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THURSDAY, SEPT. 5, 1935.

LEAGUE MEMBERS'

OBLIGATIONS

NOTES OF THE DAY

DEBT TO OUR SOLDIERS

SEPTEMBER 5, 1935.

MAKING OUR LIVES

OVER AGAIN

BY ETHEL MANNIN

The Very Idea!

NEWS AND NOTES

"I could my

F1 could have my time over | for, and don't need, opportunity More Scraps From Eddie's

Thus the war terminated, and with it all remembrance of the wrote mervices." So veteran's Napler in concluding his history of the Peninsular War. Britain ried!" one frequently hears dis- was left with an enormous debt, agruntled husbands and wives

particularly wives naserting. dissatisfied people, gaining peace They usually add the rider, "I could know what I know now!" without tranquillity, greatness

It is dear to us all, this illusion that given a second chance we should do better for ourselves than we have managed to do. "If I could have another chance, wouldn't go into business," declares the tired business man; he likes to think he's so to sea, or indulge a secret ambition to almost anything but be tied to an office. If he had done this, instead of that, he thinks everything would have been "different."

make their own. .'-

The most we could hope for in the wood of second chances would be not to repeat some of the more enally avoidable mistakes,

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1, for example, would not in youthful ignorance sign away my copyrights, so that years later, to my amazement and horror, imma- ture work which I had thought buried and forgotten for ever reappeared in book-form for the or do bewilderment of my admirers and the delight of my anemies.

If I could be switched back to 1926 I would go to America with

All out drinking wood-alcohol.

of comparatively minor Horta

Scrap-Book

Edited By Eddło

ONSE upon a time there was a

Admircing Mother who took her son to the Manidger of a local noosepaper and said:

"This is my Erbert. He's a clevver lad-you ougt to see him takeing off Jackie Cooper. He

without intrinsic strength, the pr sent time uneasy, the future dark and threatening. He might have been writing of the end of the World War, so closely do conditions tally-all except the first sentence. There never was a war anywhere, at any time, after which a nation has made such faithful and strenu ous effort to help those who had suffered from service in the war. Of the extent of that effort the country is reminded by what the Pensions Minister said on his visit to Edinburgh recently. In money alone the work has been stupend- ous: more than eleven hundred

But there's the rub-how can we million pounds ́expended by the

know that under the same circum- Miniatry during the last twenty

The wife, for instance, who, stances, given a second chance, our years. More than a million men, after having messed up her own reactions wouldn't be precisely the bene and somebody else's life, discovers same in all matters controlled by. women, and children are

Pen that she is not of the stuff that or anyhow affected by, tempern- fclaries of this expenditure.

fixed, and good wives are made, likes to think ment? It would be easy, given u sion and allowances

that if some benevolent omnipo-second chance, nut bo sign away unalterable, at a time when the cost tence could switch her back to the my copyrights; I should be only of living was much higher than it year of her marriage, this time too glad of the chance not to; but is now. That can be said of noremembering all the mistakes she in the matter of what I would or has made since then, she would other country involved in the war. Thousands of men still require know better. medical service, either permanently

knows all the film stars' ages off by hart; he can take the wire- less to bits and put it back aggain; he can ride our Bam's moterbike; and can tell you all But would it? I'm not so sure. I have an idea that, given the things I would not do again given the interport soccer teams sinse same personalities, with a seconda second chance such things he was six. He wants to be a chance our lives would work out not going to certain parties, be- Edditer." pretty much the same in the end,cause I should know they were # my "Confessions"-if I could help that we'd find ourselves, even waste of time. I wouldn't write

it. tually, merely having gone by a different route to the same destina- tion.

Unfortunately the knowledge of

in hospital or beenuse of old in- what is the sensible thing to do is born different," I fall to see any

making themselves felt Juris

And besides after all those years. this, voluntary bodies of, all sorts. among which the Legion has a dis-

PROCRESS

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no guarantee of doing it, for, as Mr. Somerset Maugham so wisely remarks somewhere, "We live but we do not learn."

