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POLICE REORGANISATION

TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1934.

NOTES OF THE DAY THE NEW WATCH ON

RIGHT OF WAY

KVIth all due deference, Mr. Wynne Jones's knowledge of the rule of the road and right of way

to have appears

gone Itilo

principle rusty. The well established that vehlele

·unterime from

UNLOVELY STRUGGLE

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uny alde

made

THE RHINE

By GERALD · BARRY BALDWIN has told

The Very Idea!

LOTT-WITH SALT By George

that we are not

We have no quarrel-you and Walone in our attempts

Of course

the

*

TO VOYAGERS.

Mpeople of Great Britain that with the Germnurres you and I rond into a main rond or crossing or runtfer in the Rhine. German people have no querel to be humorous. George It must alop, mark the word, to see if the main road is clear be- The question that will echo in with us. Their Government is be fore proceeding. Until the worthy every English home, and not only having at the moment like a lot of Lott the American tennis magistrate's ruling in the ease in every English home but all over blood-thirsty hooligans, it la true; star, has now joined our un- before him on Friday, it in doubt the world, is-Why the Rhine? but to announce to such men that happy clan though so far he ful whether this principle has ever This is the most sensational state- our bumbers are going to line up has only distinguished him- been challenged. And for obvious meat on British foreign polley jalong the Rhine against them is to reasons, Observance eliminates made by any British statesman antagonise them into doing what self by aiming a ball at a Arguments. If motorists proceed since Mr. Asquith stood up in the the cornered gangster always does Wimbledon linesman who to act upon Mr. Wynne Jones's House of Commons 20 years ago shoot, dictum, the way is opened up at next week and made his historic

it is true that the gave a decision against him. once to acceleration on nearing announcement of our entry into coming of air power has made hay A bad lot-George, and it is to cross-roads in the hope of getting the war.

of the strategy, on which the de- be hoped that he doesn't enter there first! The danger of such п No wonder Mr. Baldwin looked fence of this island used to be for the Bisley shooting com- practice is so patent as to render ill at ease as he made this extra-based. Of course it is true that petition and have a decision comment unnecessary Mureover, ordinary declaration. No wonder in general the cangu and speed of it is not uncurious to find the he looked still more ill at ease modern transport and communica- against him. It would be an- learned magistrate

ition ions have in a sense moved back other example of the paths of ander the scorn of the querying

Opposition whether Nathan Road or Jordon and the scalding praise of Mr. our military frontiers from the glory lead but to the grave.

knows traditional Channel Ports and the Road is the primary road. The Churchill. Mr. Baldwin

the Low on the Country. But why, one re- man in the street would regard what he is talking about that as obvious.

Bubject of air warfare; he has peats, to the Rhine? Why not to

considerablo study of the that matter, the

of the the Vistula or the Volga-or. for

Urala or as some of his for Equator or the Arctle Circle? matte havo

shown. He knows

methods of communications Next to insecurity in respect of enough, anyway, to understand work and wages, there is no con- that the arguments he put forward continue to develop, our frontiers dition of life which produces so on Monday to excuse the Govern-will continue to regress. This in unlovely a struggle against odds ment's rearmament policy were no new discovery; but Mr. Baldwin for the poorcat people of Britain dishonest through and through. has made new and highly danger as bad houses and overcrowding.

in peace Under the urgo of very strong have seldom read a speech de-ous use of it.

time so deliberate- We

Yes, it was Flit what did it!. public feeling, the problem in ally alarmist and provocative, its aspects has at length been are all to be given gas-maska and So, in a topsy-turvy way, have "Where the tly sits, there Fit 1." studied with thoroughness, and a put through anti-gas drill. The Lord Beaverbrook and his papers. na Shakespeare so quaintly hath it. report by a highly influential com- plans are publicly announced. They have made use of it to paint And when the tempest was at its mittee, of which Lord Amutree is Anyone might think we expected a moral directly the opposite of height did the officers' hearts quail? hae recantly been War to be declared on us the real one. Instead of aaying No, there was Ponds Face Cream Issued, recommending a scheme merrow. This is the Government's (which is the fact) that the to take the roughness off the edges. for organised national action. way of making the population feel ragon-lit and the radio, the aero- and Keatings to slay the corner so necessary when The question may be said to fail insecure and acquiesce in a new plane and the

telephone (not to which were into three parts. There is, first,

famine stared them in the face, the problem of the slums of feel frightened and demand a new interests), have linked up this dwellings not fit to be lived in, but air programme. Sheer scaremon-island with the Continent, more still inhabited because their ten-gering of the worst pre-war kind, secu

securely and inextricably than ants have nowhere else to go, and by a statesman who recently ever before, they argue that since ག་་ Here the present Government has warned the nation in unforgettable we are now exposed to attack from acted with exemplary energy in terms of the catastrophe of air so many different quarters Initiating a five-year plan of slum warfare!

must clear out of Europe al- clearance and resettlement which

together! seems likely to strike at the heart of the evil.

chairman.

