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PARTY POLITICS
AGAIN?
NOTES OF THE DAY
AIR PARITY
of
JULY 8, 1935.
MYSTERY OF HUMAN
BRAIN
By T. S. DENHAM
Apparently the formula equality which for a time halted naval competition, Is now Europe's chlef hope for proventing a race in air armamenta. Mr. Anthony Eden's statement to the House of Commons that "the yardstick for the collective security of the four solved than the remarkable "time Edmund Gurney on one occnaion great powers concerned is parity" sense" that lies buried deep in the made
a suggestion to à Aubject discloses the immediate direction of subconscious mind of every man under hypnosis to be fulfilled in 30 British policy. And Britain's voice and woman. What is the alarm days. When the subject came out. In likely to be decisive in present clock that enables you to go to bed of the trance he had no recollection negotiations for an air Locarno. Germany's draft for an alr agree with the resolution that you will of the suggestion, but when some ment to include France, Italy and wake at six a.m., and be reason-time later the aubject was asked Britain, has evoked Bome enably certain that you will not over under hypnosis how long had pass- thusiasm in Downing Street. The sleep? It may be the mysterious ed he correctly answered, "Sixteen British Government is also aubmit function which we call habit that days." Evidently the subconscious ting a draft, and it is evident that
more interesting problem of which may vary from a few minutes
No proline unto a fow weeks.
considerable bargaining must be wakes us at the samo time every mind was in some way counting Indulged before any final arrange morning, regardless of the varia-the days as they passed, ticking ment is roached. But Mr. Eden'stions in light and conditions, but them off on his mental calendar. parity statement forecasted the habit could not enable us suddenly basis of air strengths upon which
Numerous experiments suggest
Jung mutual assistance pact must be to change our waking time from that the subject works out the date
built.
PSYCHOLOGICAL
ADVANTAGES
under Britain's plan for inter-
arranged time.
after another planation
that must elapse,
+
to
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do
The Very Idea!
KELLY GOES REDĪ
When Bottles And Battles Held No Terrors
By Edward "Bulable" Kelly, Bolshi
DWARD Kelly, since his diuas-
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trous Incursions into the realms of debt-collecting and banking, has been morosely cust- Ing around for some other money- making occupation. Noticing in the newspapers that rebels haro obtained unduo publicity to has decided that, herein lies his future.
In short, while readers of the Telegraph will be pleased to note that an amicable arrangement has been arrived at regarding the rebel Canton cruisers Hai Chi Hal Bhen, they can not but and feel apprehensive at the fact that Mr. Kelly, at this very moment, is perched on the roof of the Tales graph building, and is realsting all efforts to get him to capitulate and come down and write next Wednesday's "Very Iden.”
In the absence of the Illustrious. Journalist the entire staff of the Telegraph has decided to pool their literary ability in an at- tempt to write a poor substitute of the story of the revolt.
But holdi Mr. Kelly in sema- phering a message
T
THE Kelly flag (Mr. Kelly is semaphoring) is
We are in the throes of a was rebellion. And when it
covered in star dust..
Kelly, who tore madly across the country warning the people that there was going to be a charge on Independence Day.
The report was believed at frat, and for a while it looked as if the American Club would be boycotted. Another of our ancestors dis- subconseieuely-pelled the ramour.
"General," he said to Washing-
We can imagine the clock in our heads as having a pendulum, whose
say, seven a.m. to six a.m.
or time when an action is to bo If you doubt the existence of a performed Immediately on receiv clock in your head try one or two ing the instructions. For instance, simple experiments. Go to bed to if a woman is instructed to night carrying in your mind a pic-something in 8 hours 35 minutes, The purity plan has certain ture of the hands of your watch ale immediately works out the psychological advantages. It i8 superficially simple. It appeals to Pointing to seven o'clock. If you time, and when the hands of her a democratic ideal of equality. enjoy normal sleep, you will find subconscious clock point to this Possibly it is the best device for when you wake that the clock in time, does ag she has been in- quieting the fears of Europe. It your mind will not fall you by more structed. This fact has been ar- fluttering, tattered and torn, certainly is preferable to un- than one or two minutes. I once rived at only after lengthy experi- from the masthead. restrained competitive building, But that is about all that can be/Cried this experiment, and to my ments, in which one possible cx- said for it. Indeed, in removing annoyance on waking found that I Stubbs Rd.
