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FORGOTTEN

CORRESPONDENT, who has returned to England after

n long residence abroad, has

beon making inquiries about a

NEWS

number of things that were after the first week or two?

prominent in the news before: he left home.

Who, except the corrcapondent to whom I have referred, is "What happened," he asks, interested to-day in "the Horn

It has had "about Joanna Southcott's box?sey poltergeist?" What was the solution of the its day, and since then we have had plenty of other unsolved Hornsey poltergeist mystery 7 Is the Fat Boy of Peckham still mysteries to puzzle us. alive ?"

answers.

As for Joanna Southcott's box, some day, no doubt, it will He has put these questions to be in the news again. It is not one friand after another, and possible to be interested in the nobody seems to know the box all the time, but it is easy There are probably occasionally to revive one's in- hundreds of thousands of people terest in the religious faith of living in England to-day who the people who believe that the box contains revelations that have never even heard of the Fat

will save that world when it has Boy of Peckham or of the Hornsey poltergeist or of the been opened in the presence of great Joanna Southcott herself. 24 bishops.

The truth is, the public soon gets tired of a sensation as it gets tired of a music-hall song Sensation grows cold with time, like love in the ballad:

O waly, waly, but love be

bonnle

1.

-A little time while it is new; But when it is huld it waxeth

cauld

And fadeth away like the

morning dew.

Joanna, it may be thought by some, was a poor prophetess, since she did not foresee that the English bishops would refuse

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

#7

WELCOME CRN GILL

POP 234

"You just follar mo in, an' I ain't tellin' you what you'ro pinched for—gives you time to think up too many excuses!”

to take part in a "ridiculous" The Story

ceremony. One bishop did con- sent to be present at the opening of the box, and a few years ago a box, said to be "the" box, was duly opened at the Church House, Westminster. Alas, it contained no revelations, but there were found in it a dice- box, a lottery ticket, and a book called "The Surprise of Love, or An Adventure in Greenwich

are

Of

A Great

Empire's

Power

that

we

FACTS ABOUT THE EMPIRE

NIGGEST group of countries in

the world.

Peace Offensives

It is impossible to go on being interested day after day even in THAT talk of peace should already the physical proportions of a

resound above the guns on the Fat Boy. He suddenly recedes Park."

IN times of danger the British Western Front Is only one of the re-from the limelight, and his place Followers of Joanna Southcott race displays qualities which markable things about this war.is taken by some other nine maintain, however, that it was regarded universally by That there should be this recurrent days' wonder, such the the wrong box that was opened; mankind as unusual and heroic.

This means physical courage,| question of "peace offensives" is Quintuplets. Alas, I have al- and the Panacea Society was not a courage that shrinks from largely due to two factors:

rendy lost Interest in the Quint-long ago agitating for the open-nothing. It means 1. The neutrals hold a balance of uplets 1

ing of the real box in presence should always be found ready to power. Russia, the United States It may seem ungrateful to of the bishops. Another society, fight to the last ditch on a clear and Italy--not to mention Japan, lose interest in this fashion in the Fishers of Men, however, question of national honour, as distinct from "prestige," or object to making overtures to against a threat Scandinavian states,

to our exis- Spalo, one who, like the Fat Boy, once Rumania, Hungary, Belgium, Latin- filled our thoughts. How many the bishops, believing that they tence.

The more our decadence is America and the Netherlandschult thousands of breakfast tables are commanded to "stand vali. almost dictate a peace. All have a he brightened in the days of his antly in their own faith, and tremendous interest in peace for all glory 1 Yet not one in a hun-wait until the bishops call them are profoundly affected, War has dred of those who once gaped and entreat them.". made collective insecurity so un-in wonder at his photograph The public appears to be in- | phets. attractive that they may be more could tell you that he grew up different for the time being. It rendy to move collectively for such and married, that he worked in has had enough of the box, and ALL this the world and ourselves nrticle. Meanwhile, let us ponder a prace as would provide some hope the films, and that, at the age of only a change of policy on the fact that it is so exercises a moral British Empire has grown in the accept-in-the-light-of-truth-and-the one-that-the-population-of-the-

of security.

