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A laconic communication from the League of Nations announces that the Committee for the EX- change of Greek and Turkish populations has Informed the Secretary-General that it has
BLACK HARVEST IN LANCASHIRE
By J. L. HODSON
HE return of the native la apt gest they aro
heartless.
to be melancholy business. member argued with
One nic that
have felt sometimes to-day as there'll be no displacement of though I were wandering over an labour-merely a concentration of old battlefield marked with the it in, as it were, 50 milla Instead relics and rufts of war.
of a. hundred.
+
The Very Idea!
IF GOSSIP WE MUSH!
By_Eddle.”A-bfg-ale" Kolly `-
For some time paat Mr. Edward Kolly has noticed, with rising indignation, that the gossip cofamna in morning contempor- aries are devolod entirely to wo- men. Determined, even witho risk of incurring the displeasure of the talpans he mentions, la put _an_end_to_thin practice, the noted man'a man kne decided to dedicate the "Very indea", this week to the males of the Colony,
-Now read oil.
finished Its work". Thus, almost unnoticed, there recedes into the past one of the most harassing and inberious tasks which the League of Nations or any affiliated body, has had to perform aince the war.
For I have been to Oldham,. in Another said, however, that a The Greco-Turkish exchange of Lancashire-the town that, 16 lot of the workpeople would be, populations was organised under yours ago way the scene of the to use a Lancashire phrase, “in the League in 1923 at a time when most extravagant episodes in the "the cart"—but they would be there the system of compulsory exchange cotton boom, its people for the anyhow, scheme or no scheme, and was heavily criticised by many per- most part share-mad, broking over a period of years he believed was, in fact, a fet of barbarity church porches, its milla spinning than if they were not. But he week. In between doing the sons, Including Lord Curzon. it everywhere from public-houses to they would get more work if the
10.000.000 spindles were scrapped My deare,. I have had such a busy against the Turks in Greece who rok and fortunes being won over- protested strongly against it, but night. It Ys an old story now. granted that would be poor, con- rounds of the town in an attempt to the blame rests, pot on thong whe What bug brought me back insolation to the man now working rent a set of talls for St. Andrew's arranged the exchange jus on the the bold proposal, to scrap ten part time who will lose his job and and the Volunteer Camp at Fanlidx, Turkish Governmen who made it million
cotton pindles-break sit back and watch another planer there has been the awfully bother. inevitable; for-fact, na M. Vent- them up or seal them up is the begin to work full-time in the mill social but nevertheless intriguing.
not really an ex-idea-in an effort born of deaporn-across the road. change Convenflon but rather tion to atop the rat that has been Convention for the departure of slowly destroying Lancashire sinco the Moslem population out of Greece because the Grecké were drive out of Turkey. Turkey had aifeady expelled from her territory something like 1,000,000 persons who had flocked into Greece in a
Well, you and made. Doye, it really pays you some- I fallow-taxpayer, look like bear- times to go down to Faddy's Market ing it.
before trying the more expensive places in the city.
Our Now Fashions
that the slump had cost Lancashire would be if the scheme went We used to any six years ago How many new workless there!
£200,000,000. The black harvest through it is hard to say. An has still gone on being reaped. operative spinner commonly con Speaking of fashions, dears,
of
social rounds of the hotels. In cidentally, speaking of talls, I bad » terrible task renting a suit, the whole the slump began. I cannot tell for some considerable time he to obtain the dinkiest auit, with plain He told me another thing-that of Hongkong apparently doing the
rounds before nie. you, and nobody can tell you, the i would have been £50 a week bettor taffeta-ish, lined with black silk on I finally managed full Intimate history of that des-off if he had shut down his own the inside and the ducklest soup stains truction. It is a tale of broken mill rather than run it. He spoke on the lapel, for only $2.50. Wher: I hearts and broken fortunes, of with groat sincerity. He said: tell you that the ensemble was set off athte of the utmost destitution Concerna toppling that were house-)“We simply cannot provide for the] by two of the cutest moth boles, in The Greeks who were "exchanged" but in India and China, of men, the money. Somebody else must will understand what a bargain
hold words not only in Lancashire displaced labour. We have not an awfully intriguing position, you amounted only to the comparatively committing suicide and women bear the burden." small number of 19,000. To make growing demented. room for these immigrants It was absolutely necessary to move out the Moslems of Greece, amounting. when the population of Eastern Thrace which was exempted from exchange, won, deducted, some- thing over 350,000 persons. The We used to say also, with grim trols 2,400 spindles, so that ten reminds me that all the shops are fact that an organised exchange humour: "If half the mills could milliona would account for 4,000 now displaying the inteat chic en- was substituted for the previous be burned down overnight Lan-spinners; for every spinner there sembles for St. Andrew's and the simple method of massacre
cashire might stand or
a chance." are some half-dozen other workers winter. Whiteaway, Laidlaw's are expulsion undoubtedly saved the We thought we were being out-let us say in all 30,000 work making a special display of the persona concorned fromı a great rageous when we said it. To all people. Probably half of them are necessary accessories for St. And- deat of suffering.
