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No Use For Washington Rear-Admiral Charles E. Ken- nedy-Parvis, who has been promot- ed to be Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff, is known in the Navy! as "K. P." He is a big, tall, hand- some man with a commanding pre- }sence, and is very popular with both;

officers and ratings:

groans.

FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1934.

VARIETY, THE SPICE

OF LIFE

FAMOUS NOVELIST DEFINES LIVING

SECRETS OF CONTENTMENT

(By Gilbert Frankau.)

He has ant on the Admiralty What is happiness? How can oneļa denial of the powers of the ha board which chooses the naval attain to it? These questions, like man will and the human mind. cadets for Dartmouth, and he de-so many others, can only be answer- plores the ignorance of feography ed by the individual in his or her soever they may come to us, of the I hold by the powers, whence- Jamong the young.

own Individual way.

human will and the human mind. His stock question is: "What is For myself, I have very little I believe that there is no tribula- the capital of the United States?" patience with those who, given tion with which they cannot ulti- Ninety per cent. of the entries point enough to eat, to drink, decent mately wrestle, and no difficulties to New York, and Kennedy-Parvis healthy and a decent roof over they cannot ultimately surmount. their heads, tell me that they are I hold that every life, properly unhappy. And no patience what-lived, fa a supreme adventure. I ever with such people when they believe that we should live 38 tell me that they are "bored.” By the general public he will be

recklessly and as dangerously as Personally I do not know the our Individual capabilities permit remembered best as the command-meaning of the word boredom. Ius. And I hold, above all things, ing officer of the Glorious at the find as much to do in winter as in that the true spice of life is con time of its collision in the Mediter-summer. Even the dullest after-trast-the mixture of the bitter ranean with the French liner dinner speech provides me with with the sweet: Florida three years ago.

The two ships crashed in a fox, worst comes too the worst, and the as the French proverb indicates, To eat partridges all the time, and the Glorious, 11t aircraft-speech seems to last for ever. is to end by losing one's palate carrier, had some 20 or 30 aircraft practise intellectual Yogi, remov for game.

A Naval Disaster

some amusement. And when the

That people who live in perpe-

In the air. They had petrol for ing my mind and imagination from only an hour or two and Captain their actual surroundings to some tual sunshine are perpetually joy. Kennedy-Purvis, although taking more attractive sphere.

ous is an illusion of dwellers in every precaution, carried out the

Only the boring really suffer climates like Britain's. naval instructions to save as many from boredom.

It is Jan- aircraft as possible.

uary's fog, February's rain, and This life is so short that there "the clanging arch of steel-grey

the

It was tragic that one of the air-can be no excuse for wasting a March" that teach us to appreciate craft should have seen the threaten-minute of it. I can say truthfully some gorgeous July day on ed collision through a gap in the fog that there has been no single min- river. You and tried to signal to both ships.jute of my own life which I would gunfire in the sodden mud of bat- must have slept to But its light was dead.

not relive if only I had the chance. tle before you can truly relish the- able to create racial bloc At the naval court of inquiry Do not take this, for a piece of warm softness of a peace-time bed.. camouflaged under a new name. Captain Kennedy-Purvis was com- fatuous self-satisfaction. The It was added that the followers mended for his action. In the civil older I grow, the less self-aatia-

Learn By Experience Hong Koni, Friday, April 27, 1934. of General Smuts were determin-action for damages Mr. Justice fied I feel. Looking back on all Life without a variation of ex- ed to obtain assurances that Bateson assessed two-thirds of thej but fifty years of mundane exis-perience is not life at all. As there would be no whittling blame against the Florida.

tence, I can see much to deplore. well be a cabbage. Or a cow in. South African Disunion. down of association with the Bri-

and many things of which to be the byre. ashamed, in my own conduct.

But such variation af experi.. [have made a bigger fool of myself ence need not be material.. A man the than

most people-and possibly can go' to the same office more often. I have been thought the same factory every day from

Political feeling

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South in

tish commonwealth. In the short time which has elapsed

India Has Oldest Man

India claims to have found Africa is once again agitated since then, sufficient has hap- oldest living man.

The

or

He is Baz Gul Kham, aged 100, success attending Prince pened, and happened quickly, to George's visit on the social side prove their uneasiness justified. and now living in the village of less. I have been unkind. I have the time he is fifteen to the time.

The Status Bill now under con-Tappi, three miles from Kohat,

been hard. I have lacked under he is five-and-seventy-and yet has not prevented the prepare sideration appears to be drafted, North-West Frontier Province. standing with other people's frenp · life's “benefits to the full.

Most men, indeed—and nearly all/

far-

troubles.

tion and presentation of a mea-

1 major and a minor details He is Baz Gul Khan, aged 100, sure which proposes

I have also been poor, uncoms women-are": "happler * stabiilsed. reaching changes. These changes alike, with the-single object of to be still good and he has two sons fortable, in physical pain, in men. It is only a few of us, the born are mainly to the detriment of getting rid of the word "British" living, one ared 99 and the other tal pain, frightened to death, irri- gamblers, the born boat-burners, British influence and interests United Kingdom of Britain and

altogether. The words "of the 100.

tated to frenzy, driven half-med who like risk for its own sake and Baz Gul Khan, however, was born' Racial unity, so often desired and Ireland" are, it is proposed, Zaro Agha was born in Asia Minor most to the verge of exiling my-which we are most afraid.

by ambition. and disappointed are never really in the same year as

satisfed except so often proclaimed as achieved, be deleted from the description in 1774, as far as can be ascertain self from England. Nevertheless,

Zaro Agha. (through that same ambition) al-when we are doing the thing of is not, it would appear, establish-: led-must now, indeed, be shock of the King in Acts of the Unioned, and has hitherto been the undis-¡I repeat, there is no moment of tures of the mind and

ed by another challenge.

