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TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER

NOTES OF THE DAY

THE ARMS MAKERS

The British Arma Commission, it appears, has concluded its pub- lic sessions for the present, and they will not start again until the Commission has autumn. The

can

3 1935.

NEVER MARRY A.

NON-SMOKER

́ ́BY KATE O'BRIEN

(HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE NOVELIST)

When daring females proclaim waves, in fits and starts, becomo that they wouldn't marry this or tightened up and hardened in the anower jumps non-smoker, 80 that what are that, the obvious

sometimes from everywhere-Nobody asked excusable and even you! Still, dodging the bricks, I admirable moods in is become In stick to my coy, if unsought, rehim an inexcusable and pompous fusal. Having been myself for 20 months a serious and high-minded non-smoker I really do know. what

attitude.

either!

The Very Idea!

STUFF AND NONSENSE

More Scraps From a Noted: Writer's Scrap Book

Fan Mali

Edited By Eddie

boon handicapped in its work by two main hindrances. It has not had access to the documents of the arms firms, and it has not been able to examine witnesses on cath. The first of these is the more ime

Dear Eddie, -- Whenever I portant of the two, for it means

have an egg for breakfast I that it is debarred from getting at

always ponder for a moment, the arms makers secrets, as tho

And the man with an attitude to spoon in hand, to ask myself American Enquiry could. A very

proper way. There is a heated large amount of the "information superior bores they can be. To be keep up must be in the end either whether I am opening it in the about English firms produced at non-anything is, of course, to riska figure of fun or a menace.

Who would want to be married to controversy going on at home just now in connection with egg the London enquiry was derived being a bore, but there are ques-

opening-some say the "Oxford" from the revelations of the Ameri-tions of principle, into which we

way of giving several light taps investigatione, and this in need not enter here, over which certainly only a fraction of that

The trouble is that any princi- with a spom before peeling, which would have emerged if the that risk must certainly be taken.

bridge" method of cutting is ple founded solely on the well-while others say the "Cam- No Important principle British Commission had been able

In through the egg with a knife is to conduct as thorough an enquiry Involved, however, in being a being of "dear little me"

Jullus the only one recognised in egg Alily. When non-smoker. Not to hideously 86 was carried out in America. genuine Despite this handicap, however, smoke because in common honesty Cansar wished to have men about eating circles. those who are arguing for a stricter you cannot afford to, or because the him "that are fat, Slock-headed control of the arms Industry or money saved on cigarettes will buy men and such as sleep o' nights," for its nationalisation have been an orphan child a wooden leg-that it seems to me that he was des able to build up a strong CERC. kind of thing is admirable, but it cribing the non-smoker typy, and that it was the nervous ery of a Evidence has been produced to is not being a non-smoker.

not-too-complacent and very gift show that (1) Arms firma combine

ed prig for a hedge of real prigs to ralee the price of arms to gov.

A non-smoker is someone who to hide behind. But being sleek ernments; (2) arms firms have

and sleeping woll gone to considerable lengths to has a small, cautious theory, or a headed prevent disarmament; (3) arms set of such theories, to do with nights, taking care of Number firms are guilty of producing war his own health and tidiness and One, and making a rule of life out Ittle personal health scares in order to stimulate their long life and self-satisfaction-of his

tobacco notions, betters nothing under the own profits; (4) arms Arms have theories which make done their best to thwart their obnoxious to him.

sun except perhaps the condition own governments when those gov

of one man's tonsils. And are we ernments have been working for

really to be bored and reproved and frowned upon through this short life for such a silly aim as that? Let's all look after our health

posed to

the interests of peace.

the

the champion of the ultra-Imperial. This is the situation with which iste, has, we notice, been putting the British Government has to forward the view that if Signor deal, and, for this reason,

ultimate Andings of the Arms Mussolini, as the result of the

Commission will be awaited with present crisis, succeeds in rid

the very greatest interest. ding the world of the League of Nations, he will have performed | TOWN÷PLANNING

a great international service.

