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Great Britain In Throes Of A National New Birth British People Have At Last Answered With Categorical Negative the Question of ^ hether the Ineffable Suffer And Sacrifice of Past Ten \ ears Shall he Quite in Vain lly KKAXK H. SIMONriS <'opyrli:htf<l 1W24 by MfClui* \cHs|M|iri' Syndicate London, Feb. 23. ? "England in revolution." This is what the press would have you believe, the British press of the present moment, in London especially. The Labor government new- 1 ly come to power is just mak ing initial bow to Parliament, already having manufactured three brand-new pears to double Labor's representation in the House of Lords. Precedent, tradition, evreything, I seems tumbling down in a fashion which could only happen in a revo lutionary country and ? this is the odd circumstance ? it is happening in England as it could never happen) elsewhere, for, at bottom, about the British revoulution there is not the smell of revolution in the ordinary sense. The red flair does not fly on Buckingham Palace or anywhere else. Ramsay MacDonald bids fair to be the most constitutional of pre miers, Just as the British revolu tion promises to be the most consti tutional of revolutions. Yet it is a revolution, stirring to the very depths national life and national feeling. The arrival of the Labor government for the first time is as significant a fact in English history as Fascism in Italy or even remoter Bolshevism in Russia. It would be a mistake to say Labor had captured Britain. It hasn't. In voting strength at the last election it amounted to hardly a quarter. In the new House of Commons it is less than one third, yet just as Britain long ago had a limited mon archy, it has resolved now for the moment to have a limited revoluton. Note, then, how characteristically British has been the fashion In which decisions have been register ed. The Tory party hns beaten ov erwhelmingly, beaten the Liberal party, and passed Labor by a little con tern ptouHly; yet the Labor oppo sition, constitutionally bound to be invited to form a government, finds itself in the minority, able to do no te rslgned by the Liberals; for with-j out the Liberal votes Labor cannot remain in office. What Does It Mean? Then it is revolution in a strait jacket, on good behaviour, on an al lowance. Yet once more illogical British common8cnse appears. Al though labor is in the minority, it cannot frivolously or wantonly be thrown ont of office. It will not do for the Tories and certain Liberals, striking hands secretly, to dust the labor government, because the element of fair play enters here. The will of the majority, plainly spoken, is that Labor shall have a fair chance ? the square deal Colonel Roosevelt used to talk about. Let Labor seo what it can do about it. Under all circumstances let it, within limits and reason, have a chance without Interference. You must see the key is all there, that this revolution Ih essentially British. It borrows nothing of Rus sia. Lenin is not spiritually or in doctrine the master of Ramsay Mac Donald. Britain rather inarticu lately has demanded a new deal, but there must still be 52 cards. They must still be cut and dealt in accordance with usage, To illus trate with a figure there must be no "joker." By contrast, old players with their old tricks must play fair, too. Now with such qualifications, what dors the British revolution mean? In a sense, no one knows. It is too now, too unexpected, even to those who expected it eventually, to permit exact definition, accurate appraisal. Yet one thing it does mean, unmistakably: it is as truly an outgrowth of war and after war as Bolshevism or Fascism. If it has many roots, If there are Innumerable causes, one patent. * unmistakable cause lies in the utter, Intense, na tion-wide weariness of those leaders who In war and in peace, to the minds of the masses, have not led. Weary Of Old Leaders It may he economic, it may be po-4 lltical, it may bp social, but neither economic, political nor social fac tors alone would have sent Ramsay MacDonald to Downing Street. 