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CHINA'S UNHAPPY

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NOTES OF THE DAY

LAYING A POWDER TRAIN

JUNE 14, 1935.

HOW LONG DO OUR HEROES LIVE?

By ROBERT LYND".

YAZITH the death of Marshal į applause of the people Gladsto

We h most would take his place..

the same

of his

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1 sometimes think, indeed, that stature, the English people are peculiarly re- will he be lackier than some of the heetant to make heroes of their

The Very Idea!

DUMB-BELLES LETTRES By Juliet Lowell SHOO-FLY

Dry-Brite Liquid Wax Company, Dear Sirs:

Jnotice that you want house- hold hints to use in your adver- tising Well, here a onel You know that this time of years we

The builders of a new alliance system in Europe are making them- selves believe that they are but- treasing security. Actually they are carefully weaving a network of fuses which will insure a general explosion whenever any two coun-

time!

This, system works, admirably. tries strike sparks from the steel romantic, and at

most realistic, figures in twentieth-Great men are apt to be a nuisancč now collecting on every hud, warns The

Century Europe, has disappeared, if you cannot get rid of them, Christian Science Monitor. to be reins - pretend They

However open to criticiun some of i the

system forring

pence

of his actions may have been, he do JANE *.t

in the up Nations. Actually they are turn-minated the imagination hurnis collective time as a man of inst from

Ruine system to close organisation of one of Europe's two armed comps, The new Franco-Russian treaty is d clear example. The old allindes between Fracce and Russia was the foundation of the pro-war system. It conditioned ten years of history before 1914 And when war came it made the complete ignition of

certain. IN Europe almost

la apart, on the other hand, the thing better to be hopel from this

English people not only insist on new ninner“ M. Laval has been

having heroes to kolise, but make very careful in drafting this treaty.

make AUTO Kitchener became a legend of

theti heroes for life.. This is true He has attempted to that Russia will . # pull France in heroic efliriency in the Sudan and

at least of cricket. W. G, Grace, to any adventure in which Moscow South Africa, He was the Great for example, when once he had be- wishes to embark. He has sought.

Maar to whom the inglish people came a hero, never censed to be a to rule out involvement. Japanese-Hussian fight by limiting looked as their invim ille champion her titt the end of his life. He is still a hero after his death, and no the obligation to leul assistance at the break of the war. only to cases of attack by a "Europ-many mouths had passed, however, Lytton Strachey can ever “debunk” ean state," And the attack must before it was whispered that he him. How different from the fate actual invasion, aggression was not a Great Man but only ajof the poor statesman who is up to- to-morrow? And agains: either contracting party's myth, and that he was known in the day and towa "own erritory." Arata, apgress Cilänet as "K. of Chaos." Since Iubles in as much assured of un- sion must be “unmaqvoted," More his death, he has dwindled in the chequered farúe as Grace. If an aver, mutual assistance is promiseri nublic estimation that an American ambitions bug, who longed for 3rst under the aerie:f the League, writer new scarcely causes offence, nothing more than seravity of ten- The treaty arantees aain the by saying of him that "at mention jure on a pedestal were to consult me as to the choire of a career. I guarantees provided in Articles X of his name all the donkeys bow,"

And

should certainly advise him to be al XVI of the Covenant assistan would enne only after

Lumbler have lots of files in the house and ernes of recent years, and retain statesmen. Look down the list of on the ceilings. Fin is heroic stature in the minda English Prime Ministers, and you with soapy water. Climb up on a will find among them a large pro chair and clap the glass around of men after his death?

The world is somewhat fickle inrtion of men who were incapable the fly. It will be surprised and of being intional idols-fairly full in to soapy water and will be regard to its heroes. In our own

miration but not adoration. time we have seen here after hora ordinary men who commanded ad- any-set t his pedestal, only to b

swiftly or slowly deposed from it.

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80 stung by the soap that it can. not climb out. You are welcome to use this bint as you see fit.

Very truly yours,

Andrew Cum,

In boxing, nowadays, a man To seems to remain an ido! till he is Max Baer is champion defented.

o-day, Somebody else will be champion the day after to-morrow,

and Max Baer will have lost his pedestal,

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Climb up on à chair and clap the glass around the fly."

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AND HOWI

Railroad Company:

Your polite note arrived, saying. "The railroad is for the benefit of the public." My experience how- ever, proves that the public is for It is The same with horses, the benefit of the railroad. I rown Jack remained

A Commater. a popular lol till the end, because his career

the League Comet hal recon-legendary figure in Germany, Pro-come a great cricketer, tended action against an aggresibly the majority of Gernans still

1 doald whether here-worship in For But in ense the Council fails venerate him as a national hero. 1+) reach

nanitos devision. Many people, however, have mother sports reaches the

tained that he, too, instead of berights. In football the team that assistance will be efven mayway,

ing a really Great Man, was only wins the Cup, rather than some in- a myth, and recently Herr Emili Ludwig did his best to blow up the dividual player, is the hero, though

many an individual player is the pedestal on which

enormous pilar idol. In addition lip service is paid to figure once seemed so secure.

general collective system b

Joffre at Ludendorff have been leaving the way open for nationa to join this mutual-assist are fortunate in their reputa andtions, am M. Venizelos has had to aber pact. Czech-Slovakia

fly from the country that not long Rumania have already done But if reliance was really placed ago idolised him. on the Geneva method there world

Is this due to the modern taste e no need of this special arrange for "debunking" the great, or is it The Inet is that it is the la result of the spread of the pass- The extension of Japan's poli-ment.

on for equality which loves to drag tical and military influence in frankest step yet taken toward re-

The down the great to the common North China, clearly indicated invival of the alliance system.

