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MONDAY JULY 24, 1933.

NOTES OF THE DAY WHAT THE NEW TRAFFIC The Very Idea!

-- Feng Yu-hsfang's change of front is satisfactory. It saves unneces sary bloodshed. At no time did he have a reasonable chance of achieving any good, in pin-pricking

the Japanese and Manchukuo for- ces on the Jehol aide of the Char- har frontier His troops were

equipped, lacked ammunition... and

ACT WILL MEAN TO

THE LONDONER

By The Rt. Hon. Herbert Morrison

The London Passenger Transport

Act, 1933, has come into opera tion.

supplies for a campaign of any length. Opposition to Japan upon | ▼X7HAT does the now Act mean

tonttioned is vainglorious to

day. Vocal support from Canton and from patriots in North China is worse than useless unless it is accompanied by something more tangible. It merely encourages wild cacapades. If China must Book revancho she must await the proper day.

LOCAL CURRENCY

W to the Lention per

the Board. And electrification means faster and more frequent services, cleaner stations

and trains, more comfort.

So with the L.N.E.Railway sub- urban services out of King's Cross

I cannot be certain.. What I as far as Welwyn Garden City. say must be, to some extent, Moreover, electrification makes speculative. I am not going to possible through running between run the new Board. But in the the Underground and the main

ofline railways. years' study light of many London's transport problem and a "USE YOUR IMAGINATION the man who framed, introduced and saw through" the Joint Select The Metropolitan line from the Committee the Bill which (amend- Circle to New Cross and New ed in ways I do not like by the Crosa Gate will, I believe, join up present Government) has now be with the Southern Electric and come the London Passenger Truns not merely drop you on to a near- port Act, 1998-here goes..

by platform.

What happens on Saturday, is

too.

means.

SPORTING INSTINCTS By Eddie "Larwood" Kelly,

NOW that the tennis sea-

The players. have patched up In time it may mean the death their bruises and the spectators of the London end of the sub-have forgotten their disgust at urban terminals and making the the sight of their favourites electrified "suburbans" as good dribbling down the whole length as tubes with the daylight let in. of tho fleld so we can get. to-

Will the trams go? Maybe it gether and fashion a few more. the case is proved.

laws to govern the game. '. They have great value; our

son is upon us it is time for us to put on our football boots and take a The local currency controversy

I hope the Central London Tube hand in the revision of rules has been lying dormant since the that all the Underground Railways, dead-end at Liverpool-street will which becomes necessary Clegg. Commission presented Its Buses, Trams and Motor Coaches go and so achieve through run- Report, which is fortunate perhaps of the 1,700 or so square milos ning with the old Great Eastern. at the close of each season for the anti-stabilisation school of of the London Transport Aren Use your Imagination. Think of slaughter on the cricket thought. Events of the last few (bigger than Greater London) are what through running between months have strongly impressed the brought together as one under- tube and suburban main lines field. need for a stablo dollar. Trado taking. conditions are bad enough without ⠀⠀ They are sociálised as a public the hampering effect of wild ax- concorn under the London Pas- change fluctuations, brought about senger Transport Board, with Lord by circumstances quite beyond the Ashfield and Frank Pick at its Colony's control. A semi-panic head. They have been socialised the wheat pit in Chicago sends the dollar toppling downwards. An optimistic report of the progress of the Pittman campaign supplies a swift upward trend. And tho basic argument of the opponents of stabilisation, that Hongkong can-to replace capitalist competition not afford to take such a step while or what was left of it. It doesn't China retains her present monetary

matter much to the new Board system is entirely stultified by the whether you travel by fube, bus, Canton currency situation.

coach or train. Nor does it matter The Act gives freedom, subject

You see, we used to have spikes much to the Board or the main to conditions, If the local autho- line railways whether or not you rities will consent to overhead on the front of our boots to protect 182 the suburban railways, for wires, there is a lot to be said on ourself against attacks, and every there is to be a pool between appropriate routes for the trolly-time we kicked a ball they had to them.

bus which uses electricity pro fetch a new one and take a player There will be competition be-duced from British coal. Clean, tween these agencies of travel, but mobile, easy going. Have a look. It was some time before the re- it will be inspired by the desire at them round Hampton Court force noticed what was happening, and the ball unfortunately stuck to render the best service; the way. The tramwaymen's interest but when we took a penalty kick emulation of achievement for the must be safeguarded. combined concern, rather than the

around the tbo of our boot and ro fused to budge, he blew-his whistle- mere raking in of money.

and we woke up the following fore-

IN GERMANY TO-DAY

Ruthlessness and naivety are

Please give the new concern, time to find its feet. It is a pity it starts in a trade slump.

