HEATHER DAY
30TH NOVEMBER 1917
THE
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Yet ta the game fargol makes Pany, Peevish People Plump and Popular SARGOL, the concentrated food that puts un Leod, healthy flesh, sometimes at the rate of a pound a day, huikla up the thin and weak, brings back the rosy blush of health, rounds out the skinny, scrawny figures to lines of beauty and plumpness, does it easy, quickly and effectively,
HONGKONG DAIL
You don't understand it? Well, to tell the truth, neither do we. But after a long idea" and produced a combination of tissue series of costly experiments we hit upon an building elements, which have performed wonders in making thin people plump and fat. Sargol was mada to put flesh on thin folks, but we don't understand one-half the other remarkable things it does for the thin and undeveloped, the pale and the weak, the dull and the listless. It is not a drug vor a stimulant, but can be best classed as a concentrated food with high tissue-building qualities. A food that creates rich, red blood, buikis brain and brawn, hardens fabby muscles and makes even a confirmed than good septic eat up and take notice. In building tissue it has a higher value than boefsteak or eggs.
'
has
NOVEMBER 16TH,
ratify
ve not
THE ARMY MEMO."! HOW TO WRITE IT.
HOW TO PAY FOR THE WAR thing quite different and it is not used.
DIVORCE FOR THE POOR. 300 APPLICATIONS IN TWO DAYS. THE CONSCRIPTION OF WEALTH. hayo four fifths of the world in our
or influence, all its markets, M Its raw material all its commercial
lities Why should we
During two days recently over 300 not Is G. G. IN THE DAILY NEWS potentialities.
One of the many little problems at applications for divorce were made to the a na te i
mobilise these potentialities against Der
ing the owly appointed Temporary The swallows
Why should we not lay down are leaving us and the
maay lengthening nights remind us of the ap: our terms of peace and our scheme for Second Lieut is how to conduct oficial Poor Persons Department of the High
be fourth
the proach of winter. It is to
organising ontlevou bar and correspondence He may very easily slin-Court of Justice Mr. Adrian Hussard- the world agmest these up in this direction, and unwittingly Short, the secretary, stated that by far
the greater proportion of the applicants: Winter of the war. Whatever dim hopes say to Gomeny then, youth the bring down on his tiosuspecting head are are non and the reajority of them are there have been that the and would
despot but by the vote of
and brimstone or, at any rate, the wrath
soldiers whose wives, they allege, have the end of the summor they are word bly abandoned
The tragedy
of Rus people we will exclude you from all and contempt of his superiors been unfaithful during their absence. indefin extended the vista of the war share in our wealth and all part in our The subject is fraught. with hidden pi- The number of applications is daily
and
nd America is preparing commerce, and for every month a delay wa her plans for a three years struggle exact two months penalty "Can you
ingressing," he said. In the Brst six Sho will have a million men in the field exaggerate the persuasive force of such
months of this year we had 14,000 appeals for assistance, of which between 500 and a year hence, but her armies can hardly a weapon, if the shaft of it were justion
600 late been granted, and the cases are” be the dominating fact of the war until and not revenge
now being proceeded with There are the
the air her power spring of 1010. In th will become operative sooner, and next
If year should ace the Allies in permanent
But this is a digression Taxation, at Your esteemed favour of even date to and the solicitor's out-of-pocket expenses, and commanding possession of that the utmost, cannot realise more than hand, covering enclosures as per margin and expenses incidental to witnesses, theatre of the war which is more and 350 millions, and we have a minimuin of Nante will have best attention. Awaiting witnessca are not brought from a long move becoming
500 millions, almost certainly 600 milions your further commands.Yours, etc. distance the whole proceedings from be on our trans to And! There is no out here. Meanwhile the deerning theatre.
