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BUGBEAR OF STAFF TALKS

WITNESS

FROM EVENTS OF 1914

NOT A MENACE TO PEACE ON EUROPEAN CONTINENT

(By J. B. Firth)

war have

the Writer's Name and Address absorbing public service. It is ing Capitalism recently raised its not necessarily for insertion, but quite understandable that it hoary bead again. As Mr. Chan- tion pointed out last month int should be regarded in such a sa a guarantee of good faith.

case as a species of amusement Parliament-in his maiden speech was proposed rather than as a vitally importhe same motion tant means of world communi-in the Commons 13 years ago.

December,THE phrase "Staff Talks" has,convention precipitated war cation, and as Government It reappeared in

be 1939. Last year it aspired to the Tanddenly become a word of 1914, and be has

explained this Department, should

professional A clamour of by saying that the placed upon the same level as House of Lords. It was noted at dread to many.

that it was acquiring voices has arisen imploring, en-zeal of the soldiers in August 1914 Say, the Sanitary Department, the time

polish. A split infinitive had been treating the Government to draw caused the breakdown of diploma- Hong Kong, Teening, April 28, 1936. for instance.

back while yet there is time. tic negotiations which had hardly It was enough, apparently,put right. that the necessary machinery The famous debate on the sub- Staff Talk, we are told, lead to begun, but "through which

installed on adequate lject was that of March, 1923. Mr.

en-could and probably would military entanglements and Zones Of Silence For was

speech denouncing

Whether we been averted.” ⠀ premises, without going so far Snowden's

Surely this is a brand-new sug us to offer attractive salaries to Capitalism so angered Sir Alfred tanglements to war.

gestion that the soldiers stamped- The fact that not much has a first-class professional staff. Mond that he delivered a bitter are under treaty obligations or not

The "parallel of the pre-war ed Mr. Asquith's Cabinet into its been heard for some time about Small-town stations the world and devastating reply which was we are adjured to keep clear.

Staff Talks was pressed to the decision to declare war on August the operation of the "Silence over suffer from the same dif-adopted as a text for every states

ficulties: lack of local supply, man who feared Socialism seems to lack. of funds, and an executive Afterwards, when he was being uttermost in a letter which was 4.

The Cabinet had beer hesitating - argue that they have now been knowing nothing of broadcast-congratulated, Mond replied: "No published recently in a London

I made better speeches when I waspaper from Birmingham over five for days on the question of net- Here is the trality or intervention of the side of France. Half its members of the local a young man. But it is not antidistinguished names. continuing to operate satisfac-station, directors totally in-you have contempt for the House salient paragraph:

"In the pre-war years and were on the point of resignation. torily. When one remembers

pecially in 1903 to 1914 similar rather than accept Grey's thesis the dire prophecies of disaster experienced in the arts of either that you can win their respect"

education, or entertainment

embarrass that moral obligations of honour conversations gravely which the introduction of the having only an amateur outlook CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS?

substantial obligations scheme called forth, one

on either, cheerfully undertake perhaps smile quietly and reto supply the suffering public

has flect that none of them

with what is, to the providers. They come to pass. Many motorists argued that to ban the use of an unknown quantity.

seem not even to know that the horn absolutely would be to

technicians, announcers, pro- cause a marked rise. in acci-

and even gramme builders dents; that to do so was

audition committees do not When in good luck and circum- signatories closely examined into motoring spring like Venus introduce another dangerous innovation from the waves, but must be

That, indeed, was the one and fed;

affright? which would have dire conse trained in a hard and exacting Fut on the counter lunch Tre which they start back in such quences. Actually the fact school

Have they verified their refer-only pledge which the British Gov- Under the bludgeonings of chance

Or do they incautiously ernment had given to France aris- My thirst is sleeping. but not ences?

rely upon dead.

the extremely unbis-ing out of the military and naval other con- conversations, and it had been Beyond this place of pubs and torical "facts" which

troversialists have been importing given by Grey in 1912, without the British Government asking any- into the present discussion?

and on the ex- thing in return. Cabinet Divided Mr. Lloyd George, for example, press understanding that "it did accounts from not involve any obligation of com has given various

It was the invasion of Belgium It matters not how SM.'s prate, time to time of these pre-war Staff action."

Commons last month: "A military which changed the whole atmos- phere in the British Cabinet.. which resolved all doubts except in

may

to

Aphrodite

Per-

TOLERANCE.

seems to be that the move has The mere fact of having a job resulted in motorists driving does not make an expert. with more care, siraply because haps what Hong Kong suffers they were deprived of a power from most is its seeming re- ful incentive to take chances verence for face-pidgin which would otherwise be dan

But sins - well, the sins of But there is another ignorance only, surely Yours gerous. side to the

also. truly, picture Pedestrians and other users of the road have been drilled into some sort of cohesion with motor-driven. traffic "Jay walking," that expressive America has phrase which given us, is now less prevalent accounts, in London, from all than it used to be a few years Pedestrians are more ago. disciplined in their use of the road; the marking of special

The ninety-sixth conviction for drunkerness was recorded against a man in Melbourne Police Court. Out of the quod that covers me

I shall proclaim, e'en if I burst. thank whatever gods there be For my unconquerable thirst.

stance

- tears

Loom but the jim-jams-things

accurst.

