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CUARDIANS OF PEACE

Mr. Stanley Baldwin and. Mr. Anthony Eden, two distinguished British Ministers, are the latest

AN EPIC FLIGHT

OF THE REIGN

By J. L. HODSON

The Very Idea!

POT-POURRI

"I want a shave," said the dla gruntled sergeant us he climbed

T Brooklands early in 1919 u and went off uphill and into the into the barber's.chair. "No hair-

adherents to the cause of Angio- A burly, imperturbable, fair-gale in this machine that was built cut, no shampoo, no rum, witch-

American collaboration for the pre-

hazel, háir tonle, hot towels, or servation of world peace. They haired Lancashiroman of 27 in to bomb Berlin.

They started off in something of face massage. 1 don't want the have outspokenly declared that to.A.F.. uniform stood talking to

the the superintendent. of Vickers, the spirit of a raid over enemy manicurist to hold my hand, nor gothor Great Britain and United States, by weight of in-Limited, outside one of their work-lines--the sort of job they had done the bootblack to handle my feet.

shops.

so often, although not as compan-I don't want to be brashed off, lens. The old risk of death was dodige it. They believed that if there but, somehow, they would anybody could fy the Atlantic, they could.

war.

"How would you like to fly the Atlantic?" asked the Superintend ent, casually.

and I'll put on my coat myself. Just want a plain shave, with no trimmings. Understand that?"

"Yes, sir," said the barber quiet-

"Lather, air?"

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The little girl had been on visit to her aunt. When the time return child to wheel, arrived for the

home, her aunt said: "Well, good- byo, Betty. You must come again Hoon. We would like to see more of you."

fluence, can keep the world from One is inclined to agree that an Anglo-American understanding, not necessarily of the surt which

The burly man, Captain, John France and Russia recently achiev

Contrasted with Alcock's weight ed, but of even broader patentinll-Alcock, who had bombed Con- ties, would serve the end Mr. Baid- stantinople, grinned, and his eyes and joviality Brown, six years Hit up. "I'm certainly keen on win and Mr. Edon have in view. that if you can get the machine older, was finely drawn-sensitive Together, two such great nationsrendy," he said in his rather slow fate, slight mp from a wound, na Britain and America could force Manchester speech. They walked curt and precise.

The two men sat alongside one a belligerent power to compromise into the shop and looked nt a

another, Alcock at the by economic pressure alone; or, if Vickers-Vimy bomber, one of 230,

on order for the Government. Brown making laborious and dim the worst came to the worst, they "That's the machine," said Alcock.euit calculations, pluning his faith, could, with their combined naval Only needs converting." Four as mariners do, to sights on sun But weeks later the work was done. and stars. Within 40 minutes, atrength, police the world.

nre other nations than Flying the Atlantic In those however, the sky was hidden, and If you are contemplating to there become motorist owner if you Britain and America to be con-days-eight years before Colonel remained obscured till early morn are desirous of a change if you sidered. What would France say Lindbergh's success was thought Ing. when Brown took his sextant, are going on home leave--a word to an arrangement whereby Brit by most people to be Impossible, once to Polaris and once to Vega. an and America would be left and the attempt mad. But in May An occasional view of icebergs in from you to ACQUAINT US OF YOUR alone to enjoy the prestige and of that year Lieutenant A. C. Read, the evening served to check drift: of action. They climbed REQUIREMENTS AND WE WILL protection of powerful, fighting of the United States Navy, crossed within an hour the wireless wats

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such an alliance, seeing in it a Hawker accompanied by Comman-spoke scarcely at all: most of their HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE, possible menace of dictation from der Mackenzie Grieve, got within communications were taps on the would a few hundred miles of Ireland, fell shoulder and motions of drinking. Phone 27778-9. Stubbs Rd. capitalists abroad?

atmoon nor stars. They flew be- Japan greet such an effort to des- into the sea, and after being lost For hours they saw neither aun nor

for seven days, was landed

tween thick banks of cloud; Brown troy her hegemony in Far Eastern Thurso by a Danish tramp steamer.

