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the lAbyssinians, the Jews, j or the Indians in'that light?


Alluding to world events since the last j t '


Great War—wars of aggression by th e . Japanese in Manchuria and China, by Italy ; in AbyStaia and now by Germany all i over Europe, the' speaker Said that Dictators were not spmethirig new; ■ they were an appeal to the worst in human nature; ai magnification of the Nth degree of all that was worst in bur phil­ osophy of life, and the evil! in our hearts. Thus a terrible spotlight had ■been thrown on the wrong which was in I men’s hearts and in our social'and international order. We saw the cruelty of our heedlessness,- the fact ithat ive showed no concern about the Manchur­ ians,' the Abyssinians, or the Chinese Mr. Davies recalled visiting a friend


ily, let alone the nations. Did it ever occur to us that it was our!duty as Christians so to regard theni? Did those who were in employment ever think of the unemployed in that light? Did we ever think \of the Chinese, or


; o international law, ofiwhich t nature committed by bur troops;for the


alHhi on th only effect


i3 lav^ere are full, it imposes 5 object, and the law, of war insignificant, restrictions: in ; none! whatever.—Clausewitz.


SOME pf my jreadere, -i should imagine


not knoiy, think I am too hard on! these (iermans, Myj sole object is to prevmt- them tailing us in a third time wifian, shall I spy, a couple of generations date For I believe if we are


few in number, but of course I do


ing froit. 1914, taken in. whet Nazis, or their „„„


away wiSi ttie ■waiting till out


they are! the same crowd eveiy time,,it will be fatal. Not fpr ever shall we get old temporising dodge of enemytexhausts himself


this waij, and — call


ler by Prussian Junkers, nominal successors after them what you will


■at ijftis Manchester office shortly after Japan had made aggressive entry into Manchuria,! Discussing the Invasion, the friend'made this observation: " i think it is a good thing for our trade The ! Japanese will cut down [banditry and make the trade routes safb."' • That was one reason, maybe, why Japanese action was not challenged. Did we care about the Manchurians or th e ,Chinese? Did we care about the Japanese in their little country, short of foodstuffs and raw materials, with a terribly Iqw stand­ ard of life; Iso that they had to develop their industries and sell their [products iri the marjiets of the world. | A Com­ mission was set up to consider the dis­ pute with [Manchuria, and they subse­ quently reported on the steps that ' might be taken to help Japap and to avoid aggression. Did we agree with that: report? Did we ev,en| think I t worth while considering the matter at. all? Hitler rose to power on' the des^ pair! of ,the German people,] and'Mr. Davies thought we could have lessened ■that despair. ■ Had it not been there, there would have been no Hitler and no war. Did we care what the|Germans were going through at that period in their histoiiy? . , ■ I ;


Points, Mr. Davies said the whole ques- tlofi; of colonies, raw materials, econ­ omic cooperation, tariffs arid quotas . was [inevitably raised in these Pqints. Thej Five iStandards mentioned in the Letter frbm th e . Churches Were also equally searching. He believed that the abolition of war demanded fevolution- aiy changes not only in our intematlon- al affaire but our home social affaire,


j POPE’S FIVE POINTS. 'flaming [to , the Pope’s Five Peace


. I ■', , . , To-day the common man w ^ feel-


.advocated something better; and he [was prepared to swallow lies and in- [oonsistencies in the hope of some­ thing better turning up. (That was ,;! where Hitler got his power.


: ing that he was not getting wnat life had to offer, that he had no security of livelihood. Consequently he was prepared to listen to any'leader who


Unless!we coul-d atollsh poverty and unemployment in this world of over­ production there would be no lartlng . peace,


1


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|s meim IPather-l [nary iri


M Ihiri


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|uld nqt . or, an I had to I Second


I saw iri blltics-{- hristiari.


pot due I nation


. - a trc I'Daviei nee orii


Ltemept S under-^ bat war


cqncentration upon .all' the; problems confronting'us, the speaker said a real solution would .never be reached until everybody played their part, A changed outlook was needed if we 'Were to get rid of war. Tliere was the sariie longing for peace itowai-ds the end of the last '■ war, but although we won coriiplete vic- Wry on the fleld we failed to win the peace. Peace could be attained only by jqstice, mercy and generosity.' President Roosevelt jhad declared that; after the war there riiust be no place in the world ; for special privilege, either fob nation or - Individual. In 1918 we did pot under-' stand such a principle, nor did we get so much as a[ glimpse of It. He recalled the hatred of Germany worked up by certain newspapers—one Jn particular,/, si) that there !was a terrific sweep in the; election results and the return of; the ; worst House jif Commons this country:' had ;evbr [knownr-a House {elected' to' look after the special- privileges of both. . individual and nation. That was why we lost 'the peace. But the people of this country accepted this course, {rust­ ing to the League (^Nations to pull us through—an impossible task, for the League' could not change 'tne spirit or the teality of Our social or international order. ! If: we 'were to get rid of war we would have tq make; bigger, sacrifices than ever' before, and if we were not


'Stressirig the need for whole-hearted


prepared so' td do we had no right to spy we{were in favour of peace.


Ihe did lion ojf


l a new . burch Iblitic-f threb hurch


from■ the Christian Churches-was a- splendid beginjuhg towards achieving a real peace; as'was the Atlantic Charter, although ^t had got to go much further. He sometimes wondered how the fourth point, "They will; endeavour with due respect for their existing obligations could be I reconciled with! President Roosevelt’s statement about, special privileges,I If there were toj be no such


I ONLY |A b e g in n in g ^ iMr. Davies'added that I the. Letter


. i .


- .Socialists. The''SoclaIlst creed!! is the antithesis of njilitarism. I t believes in the saiiie freedom as. all democrats believe •ih, and that everything | worth achieving can be achieved through the ballotebox. That is to say. if England Js to become Socialistr the majority of its citizehs rnu^t be converted to Social­ ism. I t forcq were resorted tbj that would ndt be democracy. 'The Socialist


, The pecmle I, have referred to at the ' beginning of mis article are mainly


' astounded. But by degrees they dis­ covered ]hat all these German'Social­ ists attached a “but ” to their Social­ ism. And thrit “ but" in effebt was that mllitarisiri, or Germany over all, , -came first.


