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Buch new A bear the Indication "UP*** in received in Hongkong on the axle of publication by the tinted Prest Asociations, who serve all rights and forbid republication, rither wholly or in part without previous Arrangement.

Musical Mass Production

The British Broadensting; Corpora- trop #reently started series of proglasumes designed to bring muate to the factories, with the object of increasing WAT production Mono- tony, of course, militates seriously against the efficiency of the factory worker. und music doubliess would help him

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BEWARE OF THE "DOG"

KNOW-ALL Marshal

By ROBERT LYND

A SOLICITOR, defending an old man who was THE

with whom he was convers- |ing."

have myself.

LIA

At

New York Daily Mirror.

Petain Versailles

a past regime.

Does the French Hindenburg

alone Rome corner of Louis

If he

SCENE was a that now proposes to seek re- wearisome prosecuted the other day for "communicating informa- French cafe in Soho on July 1uge among the faded glories of

tion regarding munitions." pleaded that his client had 14, when the pathetic com- spoken "not only without knowledge of facts, but foolishly memoration of France's intend, I wonder, to inhabil and possibly in a know-all spirit to impress the man national day in London was XIV's vast palace? He сап over. A group of French hardly menn to hold court as a have. soldiers were cheering them-new Roi Soleil of France. you heard so many myths spread in this selves up in their elastic does, he had better remember That, I think, is the explana-fashion about royalties, statesmen.)

that the screaming market- women and hungry crowds of tion of about ninety-nine per generals, poets, actors and actresses,

dortors, and other people that If I "Just think." said one of them, Paria can reach this retreat For cent. of Careless Talk.

had put them into print I should have "of old Petain going to live in more quickly now than they every Fifth Columnist, trying to spent most of my adult life in gol as the Chateau at Versailles. It's could when they stormed its spread defeatism, there are a punishment for criminal 3lbel.

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

|libelled. Every village has its vill- sounds like the name of a char-age gossip the local libeller. acter in "The Pilgrim's Pro-

Think how the streets spring to life when the bolder kind of borrel-orgon grinds its tune! At mine the streets become a scene, the Rovement of passers-by and of trafe becomes 43 balict

N sort. So many things that lay pleces in the Inind and which were projected into the external world, as piece- meal, rhythmless. are gather- ed together, organized and drilled by the music: and so we see the strect differently things as new.

We

see

A

•

And

That must stories told about people It is, perhaps, much the same with gress"-whose chief object in

was convinced mony the factory: the routine Requires

talking is to give other people are untrue 1

years ago by hearing from various the impression that they possess friends of stories that they had been inside information.

told about myself. Not a single one of them was true. Even those which had a small element of truth in them

pattern, and hence a significance that leaves it no longer n meaningless repetition. Naturally, some workers cannot profi by this experiment; for rven the thunder of the "1812 Overture" would be lost in the earth-

mill that, to some extent, in its "motion like an unget kings."

nautics Authority has followed the

•

me

same-

way.

a bit thick !"

grand staircase 150 years ago,

Will Petain sleep in Louis's "The old man will die of cold

room-that first-floor room when winter comes," said an-with three windows in the very other. "It's awful at Versailles centre of the huge structure, in winter. There's no central

overlooking the Marble Court? heating in the Chateau."

The windows above it are false, "That's why Laval suggested the rooms overhead were walled it to him," said a third. "He's up in Louis's day, for none been proclaimed Petain's suc- might lie above the King.

As he makes his way to the royal chapel (assuming that he A laugh followed this sally: will now attend Mass there) but a train of thought had been will Petain pause in the Hall of started which cast & shadow

Mirrors to look up at the paint- over many faces in

that room. ings

Lebrun another by Petain at Versailles! What pic- Lebrun, not the one he has de

raised.

cessor."

over

and

1.

I do not know why human were as false us the partly-true shaking chorus of an iron foundry: beings should feel puffed up if fabrications of Dr. Gochbeis.

