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THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1934.

LANCASHIRE AND

JAPAN

NOTES OF THE DAY

THE PREMIER AT LEEDS

The greeting experienced by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald at Leads, when Inaugurating the official campaign designed to revive wholehearted

support of the Government, signi

ficantly marked the very real need for electioncoring if confidence is to be enjoyed. The campaign did not exactly open with a flourish of trumpate: the Premier had dif ficulty in securing a hearing. Leeds, at all events, feels that whether the present Ministry war- rants preservation is an arguable point. And it certainly revealed the Justice of the accuantion that; allowed to judge the Government's work on its merits while the Op position has been actively picking holes-the public mind has tended to concentrate its attention on what the Government had failed to do rather than upon its achievements.

EMOTION CONE

It is this attitude that tho cam- paign socks to minimise, but the prospects aro not bright. The mass of the people in Britain have ceased to regard the "National Government" with emotion. The wave of patriotic feeling which carried Mr. Ramsay MacDonald on its crest to power has completely receded

| MARKING TIME

The two and a half years of the Government's life have been crowd- ed with sensational crises-perils narrowly averted, mountains over- come, and plans outlined for the slower, steady handling of a situa- tion fraught all the time with dif- ficulties. So tenso an atmosphere could not indefinitely remain. ", For the present there is a senso of marking time until a new phase of activity may galvanise the country

into renewed attentiveness. The National Government has not falled In the first tasks which it was appointed to perform. The balance of trade has been partly redressed. The currency though forced off gold-has been established. Bud- gets have been balanced, though at taxation which the country accepts the price of an exhausting load of but not without some protest; and it looks forward to the next bud- get with expectation of some relief. Trade conditions have shown & slow, but perceptible improvement bright as in any other country, and the outlook is at least as even in those where more drastic

has been experimentation neased.

CREDIT SECURE?

HAND

OF FATE The Very Idea!

By JAMES

FARY Westripp is a pretty gir

DOUGLAS

"When I was a child of nine I

AS.ITHERS SEE US

By Eddle Kelly, Monster Expert.

ran away from home in rebellion OUBTLESS youare aware that this is the as a chambermaid at the Clarges ment was to be kept away from the world celebrate Burns.

She lives in Clapham and works against being unjustly accused of

a childish offence. My punish day when Scotsmen all over. Club, Clargos-stroet, Mayfair. a family picnic, . She was cleaning the glass dome'

In blind anger I resolved to go or skylight over a well staircase away where, I do not know. On six storeys high,, Seventy feet my way home from Sunday school below the domo is a stone floor. I fled. I vaguely hoped that some She slipped and crashed through kind person would pity my soll the glass. As she fell she flung tude,

SAVED BY A SECOND.

frame.

When a Scotsman starts celebrating Burns he doesn't have to call out the fire brigade. As far as Scots- men are concerned there's no cure for Burns.

out one hand and grasped the Jagged broken edge of the lead

It was winter. I walked seven The glass gashed her hand, but miles, till I came to a little town by Other, people, of course, she held on screaming. She tried the sea. I saw the lighted win- can apply liniments, but it's. to get a grip with her other hand dows, with happy children in their much safer not to play with

fire.....

and cut it too.

SAVED BY ROPE.

to the forlorn

homes.

Nobody spoke little boy.. The club steward, Frederick Then I recalled the tale of the Edge, heard her screams, and Prodigal Son, and I resolved to go rushed to her aid. She was almost home. I lost my way, and decided unconscious when he lay across the to walk along the railway line. thin glans and seized her hand. In my misery I forgot the trains.

He could not hold on long, for Suddenly I heard above the

Which is why we're not going to the St. Andrew's Society do at the Hongkong Hotel to-night. They mightn't be playing with fire, but, knowing the Scots

his art muscles became paralysed howling wind a thundering roar as we do, we have a suspicion and he thought he would drop lier. behind me, and threw myself down that they'll be playing with fire-

But he remembered that there on the bank as the train went by. water.

It had passed-under a bridge.

was a rope in the bedroom of a

member of the club. It was kept Thin saved me,

Was

for the hollow. Besides, we haven't receivod an:

name

may have had something to de with this, although it is in our favour that the first man to dis- cover a monster was a Kolly,

an a precaution in case of fire. echoing noise gave me a second's invitation. Possibly our

He sent for the rope. A loop) warning.

