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In Five Minutes
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that the moment we are now passing, are more
lectrics of tyrnany; the council table, Bisurated Magnesia reaches tho charged with peril than any
with ita interplay of human under-stomach you feel the pain abate; that history has yet known. long.
as those States endure, they of the next generation and the next standing is not for them nor can it intulenco is relieved, heartburn and up behind the high will continue, to babble that such re- ever be, for when the mind is a wet sourness paks off, the feelings of It is not merely that life and can only grow
wall which dictators bulld to cut trogression is no concern of ours, if, pon, wisdom can outmanoeuvre bre-weight and oppression are lifted, and limb are menaced; they can them off from the light of reason. Indeed, by that time the modern bar- tinism every time.
in five minules the pain has disap- barism hos not swept arròss France always be replaced. The whole
It is, or should be, a matter of the peated. You con get Bisurated" structure and fabric of civilian. They will grow into adults ignor and Britain, and, with the sword, Heepest concern that the barren doc- Magnesia from all Chemists and ant of every truth that has ever given hacked us all into the likeness of trines of National-Socialism and the Stores. I advise you to get some and tion itself is threatened with a digaity to the human spielf; and in Lords Lothian, Rennell and London- sterile pride of Fascism have been try it after your next meal, destruction that would be irre- their turn, in the years to come, they dery,
imposed upon a great part of Europe, and that, indeed, for and away the parable for several generations will breed children who themselves
will start life even more handicapped The diplomatie niceties necessary greater part of Europe now dweils and would leave mankind the than their parents, in that it will be between the representatives of in the shabby half-light of semi- poorer until the day upon which necessary for them to refer back to those foreign Powers with which his dictatorship. Those things menace
relations continue to be the sun which shines on the world will ultimately cease their grandparents for any pleture Majesty's
and the of the world that could present even friendly
prevent us from officially absorbed philosophies which are the to turn.
a blurred outline of truth,
avowing what is a truth-that the blood and bones of our liberties; and All that man has gained through
Ther will know no philosophy but internai affairs of ather countries are we can no more shrug our shoulders. the centuries-all the knowledge and the culture, all the freedom and the that of national pride; no argument power to thlak-is no longer a com- but that of war. The man who thinks It is not the democracies which than we can live without eating or
heritage to be guarded by all for hoself and Insists upon a say in enace one another to-day; it is the rest without sleep. peoples, however widely their poll- ils own destiny will be their idea Fascist international which menaces iteal und economic taates may be of a criminal; blasphemy and sacrilege the democracles-a very different separated and however constantly will refer raiber to the political than pair of shoes.
THE ground of liberty," they may battle for imperial supre- to the spiritual arena. The light will
said Jefferson, who knew, hurt their eyes; the songs of liberty What we still call western civisa- will be abominable discord in their terial ruin proportionately, perhaps, what he was talking about, "must be ton
has become inimical to the cars; the compass of their brains WALL as great as they bring to-day, but in gained by Inches."
It would not hurt us, remember-| greater part of Europe, and is now have so shrunk that the measure of their wake they left no spiritual ruin.
that, to calculate how far we Gustained and guarded only by the our own will be offensive to them; To-day the maximum material ruining
great democratic Powers of our truths, which have been purged would be of no account compared have gone and with what labour we land planes is claimed by Dr. Wurls- ter who flew at a speed of 010,21 France and Enginud, with the good and tested by history, will be their with the intellectual ruin in that de- have progressed,
There sert to which a Fascist victory in
would not then be much kilometres an hour (about 380 will of those small satellite democra- Hes.
difficulty in realising that what men-m.p.h.) in a Messerschmitt plane be- Europe would drive us nil, cles whose contribution to ila guar-
aces the integrity of our liberty, how-
of the Inter- tionship is more moral than practical;.
And the men
and women who ever indirectly it may seem to do fore the Commission and, in a world that worships force,'
the Lords Lothian, dwell beneath totalitarian thrones so, is in fact, our most immediate | national Aeronautical Federation nt Rennell and Londondery are being bred for war, because war concern.
|Augsburg to-day.—Reuter.
mon
Inocy.
two
of very doubtful permanence.