chipped ice off the machine with a latitudes? No. The idea of The world rang with the tale.

knife; hail and sleet bit their faces unilateral or bi-lateral agreement

if they looked over the side for for the policing of the world is out

a moment. of date. Mr. Baldwin's and Mr. Eden'a idea was not precisely that. It was more that America should throw her influence into the scale

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PATRIOTISM

How

A day or two after that, three journalists were sent to Ireland to nwait the coming of the other modern Columbuses, as they were called. My post was Galway. We were not hopeful. Hitting Galway in an aeropinne which had chances of meeting disaster looked to me not much more likely than hitting the moon with a rocket.

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The speed indicator jammed, and for a while Alcock lost his sense of horizon. They executed what

he afterwards called "comic stunts" looped the loop above that Atlan- the waste of waters, did a steep spiral with a little spin, finishing within 50ft. of the sea.

It was

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The youngster looked amazed. "But. Auntie, there isn't any more of me," she said,

CONDITIONAL-

That the life of a missionary is sometimes relieved by gleams of moar, is revealed by the follow-

Glasgow:- ing anecdote recently related by a speaker at a mission, meeting in.

A 'dying negro was told by a missionary that he must forgive a certain "darkic," against whom he seemed to entertain very bitter feelings.

"Yes, ah," he replied, "if I dles forgive dat niggah; but if I gits well dat niggah must take care!"

A DIFFERENCE Mamma - "Fighting again? Why, a good little boy wouldn't hurt a hair of another boy's head." Little Alick-Well I didn't! I just punched his nose."

THE WRONG ONE

Jack "You look as if you were

John "Last night I called on

on the side upon which Britain chose to rest her weight. And al- though Mr. Cordell Hull has very nicely said that America is willing

In Lester's Field, Newfoundland, Patriotism, of which we hear to co-operate with Britain in the

proceeded a frantic race to be off. Alcock and his

worse than flying up- so much nowadays, ranks high future, as in the past, that assur

avce alone does not mean very Captain John

Lieutenant Arthur side down: it isn't quite certain among manly virtues. It its much: in spite of this very friend-navigator, highest and best sense, indeed, ly response the situation Is Whitten Brown, hnd Iceway to they didn't fly upside down. They America's make up. They saw Hawker and finished the last stretch 200ft. it may be regarded as the sup- not altered one jat. reme virtue. Yet at times it is policy of "isolationism," long since Grieve Boar towards the sea. They above the sen, and finally they land- out of date, will keep her out of saw Raynham try to go and erashed at Clifden, 60 or 60 miles from their Galway, in what they thought was Bo distorted and degraded from Eurpean entanglements, as it has in his Martinside, and, ite true form that it may well done in the past-only until it is Vickers-Vimy not having arrived, an Irish meadow, but proved to be all in, John! What's wrong?"

too late to stop excesses. Just na they, with the accustomed chivalry an Irish bog. Wheels sank to merit Dr. Johnson's description England is no longer isolated by of the air, lent Raynham mechanics axics, the propellers dug them-

The soldiers and wire- that new girl I was telling you of it as the last refuge of the Straits of Dover and the North to help repair the damage. Their selves in. scoundrels. It has its roots in Sea in this century, su in another machine arrived on May 24, and less operaters who dashed across about. Her mother opened the two quite hunrble, almost animal, score of years or less America will thence, day and night, toiling in to them thought Alcock and Brown door and let me in-and then and Nothing were two of the aviators looking there she demanded to know what

my intentions were." qualities-love of the familiar, be forced to acknowledge her rea- the open, work went on.

ponsibilities in Europe and in was left to chance. Every drop of for Alcock and Brown.

