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NEW FRENCH TAX ON FOREIGNERS?
The latest suggestion for improving the MDDLE CLASS PARENTS AND PUBLIC braucial situation of France is that foreign
SCHOOLS. "
viitors, and residents should be made to hud over some of the advantages they drive from the exchange rate in the form of a special tax. The author of the scherne M. Piere Taittinger, Deputy for the Charente Inférieure, who would call this proposed levy on
M. Taittinger argues that while foreign visitors bring salth and prosperity to country with normal exchange, they help to ruin a ntry whose
try Barrency is depreciated.
Lospos, August Card,
AMERICANS GOING HOME.
This week has seen the beginning" of | df reonomic adjustment purses a "Ax
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the honieward flight of Americans,, and Waterloo station has been a husy place indeed. Something of the nature of the rush may be gathered from the fact that in two days the Canard Company's boats. by reason of their lands when such
took over 3,500 passengers Westward bound from Southampton alone. In the same period nearly the same numri took from Liverpool. The Berengaria
over 2.730 passengers for New York. To newspaper interviewers the returning
country's production is not sufficent for it
own needs, it has to buy abroad at a disadvantage. while the exchang
Prices therefore rise, falls. It is un, rata
while so many Fouch families are unable to find a lodg hotel which t
A
Americans who were questioned expressat and crowding
ing, for
foreigners are suapping up
ed their delight at their visit to Buchand, They all love the ancient and historic for homeless Franch people. In this con were as at any rute a temporary reskience places old in story, but best of all they tion he invokes the
love the English countryside. To most birth-rate as an illustrat of the falling]
ru the
go
of them who have been in England forty for reserving more accommodation for the first time rural England, with its the native population. One of M. Tait- roads winding among the hedgerows, the linger's nvowed objects, also, is to keep woods and streams and cultivated fields,t of France those people, who thera and the wonderful verdure on every site, ply" in order to live more cheaply than seems like a beautiful garden.
they could at home by reason of the depres riation of the frane. The proposed tax AN ATTRACTIVE PROPOSAL,
Mention of Americans suggests a refer-ld, therefore, be sufficient to balance the advantages derived by visitors ence to that excellent organization, the from the exchange rate The tax should American Universities' Union. There is be levied. he a tery flourishing branch in Louden, remain in France for
foreigners who nyight lays or more, which acts connecting link between | and he would fix the rate at 1,000s, per British and American students, and the month for the head of a family, with "an officials are aiming at a highly interesting additional 2004, for each person dependent new departure. They want the authori- upon him. Diplomatic offeinl ties to open Oxford and Cambridge to
Belgian and manual scholars during the Summer vacation.
hravy penalties
ters,
and be
exempt, but he would make all ather foreigners subject to. if within eight days of
arrival they to pay the economic aliustmen lax." It should be noted that M. Tait- finger's scheme has not met with a very
It seems that all the American naiver. sities are placed at the disposal of the Summer schools for the whole three months of the vacation. During this period special professors deliver lectures, and the students in attendance are enraging reception in ather official or ahled to live the real unversity life interested in the tourist traffic are strongly business cingles Hotel-keepers and all those every particular. It is definitely claimed for this system that, quite apart from the the influence of actual university life upon the students is beneficin and last ing Up to the present, however, the university authorities at Oxford and Ĉam. ridge have declined to sauction a Sium ner school on the lines proposed, but the members of the Union intend to keep pegging away, and are hopeful of ulti
educational value of the lecture courses,
nate success,
PUBLIC SCHOOL CHARGES.
opposed to the imposition of any special bilen on foreigners, which would, ther wy simply drive visitors away from Franco and play directly into the hands of German propaganda. Taittinger, however, helives that his tax would have s effect upon rich people, who can very at afford it, and he adds that it is only really wealthy visitors who spend moner unstintingly on expensive commodation and products of the luxury trades who confer any benefit on the country. So far Mother classes of foreigners are concerned, he believes that Franch would be better without them until her money is more near- ly equal id valge to their own.
Meanwhile, 4 learn that Messrs. Heine- wann, Lt, are adhering to the higher price for fiction, and Messrs. Hutchinson and Co. have intimated to their agents that any reduction is impossible in the war future. Other publishers adopt the sine line, so that for some time to come books will not be cheaper.
