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May 21, 1940.
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We All Think SACRIFICE
Is The...
OTHER FELLOW'S PIGEON!
—Says Jane Quest
"Most things are not obtained, simply because they are not attempted." says Gracian, How true that is.
We all want this ar that, in a levurely fashion, but un make very little effort to obtain what we want. It is easier to think about it.
WE should like to speak languages other than our own, but that means 'hard work and concen- tration. We yearn to have the gifts riches can We'd bring us, but we won't work to obtain them. rather take a ticket in a lottery and hope for the best. We want to be loved, but we will not make ourselves lovable
We'd like to travel, see the world, but not one cigarette would we sacrifice towards it.
We want to be slim und svelte, but we like
our good meals, and exercise bores us.
We resent growing old, but we don't cultivate our minds. We just let them go, like some old ploughed field that, neglected, grows only weeds and thistles.
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BABY PICTURES
LOOD baby pictures are easy to
Grinke indoors, with photo lights, -provided you follow n few simple rules,
Probably the chief difficulty, in indoor shots, is that your subject likes to crawl about-and thus gets away from the spot illuminated by your photo lights. There are two. simple solutions for this. Either give the baby n loy to amuse him and help him "ay put," or else place hirn where his movements are uic restricted. For example, in erib or play pen.
Here is a simple routine which will help you get better baby plc- load the tures indoors. camera with high speed film. Pick a suitable spot for the pictures, and -arrange your photo lights for a soft, diffused ghing, with no harsh shadows. A No 1 and a No. 2 "Good" bulb in cardboard reflectors. four feet from the subject, are cor- reet for box-camera snapshots on high speed film.
First,
Turn on the lights before you place the baby. Put him in post- tion-give him a bright-coloured toy or one that makes n noise-and start shooling. Wind the film im- mediately after each shot, so as to be ready for the next pose or change of expression. A whole series of good pictures can be taken in a few minutes, and the best expressions will usually come within that time. Five minutes is long enough for the average session of baby pictures.
A fast camera is an advantage Use a in talking these pletures. shutter speed of 1/60 second, with 1/8 lens opening, or 1/100 second at f/6.3-and you are more sure of a sharp picture, even if the baby muves slightly at the moment of exposure.
With a fast lens, you can niso take indoor plelures by daylight-or sunlight coming through a window. The baby picture above was taken in that manner. A 1/0.3 or 1/43 lens is fast enough, if you use high speed film and a 1/25 second shut- ter speed. In the pleture above, the bedspread acts as a reflector, throwing light into the shadows. This is desirable, as there should bo no harsh, black shadows in a baby pleture.
EVERYTHING in this world, that is worth having must be worked for, eyen Pruce.
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We all like Peace, want Pence, think we ought to have Peace.
But some of us are content to let the Other Fellow get it for us. The Other Fellow is such a convenient sort of person, Let him fight our battles, curry our burdens, die for us if necessary.
We'd all of us like to help win the war, if we did not have to sacriflee too much. After all, that is the Other Fellow's pigeon... sucrifice.
The rest of us just sil round and wish for Peace.
"Most things are not obtained, simply because they are not attempted."
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
"You must be extra attentive and tonder to Rufus, dear,
AL
now that he's an expectant fathor!"
BEDSIDE BOOK
LL last week I was in bed with the popular catarrh. It was a very evil week, for I have not spent a day in bed for five years, and was not accustomed to the ignominy of it.
So I read, and I read History. There's nothing like History for the .dumps. History properly related reduces you to your proper stature. You dare not complain of colurch as you witness the Sick of Rome, the massacres of Saint Bartholo- mew, or the agonised death of Robespierre,
ATTACKS ON SHIPPING
Britain (cean-going tonnage) 17,600,000 at the outbreak of war. Loss 867,000 ions.
France 2,933,000 tons,
1 74,000 Pers"
Norway 4,523,600 fons.
'Lo' 101,000 (ners ·
Sweden 1,579,300 tons.
Loss 20,000 teng.
Denmark-t.i.ped lons:
1.0 4.809 ans.
Helland 2.975,000 Lans:
Lona 12,000 ferie.
