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NOTES OF THE DAY
DEBT TO OUR SOLDIERS
MAKING OUR LIVES
OVER AGAIN
BY ETHEL MANNIN
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NEWS AND NOTES
Scrap-Book
Edited By Eddle
ONSE upon a time there was a
Admireing Mother who took.. her son to the Manidger of a local noosepaper and said:
"This is my Erbert. He's a clevver lad-you ougt to see him takeing off Jackie Cooper. He knows all the film stars' ages off
"Thus the war terminated, and with it all remembrance of tho 'veteran's¤ services." So wrote
I could have my time over for, and don't need, opportunity More Scraps From Eddie's Napier in concluding his history of again, catchee getting me served up to theat on a plate; they the Peninsular War. Britain ried!" one frequently hears diemake their own.
gruntled husbands and wives- The most we could hope for in was left with an enormous debt, 'n
particularly wives asserting. the wood of second chances would dissatisfied people, gaining peace They usually add the rider, "If I be not to repeat some of the more
easily avoidable mistakes. without tranquillity. greatness could know what I know now !"
It in dear to us all, this illusion without intrinsic strength, the pre that given a second chance we
I, for example, would not in sent time unday, the future dark should do better for ourselves than youthful ignorance sign away my and threatening. He might have we have managed to do. "If I copyrights, so that years later, to Imy amazement and horror, imma been writing of the end of the could have another chance, World War, so closely do conditions wouldn't go into business," declares ture work which I had thought tally-all except the first sentence. the tired business man; he likes buried and forgotten for ever There never was a war anywhere, to think he'd go to sea, or indulge reappeared in book-form for the a secret ambition to "write," or do bewilderment of my admirern and at any time, after which a nation aimhost anything but be tied to an the delight of my enemies. has made such faithful and strenu- office. If he had done this, instead If I could be switched back to by hart; he can take the wire- ous effort to help those who had of that, he thinks everything would 1026 I would go to America with less to bits and put it back aggain; he can ride our Sam's have been "different."
out drinking wood-alcohol. suffered from service in the war.
of
minor moterbike; and can tell you all But would it?
comparatively I'm not so sure: ports Of the extent of that effort the I have an idea that, given the things I would no do again given the interport soccer teams sinse country in reminded by what the
same personalities, with a seconda second chance such things as he was six. He wants to be a Pensions Minister said on his visit chance our lives. would work out not going to certain parties, be- Edditer." to Edinburgh recently. In money pretty much the same in the end, cause I should know they were a
And the Manidger looked at alone the work has been stupend- that we'd find ourselves, even-waste of time. I wouldn't write ous: more than eleven hundred tually, merely having gone by my "Confessions"—if I could help Erbert and said he thought
it..
Erbert would make different route to the same destinn-
good million pounds expended by the tion.
But there's the rab-how can we Edditer with all them quallificka- know that under the same circum- Ministry during the last twenty
The wife, for instance, who, atances, given a second chance, our tions, but what a pitty they had years. More than a million men, after having messed up her own reactions wouldn't be precisely the got a Edditer allreddy. women, and children are bene- and somebody else's life, discover same in all matters controlled by, ficiaries of this expenditure. Pen- that she is not of the stuff that or anyhow affected by, tempera- sions and allowances fixed, and good wives are made, likes to think ment? It would be casy, given a that I some benevolent omnipo-second chance, not to sign away unalterable, at a time when the cost
tence could switch her back to the my copyrights; I should be only of living was much higher than it year of her marriage, this time too glud of the chance not to; but is now. That can be said of no remembering all the mistakes she in the matter of what I would or other country involved in the war. has made since then, she would would not write, whom I should or Thousands of men still require know better.
should not love, how can I say? medical service, either permanently
born different," I fail to ece any Short of being born again and in hospital or because of old' in-
reason to suppose that I should be juries making themselves felt
have more sensibly-anyhow_for after all those yeurs, And besides
long-than the first time. Com- this, voluntary bodies of all sorts.
