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TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1933,

PEACE AND

almost every country phrases a A TRUE CAREER FOR MEN The Very Idea!

policy may to war.

It begins by fear of the neigh- | bour, and it thus arouses fear

In the neighbour. It considers that it is different from the rest;

OF BRAINS.

FORCE

Its own armaments are for its RE-MODELLING LONDON'S POLICE

own protection, and not for aggression. But each country, belleving these things of itself, refuses to bellove them of other countries. The lamentable clas. sification, accusatory of others,

By JOHN BUCHAN, M.P.

BY GAD, IT'S CRICKET! By Eddie Kelly, V.C., M.C.C.

Britain may rule the waves, but, according to the Aussies, she's not going to be allowed to waive the rules.

IT seems that the Australian cricketing Board of Con- trol hasn't finished with body line bowling yet.

Lord Trenchard's Report on the jchard gives us as an instance the is responsible for a state of Metropolitan Police is a document lengths to which the custom of affairs recalling too vividly that which gives cause for thought.allowing men off duty to be em of 1914 If each nation examin-Not that the law is losing ground ployed privately at matches, con- ed itself, and expected some rea-in its fight with disorder.

certs, and sales, and to receive Now rules, for the protection sonableness of its neighbour, in- At frat sight it would appear gratuities from private employers, of the batsmen, have been for- stead of dwelling on the wicked-that crime in Loudon had in-has been carried.

creased during the year by 220 per Another is the appalling waste mulated, and have been sent to ness of the neighbour and its cent., but that is only because a of time due to attendances at the the M.C.G. for consideration. own righteousness, each would better statistical method has been Federation. and Branch Boards The A.B.C. doesn't mind Lar- serve its own interests. no less adopted. The real Increase is less established in 1919. These Boards wood having a leg theory. than the interests of peace. than 5 per cent., and it lies chiefly have no fewer than 480 meetings What they object to is that be

in small larcenies. Crimes of in a year in official time, and puts the theory into practice. violence against the person bave roughly cach ́involves the with- been very few, and in the last two drawal from duty for a whole daying must be abolished.

So, henceforth, body line bowl- years there has been only one of up to twenty and thirty police But the Aussies haven't gone

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

than

Of course a generation scorn-authenticated case of the motor officers. This is clearly an abuse ful to any speed less than 40 bandit, that bogoy of the timorous. of the purpose of the 1919 Act. far enough. Much more miles an hour probably doesn't The ordinary citizen may still sleep The consequence is a good deal of the mere abolition of body line care, but older folks will pause peacefully in his bed.

agitation and propaganda, and the bowling is needed for the pro- to register their thanks

production of a kind of "sen tection of a batsman. to

NEW SITUATION.

lawyer" who would not be tolerat Punch. For, in a recent issue,

Free, and without charge, we But the report raises that genial dispenser of wit and queation of public policy. The

a grave ed in any other disciplined service. have gone to the trouble of for- It is right that the force should mulating a set of rules that philosophy tells how the once Metropolitan Police has long have a full opportunity of discuss should meet the position. popular conveyance the han-endeared itself to the people of Ing matters connected with their som cab aequired its name. London. Sir Robert Peel in 1829 welfare and efficiency, but that is give them to the M.C.C. for what Just 100 years ago Joseph started the system of demanding no reason why public money they are worth, Aloysius Hansom, Esquire, an from recruits only a good charac- should be wasted in ill-informed English architect of some re-ter and a satisfactory physique, agitation. Once again the cause nown, invented what has been and of alling all posts up to, and is the system of recruitment.

45, would banter the busman

that the kansom cab

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I. If, in the opinion of the Umpire, the wicket keeper calls "Owzat" in so shrill a voice as to disconcert the batsman, the Umpire may order the wicket keeper to be gagged and his arms bound behind directly, between the batsman and his back, and to take up his position Larwood.

3. A batsman shall be deemed to be “Out" if struck on the head by a meteorite, provided one of the fieldsmen has not handled it.

the

4. If the bataman not taking strike shall trip the bowler with his

bat or strike him on the vision for such training. The Navy. It is a halfway house be

Bhins

enough additional

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into this slimming business,

prettily termed the "gondoln af including, the rank of superintend- AN UNFAIR SYSTEM. London." The United Kingdom ent by promotion from below. Wel is dotted with churches designed the character. There have been the police as to the public. There have always got the physique and The system, too, is as unfair to by Hansom, and this possibly fewer scandals than in any other is no clear avenue from the botton accounts for the tower-like con-important police force in the to the top. The chlef posts at the 2. If a fieldsman deliberately struction of his unique vehicle, world. In earlier days the system headquarters at Scotland Yard catches the ball in the air after Parenthetically it may here be amply justified itself.

