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TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1933,

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

policy which may lead 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," belloving these things of itself, refuses to believe them of other countries. The lamentable clas- sification, accusatory of others,

to

By JOHN BUCHAN, M.P.

AN UNFAIR SYSTEM.

BY GAD, IT'S CRICKET! By Eddin Kelly, VC., M.C.C.

Britain may rule the waves, but, according to the Aussies, sho'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.

The A.B.C. doesn't mind Lar-

-

than

that

the

the

Lord Trenchard's Report on the [chard gives us as an instance the la responsible for a state of Metropolitan Police la a document lengths to which the custom of affairs recalling too vividly that which gives cause for thought, allowing men off duty to bo am of 1914. If ench nation examin-Not that the law is losing groundployed privately at matches, con-

certs, and sales, and to receive Now rules, for the protection ed itself, and expected some rea-in its fight with disorder.

At first sight it would appear gratuities from private employers, of the batsmen, have been for- sonableness of its neighbour, in-

mulated, and have been sent to stead of dwelling on the wicked- that crime in London had in- has been carried.

Another is the appalling wasto ness of the neighbour and its creased during the year by 220 per own righteousness, each would cont., but that is only because a of time due to attendances at the the M.C.C. for consideration.

better statisticnl method has been Federation and Branch Boards 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 6 per cent, and it lies chiefly have no fewer than 480 meetings What they object to ls that be

in small larcentos. Crimes of in a year in official time, and puts the theory into practice.

So, henceforth, body line bowl- violence against the person have roughly ench involves the with- The Mystery of a

been very few, and in the last two drawni from duty for a whole day ing must be abolished. Hansom Cab

years there has been only one of up to twenty and thirty police But the Aussles haven't gone 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 begey 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 mero abolition of body line agitation and propaganda, and the bowling is needed for the pro- care, but older folks will pause peacefully in his bed.

production of a kind of "son tection of a batsman. to register their thanks

NEW SITUATION.

lawyer" who would not be tolerat Free, and without charge, we Punch. For, in a recent issue,

But the report raises a grave ed in any other disciplined service, have gone to the trouble of for- that genlal dispenser of wit and

It is right that the force should mulating a set of rules question of public policy. The philosophy tells how the once Metropolitan Police has Jong have a full opportunity of discuss- popular conveyance the han endeared itself to the people of ing matters connected with their should meet the position. We som cab-acquired its name. London. Sir Robert Feol in 1829 welfare and efficiency, but that is give them to the M.C.C. for what

why public money they are worth. Just 100 years ago Joseph started the system of demanding no reason

1. If, in the opinion of Aloysius Hansom, Esquire, an from recruits only a good charac-should be wasted in ill-informed

"Owzat" in so shrill a voice as to English architect of some re-tor and a satisfactory physique. agitation. Once again the cause Umpire, the wicket keeper calis disconcert the bataman, the Umpire nown, invented what has been and of filling all posts up to, and is the system of recruitment.

may order the wicket keeper to be prettily termed the "gondola of including, the rank of superintend-

gagged and his arms bound behind London." The United Kingdom ent by promotion from below. We

have always got the physique and The system, too, is as unfair to his back, and to take up his position is dotted with churches designed the character. There have been the police as to the public. There directly between the batsman and by Hansom, and this possibly fewer scandals than in any other is no clear avenue from the botton Larwood. accounts for the tower-like con important police force in the to the top. The chief posts at the 2. If a feldarean 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 But to-day a new situation has ships and Deputy Assistant-Com-the ground, the Umpire may rule remarked that the resemblance to ecclesiasticism did not extend arisen. The criminal has become missionerships. The prosent hold- this "No Catch" and order the the offending fieldsman to stand in a to the cockney driver. A gay far more subtle and ingenious, era have been drawn from and expansive freedom of speech and he has at his disposal scientific Army, the Navy, the Civil Service, corner; but the Umpire shall not PEACE AND

characterized that jaunty and appliances of which our fathers and the legal profession. A num-make this decision before consuit-

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 den promoted from the captain of the batting side.

3. A batsman shall be It seems rather strange anti-was this noticeable in his caustic up with him; they must get before force itself, but there has been

deemed to be "Out" if struck comment when omnibuses block-him. That is a job which needs only one case of an Assistant-

on the head by a meteorite, war propaganda which is also ed the way. "Why don't, yer more than honesty and courage Commissioner so appointed; anti-disarmament propaganda.

nht to and good muscles. It demands a

provided one of the Beldsmen Now it is perfectly clear that the

has not handled it. Yet the issue involved, the bring yer old woman

Metropolitan Pollee cannot be run he trained mind. teach yer 'ow to drive?" achievement of Peace

4. If the batsman not taking Now at present we have no pro- on the lines of the Army and the with. would banter the busman as,

training. The Security, presents one of the

Navy. It is a halfway house be-strike shall trip the bowler with his shins entrance examination for a

tween the regular defence forces bat or strike him on the

the bowler's run to the biggest problems facing the na- with a triumphant flourish of his vision for such 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

sped type, and all recruitment begins its own appropriate system. But crease, the Umpire shall order the key to the whole situation lies in obstructing traffic and the mental outlook and for this away at the breakneck gait with reason, a film now being shown of at least eleven miles an hour. Though since 1919 the status and the first requirement is to attract bowler to bowl from a distance of

minda and can impress their por-batsman.