Qreece 1,738809 (uns,
Germany's counter-blockade has been directed mainly at the merchant shipping of Britain, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Holland, Greece is the only other country which has had loses on the same scale. Out of a total of 1,248,000; tona wank, 1,122,000 belonged to these seven countries. The total shipping owned by them at the outbreak of the war, and the propor- tion of lom (represented approximate- ly by the part in black at the end of osch
In this #ection) are shown diagram. Following the Invasión' of - Norway and Denmark, Gorzanyik attempting to solo as much shipping ai posible belonging to these countries.
I did not, however, in these days cuddle myself in horrors, I read that most noble work, John Mor- ley's Cromwell, the opening volume of Gardiner's Civil War, and a volume of Toynbee's magnificent but dimcult study of History.
John Morley is grond. Is ho for- gotten now? I don't know. In any case, his prose is superb. It is deep and Falld and wise. It s also surprisingly rhythmle and human. This I had not-expected.
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LOW history should be written was to me also exemplified by a delightful and exciting new book Archbishop Laud," by H. R. Trevor Roper. This costs a guinea, but ask for it at your library.
Can a book about Laud be in- teresting? you ask yourself--Loud, that little intriguing, narrow, state- serving sycophant?
It can indeed. For one thing, Laud lived in one of the most excit Ing periods of English history. The duel between Charles I and Crom- well, between despotism and de- is being fought again in mocracy, our own day.
This book is therefore extraordi- narily apropos. Its style is good and sound, its argument exciting. You will begin it fazlly and finish it excitingly,
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FOUND a little book of Infinite charm: The Swaŋ of Usk, of Helen Ashton. It may be remem- bered that llelen Ashton gavo, a year or the ago, a delightful wandering of the lives of and Dorothy Wordsworth. Now she bus done in the same manner a life of Henry Vaughan, the doctor and poet of the Civil War and after,
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BRITISH REGIMENTS
The BLACK Coldstream
WATCH
the many Scot- tish regiments served which have
with the highest dis- tinction in the British Army, nono can boast of a prouder record than that held by the famous Black Watch, the senior of all the Highland Regiments.
Its official existence dates from 1740, the year in which it was brought on to the British establish- ment, but it was actually formed in 1927.
In that year, the British Govern- decided to ment of the, day establish a unit of loyal High- landers who would maintain order in the north of Britain, and six separate companies were formed. The men in these companies were the flower of minny noble Scottish families.
Ten years later, four new com- and amal- panies were raised gamated with the existing six,-the- whole force being given the name the 42nd Foot. Later, the regi- ment adopted a dark tartan for its uniform and so became known as the Black Walch after the sombre colour of the trian
of
Guards
REFUSAL to obey a
King's command
is not usually a deed. to be remembered with pride, but such an episode is cherish. ed with pride in the annals of the Cold- stream Guards, one of the most famous of all the regiments in the British Army.
This regiment descends from force raised by Cromwell in 1050, the companies comprising it being then stationed at Newcastle, The command being given to Colonel Wak first Monck, the regiment known as Colonel Monelc's Regi- ment, and later as the Lord Gen- eral's Regiment of Guards.
On January 1, 1880, the regiment out of marched with Monck Coldstream, a village in Scotland from which it derives its name, on its way to London: It was to play its part in the Restoration to the English Throne of Churles 11, and it was the only Puritan foot regi- ment to be kept for service in the Royal army.
The courage of the Black Watch From its earliest is proverbial. days it attracted men of amazing daring, and the regiment's long record is full of deeds of valour.
When the regiment was even- At the battle of Fontenay, for
tually reviewed by Charles II, his- example, when the French defeat--
it that he commanded tory has of British ed an allied force
them to lay down their arms as a Austrian
Dutch troops, the and Chaplain of the Black Watch
sign that they renounced the Com- charged, with drown sword, at the
monwealth, and he then ordered head of the regiment.
them to pick up their arms once more as his "Second Foot Guards," To a man, the regiment refused to move. They stood solidly with their arms laid in the ground be- fore them, and the King visibly disturbed. Colonel Monck then said to him,-"Sire,-this--re. timent refuses to be known second to any in the British Army."
The Colonel at once intervened, und ordered the Choplala to the
rear,
the
"Damn my commission," Chaplain replied, and raising his sword once more dashed into the thek of the fight.