IN
the last 20 years the lights
of Europe have been going out, snuffed by the wind of doctrines that
take no heed of anything but power: so that in countries where once the minds of men illuminated and enriched the heritage of us all there is now only the darkness of in- norance and the only music that
of armour and of cannon.
Beskle the intellectual darkness of Totalitariani, the menace of armed conflict as a temporary disaster is of little account. It is not so much war an wat which threatens us; what we now have to fear is that Ignorance Jato which, for generations; we should ba fung if we were to be defeated in
war by those whose ideas of statecraft run no further than to know that the government of the totally Imorant is more easily accomplished than the government of the civilised. A wholly successful totalitarianism can only be based upon the wilful degradation of the human mind, car- ried out with an eficiency as ruthless in execution as it is thorough in con- ception.
The processes of that degrada- tion, wherever they may take place, however near, however remote, are matters of immediate concern to our- velves, for a
man cannot remain
indifferent to or isolated from uny ideology or lack of ideology which animates a group of people who live unly a few yards or miles from his "own" doorstep.
What is happening in Germany, therefore, almost as much business
business of na It is the hose unhappy 60,000,000 men and women who must be turned into cretins before the Nazi oligarchy can sicep safely in their beds.
our
It is useless for such men as Lords Lothian, Rennell and Londonderry in protest that the Internal regimes of our neighbours are no concern of ours. Fortunately, that trio and their few followers have tesa importance here than they have in Berlin; for it they do not know, other people do know that you cannot wilfully de- Krade the minds of 00,000,000 people without the results having a profound effect upon the foreign policy of those responsible for that degradation.
Boys and girls are being born all the time in totalitarian States; and so
HALIFAX OFF TO BERLIN
WILL PAY CALL ON HITLER DURING VISIT
London, Nov, 12. Lord Hallax, Lord President of the Council, hus accepted the invitation to vixit Berlin and see the hunting ex- hibition. He will leave next week.
Although the visit is entirely pri- vate and unofeinl. Ilitler has intl mated that he will be glad to see Lord Halifax. The announcement is welcomed in, polttieni circles. It is taken for granted that Lord Halifax will see leading members of the Gov- ernment including Hitler, who has always been eager to meet foreign statesmen.
It is premmed that advantage will be taken of the presence of Lord Hali- fnx to broach topics of interest to Germany, particularly tho qucation of colonies. Whatever courso conversailons may take, Lord Hall- fox is assured of a cordial welcome. -Reuter Special,
the
EDEN UPSETI
London, Nov. 12. It is widely rumoured that Mr. Eden in ungry with Lord Halifax being entrusted with what he re- stards
as a mission to Germany. However, some quarters bellove these reports are exaggerated and entirely untrue on the assumption that Mr. Chamberlain is not likely to precipitate a cabinet pilt through approval of Lort inlifax without
Mr. Eden's consent.
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PearTHE GOOD EARTH
Bucks
Wang the pensant marries O-lan the slava girl and takes her to his tiny farm to live. O-lan provca a perfect wife. Bho bears htra two oons and a daughter. For labors in the fields and hor digence in their home enables Wany to earn the money with which to buy more land, until ka. has five proat fields. Tho drought, bringing famino, devor- pared la farm. Trởng. O-lan, the Calidren, and Wang's old father join the modus of Chinois from the faminestricken North and acak food and work in the great cities of the South. There, they all but die of deprivation. No volution breaka out, one day, and Olun 15 caught in the street crowds. She dá carried along in a mob of looting revolutionaries who break into the Great House of a prince. She is knocked down in the human stampedo and in- Jured. She comes to, hours later, -and-finds-a-pouch-of-- preatoué jowale, somehow overlooked by the looters. Hha doesn't know their fabulous worth, but the does know that they will bring enough money to take Wang and her family back to the farm when the drought is over.
Chapter Two
THE TAKING OF THE PEARLS
And so the jowols which Olan found took thom back to the farm
and the five great fields.
"I will buy more land,” Wang old proudly as he surveyed his land again.
Q-lan sat against the wall of the house, happy to be home. Her band warmed the pain which had never left her place the day she was in jured by the stampeding mob,
Wang eyed her anxiously. How gray and worn she looked! How different from the sturdy Olan who had ones tolled by hili nide in the fields.
