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NORDIC NONSENSE

MARCH 15, 1935.

IN A WILTSHIRE VILLAGE

The ethnologists do not think much of the Nordic theories of Herr Hitler and his coadjutora. One of them, a lecturer at Gottin- gon University, was discovered to Wild Women chained themselves to themselves. have told a friend that what thethe iron palings of Downing-street, Nazi leaders had to say about raco

Many years have passed since the ing dragged out of bed to enjoy

The outward visiblo activities of

was "rubbish." This came to the insulted Cabinet Ministers, slapped the Guild chiefly consist of scienti cars of the authorities, as all policemen, destroyed national pro-fle and profoundly Intellectual re- advere criticisms do in Nazi or perty, and otherwise favourably search of a competitive nature, Fascist countries. The ethnologist impressed the country at large ns There are brief contests which may

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by contradicting the official Nordic to their deep sense of responsibility at conducted within the limits of a of raising the wind, but the fantasy in his writings, thus, as and their high standard of culture. ber age and weight guessing. This good old bazaar system, still

single meeting, such as inter-nem. the head of the Nazi Raclul- Roughly, the same number of competition calls for good judg highly favoured in church Political Department puts it, alding years have elapsed since our villagement, considerable power of deduc and abetting those who challenge street trembled beneath the heavy tion, and tremendous tact. It also and other circles, takes a lot the decfalve influence of hereditary tramp of the Ancient Order of provides scope for retaliatory mea-of beating. Basically, one forces on the history, destiny, and Foresters, or the heavier tread of aures, civilisation of peoples. For this Old fellows, as we owung by to the

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FRIDAY, MAR. 35, 1935.

THE OUTLOOK IN

EUROPE.

Then there is the "battle of

University post. It is one more inspiring, march of our lamentable comment on the straits band. to which culture has been reduced In Germany under the narrow, The connection between these two stamina are required. In the fall Here's a useful recipe, any - fanatical political-sectarianism of phenomena fa a logical one. Man, of the year each member receives how: the Nazis. Experts who will notas, a public Institution, has passed; After that it is a matter of sheer one daffodil bulb, which she burics.

don the official blinkers and speak Emancipated Woman reigns in his

nessed.

Take 1 charitable institution in

through the Government amplifiers stend. Man 'no longer move in pluck. But none of these events need of funds. Placo It under find their occupations gone. Yet magnificent procession through our Can compare with a glorious half in saying that the Nordle theories village streets; no gathering is an hour spent in watching the visitstinguished patronage, and stoop of the German Government are sacred to them. Women, by virtue locutionist recite Milton's Surround with a dozen and a half as deeply la debt as possible. rubbish the ethnologist referred to of their enfranchisement. Invade village such a thing is so rarely wit-willing workers and 1 active

"Paradise Lost," In this remote was only expressing what must be political meetings, although, ba in the minds of millions of people cause no sane woman admits that

Aecretary. Mix in 5 or 6 ladies throughout the world. If the Ger- she at thirty until she fs.forty, their

of title and allow to simmer for mans be racially the cream of numbers

It must be noted in commisera-six months. Staud the result be- are gratifyingly small. tion for the great majority of our fore a clear fire in a small room humanity, it is a pity that they Women possess themselves of pigs women folk that they do not belong until a committee begins to form. should, through their present Gov-for the sheer joy of attending plg to the Guild of Emancipated ernment, be the exponents of an suppers, at which, for some abstruse Women. They are not gloriously Flatter the indios of title until intellectual intolerance that pitches renson, pigs and polities become free. They are not established not they consent to them at one

stroko back to the hopelessly mixed up. Of an even- prospective spinsters. They are tronesses, then put aside in a cool pat- Middle Ages or farther.

ing as we step out of the chill night not either from choice or force of place until quite firm.... and into the glowing interior of circumstances splendidly childless. the village inn our first impression Neither are they wealthy enough to fs-here at least is a man's place, entrust their domestic duty to hire we find we are mistaken. But when we look behind the doorlings. They are merely wives and mothers fettered to the burdensome necessity of perpetuating our race

WAR MYSTERY

And

jaw zoo?"

+

become

of articles,. furniture, clothing, Take a miscellaneous collection bric-a-brac, etc., of little or no Sprinkle freely with labels bearing apparent value, use, or beauty. prices greatly in excess of the ori- ginal cost of the articles in ques- tion. Arrange on clean baize- covered tables round a large room

philanthropists into the room or strain their credulity by pressing Tightly squeeze several hundred hall; thoroughly pluck these, and

ture, clothing, bric-a-brac, etc....

care have been taken in the pre-

Unless the greatest trouble and

paration of this dish the result will often form what is known as a. deficit. In this. case the 20-

pared afresh from similar in- counts will have to be carefully cooked or the whole bazaar pre- gredients in another room or hall.

