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FI put up a sign, "Boys or girls at will: 100 per cent. success," which would you ask of me, anxious Parent-to-be? .

Doctors' experience is that the answer every time is, "A boy." That is because when it comes to being prepared to pay a heavy fee a boy is wanted pretty urgently for some reason of inheritance, a throne per- haps, a title, maybe no more than to carry on the business which you are so proud, Father, of having built up.

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WEDNESDAY, Apt. 13, 1938.

PEACE AND WAR

France,

WAGES

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THIS IS THE STORY OF-

The 7 Ages

of LORD SWINTON

MASTER PHILIP GREAME was a normal boy at Winchester.

At least, none of his contemporaries remember him as skill-

ed in games or books, and succeeding generation of schoolboys do not recall any mark he made on the place.

"A slow developer," one of them described him.

But last year, when the old headmaster's portrait was hung in the school, they asked "Master Philip" to make the presentu- tion because he is the best known Old Wykehamist and the only one in the Cabinet.

Still slowly developing (in name too). Mr. Philip Lloyd Greame did nothing out of the way, at Oxford, but he was # studious youth and applied him- self to law, in which he was making progress in six years as a barrister when the war called him to France.

by WILLIAM BARKLEY.

THE National Govern-

He served until 1917, when he an

ment made him Secretary. He put was invalided home with

Lloyd George.

through a £2,000,000 loan for M.C. and an introduction to Mr. Colonial

Major Lloyd Greame, as he Palestine. He flew there and to was now known, was the tall, the Near East and the East stooping, keen-featured young African colonies, inspecting air. man whom M.P.s and secretaries stations and making acquaint- saw in Lloyd George's ance with Air Force personnel; often

in the last eighteen but there is nothing memorable company

about his administration in this months of the war.

office.

There is no way yet of tell- may know that a few more boys ing the sex of unborn children. are born than girls (about 3 per Under X-rays they all appear cent., in fnet), and yet we have there are no blood 2,000,000 surplus women, and alike, and

that widows are much commoner tests which help.

Actually, the very moment than widowers, Males, you see, to guarantee 3 satisfactory the new life begins, its sex is are the more delicate sex. output. In fact, M. Daladier, irrevocably settled, and no Well, the same tendency the Prime Minister, has grimly amount of wishing before or exists in

months before hinted that he will not hesitate after that affects the question birth. If all the males that are conceived were born alive, boys to put troops into the factories at all.

after all, it's would be in a 30 per cent, ma- them to .clear

Now suppose, of sit-down

healthy strikers if the necessity arises. a girl; there's one person who jority. Therefore

This situation has been out- can't be blamed for that-your mother, not prone to be affected lined because of a desire to wife. No, not even if she pre- by shocks and jars during those sents you with a whole family months, has a much greater indicate the disastrous effects of girls and nothing else. It's chance of having a boy. of discord in industry at * the father's side which deter- Vitamin E time when a nation is striving mines the sex of the offspring. to prepare for international!

situation Family History Such emergency. unquestionably gives unscrupul

THINGS that count are this state of health a plentiful ous labour the handle of the

your family history, supply of Vitamin E is essential. A father who This is present in large amounts whip. In France, because of the age, and health.

IN 1920 he acquired a Then two years ago even Cun- nationalisation of so much of comes of a stock prolific in males in wheat-germ oil.

hyphen, a knighthood, liffe-Lister vanished. He be- The next question on your and a post at the Board of Trade. came Viscount Swinton and in a the country's industry, it is all is likely to maintain the tradi-

tion. However, you can't do lips, I know, is "Hasn't acid got Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame owes little while Secretary of State What ex- the more disturbing.

anything to alter that, any more something to do with it?"

much to the toss of a coin. He for Air. cuse can workers give for

than you can your age, of whose The acid theory is a hardy an and Sir E. Hilton Young (now striking against a sympathetic effect actually we need to know nual; it keeps cropping up, but I Lord Kennet) were despatched him in this post is that his suc- The trouble about appraising Government which is doing more.

can't find any eminent authori-

па a delegation to the Hague cesses It's believed, though, that ties who support it in this Conference.

(and his failures) everything in its power to find a way out of the troubles which | marriage of middle-aged men to country.

No head of delegation had secret... His bull points cannot The theory is that women who been appointed. They tossed.

public interest beset it and serve the nation to very young women tends to re-

enumerated. can't produce boys are too acid Sir Philip won. And since the

No one doubts his the best of its ability? There is sult in boys.

