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(Continued From Pirst Page.) fimfifli’%& drclu‘?hnm e to seed since the advent of the international centered in Moscow took all the out of the pale, timid-talking international in which Juares, ting and MacDonald cut such figures before the war. And the mistake would . be yours. Glancing around, you would perceive with a start of amazement the defeatist pacifist at of a national ministry which contains—good God—the leaders of the militant imperialist Tories in subordi- | nate positions. the only explanation is that life is in- credible. You eye him mcre closely. He makes & more distinguished figure than any of his colléagues, although they now in- clude a bevy of earls, marquises and baronets. He looks as if he has taken w0 & b'u'.‘":’ B d its responsi 0 _spells of office an T - | bility have left their mark on him. If| he ever unconsciously dramatized him- self as the Soclalist he has discarded the role, and the man who confronts the world now is the conscious states- man. You remember he always had rather the air of a professor moving among his students, one who was affect- ing the confidence he wished to gain, | but not unbending too far because he | did not wish to endanger discipline, and also because he felt superior in spritual experience, knowledge and mental cali- ber. You observe now that his glclous slightly aloof air is distinctly enhanced. You look around for the Labor party which was his basis and which im- parted to him hh‘rewer. It is miss Once again you find that it has le him up in the air. But while in 1914 1t dropped him and, led by Arthur Hen- derson, rushed into the shambles, in 1931 the party has ironically chosen to play his own old defeatist role and thereby to incur the odium of all F;mouc elements by out and leavi him to make common cause with the Liberals and Torles and rally the nation against the world assault on the pound. Difference of Ideas. Surveying this study in iros and paradox it may occur to the detached observer that men's ideas as to what constitutes & national emergency differ widely, and that the man who is horror stricken at the idea of blood flowing in | a quarrel for national survival may quite as easily persuade himself that he is performing a duty to mankind '"i hting to defend the gold system which other men, as conscientious per- ‘The SmackS o [strike through an e % 4 23 § % But and so, way into It was e i ve Labor a parliamentary gi‘x enough for its leaders to ! right to f‘vm England's pol Socialist, who only happened by e mide}:nt of geo'npt hy to represent British movement. loped a parliamentary man- iy cumg:yr touch in the as- sembly. He felt at home in parliaments and assemblies—less at home in cabi- | { tal processes Wi proeiflu or endeavoring to persuade the grou of his colleagues in any ‘warm im.?mne way. Meantime he traveled widely, his friends and the Labor movement sup- plying the funds. He has moved about the world s0 incessantly that today he is the most traveled of all statesmen, | with the exception, perhaps, of Herbert Hoover, and certainly he is the onl: one who, at the sight of the Broadway ravine, could have sought a comparison and found it in the canal at Corinth. In se to understand the Mac- Donald of today, of yesterday and of tomorrow, it is necessary to recollect | that since boyhood he has known the | life of 3 toller among the masses only | from sympathetic observation. He was not thrown up from those mysterious jungles of the masses who labor with their hands for wzges. He is an intel- lectual who has helped the movement | grow as a gardener might tend a gar-| den that already has been seeded. That is a fairer way to put it th2g to quote | the sneer of scme of the present Labor antagonists that’ all along he was only a bourgeois pimple on the labor rock. He can, in oratory, touch those deeper, simpler, elemental strains of thought and feeling which elude the real intel- Jectual but which are part of the crowd, though his tastes and life always have been remote from those ind His object is not to achieve 4, ittle leisure. Abruptly Confronted by War. 1t was this internationally minded Boclalist who as ubru&'u; confronted believed .