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Jay Wilbur's Orchestra. THE SPANIARDS AND

THE MOORS Johnson's Orchestra. There is an aspect of the Rhythm saved the World-Fox Trot.Johnson's Orchestra. Spanish civil war of which

Primo Scala Accordeon Band.deat more may be heard in the 8804 Six "Hits" of the Day

near future, one which is causing ..Charlie Kunz,

many considerable concern Piano Medley No. R.18

observers who are looking farther ahead than the present struggle.

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8812

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Robins and Rosos-Fox Trot.....Casani Club Orchestra. A Molady from the Sky-Fox Trot Casani Club Orchestra. I nearly let Love go slipping through my fingers-Fox Trot. Got to dance my way to Heaven--Fox Trot.

Jay Wilbur's Orchestra. I'm a learner in love-Fox Trof.. Jay Wilbur's Orchestra, The Scene Changes-Fox Trot ...Jay Wilbur's Orchestra. did not scruple to bring them to

8816 It's been so long-Fox Trot

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8822

Piano Medley No. R.19

Primo Scala Accordeon Band. .Charlie Kunz,

refer We

to the usc of coloured troops in European disputes. Unpleasant memories are recalled of the time in the Great War when the Allies

SLOW PROMOTION is a

matter which exercises

the minds of young officers and often brings them to the side of the critics who in- veigh against a system which places high command in the hands of the elderly.

My sympathies are on the side of youth, as my memory is good enough to recall what the elderly thought and said when they were young. I am, moreover, fully con- vinced that brain power` seklom develops greatly after early middle life and more frequently deterior- ates, as of course does also physical activity. The best of the young men should fully justify their selection

of

the young

Army

Officer

By Major-General SIR C. W. GWYNN.

K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.Ò.

For years

many

Napoleon whom only the test of war would disclose. All one can claim is that the Brevet system should ensure that higher posts will be filled by very competent and reasonably young officers. Perhaps by the time they reach the top they will have lost some of the vigour of youth, but early promotion will have given them opportunities of widening their experience.

To attempt to push the systemi to extremes must appear mani- featly absurd to anyone who has ever attempted to weigh accur- ately the respective merits of a number of promising officers. Any such attempt would increase discontent, and, without the test of war, there could be no certain- ty that the right selection hart. been made.

One important measure, per- haps overdue, has recently been adopted to ensure that the physi- cal condition of the elderly is satisfactory. The annual medical examination, formerly somewhat perfunctory, is now as searching as that carried out for insurance.

May not those who complain that modern armies have not pro- duced lenders to rank with Alexander and Hannibal, and who would seek to restore bygone. conditions by the exaltation of have youth, have been carried back by. in positions of much greater of this suggestion, if rigorously other. responsibility than those in applied, would undoubtedly add held that this should be put their studies into the bows and

greatly to the difficulty of fitting right, and somewhat half-hearted arrows period? which, under modern condi- square pegs into square holes, efforts have been made to deal May they not be thinking of Cases, But au- the period when the reputation tions, they normally find because a first-rate administra- with extreme

tive officer may not be an equal- thority has never been strong of Kings depended on their vic- themselves.

ly good commander, and vice enough to overcome either the tories: when war was endemic conservatism which has exalted and the subject of engrossing My reason, however, tells me versa. that in the Army of to-day, it is Moreover, pure chance might regimental sentiment and tradi- interest to all ambitious minds; in peace time practically inapos- often lead to the survival of the tions into a felish or the financial when the social structure, with sible to provide opportunities less fit and the rejection of the objections to a more general its limited competition, ensured which would lend to sensational, best if a vacancy were not avall- linking of promotion to length of that anything approaching genius rapid advancement, without run- able on the completion of an ap- service, as is done in certain among the favoured classes would branches of the Service and in not lack opportunities of making

itself felt? ning the risk of advancing the pointment. wrong man and without inflict- On the whole, our age regula- the Indian Army.

Reforms, notably the system After all, it is not only in the ing grave injustice on the tions seem reasonable if one looks equally or more-worthy. In on the Army as a profession of peace-time Brevet promotion, Army that genlus, if it exists, war luck may offer special which must be made attractive, have aimed at saving and advanc-, finds it difficult to struggle to the a blind alley-as it ing exceptionally promising of surface in the modern world. even then and not opportunities, but

is- for the less ficers rather than al bettering the Yet we may derive some comfort series of strokes of luck sometimes

lot of the good average man. from the knowledge that the ex- be would

necessary before efficient,

Where, I think, junior officers However fairly such reforms are pericnce of the old has always outstanding genius received full recognition; so many are doing have a justiable cause of com- worked, they are bound to give counted for something and that, Ho similar are the conditions rate of regimental promotion as there is the chance that among mental and physical vigour longer their work exceedingly well and plaint is in the inequality of the rise to some heartburning, and on the whole, men retain their

between one regiment and an- the average men is left hidden the than formerly. under which they do it.

