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Follow My Leader
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1994 THE PRINCE CHARLIE
OF CHINA
EVENTFUL LIFE OF HENRY PU YI
MOMENTOUS REIGN PROBABLE
(By Basil Murray.)
The bleak hills of the Golden Horn; his father's palace in the Chinese- above Vladivostok are hard bound city.
overtime.
with frost. An ice-breaker plougha For some weeks his friends its way into the great port, keeping despaired of his life; then his tutor open the channel, for the soya-bean was allowed to join him. Together ships into the open Pacific. Out they went for # motor-drive over the Sea of Japan the fee in through the city accompanied by The decline is due partly to solid, snow-covered, crinkled, as if two armed guards. One day they had to call at a photographer's shop economic pressure and partly to the waves froze in motion.
At Nagasaki men are working where some snapshots of the Sum- high rents and limited housing ac-| commodation in the cities.
The great Mitsubishi mer Palace were being developed. The figures are to be used by the shipyard is busy. The ships they It was just inside the Legation war. quarter which no armed Chinese Nazis for another great marriage are building are ships of
ordered for soldiers are allowed to enter. drive.
Some, they say, Bre
The car with the guards stopped That is why one may head daily Chile. The little, wiry, yellow men' in any German newspaper personal who swarm over the scaffolding do at the frontier of the quarter. Mr. advertisements of which this is anol care who gave the orders. The Johnston and his charge strolled typical example:
ships will be ready for the service into the shop, collected their photo- "My leader wishes me to marry. of the Emperor if he needs them, graphs and returned to the car. Just as they were about to enter It. I therefore seek a Protestant, pure-and he may need them soon,
the tutor suggested that the Em- Aryan girl, blonde, slim and pos- In a solid Victorian house ati
peror might take the opportunity of sessed of private means.**
Kew twa people arc writing
| visiting his German doctor to consult anxiously for news from the East.
him about some stomach pains They, are Sir Reginald Johnston, which had troubled him recently.
Your Daily Smile.
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STRANGE BUT TRUE
A psychologist says that children up to the age of seven live in a world of make-believe. Just all kid.
EASY!
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He was
The guards were bluffed.
K.C.M.G., Lutor to the boy who was the last Manchu Emperor of China,
Pu-yl was taken to the friendly and the boy's own sister, who is his
doctor's house well within the guest,
quarter and Mr. Johnston rushed This youth of destiny was born round the Legation seeking a anne-
the 1906, when
childless Te-tuary for his charge. Eventually ļis clear, therefore, that replace- The China Mail
Tsong, sat on the Dragon throne at the Japanese Ambassador, Mr. ment value means a price level]
Pekin. His father, Prince Chun. Yoshizawa. which will enable these wages to
agreed to give him hospitality, and against his strong Hong Kong, Friday, February 16, 1934 be paid. Otherwise the level of "You are the most beautiful girl was the Emperor's brother.
named Pu-yi, the first protection Feng was powerless. wages in Britain being exception-I've ever seen! I long to hold you
For the next six years Pu-yl's ally rigid, there will be great and in my arms, to caress you, to kiss Part of the name being common to
the same generation. When he was From the Legation quarter in are not the only element in the whisper in your ene. 'I love you't" A strong controversy has cost of production, but they are
"Well, I suppose it can be artwo his uncle died, and he became Pekin he moved with his wife--be the tenth emperor of the Manchu| had married a Manchu princess in waged over the British Gov-an important and often a pre-ranged.”
dynasty.
(1923-to the Japanese concession in ernment's policy of restoring ponderating element; and it is remunerative prices by regulat-¡broadly true that those who are ing supplies. The argument indifferent 10 the course of She swore she would be his... of the critics
to be prices stand condemned of in-and, after Reems
months of careful that since both
supply and de-difference to the course of wages angling, she waN. imand combine to dictate the or to the volume of employment level of prices, it is no use think--though better organization ad- ing that prices can be regulated mittedly can affect other ele by the regulation of supplies ments in the cost of production in his voice. "this pie is just like was brief, alone. The argument is theore- Full account is taken in the mother vice.
Regulation And Prices. growing unemployment. Wages your eyes, your hair your lips-to all male members of his family of life was comparatively uneventful.
CYNICAL STORY
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LUMP OF LIFE "This pic," he said, with tears
BONZO!"
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tu muke...HERE,
The title chosen for his reign was Tientsin. Hsuan-Tung. A Chinese emperor may not be called by his personal name during his reign. While he is on the throne he is known only hia "reign-title."
But the
reign of Hsuan-Tung
Accomplished Citizen
the
From there he followed kaleidoscope of Chinese politics with close interest but played no part in it. He learned to row, to ride and to play lawn tennis, He could read English and liked the Three years after he had suc novels of Edgar Wallace, but apoke ceeded, on the day after his sixth the language with difficulty. birthday, he was forced to abdicate
He became an excellent Chinese
tically true, because it is impos-Government's policy of this fact. sible to regulate demand in any and efficiency is prescribed as a state of society where personal condition of protection in many Simple Joke for Simple Folk
by the Republican, Yuan-Shil-Kalacholar and published some poems liberty survives. But it is in-measures, notably in the Import
are taboo in His father, who had been acting an under a pseudonym in ■ Pello Good-bye kisses complete: it is based upon al Duties Act, in the Agricultural Chicago railway station because Begent, made good terms for him. newspaper. His penmanship--one misapprehension of the Govern-Marketing Act, and in the mea they delay trains. They figure alle retained the right to use the of the chief tests of scholarship in ment's policy; and it is not rein-sure of temporarily stabilized kiss is as good as a mile.
