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WEDNESDAY, SEIT. 12, 1934.
GERMANY REJECTS
LOCARNO
WEDNESDAY, -- SEPTEMBER 12, 1934.
NOTES OF THE DAY ARMS AND THE The Very Idea!
PROHIBITION
CHRISTIAN"
By DEAN INGE
JUMAN INSTITUTIONS arise there were many Christians in the
CLEANING UP SEX
Within twolve months of an over- whelming national voto in America for the repeal of Prohibition, the
By George Pussyfoots foot sufficient encourage.... ment from eventa to make a new
THE announcement that drive for re-imposition. This is a remarkable altuation, exposing as
clean up sex on its films is Hollywood is going to It does bad misstandling. Evidence when they are inevitable: Roman Army, and the Council of no surprise considering that accumulates that to-day in the when they are no longer inevitable Arles (314) condemned conscien- United States the liquor problem is they do not always disappear. tious objectors. Augustine argues they reached the bottom of worrying administrators of the There Is reason to think that war, sensibly that the real interests of the subject some time ago regulatory plans which have taken which was once inevitable, is so the aggressor compel us to resist and are at a loss for the place of national prohibition, no longer; and as it is an un-him in the only possible manner; Mr. Morgenthau has just announced mitigated curse to humanity it and the State cannot refuse to material. a new system of district enforce ought to be abolished. ment which he, hopes will Improve
This is the pacifist's caso. It the same time, he says, an empire with her rosy checks and her repel an attack upon taelf. At A boom for the country girl a situation which recorda
more la upheld by many who are not founded on conquest is nothing milk pail is confidently predicted bootlegging arrests than before Christians; they wish to see the but brigandago on a large scale. repeal. The chairman of the Fed-world delivered from a colossal
War
eral Alcohol Control Administra folly. Their position does Luther and Calvin justified wars and a new note will be struck by tion admits that of more than seem unreasonable.
not in a goud cause, and so did the excluding all suggestion of leg has, Council of Trent. 180,000,000 gallons of whisky prob- perhaps, been in existence for cause," in the Middle Ages, in-
"A good show. nily being consumed annually in the seven thousand years out of the cluded massacres of Jews, hore- United States only 30,000,000 gal-half-million or million years since tics, and especially Mostems. The Ion is legal.
CULTIVATED EVILS
For instance the cow with tho crumpled horn will appear in man, recognisable as such, began fighting Templars wore priesta:
gabardine trousers to set off the to walk the earth. Cannibalism they were the Pope's Janissarios.
mlik girl's gaiters whilst the and slavery are also ancient, but Bishops, however, were forbidden
commercial traveller will be not very anclent institutions, and to shed blood; so they went into
conspicuous by his absence. In of the major evils charged they have been abolished, though battle with clubs, which could the witty conversation between against prohibition speakeasies, hunisa
flesh is nutritious and pound their enemies to a pulp
aforesaid cow and girl, slave-labour Is encouragement of drinking among
profitable.
without breaking the skin. The minora, quor smuggling, corrup-
Lollards and Anabaptists con-
Crime will not be glorified_so tion of officials, and racketeering,
War could formerly be made to demned war absolutely, and so did films of the
much as in the past, though a fow. none has disappeared of its own Prisonere carried on my great predecessor Dean Colet, extracting foreign stamps from office boy furtivoly volition as some persons, so blithely chicaply Prisoners could be sold who preached a strong pacifist the waste paper basket will serve as expected with the advent of repeni.
or put to ransom; and could be sermon just aftor Henry VIII. had Mr. Hayden describes Col. Harry sized for cultivation: towns could declared wart
a deterrent to the juvenile offen- be pillaged. But modorn
against France. der. Scullin, teetotallor repealist, now
war The King sent for the Dean, and excise commissioner of St. Louis, ruins all who take part in it. If said that he quite agreed with tained without legs or typists and The love interest will be main there
only a quarter moon will be shown certain that all who have anything rather inopportune! The story is during scenes of romance and to lose will lose it. There is only creditable to both parties. one thing worse than to win a'war The majority
thrill depicting, Farry the Hare haring after Henrietta the Haress across the hairy highlands..
And the audiences?
men in America."
It is a situation In the solution of which everybody in. America has some responsibility and some stake. The prohibitionist may argue that the continuance of crime since repeal proves his way was best. The regulationlst will reply, of course, that he is having to deal with lawlessness cultivated under prohibition. And it is easier
to cultivate than to root out.