The Times has beľu deing a public ser vice by drawing attention to the difficulty in which parents of the old public school type are now placed. The essential point to ante is that many parents 6nd the utmost difficulty in paying the high charges made at certain public schools, There is no sign at present of a decrease in the fees demanded, although costs, in other directions, including that of food, clothing, etc., have shewn a marked fall. This is the burden of complaint on the part of many parents whose letters have appeared in The Times. But, as the paper points out, so long as there are parents able and willing to pay the high charges it is only to be expected that suche have faded out of the picture since charges will be maintained. The point the coming of the Free State. It would that energes is that professional men and
he idle to pretend that the Irish General others who cannot afford to send their ection has aroused more than a shadow soas to public schools whose names Eaglishninn and Englishwoman care very of interest in this country. The average possess a glamour will probąbly turn to
the redoubtable some of the excellent graminar schools little indeed what where the intellectul standard is as bigh
"patriots"--everyone in Ireland is a "patriot" of one brand or another-do about their next Parliament. If any con vern is expressed in political quarters here it is to the effect that the success
as "anywhere.
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of the independent candidates would be
the Ministry of Agriculture, a subject | all to the good.
which continues to occupy a great deal The independents are not primarily
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overdose of the so-called patriotism which has been at the Bottom of most of Ire- land's ills. The welfare of the agricul- tml and industrial workers is liable to be overlooked when a Parliament keeps on wrangling over constitutional pro- blems.
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There is, however, a danger that the men on the soil may be tempted to look too much to others for help and guid- ance, whereas the whole basis of the scheme is to enable men to become in- dependent, and self-reliant. It is impos- arresting Mr. de Valers, the lender. sible to farm successfully from Whitehall; free State executive has helped to re of the Republican irreconcilables, the however much Whitehall, in doing so, maur ham mate kutilise the very hest local Love the opinion on this side that it was available talent. In this counertion, and lacking in courage. Over and over again as supporting the statement just made it the remark has been heard in England PORT may be mentioned that the Ministry has at the Irish Government must have been running since about 1918 several known where this foine and Irish gintle- farm settlements, which vary from shout of Spanish-South-American descent 500 to 600 neres to something like 2,000 was hiding, and must have intentionally neres apiece. At the end of March, 1922,
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I farming is to pay at all, it is in- dividual initiative and the rewards of individual enterprise which will but the balance of the cultivator, or cultivatora, on the right side of the balance sheet. Officialdom, which has no possible incen- tive to save the taxpayers' money, always spends lavishly and frequently unwisely.
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No doubt as time passes there will be many efforts by various countries to einblish air-routes from Europe to the euls of the earth. British schemes have been put forward for linking up this country and India. Now comes the news The movement started some time ngo
that the Dutch propose to establish and to bring about a reduction in the fee service from Holland to Java.. Having of the novel has made no headway.- Book- | had no experience with airships, the plan sellers who advocated a return to the pre- is concerned only with aeroplanes. An war price as the only effective means of experimental flight is projected for next stimulating novel-buying have formally Spring, and meanwhile the necessary- notified the publishers that it is imprangements will be made with Govern- titable. The high cost of printing and
ment assistance, binding books, coupled with the firmness The route mentioned has apparently of paper prices, is given as the reason,
heen selected with no idea of following Experimental attempts to put new milway lines as far as possible and avoid- novels on the market at slightly lower long crossings of open res. It ruos prices have not, it is said, brought, a
Amsterdam, Budapest, Constantinople, suficient increase in sale to encourage Alapo. Basra. Bundar-Abbas, Karachi, price-cutting. One lending publisher says - Alinliabad, Calcutta. Rangoon. Bangkok, the six shilling novel of ordinary length | Mudan, Padang, Batavia. This route only becomes possible when there is a qust cross at least half-n-score of coun- very large sale. Another view in the tries, including Turkey and Pernia, and trade is that a short story of forty or fifty for that reason it has many obvious thousand words ought to be offered to drawbacks. Nobody here considers the the public at less than 7/0..
schema could ever become a commercially (Continued at foot of next column.)
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