Now for health. If you want and require alkaline applications. conference (like every other industry. He is at his office no more justice in labour play-

In Germany, Prof. Unterber-one) was an enormous

most days from 10 a.m: to 7.80 ing that sort of politics than for your first child to be a boy, it's

factories, no good. Father going into ger has claimed nearly 90 per his speech in Parliament was a p.m. His staff at the Air Minia working people in

try admire him greatly and munitions-making or otherwise, training and becoming a paragon cent. success for treatment on triumph and his Prime Minister speak with enthusinsm of his

Lloyd George hailed him as the employed, to strike for increased of physical fitness; all you will these lines.

rapidity in grasping details. This sounds good enough; but

man responsible for "a very dis, They thank him for speeding-up wages when soldiers are fight achieve is the normal odds. If ing for a few sous a day. The it were otherwise, the fittest his work is not accepted here be tinct advance towards

decisions. become extinct cause the facts he claims about solution." obvious lack of scruple, patriot- nations would

Lord Swinton visits the ex- the amount and the effect of the

In short, his name was made.

perimental establishments and such people condemns them at

Out of office in the first So- the training schools. He is keen once. And yet Frenchmen are is the mother's health. You and experiments carried out on

mice and sheep by his method cialist Government Sir Philip on flying and often uses his lantt- not the only ones who have

Lloyd-Greame formed

so many ing-ground at Swinton, and has have had no result. erred in this respect. In fact,

business connections-Argentine been up in every type of modern Another anare is the de Tramways, etc.--that he when that country actually faces that the nationalisation of the

was machine except the single-seat- crisis it is a well-known fact mere vital defence industries, ceptiveness of statistica, for, as loth to take up duty again under ers, because he is not a pilot. that factions forget their quar- oven among democracies, I have explained, Nature gives us Baldwin in 1924. He became

that it would

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It is not proposed to argue tween them and the Govern-girls, in any case, so that what- and then-in name-disappear air squadron and the younger is

from

a

in the Cambridge squadron now. here the benefits of the safe- ment than under the present ever the treatment it is fairly ed for ever.

For easy to achieve success-in other

His wife's mother had been a

He speaks French well, even guards of a totalitarian system system of private control.

Miss Cunliffe-Lister, daughter against such abuses as appear one thing labour would be de- words, boy babies-in slightly to be the exclusive possessiona prived of the weapon found in over 50 per cent. of cases.

Appreciation of this funda- of Lord Masham, who died at table if he is entertaining of the democratic systems. But the suggestion that arms indus

fraudulent leaving £1,657,600 from Brad- business guests who are more the fact is apparently incon- tries exploit the nation and the mental enabled trovertible that the policies re-workers in war time; and if the doctor, before the Great War, ford silk mills, wool textiles, and familiar than his servants with He likes the cinema and the presented by Communism, Fas-workers in these vital industries to reap a handsome fortune coal mines. Sir Philip inherited that language.

the reigning families of the Yorkshire estate of Swin- cism and Naziism do not allow had no such argument they

German Air Force officers to the dictation by any single faction. would not be so much inclined Europe, before enough children ton and a large fortune, chang- theatre. He took the visiting As long as the central authority to strike for better pay. To go had been born to prove his me- ing his name to Cunliffe-Lister.

For the five years of Baldwin stage yersion of "Victoria Re- prevails it has this advantage into the whole question of the thod entirely valueless.

Don't you, in the end, agree Government, 1924 to 1929, Sir gina." But he is not good at

German. over the democratic form of control of arms industries, gov-. Government, that it has already ernment as opposed to private that it's just as well we cannot Philip Cunliffe-Lister footled

our children's sex? with safeguarding, which

HE speaks English, too, "nationallaed" its industry in ownership, is far beyond the detemine

But it Don't you think it would lead to the dodge to give the appear-

and inany people think such a way that no "mobilisa-scope of this article.

boforehand;

ance of protection for industry he is not very good at that, tion" or "conscription" of labour must be urged, particularly in squabbles

without the raniity.

either." He exaggerates hla countries, that the proaches after? is necessary even in the graveat British

There are always miafite in In the bitter coal disputes of "o's" and pushes "y's" into al- Or so it would ap- public should prepare itself for amergency.

sacrifices in the event of war life who think things might these years he offered to resign most every word in the oddest poar.

However-and this is the just as the Navy and Army and have been different if only they leat his mining interests might manner, giving an impression of point to which this preamble Air Force are prepared to fight had the opportunities of the be thought to prejudice his im- affectation which is not in his

other sex.

partality. has been leading-it does seem on peace-time wages.

re-

WAS

character.

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