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AMERICAN SHIPPING.
In the latest type of Paris | FALLACY OF GOVERNMENT
restaurant, the menu has been abolished and waiters now bring meals to suit their customers' per- Bernard Edward Boyer, a 18-
sonalities-whether the customers year-old student at Lancing Collike it or not. The castomer may 4TH SEPTEMBER, 1930, on which lege, hurried from the examina want ham and eggs, but if the Date DIVIDEND WARRANTS may
would suit him better, that is what he eats. The proprietor of one of these restaurants, explains that or- dering a dinner is an art for which 2 special training and imagination is needed. The person who eats stenk and potatoes all his days lives an unfulfilled and frustrated exis- tence, real life, a rich and a full life is one which includes all man- ner of comestible delicacies. There sore,, a carefully chosen staf of waiters officiates over the nameless meals. Tourists whose fidelity to ham and eggs cannot be shaken are warned to keep clear.
be obtained on Application at the Lion room at the college recently waiter thinks spaila or frogs' legs CONTANT'S OFFICE, EXCHANGE stepped into a taxicab with his mo BUILDING,
ther. was driven to Shoreham
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Aerodrome, and there stepped into an airplane to fly to Frádce,
The boy and his mother hoped to reach Boulogne in time to board the liber Almeda for South America.
The liner left Tilbury Docks at 11a.m. At that hour, the boy was still sitting for the examination, and, as he did not wish to miss either the examination or his holi- day in South America, his mother decided to charter the air plane to catch the liner at her first port of call.
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The examination finished after 11.30, and hoon afterwards the boy and his mother drove up to Shorebam Aerodrome
where the place was waiting,
The luggage, including tennis rackets, was quickly transferred to the cabin. Mrs, Boyer and her son
for the then headed
Channel against a stiff wind.
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Fooling the People.
Mr. Moller now reiterates and
enlarges upon his views in the course of a communication to The Journal of Commerce of New York "I am sorry" he writes, "if I have been misunderstood by my United States Friends. Mr. Lee said be looked upon the resolution The subject of Government sub- as unwise because it would simply sidies to shipping and shipbuild-have the effect of making the ing was introduced by Mr. A. P. American people obstinate and Moller, a Danish shipowner, at still more determined to follow the the annual meeting of the Baltic policy they have embarked on. I and International White Sea Con- do not believe this, and I take my ference, says the Journal of Com stand on Lincoln's famous saying: merce. He then pointed out that 'You cannot fool all the people all there were subsidies of varions the time.'
subsidies, kinds-namely, mail cheap loans and prohibition against foreign ships sailing in the coasting trade.
In the course of An excellent speech, he showed how many coun- tries compete unnaturally with their own customers by such 'means, and finally proposed a resolution
hurried on board the 'plane, which on which the Vindictive was eming of the Baltic and Internation-
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"I say this because" from my knowledge of U.S. conditions I am absolutely convinced that it is a fallacy, when the U.S.. people have been made to believe that the present shipping policy of tho United States is to the best in- terest of the American people. 1 am confident that it is not, and
I am likewise confident that sooner or later the truth thereof will dawn on the American people."
H.M.S. Vindictive, which began her service a few weeks before the signing of the Armistice, was re- cently paid off at Chatham and re- commissioned with a reserve crew?!. för service in the Nore Reserve in the following terms)~~ Fleet. The last permanent service That this annual general meet-
ployed was as flagship of the al Martime Conference, represent-
Mr. Moller proceeds to oppose Second Cruiser Squadron, in which ing 1 maritime nations, deplores she was replaced last January by the action of Governments both in the assertion that the United her sister cruiser Hawkins. She running State-owned ships and in States requires its enlarged mer- was named after the famous vessel providing financial facilities to which was sunk at Ostend to block their nationals in connection with chant marine to meet the national the passage of German submarines shipping undertakings, in that it needs and states that the States during the war.
