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on
«1933.
LET US TALK UNITED
STATES
SAYS
· SYDNEY · BROOKS,
who knows 'America' as well as England and finds they don't understand each other's languages yet.
"
The Very Idea!
A GRIPPING DRAMA
By Edward "Garrics” Kelly, TE feel bad. We have
WE
"Yes", he said, kicking the elephant away from one of our snakes, and a dirty look coming into his eye. "The Very Idea.. Where is it?"
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lege directly, without constabu- lar experience, and with the cer- tainty that if they remain in the force at all they will remain as officers. The intention to create an officer class in the police' forço, is unmistakable and un-: deniable. One nood not. share
a headache, and there the exaggerated fears of some
are little white spots danc- Labour politicians that this is a first step to Fascism. It is not
ing about in front of our so bad as that. But it will be
eyes. We feel lonely, too, thoroughly bad for the police
for the headache packed forco itself. The more educated
her traps and went home and intelligent men enter the force the better for it. But un-
I remember it was a telephone their conditions and their mental less they have the hardiness to operator in a New York hotel who workings, their psychology and to mother this morning. We serve their due term as con- first invited me to "talk United their reactions as few Englishmen ache for the milk of human kind-
have been at the pains to acquireness, with or without rum.
Just imagine our feelings R stables, and the sportsmanship to States."
Only a little while ago the irro- When I rang through to her for take their chance of promotion
the number I wanted. I used my pressible director of La Chauvo with the rest, and to rely
our office their merits rather than on the ordinary native English, which has Souris was ruefully admitting that few minutes ago when the Edi-
or pro-scored their greatest hit in Europea string, walked into peculiarities of accent accidents of birth or of position, not, so far as I know, any marked a playlet in which his company had tor, leading a green elephant by
had fallen completely flat in New (without knocking) and said:
"Kelly, where is the Very Idea?" they are not the kind of mer nunciation,
"Huh?" we roplied, sarcastic But it proved in her case a fatal York. It turned on a Russian noble- whom the police force wants. And even if the Trenchard plan barrier to intercourse. With the man, who after losing $10,000 did result in improving the qual-shrillest assurance in the world she gambling went out and shot him-like, "the Vary Iden!"
But in New York almost every- ity of the higher ranks it would urged me to come off it and "talk Beif.
United States."
body had lost £10,000 (and more) out-balance that by its. effect on
without committing suicide. They the general body of constables, "WHERE ANGELS
could not see the point. To them
"Now," wo says, standing up.. At present, every lad who joins FEAR-" the force knows that he has as Talking United States is much the little drama seemed fantastical
ofly unreal and remote from life as and looking like old Solomon must n matter maroly good a chance as any other to more than
dif- they know it. Af. Balleff (for onco) have looked when he told Mra. Shooba ho had other fish to.fry, get to the upper rungs of the linguistic adjustment. The
"We'll ask you one. What are we ladder, and that it depends only ferences in idioms, phrases, mean was not talking their language.
going to write about on a day ko on his own ability and conductings, accentuations and so on are
TWO NAVIES,
this?"
"I'll tell you," he said, “You've whether he does so. If the or-learned in time.. Like a Spaniard TALE OF
in Cuba, a Parisian in Quebec or a,
Then there was that delightful dinary constable's chance of pro-Portuguese in Brazil, the English-
Hay-"The Middle Juan and Cassanova combined. motion is diminished by the re-man in America soon masters the play by Commander King-Hall and had more love affairs than Don servation of a growing number vocabulary of the new yet oddly Major Ian
Watch". It revolved round the Give them a great love epic. of the higher posts for men who familiar tongue that assails him.
Even so he may be some distance complications caused by two or Knock 'em cold."
"You flatter us,"
we replied,. have come in half-way up the
three ladies finding themacives scale, the attractiveness of the from "talking United States.”
Many years in America have obliged to spend the night on a "but we'll do our best."
con- man-of-war. Such
"Attaboy," he says, and re- force to the young intelligent taught me that the capacity of quite British worker is so much the less, and intelligent and acceptable English-tingencies are not provided for in moves himself and the elephant, the level of the rank and file men for making illimitable fools of the regulations of his Majesty's leaving us alone with our thoughts
There themselves all over the American Navy. But in the more spacious and the snakes.
Here is the Great Love Epic. HERBERT AUSTIN RODGERS-Atis likely to deteriorate.
