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LONDON'S SUNDAY HAS CHANGED

PEOPLE IN GENERAL

NOT IRRELIGIOUS

TEST OF CONDUCT WITHSTANDS

CHARGE OF HEATHENISM

(By H. C. Bailey)

THE Socialist leader of the Logic in conduct - does not absolute Mr. Herbert Morrison, address-genera

* All of us who

THE Soca County Council, mesen ob

more

months ago the first shots were The quotation was: "His eyes fired. Still the fighting continues, sparkled with stupidity.”

Cer although the restraint and strate-stain members were saying that itị xy of the Ethiopians have saved had been supplied-by one of“ the them from suffering heavy losses. brighter boys of the Foreign Of- All may not be going according tojáce. plan for the Italians, but there They were wrong. The quota-ed the considered opinion that have come to middle age can he had long since given up hope remember when the Sunday re- Hong Kong, Friday, December 6, 1915 can be little dorét of their ultim-tion was of Sir Sammel's

ate capacity, if allowed anything choosing He knows his Proust that the British people would gulations were vastly like a free hand, to inflict much and not even Sir Robert Vansit-ever be logical about the Sab-severe than they are now. damage and hardship apon the in-tart is more widely read in French bath to his countrymen the Many of us grew up in a other day. What he meant society where games of any vaded country. The popular de-literature. mand for quick results from the Readers of Sir Samuer's "The was that he could see no sort were forbidden on Sunday, League of Nations is easily un-Fourth Seal will remember that rational distinction between the which allowed no hospitality on the book contains quotations from entertainments which are legal that day, which limited cook- (Continued on Page 103 a rich range of French authors on Sunday and those which are ing I have myself stayed at beginning with Mme. de Baignet, but that he believed the an in serving nothing hot but existing distinction satisfied boiled eggs and tea from morn- the general public.

ing till night Even reading On the latter point he was was confined to books definitely undoubtedly right. But is the "good.” Fiction of the most distinction irrational or legi-blameless complexion. cal? Cinemas are open on Sun-banned I know those Few people, probably, know day wherever a local majority have suffered for the sin of that, through his wife, Lady has voted for that licence. looking at a book by Sir Walter Mand Hoare, Sir Samuel is con Concerts are generally permit-Scott on Sunday.

Oil And Power

There is an old anecdote of a Yorkshire coal-master being presented to Prince von Bis- marck. The Iron Chancellor asked him what was his occa

derstandable.

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pation. He replied: "Sir, EXPLANATION OF and ending with Raymond de Re-

sell what every statesman wants. If that was true power."

YESTERDAY'S.

CARTOON

PATIN

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"THE YOUNG CAPTIVE"

members of the London County:

was

who

in the days when armies as a rule marched on their own feet, accompanied by horse-drawn transport, it is a hundred times more true to-day. Speed has become the secret of success, Guy Patin, famous French phy-pected with one of the greatest ted on Sunday. The opening of Mr. Morrison. I suppose, even in military manoeuvres-sician and writer, (1602-1672) was poets in French literature. theatres is forbidden, and in would call this rule logic It is

It was to Lady Mand's great London and Speed means the internal com for many years Professor of Medi-

elsewhere all far less logical than the regime bustion engine, and that means eine at the College of France. Heut, Aimee de Coigny, Duchesse dramatic elements must be of the open cinema and the petrol The same thing is true was a bitter

enemy of modern de Fleury, that Andre

Chenier excluded from the concert plat-closed-theatre. on the sea. And in industry medicine, and

a disbeliever in wrote "La Jeune Captive" while form

A Bishop's Dilemma even if the power is used in the

This last restriction a few! quinine, antimony and the circula-both were in prison during the

If Sunday is to be kept as a form of electricity, which cantion of blood. Through incalcat-French Revolution. be produced by water power oring this disbelief into a generation The poem, which has since been Council sought to remove, not fast, surely one should fast al- The famous menu coal, it is every day more true of medical students, be surely re-urdered or mastered by suc-without good arguments. But together. that a stoppage of the oil sur tarded the progress of the medical ceeding generations of British under any law hard cases can of the Victorian Sunday dinner. ply would mean a big disloca-profession by at least a century. schoolboys, was

a few be found.

