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NOTES OF THE DAY
GERMANY AND GENEVA
A week should determine what in most likely to happen next in. Europe, Germany, already feel ing uncomfortable In Isolation. Is as anxions as Britain to the disarmament discussions, but
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THE FIRM OF The Very Idea!
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MORE METABOLISM. fly Edward Kelly, Sousa. VESTERDAY evening we went along to the Uni- versity to listen to a lecture by Professor Gerrard.
From what we can make League of Nations" Italy is inclined to support Herr living portrait of the Webbs for which his remarkable gifts were out the subject was "Cau terisation of Pleural Adhes- Hitler in this much and, regrettable there is no one in the Labour beat multed, as it is, it section of the British Movement in this country who Their function-sociology apart ion in Cases of Incomplete Cabinet, doubtless motivated by a loceuples, or is likely to occupy,is best performed behind the
Pheumothorax-An Ad- scones. They are superb in gut- desire for a quick decision, also, their place.
Mre. Hamilton has done ating others to work, in making avance in the Treatment of seems prepared for extra-Longue activities. The warning given by thoroughly workmanlike job in her committee creative, in finding the Pulmonary Tuberculosis." the book ("Sidney and Beatrice Webb," right job to do, and the right
We don't know what it was Mr. Norman Davis that United States would have nothing by Mary Agnes Hamilton, Samp-people to help in doing it. Wond to do with European confabula son Low, 108. ed.). She has know- would have made the ideal secre all about, but as a result of going auspices ledge and sympathy, and a sensetary of the Cabinet to a Socialist out in the night air to attend tions outside. Geneva
both of the proportion and the Government; and if it had pos- the lecture, we have caught a seems to have been forgoltzn. -No
fitness of things. She has had a sessed courage it would never have chill, which is sure to turn into. objection would be raised to pre
great career to record: and, she lacked ideas.
galloping consumption. liminary discussions, secking a
has given us a real insight into They have always lived simply If, however, we recover, we settlement of differences before
but its significance.
und without ostentation. They are intend to give a lecture of our risking a formal conference,
The Webbs have done for the open-minded-people; at seventy- own. Couched in as simple lan even, in this event it would seem
think they are more amon- undesirable to maka London the Labour Movement. In England five venue, as has been suggested. The something of what the Benthamlable to argument than anyone I guage as possible in order that an infinite our public can understand us, our Hague or Brussels recommend tes achieved for Radicallem a know. They have themselves first. The last thing hundred years ago. They have capacity for learning-I know subject will be "A Pharmacopoe the British Government should made it conscious of itself. They nothing more remarkable than the dia description of the Reactions. embark upon at this stage is any have given it a programme and a way in which experience of Rus- to Intoxicatus Metabolism, with u of Johann Walker, and ginaling thing permitting an inference that method. Their books on trade sin has adjusted their views of special reference to the products
legitimately claim the Socialist outlook.
(Juniperous communis), and an Herr Hitler is being allowed to unionism can
of the to have marked an epoch in social overrulo the competence
escursus. Into the influence of science; League of Nations.
Wassail on Cirrhosis Liver."
Wo will prove by experiment It was not only by the picturesonal ambition. They have, in- they drew of a world unknown to dead, a certain brusquerie which that Cirrhosis (SOL) can be im le easily mistaken for dogmatism.mediately cured by an application the economist; it was alan by a But they will take blow for blow of liberal quantities of a vitreous, method of approach which has rain argument, and your attack earthly, white, transparent to mained an unsurpassed model in leaves no wound. its field.
EXCELLENT START
They are wholly devold of per-
ops
on
They have for over forty yours
The only useful Initiative can come from Germany. And hero Herr Hitler can be complimented
They are extraordinarily vivid upon An excellent start. The
The long series of volumes on' Legotiations with Poland once English local government have and alive; perhaps that is why put them, with the Hammonds and they retain their hold on the af- again give indications of stats-
foction of youth, Thoy always manship replacing popular tub Professor Tawney, head and shoul
seem to have read the last politi- thumping. The ban ujion the ders above all other living his cal work, they are always eager to | notorious manusi of war-cult torians of Great Britain. And
by Prófessor Banse has done these works are only the most out know or and explore the last young evan more to create [. favour-standing among a vast array of man of promise.
