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Corporation and Independent Views.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11: 1921.
NEWS AND VIEWS.
I would far rather be a dirty Tennyson than a clean Tennant. -Mr. Gilbert Frankau in an open letter to Mrs. Asquith...‚'
A NIGHT AT THE NATIONAL
It is all a matter of mood how a man will choose to spent the evening. No one supposes that the saine mood wili tako a man
I would sooner peruse an ex-indifferently to the Opera or a purgated edition of Decameron Charlie Chaplin film, and so man than the diary of Mrs. Asquith.-tosses a coin at the dinner table Judge Atherley Jones.
and says, "Heads I go to sea Galsworthy's new play and tails
go to see a boxing match."
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A report from Pittsburgh, dis- cussing steel conditions at the close of the year, remarks that naturally the close approach of the year-end bae not brought an improvement in the demand for pig iron and steel products. The The Portuguese Parliament has market is always doll in Decem-voted a resolution that the bodies
The mood for an evening of ber. While the best tost of trade of two unknown soldiers shall be boxing at the headquarters of prospects is the course of buying, brought to Portugal and buried in the sport comes. I find-and there are some other indications. the Belem Pantheon.
personal experience is the only One subsidiary of the Steel
thing worth setting down-with Corporation bas canvassed
The trade and commerse of the rude health and well-being, and itu custom ra in certain work, in spite of idealists, will the glow of the open air, states of its producta as to their gravitate to the groups of men in | Mr. Edgar Rowan in the Daily robable tonnage requirements in any country who are able to Chronicle. Give me a man who 1921, and the total of the estimates produce cheaper and better than has been tramping the stubble all is considerably larger than the others. Lord Loverhulmo.
day, or riding across country or tonnages received during the past
doing any one of those pleasant A Danish subject who has just things of the open felds that makę Another index is found in a returned from Russia says that you remember your red blood and canvass made by an independent, people there occasionally make a forget your liver; dine him on covering its jobbing customers, little money by selling such relics plain English fare-he should as to what shipments they desired of former prosperity us a pair of certainly drink good beer, or, if a in a certain product. The uniform trousers or hoots, for which sums wine, only u sound Burgundy, policy of these jobbers was to ranging from 75,000 to 125,000 with it- and as he lights his cigar round out their stocks, supply roubles may be obtained.
afterwards say, "Shall we go to! Rizos in which they were deficient, but not to increase the total of stock.
year.
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For the man who would know Th scrap dealers are keen obsystem of New York, pot as and enjoy his mottern London an
evening at servers of the situation. At the sporadic and occasional lecture occasional present time the dealers are auxiliary, but as part of the National Sporting Club is not so putting scrap into yard rather regular curriculum, and biology, much a luxury as a necessity. sparingly, and apparently think geography, and other subjects they will have several months in will be taught through use of the
You realise that you are which to accumulato supplies screen. against the next upturn. Scrup
guest at a private function. You The ex-German raider Mowe, pues either through a smoking appears to have declined as far as it is likely to go, so that the which so daringly harassed trade lounge or a dining room to reach dealers are hardly waiting for routes during the war, and evaded the ring side, and if you come lower prices.
all attempts at capture, is due to with thrill of novelty hurrying reach Liverpool on Monday from your feot you are astounded, to THE INDÉPENDENTS' PROSPECTS. Jamaica with a cargo of hananas. seo members sitting calmly at a The prospects aro that the It is a strange turn that trans-chop, or ripping their coffee. Steel Corporation will continue to forms the former destroyer of although the first combatants are oporate ut substantially its pre-fruit vessels to a carrier of fruit. actually stripped and within the sont rate, which is above 90 per
ropas just beyond the door. The remains of Highland Mary. cout, while the independents,
Bomb the ring-side seats ou now operating at 30 or 35 per cent, immortalised in the works of the any important Monday night, will soon be almost wholly idle, national post, have been removed and you would wipe out half say, within two or three works, from the Old West Kirk burying the best known men in tho Just after the turn of the your ground, and will be re-interred in country-peers, merchant princes, there may be a slight improve Greenock Cemetery. The Old actors, novelists, politicians, ment in independent operations, West Kirk Burying-ground and generals, admirals, and the like. hat the prospect is for almost venerable edifice are in the area if you have gone there with ideas complete idleness for the inde- which has been acquired by the of boxing taken solely from
of Messrs pendents until the general buying shipbuilding 6rm
Rodney Stone," and the stories movement in steel occurs. That Harland and Wolff for the exten- of pugilism of a bygone day, these may be in April, and it may not sion of their buginces.
