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BY PHILIP JORDAN
NOVEMBER 13,
How to Stop Stomach Pain
In Five Minutes
By Dr. Scott, M.D., Paris,
If you want an astonishing demon- stration of how quickly and comTM Ipletely acute Indigestion tan bo stopped, Just take a level teaspoonful is the only argument known to des- of Biurated Magnesia in water- perate dictators.
four tablets are equally effective. I Swift sudden moves are the dia-have found that the moment wo are now passing are more
lectrics of tyranny; the council table, Blsurated' Magnesia reaches the charged with peril than any
with its interplay of human under-stomach you feel the pain
abate; that history has yet known. long n those States endure, they of the next generation and the next standing is not for them nor can itatulence is relieved, heartburn and It is not merely that life and can only grow up behind the high will continue to bubble that such re- ever be, for when the mind is a wen- sourness pass off, the feelings of which dictators build to cut trogression is no concern of ours, if, pon, wisdom con outinamonuvre ere-weight and oppression are lifted, and Jimb aro mienneed; they can them off from the light of reason. indeed, by that time the modern bar- inism every time.
in five minutes the pain has disap- always be repliced. The whole
barism hun not swept herost France It is, or should be, a matter of the peared. You can They will grow into adults ignor and Briinin,
gel 'Disugated' structure and fabric of civilian- ant of every truth that has ever given hacked us all into
and, with the sword, teepest concern that the barren doe-Mugnesta from all Chemists" and the likeness of trines of National-Socialism and the Stores. I advise you to get some and tion Itself is threatened with a dignity to the human spirit; and in Lords Lothian, Rennell and London- sterlie pride of Fasclan have been try it after your next meal. destruction that would be irre- their turn, In the years to come, they dery..
imposed upon a great part of Europe, will breed children who themselves parable for several generations will start life even more handicapped
und that, indeed, for and away the The diplomatic niceties necessity renter part of Europe now dwells and would leave mankind the than their parents, in that it will be between the representatives of
In the shabby half-light of semi- poorer until the day upon which necessary for them to refer back to those foreign Powers with which his dictatorship, Those things menace the world will ultimately cease their grandparents for my picture Majesty's relatious continue to be the sun which shines on us and the of the world that could present even friendly prevent us from officially absorbed philosophies which are the to turn.
a blurred outline of truth.
avowing what is truth-that the blood and bones of our liberties; and All that man has raised through
internal aftoirs of other countries are we can no more shrug our shoulders the centuries-all the knowledge and They will know no philosophy but very much our concern.
and say they are no concern of purs the culture, all the freedom and the that of national pride; no argument power to think-ta no longer a com- but that of war. The man who thinks is not the democracies which than we can live without enting or mon heritage to be guarded by all for himself and insists upon a say in mennee one anolier to-day; it is the rest without sleep. peoples, however widely their poll- his own destiny will be their idea Fascist international which menaces tical and economie tustes may be of a criminal; blasphemy and sacrilege the democracies- very different ceparated
and however constantly will refer rather to the political than pair of shoes.
MIE ground of liberty," they may battle for imperial supre- to the spiritual arena. The light will hurt their eyes; the songs of liberty
said Jefferson, who knews In the old days wars brought_ma- money.
What we all call western civisa will be abominable discord in their terial ruin proportionately, perhaps, what he was talking about, "must be tion has become inimical to the cars; the compass of their brains will as great as they bring to-day; but in fained by inches."
It would not hurt us, remember- troater part of Europe, and is now have so shrunk that the measure of their wake they left no spiritual ruin.
ing that, to calculate how far we Eustained and guarded only by the our own will be offensive to them; To-day the maximum material ruin ne gone and with what labour we
be of no account compared two great democralle Powers of our truths, which have been purged would France and England, with the good and tested by history, will be their. with the intellectual ruin in that de- have progressed.
sert to which a Fascist victory in will of those small satellite democra- lies,
Europe would drive us all.
