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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1932.

THESE PERSONALITY TESTS

TO Ono

By NORMAN COLLINS

The Very Idea!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Tanto" Kelly. By Edward

We had a Merry Xmas, until the

police started interfering.

ment has no intention of con- templating unilateral disarma- ment. Speaking generally, it is on the question of civil aviation that the efficacy of any mes- sures for aerial disarmament will depend. Obviously, flying is not to be abolished, but there is a call for some form of inter- national control, and what that characteristics of the sexes And I can think, offhand, of only familiar with the thing to do with handling money,

First of all we went to a party form will be is as yet by no means clear. The internation will be surprised to hear that at a two-Mr. Galsworthy, who looks where there was plenty of food to alism of civil aviation is as yet personality test recently held in liko a Harley-street specialist, and be put out of its misery, and there nothing more than a phrase, or the Civil Service It was the women Mr. Walpole, who looks like a City was a case of bubbling, Azzling, one familiar alderman who would get through delicious champagne for those whe

Indulge in such deplorable stud an idea. But Mr. Baldwin is who won. And, no

Everything went na merrily as a right when be hints that we shall with personality tests with not too, with a credit marking.

much store by this result.

Of the politicians before us to- soon have to come down to

It has always been one of the day only Mr. Lloyd Georgs could maintenance case, and we thought brass tacks on this all-important

Personality

test with it was going to be no end of a issue.

The Pace That Kills

vainor dreams of man that he could face. # tell the character, of his fellows equanimity; and he would simply party. By 2 am. we thought there through. Even the im- was going to be no end to the merely by looking at them. The comp Duke of Wellington, it will be re- mortal Burke himself would pro-party. It was then that the cham- membered, used to choose his off. bably have annoyed the examiner so pague cut out."

WHAT THE TEST

cers by the shape of their chins much by his duil, uninteresting So we put on our wenders and Each time Mr. H. G. Wells I suspect, however, that if the voice and his unvarying gesture wended our way.

mothed had really been so good as that he would have failed. maturely prophesies, the impulse he pretended, the military authori- If the man who wrote about the fa to make a quick calculation of tics would not have discarded it so outward symbols of the Inward Someone was singing in most life's remaining span and sighsoon after his death.

grace had been thinking at all on awful grammar outside the Pen- with content that in a years one Similarly, Lord Baden-Powell has the right lines the art of the car-inaula.

"Warrer they (ble) doing?" WL is sure to be gone. For our confessed to an audience of Girl toonist would have been impossible.

asked Pete world in prospect is as barren as Guides that he married Lady

"Waits." he replied briefly. young Mr. Wella's picture of the Baden-Powell, because of the way in

"Not Commosh, let's go." พล moon. In Я "warning

to which she walked. This may have, DOES. humanity" recently our amateur led to a revolution in deportment I have had my personality tested anid firmly.

Fete paused to sort out his feet, "Professor of Foresight" sug- within the troop, but I cannot be only once myself, and that was gested that soon distance will be love. that it has had much effort when I was a boy at school. It was and we went inside..

then that I realised that the effect Poto is the kind of a chap withi utterly abolished; that the voice

If the really great men of history of such a test is to disorder the whom whisky-roda produces a of the stranger will be in our ears, the eyes of the stranger in had boon forded to undergo the intellect and destroy the very thing form of abnormal physiological perversion of cachinnatory genesis. our homes, and the knife of the ordeal of being Inspected by a com- that it is supposed to test

By chance, owing to the careless- The pathological geneala may not stranger always at our throats.mittee before they were allowed to That will be a bad day for 80 on with their life's work, how ness of the examiner and my own be immediately pathogenic, and many of them, I wonder, would completo unscrupulousness, I was sometimes does not occur until the Forsytes, professors, and every-have been passed fit for service? able to obtain a glimpse of the re-third, or even the fourth, imbi- one else a racking existence.

port. It was definitely strong onbition. "There is a remedy for all things CÆSAR WAS but death," Sancho used to de-BALD.

outside.

clare; yet there seems no remedy Caesar, for instance, was premamoodiness, preoccupation

and

the negative side. The examiner Pete doesn't know what it's all dwelt, so far as I can remember at about, and calls it a lot of odd the interval of time, mainly on the

names, but there is no gainsaying for this state of things but death turely bald-a fact that, according

and oven in the vault one's to the unanimous opinion of wig- general lack of intelligent alertness the fact that his physiologicni perversion was very marked in- deed. bonca might be set dancing by makers and hairdressers, would be of the subject under review.

