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MONDAY, AUG. 27, 1934,
POLICE REORGANISATION
MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1934.
NOTES OF THE DAY THE NEW
RIGHT OF WAY
With all due deference, Mr. Wynne Jones's knowledge of the
of the road and right of way
to appears
have yone
21
la
little Fusty. The principle
established that any
11
well vehicle
from entering read into a a main road or crossing
Buch रा
THE NEW WATCH ON
THE RHINE
By GERALD BARRY
one
to
the
The Very Idea!
LOTT WITH SALT
By George
E see that we are not
Walone in our attempts
TO-VOYAGERS.
HidoM. BALDWIN has told the Wo have no quarrel-you and I people of Great Britain that with the German people, and the It must stop, mark the word, to their new frontier in the Rhine. Gorman people have no quarrel see if the main road is clear be- The question that will echo in with us. Thoir Government is be to be humorous George Core proceeding. Until the worthy every English home, and not only having at the moment like a lot of Lott the American tennis. in ovary English home but all over blood-thirsty hooligans, it is true; star, has now joined our un- magistrate's ruling in the case before on Friday, it is doubt the world, is-Why the Rhine? but to announce to such men that happy clan though so far he ful whether this principle has ever This is the most sensational state- our bombers are going to lino has only distinguished him- been challenged. And for obvious ment on British foreign policy along the Rhine against them is reasons. Observance
made by any British statesman antagonise them into doing what self by aiming a ball at a aliminates arguments. If motorists proceed since Mr. Asquith stood up in the the cornered gangster always does Wimbledon linesman who to act upon Mr. Wynne Jones's House of Commons 20 years ago-hoot.
Of course It is true that the gave a decision against him. dictum, the way is opened up at next week and made his historic once to acceleration on nesring announcement of our entry into coming of air power has made hay A bad lat-George, and it is to of the strategy on which the de-be hoped that he doesn't enter cross-roads in the hope of getting the war. there first! The danger of
No wonder Mr. Baldvin looked fence of this island used to be for the Blaley shooting com- practice is so patent as to render ill at saso as he made this extra-based. Of course it is true that comment unnecessary. Moreover, ordinary declaration. No wonder in general the range and speed of petition and have a decision it is not uncurious to find. the he looked still more ill at ease modern transport and communica- against him. It would be an learned magistrate querying under the scorn of the Opposition tions have in a sense moved back other example of the paths of
our military frontiers from the glory lead but to the grave. whether Nathan Road or Jordon and the scalding praise ova traditions! Channel Ports and the
Baldwin knowa
the Low Country. But why, ro- Road is the primary road. The Churchill. man in the street would regard what he is talking about on the that as obvious.
subject of air
warfare; he has peats, to the Rhine? Why not to
Now we have beard that the 'Tai made a considerable study of the the Vistula or the Volga-or, for
that matter, the Urals or former
Mo Shan voyagers were sustained UNLOVELY STRUGGLE
matter, as some of his speeches have shown. He knows Equator or the Arctic Circle?
As methods of communications by Kim's powdered milk in their Next to insecurity in respect of enough, anyway, to understand
and wages, there is no con- that the arguments ho put forward continue to develop, our frontiers hours of need (and let us hope they dition of life which produces 80 on Monday to excuse the Govern will continue to regress. This were not many), let us tell you officera dared the venture across unlovely a struggle against oddsment's rearmament policy were jno new discovery; but Mr. Baldwin some more about how these gallant
and through. has made now and highly danger for the poorest people of Britain dishonest
oceans in which both they and their I have seldom read as bad houses and overcrowding.
speech de- our use of it...
yacht were frequently out of their deliberate. Under the urge of very strong livered in peace time so
We
it was Fit what did it! public feeling, the problem in all ly alarmist and
provocative. ita aspects has at length been are all to be given gas-masks and
So, in a topsy-turvy way, have the fly sits, thero Flit · studied with thoroughness, and
put through anti-gas drill. The Lord Beaverbrook and his papers, as Shakespeare so quaintly hath it. And when the tempest was at its report by a highly influential com- plans are publicly announced. They have made use of it to paint mittee, of which Lord Amulree is Anyone might think we expected a moral directly the opposite of height did the officers' hearts quail? chairman.
been war to be declared on us recently
the real one. Instead of saying No, there was Ponds Face Cream Issued, recommending a
a scheme morrow. This is the Government's (which is the fact) that the to take the roughness off the edges. for organised national action. way of making the population feel agen-lit and the radio, the aero- and Keatings to slay the corpsca The question may be said to fall insecure and acquieses in a new plane and the telephone (not to which were into three parts. There is, first, alr programme, or better still-mention commercial and financial famine stared them in the face.
thia the problem of the slums of feel frightened and demout a new interests), have linked up dwellings not fit to be lived in, but air programme. Sheer scaremon-island with the Continent more still inhabited because their tengering of the worst pre-war kind, securely and inextricably than ants have nowhere else to go, and by a statesman who recently over before, they argue that since Here the present Government has warned the nation in unforgettable we are now exposed to attack from acted with exemplary energy in terms of the catastrophe of air so many different quarters
muat clear out of Europe al- initiating a five-year plan of slum warfarel
togetherl clearance and resettlement which seems likely to strike at the heart of the evil.
work
hna
MILLION HOUSES
DELIBERATELY ALARMIST.
to-
LORD BEAVERBROOK.
