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Take Lord Halifax as Typifying the British Aristocrat THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14TH, 1039 There is the picture of Lord Halifax at dinner, drenched by a bowl of soup spilt by a careless waiter, rising, taking off his corst and continuing, in shirtâ€" sleeves, a line of argument which had never been broken. There is the story of his saying serenély:"This will make my job easier," on that grim day at Delhi when his train was bombed. . . . He is a hero after Andre Maurois‘ neart, "Milord Bramble, or Silence and Some Stories About His Reâ€" fusal to Get Excited. (By H. 0. Cobb in The Star, London) Forégign caricaturists take a particuâ€" lar joy in Lord Halifax. The sixâ€"f6ot= four fizure, the long, immobile face with the unsmiling eyes, the prominent forehead, meet that popular conception of the English aristocrat which has adorned the Continental papers since the wars of Napolecn. If the German papers do not invest him an a perfidâ€" fous kilt and give h‘lm a hypocritical It was T. P. O‘Connor years ago. who said that if he met Lord Halifax for the first"time at the North Pole he would recognize him far off as the typical Englishman. I am told that French writers like collecting stories of his phlegm because they illuminate the tharacter of the race as well as of the man.â€" We who are the Foreign Secretary‘s countrymen can best guage his characâ€" teristically English quailty by the reâ€" flection that the finest tributes to MNim have usually been paid by his political opponents. To Mr. Gandhi he became a sa@int. Mr. Harold Laski, the leader of intellectual Socialism, found in this great Tory nobleman the indefinable quality of moral genius. His memorable tenure of. the Viceâ€"royalty â€" which saved India from a bath of bloodâ€"gave him a lasting place in the Liberal Calâ€" endar. Yesterday, Mr. Isagac Foot comâ€" pared him to Cromwellâ€"which is the highest praise that Mr. Foot, who raises his hat each time he passes Old Noll‘s statue, can command. papers do noi inyvyest nim an 2 ious kilt and give hlm a hypocritica pipe to smoke, I shall be disappointed As the "war of nerves" intensifies, sangfroid will be a virtue increasingly Lord Halifax has been more Ooften the rising hope of the other side than of his own. When he was effecting a masterwdrk ‘of reconciliation in Indid4, the "Daily Mail" was calling him a seeâ€" ond Kerensky, while throuzgh some of the winflows of the Pall Mall clubs his tall figure even came to bear a startling resemblance to Trotsky. Today};‘for the first time, all parties unite in his applause. He has spoken with the voice Of England. At this moment he stands invested in that authority which comes to a man when he embodies the whole will of the people. In such a moment a democratic leader must enjoy not so much a sense of triumph. as a serene consciousness of reserves of strength that no dictator can ever know. One of the hardest tasks in politics is to make a fair assessment of a disâ€" tinguished Tory leader who enjoys wide sympat-hy on " the other side," especiâ€" ally im an hour when he has risen above party. There is no man more warmly loved by his friends than the Foreign Secreâ€" tary, but when they turn to biography their affection usually produces designs for a stained glass window.. These fail to touch the core of mystery in a perâ€" sonality that is outwardly very clear, very simple, but is inwardly enigmatic. There.is no quartet in politics more diverse than the Prime Minister, Mr. Llioyd George, Mr. Churchiil and Mr. Horbert Morrison, but they have this at least, in common, that their response to any challenge of fact or opinion is swift. @lmost instinctive. All of them would give you an immediate answer would give you an iinme°dGialte aniswer to most questions, though all might be different. With Lord Halifax, unless the emotions have been deeply touched, the shadows play odd tricks with the lights. If the moral impulse was not so strong in him, he would sometimes be in danger of becoming like that philosoâ€" pher who started out for a walk, and then spent all the afternoon in an agony of indecision, unable to choose whether to walk up the street or down. to any challenge of fact or opimon is swift. @lmost instinctive. All of them would give you an immediate answer to most questions, though all might be different. wWith Lord