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NOTES OF THE DAY

"PEACE DAY"

It may be that British peoples, when they observe the two minutes' silence on November 11 and mark the sixteenth anni- versary of the armistice which ended hostilities

World! in the War, will be possessed of a certain uneasiness for the future. It may be that they will feel that the OUR NEW AND EFFICIENT

world has learned little and for- "MOBILUBRICATION" gotten much of the lesson which the War should have tauglit. With GREASING

each year that they are removed from the horror of 1914-18 they may consider that the phrase "post-war" describes less accurate ly than "pro-war" the era in which they live. While sober observers refuse to discern another war as imminent, they are reluctant to rule out the danger of conflict in the immediate future. And there are some, whose views, it is to be hoped, are not so rational, who | believe that another world catas

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INTERNATIONAL SPORT

•

GERMAN REVIVAL,

STALIN IS RUSSIA'S MAN OF STEEL

By W. H. CH AMBERLAIN

The Very Idea!

DUMB-BELLES LETTRES

By Juliet Lowell.,

· No Dead Ones Horn,

Mr. Chas. Keaton Portland, Oregon

Dear Mr. Kenton;

It is a pleasure to answer your

N observer with a statistical | can speak in the name of solidly turn of mind set out to count regimented masses of his fellow the portraits which were displayed citizens. along a stretch of one of Moscow's It must be said that Stalin offers questions. main streets during last year's less ready material to the student At this moment, the sovereign celebration of the anniversary of of his personality than either state of Oklahoma has a State the Revolution on Nov. 7. The Mussolini or Hitler. In striking Chamber of Commerce, A Depres result of the count was impressive contrast to the Italian dictator, he alon, Polities, Oil Wells, a State and significant. There were more is anything but expansive; the Militia, Wheat, Corn and Cotton. portraits of Josoph Stalin than of Interviews which he has granted We almost produced enough oil, Lenin and of all the present-day for publication could be counted wheat and cotton to pay our Bolshevist lenders, such as Kaga- on the fingers of one hand; and Government cost last year. Just a novitch, Molotov and Voroshlloy he never contributes to the foreign mere trifle of $10,000,000 shy t put together, with Marx and press. And one searches in vain We have Indians, Buffaloca, Cow Engela, the pioneers of Socialism, through his published writings for Boys, a couple of Will Rogers' and thrown in.

such flashes of personal self- a Ideutenant Governor. Wo alwayɛ. This is only one of innumerable revelation as one finds in Hitler's have Lieutenant Governors and evidences of Stalin's predominant "Mein Kampf."-

sometimes we have Governors, but posilien in the Soviet Union.)

they don't usually last long. Stalin's name, along with that of

Oklahoma offern'n broader pano- Premier Molntov, appears on every

Stalin, like Leuin und Trotzky, rama of natural beauty and in-- outstanding government decroe, la not an actual name but a revolu-teresting people, than any state in He receives the most prolonged tionary pseudonym, one of several the union. Our population Is a live ovations on his rare public appear under which Djugashvili, to call population, in fact, wo bury them ances. It is to him that letters the Communist leader by his real when they die In these parts, recording the achievements of name, went during the years when Trusting you will feel better in- factories and collective farms are he was playing hide-and-seek with formed about our stato upon re-

the Tsar's police. Birth and past ceipt of this, I am,

Yours very truly netivity are both powerful factors

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF

In all fairness it must be ad-sent. His word of praise is most mitted that Germany's desire to prized by the Individual who may shake free of the fatters of arma- have earned distinction in some ment limitation, in view of the way. heavy war-machines surrounding her, is not unnatural. Her revival as a great military power is the thing which worries many dip. lomats, however. That she has, in fact, already torn up certain clauses of the Treaty of Versailles Is taken for granted. The clandes. tine German air force and its corresponding ground-work has been viewed no so formidable na to hasten co-operative agreementa among powers which might be effected. Thus Britain and France throughout the year have discuss. ed their common defence acheme on land and in the air.

SEEKING ALLIANCES

Meanwhile France has røverted

·

in determining personality and if

one is searching for the riddle of STATE OF OKLAHOMA

Ovid Neal The lat of things that aro Stalin's personality the pre-revolu-)

after him is almost

(signed) as tionary period of his life cannot be named

Research Director countless as the sands of the Ren. neglected.

lie was born in 1879 in the P. S. In regard to your Inst They range from major enter. prises, such as the White-Baltic Georgian town of Gori, on the question, they are threatening to Sea Canal, completed by prison southern side of the main Caucasus take our depression away from us. labour under the supervision of region. It would perhaps not be of

Where did it go? the Gay-Pay-Oo, and the former fanciful to attribute ame Amo automobile plant, to abscure Stalin's qualities of character. To Whom It May Concern:.

steadfastness, taci-

I hereby cartify that Arthur communes in remote country dis- coolness,

turnity, to the influence of the vast Lee has been my gardener for over tricts.