WO
Lord Beaverbrook says he is
I have no space here to debunk going to collect the opinion of his various other arguments. But every home in the country on this take this calculated indiscretion issue; and when he gets it, it will The second problem is that of about our frontier boing the be meaningless. He saks us to over-crowding in built-up areas, Rhine. Why, in the name of inter- keep out of all foreign entangle- and with this condition also it is national commonsense, the Rhine?ments and to refuse to engage in Does it mean that his Majesty's any war "unless our territory or prepared to deal In the coming autumn. But there is a third pro-Ministers have made up their that of our Dominions or Posses-
alons is menaced." in the next blem still awaiting solution-that minds in advance that
A pledge of that sort wouldn't withdraw us from Europe: on the of provision of new houses for the war our enemy is bound
Germany? If not
what does i in sufficient numbers and mean? Does it further mean that contrary, it would make our fron Alrtiore the whole world. Anything A the War Offee and the rent within their means. million now houses at the very
ery Ministry are concerting plans with might be deemed to threaten our territories, anywhere, at any time least will be needed during the the French, precisely a la 1914, to German demand for colonies, next ten years. Can they be pro- operate from French soil against G
workare needs of the lower-paid vers
nt
vided, as the Government has
our
to be
alliances.
011
on
..
80 necessary when
To the local girl
From the local man.
la a word of advico in sewon-
If your nose should curl
When you board a tram
It's a sign of pride without
теляоп
If the dollar seats
And "Eskimo Alab
Invite the blush to your face, And pedestrian foots Your high heels crab You haven't yet learned your
place;
For to keep your pride
You must have charm--
I'll pay for the one with money--- But it's a devil's ride
To nothing but harin
If there's no sweet in
honey.
AUNT EMMA.
Dear George,
my
no
the common foe? The howls of a Japanese movo near Hongkong, hoped, by private enterprise alone? satisfaction with which Mr. Bald- a bomb necefdentally dropped
I see that the Govern The answer given both by Lord win's statement has been received Malta in a war between Italy and Amuirce's committee and by an In the French Press certainly sug-France. The pledge means pre-ment fats which were to have been other committee appointed by the gest the must sinister interpreta- clacly nothing. But Mr. Baldwin's built have been put back. This dangerous rubbish about the Rhine seems rather a pity when one con- tion. Labour Party, laÑo. How, then,
But the joy of France will be gives its sponsors just the handle siders how many coolies there are can it be done?
they need.
who have to spend their nights in matched, we may be sure by Ger- We can all agree heartily with the street. What would the people NATIONAL COMMISSION
responding consternation in many-To-dellvor-a-pronounce Lord Beaverbrook In his detestant Home who complain about the ment like this is to make Germany tion of one-sided agreements and mui teal slavery say if they knew The problem is that of con-
have They' pre-
that many of the poor here The German post-war partial enemy. structing at least 1,000,000 new houses. Not for sale, but to let inferiority complex will swell like suppose, as Mr. Baldwin's pro- bed, let alone night socks!
nouncement pre-supposes,
inevit-
What do these letter-writing at inclusive rents of ten shillings
a blister. Nothing could help a week and under.
plainly to It cannot be more
able war and a Europe ranged up, people know about the conditions confirm her solved by private enterprise build- conviction that she is being en- in pre-determined opposite camps. here, I wonder? The only one for ing for profit. It could, perhaps, circled and held down and will be That way will never keep the whom I have any respect wrote be solved by local authorities forced to fight for her existence country out of war. Mr. Baldwin that the Chinese flag ought to be
s spittoon couchant on a field. erecting house with the help of a the whole box of pre-war tricks, in may scoff at the foolationiste, but he is every bit as improvident as
washing, Government subsidy. But at an fact, all over again."
they are. immense cost. The committee,
cannot be safe in isolation, The Boy Scouts had a gourd, tina. therefore, has examined the pro-
because even though we bulid an The little mites had come so pre- posal for the establishment of a
My generation has fought the air force as strong as that of the pared that many of them were statutory National Housing Com- mission, and declares it to be the Germans once in its lifetime. It strongest air Power, that Power almost
doesn't intend to do so again. We can always outbuild us again-and right machinery for dealing with have wound up one watch on the so the mad race would go on. Still this gigantic task. The body art
proposes would not itself build and in and we don't propose to less can we be safe by one-sided
(Continued on Page 5.) own houses, but would provide cheap
capital for financing schemes; It would be the medium for the supply of cheap and stand- ardised material, and suitable Jabour; it would advise, plan and coordinate, as the supreme hous- ing authority for the whole country.
