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What Next In Spain?

Thanks to the continued assistance he had received from his Italian allies, Franco has all but won the civil war in Spain, and the pending de jure recogni- tion of his Government by Great Britain and France is a natural sequel to the capture of Cata- lonia,

What will happen when the civil war ends?

There is one school of thought which believes that Franco will go, cup in hand, to England and say: "Please, Mr. Chamberlain, I need some money, and that's the one thing my Italian and German friends haven't got. May I please have a credit for the reconstruction of devastated Spain?"

And then, according to this comforting and typical nine- teenth century theory, he will be | told: "Certainly! Of course you will naturally co-operate inde- pendently from the Rome-Berlin axis and you will remember that France is our friend."

DROPPING THE PILOT-NEW VERSION

I'm not

frightened-I'm all right

IT'S cropped up again.

People who ought to know better are arguing the question about whether women are finished at forty so far as love, life and laughter are concerned.

Some women say I'm Forty and Frightened." Some women won't admit they are forly. Tiny become the laughing-stock of their acquaintances because they tol les about their age even to people who knew them in the cradle.

Well, I'm nearing the forties and I'm not a bit frightened.

Soon I'll have a wing of white hair over the left temple. My eyes are traced around with tiny lines catised by all the good laughs I've had in my thirty-odd years of llte. The white in my hair doesn't upset ine and the lines around my eyes don't make me look old. They make me look Jolly, and encourage people to tell me funny stories ke- cause they can see I'm the sort of person who will taugh at their Jokes.

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TITEL MANNIN sald ten that she years ngo wanted to cram all the fun and excitement and juy and laughter of her life into the years between thirty and forty because she, like most other women, was afraid that after forty life for her would be finished.

But this pre-supposes a num- ber of improbable assumptions.

Are we to be asked to believe that Signor Mussolini has poured forth blood and treasure in Spain for the sake of a holy But at Christmans Ethel Mannin She is ap- Kot married again. bolshevisin crusade against a

proaching the foilles anch it which has long since disappear-

wouldn't surprise me to hear that ed from "Red" Spain?

Are we to suppose that the German technicians and com- |mercial concerns who have now got a strangichold in North Spain and Spanish Morocco are going to pack up their suitcases and beat it for the Fatherland?

Are we to believe that the oft-repeated statements by Franco that he intends to make Spain a totalitarian State mean- nothing?

It Can Be Done

The death roll in Shum Chun is incomplete, but it is believed that casualties will exceed a Hundred.

In three raids on Lanchow, the death rolls have been less than 40 and have cost the Japanese more than £2,000,000 in lost planes.

Shum Chum was undefended fand was unprepared.

Lanenow was well defended and well prepared.

The terror of nerial warfare is heavily cut when protection is provided. There is a lesson In the recent raids in China for evory-nation that fears war from the air.

-says-

REBECCA GORDON

she is now willing to eat her earlier words.

A few weeks ago I went to the Savoy Hotel to see a beautiful ttle American woman who had come to London en business. She was a neat creature with an clin face, dark, pretty hair and big brown eyes.

TABE train journey from

Plymouth had upset her the day I went to see her. and she was lying in bed with masses of pale blue shawls round her shoulders to keep her warm. When I saw this delicate little thing sitting up in bed smiling at me I felt like beating a retreat.

You see, they told me before I called on her that she was one of America's smartest business women earning thousands a year. "She is hard as nelis, but a woman," they told me.

charming

I expected to see a tall, forceful American. Instead I saw a sort of pixle. She told me she was forty- three and was shortly to be mar- led to a man she had known for eight years.

She had been married before and was the mother of two daughters,

"I came to Londen, partly on business and partly for a vacation

GRIN AND BEAR IT

to make up my mind about my second marriage," she told me.

"I don't know what some women are thinking about when they let themselves slide into duli middle- age at forty.

"I never even thought about

when my fortieth retting old birthday came along, for I was too busy having a good time and do- ing my job,

"I'm going back to Amerlea soon to marry the man Pre known eight years, and don't laugh when I tell you that I had to run away to make up my mind because I had a pro- posal from another man I've known only two years, and--like any silly debutante, I didn't know what to do about it."

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TOW I know there is an- other side to all this. There are no frighten-

i forties and what they do to the working woman,

Well, I'm one.

I have worked for my living ever since I left school and I've been so busy working I've hardly had time to keep track of my age,

Five yours ago I wasn't at all sure what age I was and had to admit it when taking out an insur- ance policy.

The man laughed incredulou y

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For A Week

ALL the 300 cinemas in Paris an- nounced recently that they would cluso for a week in protest against a new mitalefpat tax.

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Thousands of workers have been warned that thele, employers are obliged to break their contract with them,

If steps are not taken to meet the employers' demand within a week, suburban pleture houses will join the

*trike.

Should the dispute continue for a fortnight einemns all over France will take similar action.

To show solidarity

with the cinema - owners, Mim - distributing; companies have agreed to give out no new films unit the question is settled.

The conillet has arisen over a newį tax of from 1.50 to 3.00 per cent.] voted by the Municipal Counell tol meet the 1039 Budget,

when I said: "Honestly I don't know what nige I am, I must write home for my birth certificate."

I found I was a year older than I had thought. For five minutes it gave me a jolt. All at once I felt that I ought to be feeling more sedate. Then common sense came to my rescue and I carried on as usual, much as i used to do when I was in the early twenties.

Women working for their living who think they will be in danger of losur their jobs when they reach the forties should remember that it isn't their age that matters. What matters is the use they make of the experiences age has given. them.

At forty you should be balanced. You should have enough sense to. act naturally and talk intelligently about your own job, your outlook. on life, and your experiences.

OME of the world's most romantle affairs have een botween men and women in their forties. Every lime that has happened the whole world ins remarked upon the woman's ARC.

Married women of forty fear' the competition of younger women who appear Interested in their husbands.

Unmarried ones fear that all chances of marriage, are over and those still at work fear that the

employer or client looking at them with critical eyes will wish to re- place them by younger faces.

} And they are all wrong. The most attractive women, the most adorable women, the most. admired women are the women in. the early forties who have learned what iffe is all about.

They can talk to inan or equal terms. They have something to say worth listening to, and-just as important--they have sufficient sense to listen with interest to what others have to say.

Age makes possible for them to: have a friendship with a man without tentions."

any question of "his in-

For them friendships often turn to love and their marriages are successful because they are founded on mutual respect, friend- ship and love, and the need of both. for a friend and companion.

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OW I'll make a confes- slan.

Three

years ago coulda'z have written all this.

Then. I was a blt frightened every time I thought about it. I had to take a larger hip mensure- ment when buying a dress.

My hair My skin

ci

spent more on corsets. needed more attention. needed muro creams,

I was in a pante. I thought all was up with me. I never had been beauty, now I was definitely plain.

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Well what dla I do about it? Bit down and weep?

No fear. I decided to be my age. In

meeting

ΠΟΥ people I admitted my

0. experience as woman of the world.

What happened? I was bappler than I had ever been before,

I wouldn't go back to my twenties and I don't regret the early thirties

The woman who does is a fool.

Goats Become The ether.

Goats

Ukiah, Cal

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turned it into a mink Goals were made the gout of an ment, they animal farm experiment here. The Tanch. Towever, they are sill rats- Spring brothers Installed a gonting enough gonia to provide food for: runch near here, but when the goats their carnivorous fur bearers.