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Fishing Without Tears.
TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1933.
BRITAIN'S STABILITY
ROCKING?
DISPOSSESSED SQUIRES MAY SPELL TROUBLE
A NATIONAL BLUNDER
(By A.A.B.).
A device which gives additional safety to human beings and added perit to fish is called the lechometer. It is primarily A sounding apparatus, and the pre- sence of this gear, which can be worked by pressing a button, en- [courages the taking of more fre quent soundings, even during ad
London. responsibility. Their duties, verse weather conditions, and without reducing speed, and thus A denizen of this country, survey paid, were taken from them by s adds to the safety of all seagoing ing mankind from China to Peru, Conservative Government and town politicians, who sneered at them as may, without fatuousness or undue backwoodsmen. Now their property A transmitter and receiver are conceit, congratulate himself on has been taken from them, and they placed below the water line and a
are driven into London, where they signal is sent out by the turning being a Briton.
craft.
un-
of a switch. The "echo" of the Italy's success depends on the life have become flat-dwellers, with no eignal is recorded on board by an of a single man. Russia is a mad responsibilities and no duties. uscillograph, and the depth is as-house, which speculative politicians They Knew Their Jobs. certained by measuring the time visit · from morbid curiosity.. We shall pay for this blunder interval between transmission and China is the sport of bandits. Even later on. The squire or the lord at the reception of the echo.. America, once the pattern of suc-|Wotton-in-the-Wold may have been
a
The fishing idea is a side issut, cessful democracy, has lost its arrogant and narrow-minded, but he~ but calculated to be of great sermoney and its prestige. Gunmen, knew his job and was better there vice to trawlere. With the help of dough-boya, grafters and baby-than in Fulham as a vendor of both eyes and ears an expert can snatchers stalk the land. The faked furniture or a dummy cóm tell when he is passing over a League of Nations pipes its screed pany director,
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whale or a shoal of fish, although of peace, calls Conference, and There are other danger signals. he might not be able to say whe-builds itself a palace in which it is Our worship of speed, noise and ther they were herring or tunny or attentive to its own applause." glare are worse than mere vulgarity. imackerel!
A Frenchmaq, wishing to be I could understand respecting and polite, said to Lord Palmerston: "If rewarding the makers of these won- I were not a Frenchman I should derful machines the Napiers, Exit The Weaver's Shuttle.
like to be in Englishman." "If Edges. Bentleys, Morrises and Aus- The weaver's shuttle is one of were not an Englishman," said Old tine. But why we should make man's oldest devices, and now It Pam, "I should like to be one," A heroes of the men with "thrilling” seems likely to become obsolete, splendid answer, and more than names who drive these machines I For thirty years experts have been ever justified to-day, when in the do not see. The engineer in the trying to invent a weaving middle of a scene of dissolving engine-room" of a man-of-war or s machine which could dispense anarchy England stands like a rock big liner seems to me quite as much with it, and at last woollen Bagehot said that "the power of of a hero. And what good does it Not long ago a certain amount of materials made on $ shuttleless pulling up in time" was the secret do anyone to travel two miles a sympathy was felt for these loom are on the market. In a few of England's success. About this minutes! Daily we sacrifice heca-
un-time last year we pulled up just in tombs to this Moloch. claims. It was admitted that a months silk and cotton will
[time, but the Labour Government We are becoming the slaves of Hong Kong, Tuesday, June 6, 1933. treaty concerned with issues of doubtedly follow.
A shuttle travels from side to brought us very near to the edge. mechanism, and the scientist, like such complexity might not be an side right across and through the England has carried through a all spoiled children, must be shut up. instrument of fina! perfection warp, carrying the weft yarn with large scheme for the reduction of
an engineer proposes a and, io disarming Germany, the it. The new method is for light the interest on its National Debt. machine for managing the House of It has been remarked that in a Allies had themselves agreed to rods of aluminium alloy to take its She has inaugurated, in co-operation Commons, and a biologist denies the place. Each rod is fitted at the with her Dominions, a new commer-existence of mind in animals, it is few weeks the German Govern the principle of reduction. How-end with a gripper which carries cial policy, of which the success can time that the hose of ridicule was recent developments in the weft half way across the warp, only be demonstrated by time. She turned on to the speeches at the ment has undone the work of ever, years, has stultified the endea Germany have alienated that and transfers it to the gripper of has abandoned the gold standard, British Association
The great trouble ahead, which The Jingoistic ex-a rod which has come halfway and her credit has risen instead of
across from the other side. This falling. A burthen of taxes and may overset all our complacent vours of those who strove for sympathy.
