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NOTES OF THE DAY

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Learne

JUNE 14, 1935.

HOW LONG DO OUR HEROES LIVE?

By ROBERT LYND

WITH the death of Marshal į applause of the people Gladstone

W Pistarkt one of the most would take his place.

regard to its heroes. In our own time we have seen here after, hern set on his pedestal, only to be! swiftly or slowly deposed from it.

This system works admirably. Great men are apt to be a nuisance if you cannot get rid of them..

bring

burdinary, men who commanded ad-

miration but not adoration.

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The Very Idea!

DUMB-BELLES LETTRES

By Jultat Lowell SHOO-FLY

Dry-Brite Liquid Wax Company, Dear Sira:

I notice that you want house- hold hints to use in your adver- tising Well, here is one. You know that this time of years we

so stung by the soap that it can not climb out. You are welcome

In apart, on the other hand, the to use this hint as you see fit.

English people not only insist on having heroes to Idolise, but make the heroes for life. This la true

And

If an

Very truly yours,

Andrew C

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Climb up on a chair and clap the plans around the fly.

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LAYING A POWDER TRAIN

The builders of a new alliance system in Europe are making them. Kelves belleve that they are but tressing security. Actually they are carefully weaving a network of Juses which will insure a general explosion whenever any two coun

the same Lime tries strike sparks from the steel romantic, and at now collecting on every hard; warns most realistic, figures in twentieth-

Monitor. the Christian Science

century Europe, has disappeared. to 193 rein- They pretend

However open to criticism some of forcing the peaco system

of his actions may have been, he do up in the

I sometimes think, indeed, that Nations. Actually they are turn-minated the imagination of his ing from genuine collectivis time as a man of heroi stature, the English people are peculiarly re-

a tumbler. system to close organisation of Will he be luckier than some of the fuctant to make heroes of their have lots of flies in the house and one of Europe's two armed camps. heroes of recent years, and retain statesmen. Look down the list of on the ceilings. Fill

Climb up on a The new Franco-Russum treaty is a clear example, The old alliance his heroic stature in the minds | English Prime Ministers and you with soapy water.

will find among them a large pro-cluly and clap the glass around between France and Russia was the of men after his death? foundation of the pre-war system. The world is somewhat fickle in Portion of men who were incapable the tiy. It will be surprised and national Idols-fairly fall in to soapy water and will be It conditioned ten years of history before 1914, And when war came it made the complete ignition af

certain. Europe almost

is any thing better to be hoped from this new alliance? M. Laval as been very careful in drafting this trenty. He has attempted to make sure Kitchener became a legend of that Russia will not pull Frave in- | heroic efficiency in the Sundan and at least of cricket. W. G. Grace, to any adventure on which Moscow | South Africa. I was the Great

for example, when once he had be wishes to embark. He has weight

Man to whom the English people

jesme à hero, never ceased to ben fr rul cast involvement in Japanese-Bressian fight by limiting | looked as their invincible champion hero till the end of his life. He is Not still a hero after his death, and no the ebligation to lens assistance at the outbreak of the war. only to cases of attack by n "Europ-many months had passed, however, Lytton Strachey can ever "debunk” can state." And the attack must before it was whispered that he bin. How different from the fate!

actual invasion, asstression was not a Great Man but only at the poor statesman who is up to- avainst either contracting party's myth, and that he was known in the day and down to-morrow! Town territory." Arain, apgree-Cabinet as "K. of Chaos," Since Hibbs is as much assured of un- sion must In "unprovoked.” More his death, he has so dwitalled in the chequered, fame as Grace. over, matid vaistance is aromised juhe estimation that an American ambitions bey, who longed for first ander the aegis of the Leagur, writer now scarely eatises offence nothing more than security of ten- The treaty unrantees ayals the by saying of him that "ni mentimure on a prslesdal were to consult me na to the choice of a career. I guarantees provided in Articles & of his nome all the donkeys, bow," and XVI of the Cavenant And

should certainly advise him to be, Hindenbur ར།༥ T equally assistan. would come only after

come a great cricketer. legendary figure in Germy. Pro- the League Council ad 2001- traded action against an aggresibly the majority of Gernans still - Է,

I doubt whether here-worship in But in ease the Coupell fails venerate him as a national hero.

unanimous decision Many people, however, have main other sports reaches the to wach #

tained that he, too, instead of heights. In football the team that assistance will be given Bayway,

ing a really Great Man, was only winshe Cup, rather than some in- a myth, and recently Berr Emil Ludwig did his best to blow up the divirtal player, is the lero, though

individual player is any an pedestal on which the enorBonA

popular it). rure one seemed so secure,

In boxing. nowadays, a man Joffre and Ludendorf have been seems to remain an idol till he is leaving the way open for

no more fortunate in their reputa-defeated. Max Baer is champion Your polite note arrived, saying, nations to join this mutual-assist

tions, and 3. Venizelns has had to To-day. Somebody else will be "The railroad is for the benefit of anre pact. Czecho-Slovakia 02 tomanid have already done any from the country that not long empion the day after to-morrow,

and Max Baer will have lost his the public." My experience how- But if relinner was really pheed ago idolised him,

ever, proves that the publie is for on the Geneva method there would

Is this due to the modern taste pedestal. ine na need of this special arrange- fe "debunking" the great, or is it It is the Re with horses, be benefit of the railroad. The extension of Japan's poli-ment. The fact is that it is the a result of the spread of the pass I own Jack remained a popular

A Commuter—~. ion for equality which loves to drng ¦ idol till the end, because his career tical and military influence in frankest step yet taken toward res