Halifax, unless emotions have been deeply touched, the shadows play odd tricks with the lights. If the moral impulse was not so strong in him, he would sometimes be in danger of becoming like that philosoâ€" pher who started out for a walk, and then spent all the afternoon in an agony of indecision, unable to choose whether to walk up the street or down.. Â¥1 *# Cillbort Chesterton once said someâ€" the | I have a friend who has a boy of six. He rates very high in his profession and in the town, but if he mashes his finger with a hammer, or walks across the back yard and gets hooked under the chin with a wire clothes line, he makes the air a dark cerulean. He can swear longer without repeating nimself than any ‘other white collar man I have ever known. Alas, nis little boy is dumb. The family jumped up on the dining table the other night at dinner, and the boy exâ€" claimed, "Well, would you look at that damned cat!" His father spanked him promptly and thoroughly, and washed his mouth out with soap, but do yOu ing to the effect that if a landlady was pknow that he was never able to make interviewinz a prospective boarder it that dumb kid understand that it is was more important to her to knOW wrons to swear? what was his philosophy than what | ; get discouraged when I see how money he earned, for if he WAs the followet of a bad philosophy he would | two men are seriously considered as cheat her in the end. It is my impresâ€" | successors to Mr. Chamberlain in the sion that it is his grasp of the diametâ€" : leadership of the Conservative party, rical opposition between the ideas Sir Samuel Hoare and Lord Halifax. underiyving the Nazi State and the In a crisis, particularly a crisis that democratic one that has converted him | involved the imponderable moral and to the new policy even more than the record of the past nine months,. The firmness of his Chatham House speech showed that he is at ease once again in a realm that he understands perfectâ€" ty, the kingdom of ideas and ideals. In Hhts full comprehension of the issue$@and in his power to phrase them he transsends the normal party man. Thers no other man in the cabinet who mhave made ths Chatham House spiritual factors, the Foreign Secretary would be the best exponent of the national spirit that the Cabinet could produce. t * B His success in India snows what gitfs he possesses of insight, of sympathy, of . penetrating â€" mentalities profoundly gdifferent from his own. And he can grow in intellectual staâ€" ture with astonishing speed. The difâ€" ference between young Mr. Wood, the obstructionist of the preâ€"war House of angetfro Air Raids Prove Popular in West Lothian Centre Edinburgh.â€"Air raids on the Forth bridgze have brought a trade boom to shops and boarding houses in South Queensferry, West Lothian "All sleeping accommodation has been taken, and I have had to refuse applications by telephone and letter nearly every day." South Queensferry has been made an evacuation area, but according to inâ€" formation which has reached Major Monteith, member of Lanark County Council, only three people have conâ€" sented to be moved from the town. Says Children Are Dumb, or Parents Must be That Way "Bed and breakfastâ€"excellent view of air raids from room" may be the kind of notics seen outside the houses if the trade boom goes on. Mr. John Bradley, who owns teaâ€" rooms near the Forth bridge, said "The enemy are proving a big attraction. I have been very busy since the air raid here. "I have been told that many people in South Queensferry are letting their rcoms at a premium during the weekâ€" ends to visitors who want to see the air raids." Weekâ€"end tourists are flocking there at weekâ€"ends in hopes to seeing more raids. Youngsters So Dumb They Want to Do as Parents Do â€"Not as They Say. (By Roe Fulkerson in The Kiwanis Magazine) I don‘t go in for debunking as a rule. I have always been afraid that some one might debunk me in retaliaâ€" tion. There is so much sham, so much pose, so much that is inconsistent in my makeup, that if I we debunked, I fear there would be no more for me left than there is of a toy balloon which hnas been touched with a lighted cigarâ€" ette. There is a general opinion that chilâ€" daren are brizht. In my opinion, there is no greater fallacy. They areée SO dumb that it is a wonder we ever make really useful citizens out of them. ' Of course the most annoying creature | in the world is some one else‘s child.