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Plain Words To Mr. De Valera.
HERE, THERE
and
EVERYWHERE
Carlyle And Cock-Crowing
Sir James Barrie, bimself an Ed- inburgh graduate, has contributed to the current isaue of the Uni- versity of Edinburgh Journal some remarks on Thomas Carlyle and This destestation of cock-crewing.
Carlyle, says Sir James, "seems always to have thought that the only way to peace was to kill cock. Too late, an inventor peared who said Not at all. Stop the crowing was cure, it
his
the
ap.
con-
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1933.
CAN FRANCE PROTECT
GOLD HOARD?
HER GOLD
PROBLEMS CREATED BY BIG BUDGET DEFICIT
(By Leonard J. Reid.)
London, November 3. [other currencies continuing, French What will be the effect on France exports can hardly do otherwise. of Mr. Roosevelt's gold-purchasing than dwindle progressively.
It is, therefore, logical to suppose · policy? How will the frane fare?
I have just returzed from France, that gold must go out automatically where I have been seeking anto settle the balance. answer to these questions, so im Secondly, a
M. Paul Reynaud,
nervous
large amount of could be done easily. All you portant to France and to other frightened foreign capital has been needed was "a small lath suspend countries as well. The answers are transferred to Paris by Americas led about eighteen inches above the
not yet forthcoming with any cer-and others who were nervous of the -
future of thelr own currency. perch."
tainty. without "A cock cannot crow
former Should the franc be subjected to atretching his neck, and when he stretches his neck his comb strikes Finance Minister of France, scente distrust from a growing recognl- war in the air. tion of Budget difficulties and pro- Cocks a real currency aharply against the lath. cannot endure having their combs Official French opinion takes buble gold losses, these
calmer view. Time will show which short-term funds might tend quick- touched, and so this simple
ly to leave Paris for London. The trivance reduces them to silence." view is right.
Bank of France has abundant gold different,
Sir reflected Meanwhile, what is possible is to stocks to meet all such demands, How James. might Carlyle's life have take stock of the main features of and is perfectly prepared to use its been if this invention had been the French situation
upon which Sir this new menace-f, indeed, it is conceived in his lifetime!
The only question which arises is James's sympathetic mood is easily a menace-is superimposed.
whether public opinion in France- M. Sarraut is facing. with his would permit heavy losses of gold to- understood; to him not only the cock's crow but its zest for publi-new Cabinet, the same Chamber of continue, or at what point a demand Deputies and the same Budget pre-would come from the Chamber of blems which so recently destroyed Deputies to place an embargo upon M. Dalatier's Ministry.
gold export.
city must be anathema.
Your Daily Smile
Q. AND A.
asky a
"Do you carry germs?" [headline. No; 1 always make the jdarn things walk.
Too Much
A housewife was examining an applicant for the position of cook.
"And why did you leave your last place?" she asked.
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a
way the
resources to the utmost.
Few people in Paris believe Another way of regarding the that M. Sarraut will succeed in problem is this. There are three- grappling with the vital Budget influencer threatening the stability problem. If he does not, his of the franc. Ministry must give Way another,
Economics Essential
to
There may, perhaps, be severni Governments before the people of France and their representatives in Parliament are sufficiently impress-i ed with the gravity of the financial) to accept the large
Corfe And Exports
The first is the influence of economic sufferings due to high costs and reduced exports. Since unemplopment in France is still at a very low level, this influence will' operate only slowly.
is the The second influence effect of probable gold with- drawals. Such a movemant would probably have to persist for some considerable time before it pro-
duced political effects.
of
the
are
public with some form of Asso- ciation with the British Com- monwealth in some circumstances
stick L. the "I couldn't
with some warnith.ituation and for some reasons, and with plicant replied Hong Kong. Tuesday, Dec. 12, 1933. recognition of the King as theThe master and the mistress were economies that are called for and
Head of that Association," or a for ever quarrelling."
considerable fresh taxation nece Dominion in the full sense that "But that surely had nothing to
sary to restore Budget-equilibrium. Canada and Australia are do with you." said the mistress of Officially, the deficit facing the
and the Dominions. Mr. De Valera's the
The third influence, house. "And anyway." she French Budget is estimated at six
an afterthought, "what vague suggestion of being both added an
one which is capable of acting fur francs. Independent | milliards of
and effectively, is in and out of the British Com-were the rows about?"
more quickly, it as high as eight estimates put
actual position the Mr. Thomas's declaration
Omonwealth in whenever there "Oh, always about the
openly ex- Doubts are milliards.
