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NOTES OF THE DAY
TO CONQUER EVEREST
Mr. Bruce Barton, the well- known American writer and com- montator, publishes In The New York American one of the most de- lightful tributes over paid in the
THE
20, 1935.
FRESH AIR FOR OLD LONDON
By NOEL CARRINGTON
The Very Idea!
STUNOLOGY
[Under cross examination at the Supreme Court recently, a witness
United States to a British monarch, London County Council in 1gional Survey of London, published | refreshingly admitted he was not going to be asked to vote some six years ago. It is the policy of sober when the accident occurred, two million pounds to secure a planned satellite towns and villages
"I and that the most underpaid man in the world is the King of England, Travel where you will, you run across British possessions Indin with its 352,000,000 in habitants, the ports of Shanghal, Hongkong, and Singapore, Canada, Australia, Bermuda, New Zealand, great stretches of Africa, immense diversified territories each with its own Interests, hopes, jealousies and ambitions, and all ruled by a group of lalands so small you can hardly find them on the map-what holde them all together? The British Monarch!
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The battle for a planned develop-
cauf--News Item:]
The foregoing paragraph laspir
We say a man is Addled, Aled, Alco-
haled, or On the Boore, Is Bacchanalianated, Bottled, Bli-
thered, Beered, excung I'most forgot to mention Blue
Brimful Blind, Bunkered, and
Otter pull
As well as On a Bender, In the
Himself
or
op being Cupped
Canned,
Or He'll got Chloroformed in Cole-
brating We all understand Dingbatitis, Drinking, Doped, Dizzy,
Dazed or On the Drunk, Full as an Egg, Ethered, and like-
wise Elephant's Trunk; As well as Fizziod, Fumett, Floored, -Elzzed, Fall, and ah yes, Fixed: (All have the self same meaning
the terms are somewhat. though mixed.)
On the Go, Gone, Groggy, Gassed, Hipped, or Half Scas O'er, Hors de Combat, llecoughed, Help
leas (woll upon the floor) Inebriated, Inked, and oh, Intoxicat-
ed too
Mean quite the same as Jamboreed;
now, is that plain to you,
On the Jng, Julced, Joyed. Jar- gozzled and, yes, Full as a Kite, Liquored, Loong-Knoed, Full as a Lord-you'll get my meaning right!
They're just the same as Muzzy, Muddled, Mugged, and also Mixed-
Though Mental Aberration is the
term the doctors fixed. (They charge you half a guinea, and from trouble keep you clear And the Boss is net supposed to know that you were on the Beer.)
"Who is the most underpaid man?" is the heading of the article, in which he describes how he and a green belt round the Metropolis, and against a background of open in fact was "stunned--stunned to cause it is demonstrably the most intervened, romarking that he must few friends were having a general the surrounding county councils country. He came to this plan be beat the band." Hero Ilis Honour Are we at last to see realised the sensible from every point of view-confess he was not well versed in vernacular. World Counsol discussion on the subject. One may be asked to spend even more. Buggested the country doctor: an-dream of so many stateemen? Is economy of public services, trann- the other the country preacher-both at the beck and call of the com- the growth of our great sprawling port, aviation, civic growth as wol | cxplain just what witness did
The other policy is to link up the munity day and night, and both capital to be curbed or at least tons beauty.
be subject to some ordered plan? usually existing on a small income. And not only London. The same few existing open spaces by a strip "When it came to my turn to spenk, however,” statés Mr. Barton problem faces every great city to of agricultural land or playinged the effusion which follows, the day, for with electric power and fields. Even this is not a cheap
estimated that a belf only half afally. The information so freely to motor transport the old boundary proposition. For instance, It was terms being arranged alphabetic marks are down,
This is no new idea for London, mile wide 20 miles out of London given should be invaluable
Magistrates, Solicitors, John Evelyn, the great gardener would cost over four million pounds. Judges,
Doctors, Editors, Politicians and and friend of Sir Christopher
I cannot help questioning whether all other professions and alleged Wren, plended to Charles II. for a belt of open land or gardens
A narrow strip of this kind would
It could, in fact, be round the elty, ao that the air might justify itself, or would be much professions directly or indirectly, be kept free from. "the Hellish and more than a parkway for an orbital concerned. dismall cloud of Sca-Coale," which road. It would almost certainly made the nucleus of a dictionary, even then polluted the skies, and so provoke speculation in neighbouring and be accepted as an authority on
be sites. For instance, at Oxford, for the subject to which it appiles. that "the whole City would sensibin of the sweet and ravishing all the publicity which the Preserva varieties of perfumes, as well of the tion Trust han had, the growth of most delightful and picasant objects the town is a sorry mess. for the
The bolder plan allows ample and places of recreation
room for growth of industry and Inhabitants."