; if not physically. IVe depend oin per- ; -suasion. Very {well then. By 1914 the German 1 Socialists had 'become the strongestl slnglq party in the State. At -first the I Kaiser and his Junkers, were


•'‘in this counted at the time of the last ' war was Maximilian Harden,, and he was best known because he wris' the


ists werei with British deceived. Never was therri a greater let-down of ■the Left in democratic his- ulory. The bestjtoown German Socialist


the war pr okejjout, the German Soclal- -------> isltii


'With what i


'Socidliste


the Kaiser were


result? ; When to a man.


completely


is a third Puhic^ war, these ferman brutes will coine for, us first. 'We'must take care there is no third Funic war. And we can only do that by preventing any sort of resuscitation of German militarism, whfether in .armaments or nersonnel, until such time if ever that 'Itiese Gqrmanslare cured of their! men­ tal malady of Germany over all.!! IVhy then do I not tnist even some of them? I will give just one of many reasons.


and then crash tag: him down. If [there


(them and their abuse. For my part, I hope that in this war. we have merited the title of barbarians, 'What matters but victory?" ’This is no isolated Instance. Such writings by Gemans are as conunon as blackherrles. I fre­ quently refer to “ these German luna­


purpose of discouraging, defeating, and destroying our enemies is a brave act, a good deed, and'is fully justified." No attempt here to deny the most wicked brutalities; only an attempt to justify them. “They calTus barbarous,” says the same writer, Major-General von Ditfurth, “but whatpf that? We scorn


sided apd was accompanied -by Mr. J. McVlttle,


f t ' . '


ing-to a small cottage near ins garage! The cottage had only one bedroom and


Applicant Stated that he was remov­


It was not possible'to takeFthe child &ere. His wife assisted him in the ouslness, and there were nolfriends or tojations with whom the child could be lact that his wifelcould not


further ____ ______


,1s not a{ flghtlhg man In the iriilitary sense of the tom . ' Neither am L Nor, is the Tory or the Liberal in this coun­ try. 'Wejhave rill out-grown it. mentally


tics." I do not mean that they are necessarily certifiable,, but that they have no'counterparts'the world over. For if any British writers used the same “stuff" we should have one word for them: ’They are "cracked," they are “ potty," or they are “ only tenpence in the shilling." What should we say if this came from one of our clergymen or ministers of religion? .’True, it goes back to 1915, but the Germans are woree-toiday than they: were then: “ Whoever cannot prevail on himself to approve'from the wittomlof his heart the sinking of the Lusitania, whoever cannot conquer Ifis sense of the gigantic croelty to unnumbered perfectly honest victims, and give himself iup to honest delight at this victorious exploit of Ger-' man power, is no true German,” This gem comes from Pastor D.{Baumgart«n. Shortly before the present war broke out, a Germin newspaper printed this in its “ leader” column: “ ’Ine next war will require the highest degree of bru­ tality. So {the uneducated man will best be able to work the war machine.” So also there'is good reason for keeping the German masses in ignorance. Hit­ ler has retarded education ever since he came to pojyer, and;from his immoral point of view he is right.


If the German masses are always


. educated any ( more than they desire to be educated.


.Back to Barbarism, is one of the best that have been coined in recent years." Much controversy , continues in the so-


, Editor of the leading daily newspaper ,ln Germany, {the outspoken and! anti- Kaiser “Vorwarts" (Socialist). 1 ri'hich interpreted mbans “Forward!” jlri! the


last week'or two I, have quoted, Maxi­ milian Harden' several times, j l ;will, quote him again. This is whati he wrote in his paper in November| 1914 :


cally employed by the Gdrmari people against its. enemies. VVe will go back to the times of savagery


when man {was a wolf to fiis frillow- man.” , {


.{ ■


no one. - The kink,in their


And they did.j If you cannot trust a Socialist to be 'anti-war you can {trust


■Germans have a serious make-up. I f we {trust


! speaking toe great German philosopher j , Nietzsche ,wasj no warmonger. He was j highly critical of his fellow Germans, i He died long before-1914. But, like the ' whole crowd of them, he had-ihe fatal cachexy. For{the same man who went, to bed a pacifist could get up the follow­ ing morning a real heel-clickeil .and goose-stepper. That is why we niust be perpetually aware of them. I haVe fre-


them again, whether they be toe f'good" or the “bad" Germans, the Third l ^ l c war will arrive as certain .:ri.s to­ morrow’s rising of the sun. .Geribrally


; What they have done in this i war. leaving aside' the wholesale murder of old men; Woriien and children ori -the roads in Poland, Belgium and France, before 'the'French surrender) leavlrig


1 and masters,' -put to death .


■would not plriy up to their Nazii(lori .


' thousands of linnocent -people peflshed through the dastardly work'of Gdrmrin


J meaiib (all oii^


nvolves ' under


|s. Ant Id that be wii nt ari( pr. Blit i sadly,


ared tb


Icr mail I


Iter'thie


I always ne that : 15 dUe


■ special privileges, then few existing pWigatioris would have to stand in the way. There were people wpo asserted that talk about ’the foundations of peace at this illncture was a big mistake-- that nothing should be done to distract - attention froiri winning the :war. Were We to heed such counsel we could i rest- assured that we should' lose the P.yace, ■


and sav|, Id tbeije


-: Concluding, he sa idwa t'one of tne. -world troubles! was that our conception


j


of'.Christianity'had been'far too anali -and mean. 'We had loSt-Christs vision


lolutloh [cost us pountiiy


■has its Tit Is in hat are


Prid the b e t rid


lhis-;to lo f biir Jiterests


J in our I get rid


|ood.’’ i


nphpa- bers rif bf God, pt been i fellow lafwri -


pgue qf ague of go any­ th; To


jinds of f t It did Tly:. we lof oUr


of the .kingdom of God on{ earth.; We had turned His cinsade of| the abuno- ant,life for all into an hour’s time qi worship on Sundays. Onb thing was making War something more' tolerable to a .lot of our-young-men w » the relief .from the drabness pb-tneir daily lives; no coloiir, no adventure, yie .


riioriotony of it all! But there, wm}}? rio lack of adventure in our daily Ine n we were eriga'ged heart and soul in tne building of the kingdom of; God on the earth. To build a new world was to build as Christ would have' us do. ,


WOMAN’^ VIEW {POINT.


view, Mrs. Davies said she regarded the Letter from file; Christian Churches ana.


{'Speakiilg'h-om a woman’p 'PQtat.of,


the pointt of the Atlantic Chartei’Jrom the view-{of I the individuals who made ■up what was popularly palled i.-tny, masses.’' a word which covered a m u itr rude of drejims, hopes and'-aspirationq of the ordinary men and women wfawe- ambition it [was to make them a realiW. Some people would say- it waSiSnem emotiona ism when it was observed tnat Getaan blithers would bq .feellrig-


. . ' (Continued in Coluiniq' 5 ) . ' / ■ I i


whether or not we won the wa*'' firmly believed that this question qf the . foundations of peace was absolutely material to wirinmg the war. !'" I am prepared to prophecy that JpaK as the last war came to an end;soon after Wilson’s' 14 Points, so thisi war ■will terminate I when we succeed in corn vincing the German people that we mean to give them a square deal, ana that'we mean to build a- world in whicn there will'be security, liberty andifrec;; -, dom for all the natms' of i the world, Air, Davies declared.


