ENGLAND'S MENACE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 154, 29 December 1930, Page 8

ENGLAND'S MENACE

THE SENSIBLE PEOPLE

Mr. Holbrook Jackson, at the Drapers' Chamber of Trade Summer School at Cambridge, declared that life in England was being made intolerable by sensible,people. "The English people," he said, "are surely the most comic in the world. They are busily engaged in destroying the beauty of one of the most beautiful countries in the world with their monstrous and ineffectual buildings and their desecration of our peaceful moments with the noise of automobiles, particularly motor-cycles and aeroplanes. If you develop that Sensibleness which is i ruining England, your children will wako up and find themselves living in a standardised and mechanised factory. Thfcy will have no names, only very beautiful numbers. They will all wear the samo sort of clothes, and eat Uie same sort of food." ■ „ Mr. Jackson commented on the conversation of modern business men when they gathered together at banquets, or other functions. It seemed, he said, to be made up entirely of funny stories. "When business men get together nowadays,'they indulge in nothing but chain stories. I would like to give you a piece of adviue, and that is to abstain from telling any stories about Scottish meanness. Tlio world is pestered by alleged humorists, yelling out stories about Scotsmen. You cannot even listen in without hearing them. The 8.8.C. is a national institution, ■and ought to bar any more Scottish for at least ten v_ears.' J. ,