32, his waist measurement had part of the Archbishop of Can- teltuence on the course of history short spate of 25 years by 80,000,000

which can scarcely be exaggerated.| souls. Russia so far has appeared to profit increased to four feet and a half, terbury could reawaken its in-Not only our courage but the whole If you place this against the state- material and spiritual resources of the ment "the greatest Empire the world. greatest empire the world. has ever has ever known," does not the ma--

by war, but no other neutral has,

more by pence than war, while the

The fact is, we have only a terest.

prophesied as it has been for the past two or three centuries -the more we reveal ourselves capable of confounding the pro-

*

Arca: 13.000.000 square miles, Population: 408,000,000, Population Increase, 1911-1938:

80,000,000.

Has 25 per cent of the land sur-

face of the world. Contains 22 per cent. of the

world's population. Contrals 31 per cent of the

trade.

Owns 50 per cent, of the world's

shipping.

And Moscow must be questioning limited capacity for wonder. If Even in regard to matters known come to our aid. And while jesty of its truth awoken in you, as seriously what further profit it can you lived beside Niagara Falls that closely concern its well-this is a singering and comforting well as a solemn pride, a sense of

thought and a source of strength in urgent responsibility? derive from hostilities. Italy ap- you would gradually come to being, the public passes quickly any emergency, it is even more im-

For the significance of the thing is parently is convinced she can win take them for granted and be from excited interest to indif-portant to remember that no hope that to the Empire has been added, nor in peace does the Empire in the course of nature, a population able to look at them without ference. It is only a few years pause in its forward march." United States is awakening to the any thrill of astonishment since everybody was reading great dangers of continued

war. perhaps, without the slightest about the wonderful cures said whether or not she is able to keep interest.

to have been effected through out. Scandinavia

the possi- seer

Abrams' 'Consider the fate of the Loch Dr.

"magle box." bility of being encircled by sub-

marines and made the economic Ness Monster. What a figure he Eager as most people are to read vassal of Germany

and Russia. Cut in the world's news a little about cures, however, they are More clearly than in the World War, over a year ago, and yet we have really excited about cures only it hus become evident that neutrailty already ceased to care even while they are novelties. will be dieult and dangerous.

whether he was real or not.) Even those who live on the! The neutrals are not organised and shores of Loch Ness, I imagine, may not agree on what would make

terest in peace becomes clearer. And

The Abrams' box, I imagine, has by this time vanished from the public memory to such an

a sound peace, but daily their in-have by this time ceased to look.

out nervously over the water uny proposal of terms which offered for the sinuous splashings of extent that very few people this former prince of sea-i serpents.

rensonable hope of genuine peace would enlist powerful neutral sup-

port.

2. There is in all countries 2 mental resistance to war which in- sists that before the Aght goes farther there should be clearer

Even where A sensational mystery remains unsolved, we become apathetic about it in

could tell you whether the claims made on its behalf were justified or not. Ordinary people simply- ceased to care and have forgotten.

There was, Indeed, one anxious us great as the boasted millions of the pause at the end of 1936, but even a Third Reich. All parts of the Em- sudden change of monarch was not pire have shared in the Increuse. clent to loosen the bonds which South Africa, British Mulnya, the Straits Settlements have almost kaft the Empire together.

any doubled their populations. Canada's thing, the event served to emphasise before the whole world the essential as increased from 7,200,000 to 31,- unity and resilience of the Common-120,000. Australia's from 4,145,000-

1o 0,800,000. wealth.

Whether in splic of or because of

★ ☆ the Statute of Westminster of 1831,

INDIA. "held" by about 50,000 which gave legul form to the inde- pendence of the Dominions, the Em- troups, bas increased hers from 302, pire was revealed as having undi- 095,000 to 338,119,000.

With its pressure on the economic minished the power of decision of a

resources of the Empire, and its tax single unit.