Jack"That must have been and the herd instinct. People Asia, and that oceans are no bar- water was boiled, filtered and Was telephoning early that S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. love the simple village or even riert. There is no such thing as strained very light yet morning, seeking news of the fliers, very embarrassing."

the mean street in which they political or economic isolation to- ried-red for "All's well," white when an Irish voice broke in to tell

John-"Yes, but that wasn't the day Nations are inter-depend-for SO S. Not far off at Harbour happen to have been born and ent; and no doctrine of non- Grace, Admiral Kerr's Handley come down to the post office, the worst of it. Just as the mother

finished speaking, the have lived, not because it has interference" is going to alter the Page was every hour advancing voice said, it would hold up a tele-shouted down the staire"Mother,

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Many of Mussolini's knotty problems would have been solved, if the originator of the following howler had spoken the truth:--

"Italy does not require much coul, because her steam fs-ready- made from the volcanoes."

At dawn on June 14 when Alcock and Brown walked to the machine a gale blew fiercely: off the coast I found the Columbuses packing hung a thick Newfoundland fog, a suck with flying gear as though At 10 am, one of the ropes which going off on their holidays. I had flaw been sure they would be in a dead pegged the machine down. loose, indenting a petrol pipe sleep and that I shouldn't have the severely. Mending it took two heart to wake them, but Alcock and prospect hadn't slept and Brown had tried hours. Both day were bleak, indeed. But the wind and nearly failed. Alcock, ruddy- now blew from the right quarterfaced, with light, tousled hair and To remove a cover proceed as at 42 miles an hour-un anusing a blue lounge suit said: "We've

the follows:-Dismantle

wind, Alcock called it, but some of had a terrible trip. The wonder parts and then force the cover his friends, remembering the un- is we are here at all," but ho exactly opposite the valve right even ground and his 3 tons of grinned as he said it. Brown bent down into the wall of the rim. petrol, were fearful. He said: over his soxtant and said: "We"Well, John, you served the If a tyre lover is now inserted "The old bus is all right. We'll didn't do so badly, did we?" His parish faithfully and well for

were slightly bloodshot. many years." under the cover close to the valve push off. I'll start at 70 knots." eyes

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fellowmen who the same way Ду to the

stimuli, same laugh at the same jokes, talk the same language, consume the same kind of food and drink, possess the same traditions, and admire and practice the same standards of behaviour. But patriotism raises what might easily remain a mere piggish self-content and worship of com- fort on to an altogether higher plane by introducing an element of altruism. The familiar sur- roundings do not exist for us; rather do we exist for them. We contribute by our life and work to make them what they are. We fill a place in the com- munity. We play a part-a necessary part-in the fulfilment of the community's purpose. It is the appreciation of this that makes the true patriot gladly willing to serve, even, if need Imagining that hatred of some be, to die for, his country. This external foe, and deliberate ex- last phrase, "die for his coun- |clusivenese, are essential ingred- try," reminds us of another ele-ients of love of one's own coun ment in patriotism-antagon-try. Greece of old perished isms to those that have different very largely because the genuine morals and manners, speak a patriotism of Athens could never

the

patriotism different language, cling to a embrace

of different traditional culture, Sparta, and form one Grecian There are some who believe that patriotism, bigger than both. patriotism flowers at its best Tho close contacts of the modern when it brings into conflict world are challenging. Isolated different groups. Opposition, national patriotisme. They seem fighting, overcoming, they say, to lead inevitably to Armaged-' are essential to the atmosphere don, unless, learning from the in which it can grow to perfec- fate of lesser patriotisms in the tion. We have recently scén past, our own localised partial some examples along these lines patriotiems can be sublimated in the nationalistic policies of into the kind of international certain - European nations. patriotism that is idealised and These instances suffice to Bug- embodied for us in the League of gest the danger and the error of Nations.

What about my fender?!!

WELL MEANT

New minister to old gravedigger

John-Aye, I've done that.. I've been gravedigger for fifty- three years. I've buried the last three ministers, but I think I'll retire after I'v buried ane mair."

HANG TOGETHER

A man offered his scat in the tramcar to a woman passenger. As the car started it gave a sudden jolt and he lunged forward, clutch- ing wildly for a strap. He grab- bed the nearest one, which was already held by a young woman.

Looking up, she said, "Evidently we must hang together."

The man, looking down at the

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Sheridan was being worried by a long-suffering creditor to name a date for payment.

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