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But in between the mixture of orange and green and black and blus we occasionaly get a glimpse of sunshine. Last week there thing. But there might be soar was a peace conference in Dublin thing in it. you know, though the most hopeful sign that mird re. I always bad an idea has come from Ireland this many that the way se generally missed

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was a rally of the ball was because ye didna moderate men. Many of them hit it properly wit the club. Still were Unionists. And they want-

ye never know. ed peace, and self-government. Is takes some courage to call and attend peace meetings in Ireland

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wanting. The Labour Party never had a better chance iban they have to-day but they are spoiling that chance because of sectionalism. Labour, to succeed at all must be just all roand.

Then as usual they were on the The Party nius: offer a real day. So we must take it that question of whether the end of the standard of honesty and fair deal- these men know what they want,jworld with come either to-morTOW ing between man and mad. The what Ireland wants and needs.orthe day after. Professor Petrie miere at the moment con-Certainly no hope can proceed for Funders, I forget which, gives template striking. If they, daļfrom the inen of violence--the ju- a few hundred thousand years they'll get it in the neck. The Carsonites in the North, the set, so wi' lurk we shall may be. public are not with them. Labour-wild Republicans elsewhere, and will be able w get all the new ista are constantly rising ethical|the military and constabulary houses ready before the time issues in their politica, but if who bare from time to time been comes, when no one will need Labour is ever to succeed as a proved guilty of reprisals. At them. governing power in this country the moment there's not a hair to they must have a standard of draw between the lot of them good for all. At the moment Terrorism in the shape of Sinn they fercely denounce the Fein assassinations is replied to older Parties as Pharisees and by terror. Villages and towns are bypocrites. What is their present shot-up by mea paid to maintain standard, not in talk, but in the peace of the country. A practice? Every Labour proces-religious war has broken out sion is adorned wit beautiful Protestants and Catholics saul-string mottoes. Maybe the wbanging away at each other for most common nowadays are those all they are worth. Ireland willtime, up stiffs and live! that refer to capitalists, and com- monists. I aye liked the old one The Prime Minister says the which has now disappeared: “A world wants place. Right; box fair day's wage for a fair day's what about our own people * work. If the Labour leaders | How long are the Government would continue to preach from going

balt between wo this text, the miners in particular opinions as regards Ireland? woold, if they sccepted the When are our folks to be finished message, to-day, have been in a si unhappiness? Peace. like Claiming damages for breach of much stronger position than theyCharity, I sat should. begins promise against Ivor Probert, a are, and would have counted more certainly on public support than is now the case.

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be grateful or angry wi yon protessors. They fnghten and reassure by turns. worse than cracked evangelists. The question whether the world is a child sex in the go-cart or a frail old codger in a bath-chair is not likely to worry our descendants for many generations vel. In the mean-

Yours exc.

R. Mc.W.

JILTED BLIND GIRL GETS

DAMAGES.

at home. It's mighty highsoldier of Nantymual, Glanorgan. time our Government were Sorthanipion Miss Dorothy geting a move on and a real Bill, of King's Sutton, sid sae bginning was being made wil was practially blind. Before taviz reconstruction in these islands, engagement she pointed this out Now if 1 had anything to do" If our Westminster Wassers don': 10 him, but he said it made no wi yon man Smillie I'd have him basy there'll be Scotsmen diferente. In December last, she locked up in a Borstal Institution, come together th Edinburgh said. Proper left her suddenly I'll no go the length of saying just as Irishmen have done in after spending part of Sunday he's a lunatic but he's certainly Doblin and then England can with her and she had not seen a Isostic. At one time some of the govern herself to her heart's him since. Probert did not appear, Northcliffe papers used to hail content. Revolutionary. eh? and sens letter to the court in him as being the strong man of Nothing, my dear chap, to the in which he said: "I was led up," the Labour movement, the one communistic talk we hear sosoft left her. If you were ayoung who could and did keep much of late. As things are the chap 27 Sears of age, would you Labourin check. Ifever that was now it's a coes up whether it's to like to be bound to a blind girl the case it must have been before be a black winter or a red oar. for its Miss Bill was awarded be turned fanatic or was he just or both.

£49 damages. biding his time? But one little indiscretion sometimes serves to expose a lot of pretence. It is

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I see that the annual meeting supposed to be because of a desire of the British Association for another 2- and to force the has this year been pro- Government to sell cheaper coal riding Cardiff wit # veritable to the consumer that the miners (glat of intellectual controversy, are today busy coquetting wit From the discussions it would cbaos but Mr. Smillie let the cat appear that some of yon thought- | out of the bag when he declared merchants had never heard of a that the issue after ail was European War. Apparently the nationalisation of miners. And folks that dabble in the great once out of the bag that cat can-elementals of this world and a not be stuffed back, as. Smillie few other worlds besides, treat bimself must now be regretting it as just a minor incident. At Now we all must concede Smillie jongrate they all appear to be as

certain constancy of purpose. high up in the clouds as He's got nationalisation of mines What do they get to talk about? on the brain. It's been, so to Oh! anything and everything speak, the guiding star of his life's from the probable age of the earth progresa. Bat he's no bonest to missing a tee shot. You laugh. wi' it all. The miners are Just listen to this from a Glasgow balloting on one issue; their professer replying to another lenders are directing them on professor's; theories and experi-! another. And now the cat's out i ment's wi' an electrical device for the bag, the public will have none measuring the human lemotions. of it. And without public opinion Says this bright lad from the on their side the miners can never hope to win. Its' a case of blackmail and wi' every case of that kind the best way to fix it is to fight it. No, no, the.ca98 for nationalisation is a long way yet from being proved and the worker in this country are not likely to be swayed by the fanaticism of one man, no matter how omnipotent be may think he is among his own class.

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The civil war in Ireland is just as uncivil se ever. Every mora- ing brings its record of crime and reprisals and every day seems to be worse than the day before, Now we've got a half dead Lord Mayor of Cork on our bands. Upon my word it would seem that the authorities in Ireland. aye contrive to give the Sinn Fainers the biggest possibio ad- Wertisment of their cause.

Clyde:--

"Might not the professor's theory explain the cause of bad golf shots, especially in mOK- ents of crises in the game? Also, does it not explain why cold- blooded, anemotional Scots- men are least likely to err in their shots when most depends on them? For instance, the drive depends on three factors -personal emotion, the palms of the hands, and the steadiness of the feet. The last two are said to be the most sensitive to emotions passed through the brain to the body. In my opinion, the thought of missing

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shot passed through the brain to the highly susceptible palms of the hands sod the soles of the feet spoils many sbots."

Ays, right enough it make your Ffost fair itch to read that sort of

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