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Wagner Copyright
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3 1934.
MR. ROOSEVELT'S PLAN
"GOLD OPERATIONS MAY
The band of Hitler can be traced DESTROY THE DOLLAR”··
(By Sir Arthur Michael Samuel, M.P.)
cheap dollar in export markets. United States of the advantages of
|in the "special law which the Ger- man Government are preparing to prolong for an additional 30 years the copyright in Wagner's music.
This copyright expires this year, and with it the last of the Wagner fikues his examination of the Roose a
(Sir Arthur Michael Samuel con- ian restrictions in this respect well Monetary Plan, the first part These were at one time many, and "Parsifal" could not be performed of which appeared in the "China in London until 1815) RAS
Mail yesterday.] Should this law come about, the Wagner family-Slogfried's widow and children--will benefit mater ially. The war left them very an alternative to those to which value of United States trade, add badly off; the proceeds of a benent called attention in my article yes the fact that United States com performance at Covent Garden
berday.
modity prices have not risen con- It is, that the United States sonantly with the depreciated dollar. were handed to Cosima Wagner,
This is all fact, not theory.
"First Of The Nazis”.
Britain did not lose her export trade when the German mark and the franc, at various dates, be became very cheap. Moreover, alde by side with
method still remains open to President Roosevelt and his advisera terrified dollar is the decreasing
Had it not been for contracts, for Government should, secretly or recording the Bayreuth perform openly, go into trade and administer United States prices have risen ances on the gramophone, their riculture, Industry, finance, and about 20 per cent, as against a fall position would have been precar-commerce on the principles of Com- thus far of about 10 per cent. In the ious,
munism exemplified by the policy of gold value of the dollar. This the Russian Soviet Government, be should warn Mr. Roosevelt that fore they sink into the fathomless events have not worked out in prac Of this Herr Hitler is, of course, pit of inflation, regardless of the tice as was expected by theoretical fully aware.
warning of what happened ten years economists of the "Brainstorm" He is obviously on terms of
trust. close friendship with Siegfried go in Germany,
The "Brainstorm” Trust of the Wagner and his wife, who is an United States seems to think that prices ought to rise it: the United Let us not forget, however, that Englishwoman, He has also an by depreciating the dollar It can States expends on public works and Impersonal attitude in his admira-ralse internal prices. Let us assume loans the vast suma promised. tion for Wagner, both as composer that a debased dollar will attract That expenditure might conceivably, and politiclan. Wagner's activities foreign buyers of United States pro-counterbalance or even prevent fur in the 1848 revolution entitle him, ducts before they are discouraged by ther Inflation. But no one can tell according to Hitler, to be described the internal rise in prices.
for certaines
John Law's Plan
|ns "the first of the Nazis.”.
Your Daily Smile.
I'm Not Such A Hoz.
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makes
not
can be
Trade Bludgeon
The destruction of the dolpamphlet called "Money and Trade lar, as part of the method of Considered, with a Proposal for raising commodity prices in Supplying the Nation with Money" the United States. and other, He induced the French Government. countries, may
at the beginin 1716 to put his plan into opers“ ning, destroy the value of illition, re fixed Interest-bearing securities expressed in terms of dollars, and In the end destroy the ha tional "credit" of the Walled States.
It must not be supposed that As an instance of the economie Britain, or France, or other Euro- topayturvydom in the United States, pean nations, will fold their hands there should be taken into account A doctor says motoring and allow their export trade to be the possibility of a grave deprecia- women look old and haggard be bludgeoned by. United States cur-tion in the value of securities if the the "blue stockings," wps perfectly serious mood when he going to call 'em road hugs.
rency depreciation, in order to pro-fight from the dollar resulta In |fore they should. But I'm
vide a save-face for the politicians right in the United States among said: "I do not envy a fellow one]
of that country at the expense of investors who hold securities quoted Hong Kong. Wednesday, Jan. 3, 1934 of those honeysuckle wives, as All A Mistake.
every other nation,
on Wall Street. The depreciation in they are but creepers at best. He was given the job of selling tain would be unwilling to join with reduce the value of investments held: It must not be assumed that Brithe value of dollar securities would and commonly destroy the tree shop-keepers bacon-slicers and Emergent Woman.
