Evening star., 1937-08-07
EAST ENDERS SPEAK OF KINGS
Globe Prints Comments Made in London Slum Coronation
Day-Anonymous Labor Organizer Tells All in the Forum
New Literary Digest Is Likeable.

the patient little seeker after his two
bucks"
And Likewise on this subject our or
gani2er says. Most of the large groups
we have already organized are. TO put
II frankly, lacking sufficient eduCa-
ton 10 see through the plans Of the
c, l.. o. The smarter ones tand m
each group or department can usually
be found one or more bright boys who
refuse to take our talk at its face
value and want to anRly3e 1t p little)
We put to work. We attack this prob
lem by reasoning that men, like
women. enjoy praise and esteem. So
we pat them on the back and tell them
how smart We think they are-maybe
buy them meal or q few beers--and
thereby make staunch supporters who
would, IL necessary, sell our policies in
Hades So they get our praise.
which doesn't cost us anything. and We
get the results of their work for us
and, incidentally. the two bucks
that go with each" Splendid fellow!
And finally, as TO what the suckers
get in return for their long sought
two bucks the organizer says SIM
ply, We give them assurance Of
nothing of definite nature
WITH the headlines Of the papers
so largely given over to Jspa-
nese affairs, readers may be interested
to examine the August issue of Asia,
which has several articles on the Or
iental empire. The most pertinent one
would appear to be that by Frank II.
Hedges, in which attention is called to
the fact that. while Japans army has
been spectacularly engaged on the
mainland of Asia. her navy has, more
quietly. been made the spearhead Of a
drive toward the Southern seas.
For some time, ne says, the cry
Southwark eXpansion!" has been
slogan among naval officers and a
group of financiers, and, although he
notes that, as yet, nobody knows ex-
actly what is meant by the phrase, the
idea is extremely popular. Our con-
Germ in it he observes. lies in the fact
that any southwark expansion which
Japan may undertake will bring her
into conflict with a western power.
The moment Japan moves south OF
Shanghai" says Mr.. Hedges, "it steps
| out Of Asia and into Europe, and. in
lesser degree, into America. That
| part of the world is still geographically
Asia, Of course, but certainly it is
not politically so"
And he adds that, although the Jap
! anese insist that their proposed south
| ern movement is to be entirely eco
| nomic, England and Holland equally
| view the idea with distrust. However.
| he also remarks that the desire to
| expand southwark began when Japa-
! nese conquest in China seemed to have
suffered halt. With the develop
| ments of the past week. it NAV be that
| attention will be again turned west
| ward, and that that movement will
| satisfy the young imperialists OF the
| empire. A reader may think so, at any
rate, on the basis OF Mr.. Hedges
| article.
THE current interest in "doodling,"
or absent-mindedly making pic
/
pad, seems curiously lively There was,
| of course, Mr.. Deeds. Then. recently,
there was a complete book on the sub
| ject; newspapers have run series OF
! doodles, and now, in the August Caval-
cade we find an article on the whole
| profound business. The author is
| Louise Rice.
| She tells us that the first doodlers
were the Neanderthal men. who left
| their traces on the walls Of their caves.
They, even as modern man, she says,
doodled in response to his subcon-
scious.
The hand moves as is the clumsy,
half-Simian paw Of the Neanderthal,
| obeying that impulse which Is mott
! waited by the subconscious" Well al
right. Miss Rice writes AS one who
knows. But somehow don't you find
| 1t a little hard TO imagine any one alb
sently scribbling with a stone chisel?
Suppose he dropped 1t, absentlv, on
! his toe?