He is a man who will not admit to restlessness or day dreaming, who allows for no panicky need for sedatives or escapes, who is

never shy and always knows what with his hand-ko is, in

to do

too

1

And our self-love

heaven's

I have a small son who shows a strong disposition towards.the "Oxford" method and I would if I should allow him to con- very much like you to advise me nuc. If so, will it make him class conscious!

Another matter on which I should like your opinion is; la oil necessary for an Exchange Broker to have a large head to he My dear "S".-Neither the succenful. Yours ever-S Oxford nor Cambridge methodA of opening boiled eggs should be cultivated in children. You are destroying the very foundation Your child, some one of those of our glorious British system of education.

In

peace. In general the case against the arms makers is perfectly clear.

day, will go to They constitute a great vested in-

teachers show him what to do with his morning egg. In the terest of enormous power, which

great institutions. Let qualified

Is definitely interested in stimulat

name meanwhile, suppress all snob- ing arms races and is thereby opfact, a superior person--and since private, but in

to be that is to be a complete and make no public religion or virtue bary. After all Paz Vobiscum, Ao doing for it is neither Dew et Mong Droorit (Latin for "When in Rome, don't do as the outright houx, ba is, in the last of analysis, a dangerous creature. virtue nor religion.

Romans do, but do as Mussolini Bre He is also very likely a dyspeptic,

tells you"). While you since all non-smokers cat

St. Catherine of Siena was so living in Hongkong, show these is think, naturally ascetle that eating was Colonials that you can adopt much. Cautiousness the beat covering word to des- an agony to her in adult life, but yourself to their strange mode of living, and teach your bra-your cribe the rationallsing non-she always ate in company in a

youngster to open his boiled egg smoker. And if it in a word you courteous and absurd attempt to

Hongkong fashion. This Is feel you can

well, good marry,

appear as the rest of mankind-this iser-well, Hongkong though A very great deal of talk about luck to you. For myself I hate it

the effort meant torture people always scramble their It contends that for Britain the town-planning has been heard for with exaggeration. Displays of for her afterwards. In any case, eggs.

The answer to your second League is a dangerous entangle-years, but the most notable fea- it, even legitimate and just dis-ir Denth doesn't get you by the ment and that the Government ture of activity in the building plays, make me quarrelsome.

tonsil or the lung he has a million question is in the negative. has been spending a large part line has been ribbon development. hate to see children being trained other chances-notably he can Only fat heads are necessary.

some day town in it, as I think they are over-take you by the tummy. Let the of its time in upholding League It may be that

out for him prestige instead of attending to planners will have their innings, much nowadays. I like chance non-smoker look

but that would seem to be in the takers..

there for the man who has no purely British interests. The

tabacco far future, for it may be supposed"

to fldget with, the well suggestion is therefore made

that much of what was possible

think I'm off the point. and neatly filled hours between- that Britain should withdraw in the mere building of houses has

I know that long before one meal and the next are apt to from the League, so as to avoid already been accomplished. An

came sailing home with soom long, and one of the ironic being involved in quarrels with example of what real town-plan- Raleigh

ning may be made, or at all events his unlocked-for blessing the rewarda of self-satisfaction is a its traditional friends in order intended, is illustrated in a grand world of common men' could have hearty appetite. And dyspepsia to save the face of the League. plan for which M. Stalin, the been divided justly enough into in gey ill to live with, for dyspep- It is further contended that the Soviet Dictator, receives credit. Sir Tobyn and Malvolios. But tie and for sympathiser. No, no

He has decided to reconstruct League is powerless to do good. Moscow, under a ten-year plan. the leaf he brought has, more don't marry but capable of an infinity of mis- Many mean quarters in the city permanently than anything else, rather than that, take a chance at chief, that it is a sham, and a are to be cleared out. Old streets served to mark them off from the altar with Tom Webster's booklo. He. too, each other us types. Many of us three-cigar make-believe, and that "as make-are to be broadened and new streets made. Great blocks of dwelling-

life, I think, and would might have his, natural human believes are perilous in our houses are to be erected, and dan- love stern world, where force plays gerous and unhealthy Industries lengthen it if we could. Most of disadvantages, and, alas,

be removed to suitable us want to be healthy, and we all, tummy troubles. 90 great a part, everyone will are to be the better when it is awept the scheme, however, is to be a

quarters. The main feature of whether we know it or not, have some fun while he accumulated on the ground): "Are you a con- away." Happily, the Daily Mail spacious belt of parks and forest viewpoint, is not shared by the

