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FRIDAY, FED. 8, 1935.

THE LEAGUE TAKES

HEART

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY

NOTES OF THE DAY

WAVERTREE

1935.

ENGLAND'S GHASTLY ROAD CASUALTIES

By AN OLD STAGER”

The Very Idea!

JUGS AND MUGS

By Horatio (Euclid) Bogg

The foolish Insistence of the Conservative "Die-Hards" in run- ning a candidate in opposition to the National Government nominee In the Wavertree by-election has produced the not unexpected result science, is slowly and at last It is now some youra since of a victory for Labour. As a con- awakening to the enormity of our president of the British Associato be manufactured at Home sequence of the split in the Con- ghastly road casualties. During tion, an illustrious engineer, who in commemoration of the sorvative vote, the Labourite has the 12 months just completed, our has this week been laid to rest.

de- King's Silver Jubilee. anatched the seat, in which the rond casualties totalled well over in his presidential address" former National member had a quarter of a million. Theclared that he viewed with alarm 23,000 majority at the last election. greater number of those victims of and diemay the fact that scientific Mr. Cleary, however, is in no sense the motoring Molech were either invention and modern mechanism representative of the political feel- elderly people or young children. had far out-stripped in achieve Ings of the bulk of the electorate.

A careful computation shows ment the capacity of our genera.... Inasmuch as he only secured 15,611

a twenty hour tion to use them with discretion, votes, as against a total of 28,664 that, allowing

A trenchant day, death polled by the other, three candid practically every hour, and every never ulierto chant truism was

HERE are signs that a some-these road statistics without a TITE SEE THAT THOU-

what apathetic publle con- tremor of an oyabrow,–

SANDS OF MUGS are

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By the same token, thousands more are being turned out daily. whose numbers are beyond.com/ putation.

Our highways and byways have reduce the toll of road casualties, cost us, in human life and limb, have been wantonly destroyed, or some other economic considera- heavier losses since the Armistice doubts really begin to assail one tion, they said, and our factory than wo sustained in South Africa as to whether wo are still living forthwith closed down. Henceforth Yet that most our God of Mammon would not during the Boer War, Facts such in a Christian era. as these would have appalled our suggestive fact ought to convince have even a clay foot to stand ancestors of a period that the 'those in authority, both in Parila- century regards as, ment and on the Bench, of the twentieth almost barbaric in Its lack of real temper and outlook of the broad humanity.

проп.

Take our last fling on the Stock knows our last shoe-string in Potteries, in- the unsatisfactory character of the two minutes of the year somebody twentieth-century scientists and and Share Market. We invested to British electoral system. Regret-more or less severely injured. Intellectualk When one

as the outcome is to the Gov-This means that we are now in- that three thousand of the Delisha the honest bellef that a mug should ernment, it is difficult to see why curring, in peace time, casualties beacons, erected solely with the support a mug, but the other mug benevolent intention of helping to let us down badly. Shortage of clay, there would be any undue alarm on a full modern battle scale. over the result. First of all, it has to be borne in mind that so far as the Indian issue was involved, the contest was largely on the purely local aspect of that question, so far as Lancashire interests might be affected. It is to be noted, also, that the Government candidate polled more votes than the "Die

type of road-hog who is mainly

Talking of mugs, we are 'all out Hard" nominee. True, the Labour vote has to be placed in the balance At a time when they hanged men responsible for road casualties.

Even if my experience did not for this mug-lifting operation. Dr. against the Government, poll, but for stealing a sheep, they did not Labour opposition to the Indian re-tolerate wholesale butchery of tell me that it actually is so, Voronoff is coming to Hongkong to In the should cling to the belief that make a monkey out of us, and all farm measures is based on the view unoffending subjects. that they do not go

far enough, Georgian epoch, some of the three- the majority of motorists are deve require now for the complate whilst Mr. Randolph Churchill bottle aportamen started racing cont people, sincerely and con-transformation is a surgical opera- fought from the platform that they their coaches against each other sistently anxious to avold hurting tion to remove certain defects hot 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 Roman nos? pasaing exemplary sentence on one of tempering the wind to the worst Greek nose or

taste. Each to his or her own convicted sportsman, intimated class of offenders.