And. vet, the menace of the beers

Finds, and shall find me, still

athirst.

of to take sides

ed, entangled and committed-3. Shall it be again? The very merr and tion of the unavoidable and ter policy impelled us rible parallel mast awaken recolle with France. The farthest point tions of fear and sorrow, even of to which the united Cabinet could horror. Vestigia terrent."

Birme carried before the Germans

But have the Bishop of ingham. Canone Guy Rogers. Raymond Beazley and their

the sand оп foot-prints

Sir

invaded Belgium was to promise

Co- the

the protection of the French coasts by the British Fleet if the German

from

nary came into the Channel

Decided By Events

How charged with fines the jus-Talks. He said in the House of EXPLANATION OF

TO-DAY'S CARTOON

Tyndale

TX7ILLIAM TYNDALE (1484-

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I am the record up-to-date--

Sydney "Sun**.

I am the captain of the bowled away unhurt. He found no dif-the breasts of John Morley and culty afterwards in finding a job as John Burns, and carried a united a commercial traveller.

British nation into the war.

EVIDENTLY

Your Daily Smile!

Superstition

That man who said we get out of

And even Lord Morley himself had been particeps criminis. One

A woman writer explains that the everything just that which we put day in conversation with Haldane that visitors are coming.

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tive supervision which enforced their use-has resulted in a tershire, England, is the true) much better co-ordination of father of the modern English that's a sign they have gone. the different types of traffic Bible. His sound acholarship, lu-

A man brought before a magistrate a secret to which the Cabinet as was described by the police as a whole had not beeh a party, and using the roads.

cid diction and majestic rhythm are Real Qualifications

He gave himsel himself, the least.

(Continued on Pare 12) It would really be an excel-responsible for four-fifths of our An unemployed man who fell down absolute riddle."

a flight of 30 stairs got up and walk-up. lent thing if zones of silence present day Version.

He incurred the hostility of the were tried out in Hong Kong. There is no need to labour the contemporary clergy, because his point that the city suffers very translation of the Bible was far extensively from the everlast-superior to the versions then ac ing din of motor-horns at all cepted. The Tyndale Bible hours of the day and night, declared untrustworthy and taint- Unfortunately evidence of that led with heresy. Tyndale had to fact is only too obvious to all fee from prosecution and hid from concerned. There seem to be the spies of Henry VIII for many great possibilities of effecting years. The Tyndale Bibles, print- an improvement in that direc-led abroad and smuggled into Eng- tion. That many drivers, land in four bags and bales of especially of cars available for doth, were hunted out by the au hire misuse and overuse their thorities and burned. horns is continually evident. Tyndale was denounced by a dis- And what is worse, their stan- loyal friend in 1535. Ee was seiz- dard of driving undeniably deed and imprisoned at Vilvorde, teriorates the more they have Belgium, where he spent 16 months recourse to this instrument. It in a desolate dungeon. He was is fatally easy for a motor-brought to trial and convicted on driver to get into the habit of October 6, 1535. The Father of depending on his horn to clear the English Bible was strangled his way for him, when its real and his body burned at the stake. function is to act as a warning His dying words were; “Lord; open and a warning only. For the King of England's eyes." tunately it is only in the pages

of Prach that the driver, had The Maryknoll Sisters announce up for running into a lamppost that the Children of Mary of St can remark with dignity: "Well, Teresa's Church and their parents I blew my horn," but it is a fact are invited to an Easter: drama tol

that a large number of drivers be given in the parochial ball to do depend to a dangerous de- day at 5.30 p.m. ... gree on the efficacy of that

miraculous charm to waft aside

all their traffic problems.

all the time. The motor-horn

We are strongly of the here undoubtedly has its uses in opinion that a zone of silence, warning the casual pedestrian say during the hours of 13 p.m. stepping off the pavement with and 6 a.m., should be tried out his back to the stream of traffic as an experiment here: But that a Juggernaut weighing before this can be done, a anything up to a couple of tons vigorous campaign in the educa is likely to run him down. The tion of pedestrians is absolute warning, in nine cases out of

Buti ly obligatory. Week after ten, is definitely needed. week the returns of traffe if after a careful campaign of accidents disclose that most deducating the pedestrian, it the fatalities are caused by were found possible to intro people running or walking on dice hours of silence, in which the roadway, or appearing sud- the use of motor-horns were denly from behind stationary prohibited, a large number of vehicles. The disregard which people to whom the nerve- a number of road-users show wracking noises of the city are for the elementary rules of the a real torment' would give pavement are truly astonishing. sincere thanks for a delivery It is not fair to blame motorists from their troubles of this kind.

TYNDALE

FATHER OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE-

WAS STRANGLED AND BUSSED ATTIRE STAKE

FOR THE CRIME OF

TRANSLATING THE BIBLE

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