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NOTES OF THE DAY
GUARDIANS OF PEACE
AN EPIC FLIGHT OF THE REIGN
By J. L. HODSON
The Very Idea!
POT-POURRI
"I want a shave," said the dis- gruntled sergeant as he climbed
cut, no shampoo, so rum, witch-
Mr. Stanley Baldwin and Mr. Anthony Eden, two distinguished British Ministera, are the latest adherents to the cause of Anglo- American collaboration for the pre- Bervation of world peace. They have outspokenly declared that to A.F. uniform stood talking to. They started off in something of gether Great Britain and the the superintendent of Vickers, the spirit of a rald over enemy manicurist to hold my hand, nor United States, by weight. of in. Limited, outside one of their work- 'tines-the sort of job they had done the bootblack to handle my feet.
war.
other nations than
T Brooklands early in 1919 and went off uphill and into the into the barber's chair. "No hair- Autoands in a gate in the machine that was built
hazel, hair tonic, hot towels, or I don't want the face massage.
haired Lancashireman of 27 into bomb Berlin,
shops.
so often, although not as compan-I don't want to bo brashed off, ons. The old risk of death was and I'll put on my coat myself. there but, somehow, they would dodge it. They believed that it just want a jdain shave, with no anybody could fly the Atlantic, trimmings. Understand that?" they could.
"Yes, sir," said the barber quiet- y. "Lather, alr?" "
fluence, can keep the world from
"How would you like to fly the One in inclined to agree that an Anglo-American understanding, Atlantic?" asked the Superintend- not necessarily of the sort which ent, casually. Franco and Russia recontly nehler- The burly man, Captain John ed, but of even bronder potential-Alcock, who had bombed Con-
Contrasted with Alcock's weight ties, would serve the end Mr. Ball-stantinople, grinned, and his eyes
lit up. I'm certainly keen on and joviality Brown, alx seara win and Mr. Edon have in view. that if you can get the machine older, was anely drawn-sensitive Together, two such great nations ready," he said in his rather slow face, slight limp from a wound, as Britain and America could force Manchester apeech. They walked curt and precise.
The two men sat alongside one a belligerent power to compromise into the shop and looked at n by economie pressure alone; or, if Vickers-Vimy bomber, one of 20, another, Alcock at the wheel, on order for the Government. the worst came to the worst, they "That's the machine," said Alcock. Brown making laborious and dif- cuit calculations, pinning his faith, could, with their combined naval "Only needs converting." Fours mariners do, to sights on sun strength, police the world. But weeks later the work was done. and stars. Within 40 minutes, Flying the Atlantic in those however, the sky was hidden, and thore Britain and America. to be con-days-eight years before Colonel remained obscured till early morn sidered. What would France say Lindbergh's success was thought ing, when Brown took his sextant, to an arrangement whereby Brit- by most people to be imponsible, once to Polaris and once to Vega. America would be left and the attempt mad. But in May An ocensional view of icebergs in alone to enjoy the prestige and of that year Lieutenant A. C. Read, the evening served to check drift: of action. They climbed protection of powerful fighting of the United States Navy, crossed within an hour the wireless was
by flying boat, hopping to the out fleets? What would be Germany's Azores and thence to Lisbon, and 11,000ft. to find the sun--and the reaction? Would Russia tolerate on May 18 the gay-hearted Harry hinges of ailerons froze. They Buch an alliance, seeing in it a Hawker accompanied by Comman-spoke scarcely at all: most of their der Mackenzie Grieve, got within communications were taps on the possible menace of dictation' from
a few hundred miles of Ireland, fell shoulder and motions of drinking, capitalists abroad? How would
into the sen, and after being lost For hours they saw nolther aun nor Japan greet such an effort to des- for seven days, troy her hegemony in Far Eastern Thurso by a Danish tramp steamer.ween thick banks of cloud; Brown
chipped ice off the machine with intitudes 2 No. The idea of The world rung with the tale.
knife; hail and sleet bit their faces unilateral or bi-lateral agreement A day or two after that, three if they looked over the alde for for the policing of the world is out journalists were sent to Ireland to a moment. of date. Mr. Baldwin's and Mr. await the coming of the other
The speed indicator jammed, and Eden's idea was not precisely that. modern Columbuses, as they were It was more that America should called. My post was Galway. We for a while Alcock lost his sense were not hopeful. Hitting Galway of horizon. They executed what throw her influence into the scale in an aeroplane which had 60 he afterwards called "comic stunts"! chances of meeting disaster looked to me not much more likely than hitting the moon with a rocket.
ain and
not altered one jol.