cles whose contribution to lis game- dianship is more moral than practical;
and, in a world int worships force,
of very doubtful permanenen:
IN
IN the last 20 years the lights of Europe have been going oul, snuffed by the wind of doctrines that take no kred of anything but power: so that in countries where unce the minds of men illuminated and enriched the heritage of us all Were is now only the darkness of ig- norance and the only music in that of armour and of connon,
ak
Beside the intellectunt darkness of Totalitarianism, the meance of armed conflict as a temporary dinaster is of little account. It is not to much war as war which threatens us; what we now live to fene is that Ignorance into which, for generations, we should be flung if we were to be defented in a war by those whose ideas statecraft run no further than to know that the government of the totally ignorant is more easily accomplished than the government of the civilised. A wholly successful totalitarianism be based upon the wilful can only degradation of the human mind, car- ried out with an efficiency as ruthless In execution as it la thorough in con- ception. The
degrada- tlon, wherever they may take place, however near, however remote, are matters of Immediate concern to our- scives, for a man cannot remain Indifferent to or isolated from any Ideology or tack of Ideology which animates a group of people who live only a few yards er miles from his own doorstep.
What is happening in Germany, therefore, is ninost an much business ns it is the business of those unhappy 00,000,000 men and women who must be turned into crelins before the Nazi oligarchy can sleep, safely in their beds.
processes of that
Our
It is useless for such men as Lords Lothian, Rennell and Londonderry to prolest that the internal regimes of our neighbours are no concern of oura. Fortunately, that trio and their few followers have less importance here than they have in Berlin; for it they do not know, other people do know that you cannot wilfully de- trade the minds of 60,000,000 people without the results having a profound .effect upon the foreign policy of those responsible for that degradation,
Boys and girls are being born all the time in totalitarian States; and so
HALIFAX OFF
TO BERLIN WILL PAY CALL ON HITLER DURING VISIT
London, Nov. 12.
Lord Halfax, Lord President of the Council, has accepted the invitation to vlait Berlin and see the hunting ex- Hibition. He will leave next week.
Although the vialt is entirely prl- vate and unofficial, Hiller has inti- naled that he will be glad to see Lord Halifax. The announcement is welcomed in political circles. It is taken for granted that Lord Halifax wlil see leading members of the Gov- ernment including Hitler, who has mways been eager to meet foreign rtateunen.
It is presumed that advantage will 1 Laken of the presence of Lord Hall- fax to broach toples of interest to Germany, particularly the question the of colonies. Whatever course conversations may take. Lord Hall- fax is assured of a cordial welcome, -Reuter Special,
EDEN UPSETT
London, Nov. 12. It is widely rumoured" that Mr. Halifax Eden in angry with Lord being entrusted with what he re-
as a masion to Germany. #tarda However, Come urriera believe these reports are exaggerated and entirely untrue on the nssumption that Mr. Chamberlain is not likely to precipitate a cabinet split through approval of Lord Halifax without Mr. Eder's content.
Lord Halifax is regarded as en- joying the confidence of the German leaders to a considerable extent.com
United Prest.
It
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NEW AIR RECORD CLAIMS
360 Miles An Hour In Germany
Berlin, Nov. 12.
A new world speed record for land planes is calmed by Dr. Wuris- ter who flew at a speed of 010.21 would not then be much kilometres лп hour (about 360 dimeulty in realising that what men-mp.h.) in a Messerschmitt plane be- nces the integrity of our liberly, how-
of the Inter-
There
And the men and women who ever indirectly it may seem to do fore the Commission ND the Lards Lothian, dwell beneath totalitarken thrones so, is in fact. our most immediate national Aeronautical Federation at
Rennell and Londondery are being bred for war, because war concern.
Augsburg to-day--Reuter.
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PearlTHE GOOD EARTH
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Wang the peasant marries Olan the slave girl and takes her to his ring Jarin to live. O-lan proven a perfect wife. She bears him tiro noñs and a daughter, Her inbora in the fields und har digence in their home enables Wang to earn the money with which to buy more land, sintil he han flue Breat fields. Tho drought, bringing, famine, devas- lates his farm. Wang, O-lan, the children, and Wang'a old father join the erodua of Chinese from the famine-strickon North" and arek food and work in the great cities of the Bouth. Thore, they all but die of deprivation. Ro- volution breaks out, one day, and Olan cought in the street crusedla. She tã carried along in a mub of footing revolutionaries who break into the Great Houza of a prince, Who is knocked down
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travelling into the great clty with; gaglag his hand, made slowly for. his father to do business fiero with | the house. Llu tin ra47-Iorchant
It was on one of his visits that Elder Son met the daughter of Llu and a parriage contract was spoken | of by their fathers.
