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NOTES OF THE DAY
STIFLING FREEDOM
BRITAIN'S CRUMBLING
GOVERNMENT.
By SIR HERBERT SAMUEL 7AVERTREE is by far the
Nearly a quarter of a million In- crease in the unemployed last month la an Ironic, a tragle com- ment on the Chancellor of the Exchequer's declaration.
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The Very Idea!
DUMB BELLES LETTRES
'By Juliet Lowell Your Tailor Calling Model Tailor Shop Dear Mr. Tailor:
Please resent these trousers as you know I alt a lot.
Mr. Moscly.
Reply Dear Mr. Mosely:
Please also send your bill to
MODEL TAILOR SHOP
(signed)
Boded Shoes a La Carte Lane Bryant, Inc., 1 West 39th Street New York City Dear Lane Bryant:
The Cambridge University La- bour Party has decided in favour of stato control of education, that is of the entire educational system.
most significant by-election One of the arguments advanced in during the, present Parliament, favour of the resolution embodying It may have profound effects upon this decision was that it would the course of our politics.
Lat me first recall the results of At Wavertree, of the electors on mean the "elimination of all teach-
the voting. Labour polled, In the roll, hardly, more than one in Ing calculated to encourage militar round figures, 16,000 votes; the every five rallied to the support of lam or Imperialist ideas." Lord official Conservative 13.000. Mr. the "National Government? Elton, commenting on this in The Handolph Churchill 10,000, the didate, Fortnightly, says the object is Liberal 4,000. But the largest that the schools and the universities section of all were the non-voters; For the Liberal the support was be eceipted as you know I've stood
far less even than that. The fact | a lot. are to be disciplined "in precisely they numbered 17,000.
Here, In a hotly contented by-points, I suggest, to two conclu- the same maaner, albolt for оп exactly contrary purpose, as the election, the focus of wide-spread sions. The first is that the Liberal national Interest; with candidates Party must continuously lay em- schools and universities of Nazi to suit almost every choice; with phasis on its constructive policies Germany!" No delegate at the no more than two or three thou- of social referm. It is undoubt Cambridge Labour Conference ap and distant removals, and deathsedly true that the chief cause of pears to have ever suggested that since the register was complied-the stubborn unemployment is the what was proposed was in the way between a third and a quarter of shrinkage of our overseas trade; of educational dictatorship-n dic-the electors failed to go to the poll that the chief reason of that shrink- tatorship of learning. According And in almost all the recent by age la the erection of tariff, quota to that conference the dragooning elections the proportion has been
I decided some time ago to and exchange barriers; and that return my shoca. In the meantime and the elimination of teachers, in the same.
the chief remedy must therefore be some one in my family throw them the intereats of nationalism and
their removal. militarism, is dictatorship (as in
This primary fact has to be in- want to return them in this condi
out with the garbage. I did not Nearly twice as many votes were Germany). The dragooning and cast against the Labour candidato Ceasantly pressed upon the mind of tlon so I have boiled them--and elimination of teachers in the in-an were cast for him. Yet, thanks the electorate. Government action I assure you they are now quite terests of internationalism and to our absurd electoral system, heto secure that end is of vital Im-sanitary. Please exchange them pacifism le not dictatorship accord- ing to the Cambridge meeting. To goes to Parliament to speak in the Portance. But to say that, and to for a new pair one size larger. bellevo in logic of this character it is necessary to prostrate the under standing, and that is apparently The last election In Wavertree what the labour delegates at Cam- under normal conditions was in bridge did with every success. The 1929. The register has increased kind of dictatorship which Labour since then by 7,000; of this the cum Socialism wants, is the kind Labour Party has secured 2,000. which will make its political doc-There is no indication here of any trines paramount. In another dif substantial advance on the results ection, according to political view of 1920, and this also is in con- points, that is exactly the same formity with recent elections cisc- kind of dictatorship that has been where. put into effect in Germany. On the question of principle there is nothing to choose between them. They each stifle freedom equally,
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name of a constituency which has secure that, are not enough. so emphatically repudinted his views.
ed. This work is constantly was never so peopled with
Colonist remarks: The world for gallant personal adventure how
The Liberalism of the twentieth century is widely different from that of the middle of the nine- teonth. Laisser-faire, Ricardian, purely negative policies have been long ago abandoned. Their aban- donment definitely began when a 1870 a national compulsory system Liberal Government established In of elementary education.
of
The characteristic work modern Liberallam may be seen in the achievements of the Govern- ments of Campbell-Bannerman and Asquith-which all Liberals are agreed in acclaiming. It may be seen in such measures as National Health Insurance, Unemployment Insurance, Old Age Pensions, Town Planning, the abolition of the "sweating system," Minors' Eight, Hours.