Old

Fools And Young.

|By An Old "Stager'

that

mere

Foolls

That our system of promotion is far from perfect, and that the measures taken to improve it and render it more flexible might be carried further, I admit; but it must be obvious that Alexanders, Johnson's Orchestra. the European battlefields, but, Hannibals and Napoleons cannot

In similar case some of us might to risk prosecution by be disposed explosion. A kaleidoscopie glimpse Every time I look at you-Fox Trot..Johnson's Orchestra. whatever may be said of those be produced by a system, how. PHEAVAL is the logical result of days, the position is not quite ever, perfect. If they are to of the last eighteen years shows this

some philanthrople society, and, so far from allowing the pert young the game when coloured soldiers emerge, revolutions or prolonged to be as true politically and socially

thing to order us about, administer Six "Hits" of the Day (Series 5)

as chemically.

summary, chastisement in the ap- are employed in a civil war in warfare must oust system.

Promotion of star mén is, The natural yearning of a war- which Europeans are fighting

Magistrate presumably does not share the weary humanity for peace and tran- Great War has brought about. It is propriate manner. But the London however, only one side of

instance, quillity after the nerve-shattering and certain, for

that reactionary outlook. He told against their own kith and kin.question, and we must consider ruinous distractions of the 1014-1918 mechanical changes are of little

the feckless mother that all his child- The Moors whom General Franco the case of the average good period has been sorely disappointed, moment. Whether people walk, ride, ren said he was an old fool, but that.

a world or fly makes precious little difference did

One isleading_against his own coun-officer. The Army is a profes. We look around and find

would hate to suggest that perhaps kinds of fibulations, and some of its general health.

the worshipful offspring are right. Ltd. trymen may not follow because sion, and most of those who now seething with wirest, plagued by all to anything except perhaps their do not keep him awake at night.

of enter it intend to make it their most venerable and respectable tra-

be said Boiled right down it may of their love of him or

life's

A

IDEAS COUNT MOST much ditions threatened with oblivion. very.

that the substance of the post-war Chater Road. Spaniards generally. They have

But there is no need, therefore, to

and pleasant small number than formerly en-

The scheduled reforms to which change in this green In due course the most likely been induced to come ter to find a pleasant occupation be disheartened. into the campaign, and their before settling down to the main law of gravitation will assert itself the bold bad barons of Runnymede land of ours is an all round relaxation in other besides purely material made King John subscribe effected a of discipline. Parents are the most eventual loyalty to those whom business of their lives a factor affairs. The dust of 1914-1918 will far greater change in this country.

turn to its normal plucidity. A the world, than the discovery of the hand that rocks the cradle has ceased the corrective maternal they are at the moment serving which has tended to make pro- settle in time, and the world will re- with more indirect effects throughout that it is at all blameworthy, The

motion sluggish. Home is open to question. In

curious fact about this perturbing steam engine or the invention of the to agitate Moreover, in the Army, unlike period of disiccation, however, is that acroplane. For that matter we may slipper. Many people will think this quarters the view is held that

most civil professions, there is a it seems to upset the ciders far more claim that Christianity had infinitely is all to the Rood. Others will hold I frankly admit that I range my- they have seized the opportunity definitely limited, and successive- than the youngsters. Yet, if every more potent influences than either emphatically the contrary view.

self among the latter. I still pin my by reason of their past grievances ly diminishing, number of places thing is really going to the demnition the Great War or all the other wars

bow-vows, it is the youngsters who in history put together.

faith; in matters of juvenile disci- It is the changes in mankind's ideas pline, to the wisdom of Solomon and against Spaniards in general. It on each rung of the ladder. Fur will have to face the music, not the

that count most, not in people's ex- the sagacity of Dr. Johnsun. The was stated the other day thatthermore, the lower rungs, what- grave and reverend seniors.

For this reason the older people; ternal methods of life. If the 1014- latter

Бо was the insurgent leader is anxious ever may be conditions on top, with whom something of the solidly 1918 upheaval means that humanity, fashioned that he

*express- must be occupied by the young. comforting Victorian tradition still is going to abandon Christianity, al-110 not to take Madrid by storm, lest Those who are passed over can- lingers, ought not to be too ready to ready challenged in more than one ly the Lichfield widow who corrected

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old-

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symptoms. It is not really their monstrous importance. But the roots daughters were particularly attrac-

eventful life, as is possible in funeral.

other professions. Wastage from

the Moorish troops should seize

Indeed faced by something of We have Boswell's testimony that the the occasion to loot the city and

tive and well-conditioned young indulge in an orgy of massacre.

of Christian philosophy have spread ladies. But under cover of a pseudo- wide and deep in nearly 2,000 years analytical theory we have actually There may be no truth in this

It will take a good many political dic-schools to-day where the pupils are story,

which probably emanates natural causes is insufficient to MECHANICAL CHANGES

expressly encouraged to do just what maintain the flow of promotion, Tirey can console themselves, itatorships to eradicate the Christian

Innovation plty and compassion. they like. Even study is quite from "enemy" sources, but no- and it must be supplemented by they feel morally vindictive enough. It may be admitted that there are optional, one who looks to the future can a system of discards not confined with the reflection that as the post-

War generation sows, so shall it symptoms of changed notions in our view with complacency the em-to the upper ranks.

eventually reap.