■ pity on 'the German nation supppsed'to be ‘ terrorised ’ by Hitlef? 'Wt torpedoes, to sink ships carrying children across the Atlantic for safety? Ape not'all these men members!of',the ‘mass’ of Germans who for the'Second


cry out not for vengeance but fo{r ;jus­ tice, would not their voices drovyri all those which hre raised in a plea; for


men could rise from their graves and


killing by others of a handful of {Nazi bullies; let mri quote one who has seen lor himself the havoc created injWrir- -saw and, Rotterdam, where teris 'of


eavihg aside the hostages -by the hundred for-toe


I raise above you this new law: Become Hard!” 'That, in short, is my {beason lor being “ hard" on these Geijmans: they are nothing if not hard themselves, 1 set out to giye one only of my rqasons. But I cannot resist giving another: The last war shQwrid how hard toe Geiinans had become when their U-boats shqcked the world -by kinking women andj child­ ren In the Atjantic. But nothing they did in the last war, beastly and; bar­ barous though it “was. can compare^ with


" Every means will be enthiikiasti-,


•the parrot-cry that the war was forced upon him.' His henchmen, the writers, "fell in ” at- his command to a-man. Eveiy statement or' opinion thw Issued began, with these . words: '"This un-


desirbd war which has been forced upon us,” ind the same'Pastor Baumgarten


I ha 'e already quoted, wrote: “We are not ohiy compelled to accept the war th a t ' ■ ■ pellei


■ ' --------


.'that.{ these false, and deepptive, pleas, come' from a people who !ln the, next brealh.are proclaimingGermany .over all," ?/h'o boast of their military power and prowess, and who create and main­ tain ! the most monstrous miUtary machine conceived by man, Adolph Hitler has disposed:of the query as to who .began the last war once and for all.-!ln his “Mein Kampt,” unexpur­ gated edition, page.145, Hitler writes:' “ The war of 1914!was certainly not forced on the' Germafi masses; i twas even desired by the lyhole people. There was a desire to bring the general feeling of unbertalnty to an [end., And it is only in the light of thld fact that we,can


o^every imaginable device' unknown to any previous war.” Apart from, the fact


'has always,told,the world, with a pistol in his hand, that {we have only to delivdr, and war,' which he does not wanti will be avoided. Double dealing, however, always betrays, itself in the end. 1


in' this country who. having for ten years listened to ! Hjtter’s denunciation


aside the ihnbcents slaughtered in fifi the occupied territories because! I the; ................................... i


show'away.’' How [many people have we or late; someone gives the


of the Versailles Tredty. have come to believe there is somethmg in it? Hitler is well aware that he has only to tell the tale often enough and it will be believed. He tells ite so in his “bible." Let me just draw attention to one simple fact whicH proves beyond all dis­ pute whether- the' Allies and the rest of the democratic riatlons were benteon beeping Germany ! down after Ver­ sailles. How much did. Gei-many’s foreign creditors, not least by any


alrmeh;"df the unafriied civilian jiopu- { ?Hra’nrp^to*^?iermaS^^betwee^ lation murdeted by youn^ Gqrmaf air-


B A S ; 'sum is no Other than Dr. Schacht, the British /


. time in twenty-five years are practising the teachings on which they havri bqen the pas^hundred years?”


, What I have{ related here is only [-what is being repeated on a'larger scale in Russia, without protest, without {rippos- Ition from, but without toe 'smallest doubt the general ■ sanction o^' the people o f Gepnany. If it were riot'so, Jhe facts would leak out, despltO ,toe vigilance of {Hitler, and his Gestapo. Andrthe effects woilld leak out! too;


nurtured for Almost every German family is' repre­ sented in that colossal Nazi army. ■ If there were arty serious opposition i to its methods of brutal savagery, it would be bound to mariifest Itself, and notlfor a single day cOuld that army oariy on.


by THEIR WORKS,


■ with ,toe dignity of 'Germans ox with the traditions of the Prussian aimy to defend our courageous soldiers frbin{-the accusations {hurled against thep; in foreign and neutral countries! We Owe ■no explanations to any one. Therfe' is nothing for Ps tb justify, nothing ::or us ■ 'to explain a^ay. Eveiy act of whatover


' added, “By their writings also ye]shall know toem.’’| Nothing, shows a {nation up to their ridvantage or disadyqjntage more than '| that nation’s . literature. German literature—at least toe! trans­ lated pqrtioris of it—prevides a 'key to their mentality. I t is, to be frank, im­ possible "stuff’’ to reasonable, sensible beings toe wbrld over. Much of I it; {of course, is "epoked,” by which I i mean that the German people’as. a whoje are so obsessed -with toe idea rif obeying orders, that ithelr writets too an pre­ pared to wifite to order. The{ most devilish practices ever invented bari be justified by German IntellectualsilTake this for an example:"It is incomPitible


TJY their works ye shall know toem." ■D This holds good as much!to-day -as ever,' To toe Germans it may; be


£2,000,000,000. “Oh,” possibly one'of my readers will say, "you give us the pro­ digious figure of two thousand millions, but where is toe Geiman who.will' admit it?" Well, my authority for this


' • Finance Minister. He ought to


know;' How much o( this money of ours was lspept on re-armament ? -To-day they are killing us with our own bombs. To return to that giylng the show away. Despite all the bluster about Versailles, it was the one and only Dr. Ley, toe present Nazi Minister of Labour, who less !toan twelve months ago, that is long! after the presknt war broke out, told !one of his Nazi audiences this :— " Out enemes did not make the smallest use of'their victory bf 1918.” Truth will


out 1 { HOW WE WERE DECEIVED.