1 In Stanley Baldwin's speech to his par ty on the eve of the opening of par [ llamment, the all-significant state * inent is made that youth, much of It, I has escaped and that It must be re covered If the Tory party Im to come back to power. The desertion or par tial desertion of youth at this time means that .thousands and thousands who fought in the war have quit old party moorings and renounced former party leaders, not out of en thusiasm for any new gospel, but out of weariness and anger, much of both, for the things that hap pened between 1014 and 1018, for the thinks that did not happen be tween 1918 and 1023. Labor would not be in power to day on I*ahor principles, policies and leaders, even though It is the best Organised political unit In the country. It Is in power because it off* red theN country an alternative to what had been. Its power Is rigidly limited until It demonstrates that affirmatively It can do much or anything. The alternative is ncrw presented: either Labor can do more than others and will show capacity and courage, putting water in- Its wine but still keeping enough wine, in , which case it may tomorrow have more votes; or the old parties per-] i celving the meaning of the lesson will learu. and then Labor, having I faHed. will have to step down and j go away. But first, since the sport ling spirit in always uppermost. Labor must have its chance, its fair and full chance. ^ljere is. I. think, a deep and im portant distinction between Labor its. -if ? the men and the movement, interesting as these are and impor tant in Britain, in Europe and in I America ? and the state of mind i which has made a Labor govern ment possible. Britain has not ! gone Labor; Scotland has pei .taps. I Wales has possibly, and much < f in dustrial North England, yes. But Britain as a whole, no, emphatically no. It has merely consented that the labor experiment be tried. I>cep Seated Resentment "We are In an appalling mess here." most Englishmen of all par ties would say. "We tried the Liberals, we got in war; we tried Coalition and, if it finally ended, war, we have not got peace. We tried the Tories who promised' tranquility, and we got a new elec- 1 tlon to Impose protection. Let us try Labor, now. So far it has not let us down." In America. I Uiink. there is too great readiness to asso- , ciate a Labor overrun with the doc trines not only of the Labor party itself, but of Socialism on the con tinent. We see Bolshevism In every radical manifestation, partly, per haps, because most of our radical* ! are Europeans. The striking thing one notes on the spot is the amaz ing degree to which this British Donald today commands the most amazing political army that perhaps any leader ever marshalled. In Its range It extends from dead centre1 to left. Its racial fringe, believing in violent direct action, is only mo mentarily restrained by any sem blance of discipline. This fringe, coming from Clydeside ? from the mines, may break away. If Mac Donald yields to it. he. will go out 1 promtly. If he puts his foot dov:n. the extremists may desert him and with their desertions the party may become middle class instead of I^abor. No one can predict. If Ramsay MacDonald can control wild tuen he may yet prove the greatest after war statesman Britain has had. But If you are to understand the British revolution ? a revolution only as you add the national adjec tive ? you must see that with all Its limitations within and without it goes very, very, deep.; It arises out of specific griev ances. inadequate housing, inade , quate education and subnormal standards of living. It arises out of national discontent, orderly not vio 1 lent, instinctive rather than articu late. The Tories recognize It as i readily as the radicals, only argu | ing that they are better qualified I to express it. which may In the end prove true; but for the moment they j have lost their turn. A National Rebirth If one may Judge superfically, there is stirring in Britain a pro found desire for change, spontane ous, nation-wide, a force revealing . I itself not to destroy the England that was but to make a new England, a feeling among the masses that they have a higher conception, a finer; idea for their country than those who have led them have been able (4* express In action. War, with its agonies and suffer- j Ings, and after war. with its stark miseries, for the moment paralyse J Britain. Her nerves and senses were deadened, first by her afflic tions. then by her disappointments. Hut from the bottom rather than from the top there is evidence of a new spirit, a moving spirit, which more than once before has brought youth to this old land, another pe riod of greatness when decay and ruin were foremost. Labor may or may not express this British renaissance which is. I believe, the outstanding fact in Eng land today, but Labor has been in vited to do it within the rigid limits of British character, because neith er of the older parties has felt the breath of this new-old England. But along- with the new spirit goes the great, solid commonsense of the people which has not been shaken. Neither the prestige nor the ultimate prosperity of the coun try is in peril or will be. British securities ought to