Treasury. the British Government's attitude
us any profit to be snatched from meals were cooked," came the reply.
pressed whether the Budget pro- towards the most recent develop membership and out whenever it!
At the present time the French last Government, the posals of mehts of Mr. Valera's policy is a question of sharing a com-Soliloquy
which the Chamber rejected, were Treasury's borrowing needs will
assent command general
- very formidable. It has to borrow, and burden mon
performing Well, husbands have had enough
Critical aberrera are consiuced and not merely to cover a serious throughout the Empire. It was honourable obligations--was de- to say about their wives wanting anything like drastic enough.
It has to borrow dignified. reasonable and firm.clared by Mr. Thomas to be to wear trousers; now let's her that even more is necessary than revenue deficit.
to finance costly Banctioned The sole objectors will be those totally unacceptable." The Im-what they'll say when wives want cutting down the remuneration of sise
And it who make it their business to perial Conference of 1926 settled a fur coat to wear.
officials, which the Chamber has projects of public works. find impossible excuses for Irish the constitutional relations be
rejected, or the present taxation has to renew constantly the vast administered In tween Great pin-pricks
the Britain" and
JOKING APART
proposals, which are very unpopu-volume of floating debt.
believe Most of Hollywood's divorced ar
Herein lies the crux of the pro- They Hibernian fashion with a rusty Dominions. It has been a mat-
that wider nail. and who Buy that
there ter of the sincerest regret to all couples.
economies, heavier taxation, and a blem. If successive Governments. must be means, hitherto untried, parties in this country that the
severe tightening-up of tax-collect- fail to balance the Budget, as seems Such a probable, and if, as seems certain, of winning over Mr. De Valera irish Free State, instead of fall-Full Up
ing methods are essential. view has been expressed, for in- gold will leave the Bank of France, to an honest acceptance of what ing into line with the other remains of the Treaty. There Dominions and with Great Bri-sir?" the
stance, by M. Flundin, who has been how long will it remain possible for are none. Mr. De Valera hastain, is resolutely bent on break-master.
Finance Minister, and probably will the Treasury to borrow at tolerable
rates the money which it requires? the reputation of being faithfulling the line and refusing to keep Nurich, who had lately taken up
be agalu. He has said over step. to his word.
But what can one think the shooting, gave him a
Take one instance of a difficulty puzzled
Three Nations
that may arise. If foreign opinion. and over again that he does not when not even on Armistice Day glare.
movement, more! there any "Why, aren't
There is agreement also that such is disturbed by such consider himself bound in honour can the Irish soldiers who fought|
French measures could
be put into even though
opinion re- by any words of fealty that he for the Empire be publicly re-birds about?" he asked.
"Plenty," said the unhappy head force by any but a Natural Govern-mains complacent, foreign banks may have sworn-with mental membered in Dublin without dis- reservations to the Crown and order? That the Irish Free State keeper: "but the coltage hospital ment, brought into being through would probably cease to subscribe to the British connection, that he is suffering severely from this has sent a message to say that they national recognition of the existence French Treasury bills, for the rea- does not recognise the validity insensate display of irreconcilable haven't any more bedą for the shot of a real emergency. The big pro-son that if speculators are favour of the Treaty, and that he is ill-will not only economic-beaters." only waiting the convenient ally but in status and prestige, moment to declare a Republic. needs no demonstration. The Premature
1
*'Shall we
knock off for to-day head keeper asked hia
•
not
blem in France is how quickly ciring the pound rather than the cumstances will compel the country franc, they would be unable to cover to recognise the emergency and to their risk by forward exchange
operations.
If ever "faith unfaithful" kept a will to friendship is strong on Sweet Young Thing: "My boy act accordingly. statesman "falsely true" both to the British side and abiding, but friend bar cold feet."
Similarities exist between the The date when a crisis comes to
a position in which regular-
(Continued on Page 11),
the British connection and to the no occasionally conforming mem- Fond Auntle: "Shame on you present French position and that of be recognised by the French people "Irish Republic," that statesman bers in the British Commen-young lady. In my day we didn't Britain in 1931. France has a bad-may be determined by the arrival ts Mr. De Valera. It would be a wealth are wanted.
find out those things until we were ly unbalanced. Budget, as we had of
then, and an increasingly unfavour. blunder of the first magnitude
married."
able balance of international pay- this vital ments, But there is difference. France possesses vast; gold stocks. We did not.
for the British Government to muke
Mr. De overtures to Valera.-Whenever that was tried
•
Training The Body.
