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ESSAY BY ROBERT LYND

Away With The Pessimists

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I felt this sudden brightening of the spirits when I read the

There is nearly always a rea- Will penicillin enable me to the wistària trails bring good son for being fairly cheerful if do this? At the back of my news into the world if only for one can find it.

mind there is a lurking sun- an hour. Even days on which the nowa picton that it won't. Still, the I have been unable to go into papers are

full of stories of news that it would soon be on the country so far this year: nations unable to agree, about the market revived an ancient but the next best thing to being convicts armed with tommy-ream and, If I am disappointed in the country is to be in town gung rioting' in gaol, about the a month of two honee, it will and think what the country prevalence of juvenile crime in not be for the first time. must be looking like. One can London, about the collapse of

seo the apple-blossom in one's the favourite in the first great. Even the bad news in the mind's eye-that vory useful flat race of the year, about cute papers, however, can sometimes organ by menn of which In the supplies of cakes and bis- give a cheerful turn to one's snowy mountain tops in sum- cuits, and indeed, about all sorts thoughts. Thus, to read of the mer, the blue of the Meditor- of things that must depress the shortage of cakes and biscuits rancan Sea, and the colours of spirits of ordinary decent sets the memory busy among all rare birds all become visible.“ citizens, thero is usually an the cakes and biscuits of the The prospect of getting peni- Item of newa-often only tak last century-cream snowballs cillin' has, perhaps, made mo ing up a short paragraph that and jammy crescente, animal look unduly on the bright side makes the future seem not so biscuits and blacuits shaped like of things. I have no doubt cloudy after all.

the letters of the alphabet, that many of my fellow-medi- Garibaldi biscuits and maca- cine-swallowers have hlso be- roons.

come temporary optimists for The appointment of Wing- other day that penicillin, though "Sorrow's crown of sorrow," the same reason. Commander S.E. Faber as Hong apparently only in mild doses, according to the poet, "is re- will now bo on sale in. the membering happier things": Kong's director of building, re- chemists' shops. I have always but I do not think this is always habilitation, or what the Housing been on the look-out for some true. It is not true of cakes Committee, of which he was a elixir that will enable me to and biscuits.

nember, termed Minister of Re- break all the rules of health To stand in a grocer's shop construction, commends itself as without suffering any l conse- and to read the names on tin after, tin of blacuits and enjoy a promising choice. Finally, of quences, and this may be it.

Rumours of the wonders all the pleasures of greed as course, the test must be in the

wrought by a new drug and one reads such a childhood ex- achievement, but this much can be the wonders wrought by medi-perience remains a happiness said, that Wing-Commander

eine in recent times have been in the memory for a life-time, Faber commences lus duties with almost beyond belief-always And one's first sight of animal a number of factors in his favour, renew my hope that the magic biscuits as a bed-time bite when among them the fact that he is not bottle. I am in search of has staying with one's grandfather

country-one a graduate of the Civil Service been discovered at last Eat in the

can no bo depressed by the system, and fulfils what must be what you like, smoke what you more

of it than by the regarded as an essential require-like, take as little exercise as memory ment he is not likely to prove you like to be able to do this memory of one's first sight of a willing slave to red tape. The with the assistance of a small oranges growing on a tree.

a benevolent task to be faced is one of heavy genic is all I ask of medical The future, no doubt, will bej responsibility, and unless it is science.

better than the past, but the vested with freedom for the play I have already tried M-and-B past has its own plensant places notable cures, but that are well worth looking of energy and initiative, if it is to and other

And even the present be tied up with masses of forms nape of them quite comes up to back on. and mountains of files, the holder my needs. None of them so far has a fairly cheerful look, now

has enabled

manner. me to break the that it is in full blossom. The of the office is foredoomed to laws of health with impunity.

scent and the delicate blue of more public criticism than thanks.