| ling before its nose Labor simply had to have Ramsay, its ablest Parliamen- | rison, anything constructive with his ity. it increased. ) ! | by Sociaet i HE segid s 5 h | and e Iy | to fear from ustrial | eventual showdown on he counted would be swung into battle against each other. It tore his soul to see national patriotic gov- sure which ever side won. He deluded him- self with the idea that the international Socialist movement, if given a chance, could persuade the ranks to throw down their arms and thus paralyze the war machine everywhere. ‘The reaction in England to this un- popular idealism, especially when it was accompanied by the unwise expression, “My German friends,” is too known to be retailed again here. ‘When the year 1922 opened men would have laughed at the idea that Ramsay MacDenald could conceivably return to lead the Labor party which had repudiated him. Wasn't he down and out as a political factor? He had not retracted, and didn’t that obviously make him impossible in a country which still had vivid memories of the war? ‘The question was put to a test in the Summer of that year in the anti-Labor stronghold of Aberavon. MacDonald encountered a strong local magnate and knocked him headlong by a 4,000 ma- jority. Once again the popular ideas of what the people were thinking an feeling were found to be falsified. The timid Labor party picked up heart. MacDonald, back among them, looked like the king wolf of the pack, Inside the week of his return he had been elected leader of the parliament- ary party and his associates claimed that the party would be the official op- . Labor always had Now it was feeling its oats. With the prospect of office dang- tarian of all, back to steer its boat. Bonar Law died, Baldwin succeeded him and made & premature protection- ist appeal to the people. The people smelled food taxes and threw him out. MacDonald formed the first Labor min- istry by the grace of Lloyd George's Liberals who held the balance of power. It was unique in that the Labor leader never had held any office of the crown before and now was suddenly elevated to the premiership. Unluckily for him his party committed friendly gestures toward Russis. The red international, contemptuous of the man it called the British Kerensky, let him down. The newspapers got hold of the famous red letter inciting the British fighting serv- jces to mutiny—a letter which Mac- Donald had not protested against with sufficient stren The fat was in the 3 e press presented the his na- Hor on. England's doorstep, st any B not on 's doorstep, the lock on the tes. Liberals, frightencd, their support. The ministry fell with a crash. try. In ht people gave Baldwin a record Mwm&mmzmmalu clean run of power for the full five- term. Ministry Mooches Along. the ral Tory ministry saw s Baldwin failed to do major- ‘The ‘Unemploymen! deepened. formed once in office, MacDonald's to unemployment proved | It couldn cured cure wash. 't be The i § i B . § g L 458 § ; 4 i i g i g i LEH i and Paris—credif sterling which had been threat- the melting away of the $250,- it ted the Bank of it 338 | Interesting Possibilities. Suppose he had turned and fought? ‘The opens interesting Dflssl-‘[ bilities, He ht have tried mobiliz- | ing some of itain’s foreign resources using them as security against | the loan. He might have offered $500,- 000,000 in British government bonds at 41; per cent to America. He might have turned to the bankers and said: “This is as much your fault as ours. |1t we have shaken ‘confidence by our | Or even dole policy you have shaken it equally | borrowing money at 2 per cent in | Paris and New York and relending it | at 8 per cent to Germany. You bank- ers have been in fact financing the | trade and industry of Britain's rivals. | You have more to fear from the plight | of the pound than we. You have more | the country than we. Now stand by us or take the conse- quences. He will balance the budget | and balance it by means satisfactory | to you, with the single exception of the | dole cut. And after all what is | dole cut you are insisting on? It | means & savings of around $60,000,000 out of a total of $600.000,000. We will, | however, reassure you by pledging that there will be no increase in benefit the life of our govern- tightening the adminis- tration and removing anomalies we | will save maybe $30,000,000. ! we_will not.” and fought along that lins he might have kept his ministry going and -8'3: credits or a loan. But to do g0 h> would have needed an all-abiding faiih | in the policies of his colleagues. And he o X uhl‘:?a'h“ l;lth. At some second premiersh here began to devel Aodlfi:rg. i ubts as to the wisdom and intentions of his col- leagues won—just as in 1914 his simi- lar conviction that they were wrong from hfhe‘n’.