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TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1933.
WALTER RUNCIMAN
VICTORIAN GUIDE IN
MODERN ECONOMICS
AN AMERICAN APPRECIATION
(By Clair Price.)
With the World Economic Confer-partment "deals with private enter-
The process depends on the free-ence under way, the name of that prise as such." His purpose is to ing of certain gases. The import wonderful little man
"leave the industry of this 'country Runciman" ance of the invention is that it
in better condition than I found it begins to crop up in the news, It," would enable technicians to work to:
He is still a rigid Victorian
metala.
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a far greater extent with lighter, is by no means a new name in individualist. His gods are Vic- instead of as at present, with heavy England, for the two Runcimana torian thrift and energy. That are the most famous father and son much meaning still attaches to the
Auge Victorian collar. in the country."
By virtue of his office, he is one £2,400 For “Endymion” The father is a "character." He of the leading members of the Bri- The price of £2,400 for the first is a millionaire ship-owner who tish delegation to the economic con- edition of Keats's "Endymion" at came aboard through the hawsepipe, ference. All the tariffs, quotas, the Rosebery sale recently," when as the saying is. He ran away trade agreements and the other bidding went up by $50, a time, is from home at the age of 12 to be visible tokens of Britain's new-born a prominent example of how history come a cabin boy in a sailing ship-economic nationalism are NOW a first verdict. The jin the days when cabin boys were personified in his small, pallid face- copy in question is an autographed brought up with the rope's end- and his huge Victorian collar. presentation to Leigh Hunt, who and now that he is long past 30 he Runciman And Asquith.
can reverse
fiver.
same
declared that he did not think much has dropped his hook, so to speak, of it, and, being hard up, as usual, in the House of Lords. He became He was in Asquith's first govern- Mr. Runciman 18 now past 60. was glad to dispose of it for the first Lord Runciman last Jan-ment in 1908 (he was a youngster
uary. A little deaf now, but always of 38 then) and ne In 1818, the date of this, edition, with a bright red buttonhole and
remained a appeared the notorious attack on his hat cocked over one ear, he is George formed his first war coali- resolute Asquithian when Lloyd Kests in Blackwood's, whose, critic what the English call a sbeliback tion in 1916. He springs from the (almost certainly Lockhart) wrote To this day he can get up at a of "Endymion":
public dinner and sing a chantey class origins as Asquith sprang Nonconformist and middle- "We venture to make one small across the coffee cups with all the from. He has many of the personal prophecy-that Keats's bookseller gustó of an old fa'c'stle hand who will not a second time venture £50 learned nis chanteys
qualities that Asquith had and they tramping are qualities which display the on anything he can write. It is around and round the capatan, better and a wiser thing to be a
English enaracter at its best. He His only son, Walter Runciman,hus Asquitn's lack of emotion in the starved apothecary" (a reference to is the exact opposite of all this, House of Commons, but, while Keats's early trade) than a starved and it is the son, who is piloting Asquith dominated the House by his poet. So back to the shop. Mr. British industry through the econ-intellectual powers and his plain, tion referred to the Committee John, back to plasters and pills. omic conference. It would be easy dispassionate qualities of character, on Economic Consultation and The phrenzy of the poems was bad to imagine the father in a peaked Mr.
enough; but it did not alarm us
Runciman is perhaps better In Loving Memory of our dear son, Co-operation. In the report of half so seriously as the calm, seta stained blue jersey, but it would fact and for the crystal-clear de- cap and brass buttons or even in known for his grasp of complicated Sergeant Thorpe, who died suddenly that body, however, no provision tled. imperturbable, drivelling idiocy be difficult to imagine the pallid livery in whien he presents it. He features of the son anywhere else is as full of fact as a balance sheet. than within the huge collar of the Victorian statesman.
IN MEMORIAM.
August 1st, 1932, Could, his mother, have clasped his is suggested for continuing the of 'Endymion."
hand,
The son loved so well,
Or kinted his brow when death was
ticar
lexistence of. the. Board. It is proposed that some of the work!
Your Daily Smile
it does in collecting and distribut- Golfing. And whispered my son, Farewelling information should be done
And a burden of lonely years.
family, 32 Ladysmith Road, Grimsby
Inserted by his Mother, Father and
This green is as smooth as a ballroom floor.
