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SPARTON RADIO
con-
THESE ARE THE DAYS
Says JOHN PRIOLEAU
condemnation of Japan as á violator of treatics. Unfor- tunately, Sir John Simon, in his anxiety to promote the ciliatory process, has incurred the displeasure of Chinese oplalon, with the result that the
"I WONDER why I had told the tormento hurt rantined that British attitude is under aus- born just when I was !" said the to-morrows of to-day are the picion. Unless this feeling is the man we call Yesterdays most wonderful that have ever boon dispelled, the most undesirable charming fellow, but a trifle on known. Before they had finished shaking their heads about it the consequences might easily arise.the regretful sido. "They were thing had been dong. The need of the moment is two- | good days, those before the War, fold. First, there is call for when life ran smoothly and last week to pay a short visit to a A friend of mine left Croydon greater frankness on the part of there was none of this ghastly place in Africa you could only reach the Powers in facing the issues. restlessness and unrest. Peace last year in about seven weeks, Secondly, there must be a speed- is what I like and I shall never taking ship and train and motor ing up of League action. Fail- know it again. None of you car and native litter and canoe and ing these, the prospect is a com-
seem to realise that we are liv-your own feet to the business. Those plete failure at Geneva, with ing in the worst age in history" feet of yours often left prints be- side the fresh spoor of pictures- subsequent developments of the utmost gravity.
Of Good Cheer
The Very Idea!
THIS WAR DEBTS MUDDLE
By Edward Kelly, Shroff-Dodger.
We note with concern the con- corn that is being felt concerning war debts.
Wo don't see the need for this. Too many people think that the war debt position is so muddled, that there is no one with brains enough to see a way out.
They forgot us. What's wanted is
credit
I have heard old Yesterdays qua orentures like lion and buf- Byotom throughout the world. talk rubbish before, but this ex-falo.
We have been all in favour of ceeded his usual ration, as I In the canoe you crossed n vory | a credit system for a long time, pointed out to him. I wouldn't large lake with all the attributes and countless encounters with. have lived at any other time for of what we should call a sea, ex-shroffs has enabled us to evolve. anything you could offer mc. cept that it is full of crocodiles.
miles south of it.
day.
+
the ex-
Most of us are entering upon
I don't know what he meant by The car made its way along a one we consider watertight. this
The whole thing hinges on the Christmas merrymaking "the worst age," but I do know home-made road impassable for n poorer than we have been for that the last twenty-five years good four months in the year. It expansion of local and inter- The world de- have beon by far the most exciting was really one of the journoye of | national credit, the gold standard, many a season. pression has visited us since wn since the world began, so far as the day before yesterday. My moratoriums, pegging fast forgathered at this feast. we can tell from what records friend is this afternoon, as near change, supply and demand, aboll- Sparton Model 16. A beautiful six-leg console model But even if Santa Claus is per- there are. To go back quite as I can guess, somewhere over tion of the tael, exports and im with butt walnut panels and the force a little less generous than long way, just think of all the Khartoum and will be at journey's ports, overseas interest, the d
things that have happened since end. the day after to-morrow-ten monetisation of silver and a few asual, good cheer, we may be Victoria died, and how they came days out from Croydon, Surrey, other odds and ends. finest cabinet craftsmanship.
In one marvellous rush-part- and between five and six thousand It will be plainly seen that with Has powerful nine-tube Super-sure, will prevail in these com-
material like that, any man who heterodyne completely shielded ing days. Some may be tempt-cularly mechanical things.
On the way there she will have couldn't evolve a system which chassis with push-puli Pentode, ed to make merry on the prin-
The Consequences of War
spent agreeable nights in Rome, would dofy all human comprehen- Automatic Volume Control, Tone ciple that "to-morrow we die":
Athens and Cairo, everywhere liv-alon except his own must be a bit These are of course now the and Static Control, Full Vision but if we could make nothing
She dull. could not have done that last Dial, Phonograph Pick-up Jack, better of the occasion than that common-places of everyday life,ing on the fat of the air.
from wireless to air-liners, whose
Now, you ask us, what is this Voltage Compensator, Antenna we might as well sit down in Equalizer,
Why should I wait for aystem of ours? and all modern Backcloth and ashes here and adventures in hurricanes all over car, which is scarcely yester-
To look forward into SPARTON engineering features. now,
tioned in the papere than the sea- A remarkable instrument of 1933 as if all were going to be sickness of people crossing from get to New York next maple- now. External debits overlapping highest quality,
lost were a surrender indeed., Calais to Dover on a windy day, time? How do we know that the external and internal creditors, Height 44 inches. Width 26 Nothing could well be more (There is a Silent Service, If you time-table of the Liverpool-Green- who are inflating the one year inches. Depth 12 inches., foolish than to accept the tale like.) But aren't you glad you land-Newfoundland or the Fal- moratorium, while the gold stand- mouth-Rabat-Azores-Bermuda nir ard coagulates at. a low percent- inches, Weight 58 pounds. of the pessimists at its face saw them happen?