wholesale- after . toe last war by the' setting up In Germany t if the Weimar Republic-jin place of the Kaiser’s regime, that is not to say there were not tendencies 'even then which caused one to! doubt whether this anti-Kaiser Republlb was all. It repre­ sented itself to- be. {I t yias. as a fact, strangled at birth,; [from the point of view of serious democracy. I t pro­ claimed to all the yrorld that Gemiany was about talead Europe into thorough­ ly peaceful and democratic! pursuits, and before the ink was dry on the declaration, it permitted without so much as a serious protest the murder in the streets of Berlin of two genuine opponents of . German militarism, Karl


iprTHILE toe good-natured-and good-' TV hearted people here were deceived


uudeistand how mope than two million men and youths voluntarily JolMd the colours, ready to shed the last drop of theirlblood for the ckuse. For me these herods came as a deliverance." When Hitler says the present war was forced uponl him, he has a better case, in a comparative sense, than the Kaiser. He


called neutral countries as to whether the Germans have had war forced upon them or they themselves forced war on their! intended victims. Human nature being what it is, there must be 'some innocent souls left who are in doubt. Possibly a few of them arqiin this cohn- try. Even the Kaiser in the last war, when he found things not going exactly as' he anticipated, Igave the signal for


lo do as they are told, if they are always going to prefer to be told what to do, inslcaa of thinking for themselves, then they need not be


One of their Professors is so! well “ educated ’’ that he declares " the cry,


rU/priteROE Rural District Bfileting v-* Tilbunal on Tuesday granted an applica -lon by a 'Whalley resident for the re-)llleting of a slx-years-qld boy. The tiibunal had refused, a previous application. Mrs. Assheton, C.B.E., pr&-


“ OLD MOTHEiB RILEY.”


assist him meant loss of tlniiB to him­ self ano to toe Government contractors by whom his machines were employed, towering Mrs. Assheton, apM&nt


pall, 'had now been repaired and re-, decorat^ His wife often assisted him five or iix nights a week and it meant


was a l6ng way from .hls-work and cottage, which • had been empty fl* a a jra l years and in a -bad state of re^


lorries f r ^ hbme at any time from 6 to 11


^ “ t s wfork was of national Importmice. the child until


nm’ ^ the (Continued from preceding Column),


they cduld be co-ordinated, and' ilie Peace Treaty , the .last word in generosity


intended for tile war, was


blmd erie, not least, the very people on whom toe chief responsibility would fall


hunJ 1 t*iese_ things we put a


'that Blind eye. remained without toe ™q,lleslj effort to restore its sight until


rad fortunately it brought back sight but'too [late to prevent trie ™Phe which has yet be-


F him one In toe other eye ™ent to^Munli^


came to power. Hitler-Was growing in political


himself was “ to revenge,


that mah of bounce, brag and bluster. General v?n Ludendorff, was getting v®a.^ f( r toe next Putsch.” Mean­ while D: '.'Goebbels, or whoever held his appqintnent at that time, was literally hawking the democratic virtues of the Weimar] Republic all over the world, that same Republic which was already systema'ically carrying on Germany’s


fhaf 'Vito So far as toe Weimar


diftinctibn without a difference.' While Hitler id out to grab all he can lay his hands qji, the 'Weimar Republic sought to reali* its ambition for living space in the East at Poland’s and Czecho­


slovakia's expense, simultaneously nlay- mgjUp-to toe Western democracies,


for in dustrial purposes but really for ream ament,


.


Stresemi nn in fact Hitler. He ran ___ .


hfifited with the hounds. Addressing the ()slcfiUniversity.in June, 1927, two years before he died, Stresemann made use of these words: “My country was to some extent overborne by the !ad-


ct paved the way for with toe hare and


taiw good-fellowship., But it was also a land of technology and chemistry and toe honie of the most up-to-date dis­ coveries. Old and!new struggled for iexprereiqn." ;But the "old," as always wheh it IS Prussian militarism, won, and Stresemtan assisted-in the victory. In­ deed, the Weimar.'Republic was toe foundation on which Hitler built his Nazi edifice. In 1930, the Allies prema­ turely eiVacuated the /Rhineland, but instead fif the concession - being valued as an ;|•appeksement,’’ gesture, as a desire oh the!part of toe West to/co­


operate Iwith Germany, it was used as an 'aid (O buttress the German desire fdr {revenge. ' Hitler used the Weimar Republid for the purpose of deceiving th e ! democracies as -.to his aggressive intentions. While pretending to be as “ peacefully" inclined as the head of the'Old Kepubllc, he was engaged in sabotaging eveVj' international agree­ ment to which either ‘himself or his predecessor was a party./ And the mask wasi not removed until' after


With tne occupation of Prague in March, 1939, Hitler revealed to the world his intention and his ambitions of/ world domination. But what could be expected when toe man who was-the


, -- - ___ Munich.


Kaisqr’s Generalissimo, von Hinden- burg, a Prussian of Prussians, was toe qrnamen/ al head of the German nation' hot only in ite Weimar Republican days but,alsoJafter-;Hitler, became.Chracel'- lor? A benevolent pretence was' made of a peaceful rad friendly Germany. In' reality it was {a screen, used from the moirient one war was ended, for the


Liebknecht and Rosa Luxrimbourg, who had taken the lead in dethroning the; Kaiser. These murders came from the officer caste, which was not only undes­ troyed by toe war hut was left to 'con-! tihue .its goose-stepping and to form toe nucleus of a new armed force whicH ultimately became once'again a deadly menace to Europe. The Weimar Repub­ lic set up General von Seeckt’s Reich- swehr ostensibly to preserve iritemal discipline, but in reality to maintain toe connecting link between the old and toe new;military Germany. Revolutionary tendencies Which lyould have put an end to militarism were throttled before


Hindenburg, the'same tool as Strrisq-- mann had been before him. only more so. !, After the present war btoke 'out. Sir Eric Phipps; a former British Am- bassadorj in Berlin, found himself able to say: ‘ Dr. Stresemann was generally regarded as-a representative of ‘good’ Germany, and Sir Austin Chamberlain and{ M. [Brland did their best, to give hlm'eveiw chance. But after Dr. Strese- mann’s death his ‘ Memoirs ’ showed th a t his apparent moderation was a mere cloak, undei’ which to !prepare a. policy of force.” I t was none other thari Gufetav Stresemann who first pro­ claimed ] “ that Germany must ' take under her protection the ten or twelve millfon: Ciermans who live abroad under a foreign yoke, that her Eastern and Upper Silesian frontiers must be revised and{toatj Danzig and the Polish Corri­ dor muslf be regained.” Sir Eric Phipps obviously knew hlS; ‘[good’’.Germans,' and he also knew precisely how much they are worth in the Prussian scheme of thing!. Those “ good” Germans let Prance and Hritain down in:1914; they let civiliiatlon down!in 1939; and hav­ ing, like toe rest of their breed, a kink in their make-up—that kink Is the Ger­ man baitard mentality—,they will let toe peop e of peace arid good will down a third time for the '{Ihlrd Punic War within the next- generation unless it is made Impossible for .[them to do so. One of our well-known war- writers, dealing with immediate after-the-war events, observes: “Another source of post-war trouble will be the nincom­ poops wl .o are always with us. ' They will star; crying.over toe poor, fallen ‘angels’ in Germany. I offeryou ahy bet you ike that they will. They will love toe poor defeated Germans more than they love the oppressed Russians, Poles, Ci echs, Greeks,>Yugo-sIavs, Bel­ gians, French, Dutchmen. Norwepans.’ True eno ugh, That is oiir obvious dan­ ger.! “.Tiey’Il cheat you yet; th&se Junkers!’- - ■ .