is is inimical to the sound develop in reserving the coastwise trade to ment of international commercial vessels under its own flag has pro- Mr. Jacobus de Wet, a wealthy relations, which are best served ceeded contrary to the open door South African visitor to London, when competition is free and un-policy of the majority of other has been robbed of £9,000 by con- fettered by political considera- maritime nations. He holds that fidence tricksters using EL notions, and, while appreciating the Great Lakes trade gave the method. The victim was fortunate that services rendered by private the United States opportunities in picking out from the Scotland undertakings to the State should for fostering a merchant marine yard rogues gallery the photo be adequately remunerated, views of a size proporticcate to her graphs of his plausible acquain-with anxiety those cases where simi- needs, so that in 1914 she ranked tances, one of whom had a wooden lar services are pizd for at such third among the maritime nations leg. He met them casually in the exorbitant rates and/or in circum with a total of 4,300.000 tons of lounge of an hotel, and they told stances where the service is uncall shipping. He adds. him a story of an "infallible beted for that the payment constitu- ting system, which could not postes a subsidy." sibly fail." Mr., de Wet believed
the yarn, parted with the £9,000 A Rotterdam delegate, in and saw his acquaintances no more.conding the resolution, which was Then he consulted a detective, who carried with three dissentients took him to Scotland-yard.
(U.S. delegates), urged that it was too moderate.
"A mathematician, who claims to have solved the ancient problem of squaring the circle, has caused a sensation among Italian scientists. Profesor Giuseppe Tschenett. of Bolzano, says he arrived at the solution more by pure mathematics than by geometry. He has sealed his papers and consigned them to the care of a lawyer to await the Inspection of committer of savants: Squaring the circle" is A problem which has been fruitless-
T
ly attacked by the ablest mathema icians of past centuries. The pro- blem is to obtain a square equal in area to a given circle. It has long heen thought that an arithmetical solution is also impossible.
"The tonnage, of Great Britain with her enormous colonial neces- sities was before the War 19,000,000 WEB 20,000,000 tons. In 1929 it tons. Great Britain consequently has practically been stationary. The German tonnage has decreas ed from 5,100,000 tons in 1914. to
1,000,000 tons in 1929. Tonnage of the United States increased from 4,300,000 tons in 1914 to 13,500,000 tons in 1920. Nearly all this in- rease is artificial and fostered by
One of the U.S. delegates, Mr. C. Lee (Vice-president of the American Seantic Line) joined is sue with Mr. Moller, remarking that the Conference could not ex- pect to be able to alter the laws of nations. They would, he said. State money, and in my convic simply succeed in making Ameri-tion it is unnecessary to the coun".
try's needs. can people more determined.
Aniuimeuse áll-metal Aying-boat, the first of its type, secretly built for the Air Ministry, was launched and successfully flown at Cowes last month. This wonder machine, which has taken two years to build, car- ries torpedoes, bombs, and machite- guna, but is easily convertible into Burglars with three mofor-cars an eficient weight.carrying commer- broke into a "tobacconist's shop at cial craft. A large cabin. which Watling-avenue. Burnt Oak. N.W., can accommodate twenty people, is recently and stole tobacco and ciga-equipped with electrie cooking and forced a door and broke a window frigerators. rettes valued at £100. The men testing apparatus and food re- The machine, with
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Lack of Decision.
"It is true that there has beet an instance when, for a compara- tively short period, the American people thought that their interests were seriously hurt for lack of ton- rage. It happened in 1016 during the World War.
"For the purpose cf" a lawsult I. however, had occasion. two or three years back to study this pro blem very closely, and I think I may safely here say that if the Vaited States at a given period found she could not readily get an
"The Shipping Board instituted
at the back of the shop. The three three 300 horse-power air-cooled adequate supply of tonnage it was cars, which are believed to have engines, mounted high above the due to her own lack of decision in been stolen, all broke down and bull, is capable of a speed of con-proeuring tonnage in time. were found the next morning shan-siderably more than 100 miles atı doned in Barnfield-road, Burnt Oak, hour, and a non-stop flight of near in 1916 had authority to buy or a quarter of a mile from the shop. ly 2,000 miles. Most of the stolen property was still. in the cars.