mon sense would not, I fear, con- Among which the Legion has a dis-
tinue indefinitely being the better tinguished part, work incessantly Second Chances" knowledge gotten sentimentality,
Back in a Barrlesque "Wood of part of an innate romanticism and to alleviate the misfortunes which out of experience might prevail the war has brought upon multi-for a time, but that combination that there is in my philosophy But honesty compela me to add tudes. All this constitutes a fine of sentimentality, romanticism, more cause for regret over oppor
emotionallemtunities missed than for those record, and despite the lapse of pussessiveness and terest in foreign affairs amongst many years there is no sign of any which, one rond or the other, led taken and used not wisely but too Erbert could get bisy with "How
one in the first place to the altar well. Not that, looking back over slackening of a true and practical or the register office, would inevit- my four and thirty years, I can Horachius Kept the Bridge.” national sympathy for the men who ably do so again-unless a differ- honestly feel that I have missed did what they belleyed to be their ent temperament went with the much. duty,
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second chance, for though we
"It is a pitty," sighed the Admircing Mother.
"Such, a clevver lad, too. He can draw Mickey Mouse with one hand be- hind his back, and you ought to hear him say 'The Wreck of.
your poetery for the gentleman." Erbert; suy the Yesperuss."
"It was the scooner Resperuss
" piped Erbert.
don't The Manidger said bother Just now, Erbert; and if you are willing to Start At The Up we might find you a job. Bottom And Work Your Way
Start on Monday. And so say. ing he dissappeared before
Erbert started on Monday, change in various ways during the cannot feel, therefore, anywhen they gave him a pair of course of the years as a result of very strong desire for second sissors, pot of paste, pad of what life docs to us, we do not chances, for myself, nor have I, as
"All you gotter do," they told
After a time, it being a hot day Erbert thought he would like a ice, and acordingly went out in serch of same, When he came back, the paste and the papers had got ori micksed and they were a tangled mess on the floor neerly as high as Erbert.
the general public to a greater extent than for many years past, People who have not hitherto paid much attention to the col- lective pence system are begin-
change fundamentally. Your in will have been gathered from these paper, and put him beside a big ning to ask precisely what sanc-
dividualist goes on being an in- few remarks, any great faith in pile of papers. In following the lead of Belgium, dividualist, though perhaps less the value of second chances could tions are, and what membership Holland and some other countries, aggressively and flamboyantly so they be, since the things which, of the League of Nations really and establishing a National Film we learn to repress and control, given a second chance; we would him, is cut this paper into involves. It is of interest at this Library through the agency of the and In the end the old Adam and important thinge, things like back these sheets of paper, and then but we cannot eradicate or add to, not do again are the relatively un-pieces. Then paste 'em onto
wrong horse; stage, therefore, to look into the British Film Institute, England has the old Eve must reassert them- ing the
lending you send the lot up to the subbs." taken a notable step forward. As selves. Your business man goes money to the wrong person, going main provisions of the League a reservoir of historical informan to sea instead, of going into the to boring parties; but as to the
"Okay," said Erbert. Covenant. By Article 10 of tion, and as a museum of out-city; he has a wife in every port | major errors, such as marrying too instead of settling down with early, or too late, falling in love that Covenant, the signatories standing cathetic experiences, the banker's daughter... and finds with the wrong person, grieving pledge themselves "to respect
library is likely to prove a life at sea every bit as monoto- and worrying over worthless things most useful organisation. In- nous as life in a city office, and and worthless people, choosing this and preserve against external cidentally, the Alms the library has R nearly RO profitable, and career instead of that—I aco no aggression the territorial and already secured show the great either he throws it up and goes help for us, human nature being
back to the idea he first thought what it is. existing political independence | pace at which technical cinema of, or he sticks it till he retires; Perhaps when I am old and grey of all members of the League." | progress Is accelerating. They and it all much the same in the and full of sleep I shall regret that In case of aggression or threat reveal that a satisfactory mechani-end, the woman he finally marries I didn't get into an aeroplane and cal standard was attained much much the same as the banker's fly to Bagdad at the suggestion daughter and their house cluttered and invitation of a romantic young
Poor Erbert. He did try hard Council shall advise upon the than it was with the early silent only fewer of them. means by which this obligation aims; and that it has been reached
who thought it would be a good Extra, Late Finel, Late Nite “Ah, but if I had taken such and idea for us both if we did a tour | Finel, Finol Nite, and Ulose of shall be fulfilled." Article 1 more quickly still in the matter of such a chance when it was pre-of Persia together...