the appearance of competition while had overslept, according to my eliminated by imposing conditions. leaving untouched the real rivalry clock, by ten minutes. The failure There can be no question of "tele- comes to being in the throes of national interests, it gives a false worried me, and it was not until pay between subject and hypnot-of a rebellion, no one can Impression of security. Perhaps I reached the station to catch my iste, for many experiments have throe a rebel further than IRURE—At Wuchow, on July 5. Fer-national supervision of air arma-morning train that I found that my been made in which the hypnotist we can,
nandez Luis Irure, Chinese Mark-ments the worst forms of com-watch was nine minutes fast. The himself was not aware of the time, We threw our last rebel so far. time Chantoms Service, aged 42, polition can be eliminated. But clock in my hend nd not falled but only of the number of minutes that when he enme down he was (Shanghai and Manila papers there will remain all the temptation fafter all. please copy.)
to evade supervision, all the dif-
Said that he'd touched Mars ficulty of achieving complete
on his way through the universe, equality. And from British and When you have satisfled yourself
The most plausible explanation of and Pa chased him all the way American experience with naval that the clock in your head goes parity, it is plain that the formula
the clock in our brains seems to be to Venus. ticking even when you ure
has
We decided to become a rebel at cannot it actual defence needs of
and woman every man a waking experiment. dissimilar nations and may even asleep, try
or lesser am. on Saturday, after we'd read in the morning paper that Admiral lead to arms increases. Moreover, Looking at a clock before setting developed, to a greater
sense of rhythm. Sir Chan Chak had paid til the debts the quick convertibility of civil out for a walk and make a mental degree, B aircraft increases the difficulty of resolution to return in definite Arthur Keith has suggested that incurred by the rebel cruisers Hai defining parity. These considera- time-say one and a half hours, we acquired this sense of rhythm Chi and Hat Shen. We hope the Lions may leave air parity as still Picture to yourself what the hands millions of years ago, when our Editor of the Telegraph is reading the best immediate recourse for of the clock will look like when you prehistoric ancestors, far down in this message.
Being a rebel had run in our Europe. But they should also em-return and then forget all about the the scale of evolution, lay on the In view of the prospect of n
phasise the need for removing the time. Leave your watch behind seashore waiting for the tide to family for three or four degenera- tions. As a matter of fact, one causes rather than the mere ap and do not glance at any public come at regular intervals. General Election in Great Britain pearance of competition, the clock. When you feel it is time Whatever its origin, there is no or our ancestors was Paul Riviere either during the coming autumn bases security not
necessity for peacemaking that to return, go back. In all prob-doubt about the existence of this on armaments ability, you will find that your clock sense, and the most primitive for early next year, political feel-but on genuine good will,
points very nearly to the pre-savages, with no appreciation of melody or harmony, are strongly ings are being aroused by the
appealed to by rhythm. campaigns initiated by the NA-FRUITS OF THE JUBILEE
Practice increases the efficiency tional Government leaders, the
of this clock in your head. On One of the most remarkable
one ocension when I resolved to Labour Party and the Lloyd features of the recent Silver Jubilee return home after four and a halfbeats George faction. Indications are celebrations in Great
Britain huurs I actually felt the "urge" in
Perhaps the most extraordinary that Mr. Baldwin and his follow-along with the splendid reaffirma- the middle of the "Mastersingers thing is that we had adjusted this ton, "there will be no charge on tion of loyalty to the person of the Overture" which was being played pendulum to agree with that gen- Independence Day. We were at ers will lay special stress on the Monarch was the mutual display by a band in the park! I had sat erally adopted by civilisation, so the American Club on the last an- desirability of no immediate re- of kindliness and brotherly love down to laten, and when I felt the that we are able to count purely niversary, and the champagne was turn to party polties, but the fact ceedings. No one who heard the late, as I had forgotten all about theory. It may be put forward core. but you should see our...
which characterised the whole pro- urge", imagined that I was very arbitrary divisions such as minuten free."
and hours. This is merely
A rebel to the care, we are. My that the National Government King's voice as he talked over the the time. Imagine my surprise with equal force that the sub-wounds. Our left arm was shot is overwhelmingly Conservative radio to the world after the thanks when I arrived home exactly on concious mind counts the number away
service AL St. Paul's time!
with grape-juic-grape- in complexion is making it giving
of heart beats or breaths and uses shot at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Cathedral or his reply to the "loyal extremely difficult for the party addresses" presented to him in
them as the unit of time for cal- | We lost our right arm at the Battle culation, It is not hard to convince your- joatlook to be kept in the back-Westminster Hall later in the week
of Bannockburn. ground. Indeed, the party of can have failed to notice how deeply self of the existence of this time
We were so badly wounded at The subject is fascinating and of the famous Battles in the Penin- which Mr. Baldwin is the leader influences, says a lending American It is far more difficult to discover one in which the ordinary man, by they had never seen anyone as shot he himself was actuated by these sense" in the subconscious mind. particular interest, because it is sula that everybody remarked that us itself been indulging in a daily. And no one who mingled how it works. The problem has experimenting with himself, may we were. A Crimean shame, vigorous campaign against the with the great crowds that thronged been explored by research workers discover something of value to
the streets and the open space in who have used hypnotism on their psychical science. The explanation both our legs in these battles.