population at its present rate (and BIGGEST JOB IN THE WORLD
soon decifne). It Evelyn's belt was to be where papuletion will "When, at the close of every
now there la nuthing but roofs and allows, for quick transport between public gathering in the British Em- pire, bands play God Save the ronds. Many others since his time the great city and the surrounding have had similar dreams, but towna. With electric trains and King and everybody stands bare London has gone on growing ever open arterial roads communications would be quicker than at present. hended, that underlines what it is
outwards,
can now be made that keeps this heterogeneous
Those who think a simple edict Cheap power collection of lands and peoples from from a city council will give us and available anywhere. Between each ying apart-the emotional tie of our children a girdle of open fielda city would be forms and market to supply them with loyalty, the universal reverence round our cities know tile of the gardens
affection for the King. and
in almost any produce. There would-be-space for difficulties. For "Recently, we heard talk of the society one man who desires some exercise and recreation.
The inhabitants would feel that over-privileged. It is necessary thing ardently for his own profit is to define the term. You cannotkely to prevail against the ninety-they were citizens of a city of their measure privilege merely by wealth
individuals in interminable suburbs. or title. Some rich men are 'over-nine whose interest in the matter is own, instead of being insignificant
public rather than personal. privileged; some, at whatever in- Not very many people own land, Only two towns have been planned come, would still be underpaid. The or intend to build on it. But those so far on these lines, at least near
.the Grati must underpaid of all is King who do stand strongly entrenched London. Letchworth, George. None of us would change within their rights. They know garden city, and Welwyn. Foreigners places with him. His life is a hard what they want. They have the come from all over the world to see Occupying a prominent place one, always on parade, for ever law with them, and the compensa- them. By progressive minds they in the social and economic re-signing papers and laying corner-tion they can exact may seem pro-nre regarded as one of our greatest
contributions to civilisation.
But like many English ideas wo haphazard forms which President Roosevelt tones, but he does hold the big-hibitive for our generation.
As things go in a Rest job in. the world; holding to- is endeavouring to effect is the gether the Empire on which the world, London is not unfortunate have left it undeveloped.
with in its nearer open spaces, question of the redistribution of nun never sets."
Epping Forest, Hampstead Heath, wealth. This issue is at the
the royal parka and Richmond,ment of our great cities will have figuring largely in
But who of the millions who use to be fought. Nervous ratepayers moment
Another. British expedition for the Forest know the touch-and-go will combine with all the vested and American political circles, with sharp divergencies of view on ascent of Mount Everest is be-affair it was to preserve it from speculative interests to retain the
ila ing planned for 1935-1936, and the enclosure? Reading history good old laissez faire. It is fortun- Incredible ate that the tardy imposition of a seems almost the subject. The Governor of consent of the Tibetan Government now, It
were speed limit in built-up areas has Hugh that the
commoners' rights the Federal Reserve Board, Mr., has Eccles, recently expressed the Rutledge, who led the 1933 ex-not lost ns were thousands of others given a large section of the com
Most motorists welcome the 30- opinion to the House Banking edition, has again been asked to which came before a Parliament of munity to think quite furiously.
take the same role and has accept-landowners.
mile limit (whatever the Auto- Committee that a redistributioned. Plans are now being made for
It certainly was one of the most mobile Association may Bay) be- necessity. In the attempt to conquer the peak, a
feat never hitherto achieved. Ex-curious acts of Providence that cause it protects them from their saying this, he helped somewhat peditions to Everest have taken gave the Corporation of the City own follies, but it has come as a to clarify a situation which has place at intervals during the past the right to fight a tedious legal shock to find that the main ronds
under battle and finally to secure the are
more "built up" than many confusing angles. A point lifteen years. The first,
that Mr. Colone! Howard Bury, did a lot of Forest (or what was by then left Soon towns and villages will join be noted is
The Ministry The of it for Londoners. The history hands and be one. Eccles urges a re-dealing of in-preliminary work in 1921.
next was under Brigadier-General of Hampstead Heath was very of Transport has exempted come, not of capital. This is a C. G. Bruce, and made the assault similar. Its crown and jewel, Ken famous by-passes to save its own difference which should be kept the montain in March-July,Wood, was only saved from the face, but often they are as bullt-up well in mind when considering 1022. The 1924 expedition was builder by an eleventh-hour private and as dangerous as the...older.
roads. current "share the wealth" under Colonel E. F. Norton, and ubscription a few years ago,
Anyway, there is now a chance Such open spaces as London and movements. It has been reveal-in the final attempt Mr. G. A. H.
