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ments of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark have been constantly in receipt of mysterious en- velopes marked "Oxford," and addressed to the Treasury.
On opening these envelopes the astonished, officials have discovered, reposing in them cheques to the amount of many thousands of pounds in payment of income tax which had been fraudulently with- held..
Vague?
You see, the first of the prin-.
it.
pretty revolutionary. Try Try absolute honesty in an examination of your own self, in
MIRACLE NUMBER ONE: TT goes on and on. I came out ciples to which all these people of the hall bewildered. What have to subscribe is "absolute THAT was what I thought it The meeting is being led by
was when I went to Oxford. a little Scotsman who was once is it? What's the explanation? honesty."
"Absolute honesty, absolute When I came away, after only secretary of the Young Com- How? Why? What?
As I was walking across the purity, absolute unselfishness, a few days I know that I had munist Party of Great Britain.
He played a considerable part lawn I was suddenly clapped on and absolute love." caught a glimpse of a new world.
The words "roligious revival" in the General Strike. Now, his the shoulder. I looked round
"Good Lord... what are you Try the first for example. are utterly inadequate to express whole life is devoted to this. He and saw an old friend. what the Oxford Group is doing. has been "changed."
Next to him on the platform is doing here?" The word "Oxford" is utterly
"Oh-this is just all I live for inadequate to describe its scope, a big employer of labour. They
The word "house - party" call each other by their Christian now," he replied cheerfully.
I stared at him. We will call your own room, in the quiet. (which is the term given to their names.
No. The ex-Communist is not
of it. mcotings) is equally inadequate to describe their method of pro- a "blackleg." He has not been him X. And the reason I stared It's disturbing, to say the least tempted by a cushy job. He is was because X when I had
known him, was the most entire- But these people claim that if I should need a whole issue of just.... "changed."
ly Pagan person I had ever met, you follow those four principles, And so his words ring out... to give you
To call him "immoral" would and if you completely surrender ment. It seems to me, without we can bring a truer dignity to have been an understatement. your life to God, you straighten "This is the He just didn't know what morals out every tangle, at once, in every respect, and completely exaggeration, one of the most labour. important things that is happen- greatest revolutionary factor... were.
When I had last seen him his automatically. when the Holy Spirit becomes ing in Europe to-day.
I told you that we were going active in the lives not only of the marriage had been on the point. You don't become a bore. Or. em- of breaking up. He hardly met a religious maniae. Or an anti- employers but of the [to have superlatives!
his wife except when they gave social person. You merely bc- ployees."
"Our movement will cut across a joint cocktail party.
come yourself, with every fear IET me give you an idea of the all artificial barriers, and will
She was a Fagan, as he was, climinated. meeting we had in Oxford's revolutionise all our ideas of She wouldn't even have her largest cinema
Sunday economics in relation to supply children baptized. She did not. However, I'm sure you're more morning.
and demand."
allow them to hear the word God. interested in practical examples
than in theories. The great building is packed from floor to ceiling. As you Miracle Number Two: A down- enter, you pass by great staring and-out from Monmouth. He LOOK on that picture and on posters of popular beauties, used to hang about street-cor- this. We are having a meet- Joan Crawford with her big nerf. He used to spout against ing after dinner. X. gets up and eyes, Clark Gable with his jut- ting chin, and quantities of platinum blondos in various emotional situations.
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HERE'S another. There was a woman who was a drug addict. She couldn't wear even- ing dress because her arms were mutilated by piquers of morphia. She had spent half her life screaming in nursing homes.
The recent remark. by Sir Austen Chamberlain that he is
The pictures seem to stare a
was utterly tells how it all happened. Mrs. She had lost her family, her never happy with the name "Conservative," serves to draw little petulantly at the crowd, for Capitalism.
friends everything. attention to the question of nobody is in the least interested miserable. Now he is complete X follows.
She is extremely sophisticated
She got in touch with the British party labels. In Scot-in them. They have discovered ly happy and will always be so. land, the name "Conservative" something infinitely more excit- He says, quite as a matter of and exquisitely dressed. She is
course, that he is going back to saying, quite calmly, things that Group. At her first meeting she has long been
reverse Ing.
make you gasp. "We hated each had morphia in her bag. At the make Wales safe for Christ.
other," she says, "I was bored end of the meeting she threw it of popular, though the Scot has
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Well; since the Oxford Group went to Scandinavia the Govern-
SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
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Painful Painless Dentistry
the reputation of being cautious WE squeeze into
gallery. Look down with me Miracle Number Three: The with my children. of change in any form, whilst
I can't write in cold print the Anybody who has ever had even some of the party leaders at this crowd. You have never President of the Vancouver want to go on.
Stock Exchange. He reads a have recently revealed a dis-seen anything like it.
Young men in shorts from niessage from the Prime Minis whole of the story. I can only anything to do with a man or
ivrife the end.
woman who is addicted to druga satisfaction with the term. Al- ternatively, Conservatives are Scandinavia, girls from Gorter of Canada to the effect that They came to Oxford for or drink will not call that vague. still often referred to as "Union-many, mill girls from Lanca- Canada is easier to governt since new sensation. They were both
I'm not making these. things ists," a name which has long shire, negroes, smart, young the visit of the Oxford Group. sneering, wondering who could since lost its meaning. Origin-undergraduates next to down- Got that?
say the wittiest things about all up. I couldn't. It would be capitalists, middle- He makes a highly technical these pious lunatica.
utterly beyond the power of my ally, it was the label given to and-outs, the group of Liberals who oppos-class mothers, bishops, boxers,
speech about international cur- They went back. Years had imagination. ed Home Rule for Ireland and
,rencies. He proves, as a matter fallen from them. They were
of ordinary business, that "the lovers again. went over to the Conservatives,
only security lies in God's May we call that Miracle I spoke to a woman and her hus- band from Hongkong. "We'd guidance."
