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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1932.
THE DEMOCRATS AND
Mr.
WAKE UP, YOUNG He Very Idea!
ENGLAND!
BRING 'EM BACK ALIVE
ferènce, which might be offered i to the French Chamber ON AN inducement to pay the December fastalment on which Franco hne defaulted. This fact provides further evidence of a desire for a fresh analysis of the wholo position. Sooner or Inter, the United States has to face tha fact that a new arrangement is desired. It would be better for everybody concorned bud there It may be that what is preliminary to dust is middle age, now, without any quibbling or been some show of a willingness called the alchemy of Time and what will the robins do then, beating about the jungle, that the with the matter on non-partisan | with the passing years the on the carriers of motor-bicycles those fighting animal scenes is the on the part of America to deal works marvels, and that poor things? They will no longer only thing that's not real about
be young and allm enough to alt
linca.
Spring-Cleaning
By F. E, BAILY
By Edward "Congorilla” Kelly. We have just Boon "Bring Em [Back Alive" at the Central Theatro. And let us tell you right hare and
Ал опе
who has
seon
to tho
more
modern, young will become or in narrow baby cars, and they absence of a bottle of rum in the intelligent, responsible, in- will have no mental pursults to fall foreground.
back on, unless you call bridge a The last time we saw animals dustrious, learn to shut mental pursuit. They never opened doing, all those stunts was just A great domestic occasion is doors behind them, and a book when young, and they cut at hand, and in every household cultivate.some sort of mental out even the mildly serious broad before they led us AWAY
casts. You can't suddenly take to, Inebriates Home. upheaval is imponding. For it life but I doubt it.
books in despair, in the manner of will Boon be spring-cleaning The reason is that in order to one taking to drink or drugs. animals, especially the pink and time, when to all worthy house-build one must fret provido a
So there the present young will vermillion variety, than any other wives comes an urgent summons foundation, and the modern young, to see that the "boy" is at it as far as I can understand them, bo with such charm as they ever man in Hongkong, we with brush, broom, and dater. have provided no such foundation. had waning or departed. As far as congratulate Frank, who made
one can diving their future, they "Bring 'Em Bačk Alivo”. Hoom after room is turned topgy- Intelligence, responsibility, in have an excellent chance of develop; turvy; upstairs and downstairs dustry, and a taste for cultivating ing into a collection of cross, dis- all is confusion; no sanctum es-the mind do not spring up OverButiafied, aimless middle-aged boros, with animals. capes the invasion; nó corner night in the late twenties and early eludes the attack. The master thirties like a crop of mustard and
LACK OF BALLAST.
CHILDISH LOT..
of
With
want to
All these things being so, may finanol. The. elephant never for I implore the young to take them- gets. As a matter of fact, every selves in hand and develop rather Xmas he sends me a postcard.
WELLI WELL) WELL! more enterprise and a few mental resources before it is too late?
* • •
We have had a lot of experience Tako bisons, for instance. A bison fa a female UNCULTIVATEDd minds. bosun.
We remember a rather amusing Middle-aged happiness is the of the house deprived of the cress. A young person in the to 'toons whose acute personal in- fireside, his favourite chair en-
terests are divided between a port- fruit of southful toll and exertion incident that occurred in North veloped in a dust-sheet, wandere able gramphone, wireless,
and and diligently cultivated mental Americp where we were for some unhappily about from room to movies will
naver, leaving out qualities. The physical attributes. weeks exterminating wild bisons room seeking a refuge, a place to miracles, dovelop any sort of mental begin to decay early in life; a for the Armenian Relief Society.
It was during the moulting sea- rest and be quiet. But in vain. life. Ambition, a taste for books, boxer is an old man at 30, and a Wherever he goes the sound of a high standard of achievement footballer at 86, and even the eon, and as a maddened beast rush- the turmoil follows, though doors manifest themselves in the early cricketer at 40 is past his prime, ed at us, we grabbed it by the. though by skill'and cunning he may horns,, or front handles, Intanding have been carefully shut and years or not at all
Binger on for a few more years, to throw it away. Imagine our' windows securely fastened. The
At 45, however, the mind should surprise when the skin came right shaking and scraping, the sweep-
only be approaching Its heyday, away from the horns and left the ing and scrubbing is audible all I am sure my lot were not
Bonsalated by the psychological uplift animal standing naked before us! through the house and louder, Inept in their later teens as the which comes from definito auccess! On another occasion, while out more irritating, than anything present 18 and 19-year-olds. All at ono's job. But to succeed at on a big game hunt in Africa (most else, the insistent hum of the my greatest friends in my last one's job necesaltaten aingle-mind- of the games are smail in Africa. years at school know what they ed devotion to it in youth, and an Ten cont jack-pots and fifty cant electric vacuum sweeper. Ho
meant to do in life, had their plan eager, carefully controlled ambi- raices) one of our bearers op- does not protest, however, for of campaign mapped out, and were tion; and the mind which has never proathed with the news that there that would invite a bitter
parabeen cultivated will never know re working solidly at school to
was an elephant of anormous pro- proach from his spouse. He their examinations, or specialising heyday.