· All very well in Cheapside, perhaps, ginning to end do not cost more than come to the third expedient We port are always increasing, and the We
bitt, still, not quite the approved style for £10, and some cases may be completed for as low as 20. Before we take up a have had no carrying of the American Armies and must conscript wealth. Wo
case we must be satisfied that the applic their supplies will involve an enormous morey, with life we must have no mercy a ginental orderly-room.
at is reall- poor. No one earning more increase of power in this direction.
with riches. Wo must wipe out our answer to the boat the most commational indebtedness by taking the surAs a preliminary, it may be observed, than 2 week should apply to
there are two recognised methods in the added Mr. Hassard-Short pelling need
We have not plus wealth of the individual" the Army of conducting written communica
What has been happeninne of our
One of the west-known legal authorities: found at, and we shall not find it until
tions on official matters. The simplest on divorce expressed the view that the we get at the nest. A plague of wasps tremendous years! Some millions can only be destroyed at the source. citizens have been living in mud and
Hare
the memo. This which is technically At the present time a million men and Have we the right methods? the right men! This is our riddle all the filth, and under the shadow of death, on and the commonest is the employment of life of the nation made divorce essential.
shilling a
Millions more, men
KNOWN AS "Army Form C 348 would women in this country were separated by women,
worked have
gly be a joy to sub-editors, as it is severely justices orders, and tens of thousands Unceasingly st forge war at white heat.
Some
of the and complimente. Bare facts and nothing infelicity, etc. He thought that every legal facility should be granted in order But whatever the answer to these Gees vast riches out of the wreckage clxo
world. In making no could
Thus, suppose General Brown wants that these people might have no excuse tions may be we catinot hope that the Most of them have done what wo end,
in a military sense, is near. It
have done in their case no more and no certain piece of information. All he does for avoiding the national duty of parent- may cons in an unforeseen way, by the less. The wind blew for them and the is to scribble on a memo form: From hood.
of forces world famine or windfalls carpeted their orchard. But General Browd to Colonel Smith Piruse working
IMPROVED HUSBANDS. break in pational moral--that we cannot will anyone say that it is just that this eng if Lieutenant Snocks is a vegetarian forecast; but go far as the measurable man can be taken from his shop to die (or whatever it is he wants to know). You know, Jim seemed so facts are concerned we must think not for his country, leaving his family beg Colonel Smith will then write on the same last time he was home on leave He in this way, there is no question of more red, and that that man on a slips Yes, he is, of No, he isn't, talked quite seriously of married people's in mouths, but in years And thinking gare
home to accumulate and hold unchal
and send it back, what could be simpler responsibilities instead of chaffing about Vufor urgency than that of finance
her est ?
the vast garnerings of this mighty
Everyone who comes across a ́ ́ memo." what he'd do at our wedding as he used tunately there is no question which is more unpopular or neglected.
Let us try to face it in some of its Before the war, the national income writes something, if only two words, ou to do. Really I don't know if I want to arger aspects, Lord Leverhulme, that is, the income of the individuals it. The favourite thing to write seems to marry him any more; I feel as if he were
it £2,400,000,000 a year. Now his remarkable speech at Birkenhead this posing the nation was estimated ntbe Passed to you, please, as the stranger, Thus Mirim to me the ess recipient of such a missive always enden. other day. She and Jin have been Baid week
they were like two absurdly pre- that we might eventually have to deal with
budget of eleven hundred
yours to take somebody else anawn it engaged to four years, and before, the Thus the C.O passes is to the adjutant,
I had seen little of Miriam during the of which six hundred millions millions, would represent interest in War Debt
the adjutant to the company commander, cocious and irresponsible children. and the company commander to the sub-
of both young people were shongly That would mean that every household
altern; while the subaltern will probably war, only I had heard that as the parents in the land would, on an average have
do all he can to unload it on to the against war weddings, Jim and Miriam
Were to remain engaged until to pay nine shillings a week to the nu tional exchiquer. If we keep that nine
quartermast shillings a week in mind it will help to be concerned about the thousands of millions.
falls. Thus, I remember the sad case of a well-intentioned youth whose previous career bad been connected with commerce When told one day by his brigadier to acknowledge a letter from headquarters, CONSCRIPTION OF WEALTH. he did so in this style Gentleman no fees payable, but every applicant must
is relatively plain but till wo solve and mine to keep math practical and rigidly eschews trimmings more were living apart owing to domestic
rest! this we can have no certitude.
