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WHITHER BRITAIN

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 pass.

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The Very Idea!

CARPETED · CRITICS

By Georgo

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

THAT happens to the soul in But humaa egotism revolts from Maybe there is some wiadom sleep? Since the dawn of that solution: it Insults us in our in that for it probably saves him time this question has fascinated deep-rooted conceit; it takes the frem 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 so than when the suggestion is significance of life, with

its him something to make up for made that in the sleeping state he struggles, defeats and triumphs. attains at times to an abnormal Personally, I feel that the ex- other discomforts in his last vision which gives him knowledge planation lies somewhere in our surroundings. of future events.

conception of time, and that only However that may bo,' It would To suppose that this claim is when wrchange the common con-appoun that local uplifters must be one first made in modern times coption of it we have can we begin remarkably few or also gifted with

for tho is an error. For the Egyptians, to come to grips with our problem, extraordinary longevity, the Medes, the Persians, the

In attempting to survey, this Colony is now about ninety years old. and we have none of whom we can Greeks, Romans, Chinese and problem I stand armed with scant look back with humility and say: "Ahi Hindus have all pondered this knowledge and full of bewlidor- If old Soundro wore alive! He would mystery.

have told us what was what. He would have put an end to this nonsense immediately!"

Tho literature of Batiquity

abounds in dream references and dream speculation.

ment..

I consider how I have come to regard time and I see that it is as a river that flows from past to

wait to be smacked. In fact she

The fact is Hongkong' will not Has the faculty of dreaming present and so to future.

te browbeaten by people within Poor Stella remained into the future a reality for un;

And directly I look closely at her doors.

ilme,. received the that In: Do people still have this this idea I see at once how false for n

it is.

privilege of membership and now lence, and awe-inspiring exper-]

Can I say, for example, that in all her revelations are tales tokl The weight of evidence that this looking at the night sky, when the out of school, is so du little short of convincing vast and awe-inspiring dome, I am

stars are thickly scattered over tho Yes, Stella blabbed and didn't Take for example the dream of the future experienced by Princess seeing things in the present? post-dated her opinions fifty years Emma Carolath. She sat this Of course, I cannot. I sec, may to give some of them a chanco of dream down and that record was be, the light of star that ceased coming truo, read by people before the confirmato exist a thousand years before tion by Timo of its contenta.

the final stone was placed upon The princess had fallen asleep the pyramid of Cheops, I see it anxions about a dear one. She now, in my present: but it belongs presently found herself in an un- to the known castle and in an octagonal

stand and ponder the cabinet wherein was a bed, a lamp obvious reality of the external over it and, at its head, a picture world about me dissolves into of Christ and verses of the poet mystery. I say, perhaps, that I Schiller.

stand still and watch that sky. Well, in relation to what do I stand atili?

4t.

But we, welcome a wit like. Pro- fessor R. R. Campbell who beguiles his stay in our midst by poking fun at us and showing us the funny. side of our attempts at decoration.

The truth, more likely, is that but, for the oxcellent showing made by the Government in ite handling of the country's finances, Mr. F. R. West would have been sent to the House of Commons by

Hammersmith with North thumping and thought-provoking majority. As it was, the Con- servative poll fell by over 8,000, while the Labour candidate in creased his by roughly 3,500. Sir Thomas Inskip appears to read the political' sitantion in the truer perspective, He doubts the of old-fashioned Con- ability servatism to beat Socialism and urges the fashioning of a new revitalised party, thinking doubt- less in terms of the leadership of such men as Mr. Walter Elliot, whose views, expressed in his "Whither Britain" broadenat,

Nothing is so dangerous when Did ever one hear of such a would undoubtedly and hosts of in the octagonal cabinet, every striving, however inadequately, to paradox? Mae West will tell you adherents. Meanwhile, the Mosley detall of which was as she had Fascists visualising a Socialist dreamed it two years before.

grapple with the majestic pro-that one had nothing to do with the victory in the next gonera)

blems of life, ns the easy accept- other and that every film star iṚ . The fact that this dream was set ance of the obvious.

martyr for her public. election, foresee extremist legisla. down in writing, and that writing tion

chaos and Jemporary

in shown to others, invalidates any which they themselves will theory of fraud. emerge on top.

FOOD CONTROL The position in regard to food control in the Colony was explained at Tuesday's meeting of the Sanitary Board, as the result of a series of questions oh the subject by Dr. Li Shu-fan. On the point of the issuing of licences, control is exercised by more than one Government de partment. This, however, does not appear to be a very vitala matter. It is, however, supreme importance that there

T. U. C. ATTITUDE

And

of ment

reminder of the

part

the

TWO YEARS LATER

Two years later, while on a visit stars or to the moon, for I am part Certainly not in relation to the to friends in Hungary, the prin- of the planet Earth, and that

cess was amazed to see the castle planet Earth is in perpetual

of her dreams. Later she was motion. more amazed still to find herself

When he goes we shall say, "What a man," or we might say, The Professor know us onions," but shall we nail Queen Victoria on to a frieze or sticke King Edward Into a wall? No! Out upon you're say We are not amused!

And goodness in art! what art

lessness!

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Woman wear beautiful clothes

bands can buy them. In fact this

WHAT WE CALL "TIME"

We agree that dress has moved When we find, however, that We talk of common sense-ahd along with the arts to a con- this is but one of many such dreams you may say that it is common siderable degree. When they incontestably authenticated, then sense that we cannot look into the moved up that was art; when they we shift from the question of the future from the uncharted realm went above the knee, that was high fnct to the interpretation of it. of dreams. But such common art; and when they dropped again

If we can, under certain paychic sense dissolves itself into uncom

on the principle that art is to it is not entirely conditions, dream into the

future,nion nonsense. chimera. In the docu what is the explanation of thin We have, it seems to me, to conceal art, that was artful.

