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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1934.

AN ANTI-NOISE CAMPAIGN?

Į NATIONALISM, RAMPANT

The excessive nationalism from which much of the world la suffer-

Ing. to-day not only tends to

BETTER TIMES

By ROBERT LYND

►

The Very Idea!

AN OUTLINE OF HISTORY. By Bddle Kelly, Ilia Story.

called the

PERHAPS if you read, your history books, or go

atarva-member that there was once to the pictures, you will re- a king of England who was Sir Ben Turner recently wrote called Henry the Eighth.

Henry was an account of the changes he had To forget that the bad new days Been during his life-time, and are an enormous improvement on made it clear that the world had Eighth because he had seven

is at least gone forward. The child, elder brothers and sisters.

It was Henry's mother the bad old days, however,

dangerous for other for one, has a better time. No equally

longer is it a slave to long hours who originated the phras people.

of labour. Education opens a new "A stitch in time save

play, world to it. It has more

nine", as she sewed up he more sweets, and, occasionally, the

husband's pyjamas. cinema.

0 compare the present time, out of all recognition. The very the bad old days is "dole," hateful as it ie as an alter- catrango nations one from another; It may also have seriously harmful dangerous for people with con-native to good wages earned by effects upon their domestic life.servative minds. It may soothe labour, is a step in advance of old- From time immemorial it has been them into the belief that the bad fashioned pauperiam or

new days are not so bad after all, tion." a favourite device of rulers to.

weaken the impulse to frustrate enemica at home by and so uniting the people against some immediate political action. poril without. The peril may pre- sent itself in the form of nu aggres- alve foreign power, or an economic crash, or an insidious revolutionary Idea. It may be a real danger, or it may be invented, Thus a real national danger was threatened by the economic crisis in Britain in 1931 and in the United States in 1933. In the one case a ministry

It may lead them to believe that a gigantic democracy has been

that failure and turn their minds to all

of poisonous "isms"

kinda

And, recalling our h The right to more leisure, too, tory again, we find thi has been claimed by more and Henry the VIII had more men and women. Holidays wives, III of whom we

those divorced.

bocomo

general. Cheap

called 4 "National Government" would destroy the liberty of was formed; in the other, the Pre-English men and women,

with extra- sident was invested

When I read during the week have ordinary powera. For a variety of

other nations-Russin, l'în "A Quaker Journal" how about transport has given even reasons

and the

A hundred years ago a boy-assist of small means a new freedom of Italy, Germany, Austria Irish Free State conscious of ant in a London chemist's shop had movement., Sport and the cinema to work from 9 a.m. till 9 p.m., and draw still greater crowds of the national crisis, have allowed their

often from 7 a.m. till 11 p.m., 1 poor and the comparatively poor rulers to assume overriding powers.

could not help wondering how than of the rich. much real advance has been made!

METHOD OF FORCE

THE PRICE

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of

According to the picture v saw yesterday at the King's when we speak of the King's mean the theatre, not t cighth: we had that later- Old and young alike, people are was really fate that made Henr

have six wives. since those times in giving men,' better dressed. women and children a chance to to be approaching when all classes live full and happy lives.

·

The time seems

Personally, we think he w the gamest King England ove had.

But there might be somethi in this fate hoocy.

-if classes continue to exist will be dressed much alike. I have It may seem no wonderful thing seen in my own lifetime the once to have abolished the boy-chimney- common sight of a barefooted child

For instance, if Elizabeth's sweep and the imprisoned child- disappearing from the streets of

ndenoids had been removed she labourer in the coal-mines; but at one city.

There has been an increasing would never had lost her doings least the change meant the begin-,

which is ning of the recognition of the fact wave of consideration for the in- in the wash. that no human being must be re-dividual human being,

mero Instrument of shown even in the improvement in in the garded as money-making to be used till worn-prison conditions, and out and then cast on the rubbish- abolition of the detestable stocks,

the pillory, and the treadmill. heap.

B

The nineteenth century was in! ono sense a century of wasted op- portunities.

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It seems likely to me, indeed, that even in these bad times the ordinary Englishman would regard a plunge back into the conditions of fifty or a hundred years ago a plunge into something like Hell It would be fatal to dwell on

It was Alfred's pyorrhea that eqused him to burn the buna.

