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FRIDAY, DEC. 13, 1935.

FUTILE PEACE

EFFORTS.

Whatever may have been the facts behind the Anglo-French efforts to reach a possible basis for the settlement of the Italo- Ethiopian dispute, it is clear that the British Government has been forced to take note of the storm of criticism which has followed disclosures made in the Press

WATCH

your step

to-day. It is

Friday the

Thirteenth, the

monarch of all. hoodocs.

FRIDAY

一期

13

18th Day

DECEMBER 1935,

Ill-luck is always associated, by the superstitious, with a Friday, And when the Friday falls on a thirteenth, as it has done twice this year!

Ill-luck on Fridays un- doubtedly arises from the Crucifixion, as probably do the digits 13, for it was this number of persons who sat down to the Last Supper.

By the

and Eastern Churches the Fri- days throughout the year, except when Christmas falls on that day, have ever-been-

DECEMBER

115 16 17 18

122 23 24 2

29 30 1

Friday, The 13th

SUPERSTITION! The peculiar belief in charm or numbers, either for good or ill. How many of us will sit

rown to a dinner party that totals thirteen guests? Yet many people are convinced that the number thirteen is

lucky.

Superstitiously inclined people will watch their steps to-day, however, for it is Friday the Thirteenth,

the monarch of all hopdoos.

Tradition says that Adam and Eve were expell- ed from the Garden of Eden on Friday; it was on a Friday morning that Cain is said to have killed Abel and the beheading of John the Baptist and the Crucifixion took place on a Friday.

observed as days of the Passion. Ac- cording to Mahom medan tradition, Friday, which is the Moslem sabbath, was the day on which Adam was created, entered Para- dise and was expelled, and it was the day of his repen- tance, the day of his death, and will be the Day of Re- surrection.

There were thirteen at table at the Last Supper. And so Friday the Thirteenth has become a particularly ominous date in the minds of the superstitious.

13. the offer.

Hongkong there are no of St. Monance, in Fife, where

European hotels, since the room Yet in Scotland, Friday is numbers have a dight, cor- considered a lucky day-if you responding with the floor num- intend to get married. ber, before the room number. Another old superstition is ' Other parts of the world get that of the falling picture. over the difficulty by numbering This superstition is one that is the room 12A.

met with all over the world.

The breaking of a mirror, of An eclipse of the moon is the course, presages seven or twelve subject of superstition to Chin years' bad luck, depending on ese, and there is much beating where you of gongs to stop the frog from superstition is supposed to have are living. This enting it.

orginated in the olden days,

A Chinese feminine supersti- when a maiden looked upon her tion is that it is awfully unlucky reflection in the placid stream to say that a baby is heavy, and the reflection was disturbed reverse to proud by an enemy throwing a stone FRIDAY, the thirteenth, us. Quite the

ually falls twice a year. In European mothers, who would into the water. 1934 it fell in April and July, feel insulted if they were told Western

and next year will fall in Murch that their baby was and November. The other fragile little mite. month in this your in which it fell was September.

It is, especially in Marine an unlucky day-that is, if

circles, beyond all peradventure

regarding the reported main NOTES OF THE DAY You're superstitious.

features of the peace plan. There was a fear that, in an effort to placate France, Britain might go far further, in making concessions to Italy, than public opinion would tolerate. As a consequence, there has been con- siderable modification of the terms originally suggested. Even so, the more the situation is studied, the plainer does it become that the impossible was

BLACK GOLD

Black gold, it was named in the days of the great oll rush in the western United States; and black gold it remains to those fortunate enough to possess oil fields of any mar capacity. Oil can make or a nation's chances in war or in commerce. It keeps the wheels of industry burning. It may bring

The story goes that a shipow. The storytermined to kill this particular bulief, which is as strong as proofs of Holy Writ to the superstitious sailorman. He built a ship which he named Friday, the keel was laid on a Friday, she was launched on a Friday, she sailed on a Friday the thirteenth, and-she was never heard of any more.

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being attempted, in drawing up millions to the pockets of labouring THE world is full of supersti- plans which, at this juncture, people. An oil embargo against tion. True, the Bible warns might be acceptable to the Lea-

us against "the working of Satan gue and the both parties to the Italy, for instance, seriously ap- dispute. There is, admittedly, plied, would go farther-than-any-with all power and signs and wonders," but superstition is something to be said for any other sanction in forcing a reason•*

hard to squelch, The effort which aims at discovering able pence upon that nation. the minimum conditions under Committee of Eighteen at Genova, which Italy and Ethiopia would during the next little while, most be prepared to discuss & termina-decide whether or not to add oil

Many men, for instance, re- fuse to allow three cigarettes to

a poor,

Sult Was A symbol of endurance and friendship in the days of old, and the spilling of it was regarded as an outrage against hospitality. So they Balt over their left EUROPEANS are not the only threw

-people-who-are superstl-shoulder because it was on the tous. A Chinese superstition left shoulder that the evil spirits is that the spirit of a person who rested. commits suicide will haunt the house for three take place B it? None of us like to be- when UT superstition is isn't

this

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was lieve, in this modern age, that

we are swayed by it.

is Friday, the

Strangely enough, fulfilled in a case last month.

Indians have a very awkward Yet, dear reader, try yourself superstition. It is bad luck, if out. To-day you lend a friend money, not to Thirteenth. Would you like to take a walk under a ladder, insist on its return.

carrying a loose handful of salt, look over your left shoulder as a COME Scots people are among black cat with a crossed-eye the most superstitious in crosses in front of you, and then the British Empire. Only the invite twelve of your friends to other day we read of the village join you for supper?