And it was on one of his visits to the city that Wang met Lotus Plater, the exquisite lily of the toa- house who changed the course of his life. For Lotus Flower liked mon of fashion, not farmers in long quoues. Lolus Flower liked Joweld and satins. And Lotus Flower know well how to sing much muslo as would make mon reel with desire for her beauty.
Crafty Uncle took Wang for his first visit to the ten-houre. They wore dressed in plain, homemade clothes, men apart from the city merchants in fine jackets and vel- vot. Wang gazed ́unenolly about him. Haunting mulo permented the room. He half-turned his head, in fu direction, and saw Lotus Flower for the first time. On the
in the human stampede and in- || raised platform he saw her, frogije fured. She comes to, hours later, as a blossom, her tiny hands wony-
In the big room Wang paced nor vously up and down, staring from time to time at the door thru which O-lan must como, Sho pleddod to- ward him, then stopped in amaze- ment. Was this her husband? Thla man in princo's clothes, with queue less head?
"You sent for me?" ko naked wonderingly.
Wang hesitated as he felt his juvido and exultation give way to pity_mingled with shams.
"Yes, yes, I did," he began: Ho i bent his head, "I've taken off my braid. In town they all wear short hair nowadays." He glanced at her quickly. “A man can't afford to be an old-fashioned fool...and these clothes do you like them?”
Olan's voice was low. "if they please you”.
"You must understand," he said. "Times have changed for us. It would please mo it you would try to chango with them -- as I have." Olan's steady gaze slopped him, "Why did you send for ma?" sba
and finda a pouch of precious | ing a spell on her luto, ber exquisito | naked, “If you wish to tell me tho jewela, nomehow overlooked by the lootora, Bho docan't know their_fabulour worth, but she dora know that they will bring enough money to take Wang and her family back to the form when_the_drought is over.......
Chapter Two
THE TAKING OF THE PEARLS
And no the jewels which Olan found took thom back to the farm and the five great fields.
"I will buy more land." Wang! sald proudly no he surveyed his Jand again..
Olan nat against the wail of the finune, happy to be home. Her hand warmed the pain which had never left her since the day she was in- jured by the stampeding mab.
Wang eyed her anxiously. How gray and worn she looked! How different from the sturdy O-lna who had ones tolled by hila sido in ibo fielda.
Olan raised her eyes to his. “Are you going to sell the fewols to buy
the land?" she asked."
"Of course!" he answered,
"All of thom?” he whispered.
He stared at her in amazement.
"I wish," oho started wistfully,
Atlast he knew thatonly Lotus Flower mattered in his life.
then pauned. "I wish I could keep foot pacing the measure of a dance, reason, tell me."
nne or two for myself," she sold *** Day after day he struggled Well parried Wang, "only two niall anca the two against her charm; but day after "there's a thing I've done." white penzin,"
day ho returned to Haton to her. Bilenco dropped between Wang atared at her increduloully. Until at last, be knew that only them. "I know I am ugly" she mur Lotus Flower mattered in his life. "I've bought the Great mured. "I wouldn't wear them. O-lan, his sons, Old Father, his House," he buret out could just hold them in my hand farm all were forgatton. And Olan started, The Groat sometimes."
Wang know that he must toll House, The House la Ilo noftoned, partly moved, part them no.
which she had osco been
ly aghant at thin foolishness of won And so, one day, a new Wangla slave?
man. What need of pearls had crossed the path at the bridga lead Ho road the question In former slave, who knew nothing ing to his farm. His robe of grey her face, "Yes-the Houng
"I look at them sometimes,” pho whispered. "And I thought of having them made into earings ---- not for me," she added hastily," "For Eider Bon's 'bride,"
"I need them,” he replied. “Givo them to me."
Olan thrust her hand into her bosom and toolt out a little suck. The pearls rolled out in her hand and Iny there, catching the sunlight.
"I know I am ugly the murmur ed, "and not to be loved." Wang frowned to hide his shame as abe pressed the pearls into his hand, o tried to face her but couldn't. "All we have now came from you," he said slowly. That is the truth and I say it but hut now -- "
"But now?" she whispered,
Somehow Wang could. not con- tinuo. And then, at long last, he came close to her. "There's a wo- man," he said in a low tone. "Not such a one as you. Not as good as you — "
But she is beautiful?" askod O-lan.