Q-lan ratsed her eyes to his. “Are You going to noll the jewels to buy The land?" she aske
"Of course ha nuswered.
"All of them?" she whispered.
1a stared at her in amazement.
"I winh," he ntarted wistfully,
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the house.
travelling into the grant city with; gaging his hand, made slowly forį his father to do business there with Liu the grala-merchant.
In the big room Wang pooed ner It was on one of his visits that yously up and down, staring from Eldor Gon met the daughter of Liu | time to time at the door thru which jand a marriage contract was spoken | O-lan must coma. She plodded to-
of by their fathers,
ward him, thọn stopped in amare- ment. Was this her husband? This man in prince's clothes, with queue less hond?
|- And It was on one of his visits to the city that Wang mot Lotus Flower, the exquisite Illy of tho tea- house who changed the course of his lifu. For Lotus Flower liked men of fashion, not fatmers in long quauan. Lotus Flower kad jawela and satins. And Lotus Flower know well how to ning much musio as would make mon reel with desire for her beauty.
vot.
"You sent for me?" she asked wonderingly.
Wang hesitated as be felt his pride and exultation give way to pity_mingled with shame.
"Yes, you, I did," he began. Ha bent his head. "I've taken off my braid. In town they all woar short hair nowadays." Ha glanced at her quickly. "A man can't afford to be an old-fashioned fool...and these clothon — do you like them7"
O-lan's voice was low. "If they please you”
Crafty Uncle took Wang for his first visit to the tea-house. They were dressed in plain, homemade clothes, mon apart from the city merchants in fine jackets and vel- Wang gazed uneasily about klm. Haunting muzio permeated the room, kie Ha-turned his head in its direction, and saw Lotus Flower for the first time. On the raised platforma he saw her, fragile as a blossom, hor tiny hands wear- ing a spell on her luté, her exquisite | naked, "If you wish-to-tell-me-the
Į
"I-I look at them sometimes," she whispered. "And I thought of having them made into daringa — not for me" nhe added hastly. "For Bider Bon's bride.”
"I need them," ho replied. "Gilva them to me,”
Olan thrust her hand into her bosom and took out a little sack. The pearls rolled out in her hand and lay there, catching the sunlight.
"I know I am ugly, she murmur ed, "and not to be loved." Wang frowned to hide his shame na sho pressed the pearls into his band. Ho tried to face her but 'couldn't.
"All we have now came from you," be sald slowly. "That is tho truth and I say it but-but now — *
"But now?" she whispered. Homehow Wang could not con- Unue. And then, at long last, be camo close to her. "There's a wo man," he cald in a low tone. "Not such n
"You must understand," he said. "Timen have changed for us. It would please me if you would try you ons as you. Not as good as to change with tham as I bave." But she is beautiful?" asked
Olan's steady gaze stopped him. | O-lan.
"Why did you send for me?” she "She is beautiful," he answered. -O-lan-perased her hand-to" her heart, "You are a man," she
At last he knewthátonly Lotus Flower mattered inhis life.
day ho struggled
"Well,"
parried Wang,
Silence dropped between
then paused, "I wish I could keep fent pacing the measure of a dance,, ranson, tell me one or two for myself," she sold --- Day altor "only two small ones the two against her charm; but day after "there's a thing I've done." while penele."
day he returned tó Hiton to her. Wang atared at her incredulously. Until at inst, he knew that only them. "I know I am ugly," the mur Lotus Flower mattered in his life. "I've bought the Grant mured. "I wouldn't wear them. O-lans, his sons, Old Father, his House," he burst out could just hold them in my hand farm all were forgotten. And O-lan started. The Great aometlines."
that ho must tell House, Ho softened, partly moved, part-them so.
Wang Inow
The Houso which she had ones been
Jy nghast at this foolishness of wo- And no, one day, a new Wang a slaver mon. What need of pearls had a cressed the path at the bridge load. He road the question in farmer slave, who knew nothing ing to his farm. His robe of grey her face. "Yes-ibe House
of children? But something in her black satin
aleeveless, coat was |--I'm. the new Lord there,”
perod, and
whis- sha"
raised her eyes to him, her own minory finding answer in his un- happiness.