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And the Manidger looked at Erbert and said he thought Erbert would make a good Edditer with all them quallificka. tions, but what a pitty they had got a Edditer allreddy.

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"It is a pitty," sighed the Admireing Mother, "Such clevver lad, too. He can draw Mickey Mouse with one hand be- hind his back, and you ought to hear him say The Wreck of Erbert, say the Yesperuss.' your poetery for the gentleman." "It treas the scooner Resperuss

piped Erbert.

#1

The Manidger said don't bother just now, Erbert; and if you are willing to Start At The Bottom And Work Your Way Up we might find you a job. Start on Monday. And so say. ing he dissappeared before Erbert could get biay with "How Horachius Kept the Bridge."

Erbert started on Monday, when they gave him a pair of sissors, pot of paste, pad of paper, and put him beside a big pile of papers.

would not write, whom I should or should not love, how can I say?

Short of being born again and reason to suppose that I should be. have more sensibly-anyhow for long-than the first time. Com- mon sense would not, I fear, con- tinue indefinitely being the better. Back in a Barricaque "Wood of part of an innate romanticism and tinguished part, work incessantly | Second Chances" knowledge gotten sentimentality. to alleviate the misfortunes which out of experience might prevail: But honesty compels me to add As in England, so in Hong- the war has brought upon multi-for a time, but that combination that there is in my philosophy sentimentality, romanticism, more cause for regret over oppor kong, the Italo-Abyssinian crisis tudes. All this constitutes a fine of

emotionalism tunities missed than for those is arousing

which, one road or the other, led laken and used not wisely but too a measure of in- record, and despite the lapse of possessiveness and many years there is no sign of any

one in the first place to the altar well. Not that, looking back over terest in foreign affairs amongst

slackening of a true and practical or the register office, would inevit my four and thirty years, I can the general public to a greater national sympathy for the men who ably do so again-unless a differ- honestly feel that I have missed extent than for many years past.

did what they believed to be their ent temperament went with the much.

second chance, for though we BD-175 Flower of the Orient-Fox Trot

change la various ways during the J cannot feel, therefore, any Pickard's Chinese Syncopators. People who have not hitherto duty.

course of the years as a result of very strong desire for second Ali Baba-Rumba

Pickard's Chinese Syncopators. | paid much attention to the col-

what life does to us, we do not chances, for myself, nor have I, as lective pence system are begin-

change fundamentally. Your in- will have been gathered from there BD-190 Call me sweetheart-Fox Trot

dividualist goes on being on in few remarks, any great faith in Teddy Joyce & His Orchestra.ning to nsk precisely what sauc-

In following the lead of Belgium. dividualist; though perhaps less the value of second chances could

"All you gotter do," they told Hora comes that Rainbow-Fox Trot

tions are, and what membership Holland and some other countries, aggressively and flamboyantly s; they be, since the things which, him, is cut this paper into Teddy Joyce & His Orchestra. of the League of Nations really and establishing a National Film we learn tot gradiente or add to not do again are the relatively un-pieces. Then paste 'em onto

to repress and control, given a second chance, we would

Marina (Queen of the Mountains) —Waltz.

involves. It is of interest ht this Library through the agency of the

and in the end the old Adam and impartant things, things like back-these sheets of paper, and then the wrong horse, lending you send the lot up to the subbs." Joyce & His Orchestra.

Ant selves, taken a notable step forward.