they called it. We have often lost Socialists, alleging that they aim front of Buckingham Palace can subjects. In examining the of the nature and working of the
Shortly afterwards we were ap- at government by a dietatorship have failed to observe the same mysteries of the mind, hypnotism clock in our heads can only come pointed General in the famous and the robbing of Parliament of qualities in his subjects. During acts, so to speak, as a magnifying from a vast number of experimenta, Fanling Rebellion, when the Volun-
Jubilee Week, the magistrates re-glass, and exaggerates evidency. conducted by many different people. teers revolted. most of its powers. This charge porteil less crime than
usual. The usual procedure has been to By gradual elimination of all pos- has, not unreasonably, greatly There was less drunkenness, no instruct a subject to perform sible theories we may find a hypo- angered the Labour opposition, public disorder, no wanton destruc-[certain action after a time interval, thesis that meets all conditions.
tion of the flood-lit flowers in the which has, however, been some-royal parks, no hysterical excite- what placated by a statementment. The crowds were on the made in the House of Commons best terms with the police and with by Mr. Baldwin, in the course of went by the board. Even when, as another. Social differences which he declared that "the often happened, a mass of humanity Labour Party as a whole has was squeezed into a tight space, helped to keep the flag of there was no jostling nor grumbl ing, only good-natured laughter. Parliamentary government fly-The British nation has honoured ing in the world through the not only its King but itself in the difficult periods through which more than place on record its love Jubilee celebrations. It has done we have passed." The Prime for its sovereign and its devotion Minister went on to refer to the to its constitutional liberties. It manner in which, with only self-control and discipline, pointing has given the world an example of handful of members in the to the fact that only when In- House, the Labour Party has dividuals are properly self-governed played its part as the Opposition, can nations be really free. holding its own and putting its
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case in keen debates, and added tary government. than the ill- that he made this statement be- advised charges made in party |cause he thought it was due, and pamphlets. If the charges had "because I know that they, as I, (been levelled against the extremo |stand in their heart of hearts for wing of the Labour Party, as our Constitution and for our free typified by Sir Stafford Cripps, Parliament." This declaration (they would reflect the truth, by Mr. Baldwin was described by since this noisy element has the Times as "a moving and well-made no secret of its desire to deserved tribute to the Labour break down the existing system. Opposition for their persistence, But, happily, these extremists in spite of their exiguous num- carry no real weight. On tha bera, in preserving the traditions general question as to whether of a free Parliament." It is there should or should not be a typical of the honesty and fair- return to party politics, this is mindedness of Mr. Baldwin that a matter for the electors them-. Įho should publicly make such a sclves to declde, but it seems statement, which more accurate certain, whichever way the ver- ly represents the official Labour-dict goes, that party feeling will ite attitude towards Parliamen-run high in the coming election.
We count
-
"I eat through that movie four times, and I still can't cut this blouse like the one she wore in the scene where she shot him,”.
We marched with our troops in easy stages across the country until we came into sight of the Golf Club. Then, flashing our sword, we turned to our followers and gave the "forward" command.
"At 'em, boys," we shouted, "we'll wine or dio in the attempt.'
Anyway, after we'd captured the nineteenth hole, our sturdy troops" niso shouted. Robert MacWhirter, also wanted to, shout, but said that he'd lost his voice,
In the counter charge we wore all shot.
Edditor's Note: Who made the counter charge?
Eddie's Note: We did. Wo charged for the bar counter.
Since then we have been retired on a pension, which we draw on the first day of each month. Many of our drawings of pensions have been hung in the French Academy of Art as examples of typical sketches of French architec- ture, and coples may be, obtained from us on payment of, a nominal fee-Bay, $10.
In between drawing pensions wo lend a comparatively quiet life, with nothing more exciting to do than spend 23% hours a day try. ing to puzzle out something to put in this column.
Occasionally, we accept the in- vitation of our friends to a quiet nightcap of hot whisky and a dash of soda, and if they are insistent wo will have, in seconů, On raro | occasions we have a third, and when we reach that stage we gener- ally have a fourth. After the fifth, or maybe the sixth, someons grabs our logs and somsono elso takes hold of our arms, and wò nrer dragged upstairs to our room and popred out of our clothes, And Boda.bed..
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