services won't be advertised by │nge, due to the late war, value: for we shall win through Times are certainly rough to June? We don't know, but we are ("Ýc8") just in proportion as we know day, but can you think of any learning not to be surprised at how to be spontaneously cheer period in the world's history when things. We are living in the most IDEAL RADIO SERVICES full on a festive occasion like Tomorrow was as eagerly looked exciting times that ever happened.
this. This is not just a counsel forward to? We needn't go back We are waking up.
to the War for examples of that of facile optimism. In so far
tense expectation of the unknown as our troubles are due to our-
which makes life worth living. After years and years of dread-valution of exporta and Imports on set our hand The War was deteatable in everyful dullness, with a little war herea pro rata basin. selves, we have with a will to the task of re-conceivable sense of the word, but
and another. Jittle war there, ("Yea, yea. Of course") pairing past errors and putting would you rather have died or been beastly, no doubt, as all wars are our house in order. The patch born without knowing it? Its re-whatever their size,
On the other hand, collateral but out of securities
taken coincidentally of blue in the sky may not yet sults have been, are and will be sight and mind: with political three times a day (t.d.a.p.c.) with be greater than the size of a finitely worse than it was the ten-cup storma, like the fall of a double dose on retiring so bolsters man's hand; but it is unmis-but would you have missed them Melbourne, the rout of Gladstone the exchange, artificially, of course,
had you the chance?
by Disraeli and the row over the that the financial institutions auto- takably there and it is a token
-Pitt said "Roll up that map."Ladles of the Bedchamber (to-day matically cease contacting do- Un- of fairer weather to come.
Poor man, I suppose he thought the one seema AB futile as the fortunately, improvement does
he had pronounced an epitaph on others)-after half a century of not rest with ourselves alone,
an epoch. I ahould like to hear primeval ooze life we crashed into but is indissolubly linked with his views on the map of Europe adventure. Time opencd the that of the rest of the world. to-day, flanked by another of the shutters and daylight and action
world. He would not tell any-overwhelmed us.
the world are far less often men- A mail-steamer in order to Well, you know how things are
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1932.
CHINA BECOMING
IMPATIENT
Robots Prefer Women
Robots are not so' heartless as
Victorinn Dullness"
Well, where the incidence of de- flation of the pound sterling strikes the gold dollar we naturally have a
smaller co-ordination between con- Bumption and convulsion which will-nay, muat-lend to the de-
monetiantion from overseas credi
tors at par.
Now, just see what this means. Immediately the effluxion of gold. bears interest at the present ex- change rate, deflation acts in and. demonetization and expansion of
body to roll them up, but to send From the moments when the out and buy a dozen of each, just | Panther appeared off Agadir,Internal credits is inevitable. See?
(Yes. Isn't it marvellous")
to last out the week. Moreover, Bleriot flew the Channel and I doubt if he would die just then. Marconi did his stuff, until break- Who could, without knowing what fast-time this morning wo have pot Oh, but all this is wiped out by system. What our syatem had time to think about yesterdays our
and it has done us all the good, aima at is The Enigma of To-morrow
in the world.
"Listen! Another word out of. To-morrow! What shail We Times are certainly rough. you, and you'll get an inflation right read to-morrow? Will a hundred Every other week there is a war between the pyes," million people on the other alte hatching or being scotched some- of the Atlantic be suddenly freed where, every day the situation, THE SERVANT PROBLEM. from Prohibition? Will the world political, national, industrial, at
and everywhere else, is We called on George the other be shaking off the depression that home Responsible states-night to see if he could help us is making paupers of its richest changing. citizena? Shall we read that Dis-men of all countries utter warn think of a six-lettered word mean- armament is a reality? Or that inga and prophecies of such ing something to drink and found it is a permanent fantasy? That weight as would have made them him sitting in the drawing-room aubstitutes have been found for remembered (and quoted) for looking as solemn as a Scots elder rubber and oil?
years afterwards in the suct-pud- on a Sunday night. We noticed Why not? As I sit at this ding period. But we get firstclass that his boots were not on the mat article ex-Miss Amy Johnson is crises so fast that there is no time as usual, but on his foot; his hat making another of those fights for us to get fatty degeneration of was carefully hung up. He offered which are merely the fore the mind--a peculiarly British dia- us a cigarette in a subdued fashion end trips for all. Tunners of to-morrow's weck-case, very prevalent until now. and got an ashtray. Hitherto he Why not? I am thankful I was born when had used the carpet, the aspidistra, They said only yesterday, so to I was and that I'm here to-day.
or the coalbox for the purpose. speak, that you couldn't fly the I wouldn't have missed any of it) Atlantic from East to West. Why ? for the world."
