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NEUTRALS IN WAR

Lord Raglan's declaration last wcok that disarmament or arma

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FRIDAY, DECEmber 22, 1933.

THE LANCASHIRE PROBLEM

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A DISAPPOINTMENT

But it might just as well; bn pointed out that this time expects

ions of this kind are likely to be disappointed very sharply. Eurom world want to purchase supplies just as much as in the last war; but Surope might have a very difficult time discovering what to use for money. In 1914, Europe held vast juantities of American securities. American railways had used enor- nous amounts of foreign capital in their construction; so had Amer- can mines, American factories. American tramcar systems, and so an. When the war broke out, Curope hurried to turn these securi- ios into cash; and with the money, uge purchases of munitions and ther commodities were financed When it was used up, the Allfed ations borrowed heavily in the American market to buy more.

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DIFFERENT SITUATION

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THINKING LIKE A MAN The Very Idea!

By EVELYN IRONS

apart

OUR RECORDS.

By Eddie "Heart-Breaker" Kolly»,

NOW that the swimming season is over, and a herring can float lazily on

OR once the new mystery play, ful. but brainy women--and once was a well-knit piece of work, that fortress has falien, women wh and the participators in the trial have, bartered their charma foi scene looked and spoke like life brains will have nowhere to lay the author afterwards, I found a successful women, and you see how his back without the fear of and not like Hollywood Meeting their unwaved heads.

Study the elder generation of self saying something which at a feminist gathering would cause me easy was the ancient order. Women of Intelligence to be rent limb from limb. " like

were, being kicked in the neck, we your play," I said. "No one would twenty years ago, a raco

Moro might ask ourselves whether guess that it had been written by from the others of their sex.

often than not, they sacrificed some it is worth while for people. For wo women have to admit it: thing of their physical charm in the we need men's brains if we are to clothes were hardly up to the minute

Interests of their work. Their to swim the Channel in any succeed in any profitable business.. in fashion; their faces

were Inno- from thriller-writing to stockaron-cent of make-up.

old ing. My author friend admitted But take the Buccessful business

woman of forty or ao to-day. Could saying, what man can you pick her out of a crowd of other do, man has already done "I'm feminine enough, heaven amartly groomed women? I don't knows she said. "I love pretty think so. Possibly she is rather several times and 80 clothes and I'm a good cook and more soignee, if anything, than the has woman. To get any" housewife. But the moment I get rest.

a woman."

It candidly.

case.

To paraphrase an

publicity, you've got to be dif- ferent. You can't be the first person to swim the Channel, but you might be the first mother of twins to do it, or the first red-haired grandfather, the fattest Channel swimmer or what not.

to work I have to think like a man.” A man may detect a slight hard

It is à difficult role, because now-ness round the mouth; he will cer- adays the world will not toleratoitainly dislike that "Hard-faced's is your running all to masculine brain about the most damning epithet, a and paying no attention to your man can apply to a womani. feminine appearance. At Oxford | ten years ago, to judge from the But is it any wonder that the women undergraduates, the world successful woman of these daya tolerated it quite happily, You shows some small sign of the tough could go all out--flat-heeled, shiny-ness that is necessarily concealed nosed, and bespectacled-for a by the feminine concerns of dress First in Greats, and people merely and beauty? thought you were "clever.”

For like my dramatist friend, Now, according to that egregious she thinks like a man." If her undergraduate journal the Isis.mind were not as precise and effi- women at Oxford are not above cient as a man's, without the charm- reinforcing their Intellectual claims ing vagueness and woolliness arrive in England, which is just I which, one has to admit, is typical as bad. Why can't people, sot, up That is by way of showing how of the female, she would not be records at doing something use- deeply this iden of hiding your the success aho la.

ful? For instance, we have had masculine brain beneath an ultra- So, woman-who-would-be-succes- feminine exterior has penetrated ful, put on velvet gloves over those our imagination. For if Oxford is mailed fists of youral

with powder and lipstick.

the home of lost causes, it has cer- Luckily, velvet la tremendously in tainly been the fortress of unbeauti- fashion this winter.