***Soup — Cold Meat Sweets" Take another form of amuse tchen. And if Sunday labour required unnecessary toil in the tion, and the use of an inferior But Patin was also a man of pro- days before Chenier went to the substitute

ment. All over England games digious memory. He imported and guillotine. Mechanisation of armies is

library destroyed a

of 10,000 The direct line of the Coignys are now played on Sunday. Yet is altogether an abomination, going on as fast as experimentimes, each of which was pro- has now died ont. As the nearest none of the ruling authorities by what right do we use establishes its usefulness, and

hibited by the French Government relative Lady Maud used to own of sport dreams of allowing water-supply or lighting ser the warnings of those who from

games to be played as a specta-vices on that day?

Ninety years ago Bishop time to time point out that it is Lest he be caught violating the the family estate in France

King's prohibition, he memorised was sold before the war.

Wilberforce, obviously uncom dangerous to put all our eggs the contents of each volume before into one basket are unavailing

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Little Calculation Walking in the Highlands, a

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cular entertainment.

Not Very Long Ago fortable and embarrassed, The distinction in the public wrote to one of his clergy a long mind is that amusements defence of the Prince Consort's in-should be allowed which do not profligate habit of playing

involve the employment of large chess on Sunday evening. numbers of people, and which

do not assimilate Sunday to the other days of the week. This

to balance the obvious advan he committed it to the flames. The contents of the forbidden tages of the oil motive power.

books were repeated by him at As usual Japan, who is one of the nations that have to import gatherings and private assemblies, in which is participation was their oil, has been the first to take a strong initiative in ap eagerly sought. plying the conclusion to be drawn from the premise. Japan world's oil Deprive any State fennd that his watch had stopped is neither illogical, as Mr. Mor- and noticing rison supposes, nor hypocriti- will only grant the oil companies of the chance of buying from Entering a farmhouse freedom to trade if they under- North America, and even if it an old grandfather clock, he said cal, as he assures as foreigners

"Your clock is surely wrong?”

think. No violation of reason) take to store, under Govern- gets oil from elsewhere it will

"Naething wrang wi L, answeredis involved in a system which

"It's you that doesna' ment supervision, a six months' be at such an enhanced price 25 the farmer. supply of their average sale will reduce it to financial dif- understand it. When the wee han's allows those who want enter- Not content with that the Goy-ficulties at a very short interval straight and the big hum's tainment to find it, while ensur ernment has laid in a very large in truth even if the big com-right doon, it strikes ten; but the ing that those who desire quiet richte's fe o'clock After that for religious observances, should store which would be available panies should agree voluntarily be continued, "ye've naething to the for the fleet without any delay to stop or diminish their super [or publicity, But any reserve ply, it would be possible for held in a country that produces some of their smaller rivals to no oil from its own soil must be keep the aggressive army go- exhausted in a fairly short ing. There is nothing in past time, and war, 25 was officially history to lead us to suppose admitted in 1918, "simply that all the companies would eats Foll" The new motive prefer the chance of conferring power has brought with it a big a benefit on the international shift of power of the commer-public to the certainty of mak- cial and military class which ing a dividend of hundreds per for two centuries bad rested on cert English coal reserves.

The communique issued by

It was only to be expected the Canadian Government has that the attempt to impose been a good deal misunderstood. economic sanctions would either A careful perusal indicates that fail altogether, or would suc-it referred to a bit of cabled. ceed only by making many new news that gave Canada as the precedents, and revealing many first-proposer of an oil embargo, new facts. The precedents in The Canadian Government did the interpretation of the Coven-not like such prominence be ant may be left for later sum canse its French supporters of mary, but the most surprising Quebec, who are earnest paci- fact disclosed is that the effect fists, very strenuously opposed of the other sanctions may be to being involved in a foreign ignored by any Government war, were upset by Signor that has prepared for war, at Mussolini's threat that he would least so far as preventing war regard it as an act of war or stepping it at an early stage an embargo is voted by 52′′vá- is concerned, so long as the tions, and above all if the sanctions do not include oil. It United States co-operate, Can would not be putting any undue ada would avoid undue pro- stress on the present experience minerice" to say that the whole question

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"I never play," the poor Bishop protested, "because I explained that whist I could not say that I thought the act wrong, yet I thought it would be highly inexpedient in me to have it said that a clerzyman 1. Of course, for a person who believed that it was a breach of the law of God to play at chess on Sunday, it would be wrong not to protest against it; but I do not thmk sa

I think Christian liberty leaves such matters very much large."

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