Their energy is astounding. To THE BAN ON RAFFLES able impression abroad. There volumes which entitle them, to bę
is reason to believe that fresh regarded as the foremost writers sit down at seventy-five to write a Russla-has .of goodwill havo "It would be interesting to ssurances
of sociological history this coun-mugnum
there been anything like it since been made throug. diploma..etry has so far produced. State Opera Orchestra, Berlin. | know by whose order, and on
vinneis, and with other activi- Work such as this would have Von Ranke, at eighty, dictated his what authority, the order has ties and actione
providing filled an ample lifetime; yet it is history of the world?
They are splendidly impatient Stato Opera Orchestra, Berlin. been issued placing a ban on stronger cause lor accepting them only a fragment of the Webba'
| raffles in aid of local charities. nt, their face value, the outlook achievement. We owe to them no of second-rate work. They are State Opera Orchestra, Berlin Apart from the merits of the is happier to-day than it was a small part of the development of always full of plans to be fulfilled, month ago. The outwards signs secondary and technical education people to be stimulated, theories Bavarian Dances (Elgar, Op 27) London Symphony Orchestra. question, to which we will come of change for the better are in London. They annihilated, in to be analysed. And they are, in Fire Bird (Stravinsky)-Dance of the Firo Bird-Philadelphia Or later, there is something de- marked and if they prove to be the famous Minority Report of the full sense of the word, hum
finitely wrong in conditions genuine, Herr Hitler will ROOM 1909, the old Poor Law system of ble people. Khowantehina-Entr'acte (Moussorsky)
discover that the friends be lost this country; that was, perhaps, Philadelphia Symphony Orch. | which permit changes to be
ever pro- of Socialism in England because will ren their contence in Royal Commission has Largo (Xerxes") (linndel). Chicago Symphony Orchestra, made in the Colony's regulations to Germany in a brief nine months the most devastating criticism a dong the intellectual spade-work they thought it right to do it; and duced. without notification being given, quicker time. Slavonic Danco in G Minor, (Dvorak)
they have had a full and intimate Chicago Symphony Orchestra. for the information of the
They were the founders, sa, they sense of fellowship with all who Tannhauser-March (Wagner) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. public, through the customary SIR JOHN SIMON
have remained the inspiration, of have laboured by their side.
They have their defects. I have Damnation of Faust-Hungarian March (Berlioz)
official channels. The first In. Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.timation we have encountered of
Meanwhile, the talk of Cabinet the London School of Economies
tions at this country, where radical the yearning for freedom as, say, Boston Symphony Orchestra. the revocation of the Govern- criticism of Sir John Simons one of the few academic institu- never felt that they understand Boston Symphony Orchestra. ment's permission is to be found aandling of the disarmament pro- thought need not, perhaps I should a man like H. W. Nevinson under- were on the wrong side in the Boston Symphony Orchestra: in the annual report of the So- may be discrelied without add "ne yet," speak in an under- standa it. That was why they more ado. No-one realised the tone. ciety of St. Vincent de Paul, an delicacy of his position more
If they did not found the Fabian Boer war. That was why, also, never really understood organisation which has done key than the British Foreign untold good along charitable Secretary and it is sule to assume Society, they gave it its main pur-they lines over a lengthy period of that he contented himself by pose and drive; and until the war ofther the Nonconformist fury over Sears. It is to be presumed carrying out the Cabinet's dire reorganised the political Labour the Education Act of 1902 or the
Movement in this country, the Suffragette Movement.
They have a zeal for efficient that the action has been taken tions as to procedure. Moreover, Fabian Society was the chief re- by the police authorities, for he did not pursue a specific na- what precise reason we cannot tional policy. Sir John Simon's search centre of British Socialism. organisation as such which makes Nor will anyone know, until its them tend to over-affection for a ask nt Geneva was to work in guess. If this is so, it is surely
close association with other archives are examined by a com- neat and tidy system. And that immense has meant a sympathy for ad- high time a stop was put to the Powers in exploring every avenue petont historian, how practice of the laws and regula-which would permit of progress were their services In bringing the ministrativo technique which has tions of ped and changed about at the Germany aside.