go up. not down in the face of this new vitality, bo cause it is in all party members, al though Lahor has the first cbance to express It. What the country thinks is perhaps best expressed in advice gratuitously handed the Prime Minister from the crowd as he passed the House of Commons: "Good old Mac, now ge* on with it." At home and abroad, this new Brit ain does not mean that the Ineffable suffering and sacrifice of the. recent past shall go for nothing, and it has felt dumbly that it might be. even that it was beginning to be, per haps for the moment it was even submitted to in grim, bitter, disillu sionment; but that mood is past.: There has been a sense of enormous frustration, futility, failure, accept ed at first, then finally rejected. "Was it after all quite in vain?" men and women have been asking of the ten terrible years that have passed. Somehow, almost Inarticu lately, you feel that the British peo ple are at last responding with a ca tegorical negative. The great fart: in England today Is this new spiri . j It is revolution. Labor may expre: ? it, but. Labor falling; it will sti , get itself expressed. NINETY ACRES HIGH LAND Easily drained, located near Crookej Creek In Camden County about 200 yard* from the Main lload. Will Mil or trade. Apply to Gallop & Sawyer ??0 C THE BODTHBRN MAOABKK IS OF AND FOR THE SOUTH The March issue of The Southern Magazine, published at Nashville, Tennessee, will be off the press on February 25. With the exception of this publi cation, there is not .throuK>KUl ine entire South today a single general representative magazine, and there is a vital and most pressing need for one. Xo other agency could render to the South a more pecu liarly valuable, constructive service this time than such a publication. ^Since the beginnings of American history, the South has played her full part In the civilUut-tion and de velopment of this country and has contributed her full share to Its greuthcss. The blood of her sol die i*8 had reddened tii?- earth in every war; the genius of litr states men has been woven into the fabric of the Government and the achieve ments of her patriots have enriched tbf history and glCTified the tradi tions of the nation, and yet this is what Gilbert K Chesterton, the not- 1 ed Kngiish publicist has to say of Southern history: "1 really cannot imagine why a] history that begins with Raleigh i and ends with Lee and incidentally j includes Washington should be ut terly swept aside and forgotten." [ Section Expecting Good Potato Year And Demand For Seed Pota toes So Far Has Exceeded The Supply on Hand Demand for seed potatoes has so far exceeded the supply on hand {that a shortage may be said to ex ist. The price has consequently ad ! vanced approximately $1 a bap. Canadian seed potatoes are about all taken, according to N. Howard Smith, manager of the Carolina Po tato Exchange. There are also di minished supplies of Maine grown. I The present prices are given at 1 $5.50 for ten peck bags, $?> for 11 j peck hags. Maine selected. $?5.75 per | 1 1 peck bag Maine certified and $7 per 11 peck bag Canadian certi fied. ; I The cool windy weather prevailing recently is taken to be favorable by practically everyone connected with potato growing. It not only pre vents rotting in" the ground of the I seed but allows the superflous wa-j t?*r to be evaporated by the wind. On the whole Indications point to : a successful year, as far as can be j seen at present. Those connected 1 with the potato business are not wil ling to hazard any definite forcasts 'except that up to th?^ present time! all conditions have been favorable. } It is already certain that there j will be at least as many acres In po tatoes this year as last and probably more. There i? a possibility that some growers will plant laruer acre ages than they expected in the re maining days of the planting |?erfo?!. In that event there will be a greater acreage than is now anticipated. ILLINOIS ItKTAILKItS l.<M>K FOIt lllti Sl'ltlNti IHM\Ks> Chicago. Feb. 23 (By The Con solidated I'ress.) ? Delegates to the convention of Illinois Retail Cloth iers now in session here are unan imous in declaring the coming spring season will be the biggest the trade has known in many years. Many of the merchants plan to remain after the convention to order their sum mer stocks. Ill<; OICOWTH IN SALKS ItADIO OCTFITS Chicago. Feb. 23. ? ( By the Con solidated Press.) ? Wholesalers and retailers of radio outfits and acces sories say this winter has shown a tremendous growth in sales. The best sellers, they report, are sets re tailing ai about $100. 