| But I am not talking about that little] brat across the street. I am talking about your children and my little girl. Miné and yours are dreadfully dumb. I want to illustrate. I know a fellow,| a Kiwanian by the way, who has two' small boys. He is a well educated, culâ€" ; tured gentleman with a lovely wife andi a nice home. Those two boys have been reared with every advantage. This | man takes his golf clubs and hikes out to the golf course Sunday mornâ€". ing of his life. And can you imagine | it, those two boys are so dumb that | they can‘t understand why they shouldi be made to 2o to Sunday school? They| think they should be permitted to go | fishing or swimming Sunday mornings instead of going to church! Nothing their father says to them seems to conâ€" vince the dumb little creatures that they should spand two hours in church’ on Sunday morning. I know another case of dumbness in children. I know a very nice man who likes a cocktail before dinner. He and| hnis wife always have one, just as an‘ appetizer. They have a son and a daughter in high school who g0 to proms and parties around town. The boy dra:s a gal, and the captain of the fcotball team always comes for the girl. They went to a dinner dance some plazse, ard the father of this girl and boy found out that the children each had a Daiquiri before dinner. Those| two kids were so dumb that when they | were called on the carpet by their dad, they couldn‘t understand why they shoukin‘t drink cocktails! I tell you, kids are dumb. two men are seriously considered as successors to Mr. Chamberlain in the| leadership of the Conservative party, Sir Samuel Hoare and Lord Halifax. In a crisis, particularly a crisis that involved the imponderable moral and spiritual factors, the Foreign Secretary would be the best exponent of the national spirit that the Cabinet could P x produce. * s ow And he can grow in intellectual sta=â€" ture with astonishing speed. The difâ€" ference between young Mr. Wood, the obstructionist of the preâ€"war House of Commons, and Lord Irwin, the Viceroy in whom Mr. Gandhi found a kindred spirit, shows his power of growth. That capacity for development is, one susâ€" pects, not yet exhausted. Lord Halifax comes from a family that lives lons and fAowers late. His political opponâ€" ents hope that his best is yet to be, for they suspect that, like another great Churchman in politics, Gladstone, he will move steadily leftwards as he matures, I have.another neighbour who, when the company goes home, starts to unâ€" dress from scratch. He drops a neckâ€" tie here, he leaves a coat on the nearâ€" est chair. When he takes off his shoes he leaves them where he removes thkem. By the time he is in his pajamas, his clothes are hither and yon as though a hurricane had blown them off him. Epanking after spanking has never taught his dumb children at they must be orderly and pick up their toys when they are thrqugh with them. His children are dumb, too. dumb youngsters are. One of my acâ€" quaintances said in the presence of her little daughter that Mrs. Whosis was carrying on something scandalous with the golf pro. When her little daughter saw Mrs. Whosis the next day she asked if she was still carrying on something scandalous withe golf pro. My friend couldn‘t to save her life convince that child that gossip was nasty, and that she should never reâ€" peat it! One more example. I know a woman who doesn‘t like to go places she doesn‘t like to go, and doesn‘t like to do things she doesn‘t like to do. So, when an unwelcome caller comes to the door, | she has the maid say that she is out. If she is asked over the phone to do something she doesn‘t want to do she blandly explains that she has house guests and can‘t do it. Do you know that that woman had a dumb little daughter who lies like Ananias? She has done all she can to break her of . it but the child is just a natural born liar! i ® My own dauchter is just as dumb as the â€"~est of them. Oncs a month or so, I have some of the boys in for a little game Of tenâ€"cent limit. +~Nothing wrong, you know. Just a friendly gams of sevenâ€"card stud with the deuces the Jacks and the King with the THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS ! ~ I am writing all this about the dumbâ€" ‘mess of children becahuse she said to |m-e at breakfast this morning, "Whose ielbows are on the table now?" She actually