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THE WAR IN SOUTH AMERICA

SO LONG SPEAKS

By George

severe attack on cabaret dancing by the editor of University magazine.

aircraft defences. Even in Hong- keng we have seen steps taken to that "Japan is our most dangerous through Congress, with scarcely Morrison Centenary Num- experiment with the Colony's enemy and our planes should be a murmur, in a typically Roosevel- ber finds an answer from a weapons which would meet an air designed to attack her," the effect tinn demonstration to the art of female of the species who attack. There is a feeling abroad that the menace of war will come in the United States was eimllar killing two birds with one stone. I sends her replies to some of from the sky: and little wonder! to that created by a person who The President feeds the starving the worst allegations under Ching has cause to know what air drops a loaded ten-tray in a sick-and he gets the ships ho wants the name of So Long. attacks can do to a city. More and room.

There is another administration more the Central Government Is

The General (Army Air Corps move which la especially note- using the aerial weapon in its wars upon Communists in the in-retired), who was court-martialled worthy, although scant attention terior. and more and more the nine years ago for letting hisj has been paid to it here. That in authorities are realising the do- fencelessness of the modern Chinese tongue run away with him, had the survey of the Aleutian Islands

a prospective United States Cabaret Danclag. cities against the flying bomber. fractured the queer hush that as Nanking's defences, it was found surrounds the subject of Japan. naval base. Early in September Ed: First of all it degrades the over the week-end in experimental It is one of those problems which the seven naval vessels operating position of women. manoeuvres, were by no means most intelligent mon think about, in Alaskan waters completed their dependable. In fact, the clty was not even given warning in time but few care to discuss in public. survey and a report (not, of course, the feet of the women.

to douse its lights from the sight of the attackers. The ricksha;

coolies and the people of the poorer quarters neted swiftly when the alarm was given, and their lamps were extinguished before the power station could shut down It is they, poor souls, who have most need to fear the fire that drons from the sky.

UP-TO-DATE

An

and an

Bensin walked

Suraly Intelligent

into

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America has come a long way

On made public)

the strategic rince the chaplain in Congress in value of the islands was sub- McKinley's time prayed: "Lord,mitted to Mr. Claude A. Swanson. make us quick to resont insults," the Secretary of the Navy.

Ed: In my opinion Cabaret Dancing has a bad influence on the community. nya

Sa: In

my opinion the

com- a bad influence ол

So: First of all they trend on

Ed: Through Cabarçt Dancing.

the consolation of men, will be placed at men's service simply for women, the faithful companions,

So: Men, the faithless com-

The day after the General made his This move brought an immediate a few farthings, modest proposal that 50 dirigibles response from Tokyo, Japan ́an- should be built to destroy Japan in nounced plans to construct power-panion, the desolation of women, two days, he was sternly rehnked ful naval bases on Hokkaido Island can throw their feet at anybody by the New York newspapers and in the Kurtle Island "to cope for a few cents (not always palā). Ed: From a noble high respect- "Doing the Devil's work," com- with the menace of the United:

women vill be mented the Post. Japan is not States in establishing bases in the able position,

to become our enemy," proclaimed the World; Aleutian Islands," to quote a lead-thrown to the dust

menjal servants, easily sent from Ing Japanese newspaptr. It was one corner of the room to the Teicgran

atated that the navy was sending other.

If America in her present mood Admiral Shiozawa to the islands to were not so profoundly attached to pick out a suitable spot for a base.

comes the

have story down."

So: From a docent vertical position, an awkward partner will often make us bite the dust. They find it less caay to steer us from

no corner to the other.

Ed: Now when ladies can be

led to sell their bodies and souls will worabi mammon and prize for gain, it is probable that they nothing but gold.

So: Now when men can be per- sunded to sell their feet for our gain, it is probable we shall wor- ship mat and cease to prize Dr. Schloss so much,

Sa: So low that he has to in-

Bolivia, which is in armed posses-so-called "advanced" reactionaries no provocative screaming of the years. of frigid non-recognition,fication, will be things of the past.