MILLION HOUSES

The second problem is that of over-crowding in built-up areas, and with this condition also it is prepared to dent in the coming autumn. But there is a third pro- blem still awaiting solution--that of provision of new houses for the expanding needs of the lower-paid

LORD BEAVERBROOK.

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air programme, or better still- mention commercial and financial

DELIBERATELY ALARMIST.

We

Lord Beaverbrook says he is

I have no space here to debunk going to collect the opinion of his various other arguments. But every home in the country on this take this calculated indiscretion issue; and when he gets it, it will about our frontier being thebe meaningless. He asks us to Rhine. Why, in the name of inter-keep out of all foreign entangle- national commonsense, the Rhine?ments and to refuse to engage in Does it mean that his Majesty's any war "unless our territory or Ministers have made up their that of our Dominions or Posses- minds in advance that in the next siens is menaced."

to be A pledge of that sort wouldn't War our enemy is bound Germany? If not, what does it withdraw us from Europe: on the Does it further mean that contrary, it would make our fron- workers in sufficient numbers and

Air tiers the whole world. Anything A the War Office and the ut a ront within their means.

be deemed to threaten our Ministry are concerting:

might with. plans million new houses nt the very lenst will be needed during the the French,

la 1914, to territories, anywhere, at any time precisely

NATIONAL COMMISSION

a German demand for colonies. Japanese move near Hongkong.

Now we have heard that the Tal Mo Shan voyagers were sustained by Klim's powdered milk in their hours of need (and let us hope they were not many), let us tell you some more about how these gallant officers dared the venture across oceans in which both they and their yacht were frequently out of their depth.

To the local girl

From the local man

Is a word of advice in senson→→→ If your nose should curl

When you board a tram

It's a sign of pride without

reason:

If the dollar seats

And "Eskimo" slab

Invite the blush to your face, And pedestrian feats Your high heels crab You haven't yet learned, your

place:

For to keep your prido

You must have charm- I'll pay for the one with money- But it'e a devil's rido

To nothing but harm there's no

sweet honey.

Ir

In

my

AUNT EMMA..

Dear George,

It is not a far stride from the. subject of corruption in the ranks of the police to the floating of ideas on the reorganisation of the force. To stamp out the one, the other would probably be a prime essential.

Were any clean-up attempted deserving of the description "thorough", it is unlikely than any option in the matter would be open to the authorities. And as the un- pleasant facts of the situation convey an almost peremptory demand for an attack upon the problem, the lines along which

next ten years.

Can they be pro operate from French soil against .of reorganisation should proceed

vided us the Government has the common foe? The howla may well rank, as one of the first

hoped, by private enterprise alone? satisfaction with which Mr. Bulda bomb accidentally dropped on

I see that the Govern considerations. A broad. policy The answer given both by Lord win's statement has been received Malta in a war between Italy and

in the French Press certainly sug-France. The pledge means pre-ment flats which were to have been should be framed, with every

Amulree's committee and by an

nothing. But Mr. Baldwin's bullt have been put back. This step well marked, and prepara- other committee appointed by the gest the most sinister Interpreta-

ous rubbish about the Rhine i seems rather a pity when one con- Labour Party, is-No. How, then, tion. tions made in the directions In-

But the joy of France will be gives its sponsors just the handle siders how many coolles there are can it be done? dicated so that the transition

matched, we may be sure, by cor-they need,

who have to spend their nights in when it came would be swift.

We can all agree heartily with the street. What would the people responding consternation in Ger-

Lart Beaverbrook in his detestaat Home who complain about the To the greatest extent possible,

many. To deliver a pronounce the object should be the recruit- The problem is that of con-ment like this is to make Germany tion of one-sided agreements and mul taai slavery say if they know

alliances, partial

They post-war

pre- that many of the poor hore have nu -ment-and-training-of-new-men-structing at least 1,000,000 new our enemy, The German

houses. Not for sale, but to let inferiority complex will swell like suppose, as Mr. Baldwin's-pre-bed, let alone-night-socket- ut Inclusive rents of ten shillings | blister. Nothing could help nouncement pre-supposes, inevit What do these letter-writing plainly to confirm herable war and a Europe ranged up people know about the conditions solved by private enterprise build- conviction that she is being That way will never keep this whom I have any respect wrote In pre-determined opposite camps. here, I wonder? The only one for ing for profit. It could, perhaps, circled and held down and will be

solved by local authorities forced to fight for her existence country out of war. Mr. Baldwin that the Chinese flag ought to be erecting house with the help of a the whole box of pre-war tricks, in may scoff at the Isolationlate, but a spittoon couchant on a field of

ho is every bit as improvident us washing. Government subsidy. But at an fact, all over again.

they are.