Wo disagree that the objects of directorships and marvel?

change our conception of time, for wearing clothes are to keep the the Trade Unions, which the But, since one swallow does not, time, as modern astrophysics are body warm in the case of men and should be no ambiguity as to the/General Council of the T.U.C. make a summer, the render may discovering, is not that single one-to display its beauty in the case

recently published, the issue is

require further instances.

way river of our everyday con- of women. powers of the Sanitary Depart tackled. prefaced by Д useful Perhaps the most astounding coption.

case recorded is the well-known ment both in regard to the Unions have played in weaving one of Monsieur A. Saurel, who us in our efforta to understand how to show that they or their bus.. cleanliness of premises in which the fabric of British berty, dreamed in full and vivid detail, it may be possible to forcsce the is sometimes woman's way of

The great difculty that besets

food is sold and in the matter They were n weighty force be in 1911, an episode that actually future les In the fact that we of the protection of the public hind the agitation for the first occurred to him during the Great habitually think in three dimen-

Reform Act. They fought for the War. Ho.foresaw accurately the sions, from the dangers of unwhole-

extensions of the franchise, some food-In dealing with out-the liberty of the Press, for free recog the men and their features recognising them immediately door stalls for the sale of cooked education, for a host of reforms when the dream became fact) and meats, the President of the now on the Statute Books. Now, the action in every particular.

finding their liberties and social

will Now, if we 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 do 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 ese Affairs. He added that "the this country. British soll is for to the problem presented to us by bellof. 1 accopt the truth of these bad their points and could not be

this great mystery.

phenomena o sight of future The first thing that will occur events, but I do so without sursat 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 fature, then limits, we possess free-will. the future is preordained and

Sanitary Department is unable the present not favourable to the to interfere." The presump brand of dictatorship. There are growth of Hitlerism or any other tion is that the reference is to no uniformed private armies to 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

tackled and evecome.

the

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 there can surely be no usurping There is widespread social suffer- the more comfortable classes. of the Sanitary Department's ing, but it has not reached functions by any other depart-pitch where, as in Germany, mil- ment. On the general question ions of workless and despairing Sf 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- ties are exposed to dust, flies and stimates the Fasciat 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, be far stricter measure of super- vision than is insisted upon. In shops and stalls which sell PUBLIC LIBERTIES cooked foods, cut fruits, drinks, etc.. the precautions taken against contamination are pracundoubted faults of democratic" The remedy for the faults-the tically nil. It is a common machinery in act dictatorship, but sight, also, to ace meat, breadmore democracy, swifter and more and other commodities being efficient means of transiting the carried through the strects people's will into law. "We should without protection of any kind, welcome," the T.U.C. staten, "any The problem is a big one, ad-improvement in the Parliamentary mittedly, and it may be that the machine which does not encroach great majority of the people are on the liberties of the publle won not greatly concerned over the should resist any attempt to necessity for the institution of supersede Parliament or underralne more hygienic measures in the its democratic working." Rightly, safeguarding of food supplies. the Council derides those superficial None the less, with so many thinkers who denounce freedom as disenses spread through the "bourgcole institution," or some- agency of files and dirt, it does thing that can have no real exis- essential that stricter There are liberties, more pre- tonco within a capitalist society. mensures should be brought into clous than rubles, which do exist. force, especially during the hot in Britain. fortunately, the doter. season of the year. The subject mination to defend them is as is one deserving of close study, strong among the younger Tories followed by appropriate action. as it is among the Socialists.

scom

over a contury of struggle:

We

When we come to the problem.

of the future we enter the mystic realm of the fourth dimension. It is not easy to think fourth- dimensionally. For any hut the mystic and the mathematician it is, perhaps, impossible. Without purporting to answer the question I yet vonture one firm

showing that she wears the pants.

Men wear clothes to enable their typists, to keep their minds on their work. Sometimes they wear dark sulis on Sundays in preference to attending church, If you wear clothes that are com- fortable that is old-fashioned,

That is why nudists are so out- of-date.

The farthingale and the bustle

the stolen kiss was only negotiable

With the advance of knowledge from horse back or a step-ladder. we can no longer claim free-will. that proceeds, it sometimes seems, Nowadays it can be snatched from If we surrender belief in free-with mathematical progression, wo will we are faced with a feeling of may one day possess the solution impotence: we are the automata of of the riddle, may learn the great fate, and what will be will be. uncharted realm of Dreamland.

KAR

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

call her Sally."

a passing cur or a stocking ladder. The accentuation of features led to the introduction of the bustle which is now rightly deemed un- Recessary and the peculiar charm of the female species has found expression in the mathematical arrangement of her facial con- tours.

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

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

BOOKS.

The movement to establish a “Gor- man Library of Burnod Books" sug- gesta that a collector in search of a new hobby might do worse than start

a corner for works snatched from the flaines. They would include the Bible, Darwin, Tom Paine, Thomas Hardy, and (one may be fairly sure). Mr. D. H. Lawrence, and Mr. Joyce and somo other moderas. One executioner In the case of Hardy was the Bishop of Wakefield. Divines are sometimes given to these gestures of Impatience. Did not Doan Inge tell us how on a cross-Channel voyago ho read Mr. Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" and then threw. It overboard?

"Another way," as Mrs. Becton says, in to bury books you disapprova of. We all know of cases in which they are admirably adapted for the basor agricultural uses. Augustine Birrell once confessed to having in- terred the complete works (24 volumes) of Hannah More in ble garden,, which, If it won a town garden, does not seem to leave much room, for the daffodils. Lamb used. to throw his rubbish ont, of the window, but ho was a charitable? soul. There have been tyrants who insisted on the authors eating them..