HOODOO You Do?

be lit from one match. This B the time this appears in

By Ed. Kolly, Father of 13 print it will probably have that in the former case you may get

tion of the hostilities; but that to the sanctions list. We shall see superstition is said to arise out ceased to be the Kelly feature away with it. Which accounts for

end would best be served by the

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are

Gumblers

notoriously superstitions as to certain colours and numbers, and to meeting a funeral, or a black cat, and many other ill omens.

To be exact they were:

Thirteenth. Kindly defy superstition." "Mr. Kelly. To-day is Friday the The

difference between defying superstition and defying orders

IM

"At 10 am. I saw the suspect Kelly, wearing a green tie, enter the Hong- kong Hotel under a ladder, con tinuously tripping over a black cat which he had on a string lead, and

pigeon-toed com Friday the 13th, he immediately made accompanied by a panion. Notwithstanding that it was a decision, which he consumed in tankard,

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of the Russian funeral ritual, in

the fact that wo- If the embargo is enforced, how which three after candles are lit and become the Kelly epitaph. process of enquiring from the vital a thing is oil in the successful by the sume taper. To supply Our instructions from a cold- But our progress may better be two parties what these condi-

It is more the same method of illumination blooded Editor this morning are reviewed from the Hoodos Book of tions are, and not by formulat-running of a nation."

lubricant for sowing to three worldly things, like reminiscent of those the Em-the Great Hokus Pokus Houdover, ing specific proposals, Even- than a

It keeps cigars and cigarettes, is regard-peror of Abyssinia might tell his which, as you know, is kept by Judas. tually, it may be found possible machines and motor cars, to secure a settlement on the an air force in aetlen; makes possi- ed as un net if impiety, and hence air force ("Out there, there are

as unlucky.

sixty Italian acroplanes. Go basis of territorial adjustments, ble the swift supply of any army

force them down!"') but at this stage in the conflict in the field; runs transports and it is. futile, to even put forward troopships: Iterally feeds the navy. plans which call for the surren- Next to men, guns and ammunition, der of territory by Ethiopia. oil, and plenty of it, is the first The position is quite clear.

modern fighting necessity of Italy, by her own acts, has been declared the aggressor; her

force. troops are on Ethiopian soil; the

Where would Britain be without slaughtering of the defenders and innocent civilians continues, oil in the event of war? Suppos. With the circumstances thus, ing her supply were cut off; sup- how is it reasonable to expect posing her trade roules were made the Ethiopians to consider torms too dangerous for tankers to travel; involving loss of sovereignty in where would Britain go for fuel respect of considerable areas of for her ships and her aircraft? their country? Apart from any To her coalfelds. That is why the other considerations, the with- récent experiments in distilling 'oll drawal of the invaders from from coal are watched with auch Ethiopin would appear to be a

great interest in Great Britain. necessary pre-requisite of peace The industry is in its infancy; for Less 10% conversations. But Italy is

clearly in no mood at the moment in 1981 only a trifling 38,000,000 of ci were produced by to listen to any such demand. gallons Mussolini's spoken words plainly this means. That is little more

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reveal the Italian attitude. In than

a drop in the proverbial August, he declared, "We shall bucket. Britain's peace time needa go forward until we achieve the are 2,800,000,000 gallons of

Fascist Empire." In October, petroleum and its by-products each

lians are marching in unison

ho averred, "Not only is ur year. But the volume required in- Army on the march towards its ereases steadily. It is a matter for objective, but forty million Itn- gratification to know that those with it." Here we have a clear great coal mines which once were endorsement of the policy of the backbone of Britain's economic warlike aggression. It will thus fe are still of immense potential, be seen that there is little pros-value. They may yield the black pect of bringing the warring gold for which nations, in the past, parties together in such a spirit have fought and schemed, prodigi-, us to permit of a settlement of ously... The resuscitation of the the dispute. The only allerna-coal mining industry may be tive is for the League members brought about by the distillation of to press on with their penalties oil from this commodity, and that in

that the effect thereof may

The experiment, for it is hardly eventually induce Italy to bow beyond that stage, is well worth to the force of world opinion, cultivation.

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. against the aggressor. In the itself would be a been to Britain.

"Jane's a riot when she gets started about her husband."

"At this point I succeeded in dis- lodging a portion of the celling, but its effect was divorted by an umbrella the suspect Kelly had raised inside the building, and it merely demolished the suspect. Kelly's friend.

"Kelly then sat down to tiffin, after first removing his shoes and placing them on the table. Next he emptied the contents of the salt-cellar on the table, and carefully arranged two knives in cruciform pattern.

"This ritual convinced another friend sitting at the next table that. Kolly should be humoured until police Assistance was forthcoming, BO ho accordingly gave Kelly a cigar and strongly advised him to sell sterling as the dollar was bound to rise to 18. Bd. this afternoon.

Tho' Hokus Pokus: And pens this tip successful?

The Hokus Pokus: Excellent. The Hoodoo: No, your Unpleasant. HERT..

The Hoodoo; Enfortunately, your Unpleasantness, the suspect Kelly had na money with which to speculate, so could not, take advantage of the tip...

The Hokus Pokus: You're fired, So now, we're waiting for the next. blow to fall. As we walked under the ladder we picked up a five-dollar note, we sold our black cat for 50 conts, and the boy forgot to bring the chil for our tin.

If we fially survive, our next Defying Date will be March 43, 1930.

P.8. But we tricked them, all the same." -- We've had our fingers crossoď, all day.