And the main own social scheme which are dis- SELF EXPRESSION

turbing to many very decent folks. If, as some suggest-especially harvest will not be due until some we have just had a London Magis- The results arc acclaimed ployment of Moors in an up- heaval which is no direct concern the critics who distrust elderly time after we reputable elders are trate laying down the law of family admirable. This is called giving un- tucked safely away out of the un-

relationship. This eminent legal hampered expression to youthful in-

I nuthority asserts that "a girl of six-dividuality. know a number of were drastically reduced, no doubt This

This is, of course,

of theirs. It is, in fact, quito / Generals--the upper age limits aleasant hurlebury rather a selfish teen has the right to rule her own familles where the plan has been

very

sophistication

of the ages,

selves challenged by an alliance of iron-disciplined dictatorships. If the disciplined forces of the Intter over- come the go-as-you-please communi-

conceivable that, whichever way promotion would be accelerated attitude. Yet I cannot assure myself life,"

adopted. In these cases, without ex- the civil war góès, Spain will be but the same number of officers that all the senile indignation is in-

How for this novel doctrine might ception, the results have been dis- the spired by pure altruism." faced with a big Moorish problem would be needed. And as

But these advanced ideas, which torian grondmammas Is that they is not for me to guess. We have pro- when the fighting comes to an "run off" would be more rapid, The trouble with surviving Vic-be upheld by higher judicial opinion astrous, alike to parents and children. and end. The larger query which is the intake would have to be pro- imagine they can teach their postgressed far from the state of domestic believe we shall find salvation only

affairs which we find described in by tearing up our copybooks War grandchildren to suck eggs. This Tom Jones, for instance. It will scrapping the wisdom

If those exercising, the minds of observers portionally increased.

Could the necessary numbers is a profound mistake.

believe In theit be remembered that the Squire's very quickly either vindicate is whether Africa is to become the.

be obtained without a general

grande

that daughter, but her buxom mother also ever, if the free democracies elect to that gamekeeper ruled not only his pretty themselves or obliterate themselves. It will be doubly unfortunato, how- from source

which military lowering of standards? rather they have found out how

8 to make omelettes without crack with on asliplant. Ta debate the pro cast out discipline. From all the por-. Governments in Europe will draw doubt it, because, purely

ack-priety of that regime would be to tents the free democracies may some eggshells, or that selence Invite more than the acid thunder- when serious trouble arises. It business proposition, the Army ing is a pertinent question in view of would become definitely a less places within their reach some equal-bolts of enfranchised modern femin-day, perhaps not far off, find them-

y nourishing synthetic delicacy, it is 18. what is happening in Spain, and attractive career, as would be not for the sente ciders to contradict the time may come when it will realised by those young officers them. That, at any rate, appears to LESS DISCIPLINE have to be faced. Apart from who now yearn for speedy pro- me the right way for both grand-

and grandpa to view the If it is to be accepted that boys and ties, of the former, that will be the the ethics or otherwise of the motion when it came to their mamma

future.

right to rule their own lives, entirely tie free-and-easy methods. Because, issue, it can readily be seen that turn to be discarded while, in fascinating vista of the immediate girls in their carly teens have the end of democracy and of democra If we are ready to adopt this philo-without parental intervention, then I once conquered, the go-na-you-please any tendency in this direction their own opinion at least, far

sophie outlook there is no reason on am alncerely sorry, not so much for communities will pass under the fron might easily arouse racial ques-from sonile.

Another suggestion which earth why we should riale apoplexy the parents os for the children. Their harrow of the victorious dictatorship tions of the utmost seriousness,

and waste our plous indignation on lost slate will, in a large number of states.

This a prospect; if I me

mas quote the more so since so many of the would have much the same effect, conditions which may not gratify us cases, be much worse than their first.

Even the so-called lower animals our worthy Magistrate, which will European Powers have large re-and which would presumably be but are quite powerless to influence, serves of coloured man-power. accompanied by a reduction in Ever since the world began the old-regulate the habits of their young, not keep me awake at night. For aters have been shaking their vener-und sometimes do it a good deal one thing. I shall not be here to do goose-step and practise the The Spanish insurgents may the upper age limit, is that the able heads over the youngsters, and better than human beings contrive to the deem it wise, on grounds of sheer number of senior officers on the youngsters have been refusing to do. In the noteworthy case I am Nordic salute. For another, with due expediency, to enrol Moors in half-pay should be reduced. (If learn by precept or by any other quoting the sixteen-year-old girl's respect to the advanced psycho- method than occasionally painful ex-mother complained grievously to the analytical reformers, Uhere is one their armies, but, as we have in not abolished); and, that no perience.

Court that she could not do anything aged maxim in the truth of which I dicated,.. the expediency of the senior officer should hold more

Probably we exaggerate the lasting with her. "She orders me about am firmly persuaded. People even- moment may have most undesir than one appointment in each of Importance of a good many of the ignores her slators and calls her tually got the sort of government

they deserve. able repercussions later on. the higher ranks.. Both aspects changes that the upheaval of the father and me "ald fools"