1 I New Spring | Styles Now on Di^pluy They are authentic mod els in the new designs ard shades. McCabe & Grice The Busy Store ]?J ^jagJ3Ai't3arg?S/cjJgj3I3?3J2JSJ^J2J5MSJS SPECIAL THIS WEEK A 15c BOTTLE OF 6foatW|s$ PURE SUGAR CANDY and a box of Hostost I'oanut nrlt tle, total value 52c, will be Hold for 40c. MARINE RAILWAY DRY DOCK Elizabeth City Iron Works & Supply Company MACHINISTS A Xl> FOl'NDKKS .Marine Hallway Dry Ifcxks ? lluililcrs and Itepalrri-H of lioats. Mill anil Marine Supplies# KEEPING STEP V an'll And this firm always abreast of the times. When more modern features and fac illtl<*s are necessary they are added. We cater to the requir ements of our patrons. Our recent addition constat s of a large Dry Cleaning Me chine; another latest model S anitary Stoam I'resser, an Elei trlc Rotary Extractor, and a d rying room, which gives us the best equipped cleaning establis hment in the city, plus twelve years of experience. Cooper Cleaning Works PHOXK 2 ho Famo and Lebanon Belle Flour abnolutely flour* of quality sold by the leading grocer*. ? Distributed lly? A. F. TOXEY & COMPANY Water Street. A ONE DAY Dress Sale AT MITCHELL'S Today Novo Going On ? Second Floor Today There may he one left in just your type and style? its the final Clean up and some New dresses too? Come in right away. Every dress will he sold. Some values up to .$29.75. Remember today is your only chance. MITCHELL'S Phone 100 The Style Center Bill nun riViiriuai mm nvn 1X1 nrsvsirairaifzi man isuirairsirsirsimrsvairarBitsirsirzirsiBiiaimfaiisirsirsimr Uneeda Biscuit. Oyster ettes, Uneeda Ltincli. 5c Try a can of Famous Ginger Wafers or Sugar (loukies CALL US M. V. PERRY rno\K 4?:i TODAY'S BARGAINS IN USED CARS FOKD Trucks with or with out rails and bodies S12.i up. FORD (!ou|h's, overhauled and put in good shape S225 up. FOKD Two door Sedans iu jjoiid shape 812.) up. FOKD Touring < ar- and Itoadslers at prices that will suit you. Terms if Desired. UKMK.MIIKK ? Kvery rnr you we on the roA<] I* h I'SKI) CAIt. AUTO & GAS ENGINE WORKS, INC. 105 N. Water St. i i monuments Lawson & Newton rite Monument People KM linnte* filvm on Work Set Complete /lontlcello Ave. at 11th St NORFOLK, VA. RED PEPPER FOR HOLDS III CHEST) 3.sc your tight, aching chest. Stop thv. pain. Break up the congestion. | l ed a had cold loosen up in just a | short time. ! Red Pepper Rub is the cold rem edy that brings quickest relief. It can not hurt you and it ccrtainly seems to end the tightness and drive the conges tion and soreness right out. Nothing has such concentrated, pene trating hdat as red peppers, and when heat penetrates right down into colds, congestion, aching muscles and sore, stiff joints relief comes at once. The moment you apply Red Pepper Rub you feel the tingling heat. In three minutes the congested spot is warmed through and through. When you are suffering from a cold, rheumatism, backache, stiff neck or sore muscles, just get a jar of Rowles Red Pepper Rub, made from red peppers, at any drug store. You will have the quickest I relief known. If Back Hurts Begin on Salts Flush Your Kidneys Occasionally by Drinking Quart? of Good Watsr No man or woman can make a mis take by Hushing the kidneys occasion ally, says a well-known authority. Too much rich foot! creates acids which clog the kidney pores so that they sluggishly filter or strain only part o; t! iste and poisons from the blood. 1 hen vou get ?ick. Rheumatism, headaches, liver trouble, nervousness, constipation, dizzi ness, sleeplessness, bladder disorders often come from sluggi-di kidneys. The moment you feel a <lull ache in the kidneys or your hack hurts, or if the urine is cloudy, offensive, full of sediment, irregular of passage, or at tended by a sensation of scalding, begin to drink soft water in quantities; also get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any reliable pharmacy and take a table spoonful in a class of water befors breakfast for a tew days and your kid nevs may then act fine. iliis famous salts is made from the acid of grapes an<J lemon juice, com bined with lithia, and has been used for years to help Hush clogged kidneys and stimulate them to activity, also to help neutralize the acids in the sy 'em so they no longer cause irrit -tioi, thus often relieving bladder di-or ^ r . ?ltd Salts i, in. ? ?? Injure; makes a ?!eNK'.?tfnl lithia-watcr drink, v, i.Kr take now and tfien t.> Ik * * kidneys clean and t! < Wood ; r-".' i by often preventing serious kitine/ coi . cations By all means have your '-i clan examine your kidney* a*. .cait twice a year. 666 Is ? Prescription prepared for Cold*. Fever and Crip|)f It la the most speedy remedy we know Preventing Pneumonia
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