One story related how I had gone but elsewhere employees are certain they can give the impression

prize ot prize-

✡ to be grateful to the B. B. C. for that they know more than other up to receive a

ed as a policeman and sucking stoutures of tragic absurdity it posed-showing Louis's victories people; but'undoubtedly many of distribution in a school of art, dress- them do. Hence, if they hear out of a baby's feeding-bottle. 1

Germany, Holland Petain, the old Marshal of Spain? Will he pause at the spot sensational rumour, they cannot thought it rather a good story, but,

her where Clemenceau sat to pre- Two Fly The Atlantic

keep it to themselves. They fortunately or unfortunately, I never France, taking charge of

attended a school of art, never dress destinies after being worked side over the fateful Feace a natural appetite for led up as a policeman, and never upon, cajoled and persuaded, Conference of 1919, which ended, Through granting permission to the have

baby's feeding-with infinite care and infinite here in this hall, with the American Export Airlines to begin rumour, and, having heard one, drank stout out of

battle. transatlantic airplane service in com- pass it on in a still falser form, utile.

patience, by the Nazis, first in signing of the Versailles Treaty T According to another myth- Madrid, then (as the decisive petition with the already operating mainly for the pleasure of seeing slightly more

Above all, will he remember creditable myilit Pan American lines, the Civil Aero their fellow human beings prick- one took six stewards to drag me, hour approached) in Paris itself. how in the days of Louis XIV.

ighting all the way, down the balcony

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

stairs and throw me out of a political

the meeting-place of a brilliant It is no Man of France but a Court. but a place of public prise.

After all, everybody wants to meeting for making interruptions in favour of the Suffragettes. No one Pan American opposed the Ameri- be interesting, and what surer who knows me, alast could believe bewildered, senile spirit, first audience where the humblest of capable of such valour. But the hypnotized, then deceived by Louis's subjects had. the right can Export application, stating it was way of being interesting is there Man Who Knows seldom knows the self-secking or alien tricksters, to wait for and Intercept the prepared to expand its twice-weekly than by telling a thoroughly man about whom he knows

King on his way to Council, and service to six-day service. But,

thing or other.

ask his mercy or his aid 7. apparently, after weighing the rival sensational story?

After a few experiences of this by many people to be cupplying U- Or-will he stand sometimes in claims, the CAA decided that a This desire to be interesting at all kind I decided never without good boats with petrol.

the central hall of the Grand little competition might not be a bad costs is, of course, not a purely war- reason to belleve any story that I There is an old saying that you thing.

lime disease. It is merely the normal 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 molti meting impulse is so strong is a saying that is particularly worth how, in this very room, his pre- in mankind that thousands of people remembering in war-time, If you decessor, Marshal Bazaine, was The reciprocal ed to war-time conditions. Scandal once spread and believed Incredi hear, un-officially and merely through tried and found guilty of treason about Mr. Gladstone, the medium of gossip, that there has for surrendering the fortress of arrangement between Pan American mongering is mostly due to vanity-ble stories

to be the delight of appearing to be the Archblahops have been the victims been a parachute landing in and Imperial Always had scrapped. Likewise, American Ex-Man in the Know or the Woman in of our as well as actresses. And distant county in England, Lecut it as Metz to the Prussians in 18707

most of these rumours are spread in bunkum. Such a story was going Perhaps, on the whole, the old an ever more, distorted form chlofty about the other day. I asiced a man Marshal had better avoid these port's long cherished plans to use its the Know."

as a result of the vanity of men and who does happen to possess some in- splendours and content himself vessels at sea as 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 stations must temporarily be set coming into a room with a wild joy they are in the know.

any, truth in the story. "Bunk," he aside. Nor will American Export be on her features and heard her saying

replied; pure bunk. And it was. ly wooded outskirts of Versail- able to make fullest use of the excitedly something like: "My dent, In war-time mythology is oven Rumours 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.ly true; but it is absurd to believe a able to take his morning con- dying boats, designed to save refuel- Blanks? It's simply incredible. In the last war It was mythology rumour on no other evidence than atitutional in the Bola des

that dung the great Lord Haldane out that of tittle-tattle. And it is What is happening to the Cly the War Office, According to an- worse to repeat on such evidence. Fausses Reposes-"the Wood of Both lines will share the traffic Service?" And, after that, comes other myth, an eminent British The Father of Lies is the father of Falso Rost-that lies so con-- Tel. 21279 now, but some day the war will end tissue of mingled truth and falsehood oficer turned out to be a German most rumours; and he has been veniently at hand, Tel 29332 and United States Hnes will have so absorbing that no one would spy and was shot: he is living still authoritatively described as

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