Stalin's grip on the direction of mountain ranges that loomed up two years, and during that time Soviet policy in absolute and all-in the distance from his birthplace. he got more out of my garden than

secret A far stronger influence, no other man I over employed. pervading. It is an open

Mrs. Robert 8, B- that no important step in foreign doubt, was the period of almost ap- two decades, during which. Stalin

(signed) polley is taken without his

He has been most promi- led the hunted life of an under- proval. nently identified with the drive ground revolutionary. His parents for rupid industrialisation and fur had designed him for the priest- the collectivisation of agriculture; hood and sent him to a theological The question whether inter-

and here again his imprint is to seminary in Tillis, but he was be seen on all the more significant woon expelled on account of his national sports contests are not

interest in the forbidden ideas of measures in these fields. productive of more harm than to her erstwhile ally in Russia and

Marxism. He took up the familiar routine of a revolutionary career good, which is to be debated it in assumed that an agreement

exists for joint action against We have the authority of D. at that time; distribution of illegal locally this week, has claimed #

Germany if the necessity arises. Manulisky, leading Russian Com-literature, secret organisation acti great deal of attention latterly. The Saar provides a dangerous munist representative in the vity among the workers, clandes- It has caused sportsmen of other situation at the present time and Executive Committee of the Com- tine conferences. all invariably times to indulge in melancholy | Austria considered another munist International that "not one leading to arrest, banishment to reflections on present-day ten-point of menace, a powder barrel document of great importance, some remoto spot in North Russia dencies. These old-timers de Into which the spark of German- possessing big international signi- or Siberia, followed, in turn, by Italian Yugo-Slavian rivalries may fleance, has been issued by the light from the place of exile and clare that in practically every

he tossed at any mament; and Communist International without resumption of the revolutionary sport nowadays, whether in the there are indications that Germany, the most active participation of work. field, on the water, or indoors, Yugo-Slavia and others are ar. Stalln In its preparation." So explosions of the competitive ranging an alliance for their own Stalin's authority is little, if any,, Stalin was sent inte exile six Five times he succeeded in spirit have become normal rather protection. Alliances have been less absolute among Communists times. than exceptional. And, inevit. called the seeds of war, and if in foreign countries than it is in running away before his term had expired; only on the occasion of ably, they add that it was not go that be a truth, there is a good the Soviet Union.

crop already sown in Europe. A trait of Stalin's personality his last arrest was he sent to such Dear George, in the old days, when sportsman: The fact is, however, that these that seems worthy of more than a remote place, in the Turukhansk ship was a word with a real alliances are not generally known Incidental mention is his remark-district of Siberia, that he was lately through a bad cough which S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. meaning, and tempors were kept tu exist, if indeed they actually do, able addiction to detail. Things unable to flee and was enabled to I got through taking cold showers well under control. Certainly so that there is still a hope that that seem surprisingly small, by return to Russia by the March every morning same as Sandow did, the crop may be a failure. If it comparison with the larger prob- Revolutionary in 1917, which over-only he didn't catch a cold same in many departments of sport, is there surely will be no-one to lems in which he is engrossed. threw the Tsar..

us I did. complain. Unless, therefore, the evidently come to his personal at- To return six times to revolu- Now I um confined to house has been a bad one. Football of

situation alters materially before tention. Two Hustrations of this tionary activity indicates a con-through calouses which 1 got at both codes, tennis, boxing, golf, November 11, we shall still have point come to the writer's mind. siderable store of will power and the Fair. It was terrible to see all and other games have contribut something to be thankful, for and The family of a Russian scientist perseverance; and Stalin's per- the old people trying to look young ed to the long chain of "scenes" may stand in silence for those WAH threatened with evletion asverence was still more remark-and going În for the slide and the or episodes to which is usually two minutes without the torment under hard circumstances. When table during the dark period of the merry-go-round, Mra. Higgs won applied the euphemism "regret- ing fear that the peace of the appeals to all the normal authori-| revolutionary movement, after theja packet of cigareties with a shot

tica failed, a direct message table." Cricket, which used to world cannot last.

to defent of the 1906 upheaval, when įshowing her grasping nature; I Stalin brought an immediate res-lapathy and disillusionment

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PERSIAN POETS

be-

Omar

He got more out'of my gar- den than any other man I over Amployed.

Aunt Emma.