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to lose it. This is so obvious casuists have always taught that that we hardly needed Norman it is a "natural right" to repel Angoll to prove it to UB. But aggresalon, and this must apply to
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modern wars are caused mainly States as well as individuals. by fear. When I was in Berlin in
They will sit with their arms 1911, Hans Delbruck said to me,
folded, legs uncrossed, drinking in "National hatreds do not matter ourselves a few test questions. Lived; and then they will go with rapturous delight thoir 50 To clear our minds, let us nak cents worth of Life as she is much; but where there is fear were Europeans right in depriving. straight home, devour their Oval- there is danger." The object of North American Indians and Aue tine and choose, and sleep in their the League of Nations is to tralian black fellows of their own beds to get the thrill that the diminish well-grounded fears..
The question whether is hunting grounds? Are the Ameri-dairy girl missed. always foolish is not quite the cans right In keeping Chinese
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under the heading of "Arms and cause they wished to be independ- the more thought. the Christian," though the cannot be kept apart; for nobody were we right in going to war in five and half hours sitting during ent? Should we be justified in two doing the same thing in Ireland? was pronounced the winner after We see that a red-haired girl would think it right to fight if no good could possibly come of it. 1914,
assuming that our real which she probably laid the solid
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Even if our skin was as thick below as it is on our head we should still require the passion of salamander and the constitution of a seal,
DUMB-BELLES LETTRES. By Juliet Lowell,
~Hips! Hips! Hooray. Dear Mr. Hartmann:
In reply to your com-
How much of the difficulty in Germany has now come
recent labour disputes in the United out States is due to Communist agita-wrong.
same as whether it is always labourers out of their country by with a definite declaration that tion? No categorical answer can
The latter is the subject pressing the indian mutiny? Was petition that American genlus bas force? Were we right in sup- Sitting on ice is the latest com- she is not prepared to enter the be given, for such agitation does that has appeared recently in the ing the South for four years beus cold feet, If nowhere else, at of most of the correspondence Abraham Lincoln right in hammer-invented and one sufficient to give suggested Eastern Locarno Pact not always sufl openly under its columns of the Aarning unless arms equality is first own colours. Probably its influence conceded. The decision is re- has been greater indirectly, than grettable, since the alternatives directly. Radical leadership in to the system predicated by the certain labour groups has success- proposed Puct are more inclined fully "bored from within" for to aggravate the European situa-time by dissembling its Communist
Is it right for a Christian to motive was fear that if we remain-foundations of a rhoumatic old age. tion than to compose it.
purposes and has sometimes forced bear arms? Your correspondents ed neutral we should be isolated It is reported that she was clad Whilst it is true that the weaker of the positions, but American labour in question has been debuted ever a little later? Ought wo to res- had red hair and corns on our seat regular union officials into radical do not seem to realise that the and probably crushed by Germany only in an icy smile. Even if we. co-partners in the suggested un-the dertaking-the Baltic States and revolutionary leadership once
past has always deserted since the beginning of Christiani. Poet the conscientious scrupies of it would take a huge prize to tempt Poland-would gain most by the character become plain.
ty. Our Lord Himself was never the Quakers?
us into such a sticky job. asked to pronounce upon it, and treaty, it is clear that it would also be to the mutual benefit of
There is room for honest dif- we must not take everything that He said quite literally. For in-ferences of opinion on most of the big Powers and would, above
stance, He told us to turn
the these questions. But there is one all else, largely remove the threat of war. The complexi- organisation by throwing red
Attempting to discredit labour other cheek; but when He Himself poisonous doctrine which I think was smitten Ile did not do so, but all Christians should repudiate. ties of Polish foreign policy blanket over it is as destructive as
remonstrated calmly. He thought Do we agree with Plato and Burke would be solved by a stroke of trying to blacken all capitalists we may be sure, not of what was that "the principles of true polítics the pen. The Polish-German
with the practices of a few. Until worthy of Himself, but of what are but those of morals enlarged," frontier would be guaranteed, the right of the unions to represent was best for the bully. This is or with, the German; Neumann. and many of his compatriots, that except in so far as it might be their bona fide members is freely principle which carries for.