Germany.
and
When
Germany's rehabilitation in the cesses of Hitlerism have weaken" second rod draws the thread across rates remains, which would probablyjand showy joy of life, is the adjust- ed confidence in Germany's good and the process is complete. have caused a revolution in any ment of the cost of labour to modern eyes of the world, and has frus
faith, and have stiffened the Much elaborate mechanism is other country. Yet our political competition. There is trouble in trated the hopes of those who
uncompromising attitude of dispensed with, cost is reduced, institutions, our Parliament, and the cotton and coal trades, and our would gladly welcome her back those who would stand upon the and a greater variety of patterns our Magistracy remain, not only great shipbuilding yards are idle. Viscount is possible by the new method. unshaken, but with increased in-The trade unione Lave had their into the comity of nations. The letter of the bond.
day, like peers and poets and many success of the Nazis has revived Grey has consistently favoured a Seven colours can be used in the fluence and efficiency.
other excellent flowers of civilisa- rapprochement with Germany; weft of a shuttleless machine
Can It Last?
tion. the spirit of truculence
it is significant that he should instead of the present maximum of
Who that has watched during this Of every £100 proßt in the pro- bigotry which made the "old" confess to disillusionment as a four, and where one man is fully Germany an object of distrust. result of the turn events have occupied in the present woollen golden August a whole nation pour-duction of coal, the amount remain taken. What, he asked, would weaving system with one loom, he ing itself out of the cities to the sealing for the employer or capitallet Is the "new" Germany essential- the feeling be if at this moment will in future be able to work and countryside in search of enjoy is. I am informed, between £13 and
ment can stifle such questions as, £15. Does anyone maintain that is - ly different from the "old?" Germany had the establishments from three to six.
are we not too successful, unless an excessive return for capital risk- The Herr Hiller is fully justified in she possessed in 1914?
indeed we possess some
divina ed and for supervision? How can checking the menace of Com-great security of peace now is
Your Daily Smile secret? Is all this prosperity super- British manufacturers meet the munism. His programme for that Germany is not armed, and
ficial or real? Can it last? Are we competition of the world when there not in a position to go to war.
digging our graves with our teeth? is so wide a gulf between the wages Germany's economic reconstruc-The whole trend of her present BETTER THAN AVERAGE:
Surely there never was a more paid to manual, and especially un- tion has a worthy aim, although policy and of her mentality has WIFE: It says here that the crude or immoral prayer uttered by skilled, labour in Britain and those it entails methods of compul-shocked British opinion which average person says 10,000 words s most popular statesman than paid abroad? Facing this problem
British since the war, has been friendly
a day. sion uncongenial'
when he said, "Give us peace in our will be a painful process and will be. |to Germany, But Britain can-
HUBBY: I have always sald time, O Lord!" He might just as stoutly resisted. ideas. But his measures for the not offer the hand of friendship you were above the average, dear well have said. "After us the (Continued on Page 10.)
*.. * aggrandisement of Prussia, the unless the gesture is reciprocated.
Deluge," and indeed the saying OF COURSE. savage intolerance which mani-That Viscount Grey should speak
which reduced a sentimental House. in this strain is an indication of A scientist declares that moths of Commons to tears, was followed fests itself in religious and
the extent to which Germany has can talk to each other. In fact, by the General Strike, the nearest racial persecution, and his vehe- disappointed her well-wishers. they often chew the rag. approach to revolution this country ment demands that Germany Similar considerations apply to
bas ever seen, ́from which we ware Germany, it Two Tragedies in a Man's Life saved only by the strong right arms must be free from the "shackles treaty revision.
may be argued, accepted the
1. Wife backs horse, restraining her, arouse misgive treaty under duress. That is
of our youth and the sense of civic ings. These have been sharpen-true of every treaty imposed by
to
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ed by the proceedings on May victor upon the vanquished. Scottish Picnic Tragedy,
Moreover, in, the discussions
duty in the breast of Strube's little
Zaan
I am not an idealist, but a realist.