It was Charles'a appendicitis that caused him to lose his head. Remember how Cromwell entered Parliament and said: "A pan is mightier than the sword. Take away that bauble and let appen- decidis fate!"

In some of these cases there was an overwhelming majority of opin- ion in favour of the centralised government-s in Britain and in America-and the administration has been able to go ahead just so far as it felt that it still had willing nation behind it.. In other cases, as in Italy and Germany, there was a formidable opposition, and this was forcibly suppressed; and such acilon was justified on the ground that elicient, deeds would prove the rightness of the rulers, and that the suppressed opinion, having no sufcient grie- vances to nourish it, would ulti- mately ecaso to exist. The vic-

King John's gangsters were not. invention hud

really out to take Thomas a'Beckett and Science Now that the Chinese Newtories by exponents of this theory

a machine for the

for a ride. They only wanted to Year festivities, with their in-have conferred a sort of respec-

created such

remove his tonsils, and make cessant cracker-firing, are out of tability even, inked, a kind

method of production of many of the in- the way, it would be comforting

prestige-upon the

kredients of human happiness as

lead to complacency. It is William the Conquerer suffered to feel that some effort would be

force, so that to-day, in the routine the world had never before known, such facts as these if they were England safe for prosperity. to institute a campaign made against the noise nuisance. In of polities, we find the Fascists of and the machine was used mainly, to

Julius Caesar had a lot of nasal' common with other cities, Hong- the Austrian Heimwehr stamping not for public, but for private important, however, to remember terribly from Ingrowing toonalis,

economists explained that public and as an assurance that progress kong has to put up with a goud out the Austrian Socialists, and ends. It is true that certain them as an antidote to pessimism which made him, peevish. deal of utterly unnecessary noise, Mr. De Valera in Ireland clapping and private ends were essentially towards the goal of a better and

clever enough and that do not involve the destruction his neck. Hence his famous last word to Brutus, "Goitre blazos!". the volume of which could be into prison members of the poli- the same thing; but there were fuller life is possible along lines trouble, and also had lumps 011

of human freedom. humane. enough to question this, easily cut down if really serioustical opposition who dare to call already men

There is no reason why the rate -If Washington hadn't eaten steps were taken. Other centres themselves Blue Shrts. are grappling with the problem,

It is due to this questioning that of this progress should not now green apples when he was a kid,

tho and invention Rave the nineteenth century became, be immensely speeded up. Science Jazz wouldn't have been invented. and there is no reason why the

nine- Which is jazz too bad. matter should not be taken up

enormous in- from another point of view,

teenth century an

We could go on like this for strument for producing wealth locally along educative-lines.

Thus the modern demand-for-century-of-liberation.

the people. Science and hours-and-hours, but the Editor Many people must have wonder-

All the factory legislation since for harmful to the nerves as medical taken us back to the spirit of the the days of Lord Shaftesbury, all invention have given the twentieth has just told us that if we hadn't Which just shows you that it authorities would have us be seventeenth century. The rulers the Education Acts, all the Hous-century a still more efficient and been born, we wouldn't be a pain

uponing Acts, are based on the accept wonderful machine for producing in the neck. leve, the great majority of that century insisted

to able people arc

uniformity of religious observance, ance of the principle that a human wealth for the people, and it is for

mere hired drudge, but has a right citizens have a fair share of the critics, carry on their daily duties, and persecuted all dissentients. being must not be regarded as a the people to see to it that all the isn't only Kings who have their amid such a multiplicity

forts that can be produced in such abundance, of dins, as if nothing much were Their counterparts to-day insist to an increasing share in the de- necessaries of life and the com- amiss. The explanation would on uniform political ideas. Mr. concles and comforts of life. seem to lie in the adaptability of De Valera pleads for