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SWISS PROVERB
forced by any constructive alter-protection granted to the iron native. In the first place if a and steel industry upon the con- producer cannot obtain as much dition that it ultimately produces for an article as it would cost a reorganization scheme. The] Ski-ing is believing,
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free air in a
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Facts You Did Not Know.
Imperial title Ta-Ching-Hung T the East is superb: I have seen which means "Emperor of the texts written by him and they are Great Pure Dynasty." He kept his masterpieces of calligraphy. palaces in Pekin, his jewels and Then in 1931 there came a fresh personal possessions. And he re-twist in his life. The Japanese him to produce another, he will difference between the Govern-
ceived a pension of 4,000,000 dollars occupied Manchuria, and declared not indefinitely continue to pro- ment and their critics upon this Another Lie About Scotland
The first time a Scotsman used a year from the new Government. It an independent State, duce. If such a state of affairs point is a simple one. The
So far another thirteen years, all
Monarchism had always been is not remedied, the world's sup critics appear to believe that re-
garage he blew out
through the war, he continued to strong in the north. The powerful plies of such articles pass sud-organization can take place while four tyres.
live in great state in Pekin. In Mongolian princes from the outer denly from abundance to real industries are exposed to the, full
1919 Sir Reginald Johnston, then steppes, many of them related by scarcity, and the change, assum-blast of the competition result-
in the British Government Service, marriage to the Chinese Imperial ing that demand does not miraculing from world abundance. The
was appointed his tutor, and went family, saw in this Japanese move ously lessen at the same rate, is Government believe that effective
to live with him in the Imperial a chance to reinstate the dynasty accompanied by violent fluctua-reorganization can best be car With the aid of heat and pre»-|paluce.
In its original home. Emissaries tiona in prices. Now this pros-ried out under some kind of
sure sheet metal has been combin- Feng Evicts Henry Pa Yi from the north arrived at Tientsin. pect does not inspire horror in shelter. Those who contrast
The crash came in November The Court was favourable. Po-yi Jone school of economista general-fairly the experience of 1929-31ed with felt at the Mellon Institute ly associated in the past with with the experience of 1933-38 of Industrial Research, forming a 1924, when Feng-Yu-Halang, the was willing to undertake the enter the Liberal Party, but to every can have little doubt which view sound deadening material that can so-called Christian general, made prise. On a grey November day be handled like ordinary metal and his coup d'etat în Pękin, He; was two years ago the ex-Emperor one else it seems unnecessarily is right. The next criticism is
fireproofed.
determined to destroy the old re- boarded a Japanese counting steam- cruel alike to the producers who more serious. Higher prices, it jare from time to time flung is said, lessen. demand. It is not
gime. He tore up the agreement or and slipped out of the harbour at wholesale into bankruptcy and true even to-day that demand is
consumption et safeguarding Pu-yi's imperial pri- Tientsin, an Eastern Prince Char to the consumers who lose in the fully satisfied; and policy ought cigarettes in China has risen to vileges, ejected him from his palace, lile, in quest of a new kingdom. periods of scarcity, what they to aim at expanding the satisfacmore than 75,700,000,000 as com- and made him a virtual prisoner in (Continued on Page 11). gain in the periods of abundance, tion of demand. But though pared with about 300,000,000, inn Cheapness at any price is an in- this criticism is more plausible, 1900, foreign owned manufactor- human doctrine. Moreover, when the answer to it is complete. Ining plants and distributors supply- supplies reach a certain degree the first place the scarcity which ing more than 50 per cent of the of abundance and the movement must follow the widespread demand. of the world's supplies even of bankruptcies produced by letting perishable goods has become so prices slide is not the way to To detect the depth and position rapid as to make production' any-stimulate demand. Secondly, of an underground water pipe an where competitive with produc- during the passage from abund-instrument has been invented that tion everywhere else, the cruelty ance to scarcity increasing un converts the vibrations of the flow- cannot be avoided, merely by employment lessens demand. for water into electrical energy national reorganization to: make Thirdly, the producer is also a that operates headphones and a national production cheaper. Nor consumer-a fact which appears registering dial. is it generally, or even widely, in the incontrovertible statement
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true that a producer threatened that if agriculture is not pros- ing production going and ́of with bankruptcy can turn easily perous agriculturists cannot buy maintaining and expanding de to another form of production, urban products. Again it is no mand. Some critics say that for abundance is widespread. It part of the British Government's high and flexible tariffs would be ought; therefore, to be common policy to force prices up beyond better, but this system does not ground that prices should reach the reach of the general public-scem to work in other countries, at least replacement value that it will be remembered that the and tariffs are not so flexible ini}' ta to my, a level-at, which the ideal price level has been defined practice – as in theory, nor so efficient producer can continue in as replacement value-and 'much readily useful for the mainten- production. Criticism," therefore, can and has been done in the ance of that export trade upon; based upon the doctrine that way of narrowing the gap be- which so much employment in cheapness is the only virtue may tween wholesale and retail prices Britain depends. Others contenid be discounted... The next ques-without affecting the latter, that supplies should be regulated tion is: "What does replacement Lastly, in so far as steadier by Import Boards, appointed by value mean in Britain ?: Owing prices at the defined level in- the Government; but it is highly to national policy in the past crease employment, demand is unlikely that efficiency could be comparatively high wages are stimulated. There remains the so well maintained or improved prevalent in, and the purchasing question whether, other methods as by the Government's policy of power of these wages has risen are better suited to what ought encouraging Industry to run. Ite considerably even aince 1929 It to be the common ideal of Keep, own busin
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