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Happy Valley
MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1933.
the Dissolution with astute
How that he is the time for BERNARD SHAW'S QUEST The Very
sight. The result means two
things, at least, that the econo OF THE OTHER WONDERS
By ROBERT LYND
Idea!
NEW YEAR RITES
By Uncle. Edward Kelly,
It was the meat exclamatory. Now Yoar we have ever spent.
In order to frighten away
of
mic war will continue, and that the social revolution taking shape in the Irish Free State will become intensified. It in now several months since Mr.
Mr. Bernard Shaw is now out for distant places afford the best do Valera trailed the coat of un- a voyage round the world at possible example to the younger some evil spirits we had hidden paid Irish land annuities for the age of 76. In the 18th cen- generation. One must not Judge in a white label bottle, someone Great Britain to tread ontury Dr. Johnson made a tour of the present age, however, by the lot off a string of crackers outside
of 62. Dr. standards of its predecessors, our bodroom door at 4 a.m. Since then both countries Scotland at the age
and It completely ruined the spit- have been busy with the Johnson has been regarded over Everything is changing,
We couldn't sleep again, no wo tariff war.
But whereas Great since as a marvellous old man with young and old alike are changing lte, and our reputation. Britain has
been concern almost superhuman powers of on-with it.
I have myself comparatively changed out of our pyjamas and ed merely to wield an economie durance, while Mr. Shaw's enter bludgeon in an effort to compel prisa at much greater ago crentes little of this craving for distant spent the rest of the night huddled
more natonishment than if he places. I do not like what I hear over the radiator. littlo
There
claseca two are
crackers out- payment, Mr; do Valera has had gone for a week-end to about them, and the cows about
them in the papers gets worne people who let off been deliberately using the Brighton.
chloroforming tariff to transform the whole Can it be that it is easier to go overy day. Most of them seem alde bedroom windows at 4-am. basis of Irish life. Hitherto round the world to-day than it to be bankrupt, and all of them Those who need Ireland has been content to use was to go as far as Skye, la the seem to be in an extraordinarily and those who need chloroform-
haven of, ing.
Fagan rites, we call it. its natural resources to build second half of the 18th century? bad tempor. What
Speaking of rites. up an abundance of the food-Or is it that Englishmen exag-posce in comparison is St. Ives.
gorated the discomforts and di- with its broad of fishingamacks Wo have
a friend named stuffs it is so well fitted to pro-culties of Scotland before they in the harbour and in ho dia-
Wright never writes to discovered what excellent shoot tanco the lime-white gannets Wright. duce and to export them
manu- ing was to be had there? Dr. closing their black-tipped wings with his right hand. He's left England, in return for
The Free Johnson would certainly have to as they plunge into the stormy handed.
Which makes Wright left and factured articles. State has been, and to a de perform a greater feat to-day to waves! How charming, for that i
win so much praise.
matter, to stand in Ken Wood and right wrong. creasing extent still is, an ex-
watch a gold-crested wren play- This may be all right for some porter of cattle, pigs, poultry You Can't Surprise Us Now
ing like a humming bird among people, but what we
know is why should Wright be and butter, and an importer of
Possibly, the invention of the the brambles!
Temperamentally, I suppose, I wrong when he's Wright?. And boots, clothing, coal, machinery train, the motor-car and the aero-
man who would rather see if Wright were right instead of and so forth. It was the aim plane has made it more dimcult am
is Wright right? When of Mr. William Cosgrave's party to surprise our neigbours by mere- one placé a hundred times than a left why should he be wrong? to develop and improve Irish ly travelling. In an age in which hundred places onco. I like being When productivity along these tradi- solitary women fly through the air at places, but I do not much like he writes with his right or with
places. Most people, his left? Sounds funny to us.
What with all this noise going tional lines-to raise more and to the ends of the earth it doce going to
"We must on, wo think we will insist that better bacon, egge, cattle and not seem to require any out-of-when they fall in love with
of all crackera. horses with a view to bigger the-way adventurousness to go to strange scene, any;
borne from come back hero again;" but they next new year, allencers bo Atted a steamer and bo' and better exports and imports sunny port to sunny port with do not mean it in their hearts. to the exhausts
new Then the Chinese can make -thus bringing about a higher such an abundance of good food Next year the craving for
a
want
to
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Thongkong Telegraph. standard of living. Mr. Eamon that one could easily occupy one's places is too strong for them, and much noise as a St. Pat's day
MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1933,
Similari
when
WO
must
much
SNAKES ALIVE.
ourself
Bome
"Wo them. de Valera'a political philosophy entire time with cating. Profes- they go somewhere clae, 1, on procession, and we won't hear
And now; children, has an entirely different focus. sor Piccard's voyage among the the contrary, when I say: Everything, that the Free State snows of the upper air in his must come back here again," real- has been buying abroad Mr. balloon makes even a voyage to ly mean what I say. I would leave you. There is so
of Scotland than visit Manchukuo, dow that we can't hoar de Valera would have it produ- the South Seas a prosaic achieve rather go back to the West Coast noise going on outside our win-
ment by comparison. duce at home. Wheat, for
Apart from this, we expect men I would rather go back to Florence write.
