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Should Germany Have

Colonies?

TENTATIVE DĖMANDS for

the return of colonics have long been a regular feature of speeches by official spokesmen in Germany. Since the Munich Agreement, it has been apparent that the other Great Powers would soon have to treat this issue seriously. There is reason to believe that Mr. Chamberlain, while making 110 definite promises, would not be averse from discussing this problem as part of a general policy of appeasement.

Through the tangle of con- troversy which is always stimų- luted by the colonial question, no easy road to a solution which might satisfy everybody hus ever been discernible. Matters have been further complicated by recent events in Germany. The vicious pogrom against the Jews has stiffened the resistance of those who have consistently opposed the return of colonies to Germany and has reinforced their ranks by disgusting many of the waverers,

Since the end of the Great War, new conceptions of colonial administration have been de veloping which have a bearing upon the present situation. Under the Mandate System, which applies to the ex-German and the ex-Turkish territories, the welfare of the backward

is regarded 15 races

of paramount importance-indeed, to quote the League Covenant, "a sacred trust of civilisation." Evidence that the British, -French, Belgian and other Governments take this obliga- tion seriously has been provided at the meeting in December of the Permanent Mandates Com- mission.

In view of the success of this post-War colonial experiment, it is advocated in some quarters that the Mandate System should be extended to cover all colonica or that, at the very least, the

principles should

same

THOUGHT I knew all years now could

I know from my

own experience

dangerous

hoty

even

3+

month's

abstention from

tobacco

1 be. The last fimme gave up smoking. I found myself before long the prey of a new and terrifying energy. The form it took was writing verse. I who had scarcely written a line of verse for thirty not stop writing it.

the arguments against Sometimes I wrote as many as three smoking, but Herr poems a day.

Worse still, I was attacked by Julius Streicher has dis-

megalomania, and became the victim covered one that, at least to of a delusion that the stuff was worth me, is new.

publishing:

I sent some of it to a He has discovered that the friend of mine who edited a weekly. spread of the smoking habit is paper, and was amazed when he re- the result of a subtle Jewish plot turned it with the cold remark: "I which was aimed at the slow refuse to publish the fruits of your abstinence, and an earnest entreaty poisoning of the great Aryan to me to take up smoking again with race. "Jews taught the Ger-all possible speed. mans to smoke," he declared "in order to destroy the German na- tion and to make money.”

Hul it not been for that friendly

it cruel) counsel, 1 might by now have been a hardened non-smoker

It would be easier to believe that this was true if so many and have infileted on the world. the Jews did not themselves smoke. worst epic poem in the English lan

Yes, smoking may make us cough,

I cannot believe that my Jewish Buage. friends, when they smoke, are deliberately trying to commit but, if it saves us from being epic suicide. With their pipes and pacts and dictators, it is better that cigars and cigarettes in their we should go on coughing.

I have examined all the arguments as if mouths they even look they were enjoying themselves. against smoking, and I must say most of them sound pretty unconvincing. 1 cordially agree with Herr Some people say that you will save Streicher's dislike of smoking, money if you give up smoking; but however, and I should be inclined all those of my friends who have given up smoking strenuously deny for the thirty-first time to give that they have saved a penny by it up, if Herr Streicher had not My own feeling is that either you are gone to suggest that, if one born to save money or you are not; and that a thriftless non-smoker is abstained from tobacco, onc more likely to have an over-draft al might become one of the men the bark than a thrifty smoker. who do big things, like Hitler and Mussolini.

Another argument against the use of tobacco is that it is a mark of weakness-a symptom of anxiety, neurosis as a psychologist has put it and that we ought to give up 1 confess, when I read this, my re- tobacco in order to strengilen our solution wavered, for, if there is one character. If tobacco in really a thing that I want to be saved from medicine against anxiety, however, it it is doing big things like Hitler and seems to me it should be commended Mussolini. If smoking alone can like any other beneficent medicine: preserve me from doing bit things strongly though 1 dl pprove of such as are being done in Europe to tobacco, if it can lull my anxiety in day, then I feel I must for the sake of this very anxious world I will go on athers go on smoking, whatever the using it. cost to my health.

In the present state of things, it The only good reasons I have heard would not be fair to Europe for me for giving up smoking are purely selfish ones--that it will lengthen to give up smoking.

SUPERSTITION has always been

a concomitant factor in every act of the drama of human life. From the cradle to the grave, its in- fluence never leaves us, and especial- ly is this true in connection with the Anal sequence; for, after all, death is

by

Gregory

T. Paul

SATURDAY,

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Forswear Tobacco Young Nazis Told

BERLIN, Dec. 30.

ADMONISHING GERMAN youth not, la 'mutke, the Relch Youth Leader, Baldur von Schirach in 'a Now Year's mcenige to Hüler Youth, comprisixty, boys, from 34 to 18, and giste from 14 to 21′ youte of age, emphasizes that sporting achievements and avioking are incompatible." "Nu formal prohibirise of alcohol and nicotine will be Lanned for Uitter Youth", the wiznya reads, "as 1. belire this exper

the more na since you hit must show to the Fuehrer Year by your sin dreisen, that with folloce

tha Exciter, and olen tri pour

winc.