portions hiding behind our heap of lion skins. does not argue, for argument in some way for the job ahead
Naturally there are exceptions, will not prevail; nor does he them. Most of them saver lived for one cannot logically condemn We hastened to have a look at threaten, for threats will only to reap the harvest of their efforts, all young people. The individual the animal and saw that despite its
And even when all because the war intervened and
will always out,
this re size it was no uso as a specimen, provoke. is straight once more, the normal they were killed, but they lived long servation I do assert that on the as it had fallen arches. The huge WAR DEBTS
onough and succeeded well enough whole those about to come of age beast seemed to be in pain, so lower- atmosphere of restful calm re-
to prove to me that the man who Having apparently failed in again and will not be for very early in life.
stored, the home is not the same will go far develops responsiblity at this period of history seem to ing it gently on to its back, wa me more trivial, childish, stupid, called for one of the bearers to his efforts to induce Mr. Roose many weeks. Things are not
and unambitious than my genera- bring our medicine chest. velt to co-operate on the war, where they were.
In those pre-war days, which tion was or than the present-day 10' The poor beast was suffering debt question, President Hoover of one room
The aspect seems so antediluvian to the modern to 12-year-olds will be.
from catarrb. After dosing it up, is rendered un- young, wo were a great deal older now scemas disposed to take no familiar by a rearrangement of for our age than they are; chiefly, cannot blame their scatty minded- and sent it on its way.
Our 18 and 19-year-olds really we wrapped its cheat in red flannel further action in the matter, the furniture; another room has I think, because a great deal moreness on the late war, for they re- Eight months after, as wo wome The prospect, therefore, is that a strange appearance by reason was expected of us and we expected member nothing about it, and al- standing on the wharf preparatory the Democrats will have to of a pleture moved; worst of all, more of ourselves. Life was much shoulder the whole responsibility under pretext of tidiness, trea- harder for the young at that time: hough they are fond of remarking to sailing from Africa, we beard after they come into office in sured personal belongings have only after the war did older people that they inherited a shattered a loud trumpeting behind us, and March. President Hoover, an- been put away in the most un- and excuse them the drudgery presentday world is a much more the picture of health and waving world and must clear up the mess looking around saw the same ole become sloppy about their juniors. made by their elders, really the phant coming towards us looking xious that the matter should be likely places. Your favourite taken in hand without delay, pipe is missing. A most im- accomplishes anything, and coux classes than the pre-war world was. its trunk.
everyone needs to go through who convenient place to live in for all some bright coloured material In suggested the creation of a Com- portant document cannot be them, and spell them, and declare I have lived in both and I know. mission to consider the whole found. Your gloves
It had come to return the red are not they must have this and that at any problem, the personnel of this where you left them. The book cost to someone else. body to include one or two De you were reading-where is it mocrats who would act in direct now? If you are lucky enough contact with
Roosevelt
to find your possessions it will As a result of all this spoiling during the inquiry, This idea, be only after an arduous search, find to-day's young people a childish I assure them my diagnosis of their however, has proved inacceptable and it may be you will only dis- let. It is very difficult to pick a sad state is by no means eccentric "OPERA PREMATURE. to the President-Elect, who cover their hiding-place long young man or a young woman, if or morbid Any employer of In-To-day we are blase. Wo drift, merely wants a fact-finding Com- afterwards by accident. But if one has a job to offer, who will get bour will agree with me. Ho will wo float in a Nirvana of Indiffer- misalon, not charged with con- you do find them, and when, take down to the job and go at it for all admit the existence of exceptions, enco. If you told us the nearest sideration of the question of re- comfort in the thought that not he or she is worth, without being but at the ruck of young people who policeman was Garbo, we shouldn't vision. In other ways, also, for another year will your pri- nursed and persuaded, and without come to him for jobs he can only bother to sak the time. Mr. Roosevelt has shown a dis- vacy thus be disturbed.
needing elementary matters of shrug his shoulders. spelling and punctuation, methad
Yesterday we helped the producer inclination to co-operate, largely
DAYS OF MIDDLE-AGE. of the Italian opera to put his on the ground that his respon-
and accuracy, pointed out over and
chorus girls through their paces. sibility only begins after he
over again.