AFTER the fomation of the 1st battalion, a second was raised in 1780, becoming the 73rd Regiment in-1780-The regiment discarded- the kilt in 1898, but that uniform Was
ample when the 73rd was
in 1881.
with the 42nd Foot
(amous
at
The red vulture plume which the
won was WEDTS regiment Geldermalsen, in 1795, when the Black Watch-charged-and-routed French cavalry in order to rescue two guns that had been lost. It has been said that the red plume originated from the fact that men of the Black Watch had dipped the
feathers they
wore in the white blood of the energy.
battle
with: Another which the regiment will always be associated was that of Corunna.. During the height of the struggle, that great General, Sir John More, called out to the men of the Black Watch, "Remember Egypt, High- landers." The devout Scols, how- ever, were reported to have seen "the
shroud of death" hovering over their leader, and soon after i Icil to men of the regiment to carry him back to the rear a dying man.
In the historie siege of Manga- lore, 200 men of the Black Watch, assisted by 1,000 sepoys, held out agains huge odds for nine months, while at
at the battle of Magersfon- fein General Wauchope fell lead- ing them into action.
During the Great War of 1914- 1918, the Black Watch suffered tremendously high percentage of casualties. They raised 25 new battalions, and out of a total of 53,000 men there were 34,000 casualties.
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THEIR battle honours include Guadalepe, 1759, Martinique, 1702, N. America, 1763-4, Mysore, Corunna, Toulouse, Waterloo, S. 3, and 1851, 2, Africa, 1846-7,
Tel-el Kebir Alma, Lucknow, Egypt, 1882-84, Nite, 1884-5, and S Africa, 1899-1902.
In the Great War they fought at the Marae, 1914 and '10, Ypres 1914, '17 and 10, Loos, the Somme, 1910 and 18, Arras, 1917 and 18, the Hindenburg. Linc. and Kut el Amara, 1917.
The regiment is known through- out the British Array as the "Forty Twas"-the Scottish equivalent of the "Forty Twos." The regimental marches are "Highland Laddle" and "Blue Bonnets Over the Bor der stirring Lunes when played by the pipera
Blue Bonnets Over the Border" will always be associated with Ser- geant Daniel Laidlaw, the piper of Loos, who won the Victoria Cross in one of the most inspiring in- cidents of the Great War.
With his bagpipes tucked under his arm, he marched up and down the No Man's Land of Loog-under a hult of fireplaying us on nets Over, the Border while his regiment, the King's Own Scottish Borderers, charged the enemy with fixed bayoneta,"
Was
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The King-immediately altered iis command,
"Coldstream Guards," he declar- ed "take up your arms.”
came
Thus the original name into existence, and with it the proud-regimental-motto__"Null Secundus" ("Second to None").
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AFTER Monck's death, however, the regiment came to be known as the "Queen's Regiment," and it was not until 1873 that the title of "2nd Foot or Coldstream Guards" In 1817 the first was resumed.
part of the ütle was allowed to lapse, and the regiment has been known by its present name ever since. The right to wear the bear- skin cap followed in 1830.
The regiment is now made up of three Battalions, cach Battalion having its separate badges. That of the let Battulion shows the Star of the Gerter ensigned with the Imperial Crown, and at the base the Sphinx, superscribed "Egypt." With
a slight addition, the same badge is used for the 3rd Battalion. The badge of the 2nd Battalion is nt eight-pointed star in silver within the Garier and ensigned with an Imperial Crown. At the base is the Sphinx, superscribed "Egypt."
The exploits of the Coldstream Guards are fully in keeping with Amoni their historic traditions. the regiment's battle honours are Tangier, 1680, Namur, 1095, Gibral- tar, 1704-5, Oudenarde, Dettingen, Waterloo, Alma, Inkerman, Sevas- topol, Tol-el-Kebir, Egypt, 1882, Modder River, and other famous engagements.
In the Great War, all the tradi- tions were fully maintained in the historic Retreat from Mons, at the Marno in 1914, the Alme, 1914,. Ypres, 1914, and '17. Loos, the Somme, 1016 and 18, Arrus, 1918, Hazebrouck, and in the battles on the Hindenburg Line.
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AT the end of 1914, outside Ypres, the Coldstream Guards won Imperishable fame, by holding a threa unrelieved, for position, weeks, desplie the tremendous force of enemy attacks..
His Majesty King George VIth is Colonel-In-Chief of the regiment, and like the other regiments in the Brigade of Guards the Coldstream Guards have a particularly close association with Royalty,
The Coldstream Guards can be from the other distinguished. Guards' regiments in several ways. The Coldstream betrakin cap has a red plume atached, white the but tors of the Coldstream uniform are grouped in twos. The band round the ordinary cop is white.
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