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The effort. In Conservative circles to minimise the Importance of the North Hammersmith bye- election result ta quite Al- convincing: presents a strange argument in several ways. It is contended, for instance, thắt B | FA

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APRIL 26, 1984.

IN YOUR DREAMS YOU

BEHOLD THE FUTURE

By SIR HERBERT BARKER

Who says that we may have to change our established notions of time to explain our sleeping visions of things which have yet to come to pasa.

The Very Idea I

CARPETED CRITICS

By George

They say a man has to die be- fore he can gain any honour for his performances in his country.

own

57HAT happens to the soul hi But human ogotism revolts from Maybe there is some wisdom stoep? Since the dawn of that solution: It insulte as in our in that for it probably saves him time this question has fascinated deep-rooted concelt; it takes the from exercising a good deal of the mind of man and never more heart out of us, wipes out the concell on this earth and gives

of life, with Its made that in the aloeping state ho struggles, defeats and triumphs. se than when the suggestion is significance

him something to make up for attains at times to un abnormal Personally, I feel that the ex- other discomforts in his last vision which gives him knowledge planation lies somewhere in our conception of fime, and that only of future events.

However that may be, it would To suppose that this claim is when we change the common con- appear that local uplifters must be one first made in modern times ception of it we have can we begin remarkably few or else gifted with extraordinary longevity, for the Is an error. For the Egyptiang, to come to grips with our problem.Colony is now about ninety years old the Medes, the Persians, he in attempting to survey thin

surroundings.

Greeks, Itomans, Chinese and problem I stand armed with scant and we have none of whom we can Hindus have all pondered this knowledge and full of bewilderink back with humility and any: "Ah!

ment,

mystery. The literature of antiquity abounds in dream references and dream speculation,

Has this faculty of dreaming into the future a reality for us; that is: Do people still have this strange and awe-inspiring exper- ience?

If old Sonndro were alive! He would have told us what was what. Ho

I consider how I have come to would have put an end to this nonsense

regard time and I see that it in as in river that flows from past to

present and so to future.

And directly I look closely at this idea I see at once how faise it Ix.

mediately!"

the

The fact la Hongkong will not be browbeaten by people within her doors. Pour Stella remained 31 time, received for privilege of membership and now all her revelations aro tales toli out of school.

But we welcome a wit like Pro-

Can I say, for example, that in The weight of evidence that this looking at the night sky, when the

Yes, Stella blabbed and didn't is so is little short of convincing stars are thickly scattered over the

walt to be smacked. In fact she Take for example the dream of vast and awe-inspiring dome, I am

post-dated her opinions fifty years the future experienced by Princess seeing things in the present?

set thin or course, Emma Carolath. She

I cannot. I see, may- to give some of them a chance of dream down and that record was be, the light of a star that ceased coming true. read by people before the confirma- to exist a thousand years before

the final stone was placed uponfessor R. R. Campbell who beguiles tion by Time of its contents.

The princess had fallen asleep the pyramid of Cheops. I see it his stay in our midat by poking anxious about dear one. She now, in my present: but it belongs fun at us and showing us the funny side of our attempts at decoration. presently found herself in an unto the past.

As I stand and ponder the known castle and in an octagonal

When he goes we shall say." cabinet wherein was a bed, a lamp obvious reality if the external

"What a man," or we might say, over it and, at its head, a pleture world about me dissolves into

The Professor knew

his. of Christ and verses of the poet mystery. I say, perhaps, that

stand still and watch that sky. enfons," but shall we nail Queen Schiller.

Well, in relation to what do I stand Victoria on to a frieze or stick ntill?

King Edward into a wall? No! Out upon you wo wav! We are not amused!

but for the excellent showing made by the Government in its handling of the country's finances, Mr. F. R. West would have been sent to the House of Commons by North "ilammersmith with thumping and thought-provoking majority. As it was, the Con- servative poll fell by over 8,000, while the Labour candidate in eransed his by roughly 3,600. Sir Thomas Juskip appears to read the political situation in truer perspective. He doubts the of old-fashioned Con servatism to beat Socialism and -urges the fashioning of a new

Certainly not in relation to the revitalised party, thinking doyht Two years later, while on a visit stars or to the moon, for I am part lesa in terms of the leadership of to friends in Hungary, the prin- af the planet Earth,, and that such men as Mr. Walter Elifat,

cess was amazed to see the eastle planet Barth is in perpetual whose views, expressed in his of her dreams. Later she was motion.. -"Whither Britain" broadcast, more amazed still to find herself