^ se of a torther war of revenge. ■ was a tool of that old rascal, '. '■ /


mi-ddle dlass there - was no victorious idea to rihpose to the Socialist stand­ point. But it was a country of social and political progress, far less ‘Man- chestensM’ than other States with a' different! constitution. I t was also a land of toarracks, a land of universal military Eervlce, a land of strong mili-


in the


re’^]'h.i*ff®'' .'''erc so far taken in that they provided Germany with the topital she required ostensibly


expected of a Germany which was pre'- P‘‘rtog for war even from 1918, when at ite heac was the Prussianised fanatic, Hmdenlurg, whose/solo object, as he


^thflan race. What could be .mcoif [jaj admrtted in his “Memoir^"


prepare the German nation for By 19a. ten years before He


a.devastatlng war. And egeiff let 'loose *iey of its existe Uon wak granted chiefly because appll-


„ ^ ”Wcing toe^'Mbunal’s decision.' •^heton stated that toe appllca-


nd toe’


of following further adventures of.that famous Insh Idame, “ Old Mother Riley,” who has added hundreds of new adherents as a result of her recent series of broadcast adventures. As toe old lady herself, Arthur Lucan is once again at the top of his form and his “ irlshismis ’’ ' will provoke many a chuckle. As usual he is capably sup­ ported by Kitty MeShane and a good supporting cast.


PATRONS of the Palladium ___ week-end ■will have an opportunity . ■ .


\plcture, “ That'Gang of Mine” which M I be screened during’ the first half ormejet-week. .Mugs Maloney, one O'f the gang wants to become a jockey rad flndmg Ben, a Negro, and his Kentucky race horse in a stable they have been using as a playground, toe gang decide to enter Maloney and the horse in a race. Of course it loses, but the father of another member of the gang be­ comes interested and trains the horse, who, wins his next race; although; Mugs gallantly steps down at the last mtoute to let a more experieticed jockey take chaige.


race track in their latest Pathe


AT THE RACETRACK. Earit Side Kids are off to toe


■ { HAROLD LLOYD-PEODUCER.


sailor, Harold Lloyd’s first production venture for RKO Radio; ‘"fhe Navy Steps Out,’’, brings George Murphy,


D


EALING with, the stontty romance' of a pretty secretary, a young


ROMANTIC COMEDY.


Business executive and a rollickingPRESENTING a new- romantic -team, ^5i® With Me,” a Metro^


Lucille Ball rad Edmond O’Brien to the- screen th is , week-end in a gay and laughter-packed story. : Murphy plays the role of a happy-go-


pretty secretary and-Murphy’s fiancee. Murphy has left the navy m order to marry Lucille and settle down ashore, but all his ingenious schemes to raise money come to an unhappy end. 'When the girl rad the sailor set out to make! toe staid business man a little less dig­


lucky sailor, and O’Brien,' a grand serpen newcomer, that of a staid bus!-' ness man, with Miss Ball as O’Brien’s


nified they succeed rad the film comes to an hilarious conclusion when O’Brien becomes interested in Miss Ball and Murphy takes steps to settle things in 1^ owr peculiar mariner.


{ JACK BENNY IN ‘XOVE' THY NEIGHBOUR.” >


the story, which is full of thrills as toq. gang battles against a bum^ of crooks ,who . are tryteg td prevent toe horse froiri racing. Supporting the East Side Kids in this action film are Dave O’Brien as-Knuckles, and Joyce Bryant as his fiance, who tries to keep Dave from betting on Blue Knight without success. Clarence Muse, who has -pro­ duced . rind wrltteh many of his own stage plays, takes the sympathetic por­ trayal of old negro Ben, owner of Blue Knight. Eugene Francis is familiar as Algy Wilkes, and Milton Kibbee por­ trays his liberal father, “That Gang of Mtoe ’’ was directed by Joseph Lewis from the screenplay by William Lively.


BELA LUGOSI THRILLER.


■ Bat’’ is horror dfi lujee.' I t will send chills Up your spine. You won't easily


foiget its dramatic suspense.. Bela Lugosi’s performance as Dr,


'neighbour’s actions. Is the highlight of his career. He moves from scene to scene with greater rad greater force, building suspense as h e brings addi­ tional torture rad horror to those he has marked for death.


Carrpthere, the brilliant physician whose mind is poisoned’by his wealthy


riglnative and thlghly effective photo­ graphy of Arthur Martlnelli. Mr. Mar- tinelli has used his camera with telling effect and much of toe mood and ex­ citement is due to his brilliant efforts. Suzanne Kaaren who made such a hit in ‘.'The Women” helps Lugosi no little and the entire cast is a delight to one Who cares for a well .rounded perform- a n « from all concerned. 'The supporting film, “You’re Out Of


Luck" stars Frankie Darro and Mantoh Moreland in another thrilling adven­ ture.' ■ I ■ .


SEBMONS^


land,, makers of sermons ■would pro­ bably find—if they were .allowed to function at all—that their efforts were subject to very considerable censorship. Such a' reflection is topical in view of the suggestion made in many quarters that clergy might assistetoe wastepape r "drive” by liberal donations from those among their accumulated stores of old sermons, which are out of date because of old topical allusions. /’ > One clerical commentator has calcu­


Ag SALVAGE? Ip Hitler were to succeed in establish­


ing his “ New Order” in our own /ailments, -Relieve backache, ihemnatic pains, aching muscles, and joints,


; puffy.eyes, disturbed nights and'dizzy attacks before they can b»»me more serious.


.


lated that something like eighty tons of clean waste could probably ,be col­ lected from the Anglic^-clergy alOne’.


potential “Aid-for Russia" would pro­ bably have moru


OLD WAYS AND NEW /. In I bygone days toe amount of such


the days of our grandfathers, rind in the old time before that, far more


■e. for t m he written' sermon was


u a l discipline, and it ensured at least [riome preparation.


