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1. The neutrals hold a balance of power. Russin, the United States

November 9, 1939.

FORGOTTEN

CORRESPONDENT, who has

returned to England, after

A long residence abroad, has been making inquiries about a

alive ?"

NEWS

number of things that were after the first week or two? prominent in the news before who, except the correspondent ho left home.

to whom I have referred, is "What happened," he asks, interested to-day in "the Horn- ["about Joánna Southcott's box ?sey poltergeist?" It has had What was the solution of the its day, and since then we have Hornsey poltergeist mystery ?had plenty of other unsolved Is the Fat Boy of Peckham still mysterics to puzzle us.

As for Joanna Southcott's box, some day, no doubt, it will He has put these questions to be in the hows again. It is not one frigrid' after another, and possible to be interested in the nobody seems to know the box all the time, but It Is easy answers. There are probably occasionally to revive one's in- terest in the religious faith of hundreds of thousands of people Ilving in England to-day who the people who believe that the have never even heard of the Fat box contains revelations that Boy of Peckham or of the will save that world when it has Hornsey poltergeist or of the been opened in the presence of great, Joanna Southcott herself.

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 ba

bonnie

A little time while it is new; But when it is auld it waxeth

cauld

And fadeth away like the

morning dew.

24 bishops.

An Adventure in Greenwich

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

WELCOME CORN BULC

"You just faller me in, an' I ain't tellin' you what you'so pinched forgives you time to think up too many excuses!"

The Story Of

A Great

Empire's

Power

IN times of danger the British race displays qualities which are regarded universally by mankind as unusual and heroic, This means physical courage, courage that shrinks from nothing. It means that we should always be found ready to fight to the last ditch on a clear

distinct from "prestige," or question of national honour, as

to our exis- against a threat tence.

FACTS ABOUT THE EMPIRE

PIGGEST group of countries in

the world.

Area: 12,000,000 square miles. Population: 498,000,000.- Population Increase, 1911-1938:

80,000,000..

Joanna, it may be thought by some, was a poor prophetess, since she did not foresee that the English bishops would refuse to take part in a "ridiculous" 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-

Peace Offensives

It is impossible to go on being box, a lottery ticket, and a book interested day after day even in called "The Surprise of Love, or THAT talk of peace should already the physical proportions of a

resound above the guns on the Fat Boy. He suddenly recedes Park." Western Front is only one of the re-from the limelight, and his place Followers of Joanna Southcott markable things about this war is taken by some other nine maintain, however, that it was That there should be this recurrent days' wonder, such us the the wrong box that was opened; question of "peace offensives" Quintuplets. Alas, I have al- and the Panacea Society was not ready lost interest in the Quint-long ago agitating for the open- uplets!

ing of the real box in presence It may seem ungrateful to of the bishops. Another society, and Italy-not to mention Japan, lose interest in this fashion in the Fishers of Men, however, the Scandinavian sintes, Spain, one who, like the Fat Boy, once object to making overtures to Rumania, Hungary, Belgium, Latin- filled our thoughts. How many the bishops, believing that they Amerken and the Netherlands-could thousands of breakfast tables are commanded to "stand vali- almost dictate a peace. All have

he brightened in the days of his antly in their own faith, and tremendous interest in peace for all glory!

Yet not one in a hun-wait until the bishops call them are profoundly affected. War hasdred of those who once gaped and entreat them." made collective insecurity un-in wonder at his photograph The public appears to be in- attractive that they may be more could tell you that he grew up different for the time being. It ready to move collectively_for_such and married, -that-he-worked-in has had enough of-the-box, and. ALL thig_the_ world and ourselves trilele. Meanwhile, let us ponder if peace us would provide some hope the films, and that, at the age of only a change of policy on the fact that it fa, su exercises a moral British Empire has grown in the necept 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-Influence

course of history short space of 25 years by 80,000,000 which can scarcely be exaggerated. souls. Russia so far has appeared to peont 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- by war, but no other neutral has!; The fact is, we have only alterest.

material and spiritual resources of the ment "the greatest Empire the world greatest empire the world has ever has ever known," does not the man 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 awaken in you, as seriously what further proît it can you lived beside Niagara Falls that closely concern its well-thin is a staggering and come well as a solemn pride, a sense of

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

For the significance of the thing Is win take them for granted and be from excited. interest to indif- in peace does the Empire that to the Empire has been added.

portant more by petter than war, while the able to look at them without ference. It is only a few years pause in its forward march.

in the course of nature, a population United States is awakening to the any thrill of astonishment since everybody

There was, indeed, one anxious us great as the bousted millions of the was reading great dungers of continued war. perhaps, without the slightest about the wonderful cures said sudden change of monarch was not hire have hired in the me

pause at the end of 1936, but even a Third Reich, All parts of the Ear- whether or not she is able to keep interest.

Africa, British Malaya, the to have been effected through it the Ensalve together. If anyt suficient to loosen the bands which South

Settlements have almost out. Scandinavia sees the 0551-

Abrams' Consider the fate of the Loch | Dr.

"magic box." thing, the event served to emphorise doubled their populations. Canada's bility of being encircled by sub- inorines and made the economic Ness Monster. What a figure he Eager as most people are to read before the whole world the essentials increased from 7,200,000 to 11- unity and resilience, of the Common-120,000, Australia's from 4,445,000 weullb.