They had all been searching made and put over heri shoulders. She was dragged up in for me. It was late when I knock-

ed at the door. the nick of time.

I heard a patter of footsteps, and the door opened, and my mother, wild-eyed, clasped, me in her arms, gave me. And I went to the ple-

They believed

me. They for

nic.

girl's

The odds against the escape from death were incalcul able. She had only a fraction of a Becond to grip the edges as she fell, She hung over death for more than five minutes.

HOUR OF FATE.

I have escaped death by a hair's breadth several times since The story is packed with mar- that experience. I believe every- ela, and all the marvels fitted in- body escapes death over and over each other. Were all the again, because his hour is not yet marycls pure chance coincidences? come. Or were they all parts of a fore- ordained and predestined design?

to

FRAGILE THREADS..

It is a profound enigma. It is

Three times I was nearly drown. the mystery of death in nuted. Once I was saved by an in- shell.

I believe that the second of the hour of the day of the year of every human being's death is fixed unalterably. It is written in the order of the universe. *

credible chance. It seemed chance, but it was not. Improbable threads. Each thread My life hung on a series of was fragile, but they all joined to save me.

Death passed me by, and I knew We all die at our appointed it. We all know when death passes us by. The miracle flashes. time, not before and not after.

That is all. Nobody else knows The doctrine of death is stated We know. witby Jesus in Matthew x, 20-31:-

British credit is secure, and the version schemes has saved the tax- success of the great war loan con-

payer considerably in interest and made money cheapor for produc tivo enterprise. Unemployment on a vast Renie continues, but the means for supporting the unfor- tunate is being improved and the Insurance Fund is on a solvent basis. In one direction a real advance has been made. The omens for a successful aettlement of the constitutional question in In dia are more favourable than at any time in the last ten year.

"Are not two sparrows sold for

A friend of mine told me this story of death's relenting. He is

a farthing? and one of them shall a doctor. In Palestine during the sind fall on the ground without your war he cured a sick child. Father.

་

"But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

"Fear ye not therefore; ye are of more value than many sparTO105.".

An Arab mystic, out of grati- tude, told him that soon leath would come close to him and spare his life.

A few days later a bullet grazed

It is gay good thing to know his temple without breaking the that there is at least one certainty akin. Death passed him by.. in this life of ours on earth about did he peer past the frame of How did, the seer know? How which it is not necessary to fret time? These mysteries baffle us. or worry the good ending of it. In the East they are

It might not be a good ending if we could foresee It and shape it places. and choose it.

GLIMPSE-BEYOND.

common-

:

This was in the days before bagpipes were invented, when people had to rely

on their/ radics for distorted, squeally' music.

The bagpipes were invantod n few years later by a Scotsman who was called the Pied Piper, because he was pied when he in- vented them. Otherwise he couldn't have.

As it was, Bruce won at Ban- nockburn, The English · soldiers stood it as long as they could, but the pipes grow louder and louder, until the ranks broke,

Men who had, unflinchingly Maori war, and even those who faced the native tom-tome in the had listened to ZBW all their life, ran screaming from the battle- field.

Many of them, unable to cecape, stakes in pits dug by Bruce's throw themselves од to sharp

kilted warriors. In fact, thou-" sands were kilt in this way, but even the screams of the wounded could not drown the sound of the pipes.

We remember reading once that. in an American pork slaughter" house everything but the squeal. of the pig was used up.

That's because Scotsmen

are

Scotland, of course, makes use of this: patriotic. They have adopted the bagpipes

national in- strument.

As their

-As-a-matter-of-fact,-we-believe- Denth is the one fino thing which.

that the soldier who, smashed a wo are sure that the Father keeps Irish, Welsh and Scottish races other day in order to secure his What is second sight? The shop window in Kowloon the in His own care and love and com-

Lancashire's impatience over New Mayfair Dance Orchestra the delay in opening negotiations aiming at a settlement of the Carlos Molina & His Orchestra problem of Japanese competition Carlos Molina & His Orchestra has been illustrated in striking Eddie Cantor manner by the demonstrations .Eddie Cantor of protest just held in Man-

chester. In view of the serious ness of the situation, that im- patience is quite understandable. It is very much open to question, however, whether the tactics employed and the demands made are likely to further the end in view. The disparity in prices, ns between British and Japancae products, is admittedly such that it enn scarcely be overcome by tariff impositions, but when it is argued that nothing short of pro- hibition of Japanese imports will meet the case, we boğin to wonder whether the advocates of such action realise the full im- plications of a step of this character. Indeed, nothing is

passion, without laying on us the take it for granted. The veil lifts discharge from the army was a more calculated to render nego-

burden and responsibility. It is and falls. There is a glimpse be- Scotsman. tiations difficult than the adop-NO CLEAR-CUT ISSUE

His affair, not ours,

yond time. Things to come are visible.

