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LABOUR STANDARD PROBLEMS
The conference on unemploy- ment insurance organised by the British League, of Nations
regarded as a necessary incident
of industry; and since it comes
FAMOUS PRAYERS
League's Covenant, viz: to secure and maintain fair" and humane conditions of labour for men, women and children .... in all countries" the methods by which this goal is approached Most of us learned as children fellows. It is the purest expres- cannot be of a cast-iron uni-to say our prayers, and now
By E. L. ALLEN
and male
MACHINE COWARDS
By Norman Tiptaft
*
The Very Idea!
"I WILL"
By Mr. Kelly, Misogynist ARE YOU MARRIED? Why not?
ARE WE MARRIED? why bring that up?
on the subject of marriage and Man's Inhumanity to Man (with apologies to 4 poet named Burrms).
It's years since we took the
aasion I know of that utter · un- formity. Of course this has grown men and women we pray. selfishness in which true prayer been largely recognised already. The two things, of course, are by consista" O Allah! if I worship In the Washington Hours Con- no means the same. Perhaps our Thee, for fear of Hell, send me to vention, the first effort made by prayers are less regular than Hell; and if I worship Thee in Paradise, withhold the LLO. to obtain a universal they were in childhood, but it is hopes of
Most men make at least one, eight hours day and 48 hours lost in that way they have gained ship Thee for Thine own sake, fatal mistake in the course of
to be, hoped, that what they have Paradies from me; but if I wor week for workers, special pro in reality and sincerity. So far then withhold not from me the their Hves. Some, of course, get visions were expressly made for as we can see, men have prayed Eternal Beauty. Give to Thine married twice, and remain for the application of the Conven- since the very earliest times, and enemies whatsoever Thou hast as- tion in a modified form to Japan there is no reason to suppose signed to me of this world's goods, years as an indictment against and India, while other Asiatic, that they will ever cease to do so. and to Thy friends whatsoever the S.P.C.A. countries, such as China, Siam Its roots strike too deep into Thou hast assigned to me in the: To-day, ladies and gentlemen, and Persia were entirely exclud-human nature for that.
Life of the Hereafter, for Thou we propose to discourse learnedly ed panding further considera- Of course, like everything else,Thyself art sufficient for me.' tion. The point that seems prayer has had its history and it worth making is that while in has gone through great changes. no wise depreciating the excel-It began with such things as the householder's petition for long lent work done by the Inter-life, good harvests, national Labour Organisation it children or the witch-doctor's should be more widely recognis-charm to bring rain, or the ritual: In an age when even the chil-plunge but we've never been able- ed that it has perhaps inevitably dance of the young men of the dren are born mechanically mind- to get our head above water- a since. A fellow journalist and concentrated upon conditions tribe before they set out on the ed, when we have achieved as they exist in countries whose war trail. But in process of time greater control of power than the rival-in short, no friend of ours life has been revolutionised by it has learned unselfishness, and world has ever known, people are reported the ceremony.
at least in its best exponents it becoming afraid of the machine the introduction of the machine.has become the pure, disinterested that the heroism and ingenuity/will hide nothing. This is what The conditions of labour for the longing of the human heart after and labour of generations has he wrote other, larger, half of the world's what is highest and best. It constructed,
The whisper is going "round: population also need the most began with the business-like re-
stallion, "Watch the machine! It is dun- careful and understanding con- quest for ten mares, a sideration, with a view to the and a camel which actually oc-gerous! It takes away men's jobs] raising of standards of living curs along with much of a higher It means bread lines and uttem- among them on practicable and order in the sacred books of the ployment queues. The machine is old Persian religion, and it has an evil thing, a thing of terror acceptable lines,
reached the cry of the Indian by night and-pestilence by day. mystic, 'From the unrdal lead me
"Before the days of the machine, The bitter sobbing of the to the real, from the. darkness
men were happy and content. bride's mother and the howling of lead me to the light.
The ploughman plodded homeward the confectioner who had sup-- One of the earliest prayers in his weary way, secure in the Western literature is to be found knowledge that his labour was not plied the cake on credit mingled
of The hero Patroclus in vain and that his living was with wheezing the organ Human beings have always in Homer.
lics dead but the Greeks stand secure.
26 The craftsman fashioned yesterday afternoon Edward been rather too good. at jump their ground and stubbornly con-his wares, knowing that for good Kelly took young, unsophisticated, ing to conclusions, and at being test with the Trojans, the posseseraftsmen there was always good Molly Muldoon as his bride. deceived by appearances. That sign of his corpse. In the midst living to be had.