“ wit] b treq d h;.m Vhat ut_rey the future held for hl.mm G Opposition of Colleagues, ‘The opposition of his coll a dole cut affronted his ra:o‘::‘.”i’!'g knew the cost of living had fallen so that a cut of 10 per cent in the dole d pm{ politics. MacDonald was advised been a1 t ) Catholic Kings, but gradually the Hap$- Bourbon this | saved! But cut i C 3 It is possible that if he had stood In the | affi THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGT Perhaps ide ing confidence in that symbol upon whose integrity a large part of the world's trade and commerce is base vaguely hurt his internationalist soul. d also he must have reflected that if he stood out against a dole cut this would fortify new demands eventually increased benefits, for the whole history of unemployment in- surance as controlled by _politicians has shown benefits to be progressively increased under a pernicious system of mass bribery that all parties prac- tice at election time. The nettle has to be grasped some time, why not be the man to grasp it with insuring by his presence a mitigation of econ. omy measures 50 far as they affect the masses’ ’ ? Whatever thoughts played through MacDonald’s mind, they had not brought him to the point of a break with his colleagues up to the time he arrived at the end of his patience and went to see the king in response to a telephone call from his Scottish residence. He had it in mind to resign. What happened in the quiet library where the king recelved 2] we do not know. But we do know that the king was anxious for unity in the solution and hoped that the national crisis would not become the sport of to le!&on his decision to resign. He turning from the palace the next morning he told his colleagues that he had offered the king the resignition of his ministry and that the king had accepted it. “His majesty asked me to undertake the formation Of'l‘;!lothfl"’ ministry. I have told him One s icant incident occurred as the ministers got up and filed out— all except Snowden and Thomas. Mor- , 88 transport minister, was an outstanding success in the ministry. As they shook hands at the door Mac- Donald said, “I would not ask you to stay in any case, Morrison. You are young and have your career ahead of you. I am getting on toward 70 and hind me. -by. Good luck.” From which it would ap- pear that MacDonald thought he was oomm.lmn{‘pomlcl.l suicide. But politiclans are in a state of flux my career | general election, but the longer-he anything ‘happen to or about "mdenowa. flmu Torles want a elements . in the party are not so certain that an absolute majority would follow an appeal to the country immediately after the economy pr_t‘a{nn has gone d | through Parliament. ere is & grow- ing pressure in favor of the prolonga- tion of the MacDonald premiership of the national government far beyond the for | period originally intended. Beaverbrook has come out advising him publicly to appeal at once to the Donm.l."gl on the tariff issue and make himself the suc- est constructive statesman of his day. 1If however, when his immediate task is finished, he walks into the political desert, will he be lost, frustrated, dis- traught? I doubt it. He is 65 and rather tired. He has satisfied his hun- ger for power. He has experienced most extraordinary vicissitudes. ~Maybe he is not anxious for a third term as premier of a Labor government with a clear majority and agitating for Social- ism in our time. To go back to inter- nal party bickering after a national ministry premiership would be an anti- climax. The best thing that could hap- pen would be for him to* phz the role Briand plays in French ministries, for economics are not his life, while for- 1d | eign affairs are his life, but British party politics probably would not per- mit this. Before he became premier he sald he could be happiest in retirement at his native Lossiemouth in the midst of his eighteenth century library. He gon there every Summer with his au{“m- Ishbel to_golf and to dig in his little garden, He can afford to have a town house in his favorite Hampstead now, too. The work of his pen commands a price that will enable him to travel and to make money traveling. He is