Was
Martinside,
lunded
at moon
nor stars. They flew be.
looped the loop above that Atlan- tic waste of waters, did a steep epiral with a little spin, finishing within 50ft. of the sea.
*
.
*
It was
them-
*
NO MORE!
return.
The little girl had been on visit to her aunt. When the time arrived for the child to home, her aunt said: "Well, good- You must come again soon. We would like to see more of you."
bye, Betty.
The youngster looked amazed. "But. Auntie, there isn't any more of me," she said,
CONDITIONAL
That the life of a missionary is sometimes relieved by gleams of humour, is revealed by the follow- ing anecdote recently related by a speaker at a mission meeting in Glasgow:-
was told by a A dying negro missionary that he must forgive a certain "darkie," against whom he Reemed to
entertain very bitter feelings.
"Yes, sab," he replied, "if 1 dies I forgive dai niggah; but if 1 gits well dat niggah must take care!"
A DIFFERENCE
again? Mamma "Fighting Why, a good little boy wouldn't hurt a hair of another boy's head." Little Allek.-Yell X·didn't! I just punched his nose.”
THE WRONG ONE
Jack "You look as if you were all in, John! What's wrong?"
on the side upon which Britain chose to rest her weight. And al- PATRIOTISM
though Mr. Cordell Hull has very nicely said that America is willing
In Lester's Field, Newfoundland, Patriotism, of which we hear to co-operate with Britain in the so much nowadays, ranks high future, as in the past, that assur-proceeded a frantic race to be off. Alcock and his
worse than flying up- ence alone does not mean
very Captain John
Lieutenant among manly virtues. It its much: in spite of this very friend-navigator,
Arthur side down: it isn't quite certain highest and best sense, indeed, ty response the altuation is Whitten Brown, had leeway to they didn't fly upside down. They America's make up. They saw Hawker and finished the last stretch 200ft. it may be regarded as the supol of solutionism," fong since Grieve soar towards the son. They above the gen, and finally they land- reme virtue. Yet at times it is out of date, will keep her out of saw Raynham try, to go and crashed at Cilfden, 50 or 60 miles from and, their Galway, in what they thought was so distorted and degraded from
Eurpean cathnglementa, as it has in his its true form, that it may well done in the past-only until it in Vickers-Vimy not having arrived, an Irish meadow, but proved to be
John-"Last night I called on merit Dr. Johnson's description too late to stop excesses. Just as they, with the accustomed chivalry an Irish bog. Wheels bank tu
England is no longer isolated by of the air, lent Raynham mechanics axles, the propellers dug of it as the last refuge of the Straits of Dover and the North to help repair the damago. Their selves in. The soldiers and wire- that now girl I was telling you scoundrels. It, has its roots in Sea in this century, so in another machine arrived on May 24, and less operators who dashed across about. Her mother opened the two quite humble, almost animal, score of years or less America will thence; day and night, toiling In to them thought Alcock and Brown door and let me in-and then and the open, work went on. Nothing were two of the aviators looking there she demanded to know what
my intentions were." qualities-love of the familiar, be forced to acknowledge her ras-
ponsibilities in Europe and, in was left to chance. Every drop of for Alcock and Brown. and the herd instinct. People Asia, and that oceans are no bar water was boiled, filtered and I was telephoning early that Jack "That must have been love the simple village or even riers. There is no such thing as strained. Verey lights were ear morning, seeking news of the fliers, very embarrassing," the mean street in which they politieal or economic isolation to- ried-red for "All's well," white when an Irish voice broke in to tell John-"Yes, but that wasn't the happen to have been born and Nations are inter-depend-for SOS. Not far off at Harbour me they had landed. her to tell
ent; and no doctrine of non- Grace, Admiral Kerr's Handley come down to the post office, the worst of it. Just as the mother Interference" is going to alter the Page was every hour advancing voice said, it would hold up a tele had finished speaking, the girl fact.
gramme it had received from Clif-shouted down the stairs-"Mother, den-while-I sent off wan av my that isn't the one!" own. Through drizzle and rain we drove to Clifden.
same
TO-DAY'S MOTORING HINT
difficult or laborious.
towards completion.
D
Many
READY MADE
of Mussolini's knotty problems would have been solved. if the originator of the following howler had spoken the truth:--
"Italy does not require much made from the volcanoes."
