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FRIDAY, FEN. 8, 1935.

THE LEAGUE TAKES HEART

TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY

FEBRUARY

NOTES OF THE DAY

WAVERTREE

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1935,

ENGLAND'S GHASTLY ROAD CASUALTIES

By “AN OLD STAGER"

The Very Idea!

JUGS AND MUGS

By Horatio (Euclid) Bogg.

VE SEE THAT, THOU

WE

SANDS OF MUGS are”

HERE are signs that a some-these road statistics without a

what apathetic publle, con- tremor of an eyebrow. science, is slowly and at last It is now some years since a awakening to the enormity of our president of the British Associato be manufactured at Home ghastly road casualties. During tion, an illustrious engineer, who in commemoration of the the 12 months just complated, our has this week boen läld to reat,

The foolish Inslateneo of the Conservative Die-Hards" in run- ning a candidate in opposition to the National Government nominee In the Wavertros by-election has produced the hot unexpected result

victory

for Labour. As a con- sequence of the split in the Con- has servative vote, the Labourite snatched the seat, in which the road casualties totulled well over in his presidential address de King's Silver Jubilee. former National member had A quartor. of

a million. The clarod that he viewed with alarm 21,000 majority at the last election. greater number of theso victims of and dismay the fact that scientife Mr. Cleary, however, is in no senso representative of the political feel- ings of the bulk of the electorate, Inasmuch as he only secured 16,611 voles, as against a total of 28,554 polled by the other three candid ates. This fact-vividly illustraten the

unsatisfactory character of the British electoral system. Regret is more or less severely Injured. Intellectuals. When one knows our last shoe-string in Poltorics, in table as the outcome is to the Gov-This means that we are now in-that three thousand of the Belisha the honest bellef that a mug should ernment, it lo difficult to see why curring, in peace time, casualties beacons, erected solely with the support a mug, but the ethor mug banavalent intention of helping to let us down badly. Shortage of clay, there would be any undue alarm on a full modern battle scale,

Our highways and byways have reduce the toll of road casualties, or some other economic considora- over the result. First of all, it has

been wantonly destroyed, to be borne in mind that so far as cost us, in human life and limb, have the Indian issue was involved, the heavier losses since the Armistice doubts really begin to assail one tion, they said, and our factory contest was largely on the purely than we sustained in South Africa as to whether we are still living forthwith closed down. Henceforth God of Mammon would not local aspect of that qucation, so during the Boer War. Facts auch in a Christian era. Yet that most our

even a clay foot to far as Lancashire interests might as these would have appalled our suggestive fact ought to convince have be affected. It is to be noted, also, ancestors of a period that the those in authority, both in Parlia upon.

regards

asmont and on the Beach, of the that the Government candidato twentieth century

ita lack of real temper and outlook of the polled more votes than the "Die almost barbarie in

type of road-hog who is mainly

Talking of muga, we are all out Hard" nominee. True, the Labour broad humanity, vote has to be placed in the balance At a time when they hanged men responsible for road casualties. against the Government poll, but for stealing a sheep, they did not

Even if my experience did not Voronoff is coming to Hongkong to for this mug-lifting operation. Dr.. Labour opposition to the Indian re-tolorate wholesale butchery of tell me that it actually is so, F form measures is based on the vigy unoffending subjects. In the should cling to the belief that make a monkey out of us, and all that they do not go far enough, Georgian epoch, some of the three- the majority of motorists are deve require now for the complete whilst Mr. Randolph Churchill bottle sportsmen started racing cent people, sincerely and con-transformation is a'surgical opera- fought from the platform that they their conches against each other sistently anxious to avoid hurting tion to remove certain defects not of the road. But after a few their fellow citizens, But the our wish when we were thrust on people had been killed and Injured cardinal mistake has been made, to this hard, cruel, unsympathetic by this sport, a learned Judge, in by those who administer the law, world. What shall it be, girls, a a Roman noge? passing exemplary sentence on one of tempering the wind to the warst Greek nose or

intimated class of offenders.

Each to his convicted sportsman;

or her own taste. case would bo a that the next

Speaking for ourself, wo prefer one a la Jimmy Durante. Ours, with gallows affair."

its classicial features, has not been our fortune, but Jimmy's bulbous pointer has been his,

By the same token, thousands the motoring Moloch were either invention and modern mechanism more are being turned out daily, elderly people or young children. had far out-stripped in achieve-whoso numbers are beyond com-

A careful computation shows ment the capacity of our genera-

twenty hour tion to use them with discretion. putation. that, allowing a

A more trenchant truism was

Take our last filing on the Stock motoring day, we have a death practically every hour, and every never uttered at any assembly of and Share Market. We Invested to two minutes of the year somebody twentieth-century scientists and

go too far.