Quito likely he wanted to see tion of such an attitude before

Hallucination? conversations actually

Chance coin- the Glasgow. begin.

cidence? Illusion? Words, words, Personally, we have a sneaking There are obviously other ways

words! Behind the dream of life regard for the Scottish race. there of dealing with the problem than

another dream. The When you're short of cash, 'you dream limno and dislimns, Is it can always bite them.. Not that by drnatic action of this kind.

But It is a joyous mercy to know a dream?

they ever come to light, but, after It will be time enough to talk

power, our will to live, our delight Lord Riddell's "Diary" In 1919, friends? that after wo have used our will) There is a curious dialogue in all, what's five bucks between of prohibition and denunciation and everyone is increasingly de-in life, to the uttermost, the fare at Mr. Lloyd George's house nt of trade agreements when all pendent on experts. The problems well to earth and those we love is Cobham, they spoke of Sir Thomas other means of settling the dis-of currency, credit, exchange, not ours to settle.

(Continued on Payo 6.) pute have been exhausted. True, tariffs, dollar-sterling duels and the Japanese delegation has now banking arrangements are recog- been in London for some con- by the man in the street or by the nised as too intricate for solution siderable time and is still apparty politician haranguing him. parently without instructions, The

the people but it is possible that it has been puzzled, anxious, and earnestly awaiting the results of the endeavouring to understand Indian conversations, which, well as they can a situation which happily, have resulted in an they frankly, admit to be beyond agreement being reached. Mr. their ready comprehension. A Hirota, the Foreign Minister, in part of the penalty that has to be his speech on foreign policy &

paid for this suspension of judg ment on supremo issues is a de- couple of days ago, asserted that cline of interest in the routine of his Government is seeking to re- volitical life. adjust the trade conflict with Britain, and to-day news comes to hand that definite instruc- tions are despatched to the Here then is reason for close delegation in London, In any concentration on the solution of event, the British Government, the two outstanding. Issues of the whilst not disposed actively day, the economic problem, regard- to intervene at the moment. ing which the Premier made vague promises, and disarmament. Only

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MEN'S WEAR STYLISTS.

The mystery of Free Will is hidden from us in the mists of time and space.

IN REBELLION.

Is

"All right, what d'ya bet he wouldn't jump right out of that

window if I asked him to ??

Whirter. Fine old stick, Mac-

Then there's Robert Mac

Whirter is (Memo: Must try and got an advance of $20 from him ihia evening.)

These Scotch people are not as tight as some people try to make out. Sometimes a trifle hard of hearing yes; But mean-no!

Think! Where would our Navy be if it weren't for the Scotch people? What race is it that goes to the Fleet? (The Derby?) No! (The Boat Raco!) No. (The Schucider Cup?) No! No! NO! The Scotch, you nas

When you think of the great. men of to-day, doesn't your mind instantly turn to a Scotch name, The Scotch name that is on every- body's lips The name that will go down in British history na k

(I know, Johnny Walker!) Nol (Well," Dewar!) FOOLT (Hotpl) We were referring to Ramsay MacDonald.

And, in conclusion, if it wasn't. for the fact that we don't want to risk hurting the feelings of Scots- men on one of their national'days, we'd tell you about the local Scote- man who, when he was told

Safety First" campaign had start ed In Hongkong, wont and drow all his savings out of the Hongkong and Shanghat Bank.......

Д

Anyway, the Scots are sure to be In fine spirits to-night. Or, at least, we guess fine spirits will be in the Scots.

And maybe we'll be able to touch MacWhirter for that $20 to~ morrow morning. But perhaps we'd better get in before to-night's shivoo.

Yos, haggis 80!