I On the other hand; those who can I dspense with paper in-toe pulpit can


' '. ■


/ the written sermon, so long as they do not allow their gift of fluency to tempt, toem into neglecting preparation rad relyin; too much on the msplration of the.moment


often “ get across" with their message more effectively than can the reader of


HOW A BISHOP SAVED HIS LIFE Apropos of the respective merits of


'Canterbury escaped possible! serious [injurj or- death by having a manu- Iscript sermon ready'to hand. ‘When Dr. Tait was Bishop of London


I .M im in g home that aftempon:-he remaiked to a fellow bishop who was jdriving'; with him: “ I don’t know Iwhetl er my sermon did any good to Ithe 'ciingregatioh today, but it was of (considerable service to myself this !m'om:ngl’’. ■ ■ , ■


at thi! Cairo Zoo, an Austrrillan soldier on leave took It for a stroll thrdugh ' the crowded streets. ,


Macing friends with a-lion in a/cage


the Ci.rriage. He -was interrupted by a 'loud solse and, looking round saw re !runav ay horse with -a heavy dray :makir g straight' for his carriage. “ He stood up," writes his biographer, "ser­ mon n hand, to watch the course of 'events, and as the head of toe runaway approiched, the!carriage, he threw the 'open sermon- in its face. The horse {was E)' bewildered oy the fluttei’lng of the leaves that it swerved and paused; [the diiver regained control; the sermon was 1 licked up,l and the Bishop pi-o- 'ceeded-on hls'way.’’- , ,


he w( s driving down' Holloway Hill on his way to Enfield and. as his habit was, was revising the manuscidpt in


written and unwritten sermons, it may be retailed that there is one case on record in which a future Archbishop of


cleric has to give, as a rule, far-more sermons and addresses than did his predecessors, and.can sejdom/ devote toe hecessaiy tiirie tq. the labour of writing or typing toem " in extenso." ■Whether-this change in pulpit-methods • is to the good or not is, perhaps, a moot questSon. Certainly the custqm of committing his words-to paper before delivering them may have been for; some preachers' a wholesome intellect­


monj or one based on a few'notes, is more in vogue. Indeed, the modern


Inrthese days the “ex tempore" ser- ,


amounted, to considerably OCllllUU wu*, Ui in


common -than i t 'i s today, and eveiy parson was careful to keep a good stock of his old productions by him lest he should be involved in some pulpit emergency.


Cltlaii diM to tlia riUlur* of tho Udnoys to aitir Impuritlos and wastos'from dio blood.


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Kidney Pills. This special kidney remedy demises, strengthens and stimulate the kidney filters so that blood purity is lestotM and ease and


: comfort are regained. You can rely ; upon a medicine that has been u s^ and publidy recommended by 50/xw grateful irien and women, '


M forDOANS, J/S,3/5,S / f i ( t) DOWNHAM


annual whist drlvfe and dance .of the Reading Room, was held In the School, bn Friday night. There were Seventeen tables for whist, under fhe direction of the Vicar, (Rev. E. c. Rees). Mrs. P. Driver presei)ted prizes to: Ladles: 1, Miss M. Rayner; 2, Mrs. G. Sharp; con., Mrs. Seedall. Gentlemen: 1, Mr, N.'Windle: 2, Mr. T. .Todd; con., B. Driver.' Refreshments were served. There was a good attendance for danc­ ing, to music supplied by The -Auxiliary Roa-dsters Band, with Messrs. A. Ire-' land and A. Hartley, M.C. A chicken was wqn by Mr; Metcalf who gave it backrto be sold.' The Reading Room will-benefit by about £5.


READING ROOM EFFORT.-^-The


ton presided over a good attendance at the monthly meeting of toe Women’s Institute, held in the-SchooTlast night week. MisS "Brash, of Lancaster, gave'a- most Interesting lantern leoturfe des­ cribing her journey "Down the Danube to the Black Sea,", for which she was given hearty thanks' by Mrs. Fleetwood M l 'f i to rad Mrs. Gardner.' Mresh- raents. were served by Miss [Gill, Miss M. Todd, Mrs. [ Salisbury, and Mrs. Tyrer.


WOMEN’S INSTITUXE-Mre. Asshe­


devoted to folk'dancing, organised!by Mrs. Park.


[The socialhalf-hour was ‘nicciuKlncachcutlttpolioncdcbn- . Pf gardening as in evei-ything- else,


each year, and the reasons’for doirig this are four-fold:


ging and manuring, t ’To be'productive, soil must be well and deeply dug; .but toe labour.this irtvolves is reduced to a minimum if,one third of the plot only, is double-dug each year. At .the same time, manure is put into the'trenches; with .the present day (flffloultyi in obtaining suppllqs, a greatTsaving 'can be effected by not nj^riuring toe whole


■ Firstly, there iS toe question of dig­ ’ ^


manured soil—for exam{ple, your fcarrots will fork badly • ipstead. of producing shapely roots. .


plot each .year. ■ Moreover) [ some -vege­ tables should not be grown on freshly


.tables, while growing, require different salts and other ingredients from the soil. By making use of a cropping plan the soil is not robbed year qfler year of


the same salts and a balance is 'main­ tained. •


I t ’s no t 'What yon pay but


. what you get back for what you pay , . ; th a f e o u n ta You’ll be: glad you put your Advertlsemept In'


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the third. For the sake of simplicity call them Crop Groups C, A, B, in.that or-der; Next year the. part of the plot that was well manured rad carried the C crops^-ronions, peas and beans—will be in just the right'condition for the green crops (B), The part of the plot that,, carried these B\ crops will, after simple, diggirig and the addition of lime do admirably for toe'rbot crops—the C rroup.Thus a slinple plan is evolved: BiCrops-following C,crops, A follo'wlng B) and C following A. so: that each kind of vegetable flri^ the soil just as it likes


food we possibly can, not only for sum­ mer use'but for storing during the win­ ter months, it is Important that all types of vegetables should iie grown; and a definite plan showing which crop is go­ ing to, be'grown on which particular piece of the plot is-toe; only way of maktog sure .that nothing'is forgotten. To help you do this, take a look at the Ministry iif Agriculture’s cropping plan and see-how'.the vegetables with, the same requirements are grouped to­ gether. For example, those that do best on ground that has been double-dug and iriamjred—such as onions, beans and peas—go in oil Section; roots arid potatoes inrenother, rad green crops in


““■■■ . . a l l the


i; Fourthly, re very imporfaht point in favour of crop rotation is that it lessens the risk of bests arid;diseaSe. Particu­ larly is this so with onloni They do not takd kindly to newly-broken up ground, anithere is a temptationionce a good onion bed has been made, to stick to It. Although good results iiilght be obtained for a number of yeare,/ pro­ vided the crop was entirely! free from disease, the practice is not recominerid- ed: and If onion diseases ihave made their appearance during the season, re enrage of site is most essential With the necessity of groivinj


deeply' into the soil. There again, by changing the crops, noipartlctilar depth of soil becomes impoverished;


some vegetable crops, notably the-green crops, are suidace rooting, while others like carrots and, parsnips, go down


i ssential. Thirdly, there iq tjie simple fact :that ' '


it shouldrenly be applied about once in three yearq: So by applying It to one- third of M plot only .each year, there is less fear of either over-llmmg or applying Second


