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A growing consciousness that the world is falling, to establish peace la bringing to the fore an irrepressible question: What shall be the attitude of Christians to- ward the "next war? On every side carnost. men and women are Several answer. од necking groups
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At a conférence in New York which hundreda registered their Xopposition to war for "whatever purpose" and five former army Hchaplains declared they would never again, directly or indirectly, Asanction another war."
LDIRECT ACTION
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PLEASURES OF NOVELTY
By ROBERT LYND
SPENT the Whitsuntide holiday ugliest. To see a toad for the
The Very Idea!
MADGE AND THE
AMAH'S EAR.
By George
The Golden Candareen" WING to some rather uncalled for comments
in a village at the mouth of a first time is an experience worth on the lack of action in the wooded gorge in which wood- having. I do not know whether
wrens were singing not many there are any really, ogly birda in Jeejeebhoy serial wo nearly. yards from each other as one pro- Nature, but, if there are, I should killed the whole thing off certainly like to see them. Most yesterday and only the in- grossed along the path.
This was, so far as I was con- people will agree that there are ducement of free shows to нате fairly. ugly flowers the the cinema this week and the cerned, a new experience. I had winter hellotrope, for instance. personal persuasion of the heard the wood-wron before-that Yet I have watched a man who Editor are responsible for curious ecstatic vibration of sound
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And then no more will Madgo puf at her Isla de Perfectos chermat and cheat the amah at mahjong while the fireflies poke their little fun at the cockroach and the moon waltzes serenely neross the tropic sky. No mora will Jevicebhoy cut his carns with his
that scams always about to become had never seen the flower before the continued existence of music, and, indeed, sometimes be- gazing at it with a look of rapture Madge and her boy friend: comes it but I had never before as though he had discovered a How much do auch declarations | been in a wood full of wood-wrena. ¡rensure. mean? The resolve to wage war The wood-wren and the garden- upon
probably expresses warbler seemed to be the most something more than a general audible voices among the oaks
For to-day and beeches of the wood. desire to stop war. the world is disillusioned with efforts to make peace by stopping some novelty of this kind. The Every holiday should provide We are impatient of pinaglit of something new affords place on the mind in this way. WAT.
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We felt that it would have been a pity to cut them off so The memory of the first time young (this is only their seventh instalment) but from now on we saw a bird or a flower they must live in daily fear of
whole landscape be-
since it stamped the image of a fore us--proof that we must have death. been excited by the experience
Some of my clearest memories of
sight of a nuthatch, a black red- places are nasociated with the first start, a nightingale, a bee-orchis, New cities, new mountaintops, rest-harrow, and fumitory. I re. new birds, new flowers-we are member clearly even, simply be- so built that we crave for some cause I had never seen the flower novelty of the kind, ns the man of before, the sloping field where selence cravea for new knowledge, for the first time I saw a flower
But we are anticipating. The popularity of pleasure-cruises the name of which I forget.
Incidentally night had fallen. A Just now is due largely to a very
The Importance we assign human. desire to see as many new
to fitting scene this for the sweetest novelty has never been more rendezvous that ever fell to our lot, places as possible. Most travel, indeed, is an expression of the apparent than since the invention to describe.
of wireless. How many poяses- Jeejeebhoy and Modge are stil craze for novelty. I know a great
would rather ors of a sufficiently strong wire-alive, especially the latter whom we many people who
less got have been able to remain left treading on the cat in her little visit a new country that was unnpathetic on hearing new bangalow on the Kowloon side. Reg comfortable than a country that
station? Even ♫ propagandiet had just killed a pursuer with a was comfortable but familiar.
talk about the output of pig-iron well-timed sock on the kisser and in Russin from Moscow stirs the the stage was set for the meeting
it.
Nature, it is obvious, intended
be
did not like either of them, but I liked tasting them for the first time.
1
#fetime on his
new
Hence we may conclude that great as are the pleasures of novelty, the pleasures of familiari- ty with places and things that
father's razor or sit medita- tively at his little desk in the P.W.D. reflecting on the higher ethics of ser,·
difficulties and
ob-
SEVENTH INSTALMENT. Picture Madge looking out with. ineffable sndness over the Harbour where the Kowloon sewers ninde their entrance,
One eye was closed but in the other was a look of longing. A tear had wormed its way down the rugged laes of her face and was now hanging precariously on the keen edge of her jawbone.