5. If a wicket shall be thrown in the Colony is of considerable Coach builders have affirmed pay of the police have been greatly men who have trained and active at least six feet from the offending

was the improved, the service in drawing conalities upon their subordinates. that the hansom, cáb interest to students of the in- most accurately balanced horse- only in a small degree upon the There must be an officer class, down by a fieldsman or knocked. ternational peace. problem. Whether one agrees or disagrees drawn equipage ever designed. Secondary schools. Not enough using the word not in any social down by the wisket keeper or any senso. No army can be run wholly fieldsman with ball in hand whis by non-commissioned officers. In the batsmen are running and the with the final verdict, the pre- Somehow or other, no other type educated men enter the force.

A DEAD-END NOW.

a battalion there are 32 officers to betaman be still outside the crease, sentation is stimulating, and of cab gave the occupant the

Moreover, less than one in five deal with between 800 and 900 and, in the opinion of the Umpire, thought-provoking. We should same pleasing sense of exhilara- 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

Umpire shall rulo "Not Out.** in most particulars with the was the dash of adventure in the motion to higher ranka. There there is one man of the officer type crease if he had run faster, the 6. If these six rules do not fill 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 ed to draw. Many

current communicating with the driver zone, 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 senac mission of 1920. That Commia-the compositors shall be authorised nations together to formulate there, in London and elsewhere, of duty." For them the service lesion held that "long experience te formulate enough additional

every ranks of the force cannot be the

THE SLENDER SILHOUETTE. common policies. And if dis-a hansom may still be found, simply a dead-end, and yet it is aand good service in the lower rules to do so,

It is time the police, themselves armament is agreed and acted although rather in the nature of service which requires of

a steadily increasing competence. qualification for the higher posts, upon, the fear of being caught a relic reminiscent of that misty member a continued kecunces and only, or even the most important, 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 no practitioners of it, began to look When a man wishes to build a tion can no longer exist. Wetery of a Hansom Cab" rode in fession, but the present method of by men who, besides being them into this slimming business. have not yet reached that happy the van of best sollera and the recruitment is a direct discourage selves upright and fair-minded,

ho has to obtain official approval ansom, sir," was just ment to the kind of man who is are capable of impressing their house, or oven a garden tool-shed,

on own standards capable of becoming an export. stage. The dangerous sugges-call of

of his plans, which must not be tion still dominates the minds of another picturesque touch

The system is also bad for die-jordinates.'

departed from. There are few Lord Trenchard holds that things he can do without first ob- many people, that there are two Piccadilly.

cipline in the higher sense.

all recruit- sorts of nations, those who want

Usos have crept in which would be system under which

taining the permission of some- impossible in a service which was ment le to the rank of constable body. Life in Hongkong is chiefly war and those opposed to war.

matter of permits and prohibi- Yot here is woman, allowed to chop and change her figure caprice dictates, and no one dares to any her nay, not even the editor of The Critic,

A New Imperialism

to

not

the

rank

of

con-

constable.

Ab-

their Bub-

a sufficiency of

It is the alleged existence of na- In a day when nations seeking largely staffed by, and which cannot provide tions which aim at war which is to add new territory. to their offered a real career to, ambitious such men. He would therefore

(Continued on Pago 5.) used to justify professedly peace- domains by conquest are censur- and compotent men. Lord Tren- loving nations in preparations ed, by other nations, 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 want war, it is useless to expect through such conquest, directed substantial improvement in their by engineering skill and 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 550,000 acres of land from the reconstruction of Europe. But grip of the sea. Now word there has been a strengthening comes that Denmark is planning of the Little Entente owing to put thousands of unemployed partly to auspicions 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 will be believed. On its side, this mobilization of men and re- Italy charges Yugo-Slavia and sources for purposes of conqueat France with preparing warnor havo 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 fleets. Old Man be an "onomy." To the de- Ocean, while putting up a stub- tached observer it would seem born fight to retain the land will, that France 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 pack-to the enterprising nations. If fic sentiments of the people nations must enlarge the im- there, can be no doubt Yet perial scope of their endeavours French policy appears to justify or make room for a growing Itallan policy, just as Italian po-population they may yet find licy Justifies French. On the methods which will not deprive Rhine and on the Vistula there others of their rights or prop- is the same spectacle of nations erty. The buliding of dredgera which assert that they are men-instead of battleships, tractors aced but are not menacing. The instead of tanks and the arming fact of the matter is that po of men with tools instead of guns country really wants, war, but offer rich, possibilities.

don't pay any attention to Marvint He just despises

playing Contract

tions.

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Thanks to modern high-speed methods of elimming, a woman who is buxom to-day may be liasom 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.

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

We always keep an eye on the writings of the fashion

exports, because of all the stupidities that are written in his giddy old age, theirs are about the stupidest.

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

And we refuse to believe 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 Imbociles?

Bub

We say nothing. against the maternal Instinet, because it has saved most of us at one timo pr another from destruction. there are few món who have not a woman or two mother, wife, or sister-clinging desperately to them and trying to protect them from tho buffetings of a cruel world those very buffetings, that we an foy, and which give us opportunity to assert the triumphant power of personality over the Innate perver- alty of events,