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Musical Mass Production

The British Broadcasting Corpora- tion recently started a series of programmes designed to bring musle to the factories, with the object of Increusing wor production. Mono- tony, of course, militates seriously against the efficiency of the Iactory worker, and music doubtless would help him.

it in not merely that music, diverts thought Ironi J wearisome

deeper than that. Stukes once wrote:

As

Mr

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Think how the streets spring to life when the holder kind of barrel-organ grinds its June!

the streets become a

172 scene. The movement DRRECT-by and of traffic becomes

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KNOW-ALL Marshal

By ROBERT LYND

I

have

myself,

you

THE

-over.

At

AMERICA

SOUTH

New York Daily Mirror.

Petain Versailles

Does the French Hindenburg

of Louis

corner

A SOLICITOR, defending an old man who was

SCENE

a was that now proposes to seek re- prosecuted the other day for "communicating informa- routine; it goes, one imagines, rather tion regarding munitions," pleaded that his client had

French cafe in Soho on July fuge among the faded glories of

a past regime, 14, when the pathetic com- spoken "not only without knowledge of facts, but foolishly memoration of France's intend, I wonder, to inhabit and possibly in a know-all spirit to impress the man national day in London was alone some

Не сал XIV's vast palace? with whom he was convers-

A group of French hardly mean to hold court as a have, soldiers were cheering them-new Rol Soleil of France. If he heard so many my the spread in this selves up in their elastic does, he had better remember That, I think, in the explana-fashion about royalties, statesmen,

that way.

the screaming market- tion of about ninety-nine per generals, pucts, actors and actresses,

women and hungry crowds of that if I doctors, and other people

"Just think," said one of them.Paris can For cent. of Careless Talk.

reach this retreat hud pet them into print I should have "of old Petain going to live in more quickly.. now than they spent most of my adult life in gaol as the Chateau at Versailles. It's could when they stormed its

punishment for criminal libel.

grand staircase 150 years ago.

Will Patain sleep in Louis's when winter comes," said an- with three windows in the very room-that first-floor room other. "It's awful at Versailles centre of the huge structure,

a ballet of a Fart So many things that iny in pleees in the mind and which were projected into the external world na plece. meal, rhythmless... are gather- ed together, organized and drilled by the music: and so we see the strect differently W- RE

things as new.

to

a bit thick!"

"The old man will die of cold

every Fifth Columnist, trying

And spread defeatism, there are a

it is not only famous people who are Know-alle it hundred Mr.

libelled. Every village has its vill- sounds like the name of a char-age gossip--the local ilbelier. acter in "The Pilgrim's Pro-! It is, perhaps, much the same with gress"-whose chief object in That most stories told about people in winter. There's no central overlooking the Marble Court?

was convinced many heating in the Chateau." the factory: the routine

The windows above it are false, acquires a talking is to give other people are untrue I pattern, and hence a significance that the impression that they possess friends of stories that they had been it to him," said a third. "Ile's up in Louis's day for none years ago by hearing from various

"That's why Laval suggested the rooms overhead were walled leaves it no lunger meaningless repeution. Naturally, some workers

told about myself. Not a single one been proclaimed Petain's suc-might lie above the King. cannot profit by this experiment; for

of them was true. Even those which

As he makes his way to the even the thunders of the "1812

jhad a small element of truth in them

A laugh followed this sally: will now attend Mass there) royal chapel (assuming that he Overture" would be losi the earth- I do not know why human were as false as the partly-true

but a train of thought had been will Petain pause in the Hall of shaking chorus of an iron foundry: beings should feel puffed up if fabrications of Dr. Goebbels.

started which cast but elsewhere employees are certain they can give the impression

a ahadow Mirrors to look up at the paint- Ond story related how I had gone

over many faces in that room. prize-

ings by Lebrun another that they know more than other up to receive a prize at a

to be grateful to the . B. C. for a mill that, to some extent, in "motion like an angel wings."

its

Two Fly The Atlantic

inside information,

cessor."

raised....

people; but undoubtedly many of distribution in a school of art, dress-/Petain at Versailles! What pic-Lebrun, not the one he has de-

tures of tragic absurdity it ed as a policeman and sucking stout

posed showing Louis's victories them do. Hence, if they hear a out of A baby's feeding-bottle. I

over Germany, Holland and sensational rumour, they cannot thought it rather a good story, but, Petain, the old Marshal of Spain? Will ho pause at the spot keep it to themselves. They fortunately or unfortunately, I never France, taking charge of her where Clemenceau sat to pre-