The standard of happiness rose the human organism. There are Ireland; but his only ides of creat- few noises so intense but we can ing unity is to compel people to slowly, but it rose. To-day it is ultimately become virtually un- agree or appear to agree with him. probably higher than it has ever the democratic passion that has led in Hongkong, there is nothing aware of their challenge to the Chancellor Hitler has established been in England, in spite of the to this demand for and achieve better than to listen to a good to hear somebody slang somobody car and the nerves. This, how an order in Germany in which there terrible tragedy of unemployment. mont of a better time for more end-up row. It acts like a tonic with the conditions past, it is to the democratic paucise, and to know that it is meant, not put up

even though they make it up again ever, only applies to continuous is no room for any other party The working-classes to-day would people. In the future, as in the noise. Sudden, intermittent but his own, and Prince Starhem with which their ancestors put up alon alone that we noises are in a different category, berg would have an Austria within the days of Dickens. Even make this demand effective, and Ave minutes later. and it is towards the dimunition out a socialistic thought. Britain, during the life-time of men still to hasten the building of a just and elimination of these that the too, is alive to the necessity of a living, conditions have improved and free civilisation. energies of anti-noise reformers strong centralised government, and can, in the first place, be most the desirability of a united people usefully directed. To a "nervy" behind it. But they do person, a sudden onslaught, likelieve that the establishment even the sounding of a loud, horn, or of the most efficient possible that other motor nuisance known

far government would be worth having as back-firing, may cause

at the price of the suppression of more harm than hours of con- tinuous, even din. The former opinion. The English Conserva- presents a severe strain to the tives do not demand or even wish most adaptable nervous system. that the opinions of Socialista Disregard of the comfort of should be stifled or their political others is habitual to a fairly activities restrained. Even large section of the populace. Communists are allowed to air

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Another

section worse

sing from

sheer nothing

than

Admittedly, thoughtfulness. elimination of the evil is not

13 united

not be-

the

their views so long as they refrain from inciting people to illegal actions.

easy, and in any campaign which | FAIR PLAY

is undertaken, spectacular

re-

deter-

sults are scarcely to be expected. The British attitude is But that is no reason why some mined by the spirit of fair play in attempt should not be made to politics, engendered by the habita cope with what is a growingly of a contury in which the rules of serious problem. A start might the political game have been be made by waging ruthless war respected. This is strengthened on needless motor-car tooting: by a long experience which has indeed, the practice adopted in shown that the best way to deal some cities of absolutely pro- with a grievance is to redress it, hibiting the sounding of horns and this can only be done whon discuss their to opportunity in certain areas might be experi- the aggrieved persons have had full The Engilah wny meated with, in conjunction with wrongs, stricter speed-limit regulations enables the political will of the so as to minimise the risk of nation to grow up behind the traffic mishaps. There are also administration, vivifying it and many other street noises which keeping it organically could be banned. The idea of a Instead of lopping off an Integral well-organised campaign is, at part of the national thought in order to force an unnatural any rate, well worth serious con- growth, it preserves the proper alloration by the authorities. genius of a nation.

sound.

In the past it has been mainly

Horace!-You-come-back here."

can trust to

Dieu Et Mon Droit! (Latin for "Su's your Old Man!")

DOMESTIC DISCORD

If we can't have boxing matches

But it is embarrassing if the contestants are your host and hostess. Supposing he tells her, kindly, that she ought to have re- turned his lend, and she says, a little less kindly, that we can't all be as clever na he is, and he retorts that it's a pity we can't. They will go on from there until they bring up the matter of that egg at breakfast, and the cigarette end which was found in the soap-

dish.

Now in an ordinary quarrel you' can tako sides. You can whisper, I wouldn't let him call me that," and

you might even encourage .at orchi them to throw things other, but a domestic scone is: different.

If you tell the gentleman that he ought not to bully his wife, she herself will probably turn round and ask what you mean by saying things like that to her husband. On the other hand, If you draw him aside and say, "Look here, old man, you know what women dro," ho will remind you haughtily that you are referring to his wife.

Besides, if your own wife is present she will take the other side automatically, and before you know where you are somebody will bo suggesting that if you want to- shout at me, you needn't do it. in: front of other people.

The only thing to do is to pass it. off by saying, "What lovely weather we have been having." If this doesn't work, go out and blow up the gas stove, or smash" window, and create a divorsion.

Your host and hostess won't mind. They'd do na' much for you.. if it were nécessary,