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WORLD NAVIES GROWING

The extent to which naval re- armament is proceeding at the present time is indicated in the latest edition of "Jane's Fight- ing Ships," which shows that most foreign nations have laid. down number. of new ships dur- ing the current year and that

HOPE this article will not

of a bleedor. I said that the a law birth-rate before the other

bote my readers. Vital By the Very Rev. disease was rare among women. countries began to limit their

statistics have been a favourite hobby of mine all my life.

was

W. R. INGE, D. D.

Sir William Osler, who was numbers..

..

present, corrected me and said The exhortations of Con- We all know that people live

that women never had it. I did tinental militarists to produce not dare to bandy, words with more cannon-fodder have not much longer than they did. a hundred or even fifty years ago.

the great man, but in the Re- had any appreciable result. The. In the year of my birth, 1860,

gistrar-General's figures over dohusplations of Roman Catholic the standardised death-rate in Heart disease, now heads the three hundred female deaths are priests have had a slight effect, England and Wales was about list in both countries, with can- put down to this cause in the but not nearly so much as might 20.5 per thousand; in 1983 it cer, unhappily, accond. Diabetes last ten years.

have been expected. 9.8. This is not, as is has doubled in America, and.. The French harbour the delu- High, birth-rates are almost. often supposed, becauso people increased very much in England. alon that the English are subject everywhere accompanied by high live to greater ages; it is bo- Road accidents, which were not to a malady called the spleen, death-rates, but this is not cause a far larger proportion thought worth counting in which causes them to commit enough to equalise the rate of Ilve to be sixty. The greatest America in 1906, are now tenth suicide. The approaches to the increase everywhere; the coun saving has been in the first year on the list.

Thames, we are gravely assured, tries with high birth-rates gain of life.

carefully watched, but slowly on the others. I have before me the Agures I have three points for the nothing can provent the National discouragement has of the 1030 census in the United doctors, many of whom do not melancholy Londonera from been a pathetically potent cause" States, which tell the same tale. seem to study statistics 80 throwing themselves off the of shortage of births. In Gor In forty years the expectation of eagerly as I should have ex- bridges in larga.numbers. many the rate in 1901-4 was life has increased 40 per cent., pected.

In actual fact, our suicido rate 34.7; in 1031 it was 16.0. In although there has actually been 1-Why will they not allow Is rather low, but it is increns- Austria, a Catholic country, the been even more a slight retrogression for males us to die of old age? Senile ing. The natives of "God's own fall has over fifty. Does this mean that decay, which in 1900 was ninth country" are more addicted to startling. many Americans wear them- on the American list, has now "bumping off" themselves as selves out by overwork? dropped out altogether, and well as each other; but they have

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order of the others have been very great.

1910

are

ENEMIES

1920

19100

of LIFE

Recess to firearms and we have not.

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There is not much reason to think that this decline has a natural limit, determined by the attainment of what is called an optimum number. Half-empty countries like Australia and New Zealand show a sharp decline. At the same time, I think we have about touched bottom with a birth-rate of 14. B

There

An actual declino in numbers will probably be registered in I about five years from now. should not regret this if we were confined to our own island, for a population of 750 to a square- mile is certainly congested. But reason why we I can see no should not, colonise the vast The decline in the birth-rate empty spaces in our Dominions. is oven more interesting and We had an unexampled piece important. I will not worry my of good luck in being allowed to rendera with any more figures, annex North America and the except to state that whereas the whole of Australasia, What are the chief enemies of England.

there has been a parallel decline birth-rate in England and Wales are no other empty countries on

Clearly they now life, and how have they changed prefer to specify the immediate touched 36 in the late 'seventies, anything like the same scale.

