'The protest which the Chinese government has made to the British, French and United States' governments in connection with the emergency proclamation of January 1, warning that any person committing an offence against armed forces in the International Settlement will be liable to be handed over to the armed forces concerned, follows such municipal action. But in taking the step it did was merely acting in conformity with the realities of the situation. The fact is that men, either with or without the connivance and consent of the Chinese authorities have been endeavouring to use this neutral Settlement as a base for acts calculated to embarrass the Japanesa forces. That constituted a definite threat to the neutrality and safety of the area concerned, and the Municipal Council is perfectly entitled to take whatever steps may be considered necessary to protect the people residing under its jurisdiction.—The Municipal Council and the Powers are entitled to demand that the interests of their in A vou no man I know went abroad, A trip he could hardly afford.
At the local casino He lost every "beano"
And had to come back "carriage ford."
"Be an Alligator"
You go to a man drinking his tenth whisky and say: "Stop that; be a man!" But you do not say to an alligator, eating his tenth missionary: "Be an alligator!" For an alligator has no vision of what alligatordom might be.
PIN Aphorism Ar a time of threatened coal shortage in Germany, Lincoln's famous aphorism was adapted and applied to Hitler thus: "You can fuel some of the people all the time, and all the people some of the time, but you cannot fuel all: the people all the time."
Nei Motorist: "I had the right of way when this d man ran into me, et you say I waz to blame."
Cop: "You ly were."
Motorist: "Why?"
Cop: "Because his father's the mayor, his brother's the chief of police, and I'm engaged to his sister."
By Degrees "Way have you no speedometer on your car?" asked the passenger who was being given a lift.
"I don't need one with this old "bus" replied the driver. "At thirty miles an hour the lamps. clatter; at forty, the wings rattle; at fifty, the whole car shakes; and if I go any quicker than that my teeth chatter."
Coneentrate "Tue surtax on any amount of surtax net income not shown in the table is computed by mean adding to the surtax for the largest amount Shown which is less than the income, the surtax upon the excess over the amount at the rate indicated in the table."—Instruction on income-tax blank. We contend that the-government should supply a slide rule, prayer book, and ouija board with each income-tax return-form.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.