NOUGHTS,
THE PROBLEM,
is
But let us limit ourselves to the posi tion as it is today. Let us suppose the War
by some miracle, ceased this even ing What should we have to face 1 We have spent, roughly five thousand mil lions on the war. At the present rute of expenditure, overy future year of war will cost us three thousand millions Of have £3,000,000,000 already spent, we raised about
bout £1.
1,000,000,000 by
the
Ted
tho
not is
probably four thousand millions Muce of this, of course, represents the increas values of things. What has become, of this surplus it has largely been an vested in the War Loan. The sacrifices of the naichs have minde rich, and they, quite rightly have used their riches to make the nation their debtor. The time has come to correct this vist anormaly
ROW IT WORKS.
***men
war
Pred
The "' meme.” may kill the art of polite correspondence. Yet it has its uses. It is time-saving and effective and, in these days of paper shortage, ceonomical,
But paper shortage does not appear to trouble the military mandarins. In one headquarters office where I spent several months a notice was actually exhibited Paper is cheap Don't use scraps. Hence, there is still an "
Mirian
different
peace was And now Miriam didn't “-
really Icel she wanted to marry him any more. Was the engagement light-heartedly begun
in tragedy i
to end
I thought over the other fiances I know We must make a levy on capital. The capital of the individuals of the nation
who had returned from the front, and, has increased during ine war from
mentally reviewing them. I found the thousand million to 20 thousand million
same difference or another-in them all. Bo the engaged girls of the present day A ten per cent. levy on its would realise
will have to face the inevitable result two thousand minions, 1 would c& to tinguish debt to cant amount and reduce Bond of military letters. The which the complete change of environ the interest or debt by Izu millions in stemmed folk of utters are free that ment and occupation has brought about. doing so it would nearly balance our each must have a whole sheet to itself and the budget and
Our
preservational an inch argin; and, second, that ene early every case the change is for the and borrowe€ 000,000,000,000 M sovy would be graduated say must begin with Sir and conclude
We
solvency
would
you to assimilate your for most Food out of every have to raise 180 millions a year. But pay 25,000 if you are a millionaire you They much prefer, however trivial the war. There are none who
good
your meals
the mofargo hope days, the test
how digestion has improved, how the blue melancholy feeling goes, taste
You look better, act better, you few days more and you begin to take en flesh. A can do more, do it quicker and easier. Your friend slaps you on the shoulder and says: "Hello, Bill, you're looking fine, never saw you looking better."
But you don't need to be told this. You know it yourself. You know you are gaining weight, feeling more fit than you have felt for years.
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THERAPION NA THERAPION NE THERAPION NO 3
THERAPION
· 1948):
or renewed within three or four years all of it in 30 years. Therefore we must provide
Fund Sinking
of
E
men return with
Will stronger, finer characters. wider: Sympathies Of this:
this £4,000,000,000 we have about £1,000,000,000 to our Allies and the per cent on fortunes of 21,000 to £20,000 with, I have the honour to be, Sir. Your clearer judgment, perhaps also with self-governing Colonies. This, we may ten per cent, on 230,000 to £60,000: 13 obodient kervant. Ribald subalforns deeper power of anger, but most certainis
we will leave assume, will be repaid and
eave to 30 per cent. on sums over a milion. fell this sort of thing eye-wash," and with a nearer comprehension of the it out of our budget. calculations. n you have a thousand pounds you will they are not far wrong
wenklings are soured few a very Now to meet the annual interest in pay 280; if you have £50,000
The War Office, It may be mentioned mysteries of living and dying. Only a have a supreme contempt for "memo.and embittered by their
experience the remaining three thousand millions
back Come just they went
Dut The collection would on
We must accustom ourselves to the fact. dual in his own person and not on the
that our men will come back to corporate institution from which he
changed; their characters will of neces At one derived his wealth. He would pay it in
sity
have grown, and this fact, when cent, which is the lowest possible figure,
realised in relation to a person every hit this means a further annual charge of what form was convenient, in his stocks or his shares, his houses or his fields, in £30.000.000 in, all, 180 millions on
personally or realty.