Splendid; may I have the next
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The Symbolic Collar.
It has
Like Asquith, he extends the same scrupulous fairness to his focs as to his friende-and this in a House A certain interest attaches to this
which seems at times to have thistoric collar nowadays.
travelled far since Asquith left it. I seem to see his dear sweet face, in future by the Imperial Econo-
Through a mist of falling tears.
become as symbolic as the fasces, Men like Lloyd George and Chur But a Mother's part, is a broken heart mic Committee, and that other stance
the swastika, the sickle and hami. chill owe much of their prestige in' machinery should be devised for
mer. It stands for the Victorian the House. to their knack of twist- individualism which has built the ing this and slurring over that and work of bodies engaged in scien- assisting and co-ordinating the More Signature Tunes.
British State on a basis of trade and swooping on some weak spot in the The Barnyard Shavians-"Me."
industry, for Victorian thrift and opposition and flaunting it until tific research, which is another "Dominces."
The Lunchtime Lion-haunters-energy, for the Victorian fervours friends howl with delight and their branch of its activities. No re-
of church and chapel with their opponents are speechless with rage. The Felman Melodists-"You for-weakness for "good works" on the It was not Asquith's way nor is it The China Mail commendation is made for carry-got your gloves."
Snaftesbury model. In all these Mr. Runciman's. ing on the invaluable service itį ---** performs in the direct promotion Hong Kong, Tuesday, August 1, 1923. of Empire trade by every possible
means, especially by enlisting the voluntary co-operation of traders, wholesale and retail, in committees which smooth the
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Q.E.D.
Irene Thomas, pretty typist,
Really made a hit
With her new boss, D. A. Moore,
But she had to quit When he noticed on each letter
She had signed "D.AMIT."
for
respects Walter Runciman is typical. He has a mind as orderly as a He is a total abstainer a devout banker's. He could compose an ode chapel-goer who is an elder states. to a bill of lading-and with the man and a director of banks, rail most complete seriousness, roads and shipping companies, yet public life is to him a thing with
of humour in it. He occupies a pew with the humblest out a ray Empire Marketing.
of the faithful at Wesleyan confer could rise in the House to devote lences, and, like the younger Rocke. an hour's close and masterly reason- feller, has been known to teach aing to the proposal of an amend- All interested in the economic path of the Empire producer. Crash!
Sunday-school class.
ment providing that nothing in line development of the non-self-Some of the Dominions may be Good soap, according to a beauty These middle-class associations 6, clause 9, subsection 18, section 33 governing Colonies continue to willing to dispense with this as-note, does a lot to enhance facial made the huge Victorian collar the of the act under debate should express concern over the possible sistance.
beauty.
symbol of the Liberal party. In apply to dried eggs, fireproof china They may find it extinction of the Empire Mar-difficult in the event to procure,
Unless you happen to step on it. the case of the hard-headed, north-and wool waste not pulled or keting Board. The value of the
each for its own trade, anything Too Long. In Fact. Board's varied activities to pro-like the amount of co-operation A week is the longest distance more especially the symbol of the shocked surprise. ¡ducers in every part of the Em-
now given by traders to a single between two pay days. pire is acknowledged by every official body representing the one who knows anything of its whole Empire; but that, of course, work in promoting the sale of
is their business. The non-self- Empire products in Great Bri-
governing Colonies, which were tain. Indeed it is evident in the
very inadequately represented very Report of the Imperial
on the Committee, are in quite a Committee on
Lies
=
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I came straight home; dear. This won't hurt you a bit. I'm giving up tobacco.
I think it suits you perfectly dear I don't mind standing a bit. Sorry you've been t-r-roubled
UP TO DATE.
