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ation, along the lines of the former war amoregency finance body. This bulwark undoubted- ly did much to strengthen 'cou- fidence, If, indeed, it did not save America from a first-class disas- ter. Taking Mr. Hoover's term as a whole, it may be anid that
HOT TEMPER
By ROBERT LYND
The Very Idea!
THIS WOMAN 'EVIL
By Edward Kelly, Married
Wo have decided to let the headache run our column to-day. As a matter of fact, we had no
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he served his day and generationIt was recently asserted that Marlowe and Greene were "more with high integrity, paid due "the reason why so many great notoriously quarrelsome. regard, without being tempted because no man ever got very far a mark of supreme genius. If mel appear to be hot-tempered is Not that good temper itself is into sensational experiments, to without having strong emotions. Socrates was a confirmed smiler, say in the matter. We never the major problems. confronting And men in prominent positions Milton and Dr. Johnson were in have any say. his country, and endeavoured to make some contribution to world issues, even though disinclined to make any radical departure from America's war debt policy. A weaker man could have landed his country into a far greater crisis than that at present being experienced. A stronger-willed President may have achieved even less than Mr. Hoover has.
Horace for All
are better able to give rein to their some of their liveliest moments Our headache war Vaccinated". emotions because there is no one scowlers. One thinks of Chaucer for small-pox the other day, and to gainsay them."
as a man of equable temper, but the doctor must have used Swift had at times the fury of a demon.
gramophone needle. Since then she's never stopped talking.
To give you an instance, We
ever
before.
In any
I wonder, however, whether great men are, on an average, con. apicuously hotter-tempered than their neighbours.
Hent In Politics.
In politics, perhaps, temper is
way,
по
I saw an old gentleman whack-commoner than in most other pro-were Inveiled into a bun-fight ing his wife's shins with an um fessions. It is not because poll-with Pete and Mrs. Watkins yon- brella the other day because she tempered than other people, but
ticians are naturally more hot terday.. had endangered her life in the because they sit more than other
We greeted Pete affectionately. traffic, but I do not think he was people on committees, and theres
"Well, Pete, old man. How's either a great statesmen or a great poet. I also saw a young than sitting on
are few things more exasperating man jump out of his car and knock committee is a body
committees. A "Oh, Myra, darling, it's so good Few authors have had the out two of a taxi-driver's teeth everybody sees his pet schemes dear, we actually haven't seen you which to see you again. Do you know, honour of giving their names for emerging too suddenly from a blocked by the pot schemes of DE LUXE EQUIPMENT to a dining club. Dr. Johnson is sidestrect, but, apart from this, everybody else. Every member since that night at the pletures."
one of them, Omar Khayyam an-
he bore little resemblance to a man of it feels that, if he were only a
"By Jove, yes. That was the All new Rockne Six de Luxe other. Now that the Horatian
of genius.
I doubt, indeed, whether bad more in 24 hours than the com-
dictator," he could accomplish night I-" models are equipped with two Society has held its first dinner
"How long ago was that. Why, temper of which hot temper is mittee will accomplish in a year. it must be nearly a month now. chromium-plated horns, mounted in London, Quintus Horatius merely one form-is the gift of a To a man of public spirit there No! It's just over three weeks. beneath the headlamps at the Flaccus is another. That Hor- good fairy to human beings any can be nothing more exasperatir Is it? No! Yes, it is. Just three ace has preserved his popularity more than it is to dogs or other than not to be a dictator. I am weeks last Friday. I remember for close on 2,000 years is not animals. If a dog is bad-tempered sure that Mussolini has been a because that was the night-," See and drive the New Rockne difficult to understand. He is pro- we take it for granted that it has much milder-tempered man since Six to-day!
"I thought you'd remember. bably the most quotable poet hit-been incompetently brought up or he has had everything his own That was the night I—”
that somebody has ill-treated R. manity has ever known. If poli- ticians who understand Latin are more reasons for flaring up into a ticians seldom give exhibitions of taffeta frock, the one I just bought
Human beinos, however, have
"Do be quiet, Edward. That It is true that the leading poli-was the night I wore my pale blue fewer than they used to be, far temper than dogs. They eat more temper in Parliament. We have from Lane Crawfords for $45. more working men and women. things that disagree with them. thanks to continuation classes
They auffer more from such only to read their biographics, You should go to Lane, Crawford's and the Workers' Education things as tight collars: I knew however, to discover that in the and see some of their marvellous. Association, and other simi- one man who was ferociously hot-privacy of Cabinet meetings they new frocks, dear."""
