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FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1934,

tinued,"

some

NOTES OF THE DAY

"

WHILE THE CAT'S AWAY-

ณ

THE WHISTLING BOY

don't

of

None of the world's great men, he insisted--not Einstein or Edison or Mussolini-over whistled.

The Very Idea!

THE HAIRY BREED

AP

lly George

PROPOS of nothing and mass production we are reminded of moustaches

By ROBERT LYND As an American would probably

errand-boys, wide notoriety by declaring that put it. Professor Wirt "started whistle nowadays?" nike "whistling in an unmistakable sign something" when he accused the Miss Marle Tompeat. I agree with of a moron." Roosevelt Brains Trust of Com Miss Tempest that there has been munistic leanings. He may have

diminution considerable bren laughed at or recommended whistling in recent years. ls only the inferior, maladjusted and the growing need for to have his cranium subjected to

This, I think is partly a result Individual," he added, "who seeks medlent exploration, but some of of the decline of the old-emotional relief In auch in birds suppressing a habit which, useful as it is to hide a the mud thrown at the motives fashioned music-hall song. At the like act as whistling." behind the New. Deal has stuck end of, Inst century and at the It was pointed out to him that portion of the face, is apt and the President's opponents are beginning of this, the music-halls both Einstein and Mussolini were: losing no opportunity of adding a teemed with auch songs as "Daisy first-rate whistlers; but so intense to lead to mis-understand- Bell," "Two Little Girls in Blue," was the professor's loathing of little more. The attack has been and "Good-bye, Dolly Gray"-songs whistling that he merely amonded ings in identification. Fortu- quick in development, the absence with tunca that were memorable his original pronouncement to nately the need grows with of the President on the Nourmahal after a single hearing and no sim something like: Whistling is an the moustaches so it will pla in structure that oven a boy unmistakable sign of a moron, ex- being extremely convenient, so

who was stone deaf could whistle cept in Einstein and Mussolini and not be apparent for some much so that, it would almost seem

them, no that you could tell what other men of genius who are in considerable time but possible that the time was careful-

he was trying to whistle.

the habit of whistling."-

word in season will not come ly chosen.

Principal boys and principal Whistling undoubtedly is a cause girls carried these simple melodies of annoyance to many people be amiss. from London to the provinces, till sides the professor. A boy was

We every city street hummed with aned 2s. 6d. a fow years ago in them, to the great distress of Bristol for whistling untunefully, barrassed by n female who on the ferry only with fastidious musical "Plereing shrills are not good for accosted us people

the nerves," declared the magist- yesterday. tastes.

To-day the music-hall song has rate, "and constitute a nuisance."

One tries to carry one's been largely displaced by the I remember myself as a small dance-band song, and in England boy causing annoyance to an elder-growth with a certain amount this is usually a foxtrot, lacking in ly clergyman by whistling. We of distinction and style and it is the oleaginous simplicity of the were walking along the main street a little crushing to be mistaken However late Victorian popular song.

of a quiet country town, he think for Ronald Colman, Some even of the best of the ing his thoughts and I thinking beggars can't be choosera 80 songs nowadays are mine, and neither of us feeling any we made the best of this gambit. music-hall

The present shaggy outcrop- more difficult for a boy with no need for conversation.

There was a heavenly peaco ninge on the north lips on many car to pick up immediately than songs of the "Dalay Bell" variety, about the sleepy shopfronts and young men in the Colony calls Miss Gracie Field's "Balloons," the sleepy horses that stood be- for prompt legislation.

the sliafta of various for example, calls for a whistler tween

ROOSEVELT OPPONENTS.

It would be folly to regard the sharp criticism of "government by amateurs" in the United States as indicative of a general reaction The Roosevelt policies have always had powerful opponents, if com- paratively small numerically. Wall move the Street hates every President makes. Big Business fears him. Both have tried to cheat him of the potential success of his different Recovery measures. But they have chosen to give lip service, lying low in the hope of his eventual crash, ready to assist in his destruction should' the signs

30 A DANGEROUS GAME

come

of more than average attainment vehicles beside the kerbs. The aun shone benignly on a perfect to do it justice,

-

а

ourselves wero em.

In Germany they would sup press the young and tender down In its first blush. but here mass-production In the shape of missproduction. Is allowed to be cultivated in per- fect freedom.