intenta and purposes something of totally out of work already and the hardware
rew's Ball. I noticed in their that sort on a leaser scale is now remainder employed half-time.
department yesterday DIFFICULT OPERATION
suggested.
some of the nicest paint brushes- Between a quarter and a Afth
direct from Paris. You'd be sur- Nevertheless, the operation wag
the existing spindles' would tives about the "ten million spind- using
1 have talked with many opera-prised how many Scotsmen are slow and difficult. It was not only be got rid of under this scheme. les plan." Some of them think it brushes this year as sporrans. Whiteaway, whitewash Mr. Baldwin, in the course of persons who had to be exchanged, The process of attrition had either reasonable or inevitable. Robert MacWhirter was only tell- Jack Jackson's Orch. his Parliamentary statement on but arrangements had to be made already accounted for another Most of them have little to say. ing me this morning how he has Britain's air policy, did not dis- for them to take their movenble fifth. To translate into Agures One mun, it is true, whose eyes made the dickiest costume out of Danny Malone. gulge the fact that the main their them, to dispose of Lancashire used to have 67,000,000 were sunken, said a little fiercely: the odds and ends of one of the
immoveable property, and sospindles. Danny Malone. circumstance accounting for the on. Finally, it was necessary to
If the proposal is "We're dead against it. It'll Wee Yin's skirts, a junk of sheep'a decision to expedite the nation's settle the refugees in their new far above 30,000,000-almost a price," and another remarked, friend in Ice House Street, and a abided by, the number will not be mean they'll get men for their own skin he borrowed from a dear aerial defences is to be found in homes. As far as Greece was con- cutting of Lancashire in half. Ironically: "It's like t' Luddita Whitenway brush. Freddy Mac- James Foran, the uncertainty regarding Ger- cerned, this work was again en- under this "Lancashire 3-years-riots agen-only it's the meaters kintosh and I were discussing the
many's future intentions. Boiled League of Nations and the League
trusted to Commissioners from the plan."
now who're to do t' smashin' up." Intest men's fashions last week, and down to its essentials, Britain's helped Greece to raise the neces-I have talked with two or three a terrible apathy and patience. at last coming into our own. He
The sponsors of the scheme- James Foran.
But over most of the men broods we both agreed that we boys are policy rests on a determination sary funds. The work was carried members of Lord Colwyn's Com-"What can we do?" asked one told me that Joe Moyer had pur- Alec Templeton. not to be caught napping should out very successfully and the mittee to-day-ace it as an opera-branch secretary. "I've Just left chared a beautiful grey two plece an emergency arise. It is true, settlement wound up some years tion-a kind of aovering of a chap who's bin to the Pictures | costume, set off with an eight-tone as Mr. Churchill was at paina to go. The Turkish settlement was festering limb that is far prefer.five times this week at, tuppence a seasick-green point out that preparation for problem was less difficult as
altogether cruder, but Turkey's able to a lingering and painful time-takes his mind off things." vividest pure merino heather and aweater, and the Kiss me, Doar (Streamlino") Florence Desmond. defence does not imply the im-number of immigrants was amalier argue, must inevitably be the "The men don't talk about cotton has decreed this winter that we the liness, The ultimate result, they Another branch secretary said: scarlet socks. For undies, Paris B-8223 A British Mother's Big Flight (Gradys on the Airl
minence of war, but in the face and more land was available for same; the redundant millions of now or read about it-they're not must wear a three-button shimmy of the present tension in Europe them. The last years of the Ex-spindles must go. Desmond. Mao Time (Film—"Gay, Love")
it would be the height of folly change Commission have been
Interested any more. It's all foot-in neat white (which may be re- were the British Government to opent mostly in the final settlement
ball coupons and racin', Some lieved by coloured lace borders), take any
undue risks. The of various complex legal questions, what is to become of hanenshire and their wives are waitin' on t the least important winter acces- But what of the human element? caddy at golf for tenpence a round and B.V.D. panties to match. Not decision to add twenty-tive new excellent piece of work and the This, we must admit, is a very
sory is the darlingest tickly pink spinners, cardroom workers and doorstep for the money." squadrons to the Royal Air League is to be congratulated. •
the rest, whose livelihood will be Force within the next two years
gone? (Indeed, for a large num In 'n lot of homes life la topay- implies no aggressive intentions:
ber It is gone already.) We used turvy-the woman goes out to work the sten is being taken because
to claim they were the finest cotton and the man cooks, cleans and Britain has lagged behind other We learned from Washington operatives in the world, that their takes the baby for a walk. "No, nations in the realm of aerial yesterday that the Federal Govern- skill was, in part, hereditary, we don't even get kidded (chafted)
ment would presently institute a
Are they to be scrapped as ruth-about it any more," a man of 30 defence and, in view of current new system of economy whereby leasly as the machinery-as rigor- told me. He looked up at the sky, unrest on the Continent, cannot millions of dollars would be cut cusly as the blastfurnacemen and which was the colour of the wat afford to place her security in from the nation's expense account. shipyard workers of the Clyde and road, and said, musingly: "Ideal extremely chic. jeopardy. As the European The economy would be effected by Tyne and the miners in diamantled day for spinnin' eotton, ah?"
sulting situation is analysed, it becomes lepping off some thousands of re- pita in South Wales have been I left him and walked past the graph is
shown in the accompanying photo- increasingly clear that much of lief workers employed by federal scrapped?