Facts You Did Not Know.
A French banker summarised the problem to me the other day in the
RECKLESS DRIVING. Bus, Lorry And Car Drivers Fined.
"Two things are necessary if a country is to maintain, the Gold Standard. First, a willingness to At the Traffic Court this morn- do so; secondly, the resources to ing before Mr. E. W. Hamilton, Lau. enable it to do so.
Kat, driver of bus No. 195, was "In 1981 England had the fined $15 for dangerous driving at willingness, but not the gold 30 mph. between Aberdeen and the
Dairy Farm....
resources.,
in the old days it ended in abso It is a curious-and, perhaps, not fute failure and 'merely encour-a very creditable-fact that the
A new tea kettle has a hollow aged the malcontents and the ex-new Physical Training College for tremists. Nor can there be any Men opened by Lord Irwin at Leeds chamber in the bottom with an out-following terms; {question of inviting the other should be the first of its kind inlet pipe so that the heat rises and Dominions to come into parley-Britain, and should owe, if not its is distributed to all aides of the once, speeding up Its why should they thrust their whole existence, at least its splen-water ht head into this hornets' nest? It did scale, to the munificence of the work, is no longer a question of the Carnegie Trust. It is designed to annnitich. It is a question of train a new class of teachers of An airplane propeller invented by deliberately whittling away ex-"gymnastic" In the widest clasan Italian consists of four rotating press obligations of the Treaty sical sense of the term-rather than disks arranged at equal distance
"In 1933 America had the gold brak Kwok-wali, driver of private by a series of repudiations, until of gymnastics, in the modern sense around a hub and set at a variable
resources, but not the willingness car 451, was fined $20 for Aan- now, if the Dall passes the three The old type of instructor is to be angle to its plane of rotation.
#To-day France has both.” ** gerous driving in Lockhart Road, Billa submitted to it, only the superseded by one whose status wil - vig❤
It is also an undoubted fact that For driving, along Hennessey last link will remain. Nor be equal to that of any other class The steel armour covering a new should it be forgotten that while of teacher. For the entrants are automobile for carrying valuables is the French nation as a whole keenly Road at 27 miles per hour, Tam Chi,
lorry driver, was fined $15, were taken by the Cosgrave Gov-certificated teachers. In this par-la layer of insulating materials to casioned by the currency deprecia- ernment the programme of the ticular field we, as a nation, have catch bullets fired at the vehicle, tion of 1928, and is so determined UNLICENSED DRIVER.
that it shall not occur, again that new United Ireland party in-hitherto lagged, behind, several of cludes a proposal to "roopen with the Continental peoples, notably A new motion picture theatre in the word "InflationOF PRIVATE CAR. Great Britain and Northern Ire- Sweden and Germany. The greatest Zurich, Switzerland; has been equip national bogey of ma land. the partition question: BR advocate of physical culturg" was ped with a roof that can be opened tons. the greatest obstacle to the full Plato, who insisted that the "guar-automatically to ventilate the "ause acceptance by the Irish people dians who were to be the rulers of ditorium of free and equal partnership in his ideal State - sbould be an nights. the British Commonwealth." Yet thoroughly trained in "gymnastic" {{ddit everyone knows that to reopen as in "music," in body as well as
"RICKSHAW BRAND the first step of this process all be-university graduates and covered with an aluminiums, abdl and remembers the best of envinge ou
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on warm
Foreign Capital
European Owner Fined- And Warned. Yet, apart from any special 6- finance caused by Mr. Boosevelt's Mr. H, Guard, of 2 Gärden Road,! new gold-purchasing polley the was summoned at the Central Police and "nervous" strain, withdrawal of yold from France is Court this morning for allowing and and Inescapable threatened in two ways. The coun- licensed driver to drive his car, to be hoped that the try's balance of payments with the No. 2929, at Aberdeen on Novem instorm will not make outilde: world Increasingly un-ber 19, to
Waining too formal favourable, And, with the babi, M., E. W. Hamilton imposed value of the franch in relation to dine of $10.