on their that the very vocal motor interests ed that at the height of the Leigh-Mallory and Mr. A. G. Irvine other cities possessed post-war boom, one-tenth of one lost their lives. The latest exped fringes are rapidly being built will line up for once with the town- per cent. of the families at the tion, under Mr. Hugh Ruttledge, round and isolated from the country planners, and I anticipate that the started in March; 1993. I had to beyond. The barrage, so to speak, Bill against Hibbon Building will top of the income list in United States got as much abandon its attempt owing to ex has lifted. For London it is u get a much quicker passage than ceptionally bad weather. How question of the North Downs in the Town Planning Act of two money as forty-two per cent. of ever, it was able to advance its Serrey or the Chilterns in Hertford-years ago,
Butribbonment is only a the families at the bottom. camps higher than those of its shire. The problem is no longer
The bigger thing the It was in 1933 that local. It is regional and almost symptum. Naturally, they could not spend predecessors.
thing to fight for, is not prevention all their money; most of it had the Houston Mount Everest. Expedi-national.
The right policy, I suggest, is or preservation. We want a reason- But investing it tion, under Air Commodore P. F. to be invested. meant that the money was used M. Fellows, made flights over the that put boldly forward by Sired and orderly plan for future to stimulate production, with the mountain in March and Aprli. Raymond Unwin, in the first Ite-growth. result that the country's cap That expedition secured photo- pushed graphs which are expected to prove acity to produce was ahead of its capacity to now being planned. buy.. The upshot was
arose, featured a depression by the astounding contradiction of want in the midst of plenty. The remedy envisaged by the
Loss of power is always noticed Governor of the Federal Reserve when the engine overheats, but Board is a more equitable dis- there are numerous other cauMON tribution of incomes, which, he for that gradual power loss which contends, can be accomplished comes about after the car has seen most effectively through income a considerable amount of service. Among the more likely causes taxes. The most vocal of the "share-the-wealth" group, on may be mentioned, the following: the other hand, argue that If the valve springs are weak the capital wealth should be re-valves do not return quickly en- distributed, and figures have ough to the closed position, so com- pression is lowered. If the clear- been produced to show that ifance is incorrect between the ends this were done, sufficient would of the valve stems and the tappet be available to give each family leads, the result is either issuffi- five thousand dollars. But, even cient lift or the valves do not close taking such figures for what fully. Piston rings which are they may be worth, it has ap-sticking or are too loose a fit in parently escaped notice that all their grooves also adversely affects
compression. that these families would get in
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Den
open.
-"That auctioneer saw he could never interest me in that junk he was selling, so he took me aside and showed me some real stuff."
the
Non
Compos Mentis, yet another mode of saying that you're On And Paralytic, Punctured, Přimed,
or Potty are not wrong. Right O'er the Plimsoll, Rocking, that you're On the Rull,
All these convey the meaning that
you
Love
the Flowing Bowl.
A Ribald Rev'ler, On the Rag, or
mayhap In the Rats
(Don't you hear 'em spliting, those crimson green-eyed cats!) Sizzled, Slithered, Squaffy, Sprung.
or that you're On the Spree
the first three sixteen time, and prove you're not to me.) To say you're Soused, Steamed,
Stunned, or merely On the Swank
(Say
Is but a bright reflection of the
breezy way you drank.
Not Sober, Sozzled, Shikkur, there
are other ways as well, While Tight, Tapped, Tipped or
Tipsy, the same old story tell. Some say "Full as a Tick" and some "He's d-d well Tanked,"* Just as easily Wined, Wet, Wound- ed or the losser known Yanked. BUT
The boys at the Front they said Zig-Zagged when the greatest Warn they won
For King and Country, you and me, AND THE RIGHT TO HAVE A STUNI
•
JUST EIGHTI
Miss Eight-years-old was buying
a pair of gloves.
"What size?" inquired the shop assistant.
"Eight," replied the girl after some hesitation. -
"Eights would be, much too, large- for you, I'm afraid,"
"Well, that's funny," said the small customer, "for I'm eight years old."
MERELY TOLERATED "Does this village boast of a choral society ?" Inquired the now, résident.
"Well," said the old resident. "I can't just say that we beast of it. We just suffer it in allonce like."
HOWLERS
Robert the Bruce was a member of the Scottish Nationallats.
Bannockburn was the stream which ran into the Forth in 1314. The Parls mob were prejudiced against King Louis XIV. because he tried to fly (to Versailles.). Edward the First was
the sculptor of the Statute of Wales. When the Pope ordered an in- terdict on England, ne-one-Was allowed to die."