In this day, and age, to be quite frank, this may be the ultimate re sult in any case. The problem one of such urgency that patience will not readily be forthcoming: Nor is it likely to be freely under- stood that the Director of Building | Rehabilitation is in no position of

bottle containing

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Voice That Hushed The Tories

Someone

BY THE WAY

There was another caso recent- jy of an audience at a concert ap-

It Was dalshed. plauding a piece of music-before-

Un to the moment when auch an Incident occurs nobody knows who to musical and who isn't. Many people move their lips, sway their heads, or gaze ecstatically into space. This may be genuine emotion or mere showing-off. But of people when once a number have applauded in the wrong place they are stamped as Goths, and the experts can safely frown at them,

or smile in a ancering

By BEACHCOMBER

Can

A courageous man have great fun by leading ap- plause in the wrong place.

The Accompanist

OF

What I love about sencerts is the relationship between the lady singer and the accompanist. She swings on like the dawn 'coming up like thunder outer China across the bay. He-ancaks out of a holo like a half-starved mouse. She beams at the audience. Не dictatorship, but the interpreter What makes an orator? A wasn't worth it. The aword larks shrinkingly at his plane.

most of could be saved for another day which her broad shoulders hide.

Then she assumes a position in rather than the initiator of high hundred définitions,

Thus ended the biggest lobby him from most of the audience. policy. Nevertheless, Wing-them not very complimentary. Commander Faber may be assur- have been offered by the sages. organised against any measure if there is an encore (and there Lord Baldwin described ora- so far introduced in this Par has to be, or she'll walk out) she ed that he commences upon his

the

war to death nods superciliously to the poor stewardship with substantial tory as "the harlot of the arts." liament,

but then he was not a master pledged by some of the doctors, little oaf. Then, when it is all over goodwill. It will, we think, be of the craft. He showed all the great campaign which was and she is bowing, and grinning realised that initial progress must the contempt of a third-rate planned to revive the strenuous and receiving flowers, and blow- ing kisses, the voice of a manager, be slow, and that the most im-musician for the prowess of a days of 1910 and 1911.

what-not, hlases portant function-of-the-Housing painter,

Mr. Richard Law then had promoter: else said that anthe unpleasant task of declar Jenkinson, or whatever his name

from-the-wines. Don't forget- Minister in the next six months

akilled in ing the funeral official. His

"Who?" she hisses back. will be the laying of the founda-orator was "a mon

moving to tears." But who claim to oratory was, as Justus "The accompaniat, damn it!" So tions for a housing programme ever saw mass tears in the said of one of his contempor-sho moves her body a bit, and which will develop with accelerat House of Commons? Some other aries, that he spoke like Demos ing speed in the succeeding period. capacity is needed in that stony-thenes when he had pebbles in This, in its turn, will finally de-hearted assembly. pend upon the Colony's ability to The Arabs have a proverb. acquire the necessary building They say that the best orator

Across the walls of Berlin materials in sufficient quantities, is one who can make men see

That comes appears a new slogan, "The linked with the extent of Govern- with their ears.

nearer the truth.

Frontlers of the. Elbo and the ment action to encourage private But Demosthenes was nearer Oder are not satisfactory for owners to cooperate. In the end, still. According to Plutarch, the German Unity Party. the progress of re-development when asked what was the first may prove to centre upon this question of subsidy, and it is pos sible to foresee that Government may be compelled to enter more extensively than it now 'plans into

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By MICHAEL FOOT

a field which it views as, more properly the province of private part of oratory. Demosthenes enterprise. Upon the subsidy answered, "Action." Asked question there are wide differences which was the second, ho re-

"Action." plied,

And asked of opinion.. Few view with any marked sympathy the suggestion which was the third, he still

Baid "Action" that the cost of reconstruction of

The real orator deals in deeds private property should be as well as words. He wants his borne by the community ds audience to do something. (For a whole, and there would cer- haps that is why Lord Baldwin tainly be greater support for a never took to the business.) scheme which would enable Gov. In this gense Aneurin Bevan ernment to retain control of let is certainly the leading prac- ting, even if this involved large-titioner. He can-suit his mood scale leasing of damaged property to the occasion and to the im- and repair by Government. The mediate political objective he

choice between various ways of seeks to secure.