Kowloon Hospital, on the 20th is another point which shows Union is beyond restraint or com-code of the American Navy, which encourages and prepares for week-
Tre- Funeral
Archibald Vere de Vere June, 1933. Aged 38.
I have known British Ambassa-end visits from the officers' female will.pack the Monument at 6.30 how the plan would, divide off putation.
the higher classes from the low- p.m. to-day, Tuesday.
er. The White Paper says that dors in Washington who were fur- belongings, such incidents are only lawny Pjones knocked gently at the it will be necessary to amend thether from speaking or understand-ja slight variation from the normal door of the little cottage. It was
ing the American language--by routine..
The Americans, then, could not a wild and stormy night, and rain Police Act so as to exclude from which I mean entering into the
of the two, but you couldn't sce the Police Federation the cadets mentality and outlook of their understand what the play was was falling heavily. There was a who are recruited directly to the hosts and the atmosphere of the about, or why all this fuss and com-look of fear or delight (it was one" college. What reason can there country to which they were ac-motion and subterfuge.
The London and New York which in the dark) in the manly
Trelawny Plones. be for this mysterious amend-credited-than if they had been ment, unless it is the fear that dumped down on Sofia or Bangkok. audiences were, in short, not eyes of Archibald Vere de Vere
I have known British bankers talking the same language.
A gentle patter of tiny feat on And was there not a famous the young officers-to-be might jarring on every American nerve be contaminated by contact, at and setting all teeth on edge just "error in the fourth dimension," the old cobblestones told Archy POLICE REFORM an impressionable age, with the when they imagined themselves to committed by a character in one of that his darling Agatha was com Mr. Kipling's earlier stories-an ing. He folded the collar of his trade union spirit which expres- be most imposingly agreeable.
The foreignness of the United American millionaire resident In heavy overcoat about his neck to The shake-up of the Metro-ses itself, in a mild and limited
Editor's Note: You said it politan Police which will follow form, in the Fedoraion? If that States is a fact that most English-England, who, wanting to got to keep out the blinding snow.
was raining heavily. is the idea, then this is class lemon go to their graves without London in a hurry, "flagged" the suspecting and that the remainder crack express of the crack railway
Author's
HOW Note: The the adoption of the Bill
now gislation indeed. The proposals (who are aware of the truth) per-line, brought it to a standstill and found himself instantly up against
started since then.
• 1 before Parliament is probably as they stand apply, of course, sist in blinking. very necessary. A number of only to London. But their ful- unpleasant facts
been filment in London would be more brought to light in recent than a precedent. months obviously requiring strong measures while the
I have spent some forty years of growth of serious crime suggests
my writing life in trying to make that the force is ill-equipped to
the two countries and the two counter modern criminal me-
peoples a little more comprehensible thods. At the same time, while
"His Majesty views with great
That they are more or less alike to one another. All that my own it is desirable that younger men disquiet the unsatisfactory con- and akin in other respects only puny efforts, and those of men far should be drafted into the force, dition under which so many of underscores the difficulty of either more qualified than myself have and while it is equally desirable his subjects are at present of them really getting inside, the effected, is to make them better friends, better disposed towards
Recovering quickly, Archibald. that the executive leadership housed," So wrote the King in other's mind and nature.
It is not more than once or twice one another, than they were in the stepped once more to the doorway. "Darling" murmured Agatha,`as should be in the hands of ex-a letter addressed to the Mayor
she rushed into his arms. Alast perts, there will be strong critic-of "The Royal Borough of Ken- in a generation that one can im- nineties.
agine a great American atateaman WHAT WE ARE
Archibald had heard her greeting. ism of the proposals submitted sington on the occasion of a being equally, great in Britain, or PUZZLED ABOUT. by Lord Trenchard for the estab-meeting of citizens called to an acknowledged leader at West-
Perhaps they are all the better He had heard stories about George lishment of an "officer class" in launch an "attack on the slums." minster holding the same position the Force. We have them in This single borough, which is and wielding the same power on friends for knowing each other so "Unhand me, woman" he grow-
little. At any rate, there is hard- led. "Go to your George." Hongkong, but conditions here
"Vore" she said (she called him To talk United States," there-ly a sign of an approach towards cannot be compared with the only one of twenty-nine subdivi- Pennsylvania-avenue.