Co-ordinated public service is

trams are good ones; they shift vast numbers. But they can't put down t the kerb; many you women don't like them; they are not mobile; and, in a breakdown, there is a block.

The important thing is that the general public service and not separate interesta (even munief pal) must now come first.

.

We ourself were wont to disport ourself on the green award in the days of our youth, and flatter ourself that we know how football should be played.

It's a man's game but that is not why we chucked it.

off.

noon.

To avoid a repetition of such a deplorable incident, we suggest that hitting below the belt bo barred in future. This would cut the leg. theory right out of the game:

THE IRISH strange companions, but they figure FREE STATE

together in the latest edicts of the Hitler Government in Germany, While Herr Hitler himself believes Mediatory efforts in which that he has achieved what is call- ed in Berlin "totality," in placing General Smuts has played an public activities of every kind, important part promise to bring from the trade unions to the

SELLING TRANSPORTATION. church, under the control of the

The case went before the F. A. another attempt at Anglo-Irish Nazis, thus suggesting an easing In these circumstances I con- THE THAMES HIGHWAY,.

Council and through a misunder- standing on the part of those who rapprochement, ending the des- of coursive methods, Captain Goerceive that through booking and

And the River. Our River voted against us, our name was ing announces the death penalty the inter-availability of tickets tructive economic war of

struck off the lists. for anyone who manifests the will be instituted. Things will Father Thames..

The Board has powers to run a We were also summoned for. past twelve months or so. The slightest sign of hostility to the have to be thought out. Experi

Hitler regime. Extenuating cir- ments may have to be conducted,river service. It is the best body malicious wounding but we manag onus is upon Mr. de Valera. cumstances are not to be consider-But I feel sure the tendency will to do it, for it can co-ordinato ed to get our football team on the he continues to be Gandhiesque, ed. The individual must entirely be for the public to be sold trans-with all its other services. I hope jury and they viewed the affair in subordinate himself and his pociation rather than journeys by it may be possible, but we must its right light and we left the suggesting that he has some political convictions to the Nazi particular vehicles.

not rush the Board unfairly. court an innocent man. State. In its debasement of hu

The boots must be motor. and Up to a point, it won't matter thing new to contribute and re-man liberty, this type of Fascism to the Board which way you not ateam. They must be open to vealing nothing but stubborn-is as bad as its counterpart in a travel-as long as you do travel. the heavens in fine weather and ness, further discussion will be a Communistic society. And lest as

Are you one of the great army as dry, warm and comfortable as a a result further excesses should of London's toilers by hand and tube train in bad weather. sheer waste of time. The Irish be committed by the storm troops, by brain that is disgorged at I hope they will come off, for I | leader has to make up his mind. it is allowed to be known that Liverpool-strect Station each want to see Father Thames take

If he believes Ireland can

us more to his bosom-without let. "spics" have joined the Nazis morning? Yes? be

inciting them to ill-treatment. made self-sufficing, he must take

used to be one of you myself. Not It Well, I am sorry for you. I ting us get wet. * the plunge and not content him- self with half measures. tain is not likely to take the action he desires and push the Free State into a flowing tide of republicanism. At present, Just as many of Karl Marx's the Free State is making the favourite maxims had their origin, worst of the situation. It is in unconsciously perhaps, in principles which he publicly denounced, so the British Commonwealth but the bitter Nazi war upon Marxism not of it. Irishmen can still in Germany is, in reality, a re- Sir Ralph Wedgwood has as-first.. travel in England without pass-flection of his attitude of mind. sured us that all the plans are ports, but when they trade there Essentially, the Marxian doctrine ready for submission to the Joint given you enough visions for one

preaches class war, although It contemplates the uprising of the Committee of the main lines and day. proletariat. But it is still class war when the positions are re- versed when the revolt of

the

Kicking with both feet together should be abandoned as the action- lacks style. In fact, all rough play-should-be-treated-as-an-in-

fringement.

is fortunate that the edicts and

The motor coach controversy the circulare indicate that an too bad a service, but dirty, will be settled in the way I wanted.