That was all he knew.

Pete swore ho saw the two some ultra-ossifying ray. "The bound to count against him at an abolition of distance," announces Interview,

In reality, he had been through a Black Crows in the flesh when we Mr. Wells-"everybody will bo Philip of Macedon was so ugly pretty searching inspection himself. took him back to his flat. Both of on call next door." There is no and awkward that the crowd. I pride myself that nothing of fm-them, according to Pete, had too comfort in Mr. Well's to-morrow, mocked and jeered at him whenever portanes had escaped me-the closo- much to drink and one of them except the prospect of a quick he appeared. And St. Paul, so eet, shifty eyes, the weak, sensual seamed to have caten something transit to Azerbaijan when the bletarians assure us, was bandy- mouth, the

the grace it. as he leaned them would, judged by modern less loafing manner shroffs begin to cah. The pro- legged and unsightly. Neither of the ill. are low, receding forehead, and then changed his mind about phet urges a world-pax, a world- standards, have been given what over his desk towards me, I had state leat we decimate ench Mr. Wodehouse would call a job at formed my opinion of him before I other; yet it seems more impos- the right end of the counter. had been in the room five minutes sible to induce China to lie down!

-and it was not a high one. TEST THE TESTER

who is re-

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What happened after that.. well... we know there, wa) waste paper basket mixed up with it somewhere and . let me think back you, Pete was clinging to one side and ... let us see, where did we come in... and when did we get out... and just three more, please, printer thank you... Now we feel better.

Christmas comes but once a

Your

Lucky is he whose head is

clear

The morning after the night

before

Unless he was but a terrible

boor

OUR GHOST STORY.

with Japan or the rest of the ALCIBIADES WAS GOOD- world to anuggle up to Soviet LOOKING, BUT———— Russia than to check the ma-

Alcibiades, indeed, is one of the chinations of the inventor. Un-fow figures of history

I am not, however, pretending for his good looks, that I was necessarily right leas Mr. Wells can give us un-membered other broadcast, it seems that smart wellturned out appearance, though the more I look back on it more certain I become. It life will presently move so fast charm, ease and sociability-overy-the as to burn itself out by sheer thing, in fact, that is calculated to should not be forgotten that, on a Impress the examiners at a per- recent American character test, Al friction. Existence has some of sonality test and the net result of Capone was picked out from photo- us on the run already; consider it all was that the Athenians were graphs as several things, from the poor Miss Garbo-on the very so suspicious of him that they gave secretary of a branch of the Y. M. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1932.

day Mr. Wells was at the micro- the military command to someone | C. A. to a member of Congress.

And at the sam

sarde phone she was rushing through else.

test, an Oklahoma lawyer was unanimously picked out Copenhagen more like a comet So far as the writers are WAR IN THE AIR

as a criminal, which, I am ready to than a star, suitcases bouncing corned, the results of a personality admit, proves nothing either way. In a recent speech in the off her cab, camera-men wol- test would have been famentable. Personality tests will not be stammor worth very much until at the end of fishly in chase, traffic lights be- Charles Lamb with his House of Commons, Mr. Baldwin ing jumped, policemen ducking and nervousness would have been the ordeal the examiner and the ......Bluebird at thirty-nine was still gave a vivid impression of what it was just like a treasure marked on the minus sido imme-examinee can exchange notes and on the right side of forty. Hor aerial warfare of to-day and to hunt for Bright Young People or examined before a committee would Such a procedure would curb undue of those lambent what-you-may- diately. Oliver Goldsmith cross talk freely about their impressions. oyes had something of the quality morrow would mean for civilians, one of those early films in which have made as poor a akow as he arrogance on the part of the ex-call-ems that one meets with in He painted the subject in its a runaway motor-car knocked did before Dr. Johnson. Even the aminer and it might reveal unsus on the left hand side of Nathan true colourwhich is inky black. over lamp-posts, smashed the great Doctor himself, who was one pected flashes of insight on the Road. Her hair, if dusty, was There was really nothing new in shop-fronts, and upset the bill of the most ungainly creatures who part of the vicum. Most im adequate. But her most striking posting men. No wonder she ever lived, would probably never portant of all, it would prove bo- what he said, but the importance says she is disgusted. No pre- have got into the First Grade. yond all decent possibilities of feature of the speech was that it came cautions avail, not even the black And Byron and Scott, both doubt how unfitted many per- from one of the leading Minis- wig she wore over her locks limpers, would have failed Igno-sonality testers are for their task, terial figures, and the eloquence when entering the Danish capi- miniously if it had been the Chief displayed made deep impres- tal. Yet it is curious the per- Scout who had examined them. sion on the House. The ques- secuted actress overlooked one Of the modern writers I