sions of the County of London, problems of London, and even
the milkman." One sees this at every turn in the here, we have yet to be convin-/no fewer than 25,000 persons are fore, is an accomplishment that real comprehension. They still dovere for short) "I thought it was
still living in slum dwellings; and goes beyond a command of the not talk the same language.
verbal variations, the vocal inflec- ced that the system is entirely there are many other boroughs tlona, tha felicities and the bar-unending debate over the. war "At this time of the night?" he in the best interests of the force. in which the conditions are as barisms that the Americans have debts. Here (for the first time in Most of the proposals in the bad or nearly as bad as in Ken-injected into the English language. my experience of Anglo-American
(Continued on Page 5.) Trenchard scheme for reform of the London police are reassuring.sington. Though the problem It embraces such a knowledge of in London is more formidable' At least two of them are not. than elsewhere, it exists in al- Criticism will be concentrated upon one single point-the direct most every industrial city in recruitment for the higher posts Britain. Upon this side of the of university or public-school housing problem, the Govern men who have not served as con-ment, goaded into activity by stables. Some of the proposals severe criticism of its housing are admirable. No one will quar-policy as a whole, has decided to rel with the ending of the sys- concentrato its energies. tem by which constables have broader question of the general Been able to hire themselves out provision of houses for the work- to private persons in their spare ing classes by subsidized build- time, and the appointment of a ing has been put aside. The few additional inspectors, not to British Minister has called upon deal with particular cases of the local authorities to prepare crime but to study in general the a programme such that the changing methods of criminals slums may be completely swept and to devise adequate counter-away within five years in the measures, is a really constructive provinces, or a somewhat longer suggestion. The establishment period in London. The condemn- of the new police college is, in ed areas are already known and itself, a step in the right direc- scheduled. The alum owners will tion. The police force has for not be compensated beyond pay- some time been suffering from ment for the site value of the the lack of training-other than land. Though there is no gen- the routine experience of daily eral subsidy for housing new duty for the more responsible accommodation for displaced positions. There has been no-tenants may be subsidized to the thing, for instance, equivalent extent of £15 a year. These aro to the successive courses through powers which the Minister deri- which army officers pass as they ves from législation passed by are promoted. If Lord Tren- the last Labour Government. chard simply proposed that no What is now is the determination constable could bo promoted to to apply these powers, to insist the higher ranks until he had on a time-table of action, and to been through the police college take the utmost advantage of ho would command pretty gen- the fact that the present period bral agreement. The point to of low prices affords an oppor which objection will and shall be tunity for building, such as has raised is that it is proposed that not existed for nearly twenty young men should enter the col-years.
have
A Five-Year Plan for
Slums
The
I do not myself know of any English officialdom in its most two peoples in Europe who are so English mood when he attempted. dissimilar in instincts in some of to board the train?
No, we shall never understand their fundamental characteristics and In the general cast of their the Americans and they will never civilisations as the English and the understand us. Americans.
TAKE SOME PAINS.
JEBI
You go fight to the fore man and tell him to make those stop kidding you and calling you nicknames.
the dim gleam of a candle light The door opened an inch and shone through the aperture.
"Is that you, George?" said sweet, maidenly voice.
Archibald drew back a pace and fell down four flights of stairs. Ed's Note: I thought it was a cottage.
Author's Note: You are for- given.
too.
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"Aye" she said. "Our milkman is mad and comes at strange hours. Believe in me, Trelawny. I swear I've been true to you."
"Me and the South Wales Bor- derers" he roared.
she No! No!"
whimpered. Agatha was sweet when she whimpered and now she whimper- ed as she had never whimpered be- fore. Slowly Pjones came under. the spell of hor whimpering. He took her in his arms. He kissed
on for
a long her. This went time.
But stop! Other oyes were watching thom. Had they known it, Georgo Thawl was at that moment standing by the window. An occasional flash of lightning. showed up the dark scowl on his face.
Grinding his teeth at what he Enw, George drew his machine gun from the portmanteau he al- ways carried.
ly
Ed's Note: Must have been the, man known as Portmanteau George.
Author's Noter Must been.
have
George loaded the gun careful- Slowly he took alm. His flug.
or gently pressed the button that would release the lead poisoning.
Crash Meta
Flame spurted from the muzzle of the gun and Archibald Vero do. Voro Trelawny Pjonos fell, shot through the heart. Agatha fell, shot through the brassiere. George fell into a pool of water and later into the hands of the police
The police hanged George and his relations lived happily ever
afterwards.