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SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1935.
EMPIRE DEFENCE Considerable curiosity
has been aroused in various coun- tries regarding the nature of the talks which the leaders of the United Kingdom Government have had with Dominions re- presentatives who have been in | London attending the King's
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NOTES OF THE DAY
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All that now seepis necessary to confusion in the complete the Untied States is that the Supremo Court should rule that the Constitu tion is unconstitutional.
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A 100-year-old woman recem- mends the habit of eating salt.
war-worn grain of it with most of
In providing for the administra. tion of the $4,800,000,000 works fund,
has President Roosevelt avoided as far as possible creation of new federal agencies. HERE were days in March and hearten the Germans when they April, 1918, when we thought heard of it, no was inevitable, and Approximately sixty existing bu
useless to our the war. The that it was renas will take charge of the
had lost spending of this huge fund. Only Germans under Ludendorit brokej troops, who didn't need this Order, three of the many jobs
through our ines in Flanders. to make them fight on to the end. President proposes to have under- At times the breach was 30 milca Besides, were the French really 10 deep, deep coming? If they weren't, nothing and over taken fit into no groove; he has wide ordered the creation of a division enough to be within five miles of but false hopes would be raised. to be in charge of grade-crossing Hazebrouck Junction--a vital rail elimination,
rural a division of
line-and within 40 miles of Calais.
In fact, fvo French divisions did' resettlement and a division of rura The Channel ports were thought to electrification. When Mr. Roo be in danger, Ludendorff'e aim of arrive two days after Halg issued sevelt first becante President he splitting the British and French his Orders. As they took up posi- forces within sight of accomplish-tion behind the British, Hatg was set up new agencles right and left. They bad such a variety of lengthy ment. The fearful saw, in imagin-complaining bitterly to Foch names that people began calling ation, long-range guns mounted on inadequate measures for Foch on them by their initials. PWA,
the heights of the French coast that very day was placed in com- into mand of all the Allied Forces in dropping occasional shells NRA, FERA. CWA, AAA were a few of the best known, but the list Woolwich and Whitehall as they France. For a fortnight before ran into dozens. Of all the or-
were doing into the environs of he had "co-ordinated" the British ganisations he crented, the most Paris. The redoubtable Lloyd and French. The "Backs to the George himself on Mach 23 and 24 wall" message probably roused successful was the Civilian Con- servation Corps. It has not only
emotion, and of a (a Saturday and Sunday both more set a record for social and economic marked by the adjective "black") powerful nature, in England than For three weeks said: "I fear it means disaster." in the trenches. achievements, but also has proved It A novel political experiment. In six weeks we lost 400,000 killed our troops had already had their
of has been hailed by students
and missing, besides 80,000 prison. backs to a wall-an ever-vanishing
Twenty men were recently sight- government as the most perfect era and 800 guns. The truth was and retreating wall. Artillery had example of interdepartmental co- that we were never so near disaster been firing over open nights, Bried standing in a circle in Aberdeen, operation. The executive staff of as we thought, Ludendorff was gade headquarters staffs had seized with their heads together. It was the CCC is composed of only 62 nearly as troubled as Haig was: rifles and plunged into the battle nothing very serious, though; they individuals, yet Civil Service Com-probably both were more disturb of Armentieres, generals had led were only lighting their cigarettes.
action, infantry mission records show more than ed than Foch. Ludendorff's kick-orderlies into
An anthropologist were succeeding strung out in grotesquely attenuat- 900 persons in various departments and-rush tactics doing CCC work. These are too well: he had meant to go swift- ed lines had waited to be engulfed scattered in four departments and ly, storm troops succeeding each and to send up the last despairing blonde is passing. But he docan't
green rockets. Heroism say which way she went. one Independent agency.
