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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1932.
no a
condemnation of Japan violator of treaties. Unfor- tunately, Sir John Simon, in his anxiety to promote the ciliatory process, has incurred the displeasure of Chinese
con-
THESE ARE THE DAYS
in one
Says JOHN PRIOLEAU
.
I
The Very Idea!
THIS WAR. DEBTS MUDDLE
By Edward Kally, Shroff-Dodgery
We note with concern the con-
They forget us. enough to see a way out.
("Yes")
• 铺 •
the do
opinion, with the result that the WONDER why I had to ba Because they hadn't realised that
"I British attitudo is under Bus- picion. Unless this feeling is the man we call Yesterdays-nmost wonderful that have ever been known. Before they had finished dispelled, the most undesirable charming fellow, but a trifle on shaking their heads about it the corn that is being felt concerning consequences might casily arise. the regretful side. "They were thing had been done.
war debts. The need of the moment.is two-good days, those before the War, A friend of mine left Croydon
We don't see the need for this. fold. First, there is call for when life ran smoothly and last week to pay a short visit to a greater frankness on the part of there was none of this ghastly place in Africa you could only reach Ton many people think that the the Powers in facing the issues. restlessness and unrest. Peace last year in about even weeks, war debt position is so muddled, Secondly, there must be a speed- is what I like and I shall never taking ship and train and motor-that there is no one with brais 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
What's wanted is a credit plete failure at Geneva, withing in the worst age in history." feet of yours often left prints be- side the fresh spoor of pictures- subsequent developments of the
I have heard old Yesterdays que creatures like lion and buf- system throughout the world.
We have been all in favour of utmost gravity.
talk rubbish before, but this ex- falo. ceeded his usual ration, as
In the canoe you crossed a very a credit system for a long time, pointed out to him. I wouldn't large lake with all the attributea and countless encounters with Of Good Cheer
have lived at any other time for of what we should call a res, ex shroff's has enabled us to evolve anything you could offer me.
cept that it is full of crocodiles.
one we consider watertight.
The whole thing hinges on the I don't know what he meant by The car made its way along a Most of us are entering upon
and inter- this Christmas merrymaking "the worst age," but I do know home-made road impassable for a
years good four months in the year. It expansion of local poorer than we have been for that the inst twenty-five
the ox. many a season. The world de- have been by far the most exciting was really one of the journeys of national credit, the gold standard,
since the world began, so far as the day before yesterday. My moratoriums, pegging
chango, supply and demand, aboli- pression has visited us since wa
we can tell from what records friend is this afternoon, as near last forgathered at this feast.
baek quite a as I can guess, somewhere over tion of the tool, exports and im- there are. To go But even If Santa Claus is per long way, just think of all the Khartoum and will be at journey's ports, overseas interest, A beautiful six-leg console model force a little less generous than things that have happened since end the day after to-morrow-ten monetisation of silver and a few It will bo plainly seen that with with butt walnut panels and the usual, good: cheer, we may hVictoria died, and how they came days out from Croydon, Surrey, other odds and ends.
marvellous rush-parti-and between five and six thousand
material like that, any man who craftsmanship. cabinet
sure, will prevail in these com-
milca nouth of it. Has powerful nine-tube Super-ing days. Some may be tempt cularly mechanical things,
On the way there she will have couldn't evolve a system which heterodyne completely shielded ed to make merry on the prin-
The Consequences of War
spent agrecable nights in Rome, would defy all human comprehen- chassis with push-pull Pentode,
Athens and Cairo, everywhere liv-Rion except his own must be a hit These are of course now the Automatic Volume Control, Tone Ciple that "to-morrow we die": and Static Control, Full Vision but if we could make nothing
Now, you ask us, what is the Dial, Phonograph Pick-up Jack, better of the occasion than that common-places of everyday life.ng, on the fat of the air. She dull.
day. Why should I wait for system of ours?
to Voltage Compansator, Antenna We might as well sit down in from wireless to air-liners, whose could not have done that last
in erder
Well, you know how things are mail-steamer a Equalizer, and all modern sackcloth and ashes here and adventures in hurricanes nil over car, which is scarcely yester
tioned in the papers than the sea- SPARTON engineering features, now. To look forward into the world are far less often men- 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 lost were a surrender indeed. Calais to Dover on a windy day. time? How do we know that the external and internal creditors. highest quality.
(There is a Silent Service, if you time-table of the Liverpool-Green-who are inflating the one year Land-Newfoundland. or the Fal- moratorium, while the gold stand- Nothing could well be more Height 44 inches. Width 26
But aren't you glad you mouth-tabat-Azores-Bermuda air ard coagulates at a low percent- foolish than to accept the tale like.) inches. Depth 12 inches.
services won't be advertised hynge, due to the late war. of the pessimists at its face saw them happen? inches. Weight 58 pounds.
Times, are certainly rough to-June? We don't know, but we are value: for we shall win through
you think of any learning not to be surprised at
Well, where the incidence of de- Just in proportion as we know day, but can how to be spontaneously cheer-period in the world's history when things. We are living in the most flation of the pound sterling strikes We needn't go back We are waking op.
emailer co-ordination between con- full on a festive occasion like To-morrow was as eagerly looked exciting times that ever happened, the gold dollar we naturally have a sumption and convulsion which this. This is not just a counsel forward to?