The Boy Scouts had a good time immense cost. The committee,

We cannot be safe in isolation, on Saturday at the Governor's tea. therefore, has examined the pro-

because even though we build an The little mites had come so pre- posal for the establishment of a

My generation has fought the air force as strong as that of the parod that many of there were statutory National Housing Com- mission, and declares it to be the ins once in its lifetime. It strongest air Power, that Power almost in a state of starvation.

doesn't intend to do so again. We can always outbuild us again—and The Rev. Mr. Waldegrave spoke right machinery for dealing with have wound up one watch on the so the mad race would go on. Still this girantic task. The holy it

we don't propose to leas can we be anfe by one-alded proposes would not itself build and Rhine and

(Continued on Page 5.) would own houses, but

provide cheap capital for financing schemes; it would be the medium for the supply of cheap and stand- ardlaud material, and suitable labour; it would advise, plan and coordinate, as the supreme hous- Ing authority for the whole country.

un-

and their drafting into the force when the bad hats have gone and taken with them the tradition of "squeeze.' For the evil of the system to-day is that so many fall into it as the result of what might be termed contamination, and finally there develops com- petition for jobs that seem to offer good pickings! These are plain facts, suggestive at once of the needs in any scheme for re- organisation, and there are others, apart altogether from graft or suspicions of graft. It is common knowledge, for in- stance, that the vast majority of the Asiatic contingent are reliable in an emergency. They are without sense of responsi- bility, most of them, and at the times they are most needed in their police work are wonderful- ly adept at producing explana- tions of why they could not be present. Troops were called out during the anti-Japanese riots not because the police force was unable to keep the situation in control, but because the Euro- pean section of the force could not take the strain alone. They are proficient at arresting old women for, say, collecting illegal- ly a little firewood. Seven of them

are necessary to night patrol A district which in England would be considered a reasonable beat for one stable, who again would perform the task with seven times their combined efficiency. Some of them subject unaccompanied young women to vile insults and seem to get their first les- sons in this at the Training School after, working hours. Their fruitatealing and potty bribery, outside the organised systems, stamp their type, and thero have been 'incidents of brutality to aged and young that make the gorge rise. The remedy should show itself plainly to any student of the problem. The force needs better type of man altogether,

a week and under. It cannot be more

be

PUBLIC OPINION

bo

Not only would the commission be in a position to supply capital cheaply, but also, owing to ita vast field of operation, cheap materials--there would be no pro- fiteering; there would be mass production. Research would stimulated; national needs would be surveyed; building throughout the country would be coordinated and directed without waste. then, is the comprehensive scheme, authoritatively commended, which in capturing the practical imagina tion of social reformers.

The British Government has not oc- con-cepted it.. It has however shown In the last two years that it is sin- gularly reponsive to public opinion in the matter of housing, and for. that reason the warm welcome that laformed opinion has given to the national housing plan makea

It it kely that the Ministry, even it doca not finally adopt this plan, will pursue some similar scheme having the same object and not leas far reaching..

with pay attractive to such as the English-speaking students of

first- grado

Government schools, men capable of becoming. real policemen. The strength could be cut down by two thirds

and the job would be done, and wo mean done.

NEVER AGAIN.

start another.

"That's the trouble with these American plan places; you al

ways have to rush back for lunch."

of the Unculties of early Scouting days when the uncultured populace foered at the ploncors with cries of "Dirty knees! Yah!" and such- liko party cries. The movement has grown since those days," added the speaker, thereby. voicing B tribute to the Increased use of sonp.

As I write this the weather is beautiful and I can imagine Mr. Jeffries transmitting a telepathle thought to me that at Inst the weather is right-It agrees with his forecast.

Which. reminds me that I must read up my Home football. I have learnt that va home wing Is the safest policy because even if you' got five away wins and draws, tho paying-out firm is more likely to go down than pay up.

to

I have before me a letter from a Telegraph newspaper, vendor who seserts that she sold a newspaper Mr. Wolfe without being arrested. L'um awaiting confirma tion in the court reports before sending her my special certificate of merit for the best performance of the year.

بده.

There are also among my mail some indignant lotters from local girls who felt that their claims to beauty had been ignored by. Mr. Friml.

Miss

Look Long-ng who sent her photograph I must say that she should have taken a back view if she wanted to get is far as an interview and to Miss Tak wun-hip. I fear that she is too modest to live up to the audacity of her picture. It would be a case with her of 'nak for an inch and give'm (h)oll.

It is nch mildnight and time all respectable girls should be in bed so I must close my letter to you and go out for a stroll, A

Yours affectionate Auntie,

Emma

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