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THURSDAY, AUG. 1, 1985.

NOTES OF THE DAY

LIBERTY'S CHAMPIONS

If what Mr. Baldwin said recont- ly in Westminster Hall was not exactly new, it is profoundly truo: and the circumstances of our time make its forthright assortlon by a and valuable. "It is true that the resurgence of despotism on the Continent ns ♫ result of the miseries of the post-war period has laft this nation the standard bearer of political liberty." It is true also that English liberty is, as Mr. Baldwin said, the "outcome through long centuries of the common sense and good nature of the English people" and their preference for committees rather than dictators, elections rather than street fight- ing, and "talking shops" rather revolutionary tribunals. Whether the tree would ever have borne the fruit it has but for the

than

“CODE” WANTED FOR The Very Idea!

THE COUNTRY

Holiday,

By GERALD BARRY

THE season of the great Annual |not merely a question of preserving Wave upon wave of townsfolk aro la a question of safeguarding.social being released from the routine of order. desk and workshop to enjoy a brief respite of freedom and leisuro at the seaside or in the country.

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MORE NONSENSE

Scraps from the Scrapbook

'Of Eddie Kelly

D

Edited by Eddie

How is it to be done? Both sides, when a new order in emerging must expect to make concessions, Now is an appropriate moment, The Industrial worker of Yorkshire therefore, to speak of the problems and Lancashire, anxious to enjoy

R. LI Shu-fan, during the raised by the town-dweller's in-air and exercise at the week-end,

discussion. on rabies at the vasion of the countryside for they justly resents as unreasonable his Sanitary Board meeting this are many. Each summer, almost total exclusion from totally un-week, suggested that inoculated each weekend, greater numbers got occupied moorland. The local land- out into rural England, hiking, owner likewise resents the disturb.dogs should be tattooed in order cycling, motoring. With each new ance of his game. visitor thus privileged to enjoy the

to identify them from dogs that pleasures of the open air the prob

had not been inoculated. He lem of adjustment between town

The two partles have probably suggested that a red tattoo and country is potentially increased. as an unreasonable monster. Yet spot for 1986, a green spot for never met. Each regards the other mark be used for 1985, a blue historical accident which allowed

What do I mean by "adjustment if they met and exchanged ideas 1987 and so on. conturies free from foreign in-between town and country" I am vasion for its development la open not talking now about economic

on what each regarded as essential to doubt. But the time was grant-adjustments-agriculture, the bal vivendi could, almost certainly be seen dogs that have been inoculated to his proper enjoyment, a modus Poof! If that's how it is, we've ed, and the tree has grown so stoutance between urban and rural popu- found which would proserve at once twenty or thirty years that no storm has yet succeeded in lations, land settlement, or any of the health and pleasure shaking it.

that sort of thing. I mean social hiker, the comfort of the landlord, spots, vermillion spets, heliotrope of the They've had pink spots, ginger adjustments, in many cases quite and the security of the game. amall individual adjustments, which

spots and nearly as many other in sum total make up the vast and "code" of behaviour for all users

What la wanted, in fact, In a spots as we'd had before we naw rapidly-growing problem of the

them. relationship between those who of the countryside, agreed upon by permanently inhabit tho, country countrymen and townsmen for the headache and told her about it she And when wo fled home to our and get their livelihood out of it, bonent of both. The Council for wouldn't believe us. and those who merely visit it for the Preservation of Rural England screamed: their recreation and pleasure.

recently produced a code; but I beast!"

"Drunk again, you have in mind something a good deal more fundamental,

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RELATIVELY UNTRIED

It is perfectly clear that it has been the lack of this time for quiet growth which has been the main cause in the sudden collapse of popular government in coun- tries where it was still relatively untried. Those who point to the new mushroom dictatorships as evidence of the Incompetence of that the ability which modern Parliamentary Governments to transport has given us to visit the meet modern conditions prove only weak-end habit" and all that has country quickly and often-the their own lack of historical per: brought immense problems in its spective. Moreover time has yet

which, unless

It is of course, a commonplace

to show whether this flood of train; problems

Minister is in its way quite as

| significant as the bombast of any of the Dictators. He promised,

ARMING THE LEAGUE

tributary to anybody.

PYRAMIDAL PREHISTORY

There

over.

pr

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You tell her, Dr. Li,

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Abyssinia

ago.

Sniffed and

How are we to sot about getting it?

