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Beware of superlatives. They are the pirates of the English | language. They take to them- selves things that do not belong to them. And so the person

By ROBERT BERNAYS, M.P. who has the temerity to assert | that this is the biggest or best, the longest or lovellest, the

The loudest cry in the post-war Government Bill, such as the Lon sweetest or sourest thing in the world has been that youth has don Traile Bill, it is never world, should pause, to approx- not been given its chance. It can young men who take the lead.couver on November 19 for Can-

The adjournment motion every imate the effect of his state- not be said of the present British night provides obvious opportuni- Some trouble has beon EX- ment. Recently a lexicographer Parliament.

ties for members to raise legiti-perienced at Canton since the boos named "the ten most beautiful words in the English language." The dominant impression that mate grievances. I have not once were delivered, as a hasty count And what a spanking he has any visitor to the House of Com-card a young member take advan-has revealed that only 6,679,997 been getting ever since! Here mons retains to-day is of hordes Tot for the cut and thrust of The Anzac Company has been are the words: dawn, hush, of young man, carncat, well groom-Parliamentary debate we ought to commissioned to investigate the Jullaby, murmuring, tranquil, ed, and all looking exactly alike. bo admirably equipped. None matter, with a view to dlucovoring

the mlasing been. mist, luminous, chimes, golden,

There are more men under 35 in of us has any excuse for the in-

Japanese reinforcements memory. It Was the word the present Parliament than in any feriority complex which makes "most," the malicious little within thio memory of man. Youth the change from the aweeping ora- being rushed to Canton, and the bandit, the superlative, that did na cortainly had its chance in tione of the street corner to the situation has increased in inten all the damage. The mere as politics. What is interesting to subtle debating points of the alty following the action of the ter-Japanese authorities in presenting sertion that they are "beautiful study in whether it is taking it. House In Committee such a ¶ WE WANT THIS CAR TO words" would arouse itle mili-A year has gone by since the nn-rible orden! to many new Laboura demand to the Chinese Govern

one of this new force. tant comment. It was the little tional tido nwept us back to West-membera. Many of us have alment for the immediate retirement BECOME KNOWN JUST

word "most," unfurling ifs ban-minster a little bewildered at the ready crossed swords with COME IN AND ASK US FOR A ner of defiance between

extent of our victories. Most another in university debating A protest has been lodged with the

maidon speeches are

aro now.sociotics. There over

no fower the Lengue of Nations, which will RUN.

"ten" and the "beautiful," that The bunch at the first hurdle has than 13 ex-presidents of the Ox-moot next month to consider the mado the statement the target thinned out and it is possible to ford Union In the present House new development, and a commia- of a broadside from the world's seo who are likely to forge ahead. of Commons,

sion, under Lord Boe-verbrook, has "best" orthographers.

been authorised to make a report. Driven It is strange how scanty ls, the

The Japanese threaten to spray tandem, this string of words fteld.

Canton with Lotol if their may present a rather attractive

Dumb Dogs of the Past

presentations are ignored. appearance, but they may be

Wo will now draw to a cloac Admittedly it is an unprofitable casily associated with other words in the presentation of business trying to spot future work, have to earn our own living by merely saying that what the Ministers. They spring This means that we cannot give devil people can see in this rub- anything but a "most beautiful"

from the circumstances of the the minute attention to points of bish bents Mr. Edward Kelly, the pleture. After all, there are time for more than from their procedure and the intricate details well-known author, Journalist, many beautiful words, and their speeches in the past. Who would of a Parliamentary Bill which man about town, and member of associations Inrgely make them have imagined that Campbell-alone can make the complete Parthe Hongkong and Shanghai Awordsman. More Clubs, with crossed gulos on a so, Even "cabbage" is, to some Bannerman would have led the liamentary people, a beautiful word when it Liberal Party to the greatest vic-over, the great questions of the field argent or, with roaring lions, is associated with a couple of tory in its history or that the by-day-debts, currency problems and unicorns with horns reversed.

the disarmanment--unlike

Are you suffering from who was almost through the most exciting ofx or the House of Lords, or land one razor-one drop of Footsle years of our Parliamentary his- taxes, are necessarily fought out Tootsie, and it lifts right out! tory, was to be twenty years later at international conventions ra-No pain. Send for a free trial the triumphant lender of post-ther than on the floor of the House gallon, also free booklet, war Torylam?

