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MEN WHO WILL NOT CARRY

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There is only one thing that nothing will persunde him to do, and that is to carry! parcels.

REVIEWS-

THE STALEMATE IDEA,

The Soul of a Crown Prince. By T. W. WHY THE WAR WILL NOT END IN fight hard, but the suite of its Sighting

II. CROSLAND, author of The Show- mann, etc. T. Werner Enurie, Ltd., London 1/

A DRAW.

LOY INOLD. BENNETT.)

A great

in the Cabinet, namely, the Prime Minis tor

Each department must, of course, fight for itself, and to get anything it must should be scrutinised and divided into good and bad, and the fighting regulated accord. ingly. Our departments are, like ourselves, hercely individualistic. Thus the War My husband has taken the war very

Ulice sets recruiters. work among the seriously. He has done everything that a

There recently appeared in a well-known

The idea of an indecisive peace has re-firemen of the mercantile marine regard patriot ought to de. As a special constable London weekly an article by an unsigned cently been ventilated in England. It has less of the fact (which it might have learnt been" venti ated in quarters whose mental from the Local Government Bong) that he has given up several nights', sleep every writer entitled Is the Kaiser Satan?"

activities cannot interest the intelligent, the mercantile marino is at its wit's end in which the writer proved, to his own but also in quarters which have amply for firemen, that ships cannot put to 1954. week and spent countless decary hours

satisfaction, that the nn wer is in the earned the right to the most respectful at- without fremer, and that the shortage ul of rain and tempest as a nigh: nurse

affirmative. The article in question would

tention. Isco no reason whatever far slips is one of the most difficult proble

of the day, second only in importance to have formed a suitable preface to Mr. accepting the idea. In the past, reasous of waterworks of filway bridges has subscribed gererenely to war char-t'es Crosland's concise little book on The Sout for accepting it might have been discover the establishment of harmony between the He has assisted a score of patriotic agani-of a Crown Prince." Needless to say, ted, but the superiority of the Allies in all War Offics and the Exchequer.

is the Crown Prince of Prussia who is re- that is essential to victory is so increasing deal of the inter-departmental inherence Csations. He has practised strict economy terred to. The author quotes from variously evident that the idea to my mind has is due to mere lack of public interest and -put the sayings in the War Loan, and, in authorities who persist in the theory that been ruled right out of reasonable prob therefore of public criticist, for pablig

The ability

It is possible only in the sense criticism is the mother of efficiency, and his forty-second year, lo has made a false the Crown Princo saullitý.”

The lack of public interest in the navy attestation and is the wearer of an armlet following extract from the writings of Mr. that anything which depends on the a lively interest is the mother of entiis

Thomas Henry Hall Caine is worth repro- vagaries of human nature is possible.

is asthuishing. It may also be dangerous- duction:-

THE SURRENDER OF GERMANY,

I don't know. The difficulties of the Bri I myself, in common with many.

And let me note that I am not one oftis fleet in the Mediterranean, for ex- others, saw the descendant of the

indecisive ataple, are never mentioned in Parliament, Fredericks every day, for several weeks those who would regard an of several years at a distance that called peace as an unmitigated disaster, or as tho The army is continuously before the pub mere preliminary to another war. I simply lie; the vastly more important navy is for no jatellee.un! field-glasses.

do not believe that under any circumcarcely ever before the public. The in... I saw a young man without a particle of natural" "distinction, whether physical, stones whatever there will be another big pression anong interested outsiders is that war in our time or in the time of our the same amount of constructive thinking mural, or mental. The figure long rather

chEdren. Those who are responsible for used to be done at the Admiralty is nas than tall, the hatchet face, the sclish eyes, the making of war have already had such being done now. Possibly the impression Anyhow, the matter is worthy the meaningless mouth, the retreating.

