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THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1034.

LANCASHIRE AND

JAPAN

NOTES OF THE DAY HAND OF FATE The Very Idea!

THE PREMIER AT LEEDS

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

By JAMES DOUGLAS support of the Government, signi-Moventeon.

TARY Westripp lá a pretty girlf

When I was a child of nine I

ran away from home in rebellion She lives in Clapham and works against being unjustly accused of offence. My punish as a chambermaid at the Clargement, was to be kept away from Club, Clarges-street, Mayfair. a family picnic.

a childish

AS ITUERS SEE US.

By Eddie Kelly, Monster Expert..

DOUBTLESS you are aware that this is the day when Scotsmen all over the world celebrate Burns.

ficantly marked the very real need for electioneering If confidence is to be enjoyed. The campaign did not axactly open with a flourish. of trumpets: 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 accusation that, allowed to judge the. Government's work on its merits--while the Op- position has been actively picking, The glass gashed her hand, but miles till I came to a little town by holos-the public mind has tended' to concentrate its attention on what she held on screaming. She tried the sea. I saw the lighted win

to got a grip with her other handdows, with happy children in their the Government. had failed to do rather than upon its achievements.and cut it too.

She was cleaning the glass dome In blled anger I resolved to, go When a Scotsman starts or. skylight over a wall staircase away-whore, I do not know. On six storeys high. Seventy feet my way home from Sunday school celebrating Burns he doesn't below the dome is a stone floor. Ified. I vaguely hoped that some have to call out the fire She slipped and crashed through kind person would pity my all-brigade. As far as Scots- the glass. As she fell she flung tude.

men are concerned there's out one hand and grasped the jagged broken edge of the lead

no cure for Burns, frame,

EMOTION CONE

SAVED BY A SECOND.

It was winter. I walked seven

homes,

Nobody spoke to the forlorn little boy.

Then I recalled the tale of the

SAVED BY RÓPE. The club steward, Frederick Edge, heard her screams, and Prodigal Son, and I resolved to go It is this attitude that the cam-rushed to her aid. She was almost home. I loat my way, and decided unconscious when he lay across the to walk along the raliway line. thin glass and seized her hand. In my misery 1 forgot the trains.

carried Mr. Ramsay MacDonald an

receded

He could not hold on long, for his arm muscles became paralysed and he thought he would drop her.

But he remembered

tho

Other people, of course, can apply liniments, but it's much safer not to play with fire.

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 Scota as we do, we have a suspicion that they'll be playing with fire- water.

paign socks. to minimise, but the prospects are not bright. The

Suddenly I heard above mass of the people in Britain Have censed to regard the "National

howling wind a thundering roar Government" with emotion. The wave of patriotic feeling which

behind me, and threw myself down that there on the bank as the train went by, a bridge. It had passed under its crest to power has completely was a rope in the bedroom of This saved me,, for the hollow.

member of the club. It was kept echoing noise gave me a second's invitation. Possibly our naa precaution in case of fire.

may have had something to do He sent for the rope. A loop

all been searching with this, although it is in our was

made and put over her They had shouldors. She was dragged up in for mo.. It was late when I krack-favour that the first man to dis- the nick of time.

'.""ed at the door.

cover a monaster was a Kelly. The odds against the girl's

MARKING TIME.

a

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

HOUR OF FATE.

warning.

I heard a patter of footsteps,

עות

Besides, we haven't received an name

This was in the days before bagpipes were invented, when people had to rely on their radios for distorted, squeally

and the door opened, and mother, wild-eyed, clasped me in her arms.

They believed me. They for-

music. And I went to the pic- gave me. nic.

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

FRAGILE THREADS.

The bagpipes were invented a who was called the Plod Piper, few years later by a Scotsman because he was pled when he in vented them. Otherwise he couldn't have.

