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LABOUR STANDARD PROBLEMS The conference on unemploy. ment insurance organised by the British League of Nations Unior, and held recently at the London School of Economics, threw an interesting sidelight upon the difficulties facing the League of Nations in its efforts to get uniform standards and methods applied in different parts of a world that has be come for so many purposes a physical unity. A representa, tive of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company pointed out that in China not only is there
FAMOUS PRAYERS
By E. L. ALLEN
MACHINE COWARDS®
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The Very Idea!
"I WILL"
By Mr. Kelly, Misogynist. ARE YOU MARRIED?
Why not?
League's Covenant, víz: to secure and maintain fair and. humane conditions of labour for men, women and children. in all countries" the methods by which this gual is approached cannot be of a cast-iron
Most of us learned as children fellows. It is the purest expres- uni- formity. Of course this has grown men and women we pray. selfishness in which true prayer
to say our prayers, and now. assion I know of that utter been largely recognised already. The wo things, of course, are by consists. O Allah! if I worship, In the Washington Hours Con-no means the same. Ferhaps our Thee for fear of Hall, send me to vention, the first effort made by prayers are less regular than Hell; and if I worship Thee in
ARE WE MARRIED? the LL.O. to obtain a universal they were in childhood, but it is hopes of Paradise, withhold Why bring that up? eight hours day, and 48 hours to be hoped that what they have Paradics from me; but if I wor "Most men make at least one week for workers, special pro-in reality and sincerity. So far then withhold not from me the their lives. Some, of course, get lost in that way they have gained ship. Thee for Thine: own sake, fatal mistake in the course of visions were expressly made for as we can see, men have prayed Eternal Beauty. Give to Thine the application of the Conven- since the very earliest times, and enemies whatsoever Thou hast as married twice, and remain for tion in a modified form to Japan there is no reason and India, while other Asiatic that they will ever cease to do so. and to Thy friends whatsoever the S.P.C.A.
to suppose signed to me of this world's goods, years as an indictment against 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 pending further considera- Of course, like everything else, Thyself art sufficient for me.' tion. The point that seems prayer has had its history and it
on the subject of marriage and worth making is that while in It began with such things as the has gone through "great changes.
Man's Inhumanity to Man (with. no wise depreciating the excel-householder's petition for long
apologies to a poct named." lent work done by the Inter-life, good harvests, and male
Burrrns). 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 concentrated upon conditions tribe before they set out on the ed, when we have achieved since. A fellow journalist and as they exist in countries whose war-trail. But in process of time greater control of power than the rival in short, fio friend of ours life has been revolutionised by it has learned unselfishness, and world has ever known, people are reported the ceremony. the introduction of the machine has become the pure, disinterested that the heroism and ingenuity will hide nothing. This is what "
at least in its best exponents it becoming afraid of the machine 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. population also need the most began with the business-like re- The whisper is going round: careful and understanding con- quest for ten mares, a stallion: "Watch the machine! It is dan- 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 unem among them on practicable and order in the sacred books of the ployment queues. The machine is old Persian religion, and it haan evil thing, a thing of terror acceptable lines.
reached the ery of the Indian by night and pestilence by day. I mystic, From the unreal lead me
"Before the days of the machine, to the real, from the darkness
The bitter sobbing of the lead me to the light.
mea were happy and content. bride's mother and the bowling of One of the earliest prayers in his weary way,
The ploughman plodded homeward the confectioner who had sup-- Western literature is to be found knowledge that his labour was not plied the cake on credit mingled Human beings have always in Homer. The hero Patroclus in vain and that his living was with wheezing pr the
lies dead but the Greeks stand secure. The craftsman fashioned yesterday afternoon as 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 posses craftsmen there was always good Molly Muldoon as his bride. deceived by appearances. That slon of his corpse. In the midst
Red Noses
By Norman Tipfaft
is why the red nose has been of the struggle, all at once the living to be had.
secure in the
so often misunderstood. It has sky is overcast and darkness adds: "Men were free-they were in-
finished their
It's years since we took the
WEDDING BILLS.
The 'I will be Knocked Out of Kelly Now,
MARRIED AT LAST
Wa
organ Edward
The bridegroom, wearing the
:
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 the root of the matter. He has Ajax lifts his eyes to heaven: to the machine and standardis-first wedding was supported investigated the causes of this Father Zeus,' he cries, 'send lighted. The old slave of the lamp (with difficulty) by Mr. P. Wat- 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 facial phenomenon, and has grant sight to our eyes, and even laugh at; the new slave of the
and save us. Clear the sky and was a fairy-tale for children to king.
The bride entered the church that the red nose is generally perish, at least let us perish in the dyname, is a tragedy that an indication of what he calls the light. That is a prayer that makes men weep,
subsequently gave her away, re- "long-continued alcoholic imbibi-we might do well to take up and "The machine has made life big fusing to accept payment. Kelly tions."
The vast majority of use for ourselves to-day..
and vast, and in making it so it wouldn't have paid in any ease 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- States. Some sort of apology, as a prayer of Socrates. Socrates this evil" stainers, even in the United prayer, which is worth knowing things. Let us break the machine, chit through force of habit.