are the Assistant-Commissioner leaving the bat and before striking remarked that the resemblance But to-day a new situation has ships and Deputy Assistant-Com- the ground, the Umpire may rulo to ecclesiasticism did not extend arleen. The criminal has become missionerships. The present hold this "No Catch" and order the far more subtle and ingenious, ors have been drawn from the offending fieldeman to stand in a to. the cockney driver. A guy and expansive freedom of speech he has at his disposal scientific Army, the Navy, the Civil Service, corner; but the Umpire shall not appliances of which our fathers and the legal profession. A num-make this decision before consult- characterized that jaunty and

never dreamed. To cope with him ber of Chief Constableships are ing the scoring board and DISARMAMENT picturesque Jehu. Particularly the police must do more than keep held by men promoted from the captain of the batting aide. It seems rather strange anti-was this noticeable in his caustic up with him; they must get before force itself, but there has been comment when emnibuses block-him. That is a job which needs only one cosa of an Assistant- war propaganda which is also ed the way. "Why don't yer more than honesty and courage Commissioner so appointed. anti-disarmament propaganda.

aht to and good muscles. It demanda a bring yer old woman

Now It is perfectly clear that the Yet the issue involved, the teach yer 'ow to drive?" he trained mind. nchievement

Metropolitan Police cannot be run' of Peace with

Now at present we have no pro- on the lines of the Army and the Security, presents one of the with a triumphant flourish of his entrance examination for a con- tween the regular defence forces biggest problems facing the na- tions of the world to-day. The whip, he squirmed through the stable is of the most rudimentary and civil life, and it must work out during the bowler's run to the key to the whole situation lies in

obstructing traffic and sped type, and all recruitment begins its own appropriate system. But crease, the Umpire shall order the the mental outlook and for this of at least eleven miles an hour. Though since 1919 the status and men who have trained and active at least six feet from the offending rank of away at the breakneck gait with the

constable the first requirement is to attract bowler to bowl from a distance of reason, a film now being shown In the Colony is of considerable Coach builders have affirmed pay of the police have been greatly minds and can impress their per-batsman.

5. If a wicket shall be thrown was the improved, the service is drawing conalities upon their aubordinates. interest to students of the in-most accurately balanced horse-only in a small degree upon theThere must be an officer class, down by a fieldsman or knocked ternational peace problem. Whether one agrees or disagree drawn equipage ever designed. secondary schools, hef enough using the word not in any social down by the wicket keeper or any

educated men enter the force, sense.

No army can be run wholly fieldsman with ball in hand while with the final verdict, the pre-

Somehow or other, no other type

A DEAD-END NOW.

by non-commissioned officers. In the batsmen are running and the sentation is stimulating, and of cab gave the occupant the

a battalion there are 82 officers to batsman be still outside the crease, thought-provoking. We should same pleasing sense of exhilara-

Moreover, less than one in five deal with between 800 and 900 and, in the opinion of the Umpire, say at once that we disagreed tion as did the hansom. There of those who join qualify for pro- men. In the Metropolitan Police the batsman would have reached the in most particulars with the was the dash of adventure in the motion to higher ranks. There there is one man of the officer type arcase if he had run faster, the

Umpire shall rule "Not Out." moral which the film endeavour-open view ahead and the fun of are already beyond the promotion to over 4,000 constables.

Lord Trenchard's conclusion is . G. If these six rules do not all ed to draw. Many

current communicating with the driver zono, and "have no incentive to realities are ignored, including by poking up the trapdoor with effort during the remaining years the same as that of the Lee Com-up half a column of the "Very Idea" the forces which tend to bring one's walking stick. Here and of service beyond their own sense mission of 1929. That Commis- the compositors shall be authorised nations together to formulate there, in London and elsewhere, of duty." For them the service Is sien held that "long experience te formulate common policies. And if dis- a hansom may still be found, simply a dead-end, and yet it is a and good service in the lower rules to do so,

THE SLENDER SILHOUETTE armament is agreed and acted although rather in the nature of service which requires of every ranks of the force cannot be the

It is time the police, themselves. upon, the fear of being caught a relic reminiscent of that misty member a continued keenness and only, or even the most important, a steadily increasing competence. qualification for the higher posts,

no practitioners of it, began to look unprepared by a war-seeking na-past when Fergus Hume's "Mys. It must be a highly expert pro- which ought to be filled in all cases tion can no longer exist. We tery of a Hansom Cab" rode in fession, but the present method of by men who, besides being them

Whon a man wishes to build a have not yet reached that happy the van of best sellers and the recruitment is a direct discourage- selves upright and fair-minded,

house, or even garden tool-shed, ansom, sir," was just ment to the kind of man who is are capable of Impressing their he has to obtain official approval stage. The dangerous sugges- call of

Own standards 011 their sub-

of his plass, which must not be tion still dominates the minds of another picturesque touch to capable of becoming an expert.

