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IMPORTANT POINTS

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new game is well launched. And, as nothing (for the moment) succeeds like excess in these mat- ters, once the ball has been set rolling no doubt other people will hastily line up to have a kick at it, as they did in the case of newspaper. insurance schemes and free books for faithful · ·readers. There may soon be ballots every bookstall and inquirers on every doorstep making nice little notes of the free and independent householder's reactions to every- thing from the Pact of Paris to the Athanasian Creed. Polling booths will be all over the place and British Bureaux of Bulldog Brain-Power will blossom in every hamlet.

In fact, when all these rival inquisitions have stolen its in- effective thunder the next general election, may prove to be the big- gest flop in history; the famous advice “Vote early and vote often" will have been followed so Every now and then someone thoroughly that the languid elec- is found. sighing, in print, or in tor may decline to put a cross on public speech, for the spacious the original but now old-fashion- days before the spelling. of Enged form. And, of course, if any lish had settled down into the dul genius can combine these unoffi- uniformity which now infests our cial inquiries into the patient's pages; he looks back with long-mental condition with the system ing to the time when a book of rewards as offered by the foot- might be a "boke” or a “bok” or ball pool promoters, well, the a "booke" at the discretion of Grandmother of Parliaments the writer, who might even de- might as well go out of business cide to spell it all three ways straight away. within the same‍ paragraph. And

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certainly the variations ("My Aš a Going Concern spelling is good spelling but it

Wobbles," as one of the charac- Anybody whose taste runs in ters observes in "Winnie the the direction of a private house Pooh") do not usually put any of correction, complete with the insuperable obstacle between the preliminary premises fr sending reader and the sense of the pass-people there, ought t be inter age. That is the point which the ested in the news that the Tombs Archbishop of York had in mind Prison in New York City, togeth- when he told some school children fer with the Criminal Courts that punctuation matters more Building that is attached to it, than spelling, because, though has been offered for sale. But bad spelling is untidy to look at, not, it appears, "with vacant pos- bad punctuation reflects the mud-session," for although notices an- dled mind which is unable to get nouncing that the premises “are and clearly expressed. It is true, the prison it seems to be a fact its own thought clearly shaped for sale have been hung outside of course, that the errant comma that there are still convicts in- can make a much bigger mess of side. Those will have to be re- a. sentence than a slip in the moved in the first place, for matter of spelling; all the warn- though there may be purchasers ings on that subject usually lead who are ready to acquire a off with the celebrated offer for second-hand gaol and court of sale of "A piano, the property of criminal jurisdiction, no one can a lady with carved legs." And the feel much enthusiasm for a lot of prisoners. The absence of any punctuation at all second-hand except a full stop (a simplification tempting thing would be to start often practised by those who just afresh with a private court and "can't be bothered" with the a private prison for the incarcera- other trivial dots and dashes)tion of all those whom the pur- can produce such quite insoluble chaser regarded as enemies of problems as the famous and un- society. It sounds just the helpful poser set by the oracle hobby for a retired millionaire

Thou shalt go thou shalt return but for the fact that he might never in battle shalt thou perish." want to start off by taking all It is, therefore, well that someone the other millionaires into cus- of Dr. Temple's standing should tody.

defend the specks that mean so

much to the significance of the Null and Vojd?

printed or written page; the clear

mind will automatically display Not much news seems to come itself in the easy and appropriate out of Russia novadays at least distribution of those mighty nothing like the seam of strange

atomí.

tales highly coloured which used to emerge when the Riga rumour factory was apparently working Wisdom While You Wait full time with day and night shifts. So perhaps one should Though that "plebiscite feel-be chary of accepting the story ing" may be a little out of fav- that Stalin is to be known in our in Czecho-Slovakia, one re-future as "the Great Red Vojd." sult of our recent crisis has it does, indeed, sound a little too evidently been a considerable an- picturesque to be true-particu xiety to feel the patient's pulse arly if the "j" could be treated in the British Isles. What with as an English "i." Actually, it one newspaper running a ballot is reported that the word is mere. to discover whether we love another term for dictator, but |National Service as much ke certainly brings a note of ought to, and another announdin novelty into the autocratic ar... the results of a searchin

ngements of nodera Europe. profoundly “scientific"

And it may be, too, that:

dictator is now into, whether we also Chamberlain as well as a Na

townified", Register (the answer is lently 'Yea' In both cases),

reais conception that built-up areas.