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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER

NOTES OF THE DAI

COURAGEOUS WORDS

22,...

1934.

INSANE INVESTMENT

IN WORLD WAR

The Very Idea!

BUMB-BELL LETTRES

By Juliet Lowell

R. K. O. Moving Picture Studio Hollywood, Cal."

Gonte. I have the chicken farm, you the girls. If you can spare one for marigeable purpose, I'll keep you supplied with fresh eggs.

Hiram Pickford.

The Japanese Ambassador at

By AN OLD SOLDIER Washington, Mr. Salto, bas out- apokenly-condemned the Jingoiata

THOSE who talk learnódly upon the allies expended in taking it of his own country, and at the same To who talk

tro alle Germans I have over time has declared that the Naval debts. I cannot, somehow, con heard. Certainly there must have | Conference in London must succeed. celve of the vast sums expended bean another huge sum involved. | The peace of the world is at stake. in the Insane-destruction of the Who, I ask in all good faith, can ho declares, Mr. Saito may not World War as being in any sense be expected to pay again the money of thrown away in the insanity of that indebtedness. This in apite epenk on behalf of his Government, such political sophiatries, which campaign? but his opinion can be taken asemanate from econòmic Ignorance, typical of that of far-sighted as "They borrowed it, didn't they? In 1917 I, with a companion, went into a quiet sector of the line near Japanese and is most welcome at Well, let them pay it back." this stage.

of Lens. We were Bank of United States It should give the The question of War debts goes the outskirts delegates at the London conversa-deeper than that; very much deep soldiers bent on a most unwarlike

ilens encouragement and it shoulder. War debts were rather well mission. We were going to gather summed up by the light remark strawberries. We found the place,

You've Plenty of Company..

Now York City

Gentlemen:

Donald Farway.

(signed)

In reply to your query do much to put at rest the ever-which I overheard from the lips a long, street of what had been whether I realized anything on my recurring alarmist accusations of a British officer on the Vimy miners' cottages. Now they were Investment, I most assuredly did. directed against Japan by Ameri-front. The officer, newly over but long rows of disconsolate I realized what a fool I have been. can militarists. Mr. 'Salto assailed from England, was watching the wrecks, leaning awry, the light of the Japanese sword-rattlers, it fatile shelling of a German plane day streaming through the shatter by Our anti-aircraft guns. Afed roofs, the brick walls breached sceme, and deprecated the belliger brother officer remarked as they by gaping shell holes. In the

yarda ence of individuals and nations. watched that the shells used by at the back we found the straw- Every thinking man must agree that particular gun cost one pound, berries, luscious, ripe fruit, the result of the loving care that had with him that incalculable harm is sterling each.

The British officer continued to gone into their cultivation. And Dear Mr. Cassidy:

ho' around every yard was a fringe of done by those who persist in talk-watch. And as he watched ing in terms of arms and force. counted the white puffs that mush rose bushes, their blossoms now undertaker docan't. In every nation there is too much roomed out against the sky from rapidly going back to the wild state. tha of that consciousness of fighting the bursting ahella. When he had Nothing I saw in all the war had a

counted he shrugged his shoulders more saddening effect than power, too frequently a desire to and said lightly, "Well, there goes, night of those descinto houses and

bereft of all caro put it to the test, too narrowly my share in the war debts,"

Kardena proud an outlook in international I marched through hundreds of manifestation of affection in the affairs, a eclfishness that makes it miles of desolation during my nightmare of war.

To rebuild those cottages and Dry-Brite Liquid Wax Company. years of service on the western

those gardens

Dear Sira: men impossible for two peoples, aven front. I saw plains of desolation make lovely

and

Reply.

I see no objections, if the

John Puray Mitchel.

(signed)

Shoo-Fly.

of the same race, to live in pence with but the shattered remnants must return to sanity and by the I notice that you want house- within their own frontiera. Mr. of walls protruding from the earth, work of their hands make them hold hints to use in your adver

here and there. And I was told habitable once mare.

Is it to be tising. Well, here is one. You Satto has struck a ringing noto of at here had stood a city. Some expected that anyone could again know that this time of your we reasqurance. It la wisdom that be where millions of wage earnors pay the staggering sums that were speaks and only fools will refuse had invested their savings to buy expended in the mere act of deas to listen,

guns and explosives that a thriving truction? city should be utterly destroyed.

