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Swing Music 1938 Series.
B 8719-Chloe.
Fox Trot ......Benny Goodman & His Orch. Jam Session. Fox Trot
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1938.
JAPAN'S RUBICON IS CHINA'S YANGTSE
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Toars in My Heart. F.T...Tommy Dorsey & His Orch.
Fox Trot
B 8747----Baby, Won't You Please Come Home.
~1′ Just Couldn't Take It, Baby. Fox Trot
BD5368-Lovelight in the Starlight. Fox Trot.
(Film: "Her Jungle Love")
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charges of house-breaking and Inrceny.
Whose fault? Thoirs or the sentimentalists' who do not be-1 lievo in deterrents for the young?
"But children," your humani- tarian gone-to-seed will tell you, "are so sensitive. The very worst thing you can do to any child is to frighten it."
N my opinion Mr. Jus-
Forgive the vulgarism. The: tice Charles did not answer to all such aspecious receive nearly enough pleading is "Bunk." publicity for his statement Some children, let us admit, recently at Monmouth are more sensitive than others.
Assizes.
After a frank admission that his own youth had not been "too good," and that he owed his own educators a great debt, "because, when I did wrong I was correct- ed," he said this:
All children, nevertheless, are born with a certain amount of cunning. Go to your baby the eries--and it will moment it learn, long before it can speak, to cry whenever it wants you.
So sweet of the little darling. Or shall we say the spoilt little pest?
"I feel well assured that the
Now carry the spoiling pro- wave of sentimentalism that is passing over this country is not ress a step farther. Baby can for the good of young people." talk, baby can walk, baby is now In other words, "Spare the Daddy's "dear little sonny" or rod-and they'll end in quod!" "Mummy's own little girlie"
be thwarted. Mr. Justice Charles is not and must never alone in his concein for modern Because "thwarts" induce "com
"self-ex- youth. The Roman Catholic plexes," and because
the Pression" is so valuable for the Bishop of Middlesbrough, Right Rev. T. Shine, voiced character.
More and still more danger- similar sentiments when he said:
GRIN AND BEAR IT
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"As I understand it, 72 is a pretty good score--to-morrow, we can come back and play the second hole."
HEATHER THATCHER goes to a
SHOWER PARTY in Hollywood
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"To many people, sin has lost ous-bunk.
Just try to imagine a society its meaning. Their sense of res- ponsibility has become so weak of which no member was ever
at thwarted-and
every single that immortality, looked
member permitted himself or spiritually, is of no consequence herself unlimited self-expres-
HAVE been just to a table a huge baby doll sat clutching a "shower" party-some-little glass jar of sugar sweets.
As the guests arrived, their pres to them."
sion. Just think what you per- thing new to me.
sents were taken from them and Double Truth sonally could have said to your Showers have only one mean- placed on a table in the drawing- wife or your husband when you ing elsewhere, and that's rain room, and great caution was obser-
ved to
to keep the honoured guest from ONSIDER these two woke this very morning-if you mingled with splashes of su- any suspicion of the coming surprise, be just statements together- hadn't exercised a spot of self-shine, but here the word has a for to her it must appear to The broad, muddy waters of
another "hens luncheon party." How control. and perceive a double truth.
totally different interpretation.
she saw the the Yangtse River will almost
Pre-war boys and girls were And how did you first acquire] When anyone is getting married or her face it up when certainly become the Rubicon of subjected to a brace of strong that faculty for self-control? on addition is to be made to a family, table, and what a thrill she got.
Even the dessert was thought of, the nearest friend of the prospective
little cradic Japanese hopes of an early end deterrents-religion and the rod. Was it born in you? Or did you bride or mothee gathers all her in- and cach guest had
Umate friends together for the com- with a sugar baby just peeping out, Religion preached, in effect if bave to learn it?
I ate the baby, the protracted
made of ice-cream. hostilities
not in the actual words, "Do Why didn't you tell your hus-ing event.