The system is also bad for dis-ordinates."

few departed from. There are many people, that there are two Piccadilly.

clpline in the higher sense. Ab- Lord Trenchard holds that

things he can do without first ob- recruit- sorts of nations, those who want

uses have crept in which would be system under which all

taining the permission of Rome- war and those opposed to war.

impossible in a service which was ment is to the rank of constable body. Life in Hongkong le chiefly It is the alleged existence of na- In a day when nations seeking largely staffed by, and which cannot provide a sufficiency of a matter of permits and prohibi-

He would therefore. tions, tions which aim at war which, is to add new territory to their offered a real career to, ambitious auch mên.

(Continued on Page 5.) used to justify professedly peace-domains by conquest are censur-and competent men. loving nations in preparations ed by other mitions, two such allegedly defensive but neverthe projects, one in execution and less provocative. Unless it is the other planned, should win assumed that nations do not nothing but

praise. It વ want war, it is useless to expect through such conquest, directed Bubstantial improvement in their by engineering skill and not relations. Recently the Fascist military generalship, that the Grand Council declared Italy's Netherlands proceeds with its determination not to trouble the | $400,000,000 task of wresting peace, but to collaborate in the 650,000 acres of land from the reconstruction of Europe. But grip of the Bea. Now word there has been a strengthening comes that Denmark is planning of the Little Entente owing to put thousands of unemployed partly to suspicions of Italy.to work adding to useful service French statements have been in- territory now submerged be terpreted in an anti-Italian sense, tween the islands of Moen and The policy of European states Bogo in South Zealand. No re- has been influenced by fear of monstrance or appeal to the Italy's designs. Yet when Italy World Court or the League-of says it does not want war, it may | Nations has been occasioned by well be believed. On its side, this mobilization of men and re- Italy charges Yugo-Slavia and sources for purposes of conquest France with preparing war-nor have other nations, jealous against it. If Italians sell arms of imperialist inclinations of a to Hungary, French citizens sell neighbour, argued for "balance arms to the Little Entente. of power," "parity," or "limita | France appears in Italian eyes to tion" of dredger fleeta. Old Man be an "enemy," To the de-Ocean, while putting up a stub- tached observer it would seem born fight to retain the land will, that Franco certainly has no it is hoped, eventually, cede those intention of initiating a war; small portions of a vast estate and of the sincerity of the paci-to the enterprising nations. If fic sontiments of the people nations must enlarge the im- there can be no doubt. Yet perial scope of their endeavours Fronch policy appears to justify or make "room for a growing Italian policy Just as Italian po-population they may yet find licy justifies French. On the methods which will not doprive Rhine and on the Vistula there others of their rights or prop- is the same spectacle of nations crty. The building of dredgern which assert that they are men-instend of battleships, tractors nced but are not menacing. The instead of tanks and the arming fact of the matter is that poof men with tools instead of guns country really wants war, but offer rich possibilities.

A New Imperialism

Lord Tren-

"Oh, don't pay any attention to Marvin! He just despises playing Jontract."!

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Yet here is woman, allowed to. chop and change her figuro caprico dictates, and no one dares to say her nay, not even the editor of The Critic.

Thanks to modern high-speed methods of slimming, a woman who is buxom to-day may be liesom to- morrow and positively shadowy the day after that.

Figures that are as round as the "o" of Glotto become parallel lines without the slightest notice.

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The whole thing is most wildering. It should be ordered to stop.

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We always keep an eye on the writings of the fashion experts, because of all the stupidities that aro written in his giddy old age, theirs are about the stupidest.

If one were to judge by the stuff fashion that is penned by the writers, one would conclude that a large number of our women are either, Bavages or half-wits.

And we refuse to belleve they are as bad as that, bad as they are

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EVE'S EVIL INFLUENCE. To turn to another matter, why do women persist in treating us men as if we were something be- tween helpless babes and confirmed inibeciles?

We say nothing against the maternal instinct, because it has saved most of us at one time or another from destruction.

But there are few men who have not a woman or two-mother, wife, or sister-cllaging desperately to them and trying to protect them from the buffetings of a cruel world- those very buffetings that we en- joy, and which give us opportunity to assort the triumphant power of personality over the innate perver- Bity of events.

IV.