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THE Law, I take it, exists been paid in by cheques, made

out, on his directions, in his name. The old ladies were sold

to protect society against those of its mem-up lock, stock and barrel. bers who are anti-social.

There were indignation meet-

Cynically speaking, then, ings called by the parents. perhaps virtue is its own Trustees were appointed and reward, since without a the business went into the hands modicum of virtue a com- of a receiver, inunity can't exist. From

Amid the hubbub of infuri- ated parents and distraught that it follows that it's up to spinsters, a letter arrived from everyone to preserve the this very bad man, declaring Law and Order, if only in with a fullness of heart that self-protection.

was properly touching that he was disgusted with himself at And yot I keep on encoun- his behaviour, that life was a tering situations where the sad and wearisome thing to him crook is allowed to go scot-freo and that he could but hope his and very often at his victim's prayers for forgiveness might at wish,

long last be realised. He gave no address on the letter and foreboro to enclose his cheque between Sentiment and Sense, making good the losses which or being over-casual as opposed had forced so pitiful a result.

being a busy-body. Or is it And the upshot, of course, is just laziness?

that nobody did anything, the

It seems to me a

conflict

I suppose the oldest gag that police were not informed, and any writer can uso is the situa- instead of being occupied in tion of the lonely cottage, stitching sucks, I've no doubt where the owner finds suddenly the gentleman is working a and disconcertingly that he is similar and not very original not alone, but his seclusion has trick elsewhere. been invaded by an escaped convict or A fugitive from nothing was done?

justice. It's a grand situation

and I've no doubt but that it's

been handled in a thousand ways, yet still I am at a loss to

Can anyone tell me

M

why

CASE TWO: My friend Mr.

kibw whether I myself should Jones purchased a house-boat in practice help the wretch on and decided to take out an his way or hand him over to the insurance policy to cover possi. police. Taking It, of course, ble loss of either the bont or its that he did not win the argu.contents; and as the boat was.

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21, 1938.

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inent immediately and Con.. clusive by being the first of us two to pick up the poker.

But the following versions of this well-worn theme have comie my way in the last few days.

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No action whatever was taken against Mr. Pet- tifog. The world is full of the likes of him.

What would you have done in the branch manager's posi- tion?

CASE FIVE: Big Shot Bert of the What-not Film Company was given the job of directing the screch adaptation of William X's novel "Wishing Willy. The sale of the film rights was arranged between Mr. X's agent and the head of the film company for £300.

Two days before shooting began, Big Shot Bert called

moored in a tidal river, he was Mr. Jones, what would you have a word at the right time would upon the agent and suggested, well advised to do so.

In

done?

M

What sort

have effected a capture and a much to the latter's surprise, conviction, The Inndlord of that the price was not right. Но had before done similar CASE ONE: Two maiden business, in a very small way

the Ship and Sawdust, like Brer The agent very fairly replied ladies in the late fifties ran & with

Fox. laid low and said nothing, that it was far too late now to his acquaintance. Mr. day-school for boys. They had Sharp. Indeed, at times Mr. of the Ship and Sawdust was speech or silence he would have original deal had been completed CASE THREE: The landlord though in the event either of discuss such a matter, as the conducted their business with Sharp had borrowed money off not unaccustomed to the ways neither gained nor lost any weeks ago and anyway he would the barest of success for over Mr. Jones. There being nothing of seafaring men, as his public thing. twenty years. There seems no quite so blind as a very blind house lay on the very edge of

not on his author's behalf have doubt but the concern was from man, Mr. Jones agreed to Mr. the harbour and the majority of the landlord of the Ship and £300.

of man, then, is accepted a penny less than time to time perilously near Sharp's suggestion that he his customers were both long- Sawdust? What shape of a disaster. But each storm was should arrange the Insurance.

To which Big Shot replied shoremen and deep seamen. weathered til, finding their age

citizen would you make of that in his opinion the price, far Discreet a short time Mr. Sharp telling upon them, they decided

na is the way of him? Is he a sportsman or a from being too high, was £100 to engage a headmaster to run wrote and informed his client landlords he said nothing con- partial rogue?

too little! And that he could that the policy was quite in cerning the pretty little pleco the place for them.

easily arrange on the budget- They advertised and found order and it was now time. for of business that was being done

ing of the picture which Was hands for another their man and engaged him on the first premium. Mr. Jones by a clique that frequented his

CASE FOUR: A company now in his the spot. Possessed of con- parted with five pounds, but on bar. Ho shut his eyes to what siderable personal charm and the day that his boat sprang a was nothing of his business. A selling a household apparatus, £100 to be paid in, which could canvassers to push be equally shared between the apparently entirely knowledge- leak he received another letter cautious and an honest man he engages able in his work, he captivated from Mr. Sharp pleading ex- refused to purchase stock at the their commodity. Mr. Pettifog agent and himself. The agent, his employees and the parents treme poverty and admitting agreeable price of 3s. 6d. for a applied for the post and got it, being a man of repute and in- tegrity, showed Big Bert the of the pupils.

that he had "borrowed" the 12s. 6d. bottle of whisky. He working on commission.