The down the great to the common did not close in ignominious fail- North China, clearly indicated invival of the alliance system.

emphasis on Ariel X and the level? Or is it to be explained by ure. Golden Miller, on the other PLAY HIM DON'T READ HIM the latest developments, provides | preservation of "erritorial inthe fact that men and women, havhand, when in the eve of becoming rause for concern not only to terity" puts the stamp on thising all but deified a human being, popular idol, threw his jockey in Tobe Deutschmann Corp.

treaty. Nothing whatever is said are bound to feel profoundly dis- the Grand National, and at once Canton, Mass, China but to all nations possess about Article XIX, which is the one appointed and disillusioned when fell from grace and from greatness ing interests in this part of the section of the Covenant most in they discover that he is less than like a worn-out bull-fighter. world. French press comment need of strengthening and appliena god-that he is a human being that Japan's slogan, "Asia for tion. This is the article which with the limitations of humanity? the Asiaties," means "Asia for the Japanese," would appear to be based on a recognition of the realities of the situation. What

another. Others still are is happening, in short, is that of the world." The insistence on his pedestal is extraordinarily in-ppearance of having that power. maintaining the statua quo in secure, The only heroes who re dauntless courage, personal charm, the programme begun in Man-Europe and the failure to remove main firm on their pedestals are the churia is now being followed in injustices lie at the root of Europe's Dictators, and that is possibly be achievement..

A. J. Child & Sons... the Peiping and Tientsin areas, present state. To reinforce Article eause they have a short way with [The question naturally arises as X while continuing to ignore anybody who wishes to depedestal In our own time mer so differ-Mail Order Honse.

ent as the Prince of Wales, LawSt. Louis, Mo. to where it will stop. Whatever! Article XIX President Wilson put them.

vener of Arabia, and Colonel Eind- the precise causes of Japan's the two things forward originally

It may be that it is a good thingbergh have been the idols of na Gentleman: Hatest uctions, the dominant fact

in one proposition is to simply lay

for the world not to allow anybody tons. The human imaginatian a new pawder train, ad-ling to the

The woman who Look my hus- BAOSCO...ESCOCESSES which remains undisposed of is danger of explosion and insuring for remain on a pedestal took insists on having idols, because band from me has also taken mer-

that the regions now placed that it will be plete and sudden. The electoral system in England there is nothing that gives it more under virtual Japanese control Possibly in to-day's temper this provides for the deposal of the excitement than idolatry. are part and parcel of China. tying Cogether of East and West, Great Man in polities at the end Men should beware, however, af In view of this circumstance, it of Communist Russia and demo-of a few years, if the people desire

Thus, in the nineteenth century becoming lol in war or polities. is difficult to follow the reason- Leratin France, is the best the it. ing of a London diplomatic cor- talesnen can do. But it is a sorry you would find Disraeli acclaimed There, in time, they become the

It halda no

as the national hero at one time, cockshies of iconoclasts, and the respondent that no breach of and uncertain devier. treaty is so far involved, By real assurance of security. It has and a little later he would be ex iconoclasts are no mean smashers the terms of the Nine-Power

no cement but a common fear of citedly thrown out, and amid the of rerutations. Germany, How much better .lo Treaty, Japan underlook to res- them again to a true collective sys- peet the political, administrativetem and seek enduring prace on and territorial integrity of the basis of security, not for one China. fer present actions run group but for all It should be the sup- contrary to that obligation. It apparent by now that is further contended that for the posed security of armaments and moment foreign interests are ecurity. Justice, mutual adjust- alliances only widens the scope of not jeopardised. That is ojjen

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CHINA'S UNHAPPY

POSITION

WAY LEFT OPEN

In addition lip service is paid to system hy general calle tive

other

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ta reconsider "treaties that have be-

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Gentleman:

It is difficult to say what are the qualities that most move men to come inapplicable" and study “in- Whatever the explanation may hero-worship. Sucross ix

national con litions whose con-be, it is clear that in times of war The power to save a nation, or they. inuance might endanger the peace and revolution a hero's tenure of!

TO-DAY'S MOTORING HINT

COIL IGNITION

ments and genuine friendship are to question. Certainly, if Japa-far stronger guarantees of security, nese pressure becomes more pro- nouncel, very serious interfer- ence with foreign interests, can be envisaged. But it is not alone, or even primarily. from this angle that the existing

A great advantage of coil over situation and future possibilities magneto ignition is that it pro- should be considered. There is, vides a strong spark even when the after all, something more than engine is being turned over slowly, a threat to foreign interests in as when starting-up. Japan's Asian hegemony policy. There are occasions, however, namely, the threat to China as when the coil gives a weak spark: an independent nation. If Japan When this happens the distributor is permitted to swallow up China should be examined, I should be piecemeal, without nay or yeated whether the points are un pitted and quite clean, that the from Powers which have posed clearance is not excessive, and that as champions of oppressed coun- the brush is making proper, con- tries, then the outlook for weak tact with the terminal in the top FOR ONE WEEKtions who have the misfortune part of the instrument.

to have militarily strong neigh- The colt may be at fault. The bours will be indeed a sorry one. lead communicating with the dis- Keeping this point in mind, the tributor should be disconnected at argument put forward in Ameri- the distributor, end and held juat can business circles, that the way from the terminal.

engine should be turned. A good volume of United States com- spark will result if the coll is merce does not make embroil-functioning correctly. A new lead ment in Far Eastern affairs may be needed, or the condenser worth while, smacks rather may require expert attention or much of indifference to China's renewal. eventual fate. It cannot be be-

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