This custom applies all over Ame- cradle and all, and it was delelous! with China. Any hopes that wrong in this world-and you'll band or your wife your exact rice to very class, rich and poor Later we all adjourned to the other
pay for it in the next." The feelings. Primarily, my adult alike.
room, and there sat watching the the fall of Hankow will be a
If it is a wedding everyone is told gifts being opened by the lucky pre-winter occasion for celebra-rod inculcated, primarily, "Do friend, because your trained
mother-to-be. wrong and you'll suffer im- imagination, plus your experi-hout six weeks ahead of the parly the "shower" is to be, "Kitchen"
whole I was charmed with the tion, or that Chinese resistance mediate pain.".
ence, foresaw certain unpleasant or "Linen," and great trouble is taken procedure. I told Isabel Jeans about What has post-war philosophy consequences.
in selecting the right kind of useful it the next day, and with a twinkle Lionel Hampton & His Orch, will end once that objective is
she said: "I don't like the idea at attained, must vanish in the substituted for these two de-
Whereas the immature mind gift.
Should it be for the "Kitchen," the all, it's far too sensible!" light of the intensified re- terrents ? -
Humanitarianism of your child has neither of those colour scheme is explained, and all Hero is something of another un-
advantages. Its imagination is utensils as far as possible are brought usual party. sistance the Japanese armies gone to seed!
Hell's fires are out of date untrained, its experience in to match, whether it be a dust-bin, I received an invitation one morn- have encountered in recent
even as symbolism. One stroke finitesimal. Let it do wrong tins, and so forth.
bucket,
flour or bread bln, condiment lag this week: "Come to a Barbeque An Old Straw Hat. Fox Trot.
weeks. For the first time since with the cane on Sonny's deli without suffering the conse-
party (Film: "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm")
what on earth is that, I famed Taierhchwang, where the cute posterior and Mummy quences-and heaven help your as it includes the bathroom, bedroom,
If it's a "Linen" the choice is wider, barbeque Barbeque?!" and by now you may be Bunny Berigan & His Orch. invulnerable" Japanese armies and Daddy apply for a sum- darling when he or she grows
and dining-room.
thinking the same thing, so I will re- In the case of a wedding, of course, lieve mons against the school-master. up.
mind. your showed its Achilles heels in a
the shower habit does not in any way barbeque, is a big .cooking gelli, cloud of dust as they retreated Even in our public schools-last
"But this writer seems to prevent old friends giving other or with space underneath for hot em- home of the older discipline forget," let the sentimentalists more intimate presents, such as bers, and is built outside the house, twenty-six miles in as many
the birch hangs idle on its hook. once more interrupt our argu- grand plano from Uncle George; or a either at the bottom of the garden or hours, the Chinese may be said
hundred dollar cheque from Aunt by the side of the "And how rightly," say our ment, "that we have sent the Marthal
verandah or patio. to have adopted the offensive in humanitarians, our sentimental doctrine of original sin to the
Like A Magnet CHATER ROAD. (place of the defensive. Theists, and our psycho-analysis- same limbo as we have sent the
It Saves Money Japanese "On to Hankow" drive befuddled parents. "The inflic- superstition of eternal damna-
"Baby Shower"
EVERY particle of food Is which commenced on September tion of corporal pain in this life, tion. Human nature
cooked on it, and all the T1's z es-
everyone is asked to bring necessary utensils for eating and something for the baby-a dress, cooking are kept in a special wooden 3 has petered out to a dismal the fear of perpetual punish-sentially good."
ment in the after-life, are phy- Oh, yeah. And all little boys,
shoes,
blankets, toys, bathtub, etc. hut provided for such occasions, finish. Far from 'reaching their sical and mental indignities. I suppose are essentially in enchanting but so sensible, and 1
To me the whole idea is not only theroby keeping the house equipment broad spearhead objectives of Let us reason with the immature dustrious.
entirely apart. And all little girls have made up my mind to introduce Changsha and Nanchang in the mind instead of terrifying it."
When I arrived at the party, which wash their hands and faces it among my friends in England at was in Beverly Hills, I went into the
the very first South, the upper reaches of the
opoprtunity. without being made to. And course, we send presents, but only wurden, and the delicious smell of Yangtse in the centre, and
the cause of all crime is poverty. after the baby is born, and by that food watted across my nostrils and time the mother has already complet as by a magnet I was led to the Macheng in the north, the
ed the infant's wardrobe, with the cause. Primary Emotions Japanese have successively lost
the modern educa- Kwangtai and Mahweiling, two tional treatment: Two West- HAS no rich man ever things for one child to wear, think- little sucking pig being turned on a strategic cities without posses-cliff boys, aged 11 and 12, plead- sion of which their drives can-ed guilty to no fewer than 81 not succeed. Only on the banks
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Whose Fault? OBSERVE one result of
iB
result that she often has far too many There in front of me was a poor
stood in the dock ing, naturally, "If only I had known spit; bacon, sausages, and chops be- for fraud? Are all murderers, before I wouldn't have bought so ing grilled, with pots of vegetables
many things."