First, by organisation. It is a there is still so little effective. co- constantly lamented defect that operation, and such wasteful over-

Is this what's holding things up in Abyssinin? : lapping. between the various "On yonder hill," crled the Big

the

local

Now many of these abuses when we come to examine them boil down If that were to be accomplished to a simple question of-manners.", it would simplify the stop which I They arise from the inability, so next propose; but even without it

"Those," answered the S.1.C., are the operators for the Whiz- Bang Picture Company."

"I see over there a battalion with very curious guns."

"They are not guns; they are

which are to be recorded the roar of the cannon and the cries of the wounded."

tyranny is not itself temporary.speedily solved, threaten to ruin nocieties, councils, committees, Shot, scanning the battlefield with A speech of the Yugo-Slay Primerent part of our countryside for public bodies and private en-his glasses, "I see a black mass of

thusiasts that are engaged in this humanity. What are they?" All of us know what they are. land of ours in trying to preserve The most obvious and most fre- rural freedom and beauty. Their "Camera-flenda," replied the THE WAR ON RABIES amid shouts of appinuse, freedom quently deplored is the spoliation name la legion, great and small, second-in-command.

of the Press, electoral reform, and

of beauty spots by indiscriminate national and local. It is not easy to understand a series of democratic constitu- building: what ex-Dean Inge calls

"And who are occupying the Some of them do exceedingly field to the south-west?" "bungalosis" the Official opposition to the com- any rate, is not moving away from builder calls "unique residences." devoted, hard-working. Yet

tional measures. Yugo-Slavin, at

and the speculative effective work; all of them are pulsory inoculation of dogs, Parliamentary government,

(If only they were!) but

faet is that the task of rescuing back to it. It is at least an en-

But there are many others, in our beauty spots from desceration, voiced at Tucaday's meeting of couragement to believe that others the aggregate no less menacing. and our felds and hills from un- the Sanitary Board. Mr. M. K. may follow,

Such things as unsightly advertise- rightful encroachment, remnina Lo, in presenting a motion in

rent signs; wholesale uprooting of sporadic, haphazard, fortaltous; wild flowers; damage to property, and, la almost always accomplished, favour of mass inoculation at the

to rural tranquillity, by in- if at all, by last-minute campaigns phonographs and microphones in Government's expense, convin-

considerate campers; the eternal far too dependent for success on Sir Austen Chamberlain suggests of trespassing rights of way, pre- cingly demonstrated the value of that if the Powers consent to theservation of field paths and common

complaints about "litter": problems sudden private munificence. such measure, quoting facts arming of the League of Nations lands; disregard by motorists of and figures showing how Japan ons as the guardian of Interna- road and using prohibited tracks; coordination

to enable it to porform its fune the law relating to parking off the therefore be a greater mensure of tor. "Let the war begin."

One highly desirable step would

""Tis well," oxclaimed the Dicta- and the F.M.S. have succeeded ional peace, they will become and very many more.

and contrallaation in great measure in cradicating nutomatically tributary" to

than yet exists (without destroying Some of these abuses are already the valuable element of rabies through following this "superior State." Why?

grave. For instance, the "mass-patriotism) of the work of the practice. The point which ap-arming the League. But the exis, trespass," na It is called, has be-various bodies--the C.P.R.E., the

may be difficulties in the way of pears to have been overlooked by tence of a police force does not North, and has led to

come a serious problem in the

National Trust, Scaph, S.P.A.B., the Official spokesmen at Tues-make the individual in private life breaches of the peace.

Commons and Foot-paths Society, frequent

and many more-which now carry day's meeting was that Mr. Lo

un their admirable crusades for was not asking for compulsory

preserving the decencies of rural life. inoculation in place of the pre- Bent muzzling and removal res-

More than nation-wide ren- trictions, but as supplementary ponse should greet the appeal re-far, of the town-dweller, finding the step would be perfectly possible, thereto. Surely it

cently launched by Mr. W. Ormsby himself newly in contact with a set This step is the summoning, after must be conceded

Gore. Britain's First Commissioner of conditions unfamiliar to him, to due preparation and exchanges of that the additional of Works, on behalf of the great accommodate himself measure ativocated would serve

to them. agenda, of a Round Table Confer- circle of megalithic stones at They can be overcome, therefore, ence of all the principal interesta to reduce existing dangers, oven clo, more than twenty-eight acres call propagande.