From the Hongkong "Telegraph last Saturday. one's life, or cure other people who do not share his one's catarrh, or tastes and complaining of people who give one a better smoke in trains and theatres. The palate for good smoker, on the other hand, never in- terferes with anybody, or dreams I remember ouce of complaining because non-smokers pressing n friend don't smoke in trains and theatres.. to give up smok I can sit beside a non-smoker with- ing for these and out exhibiting any signs of disgust or offier reasons, and discomfort. But I have met haw he answered me with a sud smokers who exhibited signs of ex- and saintly hend - shake: "I should treme disgust and discomfort when 7 like to do what you advise, but ita cigarette in their company.

wife and

have to children."

think of iny

I

I ask- "How can it affect them?" ed. "Well," he said, "When I give tus smoking. I cease to be a normal good-natured human being, and be come like a bear with a sure head, a tion with a thorn in its foot, a dog that has been stung by a wasp; and my wife and children live under reign of terror. The last time I was sellish enough to give up smoking my wife be-sought me for the sake of the children to take to my pipe again. I disapprove of smoking as much as you do, but, so far as I am concerned, that touch about the kids settled the matter."

nan-

One of the strongest proofs of the selfishness of the non-smoker is the fact that he is a confirmed tax-dodger. Living in an age in which millions of education. are needed for pounds social reform and national defence, he refuses even to contribute the mite that the smoker gives cheerfully every

time he buys a packet of

cigarettes.

When iny epitaph comes to be wilt- tea, I should like it to contain the sentence: "He paid more than his share of taxation."

Meanwhile, I suppose, I shall go on When you come to think of it, the unselfishness of the smoker presents trying to give up smoking and find- a curious contrast to the selfishness ing that for a man of even ordinary of the non-smoker. The non-smoker decent moral principles it is im- goes about the world interfering with possible to do so.

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Superstition In China

FTER the corpse has been dressed the corpse. Of course, custom has universally decreed that the best of and laid in its coffin, the greatest the clothing of the deceased should care is taken to see that no animals be his garb for the final journey, but enter the room in which it lies. The the Chinese have certain idens about Chinese are like the people of the this which are unusual.

Scottish Border in this respect; for,

For instance, they conceive that like them, they especially dread the the material for the shroud mual be advent of cats. Indeed, it is thought elther silk, crnpe, or cotton, and the that should a taal-to-naan, or pre- must be so put on that gaunt female pussy leap upon tho Farments there are more on the upper portion corpse, the latter will immediately of the trunk than on the lower. At arise from its bler, and set off in the greatest of mysteries which no instance, the Chinese notion of pur- least nine garments must be worn, mad pursuit of the luckless feline. one ever faces understandingly. chasing the coffin long before the and so distributed that the ratlo be- Should some member of the foml Beliefs connected with the passing advent of the Grim Reaper has been tween the upper and lower part of ly be in the way of the enraged of the human soul have obtained regarded as odd; yet this is said to the body must be as five to four res- corpse, he will at once be seized by therefore the widest acceptance, and be a not unusual proceeding even to pectively, although customs may vary in dif- this day in parts of Germany, where be

ferent parts of the world, sentiment the practical-minded peasants have lo fundamentally similar.

much the samo utiltarlar outlook as that of the Chinese people. East and West are largely mo- tivated by the same thoughts, and After all, death is an inevitable regardless of how utterly bizarre a episode; Is it not therefore best to local practice may be, it is certainly look forward to is coming with calm not without a counter-part in some and unruffled feelings? other portion of the globe,

applied in all colonial adminle tration. The Aryan theory dominating Nazi Germany, un- fortunately, makes it unlikely that consideration for the rights of native races would seriously enter into her colonial scheme. Thus it is difficult to escape the conclusion that Germany, In, her -present mood, is putting up a barrier against coloniel, adjuste

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the throat and borne to earth "the victim of his own terrors" s Roderick Usher, the hero of Poe's

immortal story.

Was

Moreover, in the case of the very wealthy, the number of pieces of clothing is increased by two so that

Moreover, should the corpse strike there are eleven garments in all. Of course, in the case of the poor, this against the walls of the room in its the Intruder, it is frankly believed arbitrary rule cannot be followed, endeavour to wreak vengeance upan that the structure of the house will but in either case, rich or poor, the Chinese are careful to see that the

be permanently impaired, and lia- lower garments of the corpse are not

ble it any time to collapse. That the held in place by a foo-tau-taal, or girdle, as that would be highly in- region along the Scottish Border had do- a similar superstition is lilustrated censed, If such an article were added, from odd bits of folklore, one of would taal, or, "carry away" all the them stating that should a cat or

(Continued on Page 14.). accumulated luck and fortune of the dog unwillingly enter a room where

CHINA has long been considered as UE practical, however, is much auspicious, implying that the

as

more commingled with super and sulf stranger practicos, and ama stition in China than elsewhere, and Kas ti of thugs have been held up as uniquskithiada, at once, agam: in the selection