We are throwing away this since the beginning of the con- cause of death, the "small turn it is now between 14 and 15..

unique opportunity. We (as. a tury? The changes in the last of the scale which sends to sleep

race) did not lose North Ameri- twenty-five years have been very aged bodies," as Euripides says. The decline began almost ca in the reign of George III.;

In America, nine But have they remarkable.

sufficiently everywhere about 1880, and has we have more than half lost it out of the twenty deadliest allowed for the effect of this gone on very steadily. The chief now. The United States is no diseases have dropped out of the

British except in list, and the alterations in the change of practice in sending up exceptions, countries in which longer

the death-rate from cancer? the rate is stationary, are Japan, language, but a medley of every Of course, it does not account Egypt, and Palestine. Probably nation under heaven. As for for the whole increase, but it we should add Soviet Russin, Australia, its inhabitants are may make that increase appear but I have some reason to think keoping it empty. For whom? more alarming than it actually that their figures are cooked. It is a thousand pitics that we The fall has been especially great are so short-sighted.. It is cer- In England and Sweden, and tain that we shall never have 2. Why, when many people United States programme now MINISTERIAL SALARIES speak as if insula had robbed only slight in France, which had another chance. in hand, which comprises 12

There is a movement among diabetes of its terrors, do the cruisers of 10,000 tons, three big members of Parliament to induce deaths from this cause go on doctor aircraft-carriera, 54 flotilla the Government to set up an inquiry mounting rapidly? A

into the anomalies of Ministerial ent me a monograph in which leaders and destroyers, 12 sub-salaries, it is learned. Some mem he suggested that the discaso in marines and nine heavy sloops.bers have undertaken to make the later life is caused by over SPEAKING from our refuge in going to the Divorce Court, or heaving the bathroom, we want to last year's boots and shoes at each dobate, eating, for which reason it used issue a very solemn warning. othar. AILthese ships are now building The movement gains point by the to be considered a rich man's

matter the subject of a

We, having had a ball and chain or authorised. The Japanese resignation from the Government disease; but now, he thinks, the For the nonce we are Public for some years, have had some experi

Warner Number One. No con-ence in this sort of thing. Navy is shown as being up to of Sir George Bowyer. Comptroller working classes cat too much.

nection with the people of the We remember the last time we were -full-Treaty-strength. Its latest of the King's Household, in order

Idoubt whether, even now, to devote more time to his private ships are six. 8,500-ton cruisers, Juffairs. The salary of the Comp- they can get much more food same name who make talkies, President of a Court of Domestic President, only our wife caught us mounting the abnormal arma- troller of the Household is £700. than is good for them, and the we having discovered them (the Relations. We would have still been ment of 15 6.1in and eight 5in The Household uppointments are richer classes are now temperate talkies) long before Al Jolson courting the maid servant.

usually held by the three senior in eating. "We seldom see the was married.

Anyway, people in our home town guns. Photographs of new Government whips, who on appoint-bloated faces which look down

Our warning. Ah, Yes. wère so happy that there used to be; queues outsido our office every Japanese cruisers and torpedo ment have their salaries as Lords upon us from the portraits of

Divorce, and domestic rela- morning.

others are projected. Details NOTES OF THE DAY

are disclosed of the immenso

...

DOMESTIC RELATIONS

craft suggest a dangerous over- of the Treasury of £1,000 reduced our great-grand-fathers. There tionis and all that sort of thing. One of our first successes was the loading with guns and topham-to £700, while junior whips become must be some other reason.

Lords of the Treasury £1,000. 3. Some years ago I was We don't like to think of all the case of Mr. and Mrs. Whaleetooth,

"Well," we said kindly, when they per, an impression strengthened While the Socialist Government lecturing on eugenics at Oxford unhappy fhomen that will be broken by the capsizing of the torpedo was in office, a partial adjustment and I mentioned that haemo-Year resolutions that have been made, have you fools been up to now."

up this year as a result of the New enterod the room, what the devil was made by the appointment of boat Tomodzura last year. In one fewer of the Lords in Walting philia (bleeding) is generally so we have decided to constituto our