Avebury, in Wiltshire. This cir-by education; or what we nowadays involved. if not to remove them altogether.in area, with an average diameter

Some of the chief bodies to be Whilst it cannot be contended of 400 yards, is of international in-serious of them, can only be over-dicated in a previous paragraph. Others, and some of the most represented have already, been in- that inoculation of itself ensures prehistory, every scrap of which in all walks of life have

terest. For it is a depositary of come by legislation: the anti-social Others that would plainly require absolute immunity, its value aboriously won back from the legislated against. But whether by Landowners Association, Women's to be to send delegates are the Central 15 an additional safeguard oblivion of time may illuminate precept or by law the great and Institutes, the National Farmers' ancient experience in far corners urgent task awaits ua of adjusting Union, the Youth Hostels' Associa of the globe. Much of Avebury is to rapidly and radically changing tion, Camping Club, the under national protection, but some conditions the life of the country-Pedestrians' Association, the two of it is open to speculative exploita side tion. Mr. Ormsby-Gore wishes to invasion of the town-dweller. It is

as affected by the mass-motorista' organisations, the C.T.C., tact, for, with Hadrian's Wall, he

(Continued on Page b.) see the whole of it preserved. In- regards it as the most valuable of the 4,000 monuments In the charge. tection would entail considerable of the Office of Works. Full pro- expense, which would be increased archaeological excavations were desirable. Archaeological research carried on as thoroughly In the last few years has brought to light many valuable results. It bury, like Stonehenge, used to be has been long supposed that Ave- One approached by an avenue of stones; of the arguments advanced by and this was conclusively proved Dr., Pope against compulsory was discovered burled, and has now last summer when such an avenue inoculation at Government ex-been re-crected. But the most im penae was that as doga in Hong-portant result so far established kong are, for the most part, pets, not undressed sarsens: On the is proof that stones at Avebury are and, therefore, luxury animals, contrary, they are carefully carved it would be unfair to burden the and treated, thus indicating that. taxpayer with the cost of inocu-

when they were erected some 4,000 lation. Dr. Pope does not appear imve been the scene of a consider

years ago, Britain must already

Is beyond question. Indeed, the Government

itself

has advocated Inoculation, and the mere fact that fines for in- fringement of the muzzling order are on a lower scale where it is shown that the animal has been inoculated implies a recognition of the value of the precaution. The statement that the existing restrictions have proved very effective is discounted by the fact that rabies still persists and has been prevalent without a break for some years now.

ns la

to have realised that the suggest-able culture. In fact, Avebury is

ed measure was not put forward considered by Mr. Ormsby-Gom to

be prehistoric man's mightiest

for the benefit of dog-owners, but effort,

comparable with the

as a protection to the public pyramids of Egypt. against the dangers of a discase

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the horrors of which it would be adoption; indeed, in view of the almost impossible to exaggerate, continued prevalence of rabies The additional reassurance over a lengthy period of time, which compulsory, inoculation the Government. owes it as would provide would, we venture duty to the community to take to suggest, be warmly welcomed this additional precaution. It is by the public and the compara- to be hoped, therefore, In view of tively small expense involved be the Sanitary Board's vote on the willingly borne. From every subject, that the authorities will standpoint, Mr. Lo's proposal without further delay act along commends itself as worthy of the lines, suggested.

"I don't know what your mother Is

you go around annoying nei

the

Kelly story without worda.

Y.M.C.A. Episode

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Nine little salgsges Sizzling on a plate,

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.

Nine Ifttle sausages—

No, blime, here's the board-

--8.33

Ate little sausages!

Fairy Tafe

•

And then there was the K.C.C. member's daughter who woke up. sometime after midnight, fevered and. at onse,

"Mummy," she said, "do tell me a fairy story."

"Just wait for an hour or two," replied her mother, "and when your daddy comes home ho'll tell us both-

one.

On Keeping Cool

A reader asks us for a recipe on: -keeping cool.

We know several ways of defeating the hot weather.

For instance you can go into the Gloucester Hotel, the King's and the Queen's Theatro and it'll take, w couple of coolles to thaw you after an hour or s

Alternately, you can alt in your bath all day, surrouned with Ice packs and battles; of boar.-

But by far the best way to get that freazing feeling is to approach Hongkong banker for a-losferee

Why, the new bank building is go Ing to have air-conditioning, and cooling system installed is beyond bur comprehension,, It'll be like rottarina an ice cream to the man who, works in the Dairy Farm los boung--all-day

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