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NON-STOP VARIETY. "Free to-night?" grine Jupiter to Venus. "Why not stop across to the old Terrestium?"

"What's the programme, June?", "Non-stop. And not a bad show

the either." He glances at Planetary News:

"The Terrestłum" (he roads). "Continuous Variety.

Conference on Manchuria. Conference on Debts.

Conference on Disarmament.

Conference on Tariffs.

Committee of Nineteen Manchuria.

On

Conference on Reparations. Conference on Money. Conversations between Premiers."

two

"And then?" asks Venus, "Why, then it starts again. Conference on Debts; Conference Disarmament, Sino-Japanção dismuto discusslen, and so on."

"Come on, Jupe; I'm with you. just love slapstick."

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SOCIETY NOTES. Mr. and Mrs. P. Kyhto, accom-

How the Poor Live

How often has it been proved RUSSIA, CHINA AND the social history of our time

All the same, even on the ques-Carns, Acorns... Steady! Steady! that more knowledge is the first JAPAN

indispensable step to improve- disturbing to-day that there is not tions of the hour that remain our Control yourself. Bee your age! ment!

a single young man whose rising concern, there is lamentably little Forty years ago there

Independence of Issues of extreme importance was no lack of good will toward smoking rooms arouses,

to speak when it is reported in the evidence of

except

thought. Perhaps the condition: are wrapped up in the exchange the poor and desire to improve among his friends, a

flicker of of the last election are to blame.

So many membera were spared tha of Notes which has been taking their lot; but sentiment was de interest. place between Russia and Japan fented by sheer ignorance of the

gruelling apprenticeship to public for the conclusion of a

life that prolonged prospective Non-conditions under which the poor

candidatures in hopeless soat Aggression Pact. . They are lived. A pioneer step in the One reason is that we are as

provide. We tend to adopt in those, in particular, which in-warfare against poverty in mo-yet too timid. We are cursed with tote the party view on all ques- volve the future status of Man-dern cities WAS taken when the public school code of obedience there not chukuo. The Japanese Govern-Charles Booth organized his to our bettern. Are ment apparently thinks that the house-to-house and street-by- over a hundred Etouians in the the experience to enable

form any other. House and nearly half as many better way of preventing any strect investigation in London, Harrovinus? I remember being What Happens to Rebels border clashes with the Soviet and published his survey of the sharply pulled up some is to devise some method of pre- "Life and Labour of the People." ago by a senior member for some Where there is independence of ventive regulation, Why there What a picture it revealed of criticisms I had seen it to make thought there in the greatest reluc

from the pack. should be any reluctance to con- poverty and deprivation in the of a Cabinet Minister. "Who are tance to break clude a Non-Aggression Pact, pogrer

in- Rebel vlows do not extend beyond quarters-the "Last you to attack 7" 1

not the lobbien. Inside the Chamber unless thero is

real fear of End" of London! Nearly one dignantly naked, "You have S. MOUTRIE & CO. LTD. Impression gained is that Japan hurd of the population of the was said in exactly the tone of 1 could count on the fingers of one future trouble, is puzzling. The of this been here six months yet." It all is uniformity and good form voice with which small boys who hand the number of young me is somewhat suspicious of "poverty line," amid misery venture to speak in their School who say the same thing inside the Russia. Indeed, suspicion would caused in the main not by un- Debating Society are reminded Chamber as they say out of it. acem also to exist in Russia as employment but by brutal sweat that they have not even won their All the pressure that has beer well, since M. Stalin quite ring. The forty years which House Rugger colours yet. cently advocated the diverting have intervened have seen ย But that kind of mentality,been from the older men in the of some of the Soviet's industrial change in that. A similar in amusing though it is, has had a direction of making it Conser energies to the manufacture of quiry in the same area has been bad effect on the vitality of this vative. There has been little com arms and ammunition, in view made in recent years under the Parliament. We are all much too pensatory pressure on the etho of the fact that some of Russia's direction of Sir H. Llewellyn inclined to apologise for ourselves. side to keep it National. neighbours (Japan obviously in-Smith, and some of the most question time has become largely What is needed is another panted by three amahe and her pet cluded) have not signed Non-important results have just been the affair of the old men. Most Fourth Party, Lord Randolph. Peeps, have left No. 701 Aggression Pacts. Be that published in the third and fourth of us would as soon wear brown Churchill was only 31 when he and will be away for some weeks, or fortnights. Letters for Mrs. na it may, for the purpose volumes of the "New Survey of boots with a blue suit as indulge in sprang into fame as the leader of of preventing frontier incid-London

a little healthy heckling of the the group that changed the face of yhte should be sent Post Re- Life and Labour." ents,