> On Tuesday, lutroducing his

meeting, the problem, is however exceedingly wide, and it tests with Government to decide what expediency genuinely dictates. The main cry is for results, the method to be regarded, relatively as a secondary consideration.

US. PILOTS SHOT DOWN?

Health Bill, ho gave a model performance and left the Tories more discomfited by his soft answers than by some of his oarilor and fiercer nasaults.

For the Torles had made -a capital blunder,:" ̈¦ ̈“No doubt under the promptings of Mr. Churchill, who, doubtless, was spurred in turn by the im patient clamour of the high Tory Press for a more aggreb- sive opposition, the Tories had put down a comprehensive amendment condemning the whole measure.

his mouth.

Tragic

algnals to him, to rise and bow. as one might signal to a tame whitebalt to come for a cramb

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Why Not Be Healthy?. Exercise II: Stretch out both arms behind you, palms sideways. Bend the head until it is between the knees. Pull the mouth wide in a silly grin, Jerk the left knee against the nose and the right knee against the chin, swivelling Thus the German Com the head round and round muniata apparently declare war loosen the neck muscles, and form- on the new Polish frontiersing the mouth Into an O. Then previously decreed after Soviet sit down slowly, flogging the body inalstence. Thus the Soviet like a cabman on a cold day, and authorities apparently condone place the right foot over the left. criticism of the once sacred dic- Roll on to your face, with both and arms locked under your chin. while knocking your head against tates of Teheran, Yalta

the tops of your knees. Potsdam.

The novelty prompts many

'Not In The History Books rueful comments. Is the East-

I read that 48t, George is El Khidr." ern frontier settlement now con-known in Bapt sidered a mistake?

This is, of course, the origin of Some in this country thought the American phrase "No Khid- 80 and agid so at the time. But ing." When the Americans landed after a world of misery, his at Alexandria in the seventeenth

caused by the mass- century they

they were shown tho bean

pulsions it is a little late now bones of the dragon killed by St. strous Infamy was due to sumie hippopotamus, and so St. George to discover that the whole mon- George. A scientist established that they were, the bones of a deviationist error,

It would all be so funny if it Eevotians

was called the Kidder, which the corrupted Inlo EL weren't so tragic..

Khidr

AMERICAN TAX PLAN FOR JAPAN

(By Tom Lambert.)

Tokyo, May 23. Allied and Japanese sources confirm that the now American- drafted tax proposal had boon submitted to Allied Headquarters for consideration before its issue to the Japanese Government, as a-directive—a proposal which will wipe out all but the smallest of war Indemnity payments and hit høavily at accumulated war profits! Bources who asked not to be indemnity payments over 10,000 named said General MacArthur yon, (War indemnity payments Shanghai, May 23.4

had seen and approved in spirit are those the Japanese govern- " Reports by the Tass News

Not Worth Itf

tho tax plan" drafted by the ment might have made to in- Agency that American pilots

American economist and tax ax- | Bustelos, and "iridividuni sub- planes had been shot down over one am a Manchuria were termed "very Scarcely an hour had passed borte. Leo Cherno,mitting war damage claims); questionable by Lt General before they must have been If Allied Handquarters en The sources said that capital Aivan Gillem'in Slinghal today, curding their folly, For Aneurin *** General ** Gillen, who com Bevan spent most of his time dorses the plan, a directive will levy will be assdased on all pro- mands the US forces in describing in the most begnil probably be issued to the Ja perty valued at more than 301 ** Baild thatli fie bad tab Ini acconte all the formidable pances for adoption lite law at 000 you with rates ranging the next let son immediately over 30,000 you to from 3' pór cent of valuations fwhich the y no informint on regard, projects of reform

sources said the aut.: 88 per cent on valuations over poor. Tories Were-commited to

tures of the proviso,600,000yon C