DISARMAMENT

that her demand for freedom from

une, unanswerable

war debts,"

•

80 much of

this

have lots of flies in the house and

on the ceilings, Fill a tumbler

with soapy water. Climb up on a chair and clap the glass around

Very truly yours,

Androw.

Are

When all the arguments are ex- The work in those years was the ly. It will be surprised and pended, when all the bickering suffering from a temporary Inpso fall in to soapy water and will and recriminations have been of sanity. Men, struggling in the us so stung by the soap that it THURSDAY, Nov. 22, 1934.

Now it is Austria's turn to shout heard and handled, there remains grip of a nightmare, did hideous can not climb cut. You

fact:. "There! THAT FASCIST PLOT for security. It is not unlikely went the share of those inecators in things. And who was the more welcome to use this hint as you

responsible, the man who pulled the see fit. lanyard on a howitzer, the inter- So many alarming statements

national banker who floated the have been attributed to General the fettera of post-War armament

Marching Into the Somme In the loans for the manufacture of guns tho Smedley Butler that there will restrictions has been incited by

summer of 1916 my company paused and shells and uniforms, or be a natural inclination to dis- Italy. In any event the request

As we equally misguided inventor who count much of the colourful story cannot be surprising when it is for a rest by the roadside. which he told a Senate committee remembered that all about her rested I idly watched a gang of placed the savings of years in the labourers who were building a rend, hands of the munition makers? 1, nations are arming to the teeth.

who witnessed concerning a plot to raise

They were digging up bricks and Atones from the roadside, where no desolation, who walked unwittingly Fascist Army for the purposes The vicious circle again! Mean- of overthrowing the United while, it would seem that Jr. wall or stick remained above the finto the nightmare, am able to make States Government. The Bug-Schuschnigg's followers are about surface,. Then it dawned upon meno clear differentiation. gestion was that he should lead to test their strength against the suddenly what they were doing. If to-day a man in the grip of a These men were digging up the nightmare were to set fire to lis some half a million ex-Service-Vice Chancellor's

a house which contained all the goods army bricks and stones from which men in a march to Washington Prince von Starhemberg, leader of village had been built, to make a he possessed, his act would be for the purpose of acizing control the Heimwehr, a royalist and a highway for the guns to pass to properly evaluated. If in the on- Buing conflagration the whole town of the Government, for which he friend of Signor Mussolini, may destroy more villages and towns.

How much of the world's savings in which he lived were reduced to was to be paid three million dol-feel that it is time for him to take it took to demolish that town, to ashes, his fellow townsmen, survey.. lars, and that the movement his place at the head of a Fascist reduce it from streets of human ing the ruins and taking into con- would he financed by a Wall Austria. In any event Dr. Schus habitations to a hear of rubble from the culprit, would be forced to ar- alderation the mental condition of Street syndicate. Already there chnigg's Fatherland Front has which to draw road-building ma have been heated denials of the clashed with the men who cry terial, no one will ever know. It rive at but one conclusion. The were town was destroyed. To place the would be interesting, if it story. Yet, reading between the "Hell Starhemberg," and the ten possible, to isolate that particular blame on the incendiary might re- lines, it looks as if some suchston has not lessened since the item of war debts and ascertain just love their purely human indigna- movement was at any rate con- street fight at Innsbruck,

whose money backed the destruction tion. But to rebuild the town they templated. Indeed, secret agents

and try to figure how to pay it back, would have to forget their anger

One night on Hill-70,-1-cowered and go to work

Having built the town, of what shattered bit of trench while

of the Senate committee are

little

In

9-2

Climb up on a chair and clap the plans around the fly.

Not So Simple. American Lady Corset Company the German guns swept us with a use trying to collect from the man Wanchai deadly hall from dusk to dawn: who had started the fire? All his Gentlemen: The hill itself was swept clean of goods had been lost in the flames. anything that resembled life. There He might, by diligent application What kind of corset have was no blade of green on its whole to his business upon the return of you that I can wear? I have no ravaged expanse. It was criss his sanity, be able to replace once figure and want to improve it. crossed with barbed wire entangle more that which he himself had ments and the crumbling slots of lost. But to consider holding him trenches and strewn with abandon- responsible for the cast of rebuild- ed equipment-untold Rums of, ing the whole town would be maní: money in that item alone. It was festly ridiculous. The just claims estimated after the engagement of innocent men, their indignation that the German guna had belched or understandable wrath would cut 20 000 shells upon shattered no figure. Economic common sense from would tell them that what they was out of the question. (Continued on Page 9).