"She is beautiful, he answered. O-lan pronaed her hand' to her heart. "You are a man," he whis- pered, nad #ho raleed hor eyes
to his, her own misory finding -answer-in-laun
happiness.
"' like a pick-
•ness,” He groaned, "Whon I'm with kor le is not *enough. When I'm not with her there is nothing. Even the Land is nothing — Ila covered hla face with his hands.
Olan gazed at hlm.
and Bolt-
plly gave way to
the pearls in his hand.
but work of the fields, and bearing allie was neatly cut to his body. Hla of Loo-courts and land Wangfrowned to hide his shame as he held of children? But something in har black satin stenvoelens coat was I'm the new Lord there." eyes swept naide his man's reason, faullicas, his valvet shoes picked He paused. "Have you no ing; he reached for the pouch and their cautious way thru the loam. thanka?" ba shouted impa- cautiously took out the paaris, pine Elder Son and Ching saw him up ing them in bor hand.
"That wan klach” nhu pighed grale ; fully. She felt of them lovingly and in horror. "He's cut off his life!" "His queue la gonn!" orlod Ching gmiled,
amazement.
Wang stopped, pleased by their
And so Wang bought land- and more land and the yoara pared to find the earth good and fruitful And the Goda amiled on him and his family.
pronch
"Wall?" bo ́demanded. "Erctine mo, father," said his son deferentially, "but you look like a Lord of the great house."
tiently, "I thought it would please, pity for him. *Than it is botter you to be mintress in that honne | when who's in your house,” cha where you lived as a sinvol"
eat!! Olan looked about her. "Our song "You will say that?" he cried. were born here,”
"O-lani" His volca broke. "But what Wang shook his head as if to Is there, more to any 7" ha anked throw off the emotion her bipiofundly. words Induced. "But our sons must "Nothing," she fallerad and made have wives we'll have grand chil- her way back to the courtyard. dren. There's room in the Big House: There was no reminder now of
Old Father awakaned from im Wang smallcd in pleasure, then for all. You'll have the high place, nap and stared curiusly at the the famine or of the wratched checked himself. "Where a your with money to spare for slaves." inanths of starvation in the great mother?" ho demanded.
ahavan and richly dreseerd man who elly. Only -Inn remembered them,
He stared at her zullenly, his dyes wan hurrying out of the house. "She was waiting to heat your passed over her critically and durelt for the kalfe-like pain was always shaving water, his son answered at last on her feet the peasant's petulantly. with her. Frail and gray, she kapt healtantly, "but you didn't come." fest with which, ale had rooted to her place in the sunny court Wang's hand rose involuntarily herself by his, alde in the fields, hond." yard. No langer could she take to his clear-shaved forchend, to the those long, long years ago. her place with Wang in the fields. Lark at his hand. His hand dropped. Dut even if she could, there was
Tell your mother I want to are
"You must make yourself becom
now no need of het; for Wang lund her," he said, and turned abruptlying to it," he stormed out in fury, long vince coaned to farm. In apont toward the house.
hin days in the dily. Ching his old
friend, directed the army of work.
ers who ploughed this land, planted for his mother.
Eller Son ran to the courtyard
"Mother." began Elder Son, deep
"Look at your clothes your hairt
You disgrace ine!"
*Who was that man?" ko queried
O-ian, bilnded by tears, shook her
"He looked something like my zon Wang" alghed the old man, droppe slowly and heavily from O-ing bent over the pool, the tears her eyes. She did not pause to wipe She bore his outburst with bont them away, but let them fall na she hond.
Wang felt a sudden raga. Why wooden stick upon tho
beat the more steadily with her Even the sons had forgotten the pity in his eyes. "Father wishes to should this former slave so shemo spread over the stone, land. Younger Son was away at seo you." nabool learning la booles how to Oian looked un at him, a strango i here are the pourls you've make things grow. Learning mire foreboding clouding her face. Elder, had?" he criei, cles which the printed word and Bon took her arm. "Are you well?" O-lan'a kani finw to her breast. would outwit flood and drought, {he naked. "The old pain - is it "The ponzlst I have them hora."
And older on, grown to man ba?”
"You, never wear them," he said hood, managed his father's estate, She shook her head, and disen coldly.
the need, roaped the harvest.
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him?
clothes
What change solli Lotus Flower , bring into the life of Wang and Olan and their children! Don't miss the concluding chapter of "The Good Earth",
1937.
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