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NOTES OF THE DAY

ANOTHER BITE

soon

from

warna

JUNE 13, 1935.

MEN WHO MADE THE JUBILEE

day.

K.C.

How

Were

The Very Idea!

IN LIGHTER VEIN

"My wife had a dream last night, and thought she was married to a millionaire,"

"You're lucky. My wife thinks that in the daytime."

IN DEMAND Manager-From

réfer-

your ences I see you've had four places in the last month."

Applicant-"Yes, sir, but that shows hoy much in demand I am,"

PERTINENT

THE LASS FOR ME A Scotsman, wishing to know his fate at once, telegraphed a propo- sal of marriage to the lady of his choice.

It seems to be generally accepted that Japan is about to take another

By EDWARD SHORTT, bite off China's northern frontier. It seems

that Britain and the DROBABLY few of the countless was but one feature of the colossal United States and the rest will Peters of London's great-task which the police have per- remove their embassies and lega-est day of pageantry during the formed. For days before, through tions from Peiping and their con- Jubilee celebrations paused to con-wearying sunlit hours and for the sulates

General nider the mon whose months of hours after darkness when sight- frora Tientsin, Dolhara pipes a fively tune, and work and triumphs of organisation Heers' transport gorged the London made possible Britain's supreme ways, they have marshalied and has faellitated and piloted what the whole of the Far East, within | tribute to the King and Queen, ear-shot, is dancing. Chirin is re- The splendour and precision of seemed to be a world on wheels.

state procession and thu moving her troops from the north- the

So far as I know, and I have ern cities, has reportedly accepted | marshalling of huge crowds were seen much of this gain time, the directing courtesy and helpfulness of the every demand made upon her by not achieved without

ability of a very hich order.police, in conditions of unique Japan. China is being careful not what a marvellous, and unforget-ress, have survived splendidly,

A native chieftain attended a to give the Japanese Army in the table sight!" every spectator must The horses of the mounted men - Western daner. North

excune for another have murmured as he watched the are invariably put through their He looked on for some time at "incident." And in this one can dazzling cavalcade' pass by him. paces before a great London cere-

the contortions of the perspiring The several thousand Bearcely blame her.

Who were the men who planned mony. Truly, a lover

as they danced. Then he turned of freedom would probably insist this grand spectacle, caused every "specials" who contributed to the young men and women of society detail to be rehearsed, and perfection of the Jubilee arrange to his hostess and said in a tone that it were better to die fighting witnessed their triumph?

ments all acrificed their time to of mild astonishment, "Can't you than to bend the knee to a coh-

The prime architect of this nutke themselves perfectly acquaint-

get your servants to do this for their duties before the queror; but that may be an out-pageantry was Lord Cromer, Lorded with

you?" grown bit of iicology. Faced with Chamberlain, and the chief

-day.

The ardent Mun of a perfect the prospect of a horrible and an-janiser of this memorable

about Jubilee day produced great du We are fully equipped for any equal contest which can only end Lord Cromer knows more

state pagents than any other minn, mands on the kindly ministrations in defeat and a heaping of miseries as his duties demand. He is reas of the ambulance service. upon an already sndly burdened jponsible for practically every gventuuiet, prompt, and efficient

these workers! people, the Nanking Government faceremony of Court and Stale.

After spending the entire day at doing the most sensible, if least He has been Lorit Chamberlain

the telegraph office, he was finally It is spectacular thing. in submitting for 18 years.

a very long time since, the oflice was held by

The soldiers. too, were marvel- rewarded late in the evening by the for the moment

Japan's

How spruce and precise, answer "Yes," one person for a comparable period. Inus. demand. But if, as her political Lord Cromer's

British-looking, "I were you, I'd think twico wide and "xact how very, very tenders 1 - i ។ 1 ja true,

Japan knowledge, his patience and dis- they were. How the foreigners before martying a girl that kept hopes to beneit Some daycretion form an ideal equipment admired them. The Navy and theme waiting all day for an answer,"

Royal Air Force, Hikewise filling us said the postmaster. friendship for the post.