•

Rush of Kip to the Head Bring me my stoutest driver. bring me my horn-faced spoon, For the dew lies fresh on tho fairways where the divots howl to the moon; There's a long trail, and a strong trail, and the nibilcks all a-

row-

History would be a great deal more interesting if we could get at ita Insignificant footnotes. It is forever hinting at absorbing little stories that would make much bet-mects behind closed doors. What

The Emancipated Women's Guild! ter reading than the really impor-it thinks is a profound secret: what lights are out, and the cars of the The meeting his diapersed; the tant things which get all the space it does is steeped in mystery; what more cultured members have long or hall in some convenient district. than hint. The anecdotes and of anxious speculation. But one trudging homeward together, are -but in most cases it does no more it means to do is with us a matter disappeared. Two elderly dames, romances which would make his thing we do know and that is, that, silent because the business of cover tory reat to us get lost in the after the manner of Israelites about ing ground requires a great deal of shuffle, says an American colum- nist. A few days ago some roller to leave Egypt, its members do breath. At length they reach them with the articles of furni workers were excavating Indian everything with their loins girded, parting of the ways, and in the mounds on the edge of the famous less indelicate, with their hats on. little, after the manner of their or, to be more explicit and a trifle deepening twilight they pause a Civil War battlefehl of Shiloh, in The secretary, completely hatted, kind, before taking their respective Tennessee. They accidentally drove their picks into a grave in

reads the minutes. The president, roads. which had been buried nine un

even more completely hatted, and known Union soldiers killed in that The treasurer counts the money in

midst breathless silence, signa them. "An' who was she as did crack 'er battle. And one of the skeletonsa hat; that is to any the treasurer, turned out to be that of a girl! and not the money, is in the hat. Youd' mean the one they zed was a "Oh, she! I can't mind 'er name. Skeletons, of course; were about all that remained. Each was en-Buns and tea are consumed stand-cutionist. Theyd reckon as 'ow The fact that Germany has cased in the remnants

ing, and everywhere is a sense of ahe done that fer a livin'." now admitted possession of an uniform, clearly identifiable

of a bluerendiness. It le a though, like. Air Force is causing some con-uch by the turnished brass buttons presently march

the Children of Israel, they will

"I shouldn' think that were trus, cern in France, where it is sug-17 or 18 years of age. The Con-caven buns and flee to some The girl had apparently been some

out with their should you?" gested that the development in-federate bullet which killed her was troduces a new factor in the found Inside her skeleton.

better land. We shall decline to

"Wot were it she were on upon?" harden our hearts. We shall eti conversations which Sir John that's all there is to the story forerunners, the Suffragettes, the

them go.

Unlike their illustrious Prea'dent zed?"

"Didn' you

'ear what the Simon is to have in Berlin.just that tantalising little frag- Emancipated Women perpetrate There can, of course, be no deny-ment, which tells us almost noth-little or no violence. It is true hearin' one zide, an' I 'ouldn' turn "No not proply. I be hard o' ing the fact that Germany has ing, but which sets the imagination no right to modify the Ponce this girl come from? How did she lay hands on and bear them off to 'em."

to work frantically. Where did all the old-age pensioners they can 'em ould think I were alookin' at that on occasion they round up t'nther ear roun' fer fear zum on Treaty unilaterally. Thus from get there, on one of the bloodient some central place, and there- + strictly legal point

of battlefields of all the bloody war? engage them in bright conversa would tell us about Spokeshave or view, she is obviously in the Was she one of those luckiens girls tion; fill them with food. wrong in infringing its provi- who wish they were boys, and mas quality and quantity of which they good for us, but there you 'eard

"Well she zed thic

young 'ooman sions. But the admission now querade as boys whenever possi-are alike unaccustomed to; enter-

the zum sich feller; reckoned it 'ud bei made does not in reality put any ble? new complexion on the situa-y, in view of the fact that Civil point of which is entirely missed;

If so, how did she get in the tain them with play acting, the same as I did." tion, since it has long been physical examinations just as prehends ache; and finally compensate Spokeshave? I 'card 'er zay as 'ow