Red Noses
is why the red nose has been of the struggle, all at once the
to heaven:
"Men were free-they were in-
П
control
WEDDING BILLS.
The 'T' will be Knocked Out of Kelly Now.
MARRIED AT LAST
We
The bridegroom, wearing the
so often misunderstood. It has sky is overcast and darkness adds been left to an expert to go to to the confusion of the combat dividual; to-day they are bound same suit as on the occasion of his
to the machine and standardis first wedding was supported. the root of the matter. He has Ajax lifts his eyes investigated the causes of this Father Zeus,' he cries, 'send lighted. The old slave of the lamp (with difficulty) by Mr. P. Wat
and save us. Clear the sky and was a fairy-tale for children to kins. facial phenomenon, and has grant sight to our eyes, and even laugh at; the new slave of the The bride entered the church found that it is a popular illusion if it is Thy will that we should moving belt, the travelling crane,in the arms of a boy friend who that the red nose is generally perish, at least let us perish in the dynamo, is a tragedy that
subsequently gave her away, re-" an indication of what he calls the light. That is prayer that makes men weep.
"The machine, has made life big fusing to accept payment. Kelly "long-continued alcoholic imbibi- we might do well to take up and and vast, and in making it so it wouldn't have paid in any case. tions." The vast majority of use for ourselves to-day.
Then there is another Greek has left no room for the little though he might have signed a the red-nosed ones are total ab- stainers, even in the United prayer which is worth knowing. things. Let us break the machine chit through force of habit.
n1 Union, and held recently at the States. Some sort of apology. It is from Plate, who records it since it has wrought on us The parson anid "Edward, will
Socrates this evil!" as a prayer of Socrates. London School of Economics, therefore, seems to be called and Phaedrus are sitting under
Now, this is a cowardly at you take this girl, Molly to be threw an interesting sidelight for from music-hall
come-the shade of a plane-tree by the titude; behind it is slave your wedded wife, etc. etc." upon the difficulties facing the dians and others, who have long river's brink, and when they psychology, the idea that work is The groom caused a riot by finished their conversa- good for its own sake; that long absent-mindedly replying "Don't League of Nations in its efforts made sport of the roseate nose, have to get uniform standards and from which, by the way, they tion it is suggested that prayer hours, arduous toil, scanty earn-mind if I do."
Hundreds of the happy couple's themselves have not always would be fitting in such a scene ings, a low standard of life, in methods applied in different been immune.. Red noses have before they leave it. So Socrates some way or other are good for friends gathered at the reception. parts of a world that has be their origin in a multitude of prays as follows: Beloved Pan. people. So, rather than use our and sang "No wonder She's a
and all ye other gods who abide brain to master the machine with come for so many purposes a causes, all more or less lawful, here, rint me to be beautiful ita possibilities of an ever-expand-blushing bride" in raucous voices. Slowly the bridegroom drank physical unity. A representa- natural, and honourable. In in the inner man, and all I have ing life for all peoples, it is better tive of the Chinese Engineering view of the expert's findings, of outer things to be at peace to destroy the machine, and forget himself into a state of hopeless and Mining Company pointed out the only safe thing to do, when with those within. May I count ten thousand years of progress, intoxication-and may we say, in too passing, that on Page 6 appears
reference to a summons by Gande" that in China not only is there confronted with a specimen of the wise man only rich. And to go back because we are
quite arresting redness, is to may my store of gold be such as cowardly to go forward.
ean bear." none but the good
We know how to harness power Price and Co for goods supplied no form of unemployment in conclude at once, and without what does he mean by the last through the petrol engine and the to B. Kelly." surance, at any rate as it is any qualification whatsoever,
There was lots more in the re- sentence? He will not despise electric current to produce the understood in the West, but that its owner is a total abstain prosperity, he knows it may be a things we need. We know how port but the Editor says the we Telegraph is "a respectable paper also no demand for its instituer. The weather, too, has a dis-helper to the good life, and poverty to transport things when
made them "But he have
to
mustn't re-print such people and we tinct influence on the tempera- is not of itself a good. tion. Under the capitalist
need them at the ends things. ture and hue of the nose. asks that only such a measure of who system us it has developed in
his way of the earth. We know how And so it appears that the full red prosperity shall come January produces more Europe, unemployment, OC-
noses than one might care to as shall not imperil his character. to make not only the necessities and complete story of our down- casional and intermittent in count, unless of a pertinaciously which I know none more wonder- many of the luxuries as well, and,
Finally, there is a prayer than of life for the whole world but fall cannot be told...
