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THURSHAY, AUG. 22, 1935.

PUBLIC WORKS IN BRITAIN

The decision of the British Government to guarantee the ex- penditure of £40,000,000 on London transport shows a new direction in policy, involving a very interest-

LEAGUE MUST DO

OR DIE

The Very Sidea!

By W. N. EWER may happon, or, people in

MONDAY MORNINGITIS

Ing Xperine, say the Christian W not happen, mit Gentle next le plaisir decisive positions, to Eddie Kelly Makes Another

Astounding Discovery

W

Reported By Eddis

E have just discovered that there are to be five. Mondays in September.

As a foundation member of the Anti-Monday League, we would like to point out the international signi- ficance of this. The outrage That we must face the

never occurred once during "The League's writ does not run the reign of Edward the outsile Europe."

Sixth.

fact:

both

Science Monitor. The Government month, it is clear to me that we are, seriously, proposing that the has been pressed again and again to have come to a crisis in the his- League, dismissing its own Covea- embark on Д big programme lory of the League. For in these ant ns "unworkable," should find of public works 10 stimulate coming days decisions must be some other basis, enabling it to trade and nbsorb the Un- made which, whatever their other onforce pence in, some, cases, but employed. Except in the case of consequences, will determine what, not in others.

Roughly speaking, these are the the support given to the big Cunard in the future is to be the League's liners, it has generally resisted | real charnctor. Is it to be an or- people who, at heart, would like the this demand. Its attitude, an ex-ganisation for upholding as between League to be not an instrument for pressed by Mr. Chamberlain, has States, the "reign of law," for enforcing the Law of the Poace, ieen that a sound general policy securing that all disputes whatever but an Instrument for enforcing the was more beneficial to trade than they may be, shall be settled peace-Treaties of 1919. direct Intervention In Industry, ably, for preventing aggression by They do not put this frankly. But many of its most stalwart sup- | massing against my aggressor the They find other arguments. porters are not satisfied. The lat. | joint and overwhelming strength In this particular Italo-Abyssin- ter have pointed out that sound of civilisation? Or is it to be an lan dispute, they argue: finance has produced cheap money, † instrument in the hands of certain. and that the moment when money Powers for preserving and stereo. Is cheap is the right one to choose typing the particular demarcation for investing it in important deve- of European frontiers Inid down in lopment work. Mr. Lloyd George | the series of treaties of which Ver. is in the vanguard of this move- sailles was the first and chief? ment, and has presented to the Or is it, again to be, merely, in Cabinet A comprehensive pro- the phrase used by Mr. Mac- gramme of public works which | Donald in the "Armaments White might be undertaken a large | Paper," machinery for fuellitating scale. It is apparent that the and regularising the menus of Government will not necept Mr. international co-operation,” Lloyd George's programme. In its entirety. But it is equally clear that it is impressed by the public The first is the "orthodox dee- feeling created, and that it witrine." enshrined in the Covenant atabend to the extent of adopting itself some similar if lesser schemes. Mr. Chamberlain's latest plan is one of them.

NEED FOR IMPROVEMENT.

The need for improving the sys tems of electrified suburban rail ways to the north an east of London has long been urgently felt. The lack of adequate transport in these regions had become a serious grievance, and the railway authori

undertaking new construction on their own credit by the enormous. capital outlay it would involve But the Government guarantee will give cheap enpital. The

THE PACT AND THE ties had only been deterred from

CRISIS

The suggestion that the United States should intervene in the Italo-Abyssinian crisis, as a signatory of the Kellogg Pact, brings to the fore the question of the value or otherwise of that agreement, devised for the specific purpose of preserving world peace. The United States, like all other signatories, has the right to draw the attention of the subscribing nations to the dangers of a conflict, but the Pact carries with it no definite obligation of concerted action. The most that can be hoped for, apparently, is that pressure may be brought to bear on Italy to desist from the

use of force against Abyssinin. The moral effect of any representations under the Pact is not to be under- estimated, but the practical utility thereof remains open to question. Actually, all that the Powers adhering to the KellogK Pact did was to renounce war as an instrument of national

·

There can be no question that the intention of the framers of the Covenant was that the first and min purpose of the League should be the enforcement of the peace and the prevention of war.

Every one of the original drafts from which the Covenant emerged is based on the same fundamental principle.