sure, also, of a welcome and hospitality, and the contact with fine minds wherever he goes about the world. He loves travel movement. Air or train journeys that tire most people are a relaxation for him. He was never a great maker of friends. But the few friends he had are very close and ntutylnr. No, if Ramsay MacDonald leaves the national ministry, walks forth into the political wilderness and never finds his way back from that wilderness, he will not _eat his heart out or need the sym- pathy of those who understand best his reticent and romantic nature. Chief of Spanish “Yankees” (Coatinued From Third Page.) Michael Servetus (1511-1553) stealing half-dead soldiers from the battlefields and established much before Harvey, the ¢ of the circulatio of the blood— but just the same (because his road to did not begin at Geneva) burned at the stake Calvin. ‘The lustiness of Lully, Servetus and to Catalonia—the a of Verdaguer’s passionately mbuAl: Catalo- doxically enough, from this prolific, in- dustrial corner, from this corner of fac- tories and machines, of vines, es ceramics have come most of and Spain’s modern music and 5 PRt s e e ) children want to leave their B) mother? The Catalans feel historically self- conscious. A luminous past and a pro- t have contaminated t is possible, with an infec- tious superiority complex. They have greatness, and they are today gredtest producers; they provide 80 nt of Spain's revenues. And why su) entire pro- separatism is rooted, to'a certain ex- tent, in this Catalan sense of power and adroitness and vitality. Then again, there are certain griev- . | lant terranean. Her flags and gon- falons waved over the Balearic Islands, over Sicily, over Sardinis, over - the coasts of Africa and the Levant. Her blossomed into robust literary cathedrals raised ing. Europe precipitated herself into the Atlantic. Castile consolidated Spain, and Spain Europe and the Americas. was the magnet in the desert, forcing all glances to_two bltf or beneficial centers: First, Toledo, then Madrid. Castile unified every significant effort, every fertile ex- P ression. Catalonia feared, admired and hated Castile much before Columbus and the burg and the tentacles, stretch- her fear ing out w 1y, and admiration into sheer hatred. days of XIII— for these 400 rsistently er national ethos. It has harmful a,nd irretrievabl been a pain- to mankin . | der & shower of inglorious epithets, Macia declaed sinid entSustaStic. oo worse still, he declared in public that he was the heir of Philip V—the heir of Catalonia’s archenemy! Primo de Rivera threatened Cambo, the greatest Catalan (and therefore the greatest Spanish) financier because he discussed in :.Itllln the stabilization of the pes And, naturally, when the monarchy fell, the Catalan “Visca la Republica!” sounded previous to and much louder than the Castilian “Viva la Republical” Favor Won by Macia. ‘There was especially a tall, slender, gray-haired gentleman, a kindly man, over 70, who exclaimed “Catalans, you are free!” and the enthusiastic crowd replied “Visca Francesc Macia!” Yes, live Macla. His entire life con- centrated into this utterance of free- dom. Faithful to the cause of democ- racy and autonomy, he had endured, imperturbably and quixotically, imprisonment. scorn. ulll'x'um x'm blé‘th ;v, vh“!:m“t:t: found e great motive for existence and his action. At school he carried away all the prizes, all the medals. And after school, the army—a brave, courageous, truthful soldier won & colonelcy. Col. ive voice and a definite ideal. Catalans listened to him and, contaminated by his en- thusiasm, followed his trajectory. Events rushed to a culmination and history became spectacular. On November 5, 1926, Macia tried to enter Catalonia from France with a handful of gal- men. French surety agents swooped down, seized the scanty b g:’y of arms and ammunition (boml ught at the Flea Market of Paris) and arrested the plotters. During _the melodramatic trial, on January 20, 1927, it was disclosed that the failure of the rebellion was mainly due to a certain Ricciotti Garibaldi, grandson of the immortal hero. The evidence deposed and Garibaldi’s actua! confession ed that he was ‘“an show! While the Ital- un- . | agent provoedteur in the pay of Fascist government.” ian “spy” was ap- ‘organized and ex- patriotic motives.” A Xt Nevertheless, Col. Macia and 15 ylthm were convicted on the charge of