"Na, ns," retorted the Scot. with the Chinese people, we sug- As a young man he saw diplo with proper pride, were also pre-

sent. Altogether 14,900 men of "The lass who waits for the cheap peat that her militarists are throw.patie service in Egypt, Persia, and he thefence Forces, including the night rates is the lass for me."

Russia. That Was probably St ing abstacles in the

way of her valuable training for his duties to Guards and London's own Terri progress towards this end. She is day, which often require a delicate torials, made a flashing border to The route. A grand parade, under Bowing seeds in China which, when diplomacy. Most people think of the orders of Major-General ii. N. the time comes to reap the harvest, the Lord Chamberlain merely as Sergison-Brooke, G.O.G. the London

the censor have grown to such lustyportant as is his oversight of the

of stage plays. may strength as will dull

The greedy Theatre, it is incidental to a crowd- DEFENCE fickle,

nd life.

Lord Mottistone. who, 29

·Colonel J. B. Seely, was former- STUBBORN STAND ly Secretary for War, recently

REAL SCOTCH! Japan's oft-repeated policy with

Let us remember our statesmen,

A Scottish scholar, asked for a Every detail of the royal progress too. The Cabinet raised a debate in the House of

respect to China, a policy allegedly

had seen to it sentence to illustrate the meaning and of the Thanksgiving Service Lords on the question of the ap-intended

the lot of at St. Paul's passed under his re-stateliness and splendour, what lowing:--

that to improve

Jubilee Day should be, in of the word "deed," gave the fol- pointment of a Minister to co- the Chinese people pud incidentally view. He is the authority OB Britain wished. Sir John Gilmour,

ta etiquette, the master of furnis and Home Secretary, has had Japan, ordinate, the policy and supply of birt the three defence forces of the mack of selfishness when consider- † uusages, fe has had to confer with laborious hours.

ed in the light of Tokyo's refusal officials, with City dignitaries, with Works, by commanding several Cabinet Ministers, with Court Gore. First Commissioner of

WARM WELCOME nation. He did not advocate the collabricate with foreign experts high military officers, with Lord hundred miles of timber and apa reader of the following:

A recent church notice reminds creation of a new Ministry of in seeking a remedy for China's Trenchard and Sir Hugh Turnbullparently several hundrel more of

SUBJECT:- reported about police and traffle arrange tubular steel, caused to arise those

PALACES OF SIN Defence, but he urged that there

grandstand cities from which VISITORS WILL BE MADE AT HOME. rehenrée. would be considerable waste, and sterday that the British invita-ments;, he has had to instruct aud tion to Japan to join an internation-

Peers, M.P.s, and many other possible danger, if Britain pro-ai conference at Nanking, at which these many months. Lord Cromer.

Probably Britain's busiest man, people saw the great pageant.

Think gratefully of Sir Edwin to find a He is described as "the most tact-Lutyena and Sir William Rothen- ceeded with her, re-armament experts will endeavour

The lifeboat essay competition plans without having these solution to these economic problems, ful man in London." His manners, stein, who, with their artist's sense, in elementary schools at Home this had been declined. The only com-despite his vast responsibilities, are told what was becoming adornment year has resulted in a number of NIAN giving

always charming. ment was that such an act of colla-

for many of our streets. And of gems of youthful expression. Lord Trenchard and Sir Hugh the London County Council, the the job; boration would be contrary to Turnbull, in command of the Metro-Westroinster City

One essayist more topien! than and accurate writes, "Lifeboats to ser- brains, Japan's fixed policy in China. Ipolitan and City police, had beer, which have made their part men are like Belisha bencons to both industrial and scientific, at would seem then that the Japanese tween them to organise force of of the Jubilee-so fit and proper pedestrians."

ident of hegemony in Asia and he about 12,000 police for duty on the his disposal. The House, how-welfare of China were

route. They had to provide con-

Remember the geniuses of the Another, boldly plunging into somehow ever, declined to endorse

missariat for their army," incluidas and electrical industries whe metaphor, speaks of the unhappy his incompatible. We wender whethering the 700 six-footers who came. Wrought their night-time magic mariners in a shipwreck, "each proposal, which, however, re-the rather worn excuse of "China's for the day, from Birmingham and over Jubilee London.

forming his earnest opinion that And ponder, with a glow of the next hour would be the last ceived considerable support from welfare" is to be advanced when the Home Counties. Nearly 10,000

For traffic duties, deputising for the patriotic, zest Japanese battalions are ensconced special constables had to be drafted pardonable warmth, the loyalty, the that he would have shuffled off his of the ordinary mortal call to be received into the men on the royal way.