they ko tenderly cling about."other labour-saving devices. His other nations in fiscal steps for self by the banks which the Reconstruc Our bright young people can rat prospective customer proved Preservation against reckless and tion Finance Corporation is assist Time was when one could only scarcely coin a neater phrase to be a plump woman of middle selfish action by the United States. Ing on to their fest. The object of
jage, speak of emergent "women" then "honeysuckle wives," in an
developed out of the Roosevelt Plan that assistance is to put the banks. the rare exceptions to a general age which believes that the type something you need in this shop. ciated with the Most Favoured Na to lend money. But how will they "Madam," he said, " there is I am aware of the difficulties asso- once again in a position to be able rule of apparent subordination. has died out. They would find The work is too heavy for you. Tell tion clause. They are not insuper-be able to do so if the value of their But to-day it is "woman" Hannah, More's style a trife me, do you never feel the need for able.
assets falls and an investors” whole sex in every respect en-more pedantic, but her meaning help?"
The gold operations of the United panic would bring about such a fall, franchised.
Not that Brontes gives nothing to cavil at when sheThe woman kigaled. He arolled. Seeter las per they also destroy lar" has in it the same objective as the world market Mr.Roogevell's "commodity, dol- and Nightingales are therefor says: "If a young lady has that “A woman like you," he proceed for gold. They may likely to become the more discretion and modesty without ed. "should not have to do such the United States dollar.
John Laws plan. Law Issued numerous, since. genius, whe which all knowledge is little work as carving. You
or in worth, she will never make saved all the weariness and worry men, has always defied condi- ostentatious parade of it, because if you will allow me to tions. The changes are such as she will rather be intent on ac-bolt descended on him. When he "Then something like a thunder- affect not units but the mass. quiring more than on displaying awoke, he was in bed .. Women nowadays are not only what she has. Today, the
In course of time, his friends whole community than ever, they those who have knowledge, but "We both made a mistake,” ex- were before; they constitute from those who seek to turn the plained the suffer. “I didn't knów also a world of their own, a new freedom into senseless he was taking it as a proposal, world which must be catered for licence.. ..Erect as...WE MAY:
and she didn't know 'her husband GUARANTEED PURE & WHOLESOME increasingly. They have their separate partitions between the was in the back room."
If the policy of the United States Jown, associations, > their own {sexes, ⋅ partitions
which have Doesn't Know What He's Missing, change resulted in increased detestate of French currency.
In relation to gold currency and literature this last a thing of their purely occasional uses, the Very recent origin, yet of rapid sexen form still one family drinks beer or whisky, and conseoverseas purchases of gold, it should A health writer says he ever ctation of the dollar through large growth. Up to a point, the sexes Mankind consists of men and quently is always well. Maybe not be expected that Britain would tare educated
ax If they were women, not in divided camps, but But he never drinks beer or whisky embark upon a policy of creating one. In foriner ages, their in working together for common. terests as readers never diverged, ends. Attempts to ignore or so that a learned woman in override that truth are futile did cave-man and a great hulking Such a policy by Britain would
HOW IT WORKS **
* Córresponding dépreciation in ater, The difference between a splen-the British home and export tradea ling for the purpose of protecting Queen Elizabeth's DAVIE, BOAG & CO.LTD. nearly every epoch has had its mother and the wife were sparried to him or not.
day (and Even in the days when the brute is whether a woman's mar-create a currency inferas, into which few learned women) had to read ently kept in the background, exactly what men read, and probe excluded entirely from publi ably looked for nothing else. Ale affairs, there was still, tempta, somewhat later, to found meeting of seemingly magazines for carefully desig nated "gentlewomen were Towles, a woman, unseen los
Hover overy shoulder Now that feeble, and usually falling. Only we have changed so much the in our own generation has the form of things have openid separate identity of a, Temale public, seeking Interpretation for has rather more doors than wo-
"RICKSHAW BRAND more coherently led to the danger of offence is not from gathered round him
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the endorsement of permanent which animates sould conti Presa. It is all part of a vast will be social change. The women's Let book
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Hidus, has been but one of many steps, and perhaps not the mort momentous in results. There are no veils now in Turkey, onca the very stronghold of sEX' equalitie females
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Not an Inside Rights
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Letters patent were issued to him by the French Government for the establishment of a Banque Generale: Like Mr Roosevelt's "commo dollar," the notes on Law's Bank were to be payable, at the same vine" date of issue, a provision of wrest on the data of repayment is on the importance in the then fluctuating
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