illegally possessing arms and foment- ing a gouuul plot on French territory against a foreign power.” They were sentenced to two months in jail and fined 100 francs. The fine was im- mediately paid by sympathizers; and Col. Macia did not re-enter jail—he had already spent more than two months there while awaiting trial. When on March 23 he left for Brussels, from the vast crowd assembled in the Gare du mor;i c:me this mhl‘t remark: “You, least, are not leaving France Garibaldi!” . . . ‘e Indeed, . Macia changing headquarters. In wife, son and daughters took good care of him, tried to make him eat at regu- lar hours and go to bed early. Macia smiled and went on working; the poet Fhey tabeea was merely Brussels his inds | Gassol stood close by him. last. In 1714 Philip V deprived Catalonia of her Cortes and liberties. A barren century followed. Crushed, she sank| into a horrid letl , only to awake in | the nineteenth century, eager to_face | the pressure of historical events. From | 1822 on, year after year, Spain took away from her; the right to teach and use the guage, the commercial code, :l“ privilege, the regional a All ‘this ‘may sound like a terrible | accusation. But no, Spain is not en-| tirely to be blamed. An ennenndl‘ sense of patriotism frequently prompted | Catalonia to implore help from France England, Ingmnlfll{lflil ct‘l;;“ old Spanish lioness not e | enjoy the unruly behavior and had to show her sharp claws now and then. | On the other hand, a circumspect his- | torian, Ambassador Madariaga, has claimed that it was when governed “not by the Catalan but by the Castil- fan dynasty” that Catalonia reached the “crest of her culture.” | Nineteenth Century Products. | The nineteenth century brought about the Catalan renaissance: Hymns, flags, newspapers, riots. Catalonia | Poets and dramatists de‘mdi and trained the prohibited, muth‘ abused Jangusge. An excess of pas- | slon flowed from gfln resses, 508D | boxes, stages and pulpits. c-monhl asked her autonomy from m"mi X11, from _the Queen ent, from | Primo de Rivera, from Alfonso XIIL | To no avail. But Catalonia existed, ionia_disconcerted and frightened | . There were the Centre Nacion- | tala, the Unio Reglonalista, the | 5 re was a man named Cambo | and another named Macia. The Cata- | lan ideal crystallized and Catalan words | gave it emphatic signification: “We want: ] “], An sutonomous Catalan state with sovereign power in internal Catalan lan- | the coin: airs; “2. A Catalan Parliament or usuh- a;e um]nbly, responsible to the Cata~ people; “3. A Catalan executive, responsible only to Parliament; “4, Institution of Catalan law; «5. Catelan judicial power with a high court of appeal for all in Catalonia; 2 “g, Officlal recognition of the Cata- lan language and free use of it in all an funcf public and private; 4 %rll unicn op!fl the different put the jobless back where the; :h:‘n the increased rates ey the greatest war in his Erattind of e that the movement was g ial interests, went in, he Soclalist ‘The masses were ted wmwmumflu eign affairs, relatio; in, controlled by a central | frontiers, , they thought about they planned together the constitution of a free Catalonia. The poetical hero and the heroic poet shared :r m‘utull dream. Catalonia would be ee! And in a few months Macia was on the road again. The Argentine consul refused to visa hfs passport, but Macia al code, the#moved on, stopping at closed ports, smiling and moving on. deportations, exiles? Macia traveled on, spreading and making popular his gospel of revolt. He What were ‘Was an inspired canvasser, an ideal publicity | the movie man, using headlines only. Macia’ glgflmage and adventures kept c-nf nia alive. | Winter. The duel lasted 10 years. D. C., SEPTEMBER 20, 1931—PART TWO Count Bethlen, Dean of Ministers, Passes Amid Poli (Continued From First Page.) himsel solidly committed to of the status quo. And Britain was re- mote, unconcerned with Central Euro- pean issues. And France and Britain were the very nations with whom the Magyars the closest intellectual anld' soclal :u;ch:‘kms & Bt ‘was, fact, a poor hand. uf Bethlen had to make the best of it. Nor had he more than taken office plaver who almost made a st«u;:l"up could not forever * § when a scandal for which he was not | car responsible shook Europe and brought new condemnation upon Hungary. Two lttel:z!prhmof g Emperor Charles 0: recot e ngarian