I have been confined to house

There were lata of people. In the

The Peninsula was full of Scots- men who had preferred to pay for the dance and see the Big Free Act from the Hotel rather than pay to go into the Fair.

After the Fair I was glad to get on to our own attractions and after 4 trip on the forry, I took a Peak tram and "So to bed" as Peepees hath it.

The tattoo was very impressive I thought, but it acemed a pity they couldn't burn up bits of Waachni instead of Moscow.. After all Mos cow wasn't much to do with u was it?

be synonymous with all that is fair and genial, has lately had its

ponse; the eviction was stopped, the order of the day eat were didn't try it as I was without my A foreign research worker found ning ranks of the revolutionary I went down the allde when my escutcheon sullied. And recently

himself hampered by bureaucratic parties swarmed with provucntors.pephow offered to pay for me but even yacht racing has come

red tape in getting his material | Stalin's record during the pre- there was a hole in the road which As will have been seen by a under a cloud. The only -ex-

out of the country. Again the revolutionary period may be aufd showed it needed repair.

Stalin was effective; to newa message recently, the British message to

have earned for him his planation that can be offered of Government was represented at a the red tape was cut away at one pseudonym, which means "steel" in cars but as far as I could see they the quarrelsomeness of sports-laucheon held under the auspices stroke.

Russian.

were mostly learner drivers and men is that international or in-of the Royal Central Asian Society Stalin to-day stands out, along, Stalin was a Bolshevik from the not too much of that either. dividual rivalries are becoming in the House of Lorda in memory with Mussolini and Hitler, as one time when the Russian Social too keen, and that restraint and of the great Persian puet, Fir- of the three national lenders who

(Continued on Page 5.) reticence are suffering in the dansi, whose millenary is now process. The increase of publi- ing celebrated. The celebrations city is a factor that must be may do something to correct the taken into consideration when popular impression that

Khayam is the greatest of the we attempt to compare sports- Persian poets. It seems, says n manship to-day with that of writer in the London Observer, earlier generations. Today that in Persin they do not think every "scene," whether in sport, much of Omar. His themea ure in Parliament, or elsewhere, is lacking in dignity; his narrative is recorded with the utmost speed not coherent; his muse is short on and particularity, as if it were Firdausl wrote a complete history the wing. On the other hand, the "scenes," and not the quiet of Persia in 60,000 versca at the tempered parts of the proceed-rate of a gold-piece for each verse ings, that mattered most. (he got only a silver one, but, that

to owing Further, publicity has tended to was

economical give some sportsmen an exag- Treasurer). At all events, that gerated sense of their import- Omar has written only a handful Magnant Opus, whereas ance, and to produce ebullitions of epigrams, each halting along on of temperament". But allow four lines. It is difcuit to Judge ance must be made for the much between the two pocts, for transla larger number of competitors tions of Firdausi are few, and who now take part in sports of partial and difficult of access, all sorts. The actual incidence whereas FitzGerald is on every of incidents, so to speak, may not denied that the poet who writes of And I cannot be bookshelf. ba much greater in proportion Love and Wine and Fate has an than it used to be, though advantage over him who sings of publicity, the microphone, and Sapor and Chosroes. There is Fother ubiquitous ministers of the accident-one in

modernity may make it (and occasionally supplement) him.

that Omar

found n

poot pear Bo. But when all has been said by

Id any proper system of raincarna way of extion, the poet would reappear in a planation or apologia that fature century as his own trans- сап be said, the bald, dis-lator.. turbing fact remains that most

people are inclined to take sport.

Was

an

to

competitions too seriously and the world's peoples on the sport- too often fail to put the soft ing field as a valuable means of ¡pedal on their tempers. This la producing understanding and the more regrettable in inter-amity, instead of which it seems nationable contests, for we like to have become a prolific source to think of the association of of rancour and antipathy.

"Ah, yes, I remember her. She had golden curls and sat next

us in the sixth grade geography class."

it

I read that a young fellow has Just

married a corpse and really just bears out what I said about. the modern generation. What bothers

me da whether he will

be able to get a divorce and if ep on what grounds. Anyway sho couldn't have given her consent to:.. the wedding so where do they stand?

Well if I can find a way of get- ting over these difficulties. I may yot find myself getting a man after all these years.

Trust your loving

Aunt Emma! Springtime in Hollywood Ay tank ay lof you, b

dy, wie you ware mine.. Your eyes are so blue, Your in so divine.

Zat Cupid, he go

Put me on ze spot.... But marry you? No

Ay tank not

Ay wis ay could say

Zo tings at ay fest; Ay tink, every day,,

"Zere goes my aydead."

Ze year's at ze spring;

Ay lofyou a lot o

But make you my kina

Ay tank not. 3.