It is from Plato, who records it since it has wrought on us ali therefore, seems to be called and Phaedrus are sitting under
The parson said "Edward, will for
Now, this is a cowardly at-you take this girl, Molly to be from music-hall come-the shade of a plane-tree by the titude; behind it is 1 slave your wedded wife, etc. etc.” dians and others, who have long river's brink, and when they psychology, the idea that work in The groom caused a made sport of the roseate nose, have
conversa- good for its own sake; that long absen-mindedly replying "Don't riot, by from which, by the way, they tion it is suggested that prayer bours, arduous toll, scanty carn-mind if I do," themselves have not always would be fitting in such a sceneings, a low standard of life, in been immune. Red, noses have before they leave it. So Socrates some way or other are good for Hundreds of the happy couple's their origin in a multitude of praya as follows: Beloved Pan, people. So, rather than use our friends gathered at the reception causes, all more or less lawful, and all ye other gods who abide brain to master the machine with and sang "No wonder She's a natural, and honourable.
here, grant me to be beautiful its possibilities of an ever-expand-blushing bride" in raucous voices. In in the inner man, and all I have ing life for all peoples, it is better! Slowly the bridegroom, drank. 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 the only safe thing to do, when with those within. May I count ten thousand years of progress, intoxication-and may we any, in
And to go back because we are confronted with a specimen of the wise man only rich.
too passing, that on Page 6 appeara quite arresting redness, is to may my store of gold be such as cowardly to go forward,
reference to a summons by Gande no form of unemployment in- conclude at once, and without none but the good can bear." We know how to harness power Price and Co for goods supplied surance, at any rate as it is any qualification whatsoever, What does he mean by the last through the petrol engine and the to E. Kelly," 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 He will not despise electric current to produce_the There was lots, more in the re- also no demand for its instituer. The weather, too, has a dis-helper to the good life, and poverty to transport things when we Telegraph is a respectable paper. tion. Under the capitalist tinct influence on the tempera- is not of itself a good. But he have made them to people and we mustn't re-print "such
the ture and hue of the nose. asks that only such a measure of who need them st system as it has developed in
ends things. January produces more
red prosperity, shall come his way of the earth. We know how Europe,
And so it appears that the full unemployment,
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
Finally, there is a prayer than of life for the whole world but fall cannot be told. normal times, abnormal at times statistical turn of mind.
which I know none more wonder-, many of the luxuries as well, and, By ful. Like the other two I have knowing these things.
But if we can't tell our story, of crisis such as the present, is one of Nature's little jokes, the given, it is not a Christian prayer. afraid.
we can and will give some advice |regarded as a necessary incident red nose also becomes embarras- We have it from a woman-mystic Why? The brain that devised to the Young People of To-day..
GET MARRIED! It will serur of industry and since it cornessingly common in the height of who lived in Persia in the eighth the machine can surely control upon the worker through no fault depth of winter, From this it the language of a human love that in fear of the thing
the century of our era. It speaks the machine of Ila devising. Not you darn well right." of his own, the moral sense of would appear that the nose is has broken through all these created but in the mastery of it the community has generally of one of her safety valves, where- boundary-walls we tend to erect lies the only way to that auner recent years at least required by she contrives to keep the around the love of God, lest it society which our children will should come too freely to our enter in the years that are coming. Governments to organise pro- human, organism in good work- vision in some form or othering 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 masses of the population still nose will be recognised as
pointer to the existence of pro- follow agricultural pursuits and
of energy, digious reserves when a member of the family is unable for any reason to earn fortunate owner. Then it will ability, and adaptability in its his own living, he relies for sup-be possible for the most tem
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port upon his relatives. He be longs to an ancient civilisation, of which the family rather than the individual is the focal unit,
summer not less than in
Д
or
perate of us to glow nasally as much and as often as we please, without a sense of guilt The machine age which has re- with a red nose is at a distinct shame. As it is, the person volutionised European Society has as yet hardly touched the and wholly unfair disadvantage. life of Asia. The comparativeNo one will take him quite few who have drifted to the seriously. He is never promoted towns dislike committing them-over the heads of his seniors, selves to "industry." They pre juniors. Everyone expects him nor even over the heads of his 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 bonds of the family system may or to abscond with the petty have begun to weaken, but the cash, or to commit some other factory-worker has not yet ed the red nose, at least to out- enormity. Women have abolish- learned to regard himself as a
ward sceming. Their powder member of an industrial pro- letariat, dependent for his rights puts have saved them from its
ignominy. But the red-nosed and advantages as an individual
man, scorning such aids, is de- upon any community sense or
fenceless and without hope. He any State-controlled machinery. The conclusion to which one will not even paint his cheeks scema driven is that while the to match. Though this may in- general purpose of the League's dicate a large element of stub- International Labour Organisa-bornness in his nature, he is, on tion is sound, as it is expressed, the whole, more to be pitied more sional for instance, in Article 23 of the than blamed,
against than sinning.
Bentence?
we are
man has
“You see, wo were secretly divorced before anyone learn-
ed of our secret marriage."
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were
THE SAFEST HAT.
The bowler hat, as we saying, or attempting to say, has fallen ou 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 head, 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 ease 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 auch mischances as the. drapping of a brick or a hammer upon their heads. And as we all follow dangerous callings in these days, it seems to me that we should all wear bowlers.
Their more mercenary owners might exploit the publlelty 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.