He soon discovered that the door. In his first term he re- tiver to help him over a diflicult also refused, by adopting an

commission The issue at stake is whether

should have organised

made curriculum, period. It is yet to be dis- attitude of passive resistance, company paid full the

Mr. on the sale, amounting to 35s., the agent brought into a failing business covered if any policy was ever to give information to an atmosphere of enthusiasm taken out at all.

Nosey Parker, who began to on the payment of the first in known to the company the fact and promise, and went so far as On being questioned as to his frequent his house and was stalment of 10s. by the pur- that a highly paid employee of Mr. Jones who clearly, and later on his own chaser. After half a dozen suc- theirs was nothing less than a lo convert an attic into a form intentions

ccssful and straightforward small-time of chapel. He conducted the should be known perhaps as admission, a revenue officer. services himself and was most "One-Born-Every-Minute Jones". The food ship Mary Anne set transactions, Mr. Pettifog dis agent suffer from impressive. He was clearly a-replied that " it seemed a sail strimmed to the scuppers covered a net way of making moral courage or was he a wise man of parts and godly as well, dirty trick to put a bloke in the with contraband alcohol, while money, by paying from his own and reasonable citizen?

The second term was not so cooler for five quid." On the Mr. N. Parker and his friends pocket the initial 10s., and so successful. The headmaster was assumption that Mr. Sharp had searched the wrong vessel from collecting a profit of 15s.

On this particularly cheap missing, together with the bulk at least a couple of dozen cus- transom to stern.-

being There seems little doubt but trick

discovered the of the parents' fees which had tomers of the same mentality as

THE

crook.

Did

the

a lack of

I could go on listing such in- stances indefinitely, but I should get no nearer in making up my mind. The ouctome of ench one iscems the same.

What is the motive that

JEW DOES SPEAK By Dr. Salis Daiches prompts us to let such petty

get away with Is it fear of publicity? Of becom- THE Jow must apeale," and speak to Jews poisoning the wells, or that tion of the communities anong whom to deprive him of his human rights? ing involved in legal proceed- That the Jew is not afraid of hardings? Is it sentiment and the in his Own defencel How the disappearance of a Christian they Ilved. cheering and refreshing it is for a child was due to ritual murder com- Were the Jews too much bent on toll has in recent years been simply ever-dawning hope that this Jew to note such a declaration as mitted by Jows for religious pur- commercial activities and anxious to demonstrated in Palestine. That he plausible fellow will make this

an ideal the last two that made by Mr. Lewis Spence in poses, it

been cusy to amass wenith? Einstein, Freud, is loyal to

himt

might have

You can search mo. I don't

Do you?

a recent article bearing that itle, show, as both Jewish and Christian Neuman, and a host of other intel- thousand years of his history have his last escapade and reform? For centuries the Jew in Europe divines did show, that there was not lectual glants lind no such ambition. abundantly shown. Thut he is de-Is it indolence, or lack of in- has been inestly forbidden to speak, an atom of truth in those allegations. They have been made to suffer be voted to the land of his birth or tereat? Is it charity or weak- and in Germany, to-day he is not If then the onus of explaining the cause of the Jewish blood that flows adoption that treats him as a worthy llowed even to utter a cry of des- attitude of the mediaval fanatle to in their veins. Is it then the pecu- human being, fledgalty to Britain mindedness? pair or an appeal for mercy. But in wards the Jew were thrown upon larity of the persecuted, or the necu- and his service to Le British Em- Scotland highly-esteemed and me, what could I say? Could I say line mentality of the persecutor, that pire ought to convince every fair-know the answer.

minded person. That he feels sate popular writer invites him openly anything at all except that it was has to be explained?

But has not the Jew faults? Of and · secure · ją za truly religious and earnestly to state his case and not the peculiarity of the Jew.but to explain why so many people hate the peculiar mentality of the People course he has. The few is as ready Christian community, the Jew in this own fallings and country is only too glad to declare. that was responsible for the hatred to dwell on la and for the outrages in which it weaknesses as the Scot is. If only That he act as a brother among MAILS ACCUMULATE

I could bring myself to believe that brethren his record in all fraternal Now, before any attempt can be found expression?