GAINS AND LOSSES

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stand

Which goca again to prove there's no accounting for a public fad.

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Comparing party figures, it is seen that the Conservative vote, even if we take the figures of both

Especially in the earlier days the Tory candidates, has shrunk by

of the speed limit'a abolition, over nine thousand, whilst Labour That nipped road-racing by there were several notorious enses has registered an advance of over coaches in the bud. In the words of this kind. Even now we seldom a thousand. Possibly, some of the of the poet, it ceased upon the hear of any really exemplary electors who voted Conservative at midnight with no pain. This im- punishment even where the offence the last election gave their support pressive precedent might, I think, has been of the most glaring des-

Our mother-in-law who has made to the Liberal this time; at any be studied with advantage by our cription. Blass murder on the rate, there are four thousand present Minister of Transport, and roads, as Mr. Hore-Bollsha right her home with us, is very much Liberal votes to be accounted for those gentlemen of the wig and ly calls it, has been encouraged excited, all a-quiver, over the in- somehow. Whatever the explan- gown who have the administration by treating it sa something almost tended visit of the famous monkey- ation may be, Wavertree has cer- of our penal laws. Mainly the on a par with potty pilfering or gland rejuvenator. She thinks she factor to be reckoned with. In a of affairs as the road casualty lists seem infected by a strange com- deny her the necessity. We go tainly shown that Labour is ablame for such a shocking state fallure to pay rates. Even juries must consult him, and we do not long succession of by-elections, the reveal must rest with Parliament, plex which refuses to realise that further and say she may as well Labourites have consistently in which allowed itself to be bam-denth through criminal careless- make a complete job of herself, by creased their poll, even where they boozled into abolishing the speed ness or reckless abandon is none having her whole face lifted as well. have not actually registered gains. limit, at the notable instigation of the less murder because the guilty We wouldn't mind taking on the job. We would have said as much The Inference to be drawn, seems a Socialist Minister of Transport person owns or drives a car. bid for victory at the next General it was a dead letter. to be that Labour will make a bold and on the specious ground that So long as this attitude endures, to the wife, only she has joined

and motoring crimes rank judicial. her mother in her hysteries. All the intensive Ingenuity ofly as penal onca only, the com- the present Minister of Transport paratively small minority of road has failed to check the evil. The criminals will continue to queer having previously seen the mother- Talking of this marrying without In-law: if only half of the erstwhile the high-water mark of what he It might asalst towards a bachelors were allowed (as they has aptly called "mass murder on healthier state of things on the should do for a humanitarian res

roads, and help to awaken the son) to do so, and thus be given

Another year in the life of the League of Nations, which started work early in 1920, has come to an end. Verdicts on the past twelve months will naturally differ. Some critics will concentrate their attention upon the dismal early months of 1984, when the League seemed | Election. at times stunned and helpless in

in so many European countries.

the roads."

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their

face of violence and bloodshed such recent history that no more two inst weeks of the year reached the pitch for everybody, Others will feel, with a not un-than a bare mention should here natural elation, that the League be necessary. Suffice to say Council's courageous action in that the agreements about the connection with the chief Euro-Saar and the Yugo-Slav-Hungar- pean danger-apata during Decemian dispute transformed the ber more than atoned for those European-situation. They gave earlier shortcomings. Almost an impetus to the negotiations all will agree that, taking the between France and Italy, and past year as a whole, it was a kindled the hope that the New better year for the League than Year would see a Franco-German the two which immediately pre- understanding. If expectations ceded it. Let us, first of all, are realised, no praise will be pass quickly over the more too high for the spadework done gloomy side of the Geneva by the League. In a leas record. The Disarmament Con- spectacular way, the Permanent ference, in the absence of Ger- Court of International Justice at many, was little more than a The Hague handled two disputes succession of hesitations and with a commercial basis, one delays. Not until November between France and Greeco, and It is amazing that an age which Hooliganism Was never yet was the decision reached to try the other between Great Britain boasts Its enlightened and pro- cured by kindness. Nor yet by through with the dough, to get a series of separate pro-and Belgiunt. France secured gressive humanity should tolerate (Continued on nezt column) tocols, in default of the com-the verdict in the first, but the prehensive convention that at second judgment has not yet one time was anticipated. A been delivered. An umpire was disappointing verdict upon near-also appointed in a commercial ly three years' work, but not

dispute involving the Persian necessarily a final one. If the

Government. Franco-German rapprochement

An inadequate summary must suffice for the

this grave problem is not the lists type of rond-hog, if the insurance brides-to-be would look like when