ashaking that they and their immediate is wrong forehead, the vanishing chin, the energy descendants will tremble till the day of of the attention of members of Parliament, that expressed itself merely in restless death at the thought of a fresh altercation, who might, too, ocensioonly indicate in the movement, achieving little, and often aim and the shaking is by no menng over no mercantile marine that the nation not ing at nothing at all; the uncultivated yet near its worst. And I can well appra entirely blind to the prodigious courage intellect, the narrow views of life and the ciste that an indecisive peacs would have with which it has performed prodirious world. the shockingly bad man certain clear advantages, as well as disrvices. At present the personnel of the rers, the assumption of the right to disadvantages, for democracy and anti-militar-mercantile marine regarda itself, exeus. regard and even to outrage the common: 18 in general. Nevertheless, I should be ably, as ungratefully neglected. conventions on which social intercourse tremendously disappointed if the war did depends all this was

only to not end in an essential Germanic surren plainly apparent in the person of the der, and I am still firmly convinced that it will so end. If it does not so end, the Crown Prince,"

cape will lie either in a lack of will to win or in an insufficient utilisation of our immense superiority, or in both. There are danger points, and I will name them as frankly as is permissible, premising that victory does not depend on Britain alone, though many Britons in their ineffable Bri- tannie conceit appear to think that it does

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And therein he is like nine men out of

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Women can usually understand the mainspring of men's foibles and preju- dices; they canrit understand why men. will unt, carry parcels. Men are seldom as subtle ns women are, but no whim or pre- "judice of women is as subtle and as con- tradictory as men's hatred of parcels, Alen have the same fastinctive and irration al hate of parcels that women often have for women, Wives can usually make their husbands do their will; it is only in the comic papers at Christmas time that they make them carry parcels; acver in real life.

Mr. Crosland does not entirely endorse. these views. With a love of justice, which amounts almost to a passion, he spares no

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This parcel-haired of men is universal; it is a perfect totem of the upper and mid- die classes, but the working man je almost as bad. How often has anyone seen, a

carry a bag of tools; he is oblivious of a bottle neck that protrudes from a dinner basket. He will not carry a parcel, Watch the Saturday night shopping crowds in a working class district, The wives are inden like camels; the busbands saunter along- side them like Prussian officers leading the advance across the dosert. They will push a perambulator rather than carry a pareal If the purce] is too heavy for the wife to carry, the husband will condescend, thus much, he does not mind wheeling R, But if I were a man there is one thing that no wife on earth would ever make me do, and that is to push a perambulator, Whenever

Fight. The picture produced shows the Heir Apparent, in his boyhood at least, in no unenviable light. He seems to have been dosile enough, and studious, too good linguist and versed in science and art. Iu fact, he claims for him that he is quite as learned and accomplished as the average Heir Apparent,

With the change from boyhood to man hood comes the change in the character, or is it the manifestation of the man that had been so far subdued. The use that "Little Willie "made of his talent and his power is well told, and because it is well told and because it is truly told it is i min wheeling a peram-serry tale. Anyone not familiar wih thes bulator I realise that there are three sexes, facts must necessarily fail to comprehend the enuses which led up to the deplorable men, women, and perambulator pushers."

situation in which the Kaiser and his heir have placed themselves. The last lines of the survey thus sums up the char- notor of the Crown Prince:-

I bee

REVERENCE FOR TOTEMS. But there is a shadow of argument for men's hidebound law that they must not carry parcels. They already do carry many parcels, but with that inherent com- plex childishness of their simple sex which perhaps makes us women love them so, they hava a code of Inws (invented by some ancestor of the author of "Alice in Won- derland") which dictates what parcels are parcels and what parcels are not parcels. The parcels that come under the criminal code as parcels" they will not carry, even if they were salving them from a burn- ing house, or beating them bountifully to the poor and needy, or hurrying with them to the bedside of the sick. They are ready to hurry, but a porter or a boy messenger must burry with them. The parce's that are not parcels can be heavy as lead, knob- bly as sacks of clinkers, awkward as fold- ing chairs, and they will cheerfully carry them. It is neither laziness nor brutality, therefore, that prohibits man from carry- ing parcels: it is a totem, Men, being simple things, have great reverence for tatems, Boys' schoale bristle with strange totems, and the parcel totem is even greater with boys than with men. They grow up

in it.

