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FRIDAY, DEC. 13, 1936.
FUTILE PEACE EFFORTS
"Whatever may have been the facts behind the Anglo-French efforts to reach a possible basis for the settlement of the Italo- Ethiopian dispute, it is clear that the British Government has been forced to take note of the storm of criticism which has followed disclosures made in the Press features of the peace plan. There was a fear that, in an effort to placate France, Britain I might go far further, in making concessions to Italy, than public opinion would tolerate. As a consequence, there has been con- siderable modification of the terms
WATCH
your step
to-day. It is Friday the Thirteenth, the monarch of all hoodoes:
FRIDAY
13
DECEM
Ill-luck is always associated, by the superstitious, with a Friday. And when the Friday falls on a thirteenth, as it has done twice this year!
Ill-luck on Fridays un- doubtedly arises from the Crucifixion, as probably do the digits 13, for it was this number of persons who sat down to the Last Supper,
By the Western and Eastern Churches the Fri- days throughout the year, except when Christmas falls on that day, have ever been
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DECEA
Friday, The 13th
SUPERSTITION! The peculiar, belief in charm or numbers, either for good or ill. How many of us will sit
down to a dinner party that totals thirteen guests? Yet many people are convinced that the number thirteen is
lucky,
"
Superstitiously inclined people will watch their steps to-day, however, for it is Friday the Thirteenth,
the monarch of all hoodoos.
Tradition says that Adam and Eve were expell- ed from the Garden of Eden on Friday; it was on a Friday morning that Cain is said to have killed Abel and the beheading of John the Baptist and the Crucifixion took place on a Friday.
observed
There were thirteen at table at the Last Supper. And so Friday the Thirteenth has become a particularly ominous date in the minds of the superstitious.
IN Hongkong there are no of St. Monance, in Fife, where
rooms numbered 13 in the superstition is still rife.
Yot in Scotland, Friday is as days of European hotels, since the room
numbers have a dight, cor- considered a lucky day—if you the Passion. Ac- responding with the floor num- intend to get married.
Another old superstition is cording to Mahom- ber, before the room number. medan tradition, Friday, Other parts of the world get that of the falling picture.
met with all over the world. which is the Moslem sabbath, over the difficulty by numbering This superstition is one that is The breaking of a mirror, of was the day on which Adam the room 12Å. was created, entered Para- dise and was expelled, and it was the day of his repen- tance, the day of his death, and will be the Day of Re- surrection.
FRIDAY
*
•
An eclipse of the moon is the course, presages seven or twelve subject of superstition to Chin years' bad luck, depending on esc, and there is much beating where you are living. This of gongs to stop the frog from superstition is supposed to have eating it.
orginated in the olden days,
A Chinese feminine supersti- when a maiden looked upon her tion is that it is awfully unlucky reflection in the placid stream to say that a baby is heavy, and the reflection was disturbed Quite the reverse to proud by an enemy throwing a stone. European mothers, who would into the water.
Salt was a symbol fel insulted if they were told
-endurance-and-friendship-in-the-
of
the thirteenth, us- ually falls twice a year. In 1934 it fell in April and July,
and November. The other fragile little mite. and next year will fall in March that their baby was a poor, month in this year in which it
ell as Specially in Marine EUROPEANS are no supersti- shoulder because It was on the fell was September. eircles, beyond all peradventure tious. A Chinese superstition left shoulder that the evil spirita
an unlucky, day-that is, if The story goes that a shipow. ner was determined to kill this particular belief, which is as strong as proofs of Holy Writ to the superstitious sailorman. He built a ship which he named Friday, she was launched on a Friday, the keel was laid on a Friday, she sailed on a Friday the thirteenth, and--she was never heard of any more.
you're superstitious.
#
#
HE world is full of supersti TH
tion. True, the Bible warns us against "the working of Satan with all power and signs and wonders," but superstition is hard to squelch.
days of old, and the spilling of it was regarded as an outrage against hospitality. So they not the only threw salt over their left
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is that the spirit of a person who rested. commits suicide will haunt the house for three years, when DUT superstition is ailly, isn't another suicide will take place. it? None of us like to be- Strangely enough, this was lieve, in this modern age, that
we are swayed by it.
Yot, dear reader, try yourself Indians have a very awkward
Friday, the fulfilled in a case last month.
you lend a friend money, not to Thirteenth. Would you like to take a walk under a ladder, superstition. It is bad luck, if out. To-day is insist on its return.
carrying a loose handful of salt, look over your left shoulder as a COME Scots people are among black cat with a crossed-eye the most superstitious in crosses in front of you, and then the British Empire. Only the invite twelve of your friends to other day we rend of the village join you for supper?
•
HOODOO
You Do?