other wave after wave, whilst red and
commonplace: death other troops following dealt with had become such strong points and trench waited at every elbow, the future systems as remained unconquered, span of life was shortened to hours Both our men and the But even he had not bargained for or minutes. such a tempestuous ruah penetrat-Germans were so exhausted as to be falling asleep within sight of ing so far.
one another. Of what avail was a Inst-stand order to men to whom The bulge he created became a sack and threatened to engulf him: last stands had been the order of the day for 21 days, and whe from at the critical moment he
hesitated. But the the moment when the 2nd. Portu courage and British could hardly know that guesy Division-tired, When Foch, warned that Cainis and and at that moment, holding twice we're told nowadays.
its normal length of Boulogne might fall into Luden- dorff's hands, retorted: "Jamais, crumpled and broke-hind them- jamais, jamais, adding that the selves been overwhelmingly out- numbered and stretched and strain- "Bataille du nord est finie," It
ed beyond endurance? looked, as one historian has said. that it was rather the British Army that was finished. 11 was in
But in England Haig's Order these circumstances that Sir
roused men as a blow will rouse Douglas Haig's famous "Backs to them. The Daily News said the wall"
A professor says it's not ensy written. message was
Englishman worthy of the name This Order of the Day to the troops could read it without emotion: to distinguish between girl and appeared in our newspapers. on
unfit officers seconded to Govern- boy students, because of their
All ho needs The
to do, April 13, four days after
ment departments asked for fresh costumes. had
avatch a couple second German onslaught
medical boards, men recovering however, is to begun. In it Haig declared the
from wounds hurried to adjutants talking; the one that blushes will enemy had already thrown 106
ปี Divisions into battle, enduring the in depots volunteering for Flanders be the boy.
like 1914 once most reckless sacrifice of human again. It was life, that words Tailed to express more. The New York World said his own admiration of the resist not only the British army
civilisation had its back to the ance offered, and that the French wall: an army of five millions was were moving rapidly and in great force to their support. He went spoken of. Sir John French
the Horse Guards was talking about having to repel an invasion. "Many among us are now tired At that time nobody under 51 There is no other course could join London's Special Con- open to us but to fight it out! stabulary; chickens were 38. 6d. a Every position must be held to the b., munition-makers were
With our backs to the|sionally paid sums of £100,000 last man. wall and believing in the justice twice over, the Kaiser was protest in a Ꭲ
of our cause, each one of us must ing against the "low and sordid fight on to the end. The safety of methods" of his enemics, a New our Homes and the Freedom of Conscription Bill raised the age to or four days Mankind like depend upon the 61. Within three
A dentist says married couples conduct of each one of us at this of Haig's Order It was seen that often come together for an critical moment.” No such Order the danger of crucial disaster was traction. Trust a woman to have had been issued since the war be-over. The Guards and the Aus-it out with her husband. gan. The words were as startlingtralians had closed the gate. The As a crack of thunder from overcast sky and as illuminating as [ebb began and never ceased till the New summer jackels are being
to firemen, The Portuguese, an issued ---but no more than a flash of war was over. sheet lightning. Lloyd George dis-ironist has said, won the war by Blazers? liked the proclamation-thought it running away. It is true at all had our temporary betrayed evidence that Haig was events that
Some golf caddies have to walk rattled. At British G.I.Q. critics collapse been less complete, final
day. That's carrying.. not so soon have miles existed also who pronounced it a victory might mistake-arguing that it would been ours.
things too far!
The Labour Department and the Veterans
seleet Administration
War men for CCC work; the Department does the enrolling. and feeds and clothes the men constructs and operates the camps: the Interior and Agriculture De- partments lay out work for the meil. It is on the CCC model that Mr. Roosevelt has fashioned the A new division new works set-up. under the National Emergency Council will accept applications. see that they are in proper form and turn them over to the various departments. A special board over which the President will wield a controlling hand will have final
He found
even more
ticklish, the question of dismissing them. By pressing present bu- reaus. into service and enlarging only where necessary, the President avoids these troubles to a large extent. He sets up an organisa- tion that may be enlarged diminished at will. Overhead will be kept
minimum. The tendency toward permanence will be much less and the political con- sequences much less serious.