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evening dress, quietly expectant" An important point in steel Mr Pussyfoot" Johnson ex as if it were a Melba night at the market history has been reached, pressed the opinion to me (says Opera, are curiously disappoint- SCHRONOMETERS, CLOCKS, WATCHES AND NAUTICAL Q the point of the independent the London correspondent of the ing Even in these days of padd- urder books playing out and of Glasgow Herald) that Glasgowed gloves thero is a grimness the independents dropping their should be the first place in Sent about a well-matched bout, a prices to the Steel Corporation and to go" dry." He would have sudden glimpse of the clementat level, after a flight lasting apked that the whole campaign hai figliting spirit that is generally BRITISH HELIGOLANDERS. NATIONAL LIBERAL CLUB proximately 4 twelvemonth. been concentrated on Glasgow kept hidden, and these snowy
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FIGHT.
Old Whitehall Haunts Reoccupied.
the North Sea. An appeal to the British nation Last month members of the signed by 48 inhabitants of National Liberal Club returned I remember the same sense of Heligoland says that the rights to their old quarters in Whitehall- accorded to them under the place, from which they were itself would have to rudneg Mr. Johnson, however, is not the incongruous only once be
Anglo-German Agreement of 1890 evacuated by the Government prices, on account of ightness of so sure about the other Scottish fore. We had been called from have been abolished by the during the war. orders. That view has already cities. He was more impressed dinner on a liner to see some big
Gorman authorities.
They made an excellent deal in proved erroneous.
with his reception at Dundee icebergs, and stood on deck in
"The Prussian Government buying the old Westminster than that he met with in the vast solitudes of North The independents display not the slightest desire to deprive the Aberdeen and Edinburgh. Now Atlantic, in the evening kit of asserts that by International Law Palace Hotel for temporary oc- Steel Corporation of any of its where did he find the local tem-modern civilisation, the ladies all treaties between belligerents cupation, and the profit realised business, and customers of the prrance leaders more optimistic with wraps thrown hastily over were terminated by the late war," by its resale. has enabled the committee to maintain the pre- Steel Corporation show every than at Inverness, and according-dainty shoulders, watching these proceeds the statement.
Among the rights to be present rate of subscription, as well ovidenco that they are going toy the figures for the Highland visitors from the ancient fast- "stick," whether from gratitude capital gave him at least one nesse of the Pole drift past in served to Great Britain under as to make the Whitehall pre-
the agreement was the mainten-mises more cosy and up to date. for past, service or through ex surprise. He concludes that the silent gloom.
The old building has received s pectation that andther flight of there has been too much platform! My neighbour nudged me. The ance of a Lloyd's station on independent prices with the Steel oratory in the whole Scottish big event of the night was about the island, the right of British thoroughoverhauling.Magnificent Corporation holding steady may campaign, and that less lecturing to begin. The principals were fishermen to anchorage, ehelter, new carpets have been laid down, would have been more effective seated in their corners wrapped water, provisions, and landing warm curtains hang from the His own record in Scotland was in drossing gowns and hammed and drying of nets,
windows, and the woodwork 23 speeches,
in by their attendants, while there "We are a small community, throughout has been repolished. was much much business of speaking our own language and -Improvements have been made in steel circles whether a new
[adjusting knuckle baudages and living our own lives on our lonely in the serving department, in order Buckets of island in the North Sea," conto facilitate the service of meals, alignment has permanently been far it appears that no real shad-tying on goves. established as to the repective | ing of consequence has occured. water, bot les, sponges, towels cludes the appeal. It might and members will be permitted to in the reading-room abe claimed by us that if the smoke character of business done by the Some Western mills have made and all the equipment of Steel Corporation and independ-prices that are nominally "ent fighter's corner ara placed. ready agreement is declared void we from which smokers were formers: Formerly they did sub-prices," the delivered price being I find myself curiously thrilled revert to Great Britain. But if ly excluded. The small smoking- no longer possible we room. on the second floor will stantially the An me kind of ass than the recognized Pitta by the grimness of these prepara- this is business. The smaller mille burgh price plus rail freight from tions êre yet the fight has stated appeal to Great Britain to support now be used as a committees usually made a practice of closing Pittsburgh to destination, but there come back to me passages our just claims to the rights she room.