Through granting permission to the

a natural appetite for attended à school of art, never dress destinies after being worked side over the fateful Peace have

ed up as a policeman, and never upon, cajoled and persuaded, Conference of 1919, which ended, American Export Airlines to begin rumours, and, having heard one, drank stout out of a baby's feeding-with infinite care

and infinite here in this hall, with the transatlantic airplane service in com- pass it on in a still falser form, bottic.

patience, by the Nazis, first in signing of the Versailles Treaty? petition with the already operating mainly for the pleasure of seeing

Madrid, then (as the decisive

Above all, will he remember Fan American lines, the Civil Aero- their fellow human beings prick-

hour approached) in Paris itself. how in the days of Louis XIV. nautics Authority has followed the

the Hall of Mirrors was not only path of traditional American entering up their ears.

the meeting-place of a brilliant After all, everybody wants to favour of the Suffragettes. No one

*prise

to

According

another

myth slightly more creditable

myth once took six stewards to drag me, fighting all the way, down the balcony stairs and throw me out of a political mecting for making Interruptions in

*

It is no Man of France but a Court but a place of public

Pan American opposed the Ameri-be interesting, and what surer who knows me, alast could belleve bewildered, senile spirit, first audience where the humblest of can Export application, stating it was way of being interesting is there me capable of such valour. But the hypnotized, then deceived by Louis's subjects had the right prepared to expand its twice-weekly than by telling a thoroughly man about whom he knows some

Man Who Knows seldom knows the self-seeking or alien tricksters, to wait for and intercept the service to six-day service. But,

thing or other.

King on his way to Council and apparently, after weighing the rival sensational story 7

ask his mercy or his aid? After a few experiences of this by many people to be supplying U- claims, the CAA. decided that a

This desire to be interesting at all kind I decided never without good boots with petrol.

Or will he stand sometimes in little competition might not be a bad costs is, of course, not a purely war-reason to believe any story that I

...the central, hall of the Grand There is an old saying that thing.

you time disease. It is merely the the myth making impulice is so strong is a saying that is particularly worth how, in this very room, his pre- heard about anybody else. After all, should not believe all you hear. It Trianon, near by, remembering The war has forced many changes passion for scandal-mongering adapt-in mankind that thousands of people remembering in war-time. If you decessor, Marshal Bazalnie, was Επ the airways. The reciprocated to war-time conditions. Scandal once spread and believed friends hear, un-officially and merely through tried and found guilty of treason arrangement between Pan American mongering is mostly due to vanity ble stories about Mr. Gladstone. the medium of gossip, that there has and Imperial Always had to be the delight of appearing to be the Archbishops have been the victims been a parachute Landing in some for surrendering the fortress of scrapped. Likewise, Amehean Ex-Man in the Know or the Woman in most of these rumours are spread in bunkum. Such a story was going Perhaps, on the whole, the old

of rumour as well as actresses. And distant county in England, treat it as Metz to the Prussians in 18707 port's long cherished plans to use its the Know.

an ever more distorted form chiefly about the other day. I asked a man Marshal had better avoid these vessels at sen os weather-reporting | How often has one seen a woman women who like it to be thought that side information whether there was with a little villa in the pleasant-

as a result of the vanity of men and who does happen to possess some in- stations must temporarily be set coming into a room with a wild joy they are in the know,

splendours and content himself aside. Nor will American Export be on her features and heard her saying

any truth in the story. "Bunk” he able to make fullest use of the excitedly something ilke: "My dear,

I admit, are occasional les. There, at least, he will be superior speed of its new Sikorsky have you heard the latest about the more exciting than in peace-time.y true; but it is absurd to believe a able to take his morning con- aying boats, designed to save refusi-Blanks? It's simply incredible. In the last war it was mythology rumour on no other evidence than

ing at the Azores. - De

P

雕

In war-time mythology is even

Tumours busk." And it was. wooded outskirts of Vérantl

What is happening to the Civil that flung the great Lord Haldane out that of uttle-tattle. And it is still atitutional in the Bois de Both lines will share the traffic Service?" And, after that, comes a of the War Omleo. According to an- worse to repeat it on such evidence. Fausses Reposes the Wood of Tel. 21272 now, but some day the war will end tissue of mingled truth and falsehood ther myth, an eminent British The Father of Lies is the father of False Rest that lies: 80 con-

officer turned out to be a German most rumours; and he has been veniently at hand. Tal. 29352 and United States lines will have so absorbing that no one would spy and was shot. he la ling sill authoritatively

described European competition.

Cornish fishermen, agun, were sald Enemy of Mankind.,

DAVID SCOTT

· dream of interrupting It.

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