throne rouses the Little Entente states and brought their armies to the very edge of the |we frontier on"a new march to Budapest. And, like all other Hungarian states- | his mn,om:xe: g a mo;url: ist. Thus in ays of his regime he twice saved his country from itself. Thereafter, patiently, calmly, in utter isolation, because no one shared his confidence, he constructed a policy. He e :Yl-refl his people the horror of a new | day: len occupation, he stamped out the smoldering _embers of Red insurrec- tion. He brought political order and domestic tranquillity. However, he al- ways was confront with the fatal lmww had jmposed upon his Seated on “Cross-Roads.” “We are seated at the cross-roads of history,” he said to me once, sitting in the home of Magyar le ministers on Buda Hill looking out over Pesth. are between the Slavs of the North and the South, and we have similarly been caught between the Germans and ‘Turks. We are a small people, but the fi:nd which we occupy is strategic. t, in the end, will do wi us? We must go somewhere. West drive us to Russia Germany?” That was in the earlier years of his | P! power. In the end he went to Rome. Not because at heart he sympathized with Fascism. You cannot see the Black Shirt gospel appealing to a Prince of Transylvania. But France was able to think of Central Europe only in terms of Benes, and Britain thought of it not at all. And Bethlen had no mind to follow Andrassy to Berlin, for in the subordination of Austro-Hungarian to German policies contemporary Hungary sees the explanation of its present ruin. But the welcome Mussolini gave was in the end Bethlen’s undoing. the great crisis of the Anschluss swept over Europe last Spring it coincided with the world-wide economic crisis, and Hungary, an agricultural nation, stripped of its capital by war, revolu- tion and foreign occupation, was finan- cially embarrassed. Money was to be had only in Paris and, if the financial terms were not impossible, the political terms were usurious. Because Bethlen had for 10 years made hopeless, but by no means inconsiderable, head against the Little Entente, against the whole French system of status quo, he had to go. Pass Under French Yoke. Under other circumstances this duel between Benes and Bethlen would have attracted world “attention, this battle between the old and the new, Hungarian who is of the house of princes, this Czech, who is still a young | of academician—"an unrepentant Demo- crat” as he told me at Geneva ;._h&i e fate of Central Europe, in & measure, hung on the outcome. It was decided in the end by the French franc. Had Benes been beaten, Hui might have hoped for some relief, some partial recovery of the lost provinces. Now and for & time which cannot be measured hope must be deferred. The Magyars in their turn have had to pass under the French yoke. Bethlen's departure was like him. He had won a recent election, arranged a French loan, set his political house in crder, Neither nation nor his friends knew of his decision, but one day, out of the blue, he announced his departure. Swiftly, silently, as he had the | country ind then vanished the obscurity he loves. He is devoid of any of the arts of the pol - ple, direct, but withal dominated the sadness born of the ruin in whicl his country and he have shared. “I will come to your farm and sit on your veranda and smoke my pipe like Stanley Baldwin and Foch; he his battles by smoking his pipe,” he said to me in May in . “But, alas, not this year. I shall be busy this year.” And now that he is prime minister, the prophecy has come true. When he became foreign minister less than a year ago, all the European ress was filled with the stories of the new Cincinnatus who had left the plough for the foreign office, who had come reluctantly and stayed uawil- lingly. Sadness Hard fo Picture. Tt is hard to present to any western audience any exact picture of the sad- ness which fills the lives of all Hun- garians today. Sitting at a luncheon table at Buda, my hostess said to me: “We were seven Cl n, and of the five who survive, four are citizens of different countries, although they live on land which has always been theirs.” And, as 1 left, she showed on her doorway the marks of Bolshevist bul- lets. Also, through the open window jooking toward the river, she pointed out where she first saw the river - boats bringing rescue from the N In the Hungarian