The really disturbing phase of dormant consciences of a certain mental close-up of what of killed and injured. Much more laws were amended. Third party they had attained equal maturity, sinister is the apathy with which risks must, in the interest of in- they would now still be single. But it, and still more the determined and their dependants, be made makes mugs of us well. public opinion appears to regardnocent and helpless third parties It is just like human nature, which hostility manifested by pearly all insurable. But how much more ficial efforts to improve matters. is employer, realised that any clay and the mug that is our face the motoring interests to all of care and foresight might be exer- Thousands

cised, if the driver of a car, or Having shown that the mug in of people become hysterical over the execution of a damage to the vehicle, or himself, having both equally failed us in our convicted murderer, but, so far as unless incurred through no fault hour of impecunionity, let's any overt symptoms show, the on his part, would not be recover talk of beaks (derived from beakers, public conscience is completely able from any sort of insurance another species of mug). To begin indifferent to a weekly average of policy? If added to this there with, we don't like that beak of 150 to 160 deaths on the roads, were the sure and certain know yours (which had been sterped too not to mention four or five thou-ledge that any culpable driving long in the jug or mug we had just sand casualties which, though not would be drastically visited by the filled), or that other beak up there fatal, may be even more pitiable law, we should soon be able to who fined us the other day for than a more or less swift death: . dispense with the Bolisha beacons. seeing too much of this jug or mug

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In the main, the Far Eastern

the

becomes a reality, 1935 may add lesser known activities of the

more encouraging footnote.League. The report of

Malaria Commission may be problem was ignored by the cited as an illustration of only League. Only Salvador recog-one angle of the League's fight nised "Manchukuo". A working

against disease. Another docu- arrangement regarding Man- churian mails was reached atment fasued at Geneva showed. The Charnaux Corselette is Geneva. The Permanent Man-how the League, in the course of

a few years, had revolutionised dates Commission was far from very simple to put on, being satisfied with

the international campaign the Japanese hooked up at the side. In administration.. of Pacific man-good work was done for the against the drug traffic. Much addition, it has a small length dates, and exposed the Japanese settlement of refugees, and new of lacing at the back, adjust representative at its meeting to steps were taken against the able to provide proper control a ruthless cross-examination. traffic in women. With steady

The League's least satisfactory of the diaphragm. It is made efforts at peace-making. were bour Organisation continued its progress, the International La- in peach-coloured latex with exerted to stop the Chaco war battle for fair and humane con- between Bolivia and Paraguay,ditions of labour. It enlisted Owing to the attitude of certain the United States of America, States, valuable time was wasted

in addition to Russia, 'Afghanis- before the arms embargo could tan and Ecuador who also joined be made anything like effective. the League. New conventions. resisted all attempts at media ratified by a number of states. were adopted, and early oxes tion. So this serial story will The LL.O. has weathered the

silk cups.

aux Meanwhile, Paraguny's obstinacy

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"I thought our modern school had got away from this sort of thing.

now

when It was filed. Ho even threatened us with the jug when we told him we were not coming.

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Having now proved to the hilt, and by the best of Euclid's methods (vide if two angles are equal to a third, thay are equal to one an- other), that a' mug, a jug and a beak are all inter-related, wo can now begin all over again- Editor: No you won't! Mathematician: But here is a fino solution--

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Editor: You can add Q. E.`D. and leave it at that,

even. the most elaborate permis- sive regulations. Nothing but stern measures will put into the heart of the motor-hooligan a de cont regard for the lives and limbs of his or her fellow citizens.. Unless the law can terrorise the hooligan, the hooligan will con- tinue with ever Increasing audas city and recklessness to terrorizo the public,

It is an elementary theory of all olvilised government that its first duty is to protect its people." Nolther this nor any other Govern- ment will ever achieve that frat | principle of statesmanship by erecting orange groves of Bolishe beacons In 1985 we have either: to adopt measures which will cause our roads to conan totalling the casualties of a battle of Water foo evory quarter, or to cut out all tho canting hypocrisy about social progress and cultured uplift, and

own that our twentieth frankly century: attitudo is the old pagani one of ruthless, vas vietii: "At" present we are breaking on the wheelia quarter of a million of our fellow subjects every year.