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of the part

TWO YEARS LATER

ance of the abvious.

to

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And goodness in art! what art- lessness! FOOD CONTROL

Did ever one hear of auch Nothing is so dangerous when The position in regard to would undoubtedly and hosts of in the octagonal cabinet, every striving, however inadequately, to paradox? Mac West will tell you adherents, Meanwhile, the Mosley detail of which was she had grapple with the majestic pu- that one had nothing to do with the food control in the Colony was Fascists visualising Th Socialist dreamed it two years, before.

the next. explained at Tuesday's meeting victory

general The fact that this dream was sethlems of life, as the easy accept-other and that every film star a a

martyr for her públic. of the Sanitary Board, as the election, foresee extremist legian-down in writing, and that writing

tion and temporary

WHAT WE CALL "TIME" chaos. In shown to others, invalidates any result of a series of questions on which they themselves

We agree that dress has moved will theory of fraud.

A We talk of common sense--and along with the arts to con- When we find, however, that the subject by Dr. Li Shu-fan.emerge ou for

degree. When this is but one of many such dreams you may say that it is common alderable

they On the point of the issuing of

incontestably authenticated; then sense that we cannot look into the moved up that was art; when they licences, control is exercised by

we shift from the question of the future from the uncharted realm went above the knee, that was high fact to the Interpretation of it. of dreams. But auch more than one Government die-

common art; and when they dropped again If we can, under certain psychic sense dissolves itself into uncom-

on the principle that art is to partment. This, however, does

And

is not entirely conditions, dream into the future, mon nonsense.

conceal art, that was artful. not appear to be a very vital chimer In the doen-what in the explanation of this

We have, it seems to me.

We disagree that the objects of change our conception of time, for wearing clothes are to keep the It in,

and narvel? matter.

-directorships of ment however,

The Trade Unions, which the But, since one swallow does not, time, as modern astrophysics are

body warm in the case of men and supreme importance that there General Council of the T.U.C. make a summer, the reater may discovering, is not that single one-

to display its beauty in the ense should be no ambiguity as to the recently published. the issue is require farther instances.

way river of our everyday powers of the Sanitary Depart-tackled, prefaced by a useful

Perhaps the most astounding ception.

Women wear beautiful clothes the reminder

the ease recorded is the well-known The great difficulty that besets ment both in regard to

to show that they or their bus- cleanliness of premises in which Unions have played in weaving one of Monsieur A. Saurel, who us in our efforts to understand how bands can buy them. In fact this the fabric of British liberty. dreamed in full and vivid detali, it may be possible to furesee the is sometimes woman's way of food is sold and in the matter They were a weighty farge be in 1911, an episode that actually future lies in the fact that we of the protection of the public ind the agitation for the first occurred to him during the Great habitually think in three dimen-showing that she wears the pants.

Reform Act. They fought for the War. He foresaw.accurately the slans. from the dangers of unwhole-extensions of the franchise, for place, the men and their features some food. In dealing with oul- the liberty of the Press, for free (recognising them immediately done stalls for the sale of cooked eduention, for a host of reforms when the dream became fact) and meats, the President of the now on the Statute Books. Now, the netion in every particular.

finding their liberties and social Now, if we will accept, even if Department stated that these gains menaced, the labour leaders only for argument's sake, the truth were under the control of the look round or means of defence. of these records, and accept the Police Department or, in certain | They

not exaggerate the fact that man does, now and then, cases, the Secretariat for Chin-present strength of Fascism in dream into the future, we can pass British soit is for to the problem presented to us by ese Affairs. He added that "the this country. Sanitary Department is unable the present not favourable to the this great mystery.

growth of Hitleriam or any other to interfere." The presump-brand of dictatorship. There are tion is that the reference is to no alformel private armies granting of licences. Whilst it speak of although the activities may be the case that the San-of such as do exist are a menace itary Department has no power to public peace, either to grant or suspend licences of this character, it obviously must have rights of FEEBLE COMMUNISTS insisting both on the cleanliness

de

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tackled and ovecome.

clasar.