[country, Nonconformist stock from garnetted; and when he sat down, which the Runcimana derive, it was the opposition would fill him with
radical wing of Liberalism-radical-j Spare, thin-lipped and with the jism in its heyday meaning votes high voice and the remote manner and schools for workingmen, lear of a university don" lecturing a power to the parson and the squire, class, he belongs to the small- in brief, a more drastic social bet-minority of mèn în public life who terment than the official Liberalism really, know what they are talking of its day had the courage to pro- about. In connection with inter- |national conferences, the term ap- plied to fnis type of man is usually A Change Of Heart.
that of "expert"; and there are The elder Runciman was a red-moments. when it would not be not militant radical The son was difficult to mistake Mr. Bunelman brought up from his youth on the for the Old Master of the experts. the wickedness of, the Tories. Both But an elder statesman is apt to bo were free traders--not because they rather more than merely that. owned ships (the Nonconformist mind hardly worked as directly za that) but rather because free trade
Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snote: But that was hopeless from
point
;
·Of fashion, as you know.
!pose:
7
It followed her to town one day,
The fleece-no lamb inside- had a touch of the kingdom of God Now Mary is quite pleased and
smiles
"At how that poor lamb dyed.
in it, like temperance, disarmament and pacifism. All, this was Holy Writ in the days when Gladstone Invested the huge Victorian collar with those lofty ethical principles un-which swept the hard-headed Non-
conformist off his feet.
(Continued on Page 11.7
VILLAGERS FIGHT PITCHED BATTLE.
Large-Scale Invasion In Upper Egypt.
Cairo,
Economic Con- [different position. Important as sultation and Co-operation, which they are collectively, in popula- has caused so much disappointtion and in resources awaiting ment and anxiety. The Board development, no one of them pos- was set up in 1926 by the British sesses the means to do for itself Government, which, debarred at what the Empire Board now the time from granting tariff does for all. They cannot afford preferences, decided, on the ad-to dispense with its services. vice of the Imperial Economic There remain also to be consider- Committee to make a return for ed the interests of the British the preferences granted in the producer, whose position in the Dominions by setting up an or home market has been greatly The Land of Safety Matches. "Divorces are practically ganization to promote the sale of improved during the few years known in Sweden," says a news Empire goods, including of that the Board has been in exist-item. course those produced at home ence. It ought to be possible in
ith the and in the Crown Colonies. The co-operation with the Crown cost, on an average about half of Colonies to frame some scheme the £1,000,000 a year which it for preserving the Board's OT- was originally intended to devote ganization for the benefit of the Cigar smoke blown into a glass the sternest of economic issnes, and One thousand men from El- home and the colonial producer, tube is used in a new device to test the pressure of these has been such Homeidat, a village in Upper Egypt. to that purpose, has been bornej
air pressure that Britain-of all countries!-swept down on the men of nearly wholly by the British taxpayer, keeping the door open for the the draft and
in chimneys, boilers and furnaces. has begun,succumbing to the El-Asbraf of the first day of a co-operation on a reciprocal basis When, as the result of the Otta
economic nationalism which plagues religious festival of any Dominion which may de-
This mass attack was the cul- Using steam at unusually high the rest of the world, wa Conference, the trade of the sire to share in those benefits pressure, a locomotive has been built. The saints of yesteryear now sup mínation of a long-standing rivalry. Dominions was given a position The matter, is one of some inter-in Germany for which is speed of with Satan Walter Runciman is The invaders were armed with in the British market at least as eat to Hong Kong, and in view of 145 miles an hour is claimed.
divided from the Tories only in his sticks, bottles and missiles and a favourable as that given to Bri- the situation as it exists at pre-
acceptance of tariffs on grounds of fierce battle followed before the tish goods in the Dominion mar-sent, it is a comewhat reassuring washington, DC that strain Ad President of the Board of Trade; managed to restore order
Plants have been found near expediency rather than principle, police who were rushed to the spot. kets, the whole position had to be reflection that a British Trade minerals from running water in he has powers roughly correspond- Many of the fighters had to be reconsidered and the future of Commissioner has been appoint-streams and cause the formation of ing to those of the Secretary of taken to hospital seriously wound- the Board was arrong the ques-led to
Debbles.
Commerce in Washington. His deed-Renter
Facts You Did Not Know.
And now note how the British scene has changed. The old party All the police and camel corps ayatem broke down during the war, available over a wide area had to At the moment, it cannot be said be mobilised at top speed when a that there are any major political ferocious battle broke out between Issues in Britain. There are only the men of two rival villages,