Lime is necessary for -goodiesults, but . {' ]' too little.. I -■ ' ' ., : ■


, gingarid manuring that you did for the: 'onions will!be sufficient for the cabbage.. There is no need to dig the ground' again: just clear the surface of. any weeds and plant toe'esbbages firmly.


whra l wanted to use them.res Siey had no heart. [ Can you.toil me why;this waS?T-/probably the ground was tod soft when you planted your.sprlng Cabbages'. The best site is one from which yoii • have removed your onion crop. The dig- ■


m


that is really the answer to “What is Crop Rotation”? Rotatirig crops simply means growing a different type of vege­ table, on' a different part of the plot


method saves time rad labour, and


performance by a truly great actor and one which you should not miss. I t will be a long time before he finds a more suitable role fpr his peculiar talents. Particularly \praiseworthy is toe Im-


I t Isia-nice


genius who produces, a deadly and terrifying specig of kfiler'Bat to wreak vengeance on .those who he thinks oppress him, will ,be, screened at the week-end. The star Is Bela Lugosi, star of many “ horror/’ -.films. “Devil


“ rrVHE DEV i bat," ■ an ingenious A story of a vengeance crazed


But that is just toe bare'outline of JACK BENNY, famous American !


radio comedian, now famous on the BB.C. as a result o f " Jack jenny’s Half Hour” every Sunday night,is co- starred with Fred Allen in Paramount’s "Love Thy Neighbour," a screamingly funny


ment, boasting toe ties of


Bermy-Allen it


ent part. Witty, produced,


'beautiful Merriel Abbott Dancers and Rochester. The flames of toe feud, in the picture, buret


the graceful rad


steals The Merry Macs from the Fred Allen show. (Allen, in retaliation, suc­ ceeds


high when


valet, away from toe comedian.' Thi beautiful' Miss,Martini gives audiences her


in


Neighbour ’’ was produced and directed •


“Dearest, Daxest


Just Like Love ” I.”


by M ■ ~ ” ark Sand •ri ich. “ VIRGINIA” ■


“Love .


picture are: “ Isn’t


famous. sing ' That


Three other hit “ Do


Bertny


a- flret opportunity to hear toe


song' t h a t , made her tunes in the


luring''Rochester, Benny’; screen,


You Know'Why,” and Thy


IN TECHNICOLOUR.”


Hollywood’s newest ’’find.” ; For what! is believed the first time, the picture* brings to toe screen in bright techni-, colour, toe beautiful rolling country­ side of the famous Shenandoah Valley, where most' of “Virginia" was filmed. Occupying .chief featured roles in .toe film are Helen Broderick, Marie Wilson, Paul Hurst, Tom Rutherford and Louise Beavers.


is the girl who finally decides her heart belongs to toe Southland. Fred Mac} Muiyay is the romantic interest, win} nlng for the South over toe, ardent courtshin campaign waged by the hradi some, dashing young Stirling Hayden]!


will be . Madeleine Carroll, and Fred Mac- Murray in toe starririg-roles. Featur­ ing Stirling Hayden, young screen new­ comer, in an important role, /the pic­ ture tells toe exciting story of a modem Southern girl, reared in toe North, who comes face -to face with toe problem of having -to choose between the North rad the South, romantically leaking, Beautlfril Madeleine Carroll


QMOOTHLY blending stirring drama lo* and bright comedy Paramount’s new Technicolour -production “Virginia” presentod on Thursday, with


Mary ("My Heart Belongs to Daddy”) Martiri, Veree Teasdale, The Merry, Macs, 'Virginia Dale,


such, favourite performers as


film in which the well-known "insults”


uoldwyn-Mayer production, co-starring James Stwa r t rad Hedy Lamarr, under the direction of Clarence' Brown, IS screened this week-end. Based on a story tailor-made for the pair, the plot deals with a-beautiful refugee who is given the alternative of marrying! an American citizen or being deported to


her native Austria. <-Preferring the fqrmere./She proposes marriage to Stewart, a peimfleqs young author. Through ,a piurely business arrange­ ment, th e ' marriage is to give Miss Lamarr her naturalisation, and in re­ turn, Stewart Is to have his living ex­ penses paid until he can sell one of his novels. The complicatons of this strange deal,: made iriorfi puzzling


the two 'actually fall in love, supplies the screen with one of its amusing


Baggott and Mrs. Adelne'de Walt, Rey­ nolds. eighty years old, /who makes her


is grand screen entertain­ excellent capablll-.


tuneful and expertly PRESENTING one of the greatest A BATTLE of wits—intrigue—' play a promin­


screen debut in the role of Stewart’s grandmother. SPENCER TRACY IN “BOOM TOWN,”


motion pictures and utilising this talent in a story that Is built for fast action and thrills, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's “Boom Town " is the attraction next week. With Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette- Colbert! and ,-Hedy Lamarr in Stellar roles, “Boom Town” surpasses in star names! even that former “ greatest of thrill pictures/’-the air epic, ‘‘Tfist Plloy which had Gable, Tracy and Myrna Loy at toe-head of the cast.


all-star casts In th e ; history of


.roles played , by Joe Yule, Horace Mnrphy, ' Roy Gordon, Richard Lane', Casey Johnson, Baby Quintanilla of


"Forty'Little Mothers" fame,- George Lessey, Sara Haden, Frank Orth, Frank McGlynn, Sr*, and Curt BOls. These players Join- hands in presenting a thrill-packed human-interest story, iwhlch shows Gable and Tracy tore total of five fights, one of which tore terrific battle between themselves, toe frantic fight to blast out a roaring'■oil


well fire, gushers tearing upward with uiio-■


Gal sea of mud by Gable and Tracy to es­ cape the 'buUets of two gun fighters.re fight between two dance-hall girls, a dramatic hold-up of: a ioad:6f oil eqiiip- ment, in addition to comedy by Morgan,


ighty roare, a spouting water geyser, able on, a 'bucking mule, a dive mto a


friends through all toe heartaches and victories of oUmen: runs.re .'cavalcade of the ollybusiness, wito a,brief history of its intense, thrills. -In the. picture. Gable and Tracy' form re partnership which exists even, after Gable marries Miss (Tolbert, Tracy’s sweetheart. -It -breaks dramatically arid is reunited


Wills and M*s Gombell. . . ' . Through a story'of two men who are


send him back to Miss ROY HAY PLANS Your Victory Garden CBOP ROTATIOJf


raythfig,; most of all ground that will give-us . f (^ , and, there again; the croppmg plan will- help. Sml tliat


m., ideal for the spring cabbrige;' and


, ha™e£e1? fiftod, c Orice^vqu.have grasped the Idea o f


rop rotation, and you have jotted down .on paper how you are going to do it,


toe. work on your plot is simplified and the results /Will be better.