War

recruits had to undergoing to them till their poor old bottom to it. Who were this 'ere "I tel'ce I couldn' make top nor known that Germany has had an sent-day boldiers do? Or wna she Air Force. All that happens, perhaps, the sweetheart of one of them with a pound of tea or foure were dead. poor 'ould heart o therefore, is that the Berlin the soldiers, who had obtained a Emancipated Women werk off their

ounces of tobacco. Thus do the fun." talks will take place in a more uniform in some manner, disguised accumulated energy, and perhaps, realistic atmosphere;

there herself in it, crept into camp by seems little ground for fearing some hook or crook to be near her that they will necessarily be less him when the unexpected swirt of lover, and had been caught with successful on that account. Ger-battle broke over Grant's army? many's attitude may be wholly Was he one of the eight who were irregular. but it will at least buried with her? Or did they get bring the issues down to prac-separated in the heat of battle, so ticalities, and will, at the same that he never knew what happened time, emphasise the necessity of to her? These are questions that an aerial accord between her and who can read the little story with

cannot possibly, bo answered; but other European Powers, inclad-out wishing earnestly that they ing Britain and France. The could be? These relief workers Anglo-French agreement, reach-dug up one of history's most fas- ed last month, certainly provides cinating fragments-but it can the most promising plan ret never be anything more than a evolved in the direction of fragment, a footnote to a tale of strengthening the organisation would like to see revented. The battle, hinting at much that wo of peace in Europe. Since nino skeletons have been buried in December, 1932, when the a new grave in Shiloh Cemetery, French and German armament now. The only marker is a tablet, claims were reconciled in the inscribed "Nine Unknown Union common formula of equality in Soldiers."

la regime of security, it has been

clear that little progress in the the situation, They led to an direction of disarmament would agreement to suggest to Ger- be made unless practical effect many and the other European were given to the declaration. (Powers a basis for the "free Germany's absence from the negotiation of a general settle- League and from the Disarmament," intended to deal simul- ment Conference, and her steady taneously and without priority concentration on re-armament, with the organisation of steur- have without question contribut- jity, equality of rights in a ed powerfully to the growing security system, and an agree unsettlement in Europe, Atment regarding armaments gen- every turn, Europe has been erally which, in the case of Ger- faced by Germany's demand for many, would replace the present equality and by France's demand Treaty limitations, and Ger- for security, and the failure to many's resumption of her place find a solution of this two-sided in the League of Nations. It problem has not only ham-will-be the main task of Sir John strung the work of the Disarma-Simon, during his Berlin visit, ment Conferonce, 'but has helped to get Germany to come into to create conditions favourable the scheme: The future peaco to a new armaments race. The of Europe may well turn on the value of the London conversa result of his talks with Ger- tions of last month was that many's leaders, the importance they disclosed a ron! beginning of which it would be well-nigh in facing up to the realities of impossible to over-estimate,

in view of the tea and tobacco, iter zay as 'ow 'e writ pomes and "Ten't no good arstin' I. I 'cerd

is a fair bargain.

sonnets-"

warned in time, have sought sane-thie bit very well on'y I thought she In one or two cases old folk. "There lack zee! Now I cerd all fairness we admit having no re-its a pity 'e never had nothin' else tuary by staying in bed, and in cord of any old-age pensioners be-

were on about bonnets'. Ah well, (Continued, ou next column)

"Wilford, please put that guy away quickly so we can catch

that early train Epmo

O Braid, and Taylor and Vardon,

didn't tell you so?

And it's fore, fore, fore, whore my birdie is waiting for me; For they've taken the tee from the caddie and they've driven the ball from the tea; There are tell-tale prints in the

bunker, there's blood on the'. face of the pro-

O Braid, and Vardon, and Taylor --where did that last one go? "My faith is safled to the flag- pole, and flutters athwart the sky:

My Ho is ualled to the counter,

wore it never so fair a lie; There's a long putt, and a wrong putt, and I aim at the back of the tin-

O Braid, and Taylor and Vardon,

didn't that last go in?

And it's fore, fore, fore, where my birdio is waiting for me; It's ford, forc, fore, and bogey is

only three-

Had the wings of an eagle-kad

I the brains of a hen

10 Braid, and Tayler, and Var- don) shouldn't be playing ten

Atta Boy, Son! Mr. Frank Stevena Dear Pa:

Remember when you used

to say I was so stupid. I would Bover get a Job? Well, you're wrong. I've had six in the last month.

Harry(signed)

to do. Do'ee find anything of thic Jump along now?”

To this last enquiry there is no answer. From a neighbouring hill- top the soft chimes of a church clock come to the rescue.

"Lard! That there's never six. o'clock. Well there if our 'ould man don't cuss ten't as I do thenk." The speaker shuffles on her home- ward way, and in due course arrives at her wicket gato. In the light of a young moon the little brown: and gray cottage appears to bo asleep. Nobody would guess that within

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