of whose character we feel we know and Debt
any 200 millions
There will be no diminution of capital This was typed on a double sheet of appreciate, is certainly disconcerting;
woman is to be able to appreciate the Our normal expenditure before the was owing to this levy fact of enormous superior quality and beautifully embose these developments in her future mate, was 200 millions. It must today owing to the increase of the importance at a time when we shall need paper and enclosed in a thick cartridge she must have enlarged her views and her nominal value of things, now expendi- the fullest command of our capital re envelope. Also, I very much doubt, if the
us sources for the
entirely
and good com ture on education, housing, etc. Let us
of course, fer of capital from the hands of the in are to preparg for now wars,
WAT
one I had the other day from Whitehall
Bir have to ack: wledge your communication of the 3rd inst., which will receive attention:
I have the honour to be, Bir your obedient servant.
will be the trans to address me; and, as he was a generally Bay a minimum of 250 milliona, TN All thing will evelopment of business, writer considered it any honour" at all sympathies or she can never hope to be an
happen
wife an
I am quite sure he bad not the slightest many cases where the wo
women have it will be rustly more dividual to the State, which will become
To this we have to add, for pensione: - a partner with landlord in hie and intention of being my obedient ser-ge out into the world, talking a man's
Stc.
a minimum of 50 million, and the budget sum at its lowest works out thas: Expenditure on Service £250,000,000 Interest on Debt, etc.
200,000,000 50,000,000 Pensions, etc.
£500,000,000
vant."H" in Daily Mail.
FOOD AND THE PROFITEER
place and battling for themselves, or
they have pursed seriously and watched, with the comprehension that contains no bitterness, by the bedside of men broken in the war, all will bo well. They have learnt 4. They
part of that lesson. their
found upon the field of
battle
holdings, with the manufacturer in his factory with you or me in our shares. There need be no fear about a flood of realisations. There will be e no need f
It will be largely a 0.000 realisations. It
War ENGLISH FARMER FINED £5,500. of book
entries. My proportion of War Loan
the profits onago will be cancelled the Debt A tench of 13 magistrates, of whom VAN your contribution will
50 to Commissioners in the form of rent from majority were agriculturists, at Spalding But in Miriam's case this is not . your land, or that portion of the and recently imposed a tus of £5,500 and £950 Her mother is an invalid who would not
the that was yours, or in the form of divi costs on George Thompson, of Button, who hear of her daughter going into
world dend from that will be nominally for selling potatoes at a price in excess has knitted socks and comforters, and of shares you hare owns and farms several thousand acres, of work and leaving her alone, Miriam given
Total revenue It cannot be less. It will almost cer tainly be far more probably 800 millions And each year of war will add 150 mil- lions to the total.
THREE EXPEDIENTS.
How is it to be met! There are three secure until another
operation.
expedients. The first is repudiation,
to
There is, I am convinced, no alternative
ed.
odandendured the profound trials War Prote. That resource ends with the war and has to be written they will be beneficial. They will inci had been a large number of breaches of ho are driving aeroplanes and renty."
The proceedings were taken by the Food ed officers were entertained, but that is. which we are bound to dism183 hs on this expedient and no escape from it. Controller, and there were 55 summonses all she realises of the war. It is not all under- thinkable. It would plunge us all into
And no escape ought to be sought. On for selling and offering to sell ware and quite Miriam's fault if she fails to a common ruin and would leave the cous- try which adopted it a discredited bank the contrary, it ought to be done at once. seed potatoes at a price in excess of that stand and appreciate the change in Jim rupty without commich
of capital or off the present Government, will not de allowed. Defendant pleaded guilty. But there are great numbers of girls the Mr. Travers Humphreys said that the circumstances of whows lives closely re- position from worse raw material with
terial with which to restart her and the remedy, when it is applied, will prosecution was regarded as one of freue semble hors. They have been left behind the shelf of conventional and unreal public importance from two points of is, and they can only prove unsatis business.