Don't I'm not.

attacks

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n non-smoker

hig

But there'd be

of sheer self-worship. them. and anyway his

themo-

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land round the city, and the area But these obvious truths which go song wouldn't be "What a good boy

in an " the generality of men

which the new Moscow will cover over

British public as a whole, wit-will be double that of the present ness the result of the recent one. A unique part of the plan

Peace Ballot, which gave an overwhelming majority in fav- our of Britain's adherence to and support of the League. Nor, for that matter, do the argu- ments which it puts forward find support in France, where faith in the League as the only existing institution for the pre- servation of peace remains the touchstone of the country's foreign policy. What is the alternative to the system for

is the regulation of population. No monstrous agglomeration la to be permitted. The present popu- lation is well under four millions. The number for the new Moscow ten years hence is to be restricted to five millions. That suggestion, however, is only provisional. Even govern the In- dictators cannot cidence and location of population.

ed guilty of aggression. Un- happily, that dream has not been fulfilled. But that is not the fault of the League as a body;

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stands? A return to the old, which have subordinated the discredited system of special well-being of the world in gen- alliances, from which the Greateral to their own individual in- terests. If the League were War really sprung. It is easy to urgue, in a superficial man- operated as it should be, and ner, that the League is useless. free use made of the machinery But the point which its critics provided in the Covenant, there always overlook is. that its ad- would be no further fear of war mitted failure to fulfil the high on a large scale. Even the hopes entertained when it was Daily Mail 18′′ foreed to rest its founded is not due to any fault case on a recognition of the part. inherent in the League itself, but which force plays in the world, solely because the nations which comprise It have not lived up to ite principles. The League has no power of force of its own, al- adiferes to the system of collec- though the plans on which it tive accurity____en___which.....the was built did envisage a time, League is based will mankind.be

as though force, and not justice, is to be the dominating factor. Not until the whole

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"The neighbours are so nice. They're taking up a collection, to send him away somewhere to study."

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Epitaphs For Reckless

Drivers

An end, at last, to my career- . I simply had to slow up here.

"Death's hand-uprgised was my

itefcat--

Que signal that I couldn't beat. I've lots of time for sober

"Thinking

driving after

But no

more

drinking.

Your sympathics are well he-

stowed

On one who low here lies: I passed all cars along the road~~~ On every curve and rise."

•

Hongkong Foolbali

Doctor (to player stretched out

tortionist 7"

Player: "No."

Doctor: "Well, then, you've got

roken arm."

Dogs

"Hello, is this the S.P.C.A.?" "Yes."

"Well, there's an Indian police-- man sitting in a tree teasing my dog."

Defined

•

A German novel is a book in which two people want each other in the first chapter, but do not get each other until the last chapter. A French novel is a book in which two people get each other right in the first chapter, and from then on to the inst chapter don't want each other any more.

A Russian novel, however, is one in which two people neither want each other nor get each other, and about this 450 profoundly melan- choly pages are' written.

Still There The officer of the day entered

and the guard-room

found it empty except for a private, who, stripped to his shirt and trousers, was lounging in a chair, smoking.

pipe.

"Where's the sergeant of the

demanded. guard ?

the officer

angrily.

"Gone acrosа to the non-come" mesa to have a drink, sir," replied. the private.

"And the sentries?"

"In the canteen, sir."

"Then, confound it, what are you

doing here 7"

"Me, sir?" was the reply. "I'm the prisoner."

Oh, Well !

Young. Mrs. Whalesteath was attending her first cricket match.

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