*
WELL MEANT
have lived, not because it has any special beauty, but just be cause around its houses, its paving-stones, and its trees have
At dawn on June 14 when Alcock and Brown walked to the machine been woven associations that in-
a gale blew fiercely; off the coast! I found the Columbuses packing corporate them and It, as it were,
hung a thick Newfoundland fog. sack, with flying gear as though EASY TYRE CHANGING into one being. We are all in-
At 10 s.m. one of the ropes which going off on their holidays. I had clined;
down, also, to love our
Tyre changing need not be the pegged the machine
flow been sure they would be in a deld fellowmen who respond in hard job which many
potrol pipo sleep and that I shouldn't have the owner- loose, indenting the same way as ourselves drivers make it. If it is net about severely. Mending it took two heart to wake them, but Alcock
in the right way it is not at all hours. Both day and prospect hadn't slept and Brown had tried coal, because her steam is ready. to the
who stimuli,
were bleak, indeed. But the wind and nearly failed. Alcock, ruddy now blow from the right quarter faced, with light, tousled hair and laugh at the same jokes, talk the same language, consume the same kind of food and drink, possess the same traditions, and admire and practice the same standards of behaviour. But patriotism raises what might easily remain a mere piggish self-content and worship of com- fort on to an altogether higher plane by introducing an element of altruism. The familiar sur- roundings do not exist for us; rather do we exist for them. We contribute by our life and work to make them what they are. We fill a place in the com- munity. We play a part-a tube in position, push the section necessary part-in the fulfilment of the cover opposite, the valve into of the community's purpose. It the rim and finish off with the tyre is the appreciation of this that lovers for the last foot or so. makes the true patriot gladly
To remove a cover proceed as at 42 milca an hour-an amusing a blue lounge suit said: "We've follows:-Dismantle the valve wind, Alcock called it, but some of had a terrible trip. The wonder parts and then force the cover his friends, remembering the un-is we are here at all," but he
Now minister to old gravedigger exactly opposite the valve right even ground and his 3 tons of grinned as he said it. Brown bent down into the well of the rim. petrol, were fearful Le sold over his sextant and said: "WeWell, John, you served the If a tyre lever is now inserted "The old bus is all right. We'll didn't do so badly, did we?" His parish faithfully and well for under the cover close to the valve push off. I'll start at 70 knots." eyes were alightly bloodshot.
(Continued on Page 5.) it can be lifted over the rim quite Calling "Cheerlo," they climbed in easily. With a second lever lift a little more of the cover. about a foot is over the rim the remainder can be taken off by hand.
When
Doing the job In this way dis- ponses with the use of force, and force is dangerous, because as the edge of the cover will not streich the wire beading may be broken.
The new cover can be put on in the same way. After soaping the edge, place the partially Inflated
of
willing to serve, even, if need imagining that hatred of some be, to die for, his country. This external foc, and deliberate ex- last phrase, "die for his coun- |clusiveness, are essential ingred- try," reminds us of another cle- |ients of love of one's own coun- ment in patriotism-antagon-try. Greece of old perished iams to those that have different | very largely because the genuine morals and manners, speak a patriotism of Athens could never different language, cling to a embrace the patriotism different traditional culture. Spartu, and form one Grecian There are some who believe that patriotism. bigger than both. patriotism flowers at its best. The close contacts of the modern when it brings into confilet world are challenging isolated. different groups. Opposition, national patriotisms. They seem fighting, overcoming, they say, to lead inevitably to Armaged are essential to the atmosphere don, unleas, learning from the in which it can grow to perfec-fate of lesser patriotisms in the tion. We have recently seen past, our own localised partial some examples along these lines patriotisms can be sublimated- In the nationalistic policles of into the kind of international certain European nations. patriotism that is ideallaed and These instances suffice to aug embodied for us in the League of gest the danger and the error of Nations.
many years."
John-"Aye, I've done that. I've been gravedigger for fifty- three years. I've buried the last three ministers, but I think I'll retire after I'y buried ane malr."
爨
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HANG TOGETHER
A man offered his sent in the tramear to a woman passenger. As the car started it gave a sudden jolt and he lunged forward, clutch- ing wildly for a strap. He grab- bed the nearest one, which was already held by a young woman.
Looking up, she said, "Evidently we must hang together."
The man, looking down at the owner of the fiand, replied,: "Capital punishment."
MORE THAN PERFECT Examiner "How did you come
to mark this paper 101 per cent.?" Don't you know that nothing can bu more perfect than 100 por cent.?"
Now Assistant-"Yes, but this. man answered one question wo didn't ask."
SAFETY
Sheridan was being worried by
a long-suffering creditor to nume.
a date for payment.
At last Sheridon, sald:"Vary well, the day of Judgment. But no, stay,
that will be a very busy Make it the day after!
day