tempered till he discovered that family of children in
are as quarrelsome as G lar organizations, have great for years he had been wearing can be. If you read an account picture
large "I got my--" a nursery er acquaintance with it than collars two sizes too small for him. of the meetings of
"What did you think of the
that case, They jostle each other in the Cabinet in the 'eighties, you will can't show more pictures of Clark night, Terrible, Gladstone's Horace, though an imperial streets as dogs seldom do. There find as much snapping and anar- Gable and Robert Montgomery. wasn't it. Isn't it a pity they favourite, has
day passes, indeed, ing going on as at said things is never to which the people of a
that a human being has not 50 Yet most of its members belonged came out of the theatre that
a dog-fight. good reasons for losing his tem to what is probably the least hot-
I was only saying to Edward as we democracy might do well to give per if he is willing to lose his tempered nation in Europe. Hot attention. Though an intimate
"Yes, you were pretty mad at friend of one of the most power-
temper.
temper is the attribute of the me for losing " ful monarchs the world has ever fuming in a restaurant because attribute of the diplomatist.
You will see a red-faced man politician as good temper is the "Edward! 1 do wish you known. Horace had no craving the waiter does not give him im-
wouldn't interrupt so much. I for wealth and luxury. He was mediate and exclusive attention. even politics would not be impro-was my favourite actor. I adorn I am not sure, however, that was telling him that Clark Gable. perfectly happy on his Sabine You will see him fuming still ved if the politicians became more him. Don't you, dear? I think farm, with a modest competence. more hotly when the waiter spills good-natured. Ever since Nineteen hundred years before a few drops of soup over him. If war we have suffered from
the the way he brushes back his hair, is too exquisite for words. I MR. HOOVER AND the economists, he was discern the waiter tells him that the dish pestilence of hat temper in inter-only wish Eddie wasn't, so bald".
HIS WORK ing the social implications of the for which his mouth has
been national politics, and patriotiam "Well, you wouldn't notice it so "law of diminishing returns." watering is off, the red-faced man itself has become a form of touch- much if I hadn't lost my With the assumption of office He had no admiration for mere sion. I once saw a man in a coun- temper is merely a form of terday that he should try some becomes inarticulate in his pas-iness. Or, perhaps, it is that hot! "I was only telling Eddie yes- by President Roosevelt, the man material size. He saw nothing try hotel looking as if he could egotiam; and national egotism is of that new hair restorer they're who has occupied the White in record-breaking for its own commit murder because he was a disease that has been overrun-advertising. They say that it will House for a period of four years sake. He would have known expected to eat mutton without ning the world for some time past, restore hair in fourteen days. It's now becomes plain Mr. Herbert that a nation may have the red-currant jelly... Hoover once again. In assess-wealthiest millionaires, the big-
Let us, however, give hot tem terrible the way Eddie has lost ing the value of his contribution gest building, the largest favour- to his country and to the worldable balance of trade, the hughest In general, the dominant fact to theatres, the fastest, motorcars be kept in mind is that he held and the swiftest acroplance, and exampled stress. It is there- and undistinguished people of fore hardly to be wondered at contented mind. A little of the that, failing to accomplish the temper of Horace's poems might Impossible, he should come in not come amiss in this world of for more than a fair share of the twentieth cetury. criticism. Indeed, when only
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I often envy people who have per ita duc. It often goes with a his hair since we've been married. the gift for making scenes in pu- generous and lively nature. It is Ever since he started running blic places because they usually better to see a man in a venerons that stupid column in the Tete- tempered who get the windows difference. I should not like to me for his baldness. Since he get their way. It is the hot rage that in mood of jellyfish in- graph people have been binming opened or shut as they please in see everybody going about angrily lost his new hat, I can't get him. get the quickest attendance in the but Cromwell would have been a such a fool walking about the to wear another one, and he looke hotel dining-rooms. There is a less interesting man if he had been streets without one." general conspiracy to humour hot-milder. Probably, every to put an end to a scene.
flying you. It was the night of the=" Even into a rage on occasion, even if be if the hot-tempered man gets only seldom exercises it. AI!