Parcels that men may carry are golf-club holders, suit-cases (within limits), and one article of food only, and that is game un wrapped. Perhaps someone will costend that suit-cases are not parcels. I fail to see the distinction, or why it is a terrible thing J. B

to carry a suit wrapped in brown paper and no offenes at all to carry the same suit Hwrapped in brown leather. Golf clubs in their cases are parcels and particularly uncomfortable parcels too. My husband is a lawyer, and in his deeds he calls a piece of land "all that parcel of land," so I think that no one ought to argue that" parcel"

"I have tried to indicate both th good side and the bad side of the Crawn Prince in the foregoing chapters, and I leave my readers to come to their own conclusions as to which of those sides weighs heaviest in the balance. I gri that he stands before the world as n losel a blackguard, a thief, a liar, a hater of peace and a lover of bloodshed.. I should say that he is his father's son, and engaged with him is a purely ag- gressive and abominable war, and conse quently not in any way a fit object for the respect, admiration or deference of Englishmen."

The Woman's Harvest. By ANNA FLOYD

·BOME, MISUNDERSTANDINGS. (1)-As regards the British will to win it may be affected-it has indeed already begun to be alightly affected-by class mis- understandings and jealousies. That the industrial class fails to comprehend the upper classes, or to judge them fairly, may be admitted. That the industrial class is consistently and grossly misrepresented to the upper classes, and shockingly mis judged by them, is quite beyond question, The breach is not closing. Recent political events must tend to widen it. It is obvi- ous that, while valour and fighting patriotis are equally distributed among classes, the lower class is paying more than its material share for the war. It is ob vious that the middle-class is undertaxed It is obvious that the new conscription law the breaking up of modest will result homes at the very moment when the Chan cellor of the Exchequer is publicly ap pealing to people of meing to be patriotic in exchange for a first des security and. five per coat,

MUNITIONE LABOUR.

And worst of all, from the immediately practical standpoint, there is the clumsy and dishonest treatment of munitions labour at the very time, and in the very distrios, where tact and honesty are. essential if our superiority over the enemy

BLACKNESS.

(5.)--Another cause of inefficiency i slackness. Not all this slackness, and has the major part of it, is exactly criminal. Much of it arises from fatigue, and especially from fatigue in high places. It seeg seldom to occur to the average magn

that the strain of conducting war is ter rific. The average man will take a week- end off after the strain of sitting on two committees. But there are no week-ende or three twopenny-halfpenny charitable off for the conductors of this war. They tay leave town, but they don't leave the The remarkable thing is that they War have not all broken down definitely. They have not broken down, though some of them are aged in years. They still work magni- But it is impos- ficently and doggedly. sible that they should have the freshness which they once had, and therefore it je im possible that they should display quite the same creative initiative and general alert ness. Of wilful slacking there is. I am convinced, very little save that which is due to bad feeling between class and oais. Bat I have circumstantial, private ac counts of slacking in Government arsenals, due apparently to perfunctory manage... ment. However, as I am constitutionally unable to expect perfection from hu nature, I do not feel unduly alarmed on this account.

ESTRAVAGANCE, [G

(6.) Then our extraragaut habits are still helping the enemy. We have ap to now done practically nothing towards chastening ourselves except what circum stances have compelled us individually to We are wondrous over economy in do education, museums, and the provision of free meals for poor school-children, But the West End of London remaing a marvel- lous spectacle of luxury. The Italian man. ager of a hotel-restaureat at which you is not to be diminished.

have to secure seats in advance, as you Munitions labour has been scandalously slandered by a peculiarly responsible take measures to secure seats in paradise, states, 20t to mention the irresponsaid to me the other day in accents of You English are T Werner Laurie, Ltd, London, 2/..