Day with the ceremony of the which led to the Locarno Pact, They lost all the funch-the and I do not believe in magical or
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"dedication to the "sword" of Germany re-affirmed her adhe cork came out. youths of seventeen, the mass-sion to its provisions, with the singing of "The cry for ven-served to herself the right to re- single qualification that she re-
The Hollywood husband who geance against France," and Herr open the question of her eastern had his and her initials engraved Hitler's impassioned tirade frontier by negotiation. She ex-on the silverware. against the foreign conspiracy plicitly pledged herself not to re-
sort to arms. If Germany keeps| RIGHT TO THE POINT. which is holding Germany. inj
her word any modification of MAN (being followed by husky subjection. The demonstrations the treaty must be brought about thief: Wad_yer want? suggest that the sentiment of by amicable arrangement, and) THIEF: Want yer wadi-
Ger- Chauvinism which, was supposed will be an act of grace. to be defunct was merely dor-unlikely to obtain remissions by many is the suppliant, and is mant. Hitlerism has acted like rattling the sabre and provoca. a chemical which restores the tive utterances. These indiscre faded colours on a canvas.
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ARTISTS' MODELS IN FRANCE. Foreign Women Now Banned.
SCULPTOR SUMMONSED.
divine secrets, or in the interpost-
Paria. Henceforth only French women tion of a Higher Power to save, un from the consequences of our con- are to be allowed to pose for duct. I believe that he who sows artists.
the wind shall reap the whirlwind. A famous sculptor, Maxime Real I confess to much uneasiness as to del Sarte, among whose work is keeping up all this show of, luxury the Joan of Arc at Rouen, received and pleasure.
a visit from a police inspector who Where's the money to come from?jasked him whether he had not em- From the classes that employ la-ployed a certain, madel recently. bour, and conduct the business of "Yes, why?" the sculptor asked. the world, there Is taken from-40 to "She is a foreigner, so I am afraid 60 per cent. of their incomes and I must draw up a summons against Facts You Did Not the same proportion of their savings you. It's forbidden to employ at death. This cannot go on for foreigners at a time when many Know.
jever, or even for very long. The French citizens are out of work.” vast sums thas wrung from the up- Montparnasse, is utterly taken
parnasse
tions, and her anti-Semitic cam- Brilliant light is given by a Ger-per and upper middle classes are aback. What is to happen to the "paign, harden the hearts of na-man faventor's electric Tamp in spent by our Governments in bribes graceful foreign women who bring the German Government expects Lions whom, were she wise, sko which the current produce a high to veters under specious labels such so much charm to the Mont
to conciliate, pressure mercury vapor arc instead as Social Service.
cafes? / Would the to gain its ends in its dealings would attempt
The wages of domestic services Rotonde be quits itself without the with other Powers it is adopting With Rathenau, Stresemann, and of heating a diament.
Bruening at the helm Germany
are trebled without securing com-dark-eyed Indian model whom the worst possible methods. recovered much of the ground Tools that enable work to be petence or character. The wages everybody knows? And when an Gascongding only serves to re-she had lost in international done with high tension wires car- of unskilled labour are more than artist wants to paint an erotic awaken suspicions which had esteem. Their object was to con-rying currents as powerful as doubled, and always at the expense study, must he try to find a French
vince, the Fowers that she had 660,000 volia have been invented by of skilled labour and brainwork woman
who most nearly ap been lulled, and to denounce renounced legitimate ambitions a veteran California Uneman... Nor. I believe, have we begun to preaches to the beauty of Spain, those from whom concessions and was eager to co-operate in
realise the social and political con- Turkey, India or Japan? More- Ers desired is a blunder. Thelan enduring settlement. Hitler Bicycles invented in France have sequences of disposessing the rural over, it is pointed out, that to ask cardinal points of Germany's abandoned the path. they a small wheel in front and a large aristocracy. The squire and the models for their identification tro and is guiding the German er wheel and handle bars in the peer who lived on their estates had papers might in some cases be external, policy are treaty revi- people, apparently willing follow-back, riders sitting erect in front great experience of local govern-more than a trife indiscreet- Ision and equality of armaments, ers, into dangerous pays. of the latter,
ment, and they never shrank from Reuter.