... Standing By One Thing and Another Bv D. B. Wyndham Lewis QUITE rightly-- as you will agree if you study some of the faces peer ing daily through the railings of Wellington Barracks when the Guards parade-- quite rightly did that honest ex-sergeant who gave evidence in the Fainting Drummer-boy Case scourge some of those cat-calling critics for their ignorance. Emotionalism is making such ...

... By HENRY LONGHURST IT was with special interest that I watched the match between Addington and Cambridge University the other day. The club team, though weakened by the absence, for various reasons, of Cyril Tolley and Rex Hartley, was still one of the strongest that has turned out against a University, and the names of Walker Cup players stretched far down the list. In addition tp this, ...

... D; 'Profiteering j By FITZWILLIAM h^. D EVERY period has its scapegoats; in the days of Titus Oates it was the Plot; in 1820 the waltz was to blame; to-day the profiteer lies at the root of all evil, and whoever seems to make a living is suspect. At every dinner table the owner of a rolling mill is reviled equally with the newsagent who makes a charge for delivering the morning paper every ...

... £>of A I f\ I J A Js ffl^ OUR OWN ELECTION ADDRESS r^ Im Basil NacdonalcL Uastinas. No doubt you have studied with close attention the election addresses of the Conservative, Liberal, and Labour leaders. You have probably come to the conclusion that Mr. Baldwin thinks he can get you a little more tin, Mr; Asquith wishes you to keep what tin you have, and Mr. Macdonald-- (we do wish these ...

... i By JINGLE. THE gentleman in the box office seemed mildly amused at the extravagant idea that he could have any seats to bestow upon the mere Press in view of the very obvious success of this Song Show. So I broke the news as gently as I could to Harris and led the lad into the dreary shallows of the pit. He choked down a sob as he heard the fatal words from the pay box standing room only, ...

... . The New Cabinet. BY the time these lines are read we shall know more about the new Cabinet. Bonar Law, Chamberlain, Barnes, Balfour, Curzon, Churchill, and Geddes are, of course, certainties, but this leaves a wide margin for the introduction of new blood. The present House consists of a lot of new men, some of whom have distinguished themselves in their pre-parliamentary career, and who are ...

... (Regd.) (Regd.) W eatherproof s 9 44 REWARD of MERIT OFFICERS from the front testify that is the one Weatherproof that affords ample protection in any weather. OBTAINABLE of OUTFITTERS in EVERY TOWN ...

... THE 684R BRIGADE R.A. DINNER THE C.-O. AND SOME OF HIS OFFICERS--! BY FRED MAY The annual mess dinner was held at the head-quarters of the 68th Field Brigade Royal Artillery at Stoney Lane, Birmingham. The Brigade, which is commanded by Lieut.-Colonel A. W. Newman, M.C., T.D., proved its efficiency during the last annual training by winning the highest honour for territorial artillery in the ...

... Pictorial Politics, The Retreat. THE explanation the German authorities gave to their own people, that their' re treat on the An ere is a volun tary shortening of the line with a view to a concentration of troops elsewhere, will not hold water on examination of the map. The bulge that the Eng lish advance has made in the line since the commencement of the offensive on July 1 last year has ...

... . The First Swallow. THE action of Messrs. John Brinsmead, the hundred- year old piano manufacturers, whose name is known all over the world, in closing down their works on account of the demands of labour for high wages without relative production, and for unskilled labour to be paid entirely out of proportion to the highly skilled men, is perhaps the first of a great many similar happenings. ...

... _ cx> IMIosil of She Game By RALPH RUMBLE. THE whirligig of time brings in his revenges. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 is very much like Mr. Baldwin in 1923. Both were tempted into a premature election, and both have suffered the consequences of their rash ness. When Mr. MacDonald went to the country he was assured by his party managers that everything was ready to the last gaiter-button, and ...

... Pictorial Politics. The Election. A FEW days from now the result of the great election will be known, which should assuredly mean that Mr. Lloyd George will be returned to carry on in peace, with an overwhelming, or rather suffi cient, majority the great work of re construction he has planned in his speeches. The country welcomed with acclaim the five points that Mr. Lloyd George issued last ...