It is that the members of the League agree to take common breaks the Covenant and goes to action against any State which war: that the aggressor, attacking any one member State, will find himself at war not with one enemy bat with the whole League,

You will find that in the "Philli money invested will earn its divi-

more Plan," in the "House Draft," the Wilson Draft." the "Cecil dends. Work which will give em- ployment to thousands of persons,

Draft." the "British Draft," in including those in the distressed every text from these first outlines) areas, will be provided; and into the Covenant itself as signed at don will be rendered permanently Versailles. better off. The Investment, of That, indeed, is the basis of the course, may be described as a whole conception. It in the applica- cialistic enterprise. But it is of a tion to international relations of novel kind. The Government will the method by which the "reign of not perform the work itself, nor law" is established and the pence will it set up a new public corpora- } proserved in every civilised soz tion to do it. It will create by feluty.

į

That Abyssinin, being an "un- civilised" State, and anyway, not So we think this Monday worth worrying about, is not en situation will have to be dealt titled to the protection of the with. Covenant.

That for the League to attempt - If the League of Nations won't to "everce" a Great Power like act, the Hongkong Government Italy would be to court disaster, will have to invoke the Kellogg

That the League mast realise

Pact. that economic necessity makes it Imperative for such a Power as Italy to "expand."

To peer pathetically at the clock; to tenderly touch the sun- But they do not see-the gentle- men who put forward these argu-burn you got on Sunday, to groan ment that once they are accepted your way to bed, to grovel the whole hasia of the Lengue is slowly on the hands and knees destroyed; that if it declines to en- to the bathroom, to be reluctant- force the law in one set of circum-ly convinced that you suppose test is powerless to enforce you'll have to shave, to bolt half a breakfast, to miss the Star Grant that "the writ of the

Ferry by half a minute, and League does not

outside Europe," what ground at all is arrive at work at 10 a.m., instead there for.expecting it to run inside for 9.30, is bad enough. Europe? If the Covenant can be disregarded in one case, why should it be fulfilled in another?

it at all.

Rut to have to do it five times in one month is plain murder. If Abyasinta is put "outside the

We are afraid the entire law," what is to prevent the argu-calendar will have to be re- meal that, say, Lithuania is also

organised. "outside the law"--is not worth worrying about?

These Mondays must be If the "coercion" of Italy is too eliminated. risky a business, what about the "cereion" of Germany?

The 30th of June should also Italy is entitled to "expand" | be wiped out. (Dear Sir,-We and to use war as an instru- have to remind you, as we are meat. of expansion---why is not Germans equally entitled to seek our financial year, that your ae- now approaching the and, of way out of her economic troubles by forcible expansion at the expense of her neighbours?

ennt...).

International system of calen- daring might be instituted. This is a brain wave. When it's Dure you punch a hole in the Monday in Hongkong, it's Tues- Coventat, once you lay down that

statule a company which will raiso The citizen, whatever his grie-each member State of the League day in the United States. the money, gaaranteed by the state, vances, is forbidden by the com- may make up its own mind whe-American calendars could be from public subscription; and imunity to take the law into his ther, in any given dispute, the used on Mondays, and when the will invest this money in existing own hands." If he does so, he Covenant shall or shall not be en-American Monday comes around, undertakings, namely, the London finds that he has to meet the joint forced, you have ended the "reign the Hongkong calendar will be Passenger Transport Roard and force of the whole society.

of law. You have also destroyed reverted to. two main-line railway companies;

all eflency of the Covenant as a For it can the capital is to be repaid within

preventive of war. twenty-five years. The experiment. will be of the greatest importance, The lessons learned from it will be applicable to other undertak ings. It is not likely to be the last. Already several comparable schemes are being pressed upon the Government's attention.

ASKING FOR TROUBLE

Once break that rule, once admit

Similarly, when it's a public only be effective if it is certain, if holiday in Spain, the Spanish would-be aggressor knows that be calendars would be the correct yond a peradventure, it will cer-thing for the best people. tainly be enforced, the "sanctions" will certainly "be employed.**** We are feeling too seven-days Destroy that certainty and where to write any more this are you? Where is your European

subject. security?

Suppose a Polish attack on Lith- tania, or a German attack on Aus-

Italian attack 专 trin. Albania.

If Great Britain is to connive at an Italian attack on Abyssinin be- cause Italy is too big und Abyssinia Once admit that those on whom too small to make it worth worry- the law lays the obligation of en- ing about, why should she worry forcing peace may, when the moj about Lithuania or Austrin of ment comes, decide, at their own Albanin?