By Ed. Kelly, Father of 13 that in the former case you may geL
4
of the Russian funeral ritual, in ceased to be the Kelly feature away with it. Which accounts for
and become the Kelly opitaph.
the fact that we-
Our instructions from a cold- But our progress may better be blooded Editor this morning are reviewed from the Hoodoo Book of the Great Hokus Pokus Hoodooor, reminiscent of those the Em-which, as you know, is kept by Judas. [peror of Abyssinia might tell his
"At 10 am. I em the suspect Kelly, wearing a green tio, enter the Hong- Go air force ("Out there, there are sixty Italian aeroplanes.
kong Hotel under a Indder, con- force them down!")
tinuously tripping over a black cat To be exact they were:
which he had on a string lead, and "Mr. Kelly. Today is Friday the panion. Notwithstanding that it was accompanied by a pigeon-tood com-
The difference between defying a decision, which he consumed in a tenth. Kindly defy superstition." Friday the 13th, be immediately made superstition and defying orders is tankard.
millions to the pockets of labouring people. An oil embargo against Italy, for instance, seriously piled, would-go-farther than my other sanction in forcing a reason able peace upon that nation. The
Many men, for instance, re- Committee of Eighteen at Geneva, which Italy and Ethiopia would during the next little while, must fuse to allow three cigarettes to
print it will probably have be prepared to discuss a termina- decide whether or not to the oil be lit from one match. This BY the time this appears in
superstition is said to arise out tion of the hostilities; but that to the sanctions list. We shall re end would beat be served by the if the embargo is enforced, hew which three after candles are lit process of enquiring from the vital a thing is oll in the successful by the same taper. To supply two parties what these condi-
It is more the same method of illumination tions are, and not by formulat- running of a nation.
lubricant for
sewing to three worldly things, like ing specific proposals. Even- than a
It keeps cigars and cigarettes, is regard- tually, it may be found possible to secure a settlement on the an air force in action; makes possi-ed as an act if impiety, and hence
as unlucky. basis of territorial adjustments, ble the swift supply of any army but at this stage in the conflict in the field; runs transports and it is futile to even put forward troopships; literally feeds the navy. plans which call for the surren- Next to men, guna and ammunition, der of territory by Ethiopia. oil, and plenty of it, is the first The position is quite clear. Italy, by her own acts, has been declared the aggressor; her troops are on Ethiopian soil; the slaughtering of the defenders oll in the event of war? Suppos- With the circumstances thus, Ing her supply were cut off; sup- how is it reasonable to expect posing her trade routes were made the Ethiopians to consider terms too dangerous for tankers to travel; involving loss of sovereignty in where would Britain go for fuel respect of considerable areas of for her ships and her aircraft? their country? Apart from any To her coalfields. That is why the other considerations, the with recent experiments in distilling all drawal of the invaders from from coal are watched with such Ethiopia would appear to be a
great interest in Great Britain. necessary pre-requisite of peace
and innocent civilians continues.
necessity of force.
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modern
lighting
Whore, would Britain be without
of
conversations. But Italy is The industry is in its infancy; for clearly in no mood at the moment in 1931 only a trifling 38,000,000 of oil were produced by to listen to any such demand. gallons
That is little more Mussolini's spoken words plainly this means. reveal the Italian attitude. In than a drop in the proverbial August, he declared, "We shall bucket. Britain's peace time.ncedą go forward until we achieve the
arc 2,800,000,000 gallons Fascist Empire." In October, petroleum and its by-products each he averred, "Not only is our year. But the volume required in- Army on the march towards its creases stendily. It is a matter for objective, but forty million Ita-
gratification to know that those lians are marching in unison with it." Here we have a clear great coal mines which once were endorsement of the polley of the backbone of Britain's economic warlike aggression. It will thus life are still of immense potential. be seen that there is little pros- value. They may yield the black pect of bringing the warring gold for which nations, in the past, parties together in such a spirit have fought and schemed prodigi- as to permit of a settlement of ously. The resuscitation of the the dispute. The only alterna- coal mining Industry tive is for the League members to press on with their penalties against the aggressor, in the hope that the effect thereof may eventually induce Italy to bow to the force of world, opinion.
maybe
brought about by the distillation' · of oil from this commodity, and that in Itself would be a boon to Britain. The experiment, for It Is hardly. beyond that stage, is well worth cultivation.
Gamblers are notoriously as to certain superstitions colours and numbers, and to meeting a funeral, or a black cat, and many other ill omens.
"Jane's a riot when she gets started about her husband.
"At this point I succeeded 'in 'dis lodging a portion of the colling, but its effect was diverted by an umbrella the suspect Kelly had raised inside the building, and it merely demolished the suspect Kelly's friend.
"Kelly then sat down to tlfin, after frat removing his shoes and placing them on the table. Next he emptied the contents of the salt-cellar on the table, and carefully arranged two knives in a cruciform pattern.
he
"This ritual convinced another friend sitting at the next table that Kelly should be humoured until police nasistance was forthcoming, so accordingly gave Kelly a cigar and strongly advised him to soll sterling ms the dollar was bound to rise to 1. 8d. this afternoon.
The Hokus Pokus: And was “this tip successful?
The Hokus Pokua: Excellent. The Hoodoo: No, your Unpleasant
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The Hoodco: Unfortunately, your Unpleasantness, the auspect Kelly had no money with which to speculate, so could not take advantage of the tip.
The Hokus Pokus: You're fired, So now, we're waiting for the next blow to fall. As we walked under the. ladder we picked up a five-dollar note, We sold our black cat for 60 cents, and the boy forgot to bring the chit- for our timin. "Na
next
If we finally survive, our Dofying Date will be March 18, 1935..
P.8. But we tricked them, all the same. Wo've had our fingers, crosseri all day."