Dog. Hulio, chief, you there tion which naturally suggests danger when she arrived. It think of dozens-which the law of

again? Its uniipaticked honesty. itself is what can be done to was an oversight to allow her libel unhappily prevents my man-

I said. prevent the horrors which Mr. approach to be heralded and then tioning that aulf-respecting THE GREAT SECRET OF LIFE, IS Ed.: Shouldn't it be unlip- Baldwin has depicted. If we to step out of the train with her personality tester would even con- NEVER TO BE IN THE WAY OF OTHERS. stuck? lived in a rational world, the bosom

friend-"accompanied," sider for a position that had any-Haliburton. would be simple as the message said "by Coun "abolish aerial warfare." But tess Wachtmeister, who is well. that, at the moment, is a counsel known in Copenhagen."

answer

of perfection. We thus have to

be content with efforts to limit its scopo. There is fairly wide- spread agreement that all bom-

Shakespeare

bardment from the air should be. Mr. Clifford Bax has made the prohibited. It is true, as Mr. suggestion that some parts of Baldwin has stated, that it is Shakespeare should be rewritten easier to pass such a resolution in modern English "so that than to ensure that it will not everyone can understand them." be broken. At the same time, But he touches upon a very real the possibility that when a, na difficulty and upon a delicate tion is at war it may cast all problem. Undoubtedly the Jan. restrictions and pledges to the guage has drifted far from winds does not mean that res- where it was in 1000, and is trictions and pledges are quite drifting further every day, and useless. For one thing, they even though the traille of the may have a valuable deterrent or stage makes clear much that is delaying effect on Governments, obscure in the letter there is still on General Staff's and the public. a widening gap between the And the banning of any particu- audience and the poet. And yet, lar form of warfare may lead to how can Shakespeare bo "rewrit Its use becoming unpopular. In ten" when the most precious this connexion it is worth nothing is just the magic of the thing that, no-one now demura language? To paraphrase, how- to the prohibition of bacteriolo- ever exactly, is to remove the gical warfare, though there were one thing that makes Shakes- some who favoured its use in peare Shakespeare. What is the 1918. The ideal to be aimed at use of "understanding" "Make Is the abolition of fighting aero- me a willow cabin at your gate" planes, and it would seem from if you change the "loyal cantons Mr. Baldwin's speech that the of contemned love" and "the British Government is not op 'babbling gossip of the air?". In posed to this plan. It is true so much of Shakespeare the that there has been some alarm meaning lies just in the way the felt in certain Government cir words are put: change them, cles and amongst the experts of like the colours on a canvas, and the Air Ministry, but it has there is nothing left that mat- been made plain that the Govern- ters.

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A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

"I'll eat another one, if you will.”

Was

her mouth. Wldc open, set a little on one side, it was not at firat too utterly pro- possessing. Yet its unlipsticked honesty--

Ed.: Ita what?

Dod. Dunno.

Ed. Then find out, pronto. -its whatever-I-said, reader, pro- claimed it to be the mouth of a woman of intelligence and chart. The hooting of a taxl echoad suddenly through the emptiness of the street,

Bluebird awoke from her roverio. "Sardines, et encore de sardinos," she murmured in cultured accents. Then hurled herself upon the un- suspecting vehicle.

(To be continued.)

•

LUST FOR DESTRUCTION.

It is reported that a Californian millionaire has the quaint hobby of driving up to railwaysidings In a magnificent car wth "a poker- facod chauffeur," who hands him a brick, which he throws through the nearest carriage-window.

We are afraid wo sympathise. We know nothing more aesthe- tically satisfying than the crash of breaking glass. Not being a millionaire, we have to enjoy it vicariously in the "alapatick” movies.

But if we were a millionairo' wo should gratify the lust for· dos- truction which emerges in all of us at times, on a really magni- ficient scale. We should have rows of windows got up on the lawn In a convenient position, and whonaver we felt like it, we should just throw bricks at them till the pastime palled. Of course, wa should have a platoon of poker- the faced footmen to hand us bricks.