Men

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 plana outlined for the slower, steady handling of 'n situn- tion fraught all the time with dif- ficulties. So tense an atmosphere could not indefinitely remain. For the present there is a sense of marking time until a new phase of activity may galvanise the country into renewed attentiveness. The National Government has not failed

As it was, Bruce won at 'Ban- In the first tasks which it was

nockburn. The English soldiers appointed to perform. The balance of trade has been partly redressed.

Three times I was nearly drown-stood it as long as they could, but Lancashire's impatience over The currency-though forced off the mystery of death in a nut-ed. Once I was saved by an in- the pipes grew louder and louder,

credible chance. It acemed until the ranks broke. the delay in opening negotiations gold has been established. Bud-shell."

gets have been balanced, though at

who had unflinchingly, New Mayfair Dance Orchestra

aiming at a settlement of the

I believe that the second of chance, but it was not, the price of an exhausting load of

My life hung on, a series of faced the native tom-toms in the Carlos Molina & His Orchestra problem of Japanese competition taxation which the country accepts the hour of the day of the year improbable threads. Each thread Maori war, and even those who Carlos Molina & His Orchestra has been illustrated in striking but not without same protest; and of every human being's death is was fragile, but they all Joined to had listened to ZBW all their life..

It looks forward to the next bud-

fixed unalterably. It is written save me.

ran screaming from the battle Eddie Cantor manner by the demonstrations get with expectation of some relief.

in the order of the universe. Death passed me by, and I know | feld, Eddie Cantor of protest just hold in Man-Trade conditions have shown a

We all die at our appointed it. We all know when death Many of them, unable to escape,

passes us by. The miracle flashes. chester. In view of the serious- slow, but perceptible improvement

outlook is at

time, not before and not after..That is all. Nobody else knows ness of the situation, that im-bright as in any other country; patience is quite understandable. even in those where more drastic

has been wit nessed. It is very much open to question, experimentation however, whether the tactica employed and the demands made are likely to further the end in view. The disparity in prices, as between British and Japanese products, is admittedly such that it can scarcely be overcome by tariff impositions, but when it is

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real meet the case, we begin to basis. In one direction a wonder whether the advocates of advance has been made. The such action realise the full immens for a successful settlement of

the constitutional question in In plications of, a step of this din are more favourable than at character. Indeed, nothing is any time in the last ten years. more calculated to render nego- tiations difficult than the adop~'| tion of such an attitude before

NO CLEAR-CUT ISSUE

The doctrine of death is stated by Jesus in Matthew x., 29-31:—

"Are not twn sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.

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

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

It is a gay good thing to know that there is at least one certainty in this life of ours on earth about which it is not necessary to fret or worry the good'ending of it.

It might not be a good ending; If we could foresee it and shape It and choose-it-

Death is the one fine thing which we are sure that the Father keeps

We know.

A friend of mine told me this story of death's relenting. He is doctor. In Palestine during the war ho cured a sick child.

to sharp Bruce's

threw themselves on stakes in pits dug by 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

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

We remember reading once that. #1

American pork slaughter house everything but the squeal A few days later a bullet grazed | of the pig was used up. his temple without breaking the skin. Death passed him by.

Scotland, of course, makes use. of thin.

How did the seer know? How did he peer past, the frame of That's because Scotsmen arc time? These mysteries baffle us. patriotic. They have adopted the In the East they are common- bagnipes ns their national. in-

strument. places,

GLIMPSE BEYOND.- What is second sight? The in His own care and love and com- Irish, Welsh and Scottish races passion, without laying on us the take it for granted. The veil lifta burden and responsibility. It is and falls. There is a glimpse be- yond time. Things to come aro Is affair, not ours.

visible. hidden from us in the mists of

The mystery of Free Will is

IN REBELLION..