The

At A

proud

Sill others which have come

realises maddeningly the cost of a few words over the they regarded it as something not Dutcher standing in the at use the whitewashed sepulchre;

There may be other reasons for world in which the loudest noise be favourable. The Wirt charges the decay of whistling, however, was the purr of a sparrow's wing. Instinctively I shaped my lipa For one thing, the modern 'errand- were bad progaganda for the Pre-boy very often goes about on a for a noble rendering of "The sident. If the opposition can work bicycle, and even the most musical Man that Broke the Bank at Monto

Ona sees the moustache first in on the fears and suspicions of the of errand-boys must find it dif- Carlo."

Cause ncult to whistle in the old care-free I had scarcely got to the middle embryo as a patch of dirt. rapidly ONE DAY'S NEWS

conservatively-minded, breach in the national allegiance manner and to dodge motor-care of the chorus when, glancing up at taking permanent form; then it

at the same time. Besides, what There is about news a meteor-inspired by his untiring capacity is the good of whistling when all my friend, I noticed on his face a grows in separate lumps and has the music he can make will be tortured expression like the expres to be fod and watered. It is a

aion on the face of a trombone long while before the rological inconsistency. Storms of dealing with big problems in a

and fow, Big Way, much damage will be drowned by the noise of the motor-player in a German band who sees owner will venture to weed his threaten-and often nothing done and Mr. Roosevelt will find cars?

a child sucking a lemon a few unnatural offspring After all, the natural boy yards away just as he has got to fortunately, ever reach the stage happens. Yesterday, the financial himself hampered at every turn.

whistles chiefly in order to make his favourite bit of the "Lorelel." where they will stand pruning.

sickly adhesion which anxieties of a number of coun-

a notse. He does his best whist- "I say," he said, with a heroic tries coincided in the bulletins, ?

ling in a silent street where he attempt to remain gentle," passes as a moustache will often feols he is creating something of that the impression given

a disturbance, just as it is in the Bay, don't you know that it isn't respond to outside treatment and good manners to whistle in the Rome have been known to wither that

word. Others have dis- he silent streets It is the that

process of instilling most of these

street?"

appeared during the night in a doubts in the public mind concern-achieves his best performances in

I could not see why, but, a little manner worthy of "The Rape of nations were sinking fast

ing the President and his advisers rattling a stick across railings.

nehamed, I subsided into silence the Lock," and those that do into bankruptcy and

His whistling is an announce and marched on by his side down survive as perennials are usually the that is now, being witnessed in

A ment to the world at large that

leas for decorativo purposes than economic world into chaos. To- the United States. But it is

he ls there and that he doesn't still quieter street.

Here, amid the stillness and the for such domestic uses as strain- mind who knows it. It Is the morrow, some new "sensation" dangerous game. Who dares say

that the multitude is wrong? And musical expression of his sgo. He sunshine, there was not even aing, camouflage, and police work. will arise; the allegedly impend- the President has undoutedly cap- could force his personality on an sparrow's wing stirring. Such a ing financial catastrophe will be tured the imagination of the mul- entire suburban street in this Paradise of silence it seemed to out topside in the struggle for relegated to the background. titude. None of Europe's Dieta fashion forty years ago. To-day, me that, after a few seconds, in existence have branched out in In a few days more, the enquir. tors commands a tithe of the per-so constant is the interruption sheer joy of heart, I involuntarily side issues such as beards and from motor-horns and gear-chang/burst into full whistle with "Two sideboards. The latter serves the same purpose D's blinkers on a sonal influence which Mr. Roose-ing that nobody would notice his Lovely Black Eyes."

"I say," said the clergyman in horse and at a pinch của ba 380d ing student of international veit exerts by his magnetic per-puny-pipinga. affairs will wonder-will resent.sonality. Those who have

I have heard it suggested that an alarmed voice, don't you see as a nutmeg grater, whilst the chin has maca uses thon like the magazine reader who under it do not question that he is pro-Georgian boys loved to whistle that you're making everybody look lariat-like affair depending frem

capable of undoing most of the because, having been taught that at us?" (As a matter of fact, no- the

door of When brushed and blancood it comes suddenly upon "To be con- damage caused-by-the-Wirts, at It was a sin to whistle on Sunday, body was looking at us except a hairs.

his shop, who was looking quite right, and whistled out of because there was nothing else in when frayed and tattered Ilko a are sheer perversity. I cannot believe, that it is a last year's number, radio. Attacks, therefore,

dangerous. The more the Presi- however, that human beings are so the street to look at.) "I'll make battle-scarred standard it is what bargain with you," continued my the devil found for idle hands to and that he will never discover dent is forced to rely upon the perverse as all that. If they friend; "if you don't whistle any do; when spread carefully out in what happened in the Inst chap-support of the minsaes, the greater were, girls, who used to be for more till we get home, I'll give you front of the neck like a curtain it

a shilling.'