Lo 0,865,000. vassul of Germany and Russia, cut in the world's news a little about cures, however, they are

Whether in spite of or-because-uf

* More clearly than in the World War, over a year ago, and yet we have really excited about cures only

the Statute of Westminster of 1931, even while they are novelties.

"held" by about 50,000 li-has become evident that neutrality already ceased to

which gave legal form to the inde- will be difficult and dangerous.

whether he was real or not.

pendence of the Dominions, the Em-troupe, has increased hers. from 302,- pire was revealed as having uridt-095,000 to 330,110,000. innished the power of decision of

With. Its pressure on the economic The neutrals are not organised and Even those who live on the

resources of the Empire, and its tnx single unit. shores of Loch Ness, I'imagine, may not agree on what would make have by this time ceased to look

a sound pevec, but drily their In- terest in peace becomes clearer. And any proposal of terms which offered: reasonable hope of genuine peace would enlist powerful neutral sup-

port.

result. The

cure

out nervously over the water for the sinuour splashings of this former prince of gen- serpents.

The more our decadence. is prophesied as it has been for the past two or three centuries --the more we reveal ourselves capable of confounding the pro-. phets.

* * ☆

on the

remember that neither in

Has 26 per cent of the land sur-

face of the world.

Contains 22 per cent, of the

world's population. Controls 31 per cent, of the

trade,

Owns 50 per cent of the world's

shipping.

INDIA,

system political virtues would chinery, this increase has created A system less stable and less en- on the rigantle administrative mu- have collapsed under the weight of problems which only d race skilled the blow.

in government could face unflinching- ly. We have faced them, and if we have col solved them all, we have al

ourselves to them

bas

:

this

*

The Abrams' box, I imagine, has by this time vanished from the public memory to such on extent that very few people could

Always, tell you whether the

vas! group uri least addressed claims made on its behalf were dynamic goes on building up relent- renturies of experience, Indeed, the peoples eternally young, terrifyingly with an energy and wisdom born of Justified or not. Ordinary people less, irresistible power. Each day, each smoothness with which the Empire 2. There is in all countries

Even where a

sensational simply ceased to care and have hour, something is added to its re- has taken all these problems in its serves of wealth, Its WILL to survive stride is sumelent proof of the vitality inental resistance to war which In-

and fuldt its Incredible mission. Our fits whole systers of government, alat ut before the night goe

mystery remains unsolved, we forgotten.

history in times of peace has been which is here democratie, there become apathetic about it in It is the same with Cone. For one long Odyssey of victory, which necessarily autocratic in the interests farther, there should be clearer

written itself triumphantly in of the natives themselves, definitions of what kind of peace will time and are content not to a year or two his fultheures the world's stery, is the power of The achievements of the Brittal in know the solution. Many of the were the talk of the world. The Napoleons, Tsars, and other despots India stone, culminating in the great British and French

federal scheme of self challenges haunted houso mysteries | people—if not "indeed the peoples of

are cures themselves may still be crumbled in the dust.

Even more than the evidence of embodied in the India Bill of the democracies-endorse Mr. never solved, but who cares going on, but the public seems history, do contemporary facts afford comparison with those of any other

to bo no longer interested in vitality of our race and its unique side it the conquests and administra reassurance as to the unquenchable race from the beginning of time. Br Chamberlain's rejection of a."peaco"

them or which would merely consolidate a

oven in the question capacity for renewing its youth. Yet tive successes of the ancient Roman have wide support in neutral coun- whether the Coue method pro cosmic forces in the way we spend of a county council. And if we there is something of the mystery of Empire stem no more than the work tries, it may become necessary for duces the results claimed for it, our energies on the work of civilla- needed another example from India, their own countries to launch D

tion while keeping enough in reserve one that typifies the practical forme 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

in the turned Englishman discovered from the Irunensity of the Empire's British raco expresses itself, would be less clear, but Entisten night. In Britain before, the wor lost all interest in Joanhia South-It explains why the Empire must craft and engineering, the greatest in strongth. hidden beneath. Its mass, noble and imperishable work of state- and Frenchmen who have lived started. The Times and many in-

always win one battle—the last. But the world, will, in Ulmo fertilise a re- through months of insecurity and dividuals spoke of nich terms. They cott's box and the Hornsey to make that fully true we must give gjon ne big as the entire cultivated outrage before war bogen would not feluded features of justice and poltergeist. The ficklaminded to the word battle a much wider area of Japan. call a mere return in that condition stability which could win the sup-ness of the human race is beyond significance than it usually possesses, gence. port of world opinion. On the one measuring. Its greed for novelty They sense in generit, lecins what condition-that Hillerlan is aban- 18 as boundless. Even sen der they pro fighting for. But if they doned-ilicy would now make a pents and quintuplots pall. This, are to resist û pence offensive which || splendid starting point for peace dis- I think, may a rather good might offer general disarmament and cussions-Christian Science Mohilor, thing,

ruthless conquest, and set the stage for further aggression by threats or violence. If there had been no

efforts al appeasement the issue detail the peace alms for which they that his fellow-countrymen had Population and the myriad springs of Lloyd barrago ñeross the Indus. This

WHEAT crops will be quadrupled, NOW we are not speaking of the rice doubled Over 1,000,000 moro Empire's prowess In War. Iferneres will grow. cotton, and the "crop achievements in peace provide will be trebled. At a cost of RID. rander theme, a more absorbing and 000,000 the scheme employed for Thrilling tale, Somie. stupendous facts nearly six' yours 40,000 men, and two are set out in a separate space in this PLEASE Turn To Page.