But things are different to-day. THE WORLD'S BEST CLUB.

tory this time. There are ways which American prosperity might be restored. A new Europe

un war, however, is not liem.

one

of

later. There are faw ́neutrála to,

DANGEROUS GROUND

By Capt. Cunningham Reid.

the

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Besides, who wants to swim the Channel? If you start from England you land in France, and if you go the other

way you

a man who pushed a wheelbarrow round the world, but has any. body ever pushed a perambulator up the Peak,

If you consider the matter, ww may all hold records of sorts. Wa wore not the heaviest, baby ever born, but the doctor said we were the ugliest.

We did not take our first step

Later we were the first batamen

to score a duck on our first ap pearance for the school team, and even now we can claim to Indulge. in the warmest cold baths, of... any man in Hongkong.

Wuz doin' over

"Oh, I say, Captain-you certain- ly revised the old slogan. It's 'The Campbells are going now!!

The amount of sound American securities held to-day in Europe are almost negligible. The shells that could be bought with the money these securities would bring would

in life earlier than any other 1ot last week. After that, TN pre-war times the House of Personal friendships may, and do, baby, but we took it farther. Surope would have to borrow. And

Commons was often referred to exist between the bitterent political We found a' gap in the banlators, anyone who looks at the present

ua "The Best Club in the World." opponents (they are incomprehen- and fortunately-or unfortunately, state of foreign loans in the United

This description could still be apsible to foreigners) who respect the if you like landed in a linos Statca knows without being toldplied to the Mother of Parliaments other man's convictions, if not his basket. that there would be a different

to-day, but in a different sense. point of view, and realise that cach Tho "Beat Club in the World" one is striving for what he con- epithet presupposed that members ceives to be the good of the nation. of Parliament had no other business These are some of the things which beyond their membership-except justify the old proud boast of the possibly the administration of their Best Club. estatés. From this it followed that | A very definito Instance of the AND THE FAR EAST

the pleasant social and intellectual strange and attractive jumble of amenities of the There is the same sort of feeling least of equal importance with its of Mr. Maxton. There are only tralia if you like. We don't care. House were at Parliament is afforded by the case Now you can go and be the first person to fly from here to Aus- in England. Talk of n Russo-

three, or it may be four, membera Japanese war may worry Whitehall legislative duties.

The general election of 1006 frat who share his political views, yet and the Admiralty, but in Lan- need of thorough reorganisaashire, notably,

shook this complacent point of view, on a referendum he would probably no alarm JA tion of the Industry. If not all. seriously felt. The attitude gen-

and the giant strides which the be found to be the most popular Why Wouldn't Change' Placer Socialist Party has made since the member of Parliament, for no one

With Captain Campbell certainly much of the trouble crally is that with Japan's resources

concentrated upon military supplies war have. altogether destroyed the can help liking the man himself.

old-fashioned conception of

There is another, reasonably close which the cotton trade is at pre- for her armies in Manchurin, the

"Why, Captain, I feel rathor un- House of Commons no an extra comparison between the ordinary easy with you. You're supposed. sent experiencing arises from intensive competition with Lan-club for gentlemen of leisure, club and the one at Westminster to be so fast, you know!'' the failure of the industry to reaahire's products in the com- But clubs, as well as politics, have both possess a club committee.

merent field would fade out and

"Well, what are you going to do, changed in the last fifteen years, Our club committee consists of the rard itself as a unit. As we business revival would set in, with and what may originally have been Cabinet Ministers. Like all club now that you've set another speed have before had occasion to re-a general rush to seize Japan's intended in ВСПВС of social ex-committees, there is a tendency for record, Captain? Get a job as a mark, there is far too much present markets. And undoubted clusivencas may have remained true them to get rather out of touch taxi driver?"