Is a concealment for poverty, and ter. There will be a tendency to will be the tendency towards ad-bidden to whistle even on week-

When I remember this, I cannot when pointing upwards to the idens of Bocin reform.days, would have whistled all day

long. blame journalism; the fault, Events may drive him farther to

help wondering whether the world ceiling it is an indication that the The theory, I imagine, origin has not always been full of anti- owner is standing on his head. however, must be laid at the door the Left than he originally Intend-ated in the brain of an anti-whistlers and whether they have whistler, and the world is full of not triumphed at last in the twon- of circumstances. Too many ed to go...

anti-whistlers-grim killera of tleth century, countries, too many Budgets, too

other people's joys that interfere

Scarcely anybody. Indeed, ex- with their own.

cept the whistler, really enjoys many crises-they converge and

A few years ago one of these hearing him whistle. coalesce to make storm clouds;

anti-whistlers, a New York pro- Is it any wonder that whistling The fact is that "government by fessor of philosophy, earned world-in the streets is a dying art?" they separate and fade to mean

amateurs" has ceased to have any nothing; and the dismissal of fears for the majority of people. them calls for much more time. The professionals have been mak trouble and expensive cable tollsing a mess of things long enough

for most. In a sensible com-. than does the original alarming. munity, programmes are judged by message. Every now and then, results and hot by motives. And incidents will arise which carry if he has done nothing else, Presi dent Roosevelt has achieved results, their own story with a finality The get-rich-quick mentality has that cannot be escaped. No been largely scotched in the United room for ambiguity or specula-Stater. The people have recover- ed their self-respect and lef in tion here--the occurrence has themselves. A

new respect for happened, the crisis arrived. social obligations is evident. High finance han received jolt after But those alarms which come to jelt. Whatever may be the re- nothing do, none the less, arouse very real anxieties. They are due, in part, to a widely pre valent feeling of nervousness engendered by the unusual con- ditions of the time. To that ex- GERMANY ON THE SEA tout, they are understandable.

vanced

MOTIVES OR RESULTS?

halt of his somewhat startling ex- poriments with the dollar and in the commercial field generally, he has given the country some very tangible assets. It will be a long time before they are overlocked.

*

Germany's demand for the lift- ing of the naval restrictions in the Treaty of Versailles has long been official -do- foreshadowed. No

If, at the same time, they re- flect a disposition to be ready for the worst, whilst hoping for the

marche on the subject appears to best, they may have their values have been made, but the comments Undue complacency bas ita of the Berlin newspapers reveal Jobvious dangers. The lesson to that the Wilhelmstrasse has been be learned in that of preserving studying the question and a move may come at any time. Britain

con-

a sense of balance. Above all, and France will be chiefly it is necessary to read with a corned and their respective atti nice discernment, to cultivate the tudes will probably be the same as in regard to land armaments. Bri- habit of taking long views and tain cannot at the same time to to refuse to be stampeded in-prepared to concedo military in- creases and logically resist some to alarm by any one day's news. degree of naval revival.

"That's straight goods, Mr. Boggs. We girls at the office think you're the catest sales manager to over had."

*

It will thus be seen that as a guide to character the moustache and ita accompanying ap pendages are too betraying to be lightly adopted and the pressing nced for economy renders the upkeep of the parasitic growth a matter for grave calculation.

Then there is the sexual life of the moustache to consider, and here we come to le raison d'etre. Here, you pseudo-Colmans we would ask to stay your growth a wille and reflect before you develop plain magada of creoper.

What does a girl really get from brushing her tender lips against your brush? She can get more of whatever it is from a scrubber and with less risk. Or she could kiss the top of your head where there is probably much lean vegetation.

Anyway, remember you don't have to be hirsute to suit hor and to prove it we append.this bedtime verse.

"Tut, tut."

There was a young man named

Canuto Who liked himself a la hirsute,

But each time he kissed her He gave her a blister, That cute caballero Canute! And he thought. In his pride,

the Galoot,

His growth was. Canutie's long

suit.

From her tooth, the big Camel Brushed all the enamel, And now there's a rift in the

Jute,

..

To the tale of this primitive

brutej

A moral. we must contribute.

To sweep girls off their feat A face broom is not nont~~. Ask that mute Caballero Canutol

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