It's like a sick- neos," he groaned. "When I'm with her it is not When enough. I'm not with her. thero le nothing. Even the Lands nothing". Ho covered in fac with his handa.
Olan gazed at him, and Golf-
pity gave way to
the pearls in his hand.
but work of the fields, and bearing silk was neatly cut to his body. His of Loo courts and land Wang frowned tohida his shame as ho held eyes swept nalde his man's reason faultless, his velvet shoes picked He paused. “Have you no lug; he reached for the pouch and their cautious way thru the loam. thanka?" he shouted impa- cautiounty took out the pearls, plac- Elder Boa and Ching saw him aptently. "I thought it would picass, pity for him. Then it is better Ing them in her hand,
proach.
you to be mistress in that house when she's in your house," sho where you lived as a sinvet”
said.
Tat was kind," she sighed grato. Tully. She felt of them lovingly and gmiled.
And so Wang bought land — and more land -- and the years pasand to find the enrih good and fruliful. And the Gods smiled on him and his family.
י.
*Hia quaus la gonal" cried Ching in horror, "He's cut off his life!" O-lan looked about her. "Our one-lant" is volca broke, "But what "You will say that?" he criod. Wang stopped, płozred by their were born bero." amazement,
Wang shook his head ns if to to there more to say?" he asked Well" ha demanded.
throw off the emotion or simple sadly. "Excusp mo, father," said his son words induced. "But our nons must "Nothing" who faltered and made deferentially, "but you look like a have wives --- we'll have grand chil-hor way icit to the courtyard. Lord of the great how.”
dren. Thero's room.in the Big House There was no reminder now of Wanr anlied in pleasure, then for all. You'll have the high place, nap and glared curiously at the Old Failer awakened from his the famins or of the wretched cheeked himself. "Where is your with money to spare for slaves" months of starvation in the great mother?" he demanded.
shaven and richly dressed man who elly, Only 0-lan remembered them,
He stared at her sullenly, his eyes was hurrying out of the house. for the knife-like pain was always shaving water," he won answered at last on her feet the peasant's petulantly,
"Bho was waiting to beat your passed over her critically and dwelt "Who was that man?" he queried with ber. Frail and gray, she kept hesitantly, "but you didn't come feat with which she, hnd rooted to her plaes in the sunny court-
Wang's hand rose involuntarily
herack by his side in the fielde head. 'yard. No longer could he take to his clean-shaved forehead, to the her place with Wang in the fields. back of his head. His band dropped.
those long, long years ago,
"I looked something lika my Itut ovon if she could, there was
"Tell your mother I want to geo
You must make yourself becom-san Wang sighed the old man. "Look at your clothes your hair! dropping slowly and heavily from ing to it," he stormed out in fury.
O-lan bent over the pool, the tears You disgrace mo!"
her eyes. She did not pause lo wipe She bore his outburet with bont them away, but let them fall as sho hend.
bant, the more steadily with her Wang falt a sudden ragu. Why wooden stick upon the clothes Even the sons had forgotten the pity in his eyes. "Father walies to should this former stave so 'shame sprand ever the stone. land. Younger Son was away at 80ɑ you".
himy
now no need of her; for Wang had her," he said, and tumed abruptly long since cenood to farm, Io spent toward the hour. he day in the city, Ching, his old
Elder Son ran to the courtyard
friend, directed the army of work for his mother. ors who ploughed the land, planted
the nood, roped the harvest.
*
"Mother," began Elder Bon, deep
school Tourning in books, how to -Jan looked up at him, a strange "Where are the pearle you've Take things grow. Learning mira- foreboding clouding her face. Elder had?" he cried.
clos which the printed word naid Son took her arm. "Are you well?" O-lan's hand flow to her breast. would outwit flood-and drought, he asked, "The old pain is it "The pearts? I have them here.
And wider Son," grown to man| Dan?" bood, managed his father's estate, i Bho shook her head, and diuen-' coldly.
"You never wear them" he said
Olan, blinded by tears, shook her
What change will Lotus Flower bring into the life of Wang and -O-lan and their children? Don't miss the concluding: chapter of "The Good Garth".
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