Gormany's with Hardie and Arthur Henderson, Iin substance absurd--as lovers in the State owes They lack the genius for pas whim of particular Government drawal was dictated more by the think its existence as the second of bureaucracy. departments. Matters such as requirements o domus poncy great party
any other slonate indignation. They would those should
have preferred the patient diplo- come within the than by intransigence on the part more to them than to
person... purview of the Executive Coun- of other Powers.
Such a record, of course, omits macy of Cavour to the magnificent cil and be publicly disclosed
much. I any nothing of Webb's cruption of Garibaldi. They dia- when decisions have beon TRYING EVERYTHING ONCE
brief years in the House' of Com- like the loose impulses of that of the heedless and instinctive generosity reached. There is far too much
mons and as a member
(Continued on Next Column.) hole-and-corner business along
Mr. Woouth teaves Washington Cabinet. They are among his les- these lines, far too much power without a snadow of misunder invested in the Inspector Gener standing. He does not see al of Police. On the general to eye with the President's poucy by retaining offico would question of raffles and suchlike
in meroly be
tno way. The lotteries, we can quite well ap-ignificant feature of the breach preciate the desirability of keep- the
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Roosevelt family ix ing them within reasonable that Mr. Woodin is not per bounds, especially when run for mitted to resign, but is granted purely personal profit. But we leave of absence, instead. In cannot imagine the possibility of short, Mr. Roosevelt, while de- the system being abused when termined to give his gold policy the proceeds go to deserving every chance to prove itself, is charities, as in the case of the not altogether sure of
The sound money advochte Society of St. Vincent de Paul. yet have be recalled to clean up The ways of Officialdom are in- the mess. deed strange. On the one hand, sweepstakes on pony-racing (in
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In
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After all, we're only playing for fun."
translucent, bltter hydrous mag- nestum sulphate, which generally crystallises in the orthorhombic system, and is sometimes found in botryoidal masses.
We have had Cirrhosis 'ourself now for some time, and even our best friend won't tell us,
In fact we are willing, at al time between now and Christmas, our Cirrhosis against to match
Pleural Proicssor Gerrard's Adhesion. We will oven, if he likes, show him our operation.
Speaking of operations reminds us of tao, other Eddie-Eddie Cantor. Or Can't he? Should It
be Cantor Can?
Which reminds us that the last, time we went to the pictures we saw one of these Hal Roach comedim. Tho one where the two plate, come out and say:
"Ladies and Gentleman, Hal Roach presents for your enter- tainment and approval Our Gang
Direction # The Peninsula." m by Edward Kelly, Dialogue by Mre. Edward Kelly. Story by Edward Kelly, Scenario by Mrs.
"We TANK you." Johnny Walker. Edward Kelly and Production by
CONDEMNED
One of our readers, who says
to stay in Hongkong longer than ho wants to, sent us in the fol- lowing plaintive worse. He has tagged it "HONGKONG, by a much-snubbed American tramp,'
he missed his boat, and has had
I bring a testament of Hongkong
town, A shady city, and of dark
renown,
A woven tapestry of bright
devlaings,
Of midnight parties, and
belated risinge;
Of British arrogance and Army-
dittios,
Of Navy men who dance with
local pretties,
A town more glorious to look
upon,
Than all the bearded lords of
Babylon. *
I sense in Hongkong nights and
Hongkong days,
In all you dignified and
foolish ways, In your hotels and your bottle
wagons,
And your richshaws and your
Chinese dragons,
From your cricket to your
timin,
There's not a moment for u
stiff'uns.
which makes Lincoln, for some of us, the greatest democratic states- man of the nineteentir contury.
They would condemn Hitler out of hand; but they would patiently dissect his criminal follfos where another's instinct would be to de nounce them thunderously,
Nor are they profoundly Intor- ested In personality as such. Who- over it was who first said that while Graham Wallas was Inter
the ested in town councillors Webbs were interested in town. councils, put his finger on some thing fandamental.
They soo a Party, a Parliament. a Cabinet, as organio institutions, where others see leaders, members, ministors. They could-be-Inter- ested more easily in prosedure than in the drama of politicaret The things which do not relato to their world impinge surprising ly little upon their consciousness. They are utilitarian in the sense (Continued on Page 41)