The continued temporising in Geneva on the Manchurian issue one might infer from their out-To-morrow will bring?
ward appearance. Those fierce- is undoubtedly exhausting
ly-efficient batteries of adding China's patience. After weeks
machines which have shot tens of arruing and side-stepping of thousands of clerks from the prospects of an adjustment their office stools are not wholly of the issue satisfactory to both devoid of the finer emotions. Sir sides appear to be receding. The Herbert Austin informs us they latest step is that the sub-com- have a distinct preference for mittee of five has passed a re- feminine society. It may be solution that the Committee of that men bear them a grudge for Nineteen must find a settlement, possessing the sort of brain that not merely make another report, never makes a mistake, and do and that this settlement must not treat them with due respect, be in accordance with the
while women, adequately modest League Covenant, the Kellogg in their presence, sweeten their Pact and the Nine-Power Treaty, tempers and put them on their If there were any prospect of mettle. The fact remains that such a settlement being devised they do their best work when within a reasonable period of wheedled rather than dragooned. time, no-one could complain, but This is a heartening discovery. it is intimated that the Com There is still some hope for the mittee of Nineteen requires six human race if the Frankensteins months in which to discharge its created by man can be tamed by task. In the circumstances,
woman. It will be extremely Chinese impatience is quite un embarrassing, no doubt, when derstandable. Whilst the path the evolution of the Robot of conciliation would undoubted-
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ly be the wisest to take, there reaches the stage that each be gins to show a preference for ia, unhappily, little indication
individual some
blondo that either party to the dispute brunette, and refuses to work desires to follow it. Japan still for anyone else, but that would resents any
interference with be preferable to an army of soul- her settled plan, whilst China less machines inspired by a com- quite naturally asks that the
mon urge to oust mankind from League hasten its decision. De- the dominion of Earth, Mean- spite all the complications which while, Sir Herbert Austin pays have heen introduced during the a well-merited tribute to the pro- arguments, to the layman the
as factory issue appears to be one on which workers. It is surprising that no difficulty should be found in girls have "taken to" machinery renching a definité conclusion.
so quickly and that their man- It is for the League to say agement of it should so often be whether or not Japan's actions superior to that of youths. In have infringed any of the three monotonous routine work wo- main pacts which are applicable man's patience and interest in to the circumstances. But there detail stand her in good stead. is a most obvious disinclination Man has this to his credit, how- to pass judgment on the issue over, that when anything goes by referring the matter first to radically wrong with the ma- this group, and then, to that, chine, woman invariably takes a with apparently little hope of back seat until the wheels are finality being spoodily reached.once again set in motion. The Chinese Government has already made known Its Inability to accopt the latest resolution, whilst the temper of the Chineso. people is evidenced by the de- mands made by a mass meeting in Shanghal that no, settlement will be acceptable which does not HEAD THAT THINKS AND THE HAND provide for the withdrawal of THAT LABOURS, MUST HAVE SOME Japanese troopa, the non-re- LITTLE TIME TO RECRUIT THEIR cognition of Münchukuo and the DIMINISHED POWERS--Güipin.
A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY
SOME RELAXATION ́18 NECESSARY TO PEOPLE OF EVERY DEGREE; THE
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"Give her throa ounces of milk and one biscult at four
o'ôlock, and see that she chows slowly,"
We inquired if he had any other symptoms, and whether he'd seen a doctor, so he informed us that it wasn't anything like that. It was the confounded new amah. She was an absolute treasure; but what a strain trying to appear respect- able enough to live up to her.
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WE GO SHOPPING.
We are going to talk shop. Shopping shop. Yesterday we per- ambulated in Des Veoux Road where there are several shops, and every one so full that every time a shopwalker bowed, a shopper fell out of an emergency exit,
Clearly, we say it here and now, there is wladom is the slogan "Shop early and avold the rush.". The difficulty, however, when shopping carly is to avoid those shopping carly-or even earliør.
It's certainly better to shop now than later. You avoid the "Rush." But niind you keep that under your hat. Wo're afraid of it leaking out.;
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