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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 inst year, when the old headmaster's portrait was hung in the school, they asked "Master Philip" to make the presenta- tion because he is the best known Old Wykehamist and the only one in the Cabinet.
There is no way yet of tell- may know that a few more boys good part of the vital arms ing the sex of unborn children. are born than girls (about 3 per industry, and may have to in- Under X-rays. they all appear cent., in fact), and yet we have blood 2,000,000 surplus women, and
Still slowly developing (in troduce a system of conscription allke, and there are no
that widows are much commoner
name too), Mr. Philip Lloyd moment than widowers. Males, you see, Greame did nothing out of the among her work people in order tests which help.
Actually, the very to guarantee # satisfactory the new life begins, its sex is are the more delicate sox.
way at Oxford; but he was 2 output. In fact, M. Daladier, irrevocably settled, and no Well, the same tendency
studious youth and applied him- the Prime Minister, has grimly amount of wishing before or exists in the months before
self to law, in which he was hinted that he will not hesitate after that affects the question birth. If all the males that are making progress in six years as conceived were burn alive, boys a barrister when the war called to put troops into the factories at all. to clear them of sit-down
He served until 1917, when he
was invalided home with
Lloyd George.
an
·by- WILLIAM BARKLEY
THE National Govern
ment made him put
Now suppose, after all, it's would be in a 30 per cent, ma-him to France.
巍 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 wife, No, not even if she pre- by shocks and jars during those indicate the disastrous effects of girls and nothing else. It's chance of having a boy. fof discord in industry at a the father's side which deter- Vitamin E
time when a nation is striving mines the acx of the offspring. to prepare for international
lined because of a desire to gents you with a whole family months, has a much greater/M.C. and an introduction to Mr. Colonial Secretary. Ho
emergency. Such a situation Family History unquestionably gives unscrupul-
ous labour the handle of the
about his administration in this office.
through a £2,000,000 loan for Major Lloyd Greame, as he Palestine. He flew thoro and to was now known, was the tall, the Near East and the East HERE we have made one stooping, keen-featured young African colonies, inspecting air practical discovery: man whom M.P.s and secretaries stations and making acquaint- for we now know that to attain often saw in Lloyd George's ance with Air Force personnel; THINGS that count are this state of health a plentiful company in the last eighteen but there is nothing memorable
your family history, supply of Vitamin E is essential. months of the war. whip. In France, because of the age, and health. A father who This is present in large amounts nationalisation of so much of comes of a stock prolific in males in wheat-germ oil.
The next question on your the country's industry, it is all is likely to maintain the tradi-
can't do lips, I know, is "Hasn't acid got the more disturbing. What ex- tion. However, you
anything to alter that, any more something to do with It?" cuse can workers give for
than you can your age, of whose The acid theory is a hardy an- striking against a sympathetic effect actually we need to know nual; it keeps cropping up, but I Government which is doing more.
can't find any eminent authori- It's believed, though, that ties who support it in this everything in its power to find
country.
IN 1020 he acquired a Then two years ago aven Cun- hyphen, a knighthood, life-Lister vanished. He be-
and a post at the Board of Trade. came Viscount Swinton and in a Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame owes little while Secretary of State much to the toss of a coin. He
and Sir E. Hilton Young (now for Air.
The trouble about appraising
Lord Kennet) were despatched him in this post is that his suc- As a delegation to the Hague cosses (and his failures)
Conference.
-are-
The theory is that women who been appointed. They tossed. in the public interest be
success
a way out of the troubles which | marriage of middle-aged men to
No head of delegation had secret. His hull points cannot beset it and serve the nation to very young women tends to re-
can't produce boys are too acid Sir Philip won. the best of its ability? There is sult in boys.
And since the enumerated. No one doubts his Now for health. If you want and require alkaline applications. conference
industry. He is at his office no more justice in labour play-
In Germany, Prof. Unterber-one) was an enormous
(like every other most days from 10 a.m. to 7.30 ing that sort of politics than for your first child to be a boy, it's working people in 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 Minis- try admire him greatly and munitions-making or otherwise, training and becoming a paragon cont, success for treatment on triumph and his Prime Minister speak with enthusiasm of his employed, to strike for increased of physical fitness; all you will these lines.
Lloyd George hailed him as the 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
otherwise, the fittest his work is not accepted here be- tinct advance towards ing for a few sous a day. The it were
a final decisions. obvious lack of scruple, patriot- nations would become extinct cause the facts he claims about solution."
Lord. Swinton visits the ex- the amount and the effect of the
In short, his name was made.
and perimental establishments Much more important actually acid do not appear to be true, suce. And yet Frenchmen are is the mother's health. You and experiments carried out on cialist Government Sir Philip on flying and often uses his land- such people condemns them at
Out of office in the first So the training schools. He is keen not the only ones who have
mico and 'sheep by his method
Lloyd-Greame formed erred in this respect.
so many ing-ground at Swinton, and bas In fact,
have had no result. is the de- business connections--Argentine been up in every type of modern when that country actually faces that the nationalisation of the
fact more vital defence industries, ceptiveness of statistics, for, as loth to take up duty again under ers, because he is not a pilot.
Tramways, etc.-that he was machine excopt the single-seat- crisis it is a well-known that factions forget their quar- even among democracies,
is I have explained, Nature gives us Baldwin in 1924. He became rela and combine their efforts possible and that it
would 3 per cent. more boy babies than President of the Board of Trade, elder having been in the Oxford His sons are trained to fly, the for the common weal.
ensure a closer collaboration be-
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ed for ever.
His wife's mother had been a Miss Cunliffe-Lister, daughter
in the Cambridge squadron now. here the benefits of the safe- ment than under the present ever the treatment it is fairly guards of a totalitarian system system of private control. For easy to achieve success—in other
He speaks French well, even against such abuses as appear one thing labour would be de- words, boy babies-in slightly to be the exclusive possessions 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 la entertaining of the democratic systems. But the suggestion that arrns indus-
fraudulent leaving £1,567,606 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, Fus-workers in these vital industries to reap a handsome fortune coal mines. Sir Philip inherited that language. cism and Nazlism do not allow had no such argument they from the reigning families of the Yorkshire estate of Swin-
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 version of "Victoria Re prevalls it has this advantage into the whole question of the thod entirely valueless. over the democratic form of control of arma industries, gov Don't you, in the end, agree Government, 1924 to 1929, Sir gina." But he is not good at. Government, that it has already ernment as opposed to private that it's just as well we cannot Philip Cunliffe-Lister footled German.
our children's sex? with safeguarding, which was
HE speaks English, too, "nationalised" its industry in ownership, in far beyond the detemine
and many people think euch a way that no "mobilisa-scope of this article. But it Don't you think it would lead to the dodge to give the appear.
beforehand;
reance of protection for industry he is not very good at that, tion" or "conscription" of labour must be urged, particularly in squabbles.
without the reality;ske
either. He oxaggerates his is necessary even in the gravest, British countries, that the proaches after?
In the bitter coal disputes of "e's" and pushes "y's" into al There are, always misfits In emergency. Or so it would ap- public should prepare itself for pelar.
sacrifices in the event of war life who think things might these years he offered to resign most every word in the oddest However and this is the just as the Navy and Army and have been different if only they lest his mining intereste might manner, giving an impression of point to which this preamble Air Force are prepared to fight had the opportunities of the bo. thought to prejudice his im affectation which is not in his has been louding it does seem on peace-time wages.
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