Speaking for ourself, we prefer one that the next

a la Jimmy Durante, Ours, with gallows fair.

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

go too far.

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GAINS AND LOSSES

Comparing party figures, it is seen that the Conservative vote, even if we take the figures of both the Tory candidates, has shrunk by over nine thousand, whilst Labour hae registered an advance of over a thousand. Possibly, some of the electors who voted Conservative at the last election gave their support to the Liberal this time; at any rate, there ате four thousand Liberal votes to be accounted for Another year in the life of somehow. Whatever the explan. the League of Nations, which ation may be, Wavertree has cet

tainly shown that Labour is started work early in 1920, has factor to be reckoned with. In a come to an end. Verdicts on long succession of by-elections, the Labourites have consistently In- the past twelve months will creased their poll, even where they naturally differ. Some critice have not actually registered gains. will concentrate their attention The inference to be drawn seems upon, the dismal carly months of to be that Lalour will make a bold bid for victory at the next General 1984, when the League seemed ↑ Election, nt times stunned and helpless in face of violence and bloodshed such recent history that no more in so many European countries.

than a bare mention should here Others will feel, with a not un- natural clation, that the League be necessary. Suffice to say Council's courageous action in that the agreements about the

on

case would be a

Which goes again to prove there's

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Especially in the earlier days of the speed limit's abolition, That nipped road-racing by there were several notorious cases coaches in the bud. In the words of this kind. Even now we seldom of the poet, it ceased upon the hear of any really exemplary no accounting for a public fad. midnight with no pain. This im- punishment even where the offence pressive precedent might, I think, has been of the most glaring des-

the Our mother-in-law who has made be studied with advantage by our cription. Mass murder on present Minister of Transport, and roads, as Mr. Hore-Belisha right- her home with us, is very much those gentlemen of the wig and ly calls it, has been encouraged excited, all a-quiver, over this in- gown who have the administration by treating it as something almost teniled visit of the famous monkey- of our penal laws. Mainly the on a par with petty pilfering or gland rejuvenator. She thinks she blame for such a shocking state failure to pay rates. Even juries must consult him, and we do not of affairs as the road casualty lists seem Infected by a strange com-deny her the necessity. We go reveal must rest with Parliament, plex which refuses to realise that further and say she may as well which allowed Itself to be bam- death, through criminal careless- make a complete job of herself, by boozled into abolishing the speed ness or reckless abandon is none having her whole face lifted as wel Hmit, 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 a Socialist, Minister of Transport person owns or drives a car.

So long as this attitude enduros, to the wife, only she has joined and on the specleus ground that it was a dead letter.

and motoring erimes rank judicial her mother in her hysterics, All the intensive Ingenuity of ly as penal ones only, the com- the present Minister of Transport paratively small minority of road

Talking of this marrying without has falled check the evil. The criminals, will continue to queer having previously seen the mother- two last weeks of the year reached the pitch for everybody,

n-law: if only half of the erstwhile the high-water mark of what he It might assist towards Q

bachelors were allowed (as they has aptly called "mass murder on healthier state of thinga on the should do for a humanitarian res- roads, and help to awaken the The really disturbing phase of dormant consciences of a certain ann) to do so, and thus be given a mental close-up of what their this Krave problem is not the lists type of road-hog, if the insurance rides-to-be would look like when But

the roads."