Second expedient is by taxation. be applied more drastically,
ideas; The
view. The first was that Mr. Thompson We raised last year 570 millions in that THE SOCIAL CONSEQUENTES.
had been breaking the orders made by factory mates for the men who have suffer of war. way but of this 140 millions was en
Without doubt the We need have no fear of the social the Food Controller in his own financial Excess
ends of the consequences. They will be great, bal interest to an enormous extent. There future, these boys of nineteen and More bae to be written off. Trade to-day dentally go far to solve the problems is artificial and its returna illusory. In social reconstruction over which we ate the Order, done quite deliberately for as they fy others who almost straight
the school room take charge of come-tax
which, with super-tax, all knitting our brows. They will, for profit, by means of which defendant ob from and are beloved of the men they
at senti rises to as much as 8s. 6d. in the
Very tained very large sums of money quite platoon example, Loosen private monopoly of 2 produced last year 20 millions. That the soil and open the treseire house of illegally: The second aspect was that load, will be infinitely more simple yet tham the average men total would probably be halved with the the land to the peasant who wants to Thompson was a gentleman in a very gran end of the war, and to increase the rate till it under conditinas of freedom and large way of business, a xnxn of means of prewar
for the woman fo of taxation would be to cripple business security. They will convert many and substance, just the type of man that at the moment when the need of capital mansion which can so longer be sustain the authorities looked to give a lead to make a real effort to sympathise with and ed into educational centres and agricul. smaller men in obeying the law. On his understand and love this larger man tural and technical colleges. They will own admission Thompson had made an whom Armageddon returns to her if the fargely pave the way for the public resume illegal profit of £5,190, and that did not refining infinence of the war is to outlast Ah, but says the Mad Hatter of ton of monopolies like mines, TBABY", Cover all the ground. There were carlier the memory of its attendant borrors
Daily Mail the forning Post, give us Protection, of
MOLLY TURIN, in the lones, the great manulae transactions, but the six months allowed
to proceedings elapsed how
imporr Thompson was, 74, and all he did was
was most urgent.
A DIGRESSION.
the
give us Tariffs, and we'll make the honey to past his legs in Great
foreigner--the American, the Frenchman
Suure
the Bussion, the Italian pay He must Western Railway stock he to that extent Mr. Maddocks, for the defence, said
makes the State the German and the Austrian cut, Western Railway leave the with them now is iron shells and
And a
making the community
owner of
not less
the Levy
to take a share of the profit of six guineas
It will be
PANAMA'S GREETING TO A
BRITISH HOSPITAL SHIP.
When the New Zealand hospital ship
for the only merchandise we exchange fant the Pond directly interton permitted to merchants. He did Murama with over 500 disabled soldiers.
no duty. Oh, weftable H Harter in the success of the business in which ook rob the poot.****
do
you think that the Russia you insult, and France and Italy, have debts enough of their
aos has taken shares, will have an immense
Curry? Are
Do you
It bearing
the settlement of the in
on their way home from Europe passed
Can through the Panama Canal recently, the
people of the Isthmus rose as one man
to do honour to the occasion. Thousands
пров We Do having to finance them ourselves dustrial problem. It will tend to absorb inflicts on the community. But, since of dollars were raised in a few hours to the function of capital to itself and leave we have to do it it is not beside the supply fresh fruit and other gifts, the And do you think when every nation is clamouring for commodities.
came that we can the operations of business to management mark to point out that the social con- boat was loaded with Rowers, the military
and labour modities dearg It is not to achieve these and similar pedient will be good and not evil. We of the Canal, playing all the way across sequences that will grow from the ex- bands literally marched along the banks afford to make these commodities think that when -com is 708 2 quots that the levy will be made have Rot to make a new social fabric as the ship went through The men were, and scarcer by taxing them
will be made because we cannot help our any casa Finance will be its corner van & banquet by Capt Charles B. and batter 224d. alb. and every 1000 Arves. It will be made because there ismselves will lay that corners Corporation and hative of New Zea is not unwelcome to as the Fenton, the agont of the United Steel of existence ao dear that the life of no other way to pay for the war and the housewife is a daily misery do you preserve usiopal solvency and national stone well and truly con
evente think that this is the time to
to tax them of our sight
there is an economic weapon, but it is not the foolish blunderbuse in your hand. It is same.
Cubes out you that 4
credit-no othe way in which we Mr. Bonar Law may have the handling check the appalling inflation of money of the trowel. But he must use it quick and the intonitous wrong that inflation, or there will be another to see it in
(Continued ut fcor of net caluma) his place.
land were taken into the homes of the people beted and made to feel the friendship of the people in a way that
ill be told all over the Bouth Pacific