Wo shall only bo middle-aged] takes office. This attitudo is to
Our oculist says we shall pro- And even after one has done all once, and for those who have spent bably have to wear smoked glansen be deplored, since it is plain that
The keeper in the Victoria this persuading and pointing out, an intelligent youth, middle-age le there will be very little time be- Embankment Gardens who had the young person's heart will seldom a fine ime, for many struggles and for the rest of our life.
We got into the Star through a tween March and June, when the temerity to try out a be in the job. He looks on it, and troublen lie behind and many
before.. Al-ventilator. A seething shoal of the next instalments are due, in "guaranteed permanent polish" so doca she, as an inevitable bore pleasant prospects which to reach decisions likely on one of the statues under his and nuisance, which he or she must ternately, if in the forties a person's femininity had silted up the more
тап. The drag through somehow in order to mental age is still 17, then heaven orthodox entrances. The to be acceptable to America's care is a brave
ties help him, for his body will have of the back-stage area was and dances and the movies, Never-grown out of his toys, and his mind opolised by young ladies putting debtors. The calling of a special London County Council official carn money for frocks and session of the new Congress in who surprised him in the
acttheless these inds and lassies must will have found nothing to put in on make-up and taking off clothes the Spring is hinted at, in order might have delivered a biting oventually come to dust, and the their place.
-the regulation garment for the audition being what is called that a general default may be homily on the recognised efficacy
"practice dress." You can sea that prevented. Something of the of elbow-grease, on the neces
it is only practising. kind will be necessary if a fresh Bity, in the interests of public deadlock is to be avoided. In decency, of someone showing this connexion, it is to be noted more than a cursory regard for that the next instalments, due the memory of those whom the of June 15th, amount to appro- public has seen fit to immortalise ximately $185,000,000, and in bronzo. Fortunately for the should there be a general de experimenter, his polish had a fault, complications of a serious twinkle that enraptured even the nature may arise. Britain, for offlcin! heart, and orders were
that one, has made it clear that she given
overy bronze does not propose to continue memorial within sight should be paying on the old basis, and it thus permanently embellished. may be taken for granted that In future a monthly flick of the other of America's debtors also duster will suffice to keep their expect some revision of their appearance unsullied. It is too debt-funding agreements. The early to say whether this new Hoover plan, of starting a pre- fashion will spread to the other liminary examination of the statues, but there are certainly problem without delay, has many that would benefit from a everything to commend it. This course of beauty treatment. contemplated restricting the task The trouble about statues is that of the Commission to ' ex nobody troubles to make a fuss amination of the position, with of them. This makes them dis- provision for subsequent report- pirited, and gives them that ing to the President, who by that wan, defected look which geta time would most likely be Mr. on everyone's nerves. We saw Roosevelt, as the investigation how now life could be injected would take a considerable period into a public memorial by ro- of time. In this way, definite moving Eros from his pedestal progress would be assured and. until his absence was felt. of the foundations laid for a new course, Eros la an exception. approach to the whole problem. But we might try the export- But the Democrats do not ap ment with some others. Instead. pear to be in any hurry. In the of a permanent gloss what we meantime, France has been mak- need is some preparation which ing overtures to the United would make our statuos Invisible. States, asking for some concilia Then it would be an easy matter tory gesture, such as a promise to determine which of them wo to participate in a debt con- 'really care about.
An
Brighter Statues
"Day, Joe, look and seo. If I got this safety belt on right.”
whole
mox.
A
We dropped into a seat in the stalls, feeling like a myopic sultan. On the stage sparkled an alter- nating current of blandes, brunet tes, and red-heads, cach singing a for scales, flashing several teeth, and turning an ambitious ankle. Then "That'll do," said the pro- ducer 'round his cigar, and a pair of legs twinkled of
"Paris had a soft job," was our verdict.
.
*
WITH THE AUSSIES,
Poto always was an obstreperous sort of chap... When we wore out at Fanling camp the other day, the blighters took us for a twenty mile route march.
The coolles who were fetching up in the rear with our supply of beer got lost, so after the first ten miles the G.O, halted us.
"Boys," he said, "what do you want to do. Wait for the coolice or continue the march. Those who want to wait tako one step for word."
Everyone but Peto shuffed for ward.
"Bravo man," said the C.O. Pete. "You are the only soldier la the squad. The only man who, in. the face of suddon adversity, want od to do his duty."
"Do mo duty suid Pote. "Why, I'm too blankey tired to take a step | forward]"
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