waggled a finger of scorn at me when she said it. She is too dumb to understand that I am older and can i put my elbows on the table, but she is a nice little girl and shouldn‘t do it In fact, she wants to out her elbows on the table and not be a nice girl. She is as dumb as the rest of them. Children are so doggoned dumb that they think their parents are perfect. YÂ¥our son thinks you could lick Jack Domptey and not half try. My daughâ€" ter thinks I am the smartest man in the world, and that anything I say or do is exactly right. Of course if your son was not dumb, he wouldn‘t believe you could lick Jack Dempsey, because of ecourse you can‘t. If my child was not dumb, she would know that there must be three or four men in the world smarter than I am. iAnd the same thing goes for proâ€" fanity, for disordetrliness, for lying, for poker, ard all those other things which are all right for us, but all wrong for them. wild. That dumb child of mine can see no reason in the world why she should play only Old Maid or Casino, and not play poker with the pretty red white and blue chips! It looks to me like the mistake we make is overestimating the intelligence of our children. We are just going to have to act down to their dumb level. If we want them to go to church on Sunday morning, we are going to have to stop playving golf and go to churcn curselves. I can still reomember the walloping I scot when I was a kid because L thought I should be allowed to chew tobacco Jt.st because my father did. I was an awful dumb child. Constructive > Programme for War dumbâ€" afld Pea('e ONTARIO "Regimentation by government, or otherwiss, has been tried andâ€" has failed," Mr. C. H. Carlisle said, in his presidential address at the Annual Méeting of The Dominion Bank in Toâ€" ronto on December 13. If regimenta«â€" ticn is permitted, he continued, "it will enslave industry and labor as it has enslaved them in Germany â€" and Russia." In war or peace, however, Canad@ ) port given at yesterday‘s meeting. will continue to be a free country f0r | gank‘s statement was discussed D a free pecple, Mr. Carlisle predicted:| Ggeneral Manager, Mr. Robert He attributed his hopefulness for the| Current Loans and Discounts in future to the valu ssets of Canada, ‘ ada were shown as $11,275,618 n among which ha included Canadian lahar â€" @tha cnaunAnace Aaf its nrinvinles! than at December 31st, 1938., A s among which ha included Canadian|*~** labkor,. "the soundness of its principles,! than H. Carlisle, President of the â€"Dominion â€" Bank, Stresses Democratic Prinâ€" ciples. Crownlflei’rog“ureilects Public Approval Em In reélation to the essential activily of production and trade, The Dominion Bank has already made a considerably incréased contribution in the period ended ‘October 3ist covered by the Roâ€" Ns d B Nn NP NB m w V C port given at yesterday‘s meeting. The Bank‘s statement was gisscussed by General Manager, Mr. Robert Rac. Current Loans and Discounts in Canâ€" ada were shown aAs $11,275,618 higner 4s a + "thiaamhar AGML A Strong the people of Canada firancial burdens and| Mr. Carlisle added a warning howâ€" ir standard Of living." Resâ€" | ever that it would be vory unfortunate mper production and trade, |;if Canadians were not preopared for | be kept to a minimum.| postâ€"war conditions when they come. aste of every kind, including ‘ e concluded his address with this and duplication among the | message: "The success of our future overning bodies in Canad@.| wi depend much on how we conduct eliminated. _ Government | the present, and while fighting dictaâ€" along these lines will inâ€"|torships we must prove to all peoples rourags and enthusiasm 95 inat Canada at all times uses demoâ€" oi 3 Wc 1 : liquid position was shown also, with cash assets 18.86"% of public liabilities. Mr. Rae announced that "The Dominâ€" im Bank is in a sound pasition, and fully prepared to take its place in financing the business and war efforts of this country." cratic principles in her By now giving heed to < problems, we should be in attract capital and a high migration that will carry fully the development at which our country require Toronto Telegram: â€" 18 every man‘s mind there is a lief that he has a good tenor. in her own affairs. eed to our postâ€"war Id be in a positian to I a high grade of imâ€" l1 carry on successâ€" ment and expansion PAGE SEVEN Dsep down in is a strong beâ€" x1 barbershop