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THE WAYS OF CHANCELLORS. HOW MR. CHURCHILL MIGHT
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BY SIL JOEN YOSTER FRASED.]
SAVE BUSINESS MEN TELL HIM TO CALL IN ACCOUNTANTS.
NEW WAY TO LEARN ARITHMETIC.
MYSTERY OF A WOMAN'S HEAD FOR FIGURES:
MUSICAL NUMBERS.
Miss Eilenette Betis, a young, LOC. school teacher, who lives in Central who presided over the annual meeting of London, is anxious to submit herself and the Association" of British Chambers of her methods of doing arithmetic and
mathematics mentally to examination by! Commerce in London.
It is just forty years since Mr. The suggestion that Mr. Churchill Churchill's father, Lord Randolph, be-should call in experienced accountanta to came Chancellor of the Exechequer for place Government accounts on a sounder half a dozen months. The story is still basis was made by Mr. Stanley Machin, fold at the Treasury that when "Randy," who never pretended to know much about finance, was shown rows of statistics he gazed at the decimals, and then, turning to a secretary, said, "What do there
damned dots mean?""
He said he had no sympathy with those scientists and mathematicians, in order he declared that Great Britain was that they may help her to decido exactly down and out-history did not record an fhow she does it. effort by any country equal to that made
us since the end of the war.
EXCESSIVE TAXATION.
I have gone well inte mathematics," she said to an Avening Standard repre- scntative," and the extraction of square and cube roots and even logarithms have been done by me mentally.
He had some of the pertinacious pugby nacity which distinguishes "his son, and when he could not got his own way he
But an immenso amount of our trade threatened to resign, thinking that would bring Lord Salisbury, the Prime Minister, was being done, not only without any real to heel; for there was no one capable of profit, but often at a dond loss. This
"I know that many people will not be taking his place, But his resignation was could not continue indefinitely, and we
lieve that problems involving logarithms accepted, and a successor was appointed, must face the chief difficulties prevailing whereupon Lord Randolph Churchill in industry-the burden of excessive taxa uttered his second famous remark at the tion, high transport rates, and a lack of can be done mentally, but I have done Treasury,Good God, 1 forgot Gored-operation on the part of workers, re-
sulting in low output and high cost of it, and I am anxious that my methods production.
chen !"
George Joachim Goschen was Chancel. lor of the Exchequer for as many years as Lord Randolph was months-a picture que but shufling-gaited man, with an awkward guttural manner speech, and, as he was short-sighted, inclined to get his notes mixed. Peering from under tus socky eyebrows, he addressed the House of Commons in a series of spasmodic газра But there was dignity about him. He had an instinct for finance, knew the temper of the City, and successfully par ried his chief critic, Mr. Gladstone, who as Prime Minister had been his own Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, but was now in Opposition.
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should be examined and reported upon,
There was a ray of hope when Mr.by, for choice, the Royal Society.
"I have often been asked how I do it, Churchill toll thein he would introduce an Economy Bill, but when he said there and my only reply is that I feel she was only about 165 millions, out of 800 millions, in which the Government could reunonise," law commercial men would agree with him
HOW TO SAVE" Mr. Churchill should call in experienced accountants to show him how to save.
What were the steps that could be taken? They were:-
Economies in every department of the Administration.
Reduction of staff to the minimum. Reduction in expenditure on aational defence as soon as circumstances per- mit.
A curtailment of social legislation
which we could not afford.
fights; he stirred his friends to enthu alasm; be goaded his opponents to yells of dissent.
TWENTY-ONE BUDGETS. During the last thirty-ave years I have heard" exactly twenty-one Budget. speeches, most drab, several revolution- ary. Some of the imposing figures have passed away-Sir William Harcourt, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Mr. Ritchie, Mr. One resolution that was passed urged Bonar Law-but there is a string of ex- the Government to inquire into the pos- Chancellors, some of whom will probably sibility of a system of strict rationing of listen to Winston "this year- the spending departments, Asquith. Lloyd George, Austen Chamber dan, McKenna, Robert Horne, Philip Snowden, and the Prime Minister himself. As one who, journalistically, hus known ten Prime Ministers, 1 look back and see a strange, diversity of personages in the Chancellors from the large-mannered, rather jolly and chuckling Sir William Harcourt to the pale, grave Mr. Snowden introducing the Brst Socialist Budget.
Formerly Chancellors loved to play with the crowded, cramped House by labori ously leading up to the point when a new proposal was about to be revealed, and then, when the excitement was worked ap, gently stroll along some byway and apparently forgot all about the proposal. Harcourt and Ritchie enjoyed this game. At the end of two-and-a-half hours, when the House was getting bored with a par ration of the ups and downs in revedus.
Instantly Mr. Balfour, leading the Op of the Chancellor would take a long sip some amper fuid frem a glass in the position, did the right thing. He jumped shadow of the brass bound box which up and remarked it would no doubt be stands at the corner of the table; and to the convenience of everybody if the observe, "And now, I suppose, the Comiting was suspended for a time. So it mittee is anxious to hear what I propose to do with my surplus."
GREAT DAYS.
Those were great days, in the 1509-03 Parliament, when Gladstone was pushing through his second Home Rule Bill, when there was fighting on the floor of the House, when Mr. Mellor, then Chairman of Committees, gave his famous ruling that "disorderly conduct is distinctly out of order," when Sir William Harcourt was Chancellor and got passed the death duties which were to be the knell of Eng- land's greatness!