.y, the arguments adduced are true | duplication, overlapping and

as a measure of the wide range of with the rank-and-file members ́"Høy, pull over to the kerb there! up to a point. There would be a knowledge, interests, and personal-whose views they are supposed to Where ya goin' to, a bloomin' fire? waste. Mr. Burgin, the Govern-hance for trade to flourish, forities which any member will find represent. When they do it is a You know you ment spokesman, is therefore on while. The reckoning would come Among his 614 fellows.

thousand pitiee, for the ordinary fifty" good ground when he contends day who would claim to have escap-will and that almost any comparison room gives them every opportunity. Once elected, the new member intercourse of lobby and smoking- that Lancashire can do a greated the disastrous economic con- with the limited nature of club life Some Cabinet Ministers do not deal to help herself by seeing sequences of the last war.

breaks down. Clubs may consist seem to see quite how necessary that the industry is put on an

entirely of enthusiastic scientists these contacts are and how much

"Oh, Captain Campbell, I' think or fly fishermen the equivalent in they are appreciated. up-to-date basis. For an in-

what you did was perfectly ador Parliament are the ties of party. dustry so highly localised, there When the Nazi Cabinot proposed But beyond and far transcending

over and Government Whips who are in-able, Won't you come should be no insuperable diffi-that legal sanction be given to the these are the contacts of the lobby, timately concerned with these tick- teach me to drive some time?" culty in instituting beneficial re-killing of persons afflicted with in- the smoking-room, and the library: Continued on Next Column,)

curable dienase. it touched on onɑ forms. Production costa are of the most tragic and perplexing admittedly too high at present, of all modern problems. Every due partially to the overlapping doctor has seen, over and over of which we have spoken. It is again, patients who looked forward true that great difficulty would to death as a relief; persons who be experienced in attempting to know that they could not possibly bring down costs to anything to a painful and lingering torment recover, and who were condemned like the Japanese level, since while they waited for their matanies British workers would never to reach a climax. And everyono consent to a standard of living who has thought about such tragic such as that under which the cases must have felt that, in at Japanese labour. None the less, least some Instances, it would be n. it should be possible, by sound great kindness to hasten death's reorganisation methods, to do tardy footsteps. But that is state something at least to lessen the ing only tulf the case. The hideous abuses that could arise under such gap between British and Japa philosophy are too obvious to need anese prices. Tariffs would also comment; and the religious objec- be helpful, but only partially so. tions to certain aspects of it are Not altogether without reason, equally apparent. If the Nazis go the British Government is be-through with this proposal, they coming a little impatient over will be attempting something that the frequency with which this 10 modern society yet has had the

temerity to try... cotton problem is being raised lin Parliament. The suggestion underlying Mr. Burgin's observa- tions in this connexion is that

Whether such a consideration no good is likely to result from would have any meaning in Ger- these recurring arguments, and many it is difficult to estimate. actually some harm may be done The provision for the sterilisation at a time when the matter is un-of the unfit is to be enforced on der active consideration. The January 1, according to an an Government has made it clear is not a far stride from sterillen

nouncement made yesterday and that it has no intention of Inter-tion of four hundred thousand voning unless converantions bo-sufforing from hereditary disease tween the Industrialists of the to the painless extermination of the two countries provò inconclusive, hopelessly Incurable. In both That being 80, the next move | cazes, there fa dangerous possibility lies with the leaders of the in- of abuse, while the effect upon thos dustry. It will be tipe enough illustrated in the case of the man to be adjudicated upon is well to talk of other measures if and who committed suicide rather than when the Industrialists fail to submit to the operation doalgned |reach an understanding. “

or him.

STERILISATION

Now, here's an amazing thing about the linoleum business.”-

"Sir, I'm the Campbell Soup Com pany's representative in England, and I'm authorized to offer you five hundred pounds if you will, make. a short speech over the radio saying that you are not the only Campbell. to break records.”.

"Oh, by the way, Captain,,,did those American hikers bother you much 7"

GREETINGS!

The Editor has gone across "the road for a spot. While he is away

·Eddie Kelly takes this opportunity of: slipping a paragraph down to the lino-typists, wishing his readers N very, very, very Merry Christmak And that's that]

lish matters do not always realise that the numbers in the "Aya" and "No" lobbles may bear a Vary direct relationship to the fact that one Minister is accustomed to stalk through the lobby wrapped In great thoughts, while another will stop on his way for a cheerful word hora and thero.

The House of Commons, by rea- son of its university, its reflection of every aspect of the nation's life, Ita brond humanity, at!!! miri rors the spirit of this country as no Fasciit or Soviet assembly could. In that sense and it is cer tainly the sonso which has made our Parliament admired and imitabi ed from China to Peru--the Hausa of Commons is and remains the Host Club In the World. though in a very different senso.from that Intended by the originators of the | phrase.