of the stalls and on the selling of The Communist Party is feeble. food which is fit for consump-It is not powerful enough seriously. tion. Under these two headings to divide democracy, or to terrify

the there can surely be no usurping There is widespread social suffer

more comfortable of the Sanitary Department'sing, but it has not reached the functions by any other depart-pitch where, as in Germany, il- ment. On the general questionHons of workless and despairing of protecting the public from young men enlisted under the impure food, no-one who has swastika in the hope, that some taken care to observe the man- good might come of it. But al- ner in which certain commodi- though the T.U.C. does not over- fies are exposed to dust, flies and stimates the Fascist peril it does other harmful influences can but not underestimate it. The danger think that there is need for a Is there. It must, it is felt, he for stricter measure of super- vision than is insisted upon. In shops and stalls which sell PUBLIC LIBERTIES cooked foods, cut fruits, drinks, ele.. the precautions taken

The remedy for the faults--the against contamination are prae- undoubted faults of democratic tically nil. It is a common machinery is not dictatorship, but sight, also, to see meat, brend more democracy, swifter and more and other commodities being efficient means of translating the carried through the streets people's will into law. "We should without protection of any kind, welcome," the T.U.C. states, "any The problem is a big one, ad-improvement in the Parliamentary mittedly, and it may be that the machine which Boes not neronch great majority of the people are on the liberties of the public won over a century of struggle. We not greatly concerned over the should resist any attempt to necessity for the institution of supersede Parliament or undermine more hygienic measures in the its democratie working." tightly. safeguarding of food supplies. the Council derkles those superficial None the less, with so many thinkers who denounce freedom AS diseases spread through the bourgeois institution," or some- agency of flies and dirt, it does thing that can have no real exis- scom essential that stricter tence within a capitalist society, There are berties, more pre- measures should be brought into clous than rubles, which do exist force, especially during the hot in Britain, fortunately, the deter- season of the year. The subject mination to defend them is an

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is one deserving of close study, strong among the younger Tories followed by appropriate action. as it is among the Socialists,

Men wear clothes to enable Their typlats" to keep their minds on their work. Sometimes they wear dark suits on Sundays in preference to attending church. If you wear clothes that are com- fortable that is uld-fashioned.,

That is why nudists are so out-

When we come to the problem of the future we enter the mystle renim of the fourth dimension. It is not easy to think fourth- dimensionally. For any but the mystic and the mathematician it la, perhaps, impossible. Without purporting to the question I yet venture one firm of date. belief. I accept the truth of these The farthingale and the bustle phenomena of sight of future had their puluts and could not be The first thing that will occur events, but I do so without sur- sal on incautiously, Men had to to most people will be this: If rendering my faith that, within keep their distance those days and we can dream the future, then limits, we possess free-will,

the future is preordained and we can no longer claim free will, If we surrender belief in free will we are Inced with a feeling of impotence: We are the automata of fate, and what will be will be.

answer

With the advance of knowledge that proceeds, It sometimes seems, with mathematical progression, we may one day possess the solution of the riddle, may learn the great uncharted realm of Dreamland.

"Wo named her Sarah for Aunt Sadie, but we're going to

call hor Sally."

the stolen kiss was only negotiable from horse back or a step ladder. Nowadays it can be snatched from a passing car or a stocking ladder.

The accentuation of features led to the introduction of the bustle which is now rightly deemed un- necessary and the peculiar charm of the female species has found expression in the mathematical' arrangement of her facial con- tours.

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Eyebrows are formed into question mark, the answer "being found in a lipsticked Cupid's bow beneath and women's crowning glory" changes its hue with the weakening of the dye or the decrees of fashion.

In our view the wearers should all be crowned without partiality.

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The movement to establish a "Ger- nan Library of Burned Books" aug- gest that a collector in search of a new hobby might do worse than start a corner for works snatched from the flames. They would include the Bible. Darwin, Tom Paine, Thomas Hardy, and (ono may be fairly sure). Mr. D. H. Lawrence and Mr. Joyce and Fome other moderns, One executioner in the case of Hardy was the Bishop of Wakefield. Divines are sometimes given to these gestures of impatience. Did not Dean Inge tell us how on a Cross-Channel voyngo he read Mr. Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" and then threw it overboard?

"Another way," as Mrs. Becton kuys, is to bury books you disapprove ot. We all know of casca in which they are admirably adapted for the baser agricultural used. Augustine: Birrell once copfessed to having in- torred the complete works (24 volumes) of Hannah More in his garden, which, if it was a town garden, does not scom to leave much room for the daffodils. Lamb used to throw his rubbish out. of the window, but he was a'charitable Bol. There have been tyrants who insisted on the authors enting them.