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-a distinction which in techni-puted oldest man. This

was

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the

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Mental risks, however, adven- -im- is not only regrettable, but, on make very much difference, but asked the Constantinople Munici- again.

cal effect may not appear to very much alive, for only recently he would not.

And the Turk is this mundane existence which agination, everyone can take. And and very gladly, live the more you take them the more the face of things, more than

of which the evident intention is pality to double his pension so that

enjoyable they become. It little surprising.

What matters he could marry an attractive woman

"Should Live Recklessly" I hate giving advice, and widely and sincerely believed only too plain,

even more, in effect at least, is of 40. that extremism in the form of the disappearance of the words

The "disenchanted" may scoff: Jonthe preaching. Every human- the over-prudent say, "Leware." being, even the fondest lover, is racial antipathy had been vir- tually extinguished in the gen schedule of the bill substitutes "British subjects," for which the

hold-essentially self-contained. Your Daily Smile.

But I myself am fully aware that it is more than a little dangerous Self-help is the only help really gral election. apparently 80

"Union nationals."

Experience may for a man of any age, let alone worth having. epoch-making, of May last year of Dr. Malan and his group of

The hand You've Noliced?

one whose first half-century is so be, as the satirist said, "Only the These Irish Sweep tickets make On that occasion, a coalition of

soon concluding, to write: "The name we give to our mistakes.”- the Nationalists (under General malcontents is surely heavy handy little pipe-lighters.

year just over was the happiest IBut it is almost impossible to pass Hertzog) and the South African the British are in, revolt? They Can anyone wonder that

have ever known." The Greek on even the lesson we ourselves KEEPING THE BIRDS AWAY Polycrates, who flung a costly ring have learned from those mistakes party (under General Smuts)

A black cat strolled on the stage into the sen swept the country, and old feuds have been very patient, very during a recent performance at ahad it served up to him in a fish (dren,

as a sacrifice-and to others, Even one's own chil- long-suffering only to find their to one's advice, and how.. however intelligently they patience abused. Having accept garded it as a lucky ed an unwelcome and patched-up black cat

thing. And was duly fever much they realise its value, flag, they are now asked to efface away.

would keep any bird trounced for his presumption by prefer to bruise themselves by their very name, with extrem-

malignant Fate.

falling out of that very tree from ists openly demanding the aban-[

Yet what is a belief in malig-which we fell afpretime than not donment of British nationality.

nant Fate? Only a blind super- to climb it at all. Half the trouble in the world, stition. Only self-distrust. Only! (Continued on Page 10.1 They have, as all the world knows, says a magistrate, is caused by man, were little heeded. It was commerce which has made South married women.

created and maintained all the girls. And the other half by hoped that even Dr. Malan,

Africa what it is to-day-in re- leader of the breakaway section

turn for which they recently saw of Cape Nationalists, had been,

a shipping subsidy granted to a robbed of his sting. Minor in- cidents of friction, however, soon themselves, they do not apply foreign line. Unfortunately for occurred, showing that a minority themselves to politics with that gold worth

It is calculated that there Is still

existed quite powerful

a hundred million unremitting persistence which pounds in the sea. It should com- enough to prevent consumma-

distinguishes the South African fort you the next time you tion of the longed-for union of

Dutch. Besides, have they not seasick to know that you are roll- hearts. After coalition, fusion

been Jargely disarmed in ad-ling in wealth. was talked of-perhaps a little unwisely--and discussion dragged Statute of Westminster, which LAST WEEK'S PRIZE MISPRINT

by the passing of the along indeterminedly. Skirmish-has been not inaptly termed "an

"The U.S. is now preparing to

Those realists who, in the midst of a rejoicing majority, drew omens of ill from the elimination: of Mr. Tielman Roos, apostle of racial unity, and the defeat at ungrateful hands of more than British Labour Jone pro-Boer

vance

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COLD COMFORT

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ing, both secret and open, led unequalled instrument of dia-food Russia with all her surplus) eventually to the announcement, integration?" The soothing as gods." made as recently as the middle surance of the "Times" that the

Ill gotten rains.

of last month, that General case is merely one of logical Doctor Income. Hertzog and Dr. Malan had sequence does not console; it reached a complete understand- merely confirms. Making no ing. By this, General Hertzog helpful contribution to the

CANNIBAL CAMEOS conceded to the executive of the cause of Empire unity, the

The Friend: And what did that Nationalist party the right to Statute notoriously threw the white husband of yours give you outline the principles of any of great injury. It is usually

door open, to possibilities for your birthday? fusion, merely reserving to him-

The Queen: Indigestion. self the right to submit his thus when superfluous attempta are made to atandardise the in-

SAFETY MEASURE views, when differences arose, to definable. A community like "My wife lo the party conference..

entering The that of South Africa, bi-racial Throwing the Hammer contest at cabled report declared that this and divided, can derive from it the local games this "transfer of the initiative" had endless harm a lesson, perhaps writes Scots reader,What raised the hopes of extreme Nattle needed, for mischief-should I practise for The hun- tionalists that they. would be makers elsewhere.

dred yards sprint.

the

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