7-25
Louiso K----
(signed)
I decided some time ago to return bry aloca. In tho meantime some one in my family threw them out with the garbage.
Picase insert the following
last night without medical again-
tance,"
Eva L
(signed)
MONDAY, MAR. 18, 1935.
If there were at this moment any dominant, clear-cut lasue in LEAGUE WORK
our politics a candidature such as that of Mr. Randolph Churchill In view of the frequent critic-
would have made little impression. isms which have been made of
It would have been brushed aside the comparative ineffectiveness
In the sweep of great political We have read the "pros" and forces. But there is no such do of the League of Nations In the "cons" of the Lloyd George "New minant issue. There is no wide- political sphere, it is perhaps not Deal" principics from England, spread, eager enthusiasm either surprising that the extremely and a Dominion's view may be of for the Government of the day or There are immense tasks. of valuable work which it does interest in the matter, while in no
for any one of the political par- similar kind, to be accomplished through its technical organisa-way offecting the position or opin-
Bea..
now. Unemployment is the chal- tions should be largely overlook-ion "nt home." The Victoria In such conditions there is room lengo to action. The measures that are being advocated by Mr. growing, owing to the increasing formere. The panaceas for the Churchill's poll has been represent cogency and power, have been re-ever misguided. Mr. Randolph Lloyd George, with such admirablo interdependence of countries to-ils of the body politic multiply ed in some quarters as though it urged by the Liberal Party, largely The News
No Help Wanted day. In particular, the League's every day, Politicians, ever for showed that the constituency was through his stimulus, ever since the Dear Mr. Editor: Health Organisation deserves getful of their past inability to per- just the opposite, for only one They must be kept in the very fore-notice in your paper. "Mother died
against the Indin Bill. It showed economic situation became acute. high praise. Many Inquiries form, promise a Utopia on earth if have been carried out recently, again elected to
elector in every six recorded a vote front. and, power, including one on the effects of strangely enough, there are always did undoubtedly show the power policies undoubtedly played a part for the Dichard candidate. But it At Wavertree, although these. the depression on public health, sections of human thought that and another on medical educa- get the monition of the late Judge
believe such promises. They for of personality in politics.
in the Liberal campaign, the em The real lessons of the election phasla was not there. tion. The collaboration with Darling that, "to convince a poor the Liberal Party.
aro for the Government and for China has continued with most voter by the common argument
The second conclusion to be excellent results, and has done promised reforms is merely to cor- of
drawn in the perversion of elections The present Administration is through our present system of vot
Literary Blurb much to suppress epidemics, rupt bim with hope." Credulity Impossible for it to maintain the ent that any particular candidate whimsy book, reviewed in an Amer-
crumbling before our eyes. It is ing. As soon as it becomes appar-
From a recent blurb of a sweet, particularly small-pox and che- becomes exaggerated and judgment pretence that it is "National" in is not likely to win, thousands of lera. The re-organisation of the atrophied in times of economic face of the results of this and pre- electors, who on the whole prefer
ican literary supplement: Public Health Services in Greece intest of politicians to lay down has quite clearly made up its mind ately about it transfer their votes again, and every time I read her
unrest. Mr. Linyd George is thevious by-elections. The country his policy but do not feel passion wrote. "I read her again and "I love "Mary Poppins," sho is now nearly complete. Similar the principles of a "New Deal." work has been begun in Czecho-He has a programme of that there must-be-a-change-both to one or other of the two candid can't think wohl am reminded Slovakia. A Pan-African Health policies affecting every aspect of Conference is to be held this national life," but about that pro-
atca who are thought to have a of horses. .. Isn't it funny pi chance of success. The Liberal year. The Traffic in Women Com-gramme there is n familiar ring,
It isn't funny, lady, It's natural. It will not tolerate the continu-poll at Wavertree does not in the Lots of literary girls' productions mittee is to draft a convention for it is nothing more or less than ance indefinitely of the present least represent the number of remind one of horses: grey, brood- for punishment of souteneurs. In the reconstruction scheme which he appalling unemployment without a electors there who would wish to ing horses with haggard spiritual the field of opium, the 1931 Con- struggled for vigorously and un-medies. It disapproves intensely
strenuous effort to find the re-see a Liberal policy predominant. faces, or dynamic, passionate horses vention is now in force, and successfully during five years when of the complacent harping of Goy of Wavertree is the urgent need at Life, on all sides, or little quiet, Clear above all else as the lesson with enormous teeth, lashing out working well, and the legitimate held power that was unexampled ornment spokesmen upon the re- for a measure of Electoral Reform. static wooden horses, all over spots,
for a politician in Great Britain. manufacture of drugs is shrink- Housing, roads, tariffs, the restora storation of financial confidence. The nation stande in grave danger just staring dumbly at Life and ing. The illicit traffle has not tlon of agriculture, unemployment with an innate incapacity to grasp votes forming a majority in Parlia yet been killed, especially in the banished in twelve mouths-these the problems which confront us rent. After the next election a
achieved three years ago, combined of members returned by minority enying nothing. Far East. But Europe has, for are the promises. It is only a
The wooden kind is the nicest to be reminded of. They have the time being, censed to be the matter of electing Mr. Lloyd George
Government may be installed with suffered and conquered, and they centre of the traffic. For the to power and ho will set to work a plen of "Guilty" when he said in the people by a majority had de-
Mr. Neville Chamberlain entered power to carry out policies which don't kick. first time in history lawful com- and appoint public officia's and the House of Commons, in answer finitely rejected. This is the very mercial transactions in narcotics spend money with abandon. In the to a question by Mr. Lloyd George negation of democracy. All par Thave been carried out in accord, other side of the scale is the fact on Dec. 21, "our, unemployment ties, if they sincerely bellove in
ance with a "planned economy," George's promise of what the probeen doing."