DUMB-BELLES LETTRÉS By Juliot Lowell. Who Wont

Chinese hotel a day or two ago and shot a general dead. China, too, Is up-to-date in this matter of political expediency. If a man or a monarch is in the way, shoot him down. The same thing is preached among certain factions: in Europe and America. In the Peace it would, I suppose, be easy at their nearest point the Kurlle recon! U.S. federal elections we enough to create a first-class war Islands are about 650 miles from the sinister The cables from the Aleutians. So blood- scare here. example of this thirsty paychology. Win at any Tokyo are constantly bringing game of chess in the Pacific goes price. If your opponents may get provocative statements from some on, and the bright eyes of Nippon more votes at the poils than you flame-breathing militarist or an watch with a cat-like intentness wish, turn a machine gun on ilm and his supporters. If you are an other, the Japanese counter-parts every American move that has any Both from the standpoint of exile from a state, you have every of General Mitchell. One rende of conceivable bearing on the situa- preventing the Gran Chaco dis- reason to wish the monarch of that the great success of books describition. pute from involving other coun-state a quick and violent death.ng the triumph of Japan over the You shoot him. That is why King United States in "the great war of

It is sometimes asserted that the tries, and for the sake of its own! Alexander died. And now a little 1936, and of department stores prestige, it is to be hoped that boy in un his throne. Is there staging hideously life-like tableaux Japanese are a silent race and the Americans a voluble one, but in the

Ed: Added to this, Cabaret the League of Nations, which someone, somewhere plotting to of the same confilet. enhanced its reputation in Latin kill this Innocent, Instrument of And, stealing gradually closer, Pacific the roles are reversed. cannot but lend men to form a

It is not Inconceiv-

cold shadow of the The Tokyo militarists appear to law opinion of women. America by settling the Leticia government? question, will succeed in its able. We know, or rather we guess, Naval Conference. Japan demands talk incessantly, and to find griev

what happened to the Russian equality with the United States ances in the most unexpected quar dulge frequently to confirm his efforts to put an end to the war princca. In civilisation-the civi and Britain! And, if that demand ters. The Roosevelt Administra-Idens in the matter, between Bolivia and Paraguay.iisation of the mind, the taming of is rejected, will the signal be givention says nothing about Japan be

Ed: The chivalrous spirit which During the sitting of the Assem-the savage spirit, nearer to accom- for a race of naval armaments yond the friendly commonplaces of stimulates men to win fair ladies bly in September, the Argentine plishment? Or is humanity stand that can end only in war, bank-diplomacy, but It continues to lay by brave deeds, the readings with Republic, which is deeply inter-ing still

One cannot its dofence plans. ruptcy or revolution?

which mon do for the female sex," ested in the issue, offered a plan DEFEAT OWN ENDS

help noticing a contrast between

The Japaneso have another will be things of the past. American sentiment and American for the adjustment, of the dis-

to the pute, which had been referred to

So: The strong spirit which have policy. When the United States preoccupation. Visitors men

her' entire

naval United States from Japan invari stimulates men to skin fair ladies the Assembly by Bolivia. Both realised that terrorism defeats its transferred belligerents have voiced approval own ends. Surely the day of re-strength to the Pacifle the news ably inquire, urbanely, of course, by hacking them round the floor: of a settlement by the League, form by blandsher among ad- papers here loyally "played the why Uncle Sam and the Russian the readiness with which we sacri The wishes of the Bear are hugging one another sofies allk stockings for their grati vanced" peoples should

after Aeventcon but they disagree on procedure.