Play Edditions came and went, states that "any war or threat colour films. But the main purpose sented to me," your believer in the Perhaps I shall tell myself then and he was still trying to un- of war, whether immediately of the library is not to record the blessing, of seconil-chances, pro- that if I could have another chance ravvel that tangled heap uppon
tests, affecting any of the members of history of the films, but to reveal thing worth-while."
"I might have done some- the claims and duties and devotions the floor.
it Is anwhich made me turn down the pro- the League or not, is hereby how the flims can record the history amiable and a comforting illusion; position the first time wouldn't But some peaple are born declared a matter of concern to of men and women.
Its present but the people capable of the worth count, and I shall hug the warm-jerdalists. And when a fellow the passessions (which are rapidly in. while things and with a real de-ing illusion that "if I had my time knows all the film stars' ages off
creasing in number) indicate that sire to achieve them, don't wait its service to historians n's a commentary on popular taste will be invaluable. Hitherto writers have been compelled to rely for evidence of this kind on such things as novels and plays, but the witness of these cannot be as reliable as is that of box-office film successes, for
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or danger of aggression "The more quickly in the case of talkies up with the same sort of things, man whom I had never met butto sort it all out; but the Late.
the whole League, and Lengue shall take any action that may be deemed wise and effectual to safeguard the peace various of the nations." The
measures to be taken in the event of any member of the League resorting to war in disregard of the obligation to submit all dis putes either to arbitration or none of them judicial settlement are clearly attained the popularity of the set out in Article 16. Such an pictures.
act is to be regarded as "an act
of war against all other mem-
has probably ever
bers of the League, which It will thus be seen that the undertake immediately to sub- League Covenant definitely lays ject the aggressor member to down
procedure which
the
"the severance of all trade or should be followed in such financial relations, the prohibi- crisis as that which has tion of all intercourse between now arisen. The trouble, how- persons residing in their terri- ever, as we have previously re- tory and persons residing in the marked, is that the nations com- territory of the Covenant break-prising the League have not in ing State, and the prevention of past instances of aggression all financial, commercial or per-agreed to act in unity, with the sonal intercourse between per- consequence, that the League sons residing in the territory of Covenant has remained little any other State whether a mem- other than a dead letter. There' ber of the League or not." | can, however, bé no doubting the- Article 16 goes on to declare:j original intentions of the found- "It shall be the duty of the ers of the League, nor of the
·Council in such cases to recom- nations which have joined it. mend to the several Govern- The point now being faced is ments concerned what effective whether the collective system in- military, naval or air force the herent in the League Covenant (members of the League shall is to be operated. If the issue is severally contribute to the arm-side-stepped once again, we may ed forces to be used to protect | well doubt whether the League the Covenants of the League." is really worth preserving.
(Continued on next Column.)
"You've always complained that the boss never knows who in doing the best work. Now you're afraid this substitute is
going to make a big impression on him while you're gone."
by hart, there is hope for him in Newspaperland.
They made Erbert crittic.
a film
Strictly Business We went into Lane, Craw- ford's the other day:
"We want to buy a little present for our wife," we said to one of the anappy girls there.
"Could I Interest you in a bathing costume?” she asked, in accents sweet and low,
"You could, girlie,” we replied, "but let's fix up about the present first."
Now why did she slap our. face?
Safety First
Nuts and bolts
On flivvers
Flying through the night Result in spilli
When bolts are loose And gaol when knuts are tight-
over again" I would have gone, though in my heart I know that given the same conditions the same reasons for not going, would pro-
valli
Which is, I submit, "an ilua- tration of the whole truth concern- Ing this second-chance business';; ke love, humanity, takes it to Ită, heart to keep it warm.