Kunming, Oct. 20. made to indicate the reason why the Is it reasonable to maintain.. that the, people who Hate the Jew hate organise clearly, testifies. That Jew is frequently hated, it is surely Germany lost the. Var in 1918, Les him because of his faults! There he is ready, and glad to associate

Thousands of mallbags intended. necessary to recall his attitude. It cause the Jewish, citizens of the would thich be some hope that the with his Gentile neighbour on equal for Szechuch are piled up. In the I were anker to-day why Herr Hit Reich proved disloyal le ihre un ailuation would improve. But If the terms no one will dony. That he is unming post office owing to dif- yet General Ludendorff Jew is used merely as a scapegoat ready to give his life in defence of culties of transportation by road, ler was filled with such a fierce try? And

last year of his life for any ill that befalls a nation or a the country to which he is a citizen New Trucks have been bought re- hatred for the Jewish race, I would spent the have to re-read his book "Mein spreading this theory among the community, what can he do? his record in the Great War abun-cently but not in sufficient numbers Kampf," and quote the passages in Germans, and the Nats have Persecution Does Not Pay

dantly proves. That he can render which he himself explains and just!- adopted it as a positivy creed.

valuable service in the most reason to cope with the situation. sible positions the distinguished All forms of transport are hard to fles that hatred.

members of his race have abundant-get. Many buses are, not following ty shown.

the regular routes, but carrying re- fugees from air raids-Reuter,

a

That no

KWANGSI MISSION

Jewish writers have been at least I would then find that Herr Hiller Peculiar Mentalities

as "brutally frank" in dwelling upon asserts that the Jew, has never made

Do the Polca oppress the Jewish the weaknesses of Jews as Scotilsh any contribution of any value to hu-

country benefits in the man culture and civilisation; that he citizens of their country because they writers have been, in the words of

envy them their wealth? The Polish Mr. Spence, in dwelling upon the end by persecuting him, the annals by nature a parasite, o rogue,

of history irrefutably declare. That a moral degenerate, a traitor to the Jews are known to be suffering in- weaknesses of Scotsmen.

describable poverty and to be dying But the Scot a hated and per- God has blessed the British nation him country which befriends

secuted because of his weaknesses. because of its fairness to the Jew,. worthless creature, whose mere exis- from starvation.

Are the Jews in Hungary disliked Why should the Jew be? Is not the sincerely believe. That other na- On the ninth Sunday after Trinity ience spells danger to his neighbour

because they are racially or rellat- difference between the Scot and the tions will yet learn from Great the Bishop of Hongkong, assisted by Ifediadval Barbarities

ously exclusive? 11: is well known Jew this: that the Scot has a land Britain how to treat the Jewish citi- the Bishop of Canton, ordained in si. that the Hungarian Jews, like the of his own; that Scotland

is part zen,

1 fervently hope. That love John's Cathedral the following mis- Lat me, give another instance. majority of the German and Aus of Great Britain; that Britain in suf- will in time conquer hatred is the atonaries and workers of the Bible- When in the Middle Ages whole trian Jews, had up to a few years ficiently strong to protect her sub- earnest prayer of the Jews, as it is Churchmen's Missionary, Society in

the Nanning District, Kwangal Tcommunities were staugh- ago followed a policy of complete jects anywhere in the wide world; of all true Christians.

Deacon, Peter Pan Priests, Philip tored, or burned in their Synago assimilation, and that the number of that no dictator de demagogue will... This is how the Jow speaks when ques, becauso rumours had been mixed marriages among them was dare lo treat the Scot my scapegoat his Gentile neighbour is willing to Huang, Arthur Charman, and Osmond spread that the Black Death was due greater than among any, other see for his country's misfortunes and laten to him,,

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5 Opening with each end (0), 8 A vice that shows up a little

god (8).

9 Lack of taste is not good for

many (two words-3, 4).

10 Some bad speakers excel this

tribe (5)..

11"Ted can rap” (anag.).(B).

13 He goes, perhaps, from side to

xide (8).

14 Symbol (6).

17. This air reversed makes warm

clothing (3),

10. With some following it would

be weird (3):

20. Kind rounding like letter and

number (8).

23 Verdict on a lightning victim possibly (three words-8, 2, 3). 20 This makes the parting hørtler

(D). 20 Entirely part of 28 down to as

aign (3).

29 Each bud contributes to over

indulgence (7). 30 He will be pleased when, he

comes to a settlement (8).

31 The way to include a natural

growth (9).

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(0).

2. Bruce ought to have written his battle orders in. Uits kind of hand (7).

3 The usurer likes his business to

be so, and it is (0),

4 The geologist will tell you that

Describen many characters in fairy tales (5).

7 A cube is what a sphere cannot

be:(8).

12 Temper makes it quite mild

(3).

15. A speaker's notes? (9).

10 A lifeless policeman's round is

-weary in the extreme (8).

18 Product of crude nut but more

nourishing to cạt (8).

21 Bar this for a wine (3).

22 Of great value to pedestrians

who realise the difference be tween the quick and the dead (7).

24 Point in circles of recent origin

(0).

25 He is neither young nor wise

27 Bit of Geneva determination

(8).:

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