Number Six?
arranged a divorce," she said. "All right," you may say, "That's all off now." Liberals who believed in the pre- NO PLACE FOR. POLITICS
Miracle Number Four: A and it's certainly interesting..
I do not often ask you to do servation of the unity of the
Many people have wondered at
anything for me. But I do United Kingdom. In course of what is sometimes looked upon South African. "The race prob. But aren't some of these miracles
We'll answer that word with entreat you, at the very least, to time, this group has become America as an exaggeratedly delem in South Africa is consider little vague?"
miracle number seven.
acquaint yourself with this wholly submerged in the Con- mocratic election system, by which ably alleviated since the visit of
movement. servative Party. "Unionist" even the administrators of the the Oxford Group." now really denotes a fresh con- states' justice are subject to the Oh, yes, it sounds funny.
-Miracle Number Seven con- You can do so by writing to ception of the title, being claim- fickle fancies of the people and be All right, laugh. But this is a od as standing for unity of come the targets for political fact, admitted by the most con- cerna the visit of the Oxford The Oxford Group, Brown's endeavour, unity of Empire, and machen. Me doubt there servative South African papers. Group to Scandinavia. They Hotel, Dover-street, London, Miracle Number Five: A tem- are conquering the Scandinavian W.I. You'd better put my name unity of all classes. Yet the much to be said for the American
system; but there are times, and porarily unemployed plumber, countries because Scandinavia is on the outside of the envelope, torm cannot rightly be appro- the State of New Jersey is experi- "In the old days If I did a job a strategic position for the con- and enclose a stamp for a reply. priated by the Conservative ending one such period, when poll- Party, since it can be applied ties appear to hamper the way of that took an hour and three quest of Central Europe (which with equal truth to the Liberals justice. We rofer to the Haupt quarters, I charged two hours. has already begun). and the moderate element of the mann case, the apparently growing I don't do that any more. I'm Labour Party. The fact that feeling that all was not well with changed." the Conservatives include many the prosecution's reasoning, which distinctly progressive elementa secured a verdict; that there were in their ranks provides the chief weaknesses in the chain of circum- cause for objection to the official stantial evidence which binds Hauptmann to the electric chair; title of the party; yet, if the and to the intervention of Senator term be regarded as implying Harry Moore, a Democrat and the conservation of all that is former Governor, who is criticising best in national life, there would the present Governor, a Republican, appear to be little need of a for allowing a famous detective to change of designation. So far have access to the files of the case. as the term "Liberal" is con- Tho detective's name is Ellis Par- cerned, it can be said to be alker, and he is one of the shrewdest true reflection of the principles en fn his business in the United States. Moreover, being chief de $3.75 for which that particular party tective for Burlington County, New has stood a term which con- Jersey, his belief that Hauptmann 4.00 notes à recognition of the prac is not guilty must weigh with those tical needs of the governed, in who require that justice should 'be' 4.00 preference to a theory based on done. If this man, with Governor empty forms of constitutional Hoffman's acquiescence, can bring 5.75 dogma. Actually, however, the forward any new evidence which Liberal Party, as such, is gradu-may save an Innocent man from 4.00 ally disappearing, dus largely to death, he is to be encouraged, the fact that its none too well rather than deterred. And for 1.00 defined principles have been politicians to make capital out of absorbed by the progressive such a situation seems to us to in- dicate a singular lack of balance 32.50 cctions in the other two main and good taste. Meanwhile, Haupt- political units of the nation. mana sits in the death cell, close 21.00 The Labour Party reveals ita to the chamber where the dreaded distinctive appeal in its name, chair awaits him. He has seen eix 2.00 although bore, also, some con-men pasa his cell door to their fusion arises in the minds of deaths. What more ghastly place foreign observers at the use of for a condemned man, and possibly the alternative name of "Socialan innocent man, than a cell at the ists. All members of the very entrance to the execution chamber, and in sight of those party claim to be Socialista, but wretches on their last little wall? there are degrees of Socialism,
(Continued on Page 5) and the Night wing of the Party, which is predominant, is more correctly reflected in the "La- the virtual passing of the Liber bour" title. So far as the als, whose place might well be British public is concerned, the taken by a new combination, re
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Abscess grow fonder.
makes the heart,
We're going to visit our tist to-day.
Not that we like him. Dentiste are far too familiar. As a mat- ter of fact, ours often gets on our nerve, fooling around with, our tooth the way he does..
A parson may get the toothache, but it takes a dentist to curato.
And a sissy sort of chap may have
a falsetto volée, but you should see our dentista. falsette teeth.
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On the other hand, a dentist deserves some sympathy. His is 'n boring sort of. job. :
Am when there's no boring to be: for? done, he's always scraping a livzigetel
Remind us to tell you about s famous film star's dentist. ... Ele. was described as the chap who 'drove into the teath of n' westerly
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Our dentist is very polite with kwamen. When our wife, prent" along. to have bor teeth out, he put the gas manke over her face and asked har, to breathe In ach a rich manner" that she couldn't refuse,
Tooth
Well, we must be going now. will out; as they say in the book of quotationsAM WEBINA
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