Madge hiccuped and the tear fell with a splash on an ant.
With foul curse that came strangely from those sweet femin Ine lips, Madge swallowed dozen lump of sugar in quick succession. It would never do if she should hiccup when Reg's arms were about her and that
A
soft high pitched voice whispering words of love in her car.
As an afterthought Madge went across to the nullah and washed her ears. Then she returned to the verandah and resumed her after a time she fell into a cross- legged position on the verandah.
It was strange that this wo- man who had killed piga in her youth and had muscles that would have been a credit to a gorilla felt her strength oozing.. from her as the hour of the
• rendezvous approached. Was it love?
Again that hiccup. Madge could only tighten her belt and hope for the best,
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us to be lovers of novelties. She blood if it is the first time you of these two lovers after overcoming pours them out for us, especially have succeeded in getting Moscow, insuperable It is an extreme position, almost in temperate climes, dally. Never How sweet the most hackneyed stacies, defeatist attitude. It is evoked since the beginning of the world fox-trot would sound if it came,
the by memories of extreme has the round of the year in Eng- not from a London hotel, but from pressure to which Christians in all land been exactly the same as the al-long-last-found Ljubljana! As So overcrowded were the guolynations are subjected by war-time round of the year that went before novelty wears af, however, the There is no mechanical.same-attraction of foreign stations of the Colony last year that no
hysteria, pressure which led an
ness in the procession of the sea-slumps in some peculiar way, and bishop to say of the World Paul Robeson,
fewer than 1,307 male prisoners War, "This is the greatest fight | kons. Things are so ordered that a good programme from Daventry Paul Robeson,
a bad pro- had to be released before the ever made for the Christian re-even a shower of rain may become seems better than Alfredo & His Orch.
ligion." One must sympathise novelty to as or a fall of snow, or gramme even from the far end of the world. This, however, is Alfredo & His Orch expiration of their sentences
with this attitude, this negativen fine day in August. The very Thin ik revealed in the pacifi
But it must be re-distribution of the fewers varies partly because the number of Derickson & Brown Ramual report of the Super-cognised as negative. The rejec from year to year. This year, for wireless stations is limited and Derickson & Brown. intendent of Prisons, which re-
tion of war is not quite enough. example, unless I am mistaken, soon comes to an end, and because same old knob to Jack Hulbert. cords the fact that all the exist-
Other ways must be found for the white lilnce bas bloomed keith turning the
listen in to a new country does adjusting differences
est an unprecedented splendour, and
not quite give us the 'novelty of Jack Hulbert,ing penal institutions of the ablishing justice. Negative paci-
With Nature so lavish of novel-a vialt to a new country, Colony had their accommodation | sm must be accompanied by ties, then, we should surely New Mayfair Orch. severely taxed. In regard to
positive peacemaking. And the
The motorist in his wanderinga hope for posit
itive offort is not so unnatural if we were indifferent
of new Intro: "Circus Queen:" "Now that I have a Spring Time:" Victoria Gaol it is merely stated sight as some of the despairing to them. Most of us go through does not so easily tire
life unconselously making a places. For him the number of "Somebody wants to go to sleep" "Roll on that it was again overcrowded. ones believe. War is only the Rolling Road: You are doing very well:" "Hand At the Laichikok Female Prison, ultimate violence developed by collection of them in our memories. possible new places is almost an- Even noveltics of food and drink limited, and he can spend the in Hand: "What good are Words:" "I won't
stupid and hateful thinking. It is Danco:" "Lonely Feet;" Finalo.
constructed to accommodate 120 not only the dual violence, but remain pleasantly in this collec holidays of
ax travels without exhausting them. innates, there were frequently the procuring cause the fear and tion of never-to-be-forgotten
periences. I remember drink-
I confess my own taste swings over 200, whilst in the case of blundering which needs atten.