Scores of tremendous. There is nobody like you. This story deals with a period two years sibles, and the slanders have never been sincere admiration:

apologised for or withdrawn, after the war. It opens with a swing trickories have been practised, and none of You have the money, and you know you We are can keep the Germans waiting. them can be for an instant excused by of doors," and it might be said that from a literary point of view the swing is well

the fact that a small section of munitions doing better here than in peace-time. You urder just what you feel like having. You maintained till the end. Harvey Bruneden labour is recalcitrant and perhaps bent on

You don't look is a shop walker, young and athletic, He mischief. And imagine the beneficent help don't inquire the prices. You just done not answer the country's call for men fulness to the Dilution of Labour Commis at the bill.

pay. You are. He thought because he is afraid-not of death, but of sion now going up north on a most delicate tremendous tremendous!

he was praising us. It appears now that.. poverty for his wife and child. He is the mission of the continued idiotic and recipient of a white feather, which he monstrous suppression of the only Labour some of our luxuries are to be stopped. But whether they are to be stopped in the shows to his wife, and sho, with all the paper in a district officially stated to be pride in her husband's manhood, bids him the most important of all munitions dis right manner, whether pains are to be taken go, her love for him being too great to tricts! Apart from the great Parliamento distinguish between luxuries and non- allow anyone to call him "Coward." Elsie tary episode; now closing, there have been Brunsden returns to the shop in which she two Parliamentary episodes of an extreme. worked in her maiden days and thus keeps ly discreditable nature in late months. One was the attack on the Danish agree things going till the conclusion of the war,

ment in the House of Lords, and the other when her husband returns. After a life of

was the defence of the suppression of excitement and adventure in the open air

"Forward" in the House of Commons. Harvey, Brunsden finds it impossible to re- enter the narrow and confined occupation Tho letter was the worse, both in duplicity The cry is and in dangerousness, I would not give of a draper's shop-walker,

too much importance to these Labour inci Back to the land and our here in caught ente, but they are symptomatic of the by the popular wave. So far the book is. wholesome and probable, but as the thema grave disability in high quarters to under- develops the inevitable sex problems ob- stand the situation, and it must be remen- One night last week my husband came trud, themselves and the reading becomes bered that a period of peril is ahead Strange things may happen, and probably home quite cheerfully with a brace of phen-les pleasing. Offences against very neces will happen. And the stranger they are Mry Grant sante slung on a string. He would rather sary conventions are condoned in anticipa- the more deleterious will be their influence

die than carry home & brace of pheasantation of their happening, and condoned upon on the nations will to win the war, Adem Mr & MrA. Findlay wrapped up neatly in brown paper, or extenuating circumstances that are unlikely

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even done up in a basket. It is against the to exist. Apparently the authoress assumes ________ SUPERIORITY. My 4 Mu A. §.

totem. We have a neighbour--a lind, in that all the men, or nearly all the men who Borenson

offensive, and blameless man whom my go to the war fare single men, and that, husband despisen with a hearty despite simply because he often brings home fish most of them will not return. On that as sumption she adduces the theory thee what in a basket Rather than ever bring me

before the war would have been immoral will home fresh fish from London even under

in post-war times be quite natural." It cover of theso lampless nights, my husband endures the local fishmonger He angrily is claimed for this book that as a piece of cynical and shrewd prophesy this forecast calls him the "antique dealer," but that is could not be excelled. Cynical" it may FRENCH LESSONS l. Opeters alone come under man's defini

tion of the parcel that is not a parcel. It be, bat shrewd it certainly is not. In takes something more even than woman's teresting it undoubedly is, but dangerous. subtlety to discover why it is moderately good tone to carry a bag of oysters and execrably bad tone to carry a bag of whit

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THE PHEASANT MYSTERY.