that there is only Mr. Lloyd policy is to continue as we have democratic prepared by the League in ad-gramme will accomplish and the vance, and binding on all parties memory of his own Administration to the. Convention. The Econ- which sought to do just what he omic Committee has been kept in wants to do now. It is small won- touch with the efforts resulting der if the "slow, blunt but ineradie from the London Conference for able instincts of common sense" the better international
must also be put into the balance ordination of production and George's reforms.
in any estimate of Mr. Lloyd number of
marketing of a
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undertaken a study of the ques- Prospority will never be regain- tion of tourist traffic considered ed by fictitious means. It is, ac- an international economic cording to experience, a dangerous factor. The Financial Commit-illusion to belleve that enormous tee has continued its important governmental expenditures menn and difficult work of supervising tures of this character that have economic recovery. It is expendi- the financial consolidation of been responsible for most of the Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria and depression. They have placed var Greece. The position with re-ious countrica in precarious finan gard to the League Loans has cial positions. Great Britain is altered little during the past one instance of a country that has year. The Assembly has direct-kept her feet on the ground during ed that an inquiry should be the era of depression. Her states- undertaken into the causes, men, who, happily, have been in scope, methods, and results of power and who work put into power the clearing and compensation have realised that there is no short because the people wanted sanity, agreements. The inquiry began cut to recovery. The process is with the issue to Governmente slow and painful. It is not based of a questionnaire at the end of on electioneering literature, but on November. Internal recovery ruthless economic laws. What has taken place in several coun-Rovernments may do to help in tries during the past year, but times of economic depression is to the recent debates in the As lower taxes, diminish costs of pro- reduce debt, save expenditures, sembly have revealed several duction, insist on efficiency in Governments as deeply concern labour and reopen ways and oppor- ed with the growing realisation tunities for trade. When they go that recovery could not proceed beyond these considerations they beyond very narrow limita with are courting a prolongation of the. out some restoration of inter- very evil which they strive to national trade.
oradiente.
in men and in measures.
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should
"Now remember, if you're holding scos or better, stay in for
the draw, but don't raise on less than a full house.
Check. This At 9.5 p.m. on Wednesday, I switched on the wireless and got this bit of sung dialogue from The Queen of Cornwall, drama by Thomas ("Down-by-the-Star") Hardy, music by Rutland Rough-
ton.
* Tristan: You cannot hanut an-- other woman's house!
Iscrit: Oh, yes, I can!
Three copies, please, Miss Smith. One to the Health Department, one to the K.R.A., one to the Psychical Research Society.
Chanson Lunatique
"Viens, viens dans le jardin, o-
Mard!"
S'ecria Tennyson, assez haut;
Mais no bells si chere,
Etant policiere...
Hurla: "Circulez, tele de veau!”””
English Sounds
I seo that somebody has invited suggestions for a typically Eng- lish sound suitable for a B.B.Ö.. "Interval signal," and that some- body else who signs himself "P. E. P., Winchmore Hill," writes to a newspaper, "What could be. more appropriately représentative of our island home than the sound. of sea waves washing a shingly beach 7,
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We don't know unless it would be the sound of“ early morning garg-- ling, or somebody doing deep breathing exercises, or a polico woman's boots thundering, round Leicester-square, then
Another typically English, soundTM In the noise of n duchess wolfng- caviare and gulping champagne in. aid of charity.