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informed has French Foreign Office that he has The effect of bad golf on mentality decided on naval construction and health was mentioned in the holiday until the end of the year, presidential address to a company He has therefore ordered that all of insurance medical directors at new building is to be suspended Spokane, Washington. Dr. William during the period of negotiations ident hope that the American peo- "As just stated I have the con- Muhlberg, president of the Associa-with France regarding a naval ac Lion of Life Insurance Medical cord. The Dictator has also issued ple will come to see that their pre- Directors, said: The average man; strict order to Fascisi authorities sent. policy is unreasonable and who plays golf goes out to the throughout Italy that all anti not to the best interest of the na- course, dube a shot, gets mad, tears French demonstrations must be tion and people. Should it not be his hair, and as a result increases rigorously suppressed. This change to, and should the present policy his blood pressure." A noted busi- in the previously tense Franco-be pursued regardless of the reason- Bess man, who is an ardent golfer Italian situation is regarded here able interest of nationals of other said: Dr. Muhlberg is right as a great triumph for peaceful countries, why, there is nothing You end up nervous and irritable," public opinion 29 expressed for it but to remember that the be added, and possibly take three throughout Europe.
pooples that are thus being sub- whiskies to calm yourself. Your
jected to an unnatural State-aided blood pressure has gone up. I say Sir Charles Parsons, presiding at competition are large customers of that that one game of golf has taken the summer meeting of the Institu- the United States, and must find a year off your life." A famous life tion of Naval Architects at Liver means of helping themselves. insurance company were inclined to pool, said that it would be easy to Mr. Lee says the subsidy goos pass golf as a risk. "If we find build a liner to cross the Atlantic to pay for the difference in the a man, who is an enthusiastic golfer in moderate weather at 35 knots, wage bill. I beliovo Denmark is' we are rather pleased. It shows but it would not pay. It was the country in Europe that, has health and energy," said an official. question of economics Engineers the highest wages, and the differ- could do it; there was no question ence as between U.S.. and Danish "Boya attending Beechen-grove about that. He believed that the County Council School, Watford, in new Cunarder, now buidling, would ages is not to-day really so very shirts with open Decks were bring back the blue riband of the great. Anyhow, I believe that in sent home and ordered by the head-Atlantic, wrested from the Maure-exceed the entire wages bill in many instances the subventions master, Mr.W. H. Belsher, to put tania first by the Bremen and then 1.8. ships. on ties The Watford school man- by the Europa agers have endorsed the beadmast
The day will doubtless come er's action, although a Labour mem- The Cambridge colleges which when international shipping will ber buggested that it would make have decided that second year men be a natural trade for the United them the laughing stock of the are not to be allowed to keep States. That day will come when town." In other elementary schools motor-cars mat Cambridge are that country is not richer than in Watford this ban on open necks Caius, Clare, Pembroke, Peterhouse, other countries. When it comes I has not been enforced, and it has Trinity Hall and Sidney Bussex. look with alarm on the prospects taken scores of Watford schoolboys, It is expected that other colleges of the mercantile marine of other who regularly wear open shirts in will make a similar order. At the countries, because bave the. the summer, by surprise. "I hope beginning of the academic year for greatest respect for American en- this action will not be extended," 1931-32 the restriction is to be exergy and organisation.. said a Watford schoolboy." Even tended to all undergraduates while- "I welcome "U.S. shipowners. "on at the Grammar School the boys are in residence, unless in exceptional the seas at any time, if they will allowed to come in open shirts in circumstances. By University re compete as private enterprises on the afternoon and girls are allowed Lulation motor wars have been fate verbaly Fithout leaving too to have their necks free parat hidden fox ft YERT Jaen There the Statsupay the SORRIAK said: Boya at school cannot keep are to be no late leaves for motor but as State helped institutions a collar clean yery long." At one driving, and the cars that are.
of the largest schools in the Watford allowed are to be kept at public they cannot be welcomed." district, the London Orphan Sehpol, garages. In the notices sent to un-
where between 100 and 200 boys live
and are educated, all wear grep open cricket shirts in the school and
dergraduates it is stated that the possession of motor vehicles pre-
The Shirala, left Bingapore sents nudergraduates from making for this port on the 18th instant on the playing fields in automer, the best use of their residence, and is due bore on the 23rd instant,
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