bubbling. Well, I couldn't keep_my ipso facto paupers? Why, even Husbands should encourage this nose out and was soon, with apron your hardened Harley-street idea in England right away, for al-on and fork in hand, prodding and of the Yangtse itself, where direct attack from the waters in psycho-therapist who specialises though they get nothing at the time, turning. Oh and how hot it was! their armies can drive under the the vicinity of Hongkong.
it does anve their pockets and, there-
When the cry "Food" went forth in children won't support youfore, as always, they come out tops the hungry beings rushed with plate protection afforded by naval A period of consolidation is there.
whichever way they at it.
Jook
in hand, and from then on looked guns, have any striking gains indicated, especially in view of
Take him away from his con-
I arrived
at my first "shower after themselves. been
made, the capture of the activities of guerilla forces that the instinct to do occasional side was taken by my hostess to reeing their nightly song in
my little gift tuckert sulting room and he will admit party with
A charming way of dining on a under my arm, and being on the early warm evening, with the frogs croak- the dis- Matow and Wusuch allowing in previously occupied areas. wrong is inherent in every singlo the luncheon table. the invaders to break the first To-day, it would be difficult for one of us.
Many ranches in far-off spots have of the final three booms of the Japanese to conscientiously
My own experience teaches
their barbeques, but some distance away from the bouse, and the cook- sunken ships between them and claim, for instance, that theme that this particular instinct
WILAT a charming sight met ing is done in the sime manner. the three Wuhan cities.
northern provinces of Hopel and can only be brought under-
∙my syès; in the centre of There are also many public" bar- Shantung are in their posses-control by parents or school- the table a huge stork stood holding beques, but advertised like this: What course the Japanese
in its beak a little now-born babe, "Bar-B-Q" where people can camp sion. In Shantung, Chinese masters through two primary and all around the feat were masses out for a week-end-or longer, living Command will adopt after the
of fascinating toys that only a 'baby a very healthy outdoor. Ufe. fall of Hankow and its twin guerilla successes have been human emotions, love or fear.
There are some children appreciates. on such an extraordinary..scale
Naked babies, were holding
the maybe quite a percentage of
On The Beach
Honoured Guest
tance.
cities of Wuchang and Hanyang that the Japanese appear to them-who will refrain from place cards, and at each corner of the --the word "Wuhan" is derived have lost completo possession of wrong-doing solely because they
FOR those who prefer the beach, where the sensor from the first syllables in the the Lunghai Railway from love.or admire (which frequent there is one thing which adult is now in full swing it is slightly names of the three cities-re the sea to the area flooded ly amounts to the same thing existence teaches all of us, it is different, but nevertheless, just as mains to be seen. It is hardly by the Yellow River; on those who educate them.. that complete fearlessness is the much fun. Public places are allotted för hundreds of cars, and it is a possible that they will embark
the great Shantung Peninsula, A great many young people prerogative of complete igno- strange sight, I assure you, to motor upon such foolhardiness is an with such important seaports as of both sexes are open to
a ranco.
along the front on a moonlight 'night attempt to drive further up the
Paradoxically, even this for about 15 miles to see hundreds of Halchow, Chefoo and Weihai- reasonable argument, reasonably
Utile camp ares bu and evening Yangtse where, a few miles
wel, only the latter remains in presented, againat lying, steal- courage can be inculcated by mess Pro
with the soft brookera hitting above Hankow, they would meet
the Throaton the lad who won't with conditions that would effec- Japanese hands, while, further ing, or the grosser immoralities. playing on the fear Instinct swiv of the brou
stand up to the fast bowler with day evening or Sunday morning
Familles swarm True Courage
warm down Ton Satur tively prevent the employment inland, guerillas wander at will of their naval resources. It
EVEN in such cases, a good biding and he may make azter artrenuous week in the hot
nevertheless, it is to a century.
city, returning that night, will the seems equally foolish that, with
Leave him alone, and he'll prospect: of another euch week-end In be doubted whether the absolute garrisons they encounter their present inadequate forces, their travels. The history of removal for fear is sound pay- only make a sissy-boy-of whom
cl. between we have for too many, all home-hola" at the studio, with my little
I am writing this they will launch ari, attack Manchuria, where the after-chology. ⠀⠀ southwards along the Canton-math of Japanese occupation
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