"Speaking of hats, darling, have half his term had expired, Lancashire "Full Speed quently gets more of his way than it. If they did not, they could not gorgeous for words. I
50 per cent. of his way he fre-heroes of the great plays possess tlons. I think they are just too the you noticed the new spring crea thanks largely to the prevailing
he would get if he had a better make such magnificent speeches.
naked. depression, he was already be-
temper.
It may be, then, that the ideal until he given me the housekeep- Eddie yesterday to loan me $25 ing talked about in America
The Gentle Shakespeare
thing is to have a reserve of rageing cheque at in one's bosom, seldom expressed, month, but he simply won't. I the end of the Useful a possession though a hot but ready to discharge on a worthy think men are the most selfish temper is, however, it would be occasion. But rage like
this creatures on earth. We girls give
tempered people to do anything man has the capacity for great "That's what I wanted to tell
Ahead"
་་
"
"But I'll get it at the end of the month. I was just adding up my accounts yesterday, and I think. I can save just enough on the com- pradore's account to visit the mil- liners. Eddie lost his only hat last month. Was it last month? No. of course not. I remember now." It was the night"
"That's just what I've been try- ing to tell Pete. It was--”
"How tiresome you are, Edward. What are you stuttering and stam mering about? He's been trying to tell you, Peter, that he lost his. hat in the theatre the last time we saw you. Myra, darling, what do you think of the scandal about Mrs. Peakingswabbersch? Isn't it too terrible for words. I always, thought that women was a good- for-nothing. but I'm not one to talk about people, so...”
as a disappointment. Even his The British cotton industry is supporters said he was un- still hoping to overcome its diff- certain of himself, unskilled in culties in competing effectually politics, and timid about public in the markets of the world. In a mistake for the hot-tempered should be left to great men. It is up our lives for them, and we get feeling. He WAS also freely recent months the business of man to regard it as a form of too dangerous for motorists, for nothing in return." criticised by many Americans supplying the clothing worn by had the best temper; not the worst, common life, Let us not encour hats, and I haven't even
genius. Shakespeare, I fancy, example, and too disturbing for "But, Arabella, you've got three because of his long residence 800,000,000 people
in India. of the abroad, which, they said, had China, and Japan, which Man- Jonson was a giant of explost- tributing their frenzy over
Elizabethan poets. Ben age the violent-tempered by at- inflicted him with "International-chester once monopolished, has veneza compared with him; and lukewarm soup to genius.
the ism," while some even asserted passed increasingly to the mills that he was pro-British." These, of Bombay, the Yangtze Valley however, must be written down and Osaka: Asia for more than very largely as the viewpoints of a generation has been growing the ignorant and narrow-minded. in self-sufficiency in regard to on a par with the opinions of the coarser kinds of cotton goods many neonle in England who re-it uses. The Indian cotton-clad garded Mr. Hoover, as anti-rice cultivator wading knee-deep British. The world depression. [beaide his plough in the mud carrying with it a tremendous of the Ganges swamps, the unemployed problem for Amer-Chinese blue-coated millet grow- ica, as for many other countries, er industriously hoeing the rich was always a great stumbling-soil, of the Yellow River plain, block for the Administration no longer need to look overseas during the last two years of Mr. for the rough cloth they wear. Hoover's regime. One of the Even the well-to-do trader. of ex-Président's plans for dealing Calcutta and the mandarin can with the unemployed question buy no small portion of the finer the accumulation of a fabrics they affect from factories reserve of some £600,000,000 to near their homes. Lancashire relieve the workless in lean nevertheless feels itself still un-. years, but there came too beaten where the best goods and erial, in the Wall Street the most up-to-date methods of slump and the farming manufacture are involved. "It troubles. If he failed to has also of late considerably make any marked impression on strengthened its position by the unemployment, it was only for adoption of methods of mass the same reasons as other na-production and unity of control tions have undergone a similar which have reduced manufac- experience-Britain included-turing costs. Its 800,000 spin. namely, that the issue is one uers and weavera, in agreeing as which cannot respond to any- they have recently done to re- thing short of world treatment.ductions in an already low scale In his general domestic policy, of living, have shown those char as well as in foreign affairs, Mr. Jacteristics of grit and self-denial Hoover had constant friction which have often in other fields with Congress, which often of enterprise turned failure into baulked beneficial plans on which success. It is by no accident, he had set his heart. One-piece therefore, that quotations for of real constructive work which British textile investiments have he did was the creation of the already risen substantially on Finance Reconstruction Corpor- the London Stock Exchange.
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