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such as herbs, which are more essential to goodvflavoursome cooking now than eve^, as well as crops like tomatoes and marrows and herbs, are grriwn on a strip at the end of the.plot. A place can be- found-her®,, too, for-the qopipost heap, good supply of rotted


-Itemember, the more permanent crops la '


waste: njatter the problem of [obtaining farmyard irianure is clrcuriivented:'^


of the whole plot. Nowadays we/cannot afford to waste-


‘^® Feqtest possible use is mad&


otjPeas early in the year' is in. for leeks; an onion bed


■ .S.'.'i,"’;.


as distinguished as its stare including such well-known names as!Frank Mor­ gan. .yonel.Atwll, Chill 'Willis, Marlon, Martm and Minna Gombell, with lesser


The supporting cast of toe pipture is


romance-^thrllls—suspense in fact' makes for first-class ^ comblned'ia!


HoWard in his latest and most-toriUlng role rad .which is the attraction for patrons of the. Rialto next week. As t^mysterious rescuer who completely baffles ante outwits all fhe bestbraiim


which stare Leslie


,1m wondprful performance. His role 01 toe girl-shy . Professor Smith, a a .


of the Gestapo and Nazi party gener­ ally, Leslle/Howard will thrill you with


phraloglst,-whose sole interest in life ■ is a stetue of toe goddess Aphrodite is rine yihich suits him to perfection rad scope to display 1


.TOit distinguished people {escape from- toe Nazis—but no connection between, these escapes and the professor is- apparent, i J h e Gestapo is in despair, but Von Graun, a -high ofaclal dis-


young American student. During toeir party David Majwell, ajcwell a ^


,covers a clue which establishes that the rerouer is,an Englishm'ra' Theri the battle of wits cogences, /between the German who believes in violence and the ^glishman who believes in reason,


f jjd '


'triumphs just.before war is declared: But he mockingly calls' over toe' fron­ tier- to the men whorii- he has just out- wltted,"'W'e shall'be back . . , ” Centred in this battle of wits is a Polish journa­ list, .Koslowski, his daughter and-five- other-/opponents, of the Nazi regime ' and their'[rescue is qchleved in the


[ Course,- th e. Englishman


nick of tln)e. Apart from a first-class- topical story, "Pimpernel Smith” is noteworthy ifor the fact that producer, director and star are all-the same person, Leslie Howard, who' is at his bestra all'toree rolOs- Op^slto him ' a re Francis’Sullivan and Mary Morris, both of lyhom give outstanding per­ formances !gnd are supported by sMh,


competent !players as’ ifugh'Macdfeitoor ■ ^ ^ 5™ond I Hratley, -Manning WhlleyF


" ov


,S5P/.otbem. “Pimpernel Smith” is a. British National production.


Poland Pertwee a n i


Smith t^ e s an archaeological expedi- tlon to Germany and includes in hlis


J . , . . —,-v — display his un- goubted -acting ability],' Professor


boisterous a


his wife Is Verree.Teasdale. 'Others in the cast are Donald-Mee^ Barton Mao- Lane, Edward Ashley, Anri Codec,.-King'


stories. The supportings cast /Is headed by Ian Hunter,' as toe publisher. As


Friday, 7-30, Wednesday and Sat­ urday at M and 8-15. Matinee Wednesday, 2-30. Saturday, 2-15.


Thursday and


Monday, 'jtoes^y, xnursoay and , Friday, 7-30. - Wednesday an^Sa^


utf^y at and 8-15, ' Matinee Saturday at 2-15. ,•


‘ ' ““uee


pan. Saturday, 2-30, 6-0 and 8-0.


Matinee each day at !M0. Contin­ uous. Monday to Friday fronv6f) complete show a t 8f)


A MILLIONAIRE GOES TO WORK.


gates labour troubles at toe / large' f v !


A MILLIONAIRE’S hilarious adven- tures when he personally investi­


toe happiness he finds there, make f o r ' toe novel basis o f " The Devil and MLw '


)''hiqh he is toe owner, an d'


W ’ the splendid n e w M i t o r a W’ “ reened this week-


end. Deftly blendinor rnh onmo/io


toe new film revolves around the millionaire to learn what


tly blendmg rich comedy, sparkling romance


conditions are really like in his korc shoe department. When


liiies^ th® rich old man-learns to love spPathises with


tokeahhn under her wing because o r apparent lone-


-A^ur, a salesgirl, unsuspectingly


1 ? dlflQcultles, and even assubies leadership in their protest against the Ay^'mmlcal management.


;alte. E d t^ d GwCnin;Bpring^Byln^^ to-^this new film, directed by


]^®®d, of "Kitty Foyle" fame,


LESLIE HOWARD IN “PIMPERNEL smiiH.” '


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, My onions had the fly badly last year. What steps can I take to/guard against •it nextjyear?-^!presume that youbumt-! all the.'plants that were affected; this is very Important to check‘the spread . of: thd pest. Make your new onion bed -' in a different part of the plot and-get. the plants growing'well, as early as you can. /Avoid handling them as milch as. possible, especially if the-weather is hot,' rad dlYp qs the smell attracts the fly. IS the bed'three times about May 20.


Dress! 30, and June 10, with 2ozs. to toe square yard of crude or "whizzed” naptoaiene.; You can get this from a horticultural' simdriesmari'. - Occasional dressings 'of' soot will also help to keep the fly awayl Try to obtain or raise seedlings in the spring, as they are less liable to attack, than onions sown in the open.


THE CONQUERING SEX.


The girls have taught their brothers to knit, too, and 50 boys have joined-next/


year’^ knitting group. ■ i ; m LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON.


was captured at Amiens and fon sir months was posted as missing, ’Then


i In;May. 1917, a 23-yearreId soldier


came toe news that he was a prisoner of -war. iln May, 1941, a '23-yearreld Marme was captured in Crete, and h e , . too, was posted as missing for six. months. Now. his family know that he is a prisoner of war. These two men. are father rad son.


there at a-/ shiUing a dozen, some girls at aiSurrcy school have helped to buy . £50 of wool which they have knitted mto 500 garments for [the Red Cross.-


Byi selling “ conkers” to their bro-i


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