on the In part an people may be asked, not merely to authors library. The idea is
Champlain, bacome settle, once and for all, the "tragic good one and well worthy of book-keeping of war," but to deter-imitation, both afloat and ashore. mine the foundations upon which | An nuthors' corner in any library they may build a new and better should serve the double purpose edffice. "They may be asked to of pleasing writers, potential and act upon the maxim that full-fledged, and of systematically Informing the reading public what harmful are
books discriminating authors read which seek to attain the pros-and recommend.
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restriction of the activitios of A pet monkey has been sent as a another. They may reflect that precautionary medical measure, prohibitive tariffs close the only serration subsequent to its biting its the depot at Kennedy Town for ob- avenue along which International owner, Happer Himbury, of the 40th trade may flow." The articlo exington Barracks.
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with certain exceptions, as in the Post
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"Ho stopped writing when I sent him my picture and told him I would expect him to pay me tent on this place.
after we got married."*
The real acid test of humour is the ability to laugh when we ourselves, and not some stranger. are the comic victims of the treacherous orange skin. And that gift of laughing at oncself is one of the most valuable safeguards mankind possesses, It might, I fancy, be à saving grace even for some erudite psychologists.
LET US BE ILL
By Dr. Edward Kally, Astassia. We have had a dirty trick ¡played on us.
One of our most cherished possessions was blood pressure. We went to see a doctor about it, and he sounded and plummet Jed us and said, "Mm'm!" He then retired to his office and sharpened his pencil.
That was just the dollare. He came back and wrote some- thing which started off:-"His X 22/9/92; R. Sodi Chiar, gra xx: Ext.. Glyey. Ilq. m. XV. Mitto M&C pe."
Which meant a hot bath between meals, in water, and a complete change.
We were cured and when foully done out of a complaint which we had nursed for years and had got us a deal of sym.. pathy while we had the oppor funity of suffering.
An even fouler trick is whet you go to the consultation: room. suffering from all the symptoms of "cancer, and the fool pounds. (Continued on Page 11.) -
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