newspaper you may still read from time to time of Mag- yars wandering home, having at last escaped ' from Siberian exile, begun when when W in 1914-1918. lyl has been com- pelled to bend his country to French will, He must take French money and do French blddlnmg. I n\: uem‘pnh now, occupying e Al Tes] ce of the premier, almost smothexed the appalling magnificence of the ad- joining palace of the regent, which was once the royal residence of the Haj burgs; still resigned, a little impatient e futility of politiclans and public life, as all men vof the country are, wreathed in the smoke of his pipe. Will Plow Straight. Karolyl will hold his reins of office as he would hold those of the plow. His furrow will be straight, but back of mci ere prisoners of war | this by |at all of solt ma, o, wit Tikely bs unsadistacteory to extreme wets and m:: is with their fowerd part | dents seem to have unsatisfactory to| the gone conservative. Moscow Begins Razing Largest Church In Soviet Campaign to Destroy Religion ture chances of on T Pyt sideration that there are signs of tendency to replace the artel, with comparatively loose organization, the more highly soclalized 3 Few Worshipers in Moscow. As for Moscow, o too much has been nt visif ranging in size and importance the Cathedral of the Redeemer to in- gavxg.p‘l’c:ou:r:hupeh. and nal one of the The vast, majority of the comm s years of age. " o Ulitza n gathered for worship them appeared to bs old. "l(nn than 20 of the group M ttlllfluumenmofme%g of the country, who has abandoned poor remnant of his lands to serve an afflicted country. He 15 the only public man I have ever | among othe met in Europe in all the post-war pe- riod for whom office is' without charm and, in fact, the single contemporary of whumhi‘tdmflld justly be statesman said that the office in fact sought the man and literally dragged him into “&"55.“;.’2‘ 1931, by McClure New: r S dm%uu.) o Conservatism Is Ruling as Latest Fad On Campuses of American Universities (Continued From Third Page.) that she had never been glorified (or publicized) before. Seated behind me was an alumnus, somewhat artificially stimulated, who went into ecstasies of delight at the sight of the band. “Some band!” he kept shouting. “Some band! And he to gcl;lmed,h “Bill, ltdx?-n nd in the world!” 1 noted, however, tdhlt many of the unde luates around me were & deal rl‘er::denmusluue about the band. They were wriggling around, somewhat embarrassed and uncertain, I thought. It might have been the quality of the gin, T reasoned, but it seemed more like disapproval, Finally one youngster said not too loudly: “Well, get that band out of there and let the game start! I didn’t bet on the band!” He and his fellows quite obviously disapproved off. In an earl their predecessors their feet, yelling their heads off for the band, the mule, the loyal sentimental drunks, or anything or anybody else that showed any i&muunto( F":mmy' that Siwash was the greaf s thgflws t of the lot, and God bless her. Decay of Spirit Denied. & ve this marked decline in w‘efirflm“foé ball exuberance indi- cates a decay in sening of genuine interest in foot ball as a game. I think it is only & part of an undergraduate change-over toward volt against extremes. conservatism—a r;“ o e description of dances depicted on screen in comic weeklies, these dances are the last word in gin and “necl ,» ‘That may have a true picture a fe! 3 the t college generation In April, 1930, Col. Macia was par-| h doned and his return to Catalonia marked the beginning of new riots .nld unfortunate clashes, of bloodstained streets and tattered flags and “Visca Catalunya!” And so Macia was exiled once more, only to return in February, 1931, into a boiling Spain, at the eve | of grievous happenings. The hour had arrived; March ended, and with April the monarchy. The Catalans | end looked around for one man, for the man; no other name sounded, for there was z:ls"mone n?.madc‘,l' Macia was unanimously acclal preside Catalan Generalitat. KRt Tae (“Catalonia is an '{ohe new l;:"&:"wl autonomous thin the Spanish republic,” etc.) accepted by the p;lgm_ scite of August 2 summarizes the will of 2,500,000 souls, and the will of millions of dead in the course of thorny cen- turfes of struggle. Prancesc Macia has not lived in vain! May the will of the people save the Spanish republic and restore Spain to the lofty position she once