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| Silver Jubilee. It was only nat-authority over allotments. But in
ural that the opportunity pro-
general, existing machinery will be used. When he was creating new vided by the presence of those federal bureaus so rapidly, Pre- overseas Premiers should besident Roosevelt began to hear taken full advantage of, for the cries of "bureaucracy".
some of the corporations he set up purpose of discussing matters of
vetoed by the Comptroller General. mutual concern and interest. In Every now bureau brought the this connection, the Home problem of hiring more people; of patronage; the Government has maintained the the problem
question of how to bring the new closest possible touch with the employees eventually under the Dominions during the recent ten-merit system, or, sion in Europe, acquainting them fully of the factors on which Britain's policy has been | based. Suggestions... were
rent some few weeks back to the effect that the Dominion visitors had been upproached with a view to discovering their reactions regarding possible complications, on the Continent or elsewhere, in which Britain might find her- self to be involved. But these reports were categorically denied when it was officially stated that
A STICKING, ROCKER ARM · no attempt had been or would be made to get the Dominion re- A sticking rocker arm in the be luc to presentatives to commit them-contact-breaker may selves to any definite form of swell. In the majority of cases, damp, which causes the fibre to action in some hypothetical however, it sticks because of in- contingency. Imperial defence sufficient lubrication. questions have, however, been
Only one drop of thin machine freely discussed, but the nature oil should be given to the pivot every 5000 miles. More is not only of these, as indicated in 3
unnecessary, but harmful. It is message to hand yesterday, has
not surprising that the motorist been kept strictly private. The forgets this duty when it has to be precise position of the Domin-performed so infrequently. ions in regard to military com- mitments has not been clarified to the extent to which constitu- tional rights are under the Statute of Westminster. Under that Statute, each Dominion is free to adopt its own policy in regard to foreign affairs, though in- all are united by common terests symbolised in their com- mon allegiance to the Crown, The system, such as it is, how- ever, stood the test of the Great War, when the Dominions united wealth as a whole, heart and soul with the Mother-view of Empire, based on land. Actually, the Imperial operation and collective res- Defence Committee provides the ponsibility; is slowly emerging. machinery for consultation in In the early years of King reign, the Empire regard to military policy, but | George's. though each Dominion is res asserted its unity by voluntary ponsible for the maintenance of concerted action. Then came a its own land and air defences, period in which the purely the burden of providing for formal ties were weakened by Bul now, 28 an Imperial defence as a whole falls consent. on Great Britain. That burden American journal has been at is, by the turn of events in pains to point out, the world various parts of the world, grow looks to the British Empire for ing appreciably, raising issues of a new affirmation of solidarity security of common concern and which will make its united voice importance to the Common-effective in the cause of peace.
When oiling the rucker armi pivot it is a good plan to have a look ut the contacts. It should be ucen that they are free from grease 'or oll, that they are not blackened or burned, and that the netting is cor rect; this last mentioned by means of a feeler gauge:------
If burned or blackened, the con- tacts should be touched up with a very fine jeweller's file and then cleaned with a clean rag damped with petrol."
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A man who owns his own bust- ness was recently chosen as the
American." "average
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D = Girls who dress to kill usually cook the same way.
People are wrong in thinking it Is only the juice of the grapefruit that is beneficial, states a health authority. More in it than meets the eye?
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One of these days, some of these favourite counters on the share market will move up len cents; and that'll be real news.
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A local schoolmaster is strongly in favour of corporal punishment. Well, one thing about it-It does make boya amart.
A travel writer says Welah villages have a fascination of their own. Some of them certainly have a peculiar spell..
A schoolboy has been absent from his studies for the best part of six months, pretending sick- ness. He seems to have an in- Anite capacity for faking pains.