Your business man goes money to the wrong person, going Two tired ayes-Fox Trot ...Joyce & His Orchestra, stage, therefore, to look into the British Film Institute, England has the old Eve must reassert them in

"Okay," said Erbert. main provisions of the League a reservoir of historical informa- to sen instead of going into the to boring parties: but as to the Other interesting records by Sydney Custard,

of out-city; he has a wife in every port major errors, such as marrying ton Covenant. By Article 10 of tion. and as a museum Ken Harvey, Renara, Lily Pons, Elisabeth Schumann,

that Covenant, the signatories standing esthetic experiences, the instead of settling down with early, or too late, falling in love day Erb.rt thought he would

banker's daughter

and finds with the wrong person, grieving Walter Glynne, Norman Evans, Aileen Stanley, etc.

zew library is likely to prove a life at sea every bit as monoto-and worrying over worthless things also on sale.

pledge themselves "to respect

most useful organisation. fa- nous as life in a city office, and and worthless people, choosing this and preserve against externalcidentally, the flins the library has not nearly so profitable, and career instead of that-I see no aggression the territorial and already secured

either he throws it up and goes help for us, human mature being show the great back to the idea he first thought what it is. existing political independence pace at which technical einema of, or he sticks it till he retires, Perhaps when i am old and grey is necelerating. They and it is all much the same in the and full of sleep I shall regret that of all members of the League." progress In case of aggression or threat reveal that a satisfactory mechani-end, the woman he finally marries I didn't get into an aeroplane and was attained much much the same as the banker'sly to Bagdad at the suggestion daughter and their house cluttered and invitation of a romantie young or danger of aggression "The

more quickly in the case of talkies up with the same sort of things, man whim I had never met but Council shall advise upon the

than it was with the early silent only fewer of them.

who thought it would be a good means by which this obligation films; and that it has been reached "Ah, but if I had taken such and idea for us both if we did a tour shall be fulfilled." Article II

more quickly still in the matter of such a chance when it was pre-of Persia together..

Perhaps I shall tell myself then states that "any war or threat colour films. But the muin purpise blessing of second-chances, pro- that if I could have another chance

sented to me," your believer in the of war, whether immediately of the library is not to record the tests, "I might have done some the claims and duties and devotions affecting any of the members of history of the films, but to reveal thing worth-while."{

an which made me turn' down the pro- the League or not, is hereby how the films enn record the history amiable and a comforting illusion; position the first time wouldn't women. Its present but the people capable of the worth-count, and I shall hug the warm declared a matter of concern to of men and the whole League, and the possessions (which are rapidly in. while things and with a real de-ing illusion that "if I had my time knows all the film stars' ages off League shall take any nction creasing in number) indicate that sire to achieve them, don't wait

to historians 418 that may be deemed wise and its service effectual to safeguard the pence commentary on popular taste will be invaltinble. Hitherto writers of the nations." The various

have been compelled to rely for measures to be taken in the event evidence of this kind on such things of any member of the League as novels and plays, but the witness resorting to war in disregard of of these cannot be as reliable as is' the obligation, to submit all dis that of box-office film successes, for putes either to arbitration or none of them has probably ever judicial settlement are clearly attained the popularity of the set out in Article 16. Such an pictures. act is to be regarded as "an act

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"You've always complained that the boss nover knows who is doing the best work. Now you're afraid this substitute is going to make a big impression on him while you're gone."

After a time, it being a hot like a ice, and acordingly went When ho out in serch of same. came back, the pasto and the.. papers had got ori micksed and they were a tangled mess on the floor neerly as high as Erbert.

Poor Erbert. He did try hard to sort it all out; but the Late Extra, Late Finel, Late Nite Finel, Finel Nite, and Close of Play Edditions came and went, and he was still trying to un- ravvel that tangled heap uppon the floor.

born.

But some people are Jernalists. And when a fellow

by hart, there is hope for him in Newspaperland,

They made Erbert a file crittic.

Strictly Business

We went into Lane, Craw- ford's the other day.

"We want to buy a little present for our wife," we said to one of the snappy girls there.

"Could interest you in a bathing costume?" she asked, in accents aweet and low.

"You could, girlle," we replied, "but let's fix up about the present first."

Now why did she slap our face?

Safety First

Nuts and bolts

On flivvers

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When bolts are loose

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over again" I would have gone, though in my heart I know that given the samo conditions the same reasons for not going would, pre- vail..

Which is, I submit, an illus tration of the whole truth concern- ing this second-chance business; like love, humanity taken it to its. heart to keep it warm.