ing stroga for the first time at between visiting now places and the Laichikok-Male-Prison-it-has-
Assisi...and eating. bouillabaisse for the first time at Marscillen. visiting-familiar--places.--One stance. Her knees felt weak and
enough of n been found necessary to make
does not see provision for a further hali for
place to become acquainted with all its novelties: the novelties of Great Britain runs two systems 200 more prisoners. These facts
of education side by side-one
a place seem actually to become, strikingly indicate the strain
free, the other extremely ex- It is said that nearly everything more numerous as we become more placed on the existing prisons. pensive. To modify this situation, is worth doing once. The saying familiar with it. It is the same
National Association of in
un with familiar books: the novelties * little sweeping, but When the figures are analysed, the
Schoolmasters recently passed a doubtedly, when we look back, we of Shakespeare and Dickens scom however, it becomes clear that resolution to the effect that a net- enjoy having done many things to multiply as we go back to them the tremendous increase in our work of national primary schools that we enjoyed only because we again and again. prison population is largely be established to which the chil- were doing them for the first time,: accounted for by incarcerations dren of rich nad poor alike should I have enjoyed seeing many places for minor offences. Actually, go. It was freely stated that such that I would not vinit a second the admissions during the year system would revolutionise the time except under compulsion.
country in a very short time. Пe- totalled no fewer than 11,439, as against 7,793 in 1932, but it is complicated matters than
volutions often are rather more significant that the number of would imply, but such a proposal convicts (long-term prisoners) does, in fact, go to the roots of in custody at the end of the year the British educational system. was easily the lowest for ten If it were adopted, it might do for years. The figure was 162. In the British public schools what 1926, there were over 400. So the first twenty years of the cen- far as the daily average of bring them within reach of all prisoners is concerned, last classes. These schools, of which year's figure of 1,472 exceeds | Eton and Harrow, Winchester and that of any other twelve months | Rugby, are the most famous, are in the ten-year period. The among the most private Institu- point which naturally suggests tions in the world. It has been itself is that our gaols are be
estimated that the type of educa- ing needlessly cluttered up with
tion which they symbolise, ending with three or four years at Oxford petty offenders, whose "crimes"
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It is hardly surprising in tho circumstances related," that the this punishment for trivial children of only about 3 per cent, offences increase the congestion of the population of Great Britain in the prisons, thereby adding are able to attend these establish- fresh worries to already harassments. Nevertheless, the English ed officials, but the process public schools have trained and merely results in added cost to
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In our desire to see new animals never lose their novelty the sea and flowers, again, most of us are on a known shore, the birds in a eager to see not only the most known wood, a handful of known beautiful things in nature but the books are greater still.
"I would like to divorce Albert and start an antique shop but that business fan't what it used to be."
The wind was freshening and she could feel the meat skewers in her hair tapping gently against the back of her head. They reminded her that she had not closed the door. Shooting out a dexterous loft leg she alammed the door to, evoking a howl from the amah whose ear had become caught in the
hinges.
But she could howl till the cowa came home, for Madge's newly washed oars had caught the tramp of well known feet. She listened in a stillness punctuated only by the amnh's yells, her own stertor- our hiccups and the tramp of those dear feet.
One, two, three, four, fivo. She counted breathlessly. Good heavens how many feet was Jeejeebhoy bringing with him?
Perhaps he was riding to meet
her on a cow.
In the darkness sho could see a shadow rapidly approaching the yerandah
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(Will Jeojeebhoy reach the ver andah? I Krg anyway or have we been pulling your legat No, folks! This in Jeojochkoy definitely on his way but whether he le rising cow or a centipede to a matter wo leave to our next instalment. Wo: never ought to have brought his feet into the story at all after the... disastrous effect of his necks. How ever what done can't be undone and we can only hope that whatever he te riding won't stampede when Madge gals on the hiccup. There is the other little, question of the amuk's dar to be neitiod, "We had thought she was quietly reading an 'old edition of Chaucer's poems but kow could we know that she had loft. her lug in the Glintol? ¦ However what's done can be eut of and this is what we shall have lo de tou morrow if she can't quit polling. while, we get Madge and, Reg. 1o- gether in their Arst great lover: Zoone.}
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