This does not include hitting the attempt also is to be made to dis- dreary, smoky, crowded, depress- Bri-

The coach will be used on its cipline the storm troops.

ing, irritating. You ought not to morits. It will be an express bus referee, as it is better that the be sent to work like that. I often and used on routes where the boys should take it out of a paid official rather than one of the thought about you at the Ministry railways cannot deliver the goods. other team, who is merely playing. of Transport and talked to the I have said nothing about lower L.N.E. Railway about you.

CLASS WAR

they have to face a higher tariff than any foreigner. They are even cut off by the tariff wall from free commercial inter- proletariat is anticipated, and the course with Northern Ireland. propertled force-tlier will upon The recent announcement that the masses,

certain of the emergency tariffs

imposed by the do Valera Gov-DAVIS CUP DRAMA

ernment against imports from

Britain would be made par- Britons the world over have manent seems to suggest that every reason to be proud of their Davis Cup team's magnificent feat the belief in self-sufficiency has in beating America for the right not died out despite the obvious of challenging France in the final facts. But is equally likely that round this week. "America had so it represented another gamble carefully prepared for the event,

that the merit of the achievement

international tennia

upon a colossal bluff. A policy is greatly onhanced. It was a of economic isolation for the dramatic tio. In fact, so closely Free State merely means the allied has drama become with meetings, impoverishment of opportunity, that, aided by the quick reactions the establishment of small-scalo of the nervously interested crowds, industries behind a tariff wall, they Invariably provide incidents sufficient to earn them place in thus immensely increasing the the sporting archives. The 1943 cost to the consumer. Old out Intor Zone final between Britain lets for Ireland's principal pro and America contained. Ita full ducts will be permanently closed, share of such data: The first day successes of Austin and Perry The opposite policy means early only give place in dramatic aspect reconciliation with Britain to the collapse of Ellsworth Vines While the Free States wavers in the concluding tle of the series, when with the-scores at two seta between these two platforms, all and Ferry leading 7-8 and 40- there can bo, no stability. Bri- 15 in the fith sot, the American tain, on her part, can maks use champion fainted. It cost him the match, although there a small of the opportunity which is to doubt that the Englishman would be created in Parliament this have won In any case. Incidental week to make it perfectly clearly, tennis historians have plenty of evidence that the game of 1988 that no spirit of animosity demands roster mental and phy Proverns whe

og intensital abilly, than that of 80 years:

fares. If they become possible for the love of the game. 1 believe your good day is you will get them. I have never chosen for their intelligence and Referees, we suggest, should be coming. Competition has held up "featured" them in my case for not for their ability to play the electrification of all those the Bill.....

Schubert's Serenade оп the lines. Now it will be possible to For I believe that facilities, de whistle, and to add refinement to electrify.

velopment and service must come the game it would be better if they could borrow a dress suit to wear.

And now I conclude. I have

in action.

Football being essentially an open-air pastime tho players abould wear as little as possible. Ono team could play in the altogether and boots, and their opponents could distinguish them- selves by playing. In boots and tho altogether, weather, and the polico permitting.

Shooting at the goal within 20- yards. is unfair to the goal-kooper, and to counter-balance. this, rulo, the goal-keeper should be for bidden to pull faces at the players. The cap is rather offete and a touch of dignity could be adód- to the scene if the goal-keeper wore a bowler hat. A

Players with thin logs could wear leggings and in rainy wea ther might be allowed an umbrella; For those whose natural adorn- mont demands it, hair pins would be permitted but these should not be used as a weapon of offence

When making up their fixture Hists secretaries should not write- to each other as "Dear Sam or "Dear Jim" unless they mean it and all communication to the Association must be enclosed, In scented envelopen.

"Players who cóllide with each other on the field of battle or kick, the ball out of turn will, of course. do the gentlemanly thing and apologise. Speaking to the re- forne should be barred—actions speak louder, SACERDA MA A player receiving the raspber- ry from male spectators may re turn it at his own risk, but on récelving it from a female spaétis: for he should retire to the pavilion and on some "lothes,