English politics for a generationstante. Letters for Peops should Japan has suggested Most of the materials, were ac-

go to the Vet'n. the formation of a Japan-Soviet-cumulated in the year 1929–

But there is plenty of time. Manchukuo Committee, and the that is to say, before the present Indeed, we seem hardly to dare We young men in our first year The Duchess of Kowloon has proposal is apparently accept-world slump in trade had pro- to put down questions at all. It may have created an impression returned to Viper's Bungalow able to Russia. This is where duced its dire results in doubl-is quite an event when question of disappointment. There are at from Shumchun. Her funds ran the deliberations take

Three times years left to out unexpectedly. aing and in some districts trebl-time extends its full allotted hour. least three more

correct it. serious turn, inasmuch as the ing or quadrupling the already If there is a revolt against

the 2 turned up in succession creation of any such body would large numbers of persons

when she was banking on 4's. imply the recognition of Man-employed in England. The chukuo by the Soviet. Very efforts of those forty. years were possibly this is precisely Japan's not in vain. Of the population wish. But Russia, which has of this poor region nearly complained of the League treat-2,500,000--no less than three- ment of the Manchurian problem, quarters of a million would be must know full well that by re-living under the "poverty line" cognising Manchukuo she would if the conditions were still the only be further complicating the same as in Booth's time. Ac- situation. Such a step would be tually, in 1929 the number was all the more regrettable at about one-quarter of a million. moment when an invitation to Those "under the poverty line" the Soviet to be represented on are persons subject to conditions the proposed Conciliation Com-of privation which, if long con- mittee in the Sino-Japan dia-tinued, would deny them all but pute is contemplated. There is, the barest necessities. It is in- moreover, a further point of de-deed rightly recorded cided importance, namely, the "grim" fact that there should effect which recognition of still have been one-tenth of the Manchukuo would have on the population living under these relations between Russia and conditions. But the reduction China. These two nations have of the number is striking only just resumed diplomatic evidence of improvement. It is contact, and in view of China's also a fact well worth noting well-known attitude towards the that the amount of deprivation creation of Manchukuo, Nanking due to "sweating"-which ac- obviously would be deeply of counted for most of the poverty: fended were Russia to fall in a generation ago-was in 1929 with the Japanese plan for re-almost negligible; wherever it cognition of the new State. The occurs to-day it is generally due, whole situation between not to offending employers, but Russia, China and Japan is at to lack of employment. Even the moment very delicately this hardship is modified, us i polsed, for which reason any was not then, by old-age and change in the relations of any of other pensions, and by anem- the three nations one towards ployment insurance. The pover- another needs to be very carety which the new fully watched. At any rate, discover in East London is due Russian recognition of Manchu to inability to find jobs; and it kuo would almost inevitably lead is established by this inquiry to developments of the utmost that most of the unemployed seriousness.

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WE'RE SUSPICIOUS. "Dear Edward Kelly," writes a correspondent, "I know you have opinions on most things (this strikes us as auspicious, the thin edge of the wedgo, loft-handar, so to speak) "Would you not agres with me that our wild forn hero is remarkable in its variety, What are our most attractive wild flowers. I am sure that your views on this subject would in- terest your renders'

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A challenge, huh? Well we do regard ourselves as an expert, but wo don't think our opinions have any greater value than those of any other experts. But hore goes.

Our Loveliest Wild Flowers, Wild Roso.

Wilder Rong (Instrívímus Omnes).

Purple Goatsbeard.

Pansy San. (Incubus Super

buar.

Hyacinth (though she's usual.

ly moro mad than

Epipactis.

wild).

As regards this laat, wo bellove. sho had a commoner namo, but wo haven't seen her

for three

months and we do not trust our ·‚- memory.