held and which now, on a sounder mmuniutlan. it will be easier for her to P Canada Starts Drive On Income Tax Dodgers income tax dodgers. A staff of young experts is being added to the federal they will find $5,000,000 in revenue from tax evaders. Last year 142,514 Canadians - come tax. Of these 62,700 had mn'::- a:::ee{:, 9':'3003 ;nwa,ooo. No fewer A A 553?",5“;5- ween $5,000 and e balance who division of income wnpn'nmk:l?:w:x ,',“,f for for- the fed: meral | $10,000 tween $9,000 and $10,000, 2,607; between and 815, 75 betwes $20,000 and :25 m. et n 000 and 30, Y e larly so if com) monly llileld in enerally. A For nf\s change, the faculty commit- tees on student supervision can claim little credit, for they are able to do now no more than they ever did. Nor do I credit it to a quickened moral sextse or to any kind of fear. 1t is all related to the peculiar ul;npuis“ :we of what “is being done” and W isn't done.” Again, it is & revolt against extremes. 1t is perhaps in the fleld of personality and ufifvm"m '.hl:” trend toward re- serve conservatism is most noticeable to those who are in constant contact with colle un tes. Your college youl who is “in the mode” is comparatively unobtrusive, genteel, ha quite a lot mwrfl-blle - urfu%:u" a eal less situations in which there aje people who are easily irritated by youthful manne; than were his other broth- ers. 1 can remember when it was the func- been | about the security of their descril “just simply | avolded by those lads who can pick and choose, and are foréed to be content with getting “blind dates” with second- raters. The popular type now may not differ greatly from her in morals, brains or social n, but she must have finesse and reserve. She must be like the still waters that run his com| jon and | de=p. A college dean can always raise a laugh when, in an optimistic moment, he states that students are studying. good | “Don't wake him up!” exclaim the stu- dents. But it really seems to be get- tmzw'beulmmt:hf:donmyt cam| 0 pretend ve & somewha mu\'lmm interest in certain flelds of knowledge related to modern roblems, Not al ntelligent or is lier coll mmegve been on | house leges there is a wing inf Jjournalism and lh‘:‘gry writing of smart sort, as well as a revival o 3 & & e g 2y oo Rl of SN Vo with 87,000 on January .l., , ol 1w 1 " the edi- workers are “But o you must un “that many of the older still devout, and that 2 fg i ‘within’ have been almost the Soviet Union.” World Court Foes Gain as Decision newspaper supporters of that plan are registering strong disappointment over the court's recent performance. The New York Times says: “The 8-7 deci- the Austro-German tariff terest in debating. Parents who may | gays read this need not be alarmed lest losophers, presidents worry too grea places. The hasn't other fad comes al to Not only in mum-mol :«m importance, but also in their attitude cn questions holding adult interest are college students of tion tending to these matterc they are quite likely to ?:m{’ound going down the middle of the Wary of War Problems. 1t is popularly supposed that many student bodies are seething with aroused excitement over the question of pfifiemmn'r: nuuurlmi’ A lot of cf 'ns considerably worried what insidious g EAgry college udent and likely say, flippantly, “Never he it.” As a matter of fact, most studenta are fairly well informed on this sub= some Itat irritates to take sides, ta lua A titude iming: “A p‘:uu on F‘?th your houses! You're both nl..l . M. C. A. secretaries and sym- | o, members to take green an lessen OTTAWA—Cansds is going atter | loao income tax bureau, and it is expected uu;'m thought too and ref will be four numm blackballed be- deemed too forward and boys are import- A few years ago be sensational, more 80 are dets who had been com ter of military duty, address. “What did Bill?” asked one. “Somebody ought tell fl;le old b&y h‘:‘t‘gfl “fl; war's over, was the lacon! reply. On the other hand, radical negn ora- tors attempting to speak Jore large student audiences run risks—not being taken out and shot at sunrise but of being given a juicy “raspberry.” It is just as unlikely that present- ¢ay undergraduates would refuse to fl'mlnl.henmnrunbtmzmcy march down & street in a military pa- rade without burlesquing it in every way they can without being flunked in their military courses. 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