said to have discovered certain LOOKING BACK facts bearing some resemblance to a plot of the character men- While we are on this subject of tioned. That any such a ridicul- į disarmament, or rearmament, ous effort would be foredoomed whichever is preferred, it is inter- by fallure is obvious, for the esting to cast back a few years and armed forces of the State would review the proposals which have be more than sufficient to cope been put forward from time to time with a development of this in an effort to remedy the situation. character. It has to be borne in Britain started the fashion by sug mind, however, that certain Wall Street interests have all along gesting the abolition of submarines the line endeavoured to obstruct and gas and chemical warfare. the Roosevelt Administration in Britain subsequently said she was ill in an attempt to retake carrying out its plans for in-prepared to reduce the size of war-the nilles-millions of dollars' worth desired dustrial and social reform, and ships and guns and to carry out n of destruction. How many shella there is little doubt but that twenty-five per cent, reduction in

these reactionaries would be pre- general armaments. Britain urged pared to lend their aid to any the establishment of a maximum scheme which might lead to the military strength for all nations. overthrow of the present regime. America sought restriction of the A further point is that there is size of tanks and heavy mobile in the United States to-day afguns, agreed to the abolition of large body of disgruntled ex submarines and poison gas, sought Servicemen, and whilst it is not to Umit expenditure on armas manu- to be presumed that they would facture. America moved, tos, to- lend themselves to treasonable wards new proportional reduction

of movies and the imitation of

activities, subversive elements who would stoop to almost any- thing in pursuit of their ends armica. France made one of the may well have thought of the most advanced contributions to the possibility of enlisting their aid talk of disarmament by suggesting in attempts to overthrow con- that all bly aeroplanes, warships stituted authority. It is clear and submarines should be handed from tendencies apparent in over to the League of Nations. various parts of the world that The suggestion was said to be im extremists of the Right are no practicable. France, too, auggest- fleas a danger to the stability of ed an international, police force to Governments than those of the prevent war and an international Left. Thus we find movements army to repress war.

Franco, her of the Fascist type quite pre-war wounds scarcely healed, begged pared to resort to unconstitution-the nations to agree to prohibit the al means in their efforts to seize use of serial artillery and polarn control of the administrative gas as a weapon against civilians. machine. The use of force for Britain has reduced her armaments, this purpose is openly advocated. and in consequence is suffering Even the Mosley Blackshirts in from norvous disorder under the England would make short work shadow of Continental militarist of all that democracy stands for development. The United States is if they had their way. What-planning to increase all her fighting [ever, therefore, be the truth of forces, on the land, sea and in the theso American allegations, there air. France was the first nation is need for the people of all to mount and fire flying artillery deadly ¡democratic countries to be on and has developed the most

in battle. Achievement: And would deprive them of their now a breakdown in naval converso- liberties, whether they emanate tions may precipitate an armaments from the Right or the Loft. race,

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. their guard against plots which of gases known to science for use

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"Now isn't that just as good as any quail you would have

shot on a bunting

Yours truly, Anne S-

(signed)

How Philosophical! Steam Laundry Honolulu, Hawall Gentlemen:

In answer to your letter asking me if I'm worried about the $10.00 I owe you, let me reply that. I'm not. There's no use our both worrying about it.

Yours truly,

Max Dunned.

(algoed)

In The Butta.

"You know, Mille, Ida is such a cat. Always got some story about other people. What do you think ale told me about Doroon?"

"What did she tell you?"

"Well, you know Doreen's got a brother who's a nudist or some- thing-"

:

"Hold on a minute. Here come some more of these blasted birds. What are we supposed to do?" :

"Oh, just take a pot. Don't point the thing at me, Mille; atm at the birds-that's right. Miles too late, of course. What man can seo In this business always bests

mo.".

"Oh, they think it's manly, or something. Makes them feel im- portant; game laws, and all that. I'm only here on Poppet's account. 1of course. Men, go all protective and sentimental when they see a young thing with a gun."

"That's right, Mille. We got rid of Pamela that way, Sho criod-out of shear exasperation and Roderick proposed on the spot.

·'about: this brother Doreen'

NOW.

(They got down to it.)