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THIS
BRUTAL CODDLING
NE of the things
which
most con-
stantly amazes. me
is the difference between the various parents I meet.
They range from the "let-the- youngster - rough - it-and-learn how to live" school (to which I lean Gstrongly) to the "don't-let the dear child - do any thing-the- doctor - doesn't- approve" school.
By Collin Brooks
Intolerable
Comfort
But the really odd thing about the convict was that he left prison on a Monday morning and was in the city until recaptured late on the Tuesday-still in his robe.
The other day I was in a home Having had the wit to realise where the fourteen-years-old son that so clad he would not adver- Tel. 27778-9 had won a box of chocolates in tige his profession or criminal the world, he Home contest, and its arrival propensities to could hardly have caused more might have been expected to horror if it had been a box of realise that in our crazy world people will not tolerate any dynamite.
summer dress so comfortable, so rational and so dignified as pyjamas and bath robe, unless it be in a sandy beach where the sand gets up the legs and This wretched youth had not gadflies can sting the ankles. only his studies but all his amusements planned to a hair by a time-table, und took a strict- ly regulated diet.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 6. 1937.
PEACE, BUT NOT AT ANY PRICE
Planning
His Life
I
*
☆
were
HAVE been wondering what
in his later years Barrie's thoughts of his native village.
Believe it or not. he was a
Long after Renan had left the first-class youngster and no pri Church he was asked what were There are some mothers who his emotions to the Faith of his believe strongly in the principle youth. that childhood should be made
-OR, "Let The Youngster
Rough It"
One of the tragedies of the present world situation is the failure to recognise that there
"Off, the coast of Normandy," is a price to be paid for peace just as surely as there is a price
as smooth and happy as possible, he replied, "there is a sunken see it, but to be paid for war. Peace and
that children should see the village. None can „Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra. neutrality, or mere passivity.world as a snug and well-protect- legend says that when the tide is high from under, the waves means necessarily ed fairy tale in which they are
can be heard the faint tolling of ..Xavier Cugat's Orchestra, are by no
fortunate heroes and
At times from terms, as
a church bell. some the synonymous
The men who stay notice no to read biography properly. It the sunken Church in my heart change, for they help to make it. is caused by the common fault Dunne Berigan Orchestra. people seem to imagine. Cour-heroines.
This would be an excellent I, too, hear the faint tolling of a The men who go must either be of reading history backwards. age and a willingness to take
content with their memories or
If any one takes the trouble to ..Kay Thompson's Orchestra.
risks are as much the price that method of raising a family if the bell."
To those of us whom destiny overlay a cherished beauty with think for a while over the career of Beaconsfield, whose own ad- has to be paid for peace as they family had not some day to face
the real world and if it did not has driven from early scenes to now actualities.
new surroundings the townships
I sometimes think that men vice was "read no history, read Xavier Cugat's Orchestra, are in time of war.
involve constant parental lying of our childhood remain as sen- like James Barrie would have only biography," or of Moltke, away from danger may perhaps about life.
timentally precious as was the been happier if they had stayed or of Theodore Roosevelt, or Lin- F.T.....Eddy Duchin's Orchestra.
postpone war. It certainly can-
Church to the agnostic Renan.
in the place of their early adora- coln, or Edgar Allan Poe, or Whitman, it becomes clear that not avert war; it may make it
what in the telling seems a fated life in the living was a sequence of erratic accidents.
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The True
Kindness
At times the memory stirs, tion. and a nostalgia arises to fret the there can be no heart. And
centre.
The
successful
Reading
Backwards
The biographer can detect that this led to that, but the man him- self must have been bewildered
vations of mine about suc- and effect in his career.
Myriads
Of "Ifs"
Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra, more certain and beyond doubt more disastrous when it does
Nobody but a brute would wil- return, for time is ruthless and These facts are clearly
The flourishing financier-goes- realised by those who are defully andden a child, but it may changes all things.
be eventually more brutal to
back to the little riverside vil- manding that collective security shelter a child too much and toulage, and finds it a murky rail- FIRED by some recent obser- by the apparent lack of cause as embodied in the Covenant of long and then expect it to handle
way the League of Nations, shall be its adolescent or adult affairs writer or painter leaves London cess-that almost meaningless or Paris to visit again the unnd word-a reader who is at that made the cornerstone of British without cruel hurt.
dunes of his boyhood and finds stage of life where forty still foreign policy. They have It is question on which there, them covered with golf links. seems middle-aged tells me that critics in plenty amongst short-can never be agreement, but Where the wheeling terns and sighted people. Mr. Richard young parents should remember crying curlews once called over Pares, the historian, has drawn that nobody can live another's his dreaming head he stands an interesting parallel between life and sooner or later a child aghast at the lusty cry of "fore" from some large-footed Amazon the attitude adopted by
such must live for and by itself.
in loud tweeds.
Place love can be as strong as The true kindness is to see people and the policy followed by
woman love, and stronger, and that day comes, Walpole in regard to the War of that when
for those who suffer its pangs chosen aim become depressing. or later, the
either there must be no going We have all known that feel the Polish Succession. Walpole whether sooner
ing, but it is due to an inability succeeded in keeping Great Bri- wayfarer is equipped for living away or no going back.
