WITHOUT PREJUDICE

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 55, 28 November 1921, Page 4

WITHOUT PREJUDICE

NOTES AT RANDOM (By T.D.H.) Mr. Massey says members’ speeches in Parliament cost the country £6O an hour. —Yes, we are told silence is goldeu. If Franco wishes to be secure against Germany it is not men at arms she needs, but infants in arms. President Harding talks of making the Washington Conference an annual event. —There is & feeling in some quarters, however, that by tho time he is through with it he may feel that once in a lifetime is often enough. The only detail wanting to solve the Irish problem is to find a way of keeping Ulster totally’ independent of Sinn Sein, while letting tho Sinn Fein Government control Ulster’s affairs. —This is simple beside some of the things they hope to settle within the next week or two'at Washington. Our politicians are so busy' with the present’'that they have no time to look ahead and plan for tho future. In these hard times some of ouf financial institutions might appreciate the humour of thist "Are"n'*t you making a mistake about this," said the lawyer. "You’ve named six bankers as your pall-bearers. Of course it's all Tight if you choose, but wouldn’t you rather have so mo friends with whom you aro on better terms? "No. sir, that’s all right. Those fellows have carried mo for so,, long they mitfht as well finish the job”

Japan’s Crown Prince, who now succeeds as Regent, was born on April - . 1901 The famous Admiral Togo, himself'educated in England, superintended the Prince’s schooling, and he has shown a decided liking for English ways.. the Crown Prince’s greatest asset is ms rescniblauoo in appearance and character to hi» grandfather, the groat Emperor Mutsuhito, who laid the foundations of modern Japan. It is related “ged Court dignitaries have beei a ° tears by the resemblance, and t>'e “ a P anese generally have the be ief that Crown Prince will do gie.it things to advance the prestige and their country. Perhaps v-e shall e L < in- shortly of the United States be.ng Vizizi nn io co across to 1 okio «iud too the finest Crown Prince Hirohito’s oisXmXt pdrty. There was much w- -- in Japan about the Innces S tour abroad, as the J a ttitthe 1 Crown would not be treated by foreign nations vith sanctity that was his due.

The Sonoma’s gold robbery, which is now exciting attention, has pointe semblance to a which lto» to S-1£ s“.j. r«M>t«' si “A’; 1909 The pearls were put up in n. ER°t n J°c/to v i: hold pending dispatch by ®« a “ e iAir qfliis official handed it oxer there where the Siamese Court Cham bcrlain and staff attended to take ~ delivery. Everything appeared to be Sa .“.ri

The theft . irme.doh. M“j there were two of each size in .. tß ®, D ” lico wharfinger at Singapore had ofterG *X I” tai a* ’” d i-s- re other was reported m Buenos Ay - _ n other later on in Amsterdam, t ex-wharfinger uas arrc , ste ?‘ f " folen ehar"-ed with receiving two of the st nearfs sentenced! to two years’ imprisonbelieve, he won the D.S.O. in tho war.

Politeness pays. n This truth cannot be too often driven home, Majoi ritmns* thinks. The Major showed me a. clip ping from an American newspaper he ha S last mail. It began as follows Just before midnight on Sa * a man carrying a. long knife walked into the police’ inquiry office. 1 shall murder someone with your permission,” he yelled, nt the same time producing a well-sharpened tableknife. , Tlrn nermission was heartily refused., llie Jraimcr mant well, but he did not go the rmht away about it. The one thing that annoys a policeman is a noisy penenn veiling at Into. Had this nian eame in quietly, and asked permission in a decent civil way, no doubt it would have been given. Civility is never wasted, not even on policemen. Police pSiHs to murder, however, are never riven to violent persons, who «re Bable to abuse them. The Major has obta ned a permit to murder a man who plays the' bagpipes two doors away from where he lives, and the event will, no doubt, occur in a day er two. A woman motorist, who had ncen “going the pace,” on being called upon bv the traffic officer to stop, asked, indignantly, "What do you want with ““You wore travelling at forty miles an hour,” answered the police officer. “Fort; miles an hour? Why, I haven t been out an hour,” said * ho w0 “Go ahead,” said the officer. Ihats a new ore to me.’ SILVER. Some love the silver that is found in mines Where dwarfs were wont to play Before man camo with busy pick and axe To drive them all away. Some love the silver of the graceful birch That bends whcti winds go by, And others love the silver of the riouds That sail along the sky. But I adore the silver of your hair, Brought from the mine of years, To make a lovely halo round your life Of rainbow smiles and tears. —Violet Alleyn Storey.