Ourself: So, Ed, up and at ̋emi. passed, And yet it is among these Government that there should be affectionately sion of a large part of the Chaco, that terrorism finds most nourish cagle were respected. But the Can It possibly have anything to prefers Article XV, in the hope ment. Revolutionists, and all naked act remained for the world do with Japan's Asiatic offensive?

to note. Its meaning was certain-luquire the bland volees. that a settlement might divide embryonic political murderers,

On several occasions I have been the disputed territory; Paraguay should take a course in history. not lost on the Tolve Foreign

Office.

asked by friends at Washington demands arbitration or settle- They would learn that the terrorist

accomplishes what he As further index of United what Britain would do in the event ment by the Permanent Court, soldum thinking that its legal claims to plans; that almost invariably he Stutes policy there is the decision of war between Japan and the Pension Bureau,

touches off a chain of events in of the Administration to build the United States. Does anybody Washington, D. C. the whole Chaco would be upheld which his own, ideals are over navy up to the full strength por- know the

answer? Since the Gentlemen: by such a method. The special whelmed. Charlotte Corday killed mitted under the London Treaty. Manchurian adventure, it has been Please put us on the pension st committee of the League new Murat to end the bloodshed of the President Roosevelt's blue-water assumed here that the British as my husband and me fought all comes forward with a suggestion French revolution, and a bloodier policy has been cleverly Incorpor- Government La even that a neutral supervisory com- terror than Marat ever dreamed ated in the recovery programms. pathetic to Japan than It shows through the war.

Hedda H mittee be appointed to enforce killed Lincoln to avenge the wrongs of public works! It All the Washington friends ask, however, of was the consequence. Booth Ship-building has become a branch itself in ita public avowala. My the cessation of hostilities by the of the Southern States, and the stomachs of destitute families in if that sympathy could possibly creation of a neutral zone to immediate result was a radicat the dock towns. Therefore it is survive the breakdown of the which no further supplies of war reaction. in Washington which dimcalt for the peacelovers to Naval Conference and the Implied material be sent. It also urges caused untold misery among the remonstrate without appearing to threat to the security of Australia that within a month of this step Southerners. Russian terrorials deny bread to the hungry. being taken, peace negotiations killed the Czar and his nobles to be opened, and that a further bring the nation liberty, and to- two months be given for the day the revolution's heroes dare not cross the Soviet border. And belligerents to reach a decision.so it goes. The fanatic tries to In order that matters be brought mend by drastic action and creates to head, the committee suga turmoll in which his own cause, gests that if one party accepts with all its merits, is swamport, the Assembly's recommendations and probably lost utterly and for- and the other does not, the em- bargo on arms be raised in

WHICH WAS WHICHP respect of the country, which accepts. It is interesting, in Dean Inge has added a new sug connection with the latter point, geation to one of the most spirited to recall that Bolivia has already times. It is the theory that Shake- | Ilterary controversies of modern voiced objection to the Lenguespeare wrote the works attributed sponsoring an arms embargo to Bacon. This hypothesis," says without first ascertaining which the Morning Post, "discomfits country is in the wrong, since Baconiana, not by refuting their to withhold arms from the party arguments, but by adopting them." beeu which is not the aggressor might The evidence that 3108 be discrimination. Actually, of accumulated in proving that Bacon was Shakespeare can be mnde course, no executive action can equally valid in proving that be taken by the League on the Shakespeare Was Bacon

The matter; such action has to be philosophy that ruus through taken through the individual Shakespeare's worke makes it decision of its members. None oasily conceivable that he could the less, the embargo at present write philosophy as such. At all in force has invested the events there is a new angle in- decisions of the Governments Jected into a great literary contro-

veray with a collective and interna-ed when Punch declared that it was which was by no means ond- tional character, not as an act of persuaded that Shakespeare did commercint policy, but as a step not write the works attributed to taken to assist general action him, but what they were written for the purpose of terminating a by another man of the same name. war and helping to achieve the

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principal purposes of the League belligerents have by solemn pact Covenant. But there is a larger outlawed war as a means of set- principle at stake than that of tling quartels; it thus follows the arms embargo, important as that in continuing to engage, in that is. The fact is that the 'nostilities, both are in the wrong.

and Canada.

"Oh, it was such fun. Everybody just stared at us.

more sym-

(signed).

10-23

My husband and me fought

all through the war.

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