poor times and in good times such selling is more properly to from Battalion Ordere. about guaranteed to us at the time of keeping their order hooks clear of be considered as sintply an ignor- stretcher bearers and dressing our cession-to-Germany." long-term contracts so that they ing of the "Pittsburgh basing.”
stations, before we go over, and I
system by which the whole of the could secure dolivory premiums
see Inasmuch as the average pro
the doctor checking bis
jclub is warmed throughout. The upon occasion. Thus they struck duction of steel during the first bandages and making sure that
physical exertions in this atmos. Gladstons Liberary which “be- a fair average in the matter of
phere-and if you are sitting at cause of its sizə was very profits. Now it looks as though alling or ten months of this year, the morphia is handy.
when demand appeared to be
"Seconds out!" Å gong any d'atance you see the white uncomfortable in winter, will now the independents would have to extremely heavy, was only about clangs into my dreams. It had bodies through a blue-grey haze, be one of the unsiest rooms in the pursua the course formerly 80 per cent. of capacity, while just come to me that this very springing, thrusting, now break-club. followed only by the smaller the next time demand is active club was formerly Evan's, the ing into what appears to be a few mills. Particularly in the sec-there are not likely to be surious famous supper and singing rooms, steps of a grotesque dance, now
SLACK TIME POLICIES.
It is now a subject for debate
ents.
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One of the most weleonie improvements in a dew heating
and and third quarters of this physical obs aclos in the way of and for a moment I was recaling poised rigidly, and now locked in line, while the heavier fordag year the independents made production at capacity, it seems a famous chapter in "The New-n clinch. It is the first round, ani for an opening, has joined larger profits per, ion than the difficult proposition
to comes." I might have wandored affair of patrols, each feeling for in good earnest. Steel Corporation. For a timel the steel with orders. further back among the ghosts of the other's position and strength. they will have scarcely any Yet
And so, for hetter and for the industry's pawore the past, but the two men spring profits, while the corporation of recuperation have often furnts to their feet, their seconds leap minutes can be variously a flash sometimes to the will and unar The bell clangs at last three worse, it goes its destined course, jearnings win anything.. behed a surprise. Oil development through the ropes and to the
larger than formerly. The ques-promises, on the whole, to con-ground, whipping the stools out or lifetime--and the men spring guable decision of the knock tion is whether this is only en tinue on a large scale, and that of the ring in the samo motion to their corners, where already out "actually a very harmless incident or is typical of a now requiros much steel. The there is a swift handsbake in tho the stools have been swung into order of things. Some observers railoads certainly nood steel,
If centre of the 20 foot arena as of position. A short interval of towel thing which the trained man regards less seriously than you have become convinced that the building conditions in general are acquaintances meeting hurriedly flapping to help the hardpumping regard, your partner's foot ret indepondents will follow the make favourable, there will be in the street, and the clash has lungs, of sponging perspiring face clumsily on yours at dancing
and body, of rubbing of muscles, else to the judicial to accounting 80m course the next time heavy requirements 10 that joined.
till the bell clangs again. opportunity is presented.
of points. The memh, ristream out direction. It seems easily possible
THE OPENING ROUND.
By this time the business of fato Covent Garden, whers efor di The air is heavy with, tobacco patrols and scouts in over. The of enthusion gather to hear the smoke surely it is a test of fit. battle, though it may at present results. Another night at the ness. that men can make terrific be but an affair of the skirmishing Club is over.
Practically no one doubts that that the country can put itself on there is going to be "shading by such a basis that it will be roady. indepedents." There are some in time, to take all the steel the reports of that already, but thus mille can mako.