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but because his policy was one AT a place in which I ought to
nothing discourages him more than reading the life stories of famous men.
If Disraeli had not lost money gambling in mines in his youth, if Lincoln had married Ann Biographies show so stendy a Rutledge, if Theodore Roosevelt progress from object to object had not come under the influence in a planned life, that his own of Grover Cleveland, if Moltke erratic deviations from his had retained his original nation- ality, if Poe had ceased to drink in his twenties--a myriad "ifs" bestrew the story of each.
The choice to us seems inevit- able, but to them the choice at cach "if" must have been cogi-
of mere neutrality, and not a feel a proprietary interest, STORIES ABOUT AVIATORS tated and hung in the balance.
robe.
he
have
In retrospect it seems equally inevitable that A should
different channel, but to A the met B, who turned his life into a meeting with B must have been a casual accident and its effect
Jameson abandoning medicine because. of Rhodes is but one exumpic of a man driving to- wards a known goal turning aside because of his affection for an- other, and no man knows when these strange meetings will occur in his own life.
"Sealed
genuine peace policy, in less than Collins Bay, a prison on the five years she was at war and other side of the Atlantic, a con- under far less favourable condi-vict escaped recently by the WHEN aviators meet they have conscious that the man in command
many good stories to exchange. was in dificulties,
"What's the mutter, darling?" she tions than would have been the simple expedient of walking Some of these are obviously pleasant
out in his pyjamas and a bath Inventions, but here is one which faltered.
"Something has gone wrong with bears the stamp of truth. case but for her previous neutral-i
the controls. I shall have to lund unrealised. The aviator got into difficulties,
somewhere soon." ity. The fact is that in times of
My acquaintance with the tally landing in a tree with a crash.
"But we shall crash if you do." "I was trying to make a new record,"
"I know, but it can't be helped. erisis mere neutrality cannot of insides of prisons is as yet too explained to the farmer, who Don't worry! It's going to be quite itself keep nations out of war.short and casual for me to know came hurrying along.
all right, darling, because there's a "You have," the other assured him rubber plantation directly below us." Without doubt, the wisest peace if all convicts are provided with
"You're the first man to genially.
The pilot who was giving 103 policy is collective security, bath robe and pyjamas but my climb down that tree before cilmbing
exhibition Sights had just announced which means the strength of all knowledge of the human race is up it."
Many of the best avlation stories to his passengers that he was about long and close to concern the learner who is very, very to rise 2,000 feet. for the defence of each. Un-sufficiently
this es- green.
"If anything should go wrong," he happily, efforts to enforce that make me realise that
An enthusiastic teacher had been advised cheerily, "you have only to parachuto caper was wise,
giving a long and patient explanation pull the rip cord of the policy have hitherto not succeed-
Jerome K. Jerome once said of the principal parts of a biplane to strapped to your shoulders, and you ed. The fault, however, is not that in a Turkish bath you can learn nying.
the young lady who had come to will float easily down to earth,"
"But what If the parachute doesn't woman passenger "Now I think you understand it, open!", a timid
If any one grows depressed with the principle, but with
not tell whether your neighbour don't you?" he concluded.
queried.
because events hinder a stately those nations who refuse to is a bishop or a burglar, and 1|
"That's quite all right, ma'am," operate it. If collective security know at least one bishop who,
the pilot smilingly assured her. "In and direct progress to a parti that case, you have only to go round cular and desired haven, let him were the reality that it should|if found walking near a peniten-
to the nerodrome cashter's office, and remember that every man who they'll give you your money back." has made port sailed under seal- bo, China would not to-day be tiary in a bath robe, would
An equal degree of naivete is re- One well-authenticated tale coned orders, never knowing from
passenger who menaced by Japan, whose imili-almost certainly be taken inflected by the conversation which is cerns the nervous
of his sald to have taken place between two naked the pilot, "Is this 'plane anfe?" day to day how his course was to "Yes," returned the nvintors in midair.
other be set. tary ambitions would be checked just on the off chance
do 1 "Quick.. What
do now, cryptically. "Satest on earth."
whole It is only when the by the knowledge that peace-lov. being an escaper,
Instructor?" the first queried.
The young learner had been taken ing nations would join hands and
"Goodness! I thought you were up by n very adventurous teacher, voyage is charted that the "erra- prevent aggression. It is the go ahead in China to-day. China the Instructor," the other confessed who had insisted on looping the loop tic deviations"! can be under-
hopelessly.
about half a dozen times in rapid atood, and to those who later A young American Benedict is sald succession.. knowledge that the policy en- wants peace, but not at any price.
the pupil eventually read tho chart they may well to have formed the resolution to take shrined in the League Covenant That is why she is prepared,, If his bride up in an acroplane during guerled in a dazed tone, "do you seem like skilful tackings which has been flouted in the past the necessity arises, to defend the honeymoon. He had just had the happen to remember if the earth's up alone made the ultimate triumph
over circumstance possible. which is encouraging Japan toher rights, cost what it máy.
"Oh, yes" she agreed brightly. "All except one thing.".
"And what is that?" "What makes it stay up?"
necessary lessons, and no more. or down?" Suddenly the young wife becamol
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