My husband brought home a brace of pheasants, but if I dared to ask him to bring home a bracs of chops, even un- wrapped and on a string, he would be shockingly affronted.

My husband is glad to walk about gas works all night for his country. He suffers Interminable committee meetings for his country, He is ready to give up his home, dig trenches in the mud for his country, and even die for his country. In fact, he would much rather the for his country than carry a parcel, Often he says to me, "We ought at to do everything we can to conform to the shortage of labour and help things along" And so I believe he would do anything except carry parcels. -Dony Mail,

1,200 KILLED IN ONE DAY,

Some bitter fighting near Armentières resulted in a small gain for the Germans, but this was paid for dearly, The old tactics of the Germans are still observed by many German officers, who sent out in fantry in close formation after an artillery preparation, The British infantry and machine gunners were shooting with ad- mirable calm and with great accuracy Near Armentières on one day over 1.20) Germans were killed, The German fines were mowed down by artillery and machine- gun fire, but, as a German soldier told the correspondent whenever an objectives decided upon the most sanguitary mangh ter inflicted upon our lines will not pre vent the German officers-from-sacrificing without mercy freshments,

mind only one proper way of enforcing luxuries is doubtful There is to my. economy, and that is by taxation of the most drastic kind affecting all classes. For all classes are guilty of extravagance. The West End of London may ha blameworthy, but it is to be remembered that manufac turers of cheap jewellery and cheap pianos are busy beyond all precedents in the middle of this war which is alleged to be a fight for our very existence as a nation The war has now been proceeding for about eighteen months, and we have not yet had drastic taxation. We have had a ridiculous instalment of Protection, but we have not had general drastic taxation.

BREAKING THROUGH All these causes acting together mast in pair our ediency as a war machine, and (2.)-There are other non-material canses the sum of their action must be enormous. at work toward a premature peace. But But it must never be forgotten that all the causes, except the first three, are operating broadly with equal force-some- they are not at work in Britain, nor near Britain. And, powerful as they are. I do not suppose that they have a chance of where leas, somewhere greater-against the Discretion forbids, to me, the efficiency of the enemy, and that, therefore, success.

you suppose there is no extravagance in elaboration of this subject, though it has they may be left out of the equation, Do been openly discussed elsewhere in print

ll be exciting Germany True, there is neither a free But after the war there will be

Parliament nor a half-fres Press in the (3.) Now, as to the inefficiens utiles enemy countries, but, human nature being remarks to make. tion of our superiority, it may be said with what it is, mischievous and ill-natured and certainty that the main cause of it is dishonest criticism, criticism which cannot be ignored, must nevertheless find vent there inpradicable, for it is in the very nature of the Quadruple Alliance. The same in other ways and perhaps in even more coherence has not been, cannot be, and effective ways. I maintain that the three never will be obtained between four conn-causes are not strong mough appreciably trics differing widely in race and govern to pair our enormous superiority, In ment. And with scarcely a mutual frontier numbers and in financial and material among them, as between two contiguous resources our superiority is unquestion countries similar in race and government, able, and, despite the drawbacks, unques one of which two countries is in practics tionably increasing. In fundamental subservient to the other. A Quadruple brains we are at least equal to the enemy, Alliance stretching from one extreme of In grit also, In endurance also. Every Europe to the other, and whose inter-com- body in the world knows that our ideal is munications are exclusively by ses must the better one. Why, then, should the war end indecisively? Because the opposing line of trenches cannot be broken? But it be relatively insufficient,

has been broken time after time. Ask any officer or man on the Flanders front if he thinks we can get through, and his anew will be startlingly clear. Dogged patienca alone is needed. And if we cannot surpass the Germans in that particular quality his tory is meaningless-Daily News,

AND INEFFICIENCY. (4)There is, however, the same kind of inefficiency within Britain jolf It is dus te lack of coherence between depart ments, and it might be cured, or to some extent cured, by closer control on the part of the sole super overseer of departments