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S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. connection with the chief Euro-Sunr and the Yugo-Slav-Hungar- killed and injured. Much more laws were amended. Third party, they had attained equal maturity, pean danger-spots during Décem-ian- dispute transformed the public opinion appears to regard necent and helpless third-parties It is just like human nature, which-

sinister is the apathy with which risks must, in the interest of they would now still be single. ber more than atoned for those European situation. They gave it, and still more the determined and their dependants, be made makes muge of us well. earlier shortcomings. Almost an impetus to the negotiations hostility manifested by nearly all insurable. But how much more all will agree that, taking the between France and Italy, and the motoring Interests to all of care and forcaight might be exer- past year as a whole, it was a kindled the hope that the New Thousands of

Having shown that the mug in ficial efforts to improve matters. cleed, if the driver of a car, or

people

become his employer, realized that any clay and the mug that is our face better year for the League than Year would see a Franco-German hysterical over the execution of a damage to the vehicle, or himself, having both equally falled us in our the two which immediately pre- understanding. If expectations any overt symptoms show, the on his part, would not be recover talk of beaks (derived from beakers, convicted murderer, but, so far as unless incurred through no fault hour of impecuniosity, let's now ceded it. Let us, first of all, are realised, no praise will be public conscience is completely able from any sort of insurance another species of mug). To begin pass quickly' over the more too high for the spadework done indifferent to a weekly average of policy? If added to this there with, we don't like that beak gloomy side of the Geneva by

loss 150 to 160 deaths on the roads, were the sure and certain know youre (which had been steeped too the League. In #

not to mention four or five thou-ledge that any culpable driving long in the jug or mug wo had just record. The Disarmament Con- spectacular way, the Permanent sand casualties which, though not would be drastically visited by the filled), or that other beak up there ference, in the absence of Ger- Court of International Justice at fatal, may be even more pillable law, we should soon be able to who fined us the other day for dispense with the Belisha beacona, seeing too much of this jug or mug many, was little more than a The Hague handled two disputes than a more or less swift death.

when it WA9 filled. He oven succession of hesitations and with a commercial basis, one

threatened us with the jug when we delays. Not until November between France and Greece, and

Hooliganism was never. yet told him we were not coming. It is amazing that an age which 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,

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dispute involving the Persian An inadequate Franco-German rapprochement

summary must suffice for the becomes a reality, 1935 may add leaser known activities of the a more encouraging footnote.League. The report of the In the main, the Far Eastern 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- ment issued at Geneva showed churian mails was reached at how the League, in the course of Geneva. The Permanent Man a few years, had revolutionised dates Commission was far from the international campaign

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progress, the International La- efforts at peace-making were bour Organisation continued its exerted to stop the Chaco war battle for fair and humane con- between Bolivia and Paraguayditions 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 conventione Meanwhile, Paraguay's obstinacy wore adopted, and early ones resisted all attempts at media ratified by a number of states. tion. Bo this serial story will The I.L.O. has weathered the be continued or, more prefer-depression in a remarkable ably concluded in 1985. The fashion, and its prestige now League's principal successes are stands higher than ever before.

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Having now proved to the hut, and by the best of Euclid's methods (vide if two angles are equal to a third, they are equal to one an- other), that a mug, a jug, and a beak are all Inter-related, we can now begin ali over again—

Editor: No you won't!', Mathematician: But here is a fine solution-→→

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

even the most elaborate permia- Bivo

regulations. Nothing

but stern measures will put fato the heart of the motor-hooligan. a do cent regard for the lives and: Imbs of his or her fellow citizens. Unless the law-can terrorize the hooligan, the hooligan will con- tinue with ever. Increasing auda- city and rockdessness to terrorise the pubile...

It is an elementary theory of all civilised government that its first duty, la to protect its people.. Neither this nor any other Govern- ment will ever rchleye that: first principle of statesmanship by erecting orange grover of Bollsha beacons. In 1985 we have elther to adopt measures which will cause our roads to consa totalling the casualties of a battle of Water- loo every quarter, or to cut out all the canting hypocrisy about sociol progress and cultured uplift, and. frankly own that our twentieth-- century attitude is the old pagan one of ruthless was vietis. AL present: weer breaking on the wheel'n quarter, of a milion of "our fellow`subjects every year.