Nevertheless, "Love your ene- "besides our religious creed, we acknowledged by employers, they changed by mutual consent. are hampered in any effort to mies" means what it says. It is a must have a political creed Both France and Russia would destroy the labour racketcer whose drastic reversal of Old Testament well." "The State (he says) plaint, let me tell you that I gave be the immediate guarantors of most helpful ally is the employer ethics: "Love your neighbour and forms part of the struggle for you a perfect fit on your tan suit. no change except a peaceful who refuses to deal with an honest hate your enemy." The Hebrews existence: its pattern is Rome not It is not a change. In
bit too small. The the same Poland
were terrific haters, as their Nazareth," way, union of employees. That is worth
trouble, if any, is that you are would! be protected remembering. And so is the fact iterature shows; and they Christianity, then, is a guide too large. against having to meet single-that extremism will have little ap- thought that their God had com- for private conduct only! This is handed aggression from Soviet peal where workers receive not only manded them to "go in and possess the doctrine of Machiavelli, and, I Russia. The Balkan States and a fair deal but also enough contact the land" of their peaceable nelgham sorry to say, of our dyn Lithuania would be sheltered with management to know it is a bours. We have no right what- Francis Bacon. It ia purely
ever to take Joshua and Gideon as detestable," and from the menaces of any of their fair deal.
If generally three great neighbours. Sovict
our models.
followed it would turn the civilia- Russia would
ed world Into a hell. Surely wo be guaranteed SOUTH OF THAMES
Most of the early Fathers of the may say to all sharers in our com- against an improbable invasion by Poland or the Baltic States, L. C. C. frat began efforts to fly as incompatible with Christiani- ye are brethren; why do ye wrong Ten years have passed since the Church conderan warfare absolute-mou culture and religion, "Sirs, as well as the unlikely com-down Waterloo Bridge, and success
ty. We might mention Justin june to another?" And nil history bination of Poland and Ger- has not been won without the deli-
Martyr, Tertulliam, Origen, Iren- confirms St. James's words, "The many. Moreover, the German berate overriding of Parliament. But this opinion was not acted on; righteousness of God."
acus, Cyprian, and Athanasius, wrath of man worketh not the frontiers would be guaranteed But now that the noise of battle east and west-in the west by has fually given way to the rattle Britain and Italy under the of destructive pick axes, dis- existing Locarno treaties, and in mantling stone by stone the master- the east by Poland, and Russia piece of Rennie, the L. C. C. have supported by France. Looked beautifying Londen, of which the hoen able to publish the plans for at from all angles, the suggested. Eastern Locarno Pact of Non-removal of the bridge was in their Aggression and Mutual Assist The north bank of the Thames, view an indispensable preliminary. ance has more to recommend it through Chelsea, past the House of than any other arrangement yet Commons, and along in the direc put forward. Germany's fears, tion of St. Pauls, is n fine, modern in consequence of her central boulevard. But the
sight across position amid highly armed the river is a sorry mass of hetero- States, would appear to be geneous buildings backed by mean groundless when it is borne in streets and alloys. The L. C. C. mind that she, as well as the now proposes to spend £1,500,000 other partners to the pact, would intending to build a tree-flanked on buying up diis part of London, have a definite guarantee of promenade along the river bank, security. The German mem-and to erect behind it suitably im- orandum raises a very debat-posing edifices.
able point when it is argued
that bilateral agreements | ENCOURAGEMENT TO OTHERS are the best way in which to maintain peace. Indeed, it If the plan is a success, it will seems indisputable that thebe an encouragement to other greater the number of partners capital cities to undertake the re- in a non-aggression and mutual organisation of those parts of their aid pact, the stronger is the central areas that do not accord likelihood of its efficacy. More with modern ideas of efficiency and over, as against such pacts the aesthotics. In any case, everyone alternative would appear to be a resident alike, will rejoice that the who knows London, visitor and reversion to the old, bad system of military alliances, which are neighbourhood south of the Thames more likely to provoke than totion. North of
Is at last racelving official atten- prevent war. The world still found the theatres, the
the river are to be looks to Germany for some in- squares, the palaces, the Govern- great dication that she is prepared ment offlecs, the famous parks, and wholeheartedly to co-operato in the noble churches. Perhaps the the cause of peace rather than L. C. C.'s scheine will help tha to basher policies on a fear of south ultimately to look its northe
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Sincerely yours, MADE-TO-ORDER
TAILOR SHOP.
(signed)
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The trouble, if any, is that you are too large.
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Your paper to-day car-
ried a notice of Senator T's death, with the announcement that he was always faithful to his trust. By a slight oversight, you forgot to mention, the name of the trust.
Yours faithfully,
Robert A-
(signed)
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