A systém less stable and less en-n the gigantic administrative ma-

chinery,

has created dowed with political virtues would

this increase have collapsed under the weight of problems which only a ruce skliled the blow.

in government could face unflinching-- ly. We have faced them, and if we have not solved them all, we have at ourselves to them least addressed

Always,

this

*

vort

group of

Our

dynamle goes on building up retent centuries of experience. Indeed, the peoples eternally young, terrifyingly with an energy and wisdom born of less, Irresistible power. Each dny, each smoothness with which, the Empire hour, something is added to its re has taken if these problems in its serves of wealth, is WILL to survive strido is suficient proof of the vitality and futni its-incredible mission.

of its whole system of government, democratic, there history in Umes of peace has been which is here It is the same with Coue. For one long Odyssey of victory, which necessarily autocratie in the interests.

has written itself triumphantly in of the natives themselves.

The achievements of the British in definitions of what kind of peace will time and are content not to a year or two his faithcures the world's story, as the power of

know the solution. Many of the were the talk of the world, The Napoleons, Tanrs, and other despots India alone, culminating in the great: resul. The British and French

federal scheme of self-government Even more than the evidence of embodied in the India Bill, challenges haunted house mysteries are cures themselves may still be crumbled in the dust. people-If not indeed the peoples of all the democracles-endorse. Mr.

never solved, but who cares going on, but the public seems history do contemporary facts afford comparison with those of any other reuskúrance as the unquenchabie race from the beginning of time, Be- to be no longer interested in vitality of our race and its unique site it the conquests and administra Chamberlain's rejection of "peace"

them or oven in the question capaelly for renewing its youth. Yet live successes of the ancient Roman which would, merely consolidate have wide support in neutral coun-whether the Couo method pro cosmile forces in the way we spend of a county couneli And if we there is something of the mystery of Empire,seem, no more than the work. ruthless conquest and set the stage tries, it may become necessary for duces the results claimed for it. our energies on the work of civilis needed another example from India,

their own countries to launch a

tion while keeping enough in reserve one that typifies the practical forms It is no wonder that the re- to meet any challenge. This arises in which the Imperial genius of the counter-offensive and state in further

turned Englishman discovered from the immensity of the Empire's British race expresses itself, it is the would be less clear, but Englishmen Aght. In Britain before the wor

strength hidden beneath its mass. noble and Imperishable work of slate-. and Frenchmen who have lived started, The Times and many in-cott's box and the Hornsey to make that fully true we must give gion as big as the entire cultivated. lost all interest in Joanna South- It explains why the Empire must craft and engineering, the greatest li

always win one battle--the lust. But the world, will in time fertlilie a re- through months of insecurity and dividuals spoke of such terms. They outrage before war began would not included features of justice and poltergeist. The fickleminded to the word baille a much wider area of Japan. call a mere. return to that condition stability which could win the up news of the human race is beyond significance than it usually possesses.)

for further aggression by threats or violence. It there had been

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efforts at appeasement the issue deinit the peace aims for which they that his fellow-countrymen had Population and the myriad springs of Lloyd barrage across the Indus. This

репсе,

port of world opinion. On the one measuring. Its greed for novelty They sense, in general terms what condition that Hitlerism is aban-is as boundless. Even son ser- they are fighting for. But if they doned they would now make a pents and quintuplets pall. This, ere to realst a peace, offensive which splendid starting point for peace dis-I think, may be rather good might offer general disarmament and cussions-Christian Science Monitor, thing.“

WHEAT crops will be quadrupled - NOW we are not speaking of the rice doubled. Over 1,000,000 || mare Empire's prowess In" war Her adres 'will'grow, cotton, and the crop achievements: in peace provide will be trebled. At a cost of £15 grander theme a more absorbing and 900,000 the scheme employed for Thrilling tale. Some atupendous: facts nearly alx years 40,000 men, and twas are set out in a separate space, in the US PLEASE Turn To Pare 5.