S: William made his Budget speech with an after-dinner style of aratory, sheaves of untidy notes before him very different from the tabulated, underlined, typewritten sheets which are nicely stack el by Mr. Churchill. Harcourt was the affable country squiro, and took life pleasantly. He had half a dozen perora- tions, and he read them, but, fumbling among his manuscript, be sometimes got hold of the wrong peroration.
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach was also country squire, but of another brand. He was tall and lean, called Black icuael because of his hair and whis- kers, was handsome and quick-tempered. He made his Budget statements in an offhand, sometimes staccato, manner, as though he were annoyed, and did not care what people thought. For a patrician Minister he had a plebeian vocabulary, A small group of Conservatives thought "Michael
had better be seen about some tax which they did not like. It was called Gedge should visit the Chancellor in his private room. He did. At the end of ten minutes air. Gedge emerged much agitated. Well, what did Hicks-Beach Eny his friends inquired. Say!" be exclaimed. "He called me a damned pettifogging lawyer and told me to get
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LONGEST BUDGET SPEECH. He went on one hour, two hours, three hours. The his strength began to fail. He bungled. At times Yet he kept on. he was incoherent; but he pulled himselt together, and went on limply. The House was anxious and nervous. In a way, it was like a boxing catch at the Albert all on a Thursday night, with a man all in, but keeping at it, the spectators sorry, but he too dazed to know his con- dition, Lloyd George was like that. At last he stopped and looked round with a
curious smile.
was, and a painful collapse was probably avoided. 1 Lloyd George was taken to his private room. In half an hour, how. ever, he was back, and gently, like a tired If my man, he finished his speech. memory does not play false, he bad spoken for about five hours-the longest Budget speech en record.
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Mr. Asquith as Chancellor was formal. He was never happy when dealing with agures." In those days-he introduced his. first Budget just twenty years ago "be had not developed that rich Berkian sonority of phrasing which made him so delightful to listen to in the latter years His of his House of Commons career.
was always special merit was that he lucid; he avoided claborate explanation: he did not imitate other Chancellers by tiring out bis anxious audience before he reached the important part of his subject.
THE CHAMBERLAINS. There have been two other lawyer Chancellors in my time-McKenna and Robert Horne-and their short periods at the Treasury were useful preliminaries in training for the banking and commercial world of the Lity.
Both, the brothers, Chamberlain, Austen' and Neville, have held this, the second most important post in the Government. The first time Austen became Chancellor it was thought he had received too early promotion, that, indeed, he got to the Treasury through the influence of his famous father. He held the post in the closing years of the Balfour Ministry- before the Conservative Party was badly beaten in the constituencies under the Chiness slavery · and dear loaf" cries and be was timid. When, how- er, he returned to the office some four- teen year later he had developed. To. gather with Bonar Law, he was largely responsible for the most colossal of the War Budgets.
Of recent men who have been Chan- I remember one night when one of cellor of the Exchequer we seem to have Michael's
Budgets was under debate reached days of short periods in office. there came a clever criticism from an only Mr. Philip Snowden need be men- Edinburgh Liberal called M'Crae, and tioned. Like most of his comrades in the recently elected. At firet Sir Michael first Labour Government, he went to the paid amall heed. Then he was attracted. Treasury with no official departmental He fixed his monocle and watched his experience. He had no time to start Scotch critic. After a time he turned and the Socialist millennium; his principal addressed a colleague in a voice that duty was to carry on "and he did could be heard all over the House: "Who so succesfully. The interesting thing, the devil is this fellow ?
about his tenure was the way he daily seemed to grow in appreciation of sound and conventional economics-an event which did not endear him to the more ardent souls with whom it had been his custom to associate.
The most remarkable Budget night scene was when Mr. Lloyd George, as Chancellor of the Exechequer, introduced his famous land-taxation plan sixteen years ago. Those were the times when L.G. was the best-hated man in the land, when his speeches invented a new word, "Limehousing," though it has gone out of fashion, and he shook up all the landed folk in the country.
How long will Mr. Churchill remain Chancellor of the Exchequer Nobody knows. Talk at Westminster is that this is his lart Budget. He wanted the post which, when he was a boy, his father Mr. Lloyd George set about to revolu beld. He has it. Like his father, he tionise the land laws in that Budget He desired to effect dramatic economies in had been weeks preparing his statement. administration. With all bis atriving The House was packed an hour before he he has not done that, and patience is He started. well; he had lyrical | not one of his virtuce.—Evening
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problems,
Some mental arithmeticians. have explained that when doing problems set them they visualise a blackboard und see the figures on this imaginary board, but that is not so with me.
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Each number to me seems to have a note like a note "of music, and as musician feels melody, so I feel the pro- blem.
"I first discovered that I was able to do these problems mentally when I was about eight years of age.. My father was a teacher of languages. He was a Frenchman, and I was born in the United States. My father had psychological methods of teaching languages, and when he observed my peculiar psychology he decided, to do his best to foster my ap- parent ability to do mental problems.
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MENTAL GYMNASTICS..
Every morning he made me get up early, and gave me what he called a course of mental gymnastics. Most of my teaching I received at home.
Two and a half years ago I came to the conclusion that mine was not a gift. but that the average ebild, if properly taught, could learn to work as I do. So over that peried i have been perfecting
methods, but sometimes even now i a certain result from a certain set of cannot quite grasp why I should receive
actions.
At the present time I am a teacher
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