It is not a far stride from the subject of corruption in the ranks of the police to the floating of ideas on the reorganisation of the force. To stamp out the. one, the other would probably be a prime essential. Were any clean-up attempted deserving of the description "thorough", it is unlikely than any option in the matter would be
the open to authorities.
as the un- And pleasant facts of the situation convey an almost peremptory demand for an attack upon the problem, the lines along which reorganisation should proceed may well rank as one of the first considerations. A broad policy should be framed, with every step well marked, and prepara- tions made in the directions in- dicated; so that the transition when it came would be swift. To the greatest extent possible, the object should be the recruit- ment and training of new men and their drafting into the force when the bad hats have gone and taken with them the tradition of ""squeeze." For the evil of the system to-day is that so many fall into it as the result of what might be termed contamination, and finally there develops com- petition for jobs that seem offer good pickings! These are plain facts, suggestive at once of the needs in any scheme for re- organisation, and there others, apart altogether from graft or suspicions of graft. It is common knowledge, for in- stance, that the vast majority of the Asiatic contingent are un- reliable in an emergency. They are without sense of responsi- bility, most of them, and at the times they are most needed in their police work are wonderful- ly adept at producing explana. tions of why they could not be present. Troops were called out during the anti-Japanese rioto not because the police force wus unable to keep the situation in control, but because the Euro- pean section of the force could. not take the strain alone. They are proficient at arresting old women for, say, collecting illegal- ly a little firewood. Seven of .them are necessary to night patrol a district which in England would be considered a reasonable beat for one con. stable, who again would perform the task with soven times their combined efficiency. Some of them subject unaccompanied young women to vile insults
to
PUBLIC OPINION
It
Not only would the commission be in a position to supply capital cheaply, but also, owing to its vast field of operation, cheap materials there would be no pro- there would be mass
Resoarch would be national needs would
SSUSE;
building throughout
be
the couted
would be coordinated and
without waste.
aste. This then, is the comprehensive scheme, authoritatively commended, which is capturing the practical Imagina- tion of social reformers. The British Government has not ac- cepted it. It has however shown In
the
last
two years that it is sin- gularly reponsive to public opinion in the matter of housing, and for that reason the warm welcome that informed opinion has given to the national housing plan makes it likely that the Ministry, even if It does not Anally adopt this plan, will pursue some similar scheme having the same object and not less far, reaching.
and seem to get their first les- sons in this at the Training School out of working hours. Their fruitstealing and petty bribery, outside the organised systeme, stamp their type, and thero have been incidents with pay attractive to soch of brutality to aged, and as the English-speaking atudenta young that make the gorge rise. Tho remedy should show itself plainly to any student of the problem. The force needs a better type of man altogether,
|of ‚· first – grado
Government
schools, men capable of becoming real policeman. The strength could be cut down by two thirds and the job would be done, and
NEVER AGAIN.
start another.
•
"That's the trouble with these American plan places; you al-
with
ways have to rush back for lunch.”
or
time
in stato of starvation.
The Rev. Mr. Waldegrave spoke
of the difficulties of early Scouting days when the uncultured populace jeered at the pioneers with cries of "Dirty knees! Yahl" and such- jike party cries. "The movement has grown since these days," added the speaker, thoroby voleing a tribute to the Increased use of As I write this the weather is beautiful and I can imagine Mr. Jeffries transmitting a telepathic thought to me that at last the weather is right--it agrees with hla forecast.
Which reminds me that I must rend up my Home football. I have- learnt that fivo home wins is the safest policy because even if you get five away wine and draws, the. paying-out firra is more likely to go down than pay up.
I have before me a letter from a Telegraph newspaper vendor who asserts that she sold a newspapor to Mr.
Wolfe without being arrested. am awaiting confirma- tion in the court reports before sending her my special certificate. of merit for the best performance of the year.
Kiris
There are also among may mail some indignant lotters from local who felt that their claims to beauty had been ignored by Mr. Frimi To Miss Look Long-ng
T who sent her photograph must nay, that she should have taken 'n back view if she wanted to get as far as an interview and to Miss Tak wun-hip I fear that who is too modest to live up to the audacity of her picture. It would be a case with bar of ank
an inch
and give'm (h)ell
-It is now midnight and time all respectable girls should be in: bed. so I must
t closo my letter to you
and go out for a stroll.
Yours affectionate Auntie...