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THE

WORLD GOES BY

By ULYSSES

THE following lyrical memoran- Abroad, to show that everyone was

dum was read by Mr. A. P.. passionate for peace,

Herbert in the House of Commons All children under seven joined the recently during the debate on the decline in population.

in 1937 was a rumour going round That income-tax was soon to be 6s

in the pound; “

army or police,

The babies studied musketry, while

mother filled a shell And everybody wondered why the

population fell.

The cost of education every season The world, in short, which never

seemed to swell-

was extravagantly sane, And to everyone's astonishment the Developed all the signs of infam-

mation of the brain

population fell.

future, none could tell

They pulled down all the houses The past was not encouraging, the

where the children used to crowd,

And built expensive blocks of flats

where children weren't allowed, And if father got a job there wasn't

anywhere to dwell-

But the Minister still wonders why

the population fell-

Why Join The

And everybody wondered why, the Athenaeum?

population fell.

Five hundred brand new motor-cars

each morning rode the roads.

The following “blurb” has been issued by the War Office Publicity

And flashed about like comets or sat Department:-

motionless as toads.

Whichever course they took they

Barracks are becoming like clubs in the British Army of to-day-

According to an Aldershot Com- mand Order, soldiers recreation rooms are to be provided with set- The laws were very comical: to bet tees, adjustable armchairs, writing

made the public highway hell- And everybody wondered why the

population fell

was voted lax,

But your betting was the only thing

that nobody would tax;

-

You couldn't have a wine unless

you'd sandwiches as well- And everybody wondered why the

population fell

Great science nobly laboured to in

crease the people's joys,

and card tables, curtains and--Ax- minster rugs-

the

Tables with white enamel tops

and windsor chairs will appear in t dining rooms, where bread baskets and tea plates, serving dishes and drinking glasses will emphasise the Club atmosphere

Kitchen fatigue will be a pleasure But every new invention seemed to with the use of machines for butter

add another noise,

patting, bread slicing, potato mash- One was always on the telephone or ing and potato chipping, bacon slic-

-answering the bell-

fing, meat press, and pickling And everybody wondered why the syringes.

population fell

In the cook-house Army cooks will and aprons, and the butchers will don The newspapers were run by men overalls and aprons

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who hadn't time to think,

When the new barracks, now in

The cinema was managed by a man course of construction, are complet-

who couldn't spell

ed, the British soldier will be housed

And everybody wondered why the and fed in a manner worthy of his

honourable calling-

population fell

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