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AGRICULTURE'S

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CONFERENCE OF ALL

PARTIES. URGED.

Hertfordshire has given a lend to

the country by demonstrating that

REFLECTIONS IN THE "HAND GLASS."

[A JOURNALISTIC · ·

NIGHTMARE.]

When I met Lady Maria Martin

there is unanimity of opinion at lunch at the Savitz yesterday among men and women of every she told me as a great secret that her corns were troubling her Vocation, even remotely connected with the interests of agriculture, as

to the first step which must be greatly. taken to restore prosperity to the

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Corns are curious things. I greatest national industry-name should have proposed to Lady ly, the lifting of the whole problem Felicity Hering ("Filletty" we

of agriculture from the field of

party polities to a plane of national concern on a level with that of foreign policy.

a meeting This was shown at called by Viscount Hampden, Lord Lieutenant of the County, and Sir Edmund B. Barnard, Chairman of the County Council, and held in the Law Society's Hall, London.

used to call her years ago) only knew they were a family failing.

You would not dream from her lovely face that she, like all her. family since "Callosity Charlie" founded the line in 1780, is a martyr to them.

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And speaking of corns reminds me that my old friend Merry- thought-the Earl of Wishbone, you know-is selling the family at Christies next

Soveral hundred men and wonien attended the gathering many to address it, and all to vote for a re- solution declaring to the nation carbuncles their common mind, and, calling month. It is a great secret, so apon the loaders of the three far, and the news will come as a palitical parties to hold a national surprise to those not in the swim. conference with the object of I must confess I only heard of it for the through being at Gallipot House agreeing upon measures

over the week-end and wasn't sup- relief of the industry.

attend were posed to be listening. Invitations to broadcast to "any inhabitants of the country interested in agricul- ture."

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How hurriedly bored I've been this week... An ineffably dreary The resolution, which was passed dance-I won't particularise too without a dissenting voice, drew closely-where I shook hands with attention to the "deplorable" condi- that funny old Duke with blisters tion of the industry enused by in-on his knuckles, who has finences outside, its control, and forgiven my people since my sister declared that the propects are be refused his son and heir (the one coming so serious that unless re- who had to leave the country a medied they must lead agriculture little while ago owing to some to, disaster and the entire nation to eliche to do with a signature on a Theavy loss.

cheque). A dinner in Hertford- street-the house with six atens and disreputable linoleum-where my uncle surprised nobody by three palpably intentional revokes in the hideous card-ruum, which, as I told my hostess,' reminded me of a tenth-rate night club. And a hunt-the-slipper do at the flat in Curzon-place, which the revue star of the hour has furnished regard- less of cost on the furnish-out-of- somebody-else's-income system.

Phone 516.

"This Conference," the resolution continued, "believing that a per- manent settlement of the question can only be obtained on national lines, would welcome a conference between the great political parties, and expresses the hope that such a national conference will be arranged with that end in view,"

On National Lines. Lord Hampden, in his opening address, pleaded at once for modera- tion in the statement of difliculties confronting the industry, and urged that individual remedies should not be pressed.

"Any remedy must be on national lines," he insisted. "The only body having the power to produce a solution of our problems is Parlias ment.

I should not be surprised to hear that Sir Jimmie and Lady Goo- Goo have made a match of it. They are both bright young things, and

noticed that whichever held the slipper the other always found it.

"For this reason It is no good, to I have here the pictures of my mind, for the National Farmors' three reigning beauties whose one Union to take the line-as they do bitterness in their saccharine lives that they will confer with no one is a turned up nose. I asked Lawngrass if hers but the Government. The Govern- Susan meat has not behind it that force of had" anything to do with the public opinion necessary to urge size of the settlement she made on them to do what they ought to do." Lawngrass when she married him. Sir Edmund Barnard, who moved She shorted an indignant denial the resolution, soke of the direct (It's so easy to snert if you're de- and indirect burden of rates, and finitely retroussee), and said it taxes to be but little relieved by was an asset, not a liability, be the proposal of the Budget, welcome cause. it came down to her from though they were of the necessity George the First's Prime Minis- of preserving the countryside, keepter, which proved the Barony did ing its people at home, and not not come out of the Lloyd George

Fund.. allowing the plough to rust.

"We can do practically nothing," he added. "But we can make repre sentations, and we want to keep clear of the controversy of political interests."

Dolly Marchjambe-whem I re- member twenty years ago at the Gaiety-having paid a premium Lo atone for her lack of talent- Captain, Morris, who represented cooed that her Billy adorned hers; the National Farmers' Union, it variegated the dull splendour of pictured the gravity of the situaan otherwise flawless perfection. tion in a startling sentence. "It is Lady Jane confessed to under- a molest estimate to say," he de going in operation before the clared, "That should national wedding-a chapel on the altar of emergency arise, the land is to-day her devotion to Freddie; but, at least 25 per cent, less able to it is still turned up and produce the necessities of life than now has also hump on the it was in 1914."

bridge.

SCIENCE, LETTERS— AND LIBERALISM.

EMINENT MEN AT THE

REFORM CLUB.

To what party do eminent men literature, philosophy and sclence belong?

of

A funny thing has just hap- pened to me, One of my recent hostesses, whose party I honestly described as being excruciatingly boresome,cut ne in Bond-street.. As I'm very fond of her brother 1, explained that of course I didn't mean it, but that I have to write this kind of thing for the "Hand Glass," and having a handle to my name I must use it to draw groans from my journalistic hurdy gurdy. How thin skinned people

This is a question which the Re- form Club, which for a hundred are getting. Anyone would think years has been a citadel of Liber-there had never been a war.

alism, claims to answer.

Recently Mr. Edward Shortt, K.C., presided at a. Reform Club dinner at which there were present Liberals distinguished in selence and the fine arts. Sir Herbert Samuel was one of the chief speakers,

So much publicity has been given to the political persuasions of literary giants like Bernard Shaw and Kipling that it is refreshing says the Daily Chronicle to find that Liberalism can still claim, as it did during the last century, its pro- portion of great ones.

Thuse present included:- Literature. Mr. Arnold Bennett, Mr. A. G. Gardiner, Mr.. Philip Guedalla, Mr. A. E. W. Mason, Mr. A. A. Mine, Dr. Cyril Norwood and Professor Graham Wallas.

Philosophy and Science,--Pro- fessor Samuel Alexander, Sir Wil- Ham Bragg, Sir Dugald Clerk and Dr. Chalmers Mitchell.

Among those invited, but unable to be present, were Sir Michael Sadler, Sir Henry Newbolt, Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, Professor G. M. Trevelyan, Professor Glibert Murray. Mr. Augustine Birrell, Sir Ernest Rutherford and Sir Robert. Hadfield,

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