Lees War Memorial. On the stone able at this time of the year, not exactly fashion- the nervousness which prevails agencies, it was intimated. It is It would accm so unless some- ls carved:
unlikely that any such
It will be le dernier eri for talpane drastle thing at present unthought of la Their seed shall remain for next summer.
ever and their glory shall not be blotted out.
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is due to fears of German re- atops will be taken until the Ad- done. The Colwyn Committee's) armament. There is Now no ministration feels that the state report makes no reference what- questioning the fact that Ger-authorities are capable of looking ever to the workpeople. The com- many is at present engaged in after the unemployment problem, mittee members, I gather, have stood a group of spinners whose building up an Air Force, con- but it is probable that President been concerned only with devising factory is dismantled. trary to the provisions of the effort to shake off this unwelcome business footing. I do not sug- can do for its disinherited?
Roosevelt will shortly make some a scheme to put the trade on ä Is this the best that England Versailles Treaty, and, what is burden on more, as Mr. Baldwin pointed He has more than once declared the federal treasury. out; great haste is being shown that the federal relief measures in the preparation of aerodromes were to be considered only as and much, secrecy observed to emergency acts, and that un- their construction and the employment was still, constitution- localities in which they are ally, a responsibility of the states placed. There are also further of the Union. It may be that the evidences of re-armament
anti-Roosevelt faction will rise up in loud protest against this "sac- other respects. It may be rificing of the innocenta" with the argued, of course, that Germany election issue safely tucked away is acting purely along defensive for another year or two, but im- lines and that she has no aggres. partial observers must have fore- sive intent. The question then seen, if they did not predict, this arises: Why all the secrecy?ton Administration.
move on the part of the Washing- Britain has shown, by inform- ing Germany, and other nations as-well, of the details of her pro-fore be best serving the interests gramme, that she has nothing of world amity were she to come to hide. She has, in fact, taken out into the open and establish the whole world into her con-her sincerity. No better way of fidence. It in this absence of dissipating current suspicions frankness on the part of Ger-offers itself than a return to the" many which is arousing suspic- concert of nations as a first step tons as to her future conduct. towards the liquidation of exist- Everything from the military ing unreat. German absence standpoint which she is doing is from the League at this junc- shrouded in mystery and secrecy. [ture is more than merely re- Mr. Baldwin "well asks her to grettable; it is without question
consider whether the price of a decided factor in perpetuating
this scérecy, seen in the present the state of tension which is at mental condition of Europe, is the moment the dominating ele- worth white. From Herr Hitlerment in the European situation. downwards, there have been No nation more so than Britain many recent declarations of would welcome her return to the Germany's pacific aims, many fold; in no sense in the pole of denials that she is: actuated by repentant sinner, but as a great- warlike intentions. But in the country pledged to the humani- sphere of international affaire,tarian and pacific principles for it is deeds, not words, that really which the League of Nations count. Germany would there- stands..
"Oh, I don't like it either-but wait till I tell you how little pald for it."
flannel chest protector, which is now. Worn in the best of circles од the Peak. By the way, Freddie
told mo that while: the
Such a Dear!
Stannie Dodwell is 'auch a dear! I went into his shop the other day to look over some of his lateat bargains, and came away with a case of the cutest McEwan's beer. all for nothing, as he allowed me to open an account. Stan was one of the prettiest dressed people out at the Fanling Golf Course last week, during the tournament. He wan extremely chic In grey ensemble, and was with Commander Hole. who appeared sombre in the tradi |tional navy blue, sot off with bi- coloured stockings and tan shoes. I noticed Mr. Bryden looking rather pensive after the nineteenth hole, and wondered whether It was worry
owing to
the
rumour that his St. Andrew's “ costume la snid Sto
ba almost Identical with Robert Mac- Whirter's. Isn't it torrible, boys, the-way-these- tailors absolutely steal creations? A. O. Brawn was eri very trim in...'n.
de dernier brown check plus-four ensemble,. and Colonel Matthews sported the darlingest shrimp-pink pullover, which matched his hat and stock- inga. I heard that 'Standle Dod- well had made some important aliorations, at his Fanling bunga- low, so I went up there afterwards........... Imagine my disappointment, dears, when I discovered that the supplies. that had been sent qut there wore nothing but paint. I do wish, dears, that people, would be more "careful. I spoke to him about it, and he has promised to instruct his staff not to re-pack-anything- in. (Continued on. Poga 4).