Victorion Dulkiess
will-nay, muat-lead to the de- of tacile optimism. In so far to the War for examples of that 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 importa on
set our hand The War was detestable in every selves, we have
and another little war there, ("Yes, yea. Of course") with a will to the task of re-conceivable sense of the word, but fal duliness, with a little war here pro rata basin,
collateral On the other hand, pairing past errors and putting would you rather have died or been beastly, no doubt, as all wars are
but out of securities taken coincidentally our house in order. The patch born without knowing it? Ita re whatever their size,
with political three times a day (td.s.pc.) with of blue in the sky may not yet suits have been, are and will be sight and mind; be greater than the size of a infinitely worse than it was itself ten-cup storms, 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 Diarrell und the row over the that the financial institutions auto- cense contracting de- takably there and it is a token
Pitt said "Roll up that map." Ladies of the Bedchamber (to-day matically Un-
as futile
As the monetisation from overseas credi- of fairer weather to come.
Poor man, I suppose he thought the one seems fortunately, improvement does
he had pronbunced an epitaph on others)-after half a century of tors at par. not rest with ourselves alone, an epoch, I should like to hear primeval onze life we crashed into į
opened the but is indissolubly linked with his views on the map of Europe adventure. Time
to-day, flanked by another of the shutters and daylight and action bears interest at the present ex- WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1932. that of the rest of the world.
world. He would not tell any-overwhelmed us.
change rate, deflation sets in and From the
moments when the demonetization and expansion of body to roll them up, but to send
off Agadir, Internal credits is inevitable. See? out and buy a dozen of each, just Panther appeared
flew the Channel and to last out the week. Moreover, Blerlot
("Yen. Isn't it marvellous") I doubt if he would die just then. Marconi did his stuff, until break-
Oh, but all this is wiped out by Who could, without knowing what fast-time this morning we have not
Bystem system. What our had time to think about yesterdays To-morrow will bring?
--and it has done us all the good, alma at is The Enigma of To-morrow in the world..
shall we Times
certainly are To-morrow! What
Will a hundred Every other week there is a war. read to-morrow?
THE SERVANT PROBLEM, million people on the other side hatching or being scotched Home- of the Atlantic be suddenly free where, every day the situation,
everywhere else, is We called on George the other from Prohibition? Will the world political, national, industrial, at
Responsible states night to see if he could help us be shaking off the depression that home and is making paupers of its richest changing. citizens? Shall we read that Dis-men of all countries utter warn think of a six-lettered word mean- such ing something to drink and found armament is a reality? Or that ings and prophecica of
Land quoted) for looking as solemn as a Scots clder it is a permanent fantasy? That weight as would have made them him sitting in the drawing-room substitutes have been found for remembered
years afterwards in the suct-nud- on a Sunday night. We noticed rubber and oil?
at this ding period. But wo get firstclass that his boots were not ou the mat Why not? As I sit article ex-Miss Amy Johnson is crises so fast that there is no time as usual, but on his feet; his hat fore-the mind-a peculiarly British dis- us a cigarette in a subdued fashion the making another of those flights for us to get fatty degeneration of was carefully hung up. He offered.
merely
and got an nahtray. Hitherto he week- ease, very prevalent until now. to-morrow's
I am thankful I was born when had used the carpet, the aspidistra, Why not? end trips for all.
or the cualbox for the purpose. They said only yesterday, so to I was and that I'm here to-day.
I wouldn't have missed any of it speak, that you couldn't fly the Atlantic from East to West. Why? for the world.
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CHINA BECOMING IMPATIENT
the
Robots Prefer Women
Robots are not so heartless ag The continued temporising in
one might infer from their out- Geneva on the Manchurian issue ward appearance. Those fierce-
undoubtedly exhausting is
ly-efficient batteries of adding China's patience. After weeks machines which have shot tens of arguing 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
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, woinan. 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-reaches the stage that each be ly be the wisest to take, theregins to show a preference for is, unhappily, little indication
individual blanda that either party to the dispute brunette, and refuses to work desires to follow it. Japan stilt for anyone else, but that would resents any interference with be preferable to an army of soul- her settled plan, whilst China lesa machines inspired by a com- quite naturally asks that the mon urge to oust mankind from Lengue hasten its decision, De- the dominion of Earth. Mean- spite all the complications which while. Sir Herbert Austin pays have been introduced during thea well-merited tribute to the pro-, arguments, to the layman the ficiency of women 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 reaching a definite conclusion. so quickly and that their man. It is for the League to syngement 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 ever, 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 ¿` with apparently little hope of back scat until the wheels are finality being speedily reached. once again set in motion. The Chinese Government has already made known its inability to necept the latest resolution, whilst the temper of the Chinese people is evidenced by the de- mands made by a mass meeting
J
BOMC
A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY
ог
SOME RELAXATION 18 NECESSARY
in Shanghai that no settlement To PEOPLE OF EVERY DEGREE; THE will be acceptable which does not❘ HEAD THAT THINKS AND THE HAND provide for the withdrawal of THAT LABOURS, MUST HAVE SOME Japanese troops, the non-re LITTLE TIME TO RECRUIT THEIR cognition of Manchukuo and the DIMINISHED POWERS-Gilpin,
fro
which runnera of
a
Now, just see what this means.
our
Immediately the effluxion of gold
"Listen! Another word, out of rough. you, and you'll get an inflation right
between the eyes.".
"Give her three ounces of milk and one biscuit at four
o'clock, and ace that she chowa 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 wisdom is the slogan “Shop early and avoid the rush." The dificulty, however, when shopping early is to avoid those shopping early-or even earlier.
It's certainly better to shop now than later. You avoid the Rush. But mind you keep that under your pt. We're afraid of it leaking out.
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