Yet there are people of influence,

OUR NEIGHBOUR'S WIFE

There's Many A Slip Worn

Under A Plain Gown But now we want to tell you about something so scandalous that if anybody else told you, you wouldn't believe them. We have a new neighbour,

"Nice dog you have there," we said conversationally.,

"Yes," he replied in accents sweet and low, "not bad. Do you like dogs?"

We said "Yes," so he said:

"Tell you what. I'm expecting some pups in a few days. You can have your pick.".

Now it needs to be noted that an essential feature of the reign of law is that the law inust operate generally and without distinction of persons or circumstance. that a certain citizen or a few citizens can "take the law into their own hands" without suffering the ermsequences, or that another group will not, if altacked, be accorded the protection of society, and you Lord Beaverbrook is very angripse from order into anarchy, into because Mr. Malcolm MacDonald policy: the Pact carried with it has "rejected the policy of Customs Sangsterdom and lynch-law, no machinery for meeting Union with the Crower Colonies." crisis when it arose. It is true

Ile advocates, he explains, the "beneficent system of exploiting that attempts have been made to the Colonies-beneficent to the read into the Pact an obligation natives, the settlers and the British whim or will, whether or not they There may be cateslations in this

Our new neighbour was sitting of united action by the sign traders and workers who will ex shall fulfil their obligations, and,case or in that which would dictate in a chair on his front lawn, play- change their goods under that sys-again, ordered society collapses, and action. But they have nothing to ing with his Alsatian when we tories against any nation ad.

tem freely within the largest and the assurance of peace disappears, do with the League, nothing to do first saw him. judged to have infringed the best ordered market in, the world." All that seams obvious enough. with the "reign of law."

They are There the beneficence stops, ob-

(Continued vu Page 5) undertaking, but there does not appear to be any real justifica Lord Heaverbrook does not claim serves the News Chronicle. Even

tion for such a view. When the

that his system will be beneficent Pact was concluded, its chief to the grent nations outside its value was considered to be the

borders. Yet how can the demands of their evergrowing populations alignment of the United States.

be ignored? There are two ways with European Powers in 211 only in which these demands can effort to put an end to war once

be met. One is by granting the outside world a reasonable measure and for all. The League of of free trade with our Colonies, Nations, it was thought, was not treated for this purpose as "a enough, of itself, to prevent war,

dated" territories. One in by giv ing the excluded nations Colonies with the United States outside

of their own. That means in prac membership. America's 1990-

fice surrendering to them territory cintion, therefore, with the other at present in one form or another major Powers, in a united de-

under British administration. If we refuse to do either of these claration outlawing wan was

things the inevitable result will be considered to strengthen the war. Denied the right to live peace structure, inasmuch as either by trade or by colonisation the foreigner will be driven to at- any pence system with the

tempt to secure it by force. Lord United States in would be far Beaverbrook does not want war. more effective than any system He is constantly saying su Yet with the United States out.it is the inevitable result of his

colonial policy. From the start, however, there were doubts in some quarters as to the efficacy of the Pact in fore, chief hopes of the utility times of emergency. But it was of the Pact were that it would felt, at the same time, that any exercise a restraining effect on of the contracting nations which bellicase nations and give the might be templed to break loose agencies of diplomacy a greater in an excess of passion, would chance of averting a pending think twice before violating an crisis. In actual working, how- engagement to which the United ever, these hopes have been dis- States as well as the European appointed, mainly for the reason Powers generally were commit- that the Pact failed to define ted. In this connection, the aggression. The Pact, like the view was held that another League, is now being put to the month's delay in 1914 might test. If it fails of its purpose, have saved the world from the we may well despair of the ☛Great War. Summed up, there- future outlook.

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"How can we go fifly-fifty on the groceries when your husband eats four lamb chops 7"

When we

our neighbour next he was driving a Chr He invited us for a ride and we clambered in,

"Wonderful car," we said as wo bowled smoothly along the Castle Peak road, "Had it long?”

"No," he replied, and asked, "Do you drive?"

We nodded.

"Take it any time you feel like

in spin,” saith he..

We did not see our neighbour ufter that until yesterday after-

1001.

"Was that your wife,wo NAW yesterday?" we asked over the porch,

"Yes," he replied.

"She's a peach" we exclaimed enthusiastically,

He hesitated, and looked at us thoughtfully.

"Do you—————or !— -over feel lonely 7" he asked, after a pause.

We gulped.

"YCH.

nervously.

sometimes," We anid

He paused again before reply- ing, and we watched him anxiously. "Tell you what," he said, "next time you feel lonely, hop in for a game of cards.”