"Well, it's this way," said the the French section are illustrat- from the House of Lorda, and the transmitted by an apparently self into a Court of Domestic Rela

them that husband. United ed for the first time the new saving effected was used to aug healthy mother to her male tions, something liko

in

States,

"It's a horrid lio!" said the wife, ment the salaries of the three children. The wise man, there Thoroby you can settle all your little 7,600-ton cruisers and the huge Household officers in the Commons. fore, will not marry the sister differences with the Mrs., Instead of

Now, wait a minute, wait minute we said. flotilla leaders of the Fantasque class, one of which is credited THEIR HOUSES IN ORDER with a speed of 454 knots-over

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52 m.p.h. The French submaring to sot, their houses in order Two political parties are prepar ine flotilla, by far the largest in in. Britain. Negotiations are pro- the world, now includes 91 boats, seeding between Lord Stonehaven, Italy also is shown to be concen- Central Office, and Sir Kingsley the end of the Conservative trating on submarines, of which Wood, head of the National she already has 88 built and Publicity Bureau, for a redistribu- building, including 12 begun this tion of functions or for amalgama- tion. The Samuelite Liberals have year. Further, she is building Bot up a commission to decido cruisers with a speed of 3614|whether the present organisation knots and a number of supor circumstances. The Conservative of their party is the best in present destroyers. Italy's entire mod- Bureau may be absorbed in the ern navy_now burns oil exclu-Central Once, but it is unlikely sively, and several of the older that there will be n combined Central Office for Conservative, ships are changing over from Simonite Liberal and National Le coal to oil. Many pages in the bour supporters of the Government. book are devoted to the new The Samuelite inquiry concerns not German Navy, and several now only the Parliamentary head- quarters in Abingdon Street, but ships whose existence was not the National Liberal Federation, generally known are illustrated. and the local organisations through Two years ago the total person have had an inquest on their failure out the country. The Samuelites. nel was 15,000, but it has since at the General Election. The result risen to 32,956. Vessels under will be an attempt to revive the construction include two 26,000-corpse Instead of burying it. The ton batticships, armed with nine before Christmas.. It is expected commission of Inquiry was at work

11m guna; two 10,000-ton to produce a plan to remodel the cruisers with Sin guns, 16 super machine, in London.

destroyers, and many submar-|

ines including eight of ocean expressly for the carriage of going size. So far as Britain is aircraft, although larger ships concerned, the most interesting have been adapted to that pur disclosure relates to the now pose. In anti-aircraft defence. aircraft carrier, Ark Royal, laid the British Navy appears to bo down in September this year class fleets, foreign men of war

lagging behind all other first She proves to be a ship of 22,000 carrying, from twice to three tons, and is thus the largest times as many anti-aircraft guns vessol in the world to be built as our ships.

uperates

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark |

I'm just a

This is the third party. I've been to this wock.

"You leave the poor girl

Haid our wife.

"Who are you calling a poor girl." said Mrs. Walceteeth, Indignantly.

"But

we commenced." "Shut up," said our wife.

This is a fine way of conducting court," sald Mrs. Whalesteeth,

C.O.D. COMPLIMENTS (Dedicated to Doctors W. B. A.

Moore and R. M. Gibson.)

May I congratulate you upon

your 0:B.E.

An honour that I feel han

long been overdue

And while upon the subject, 1

prithee pardon me Td fail honoured if you would

accept

and

1.0.U.****

"strikes me we would have: Bottled things quicker If we hadn't come. hore."

"You're at liberty to leave whenever- you please," snapped the wife, coldly. Although I'm not a woman to talk, I could tell you a few things, about yourself which would make oven a woman like you blush,"

Don't you talk to me like that." Wo gut down of the bench and, went across to Whalestooth, "Come on," we said.

We got as far as the door when they both yolled at once, "Where aro-you: going..

"Out," we replied together.

And that was the end of the Court of Domestic Relations,

And the warning? Ah, yes. Wad forgotten it Don't marry whatever | you do, and then there'll be nothing- to settle relations, domestice, Nilla, or anything else.

The Court is adjourned sine whatever that means.