There is no really clear-cut issue turning on party differences. One time and space. reason for this is that there are fow people in England who pre- tend to see a simple, way out of the dimeulties in which Britain and the whole world are involved, and everyone is increasingly de pendent on experts. The problems

conversations actually begin. There are obviously other ways of dealing with the problem than by drastic action of this kind. I will be time enough to talk of prohibition and denunciation of trade agreements when all

currency, credit, exchange, other means of settling the dis-of

tariffs, dollar-sterling duels and pute have been exhausted. True, banking arrangements are recog- the Japanese delegation has now nised as too intricate for solution been in London for some con- by the man in the street or by the siderable time and is still apparty politician haranguing him.. parently without' instructions. but it is possible that it has been awaiting the results of the Indian conversations, which, happily, have resulted

as

mass of the people aro The puzzled, anxious, and earnestly endeavouring to understand well as they can a situation which they frankly admit to be beyond

in an their rendy comprehension. A

paid for this suspension of judg- ment on supreme issues is a de- eline of interest in the routine of political life.

agreement being reached. Mr. part of the penalty that has to be Hirota, the Foreign Minister, in his speech on foreign policy a couple of days ago, asserted that his Government is seeking to re- adjust the trade conflict with Britain, and to-day news comes | ACTION WANTED 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 the two outstanding issues of the event, the British Government, whilst not disposed actively day, the economic problem, regard- Ing which the Premier made vaguo to intervene at the moment,

is obviously keen on hastening promises, and disarmament. Only by stimulating interest in carrant the opening of negotiations. affairs (and revealing a definitely The obvious solution of unhealtating programme) will the the problem is along the National Government hold its sup

country. East lines of quantitative restriction porters in the

of Japanese exports, and it is Fulham showed that keennoss now up 'to the industrialists of could still be. Inspired; but the the two countries to evolve a spirit was roused in a manner which caused a shock in Minia- satisfactory scheme. Nothing is lariat eircles. East Fulham, to be gained at "this_stage_byfought on disarmament, roundly oxtremist agitatión. Facts have condemned by the Simon policy of to be recognised and an effort vacillation, of waiting for gener made to secure a mutually agree-ous gestures from abroad to fall able adjustment of viewpoint. into his lap. Sufficient heed has It is idle to talk of shutting been taken of, the warning for a Japan out of world markets. fresh canvass of the country to he organised. But In the end, the The economics of the situation people will insist, with Man- have to be faced and a workable cheater, upon action on issues of arrangement reached..

Inational Importance.

Hallucination? Chance coln- cidence? Illusion? Words, words, words! Behind the dream of life there is another dream. The dream, Ilmns and dialimns. Is it a drean?

But it is a joyous mercy to know that after we have used our will There is a curious dialogue in power, our will to live, our delight Lord Riddell's "Diary." In 1919, in life, to the uttermost, the fare at Mr. Lloyd George's house well to earth and those we love is Cobham, they spoke of Sir Thomas not ours to settle.

(Continued on Page 5.)

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

window if I asked him to?".

As a matter of fact, we believe that the soldier who smashed a shop window, in Kowloon the other day in order to secure his discharge from the army was a Scotsman.

Quite likely he wanted to see the Glasgow.

Personally, we have a sneaking regard for the Scottish race. When you're short of cash, you can always bite them. Not that they ever come to light, but, after bucks between all, what's five friends?

at Then there's Robert -Mac- Whirter. Fine old atick, Mac- Whirier is (Memo: Must try and get an advance of $20 from him this evening.)

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

Think! Where would our 'Navy be if it weren't for the Scotch people? What race is it that goes to the Ficet? (The Derby?) No! (The Boat Racet) No. (The Schneider Cup?) No! No! NOT The Scotch, you ass.

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 lipat The name that will go down in British history as

(I know, Johnny Walker!) Not (Well, Dqwär!) FOOL! (Haip?) 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 Scots- man who, when he was told a "Safety First" campaign had start ed in Hongkong, went and drew all his savings out of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank,

Anyway, the Scots are sure to be in fine spirita to-night. Or, at least, We guess fine spirits will be in tho Scots

And maybe we'll be able to touch" MaoWhirter for that $20 to morrow morning. But perhaps we'd better get in before to-night shivao,

??

Yes, haggis sol