But if we can't tell our story. normal times, abnormal at times statistical turn of mind. By ful. Like the other two I have knowing these things, we are we can and will give some advice of crisis such as the present, is one of Nature's little jokes, the given, it is not a Christian prayer. afraid.
Why? The brain that devised to the Young People of To-day.
GET MARRIED! It will serve red nose also becomes embarras- We have it from a woman-mystic singly common in the height of who lived in Persia in the eighth the machine can surely summer not less than in the century of our era. It speaks the machine of its devising. Not you darn well right.
man has upon the worker through no fault depth of winter. From this it the language of a human love that in fear of the thing
all those created but in the mastery of it of his own, the moral sense of would appear that the nose is has broken through the community has generally of one of her safety valves, where recent years at least required by she contrives to keep the Governments to organise pro-human, organism in good work- vision in some form or other ing order despite great and sud- against it. In China and in that den changes of temperature. Perhaps, under a more just sys- other vast sub-continent of tem of civilisation than that India, similar development has which exists at present, the red not taken place. The great nose will be recognised as masses of the population still pointer to the existence of pro- follow agricultural pursuits and digious reserves of energy, when a member of the family is ability, and adaptability in its unable for any reason to earn fortunate owner. Then it will his own living, he relies for sup-be. possible for the most tem- port upon his relatives. He benerate of us to glow nasally as longs to an ancient civilisation, much and as often as we please, of which the family rather than without a sense of guilt the individual is the focal unit.shame. As it is, the person The machine age which has re- with a red nose is at a distinct volutionised European Society and wholly unfair disadvantage. has as yet hardly touched the No one will take him quite life of Asia. The comparative few who have drifted to the seriously. He is never promoted towns dislike committing them-over the heads of his seniors, nor even over the heads of his selves to “industry," They pre-juniors. Everyone expects him fer to work as casual labourers to crack up sooner or later, rather than to enter into any without the slightest warning, form of binding contract. The or to abscond with the petty bonds of the family eyetem may cash, or to commit some other have begun to wenken, but the
enormity. Women have abolish- not yet factory-worker has
ed the red nose, at least to out- learned to regard himself as a ward seeming. Their powder member of an industrial pro-puffs have saved them from its letariat, dependent for his rights and advantages as an individual ignominy. But the red-nosed man, scorning such aids, is de upon any community sense
fenceless and without hope. Hel any State-controlled machinery.will not even paint his cheeks The conclusion to which one to match. Though this may in- seems driven is that while the dicate a large element of stub- general purpose of the League's bornness in his nature, he is, on International Labour Organisa- tion is sound, as it is expressed, the whole, more to be pitled
than blamed,
sinned for instance, in Article 28 of the
against than sinxing.
Or
more
3
or
boundary-walls we tend to erect lies the only way to that suner around the love of God, lest it society which our children will our enter in the years that are coming. should come too freely
to
"You see, we were secretly divorced before anyone learn-
ed of our secret marriage.*
THE SAFEST HAT.
The bowler hat, as we were saying, or attempting to say, has fallen on evil days, but when its manifold virtues are more widely appreciated, it will be so much in demand 'that there will not be nearly enough bowlers to go round.
After reading a correspondence in the newspapers, we have come to the conclusion that there are few of the dangers of life against which the bowler does not afford adequate protection.
Whether one falls on one's heud, or something falls upon it, the bowler saves the situation, and, incidentally, a valuable life. It is a buffer as well as a crash helmet, for there is at least one case on record of a pedestrian who, finding himself lying on the road at the mercy of the passing traffic, pointed his bowler-covered head at an approaching baby car, and routed it.
DANGERS OF LIFE.
Many who follow dangerous callings wear the bowler, not so much for elegance but as a shield against such mischances as the dropping of a brick or a hammer upon their heads. And as we all follow dangerous callinga in these days, it seems to me that we ahould all wear bowlers.
Their more mercenary, owners. might exploit the publicity pos- sibilities of these hats by letting them out for advertisements of pills, powders, potions, or pud dings. There seems to be nothing sacred from these publicity bugs. They'd snap up the spaces.