Briton, the man and woman like Jaws of the grim reaper."

One young philosopher points ourselves, the people, rich and not very rich, the comfortable and the out that a baby saved from

THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1935.

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BACKLASH

Time spent on the steering gear of the ear is well spent, since it is such an Important unit,

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it is probably for the general is more than half an inch in each good that this should be so. As direction It is advisable to have one of the Home journals has the system overhauled and adjust-

mechanic. remarked, the British nationed by a compétent does not take kindly to the super- The cost is not heavy, while it man, who too often is found to greatly increases the pleasure of have feet of clay. One of the driving. supreme lessons of the Great

War was the inability of any one

brain, military or political, to The suggestion that all the de- dominate the scene. True, therefensive resources of the country. are or were plenty who were should be combined under one ready to claim that they had directing genius is, therefore, "won the war"; it would bring one that needs to be approached one nearer the truth to inquire with caution. There may be which of the nations' leaders in room for closer liaison among the great struggle made the the three Services, but caution fewest and loust grievous seems to suggest that too much blunders. All of them had in that direction should not be plenty of such to their account. attempted.

Courts, levers, state occasions, all require his survey and decision. 1is office work alone is inmense.

*

1

District.

The Dean and Chapter of St.

The Paul's were

responsible for solemnities of the nation's tribute. The beauty of the service was apt to the beauty of our faith.

many

Mr. Ormsby-

Council

AWKWARD

"Yes," said he, "I once hind a very clever house-dog. He could ahenys tell the difference between

gentleman and a tramp."

"And what happened to him?" asked a friend.

"Oh, I had to put him away. He bit me!"

"The thief was shot deed."

ORIGINAL IDEAS

16

or when older be a general," while a budding economist remarks "it is much cheaper to keep a lifeboat service running than to pension of the dependants of the sallors and fishermen who have perished."

We know that our "policemen poor who, at this Jubilee, have watery grave "might make history, are wonderful." Well, they were shown the world that there is one #nce again. Just British good rent, aut true, and solid Britain humour does it with that extra

When one sees the jubilant pauo- little knack in which our

policorama of this land, with all the excel.

streets, high and lowly, aglow with The controlling of the immense the same flags, how can one not be throng on the day of the parades, stirred?

"We'll be back in about 20 minutes. I'm just going to write one poem.".

MORE HOWLERS Hornets and baboons are two in- struments used in an orchestra.

Black clouds are formed by the evaporation of dirty water.

Geoffrey Chancer was a famous poet, who wrote Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare.

The cuekoo does not lay its own eggs.

A barbarian is a man who does not shave.

Anthony offered Caesar a cornet.

SOMETHING WRONG The scene was the interior of a saloon in the Far West, and round the table were gathered as tough a gang as could be found. In the whole of California. The game was fast and furious, the stakes were high.

Suddenly the dealer flung his cards on the table, and threaten- ingly pulled out his sixgun.

"Boys," he shouted, "the game ain't a straight onel. Slippery Sam ain't playing the hand I dealt him."

A REAL FRIGHT

The motorist was a "speed mer- chant," and while trying out his new car at Its utmost speed, re- moyed ten or twelve feet of a six- foot stone wall,

As he was recovering conscious. ness in the local hospital, the doc- tor (an old friend) said to him, "Don't you know.nye? I'm Peter." The patient gave a ̄ntart.

"Don't you know me? Why did you jump?"

"Oh," and the jumpy one, "you gave me a fright. I thought you meant Saint Peter!"