Article X and the level? Or is it to he explained by lase in ignominious fail- emphasis o

ure. Golden Miller, on the other PLAY HIM DON'T READ HIM "territen isl in the fact that men and women, hav-hand, when on the eve of becoming the latest developments, provides preservation

«tamp

Tobe Deutschmann Corp. this ing all but deified a human being a popular idol, threw his jockey in cause for concern not only to try" pats the

treaty. Nothing whatever la 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

Gentleman: ing interests in this part of the section of the Covenant most in they discover that he in less than lika worn-out bill-fighter. world. French press comment need of strengthening and appliena god-that he is a 'human being that Japan's slogan, "Asin for tion. This is the article which with the limitations of humanity?

It is difficult to say what are the The Asiatics," means "Asia for

Equalities that must move men to

Success 14 Whatever the explanation may hero-worship. the Japanese." would appear to

one be based on a recognition of the ornational conditions whose curbe, it is clear that in times of war The power in save a nation or the realities of the situation. Whattinuanes might endanger the pace and revolution a hero's tenure of appearance of having that power,

is another. Others still is happening. in short, is that of the world." The insistence on his pedestal is extraordinarily in-

200 insecure. The only heroes who relauntless courage, personal charry,

calls for the members of the League

to reconsider "treaties that have be- come inapplicable" and study "in-

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Harry Elmer Harnes,

The Telegram,

New York City.

Dear Professor Barnes:

churia is now being followed in injustices lie at the root of Europe's Dietators, and that is possibly be the Peiping and Tientsin areas. present state. To reinforce Article |cause they have a short way with The question naturally arises as X while continuing To immory anybody who wishes to depedestal to where it will stop. Whatever Article XIX (President Wilson put them. the precise causes of Japan's the two things forward originally

It may be that it is a good thing Lergh have been the idols of na- latest, actions, the dominant fact as one proposation? is to simply lay

for the world not to allow anybody tions. The human imagination a powder train, ading to the

The woman who took my hus- long insists on having idols, because band from me has also taken mer- that the regions now placed that it will be complete 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

are part and parcel of China, tying together of East and West, Great Man in politics at the end excitement than idolatry,

Men should beware, however, of In view of this circumstance, it of Communist Russin and demo-of a few gears, if the people desire |

Thus, in the nineteenth century becoming idols in war or polities. is difficult to follow the reason-eratie France, is the best the it. ing of a Londen diplomatic cor- statesmer can do. But it is a sorry you would find Disraeli acclaimed There, in time, they became the husband.

the national bero at one time, cockshies of iconoclasts, and the can do. respondent that no breach of and uncertain device. It holds

It has and a little later he would be ex-iconoclasts are no mean smashers treaty is so far involved. By real assurance of security, the terms of the Nine-Powero cement but a common fear of citedly thrown out, and amid the of reputations,

How much better Germany, Treaty, Japan undertook to res- turn again to a trae collective sys- pect the political, administrative item and seek enduring peace on and territorial integrity of the basis of sozurity, not for ne China. Her present actions run group but for all! It should be that the sup- contrary to that obligation. It apparent by now is further contended that for the posed security.of armaments and moment foreign interests are alliances only widens the scope of ingecurity. Justice, mutual adjust- not jeopardised. That is open nichts and genuine friendship are to question. Certainly, if Japa far stronger muarantees of security. nese pressure becomes more pro- nounced. very serious interfer- ence with foreign interests can be envisaged. But it is gut 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, I 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, when the euit gives a weak spark. namely, the threat to China as an independent nation. If Japan When this happens the distributor is permitted to swallow up China should be examined. It should be noted whether the points are un- piceengal. without nay or yea pitted and quite clean, that the from Powers which huve 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 nations who have the misfortune part of the instrument. to have militarily strong neigh- The coil may be at fault. The bours will be indeed a sorry one. leal 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 just can business circles, that the way from the terminal. Then the engine should be turned, A good volume of United States com park will result if the coil is merce does not make embroil-functioning correctly. A new lend ment in Far Eastern affairs may be needed, or the condenser worth while, smacks rather muy require expert attention or much of indifference to China's renewal.,

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lieved that that is the official come out with a definite lead. American attitude, which, in We can at least hope that the fact, has been described as one watchful attitude being-main- of close co-operation with Brit-tained implies a determination ain. At the moment, unfort-le take appropriate action should unately, neither country has the occasion arise.

"Oh, Tom, this was taken in Chicago. And I think I seo Uncle Bert right down there in the corner."

I would appear that Gemini is the ruling sign of the United States and every time a powerful have planet passes through, we very serious troubles in this country,

I have a list of such times and

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Remember, you will be greatly ailleted when Neptune, Herschel and Saturn pass through Gemini.

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