Africa, And, besides, Pete has BAD ECONOMICS
instance, which, the Irish farmer to-day to go on being lively till and Rome than ace all
So Bunky-doo, little обса, ima much greater agethan was from the Cape to Caire. Nothing evil spirits in his room. The United States, like many has been in the habit of other countries, is inding out to porting because he thought it usual in previous conturies. We would appal me more, than to be
a compelled to accept an invitation bunnkydoo, while Uncle Eddie I goes out and buys himself a nice. its cost that wage-cutting in paid better to leave his land are mildly astonished
This is ZBW closing down. the name of economy, is only under grass, is to be grown on a Turk, claiming to be 156 years to travel round the world.
old, turns globetrotter, and even would rather spend the time in long string of bombs. provido
I sincerely hope I serving to aggravate the un-large enough scale to
when he tells us how he fought in Wiltshire.
a running commentary on Chinese employment problem. Recent all the bread the country needs a battle against the Russians shall not have act eyes on most You have just been listening to the New Year. The noise in atatistica show that wage rates always supposing the climate when he was only 100: But we of the globe before I die.
background was the voice of the which have been built up over will oblige.
Irish are gradually getting accustomed
A World Too Big For Me
118- commentator. G-00-d-night tariffed into to the notion that it is perfectly a long period of time have been citizens will be
It is a good world, but there is
teners, g-o-oo-d-night. ruthlessly lowered in the past wearing Irish clothes, eating natural for anybody who has not three years, with the result that Irish sugar and eschewing for passed his 90th year to behave too much of it for a man to be like a young man in the twenties, able to get accustomed to in one
A snake fancier of no menn millions of workers have been eign goods in every possible
playing violent games, driving life-time. forced to adjust their living direction. His policy seems to fast cars, and climbing the Alps Prejudiced though I am against order, our ears cocked up when heard that one of Dr. travel, however, and looking on we standards upon a lower level. have received Ireland's approval. before breakfast.
large mountains, eternal shows, Herklot's lille pets had had an The loss in wages and salaries Nevertheless, the cards are
and such things with dislike, accident. We went to extend our resulting from unemployment not all in favour of Mr. de
"I don't believe in letting my cannot help admiring the heroic, condolences.
"The patient," said Dr. Herk- and wage reductions for the Valera. He is bound to find past two years amounted to over that in the long run economic age stand between me and any-optimism with which Mr. Shaw seven millions sterling. The nationalism does not pay-that thing I want to do," said a wo-sets out to see a world which at lots, "is going on as well as can be We could not ask whether he be effects of this destruction of in fact it is better to be on good man of 92 the other day, having the age of 76 he still believes to expected."
crossed the Atlantic for the first be worth seeing. Up till now he such vast buying power can terms with your neighbour and time; and that sentence and that has not thought America itself had Turned the Corner, as very well be imagined.
The patient is a python, and if The freely exchange the things you exploit seem to represent a grow-worth seeing, but now ho is going had already turned about eight. argument upon which wage re- are best fitted to produce for ing tendency in modern old age, to look for an hour or two even duction is mainly based is that the things he is best able to or what used to be called old at America. the cost of manufactured goods supply, than to waste time and age. will be reduced, the price of energy trying to become self- commodities will be less, and, as sufficient. a result, more goods will be sold. But statistics of big in- dustries in which wages have fallen do not support that!
Peace-Making
་
Restlessness of Modern Age
month
Think of the Example It is questionable whether this headstrongness and this craving
any man
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Ox-
He became a patient on Thurs- day. One of his companions, who, we understand, has some- thing of reputation for anti- social conduct, bit him right along the dotted line, though whether this misdemeanour was prompted by a whimsical ap petite or should be consigned to the category of crime passionct still uncertain. At any rate, there was B 12ft.. reticulated
of instalments, Dr. FOR A MAN. TO WRITE OF HIMSELF: python in danger of becoming IT GRATES HIS OWN HEART TO SAY series ANYTHING OF DISPARAGEMENT, AND Herklots put 38 stitches in the THE READER'S EARS TO HEAR ANY-patient's damaged bodywork. We HIM. would have given him the grapes we OF PRAISE FROM
took up but he threatened to get THING
friendly so we ate 'em ourselves. Cowley.
IT IS A HARD AND NICE BUBJECT
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SPECTATOR'S JITTER. Several. "Incidente" in which spectators have been told to stand in the corner have been reported from Fanling, where the interport golf tournament is taking place."
In one instance member of the gallery shouted "Go on" a player's ball bounded across the groon. It has not been stated where the player told the member of the gallery to go.........
I doubt whether it had not been for Dr. Herklots of letters of equal he would probably be an We talk about the restlessness eminence ever made a journey python. We saw him yesterday of modern youth. But what round the globe at the ago of in his specially heated ward un- about the restlessness of modern 76. Perhaps Mr. Shaw thought der the doctor's bed. septuagenarianiem, octogerarlanit just as well, some time in his. The life, to see as much as possible of ism and nonagenarianism?
extraordinary world of old people of to-day seem to have that lost their gift for settling down. which he is the eighth wonder. Whatever the final outcome, Their grandfathers and
graud- theory. It is, indeed, a strange the League's handling of the mothers, if they had forescent economic philosophy which per- mits the assumption that buying Manchuria dispute has made would have thought them positive- power can be stimulated and clear one thing, that peace can- ly flighty. Why, only a made more active through a de- not be petrified. Its stability ago Sir Flinders Petrie set off at must come from movement, the age of 80 for Gaza, with the struction of the power to pur chase. How can more goods be from progressive adjustments intention of living coven months gold when people are compelled required to maintain justice in in the desert, though his doctor had ordered him to remain in bed The peace till he had recovered from a chill. to buy less? How can the mara changing world, ket for the sale of goods con- treaties made some provision Ar- sume, and use more when the for such readjustments. purchasing power of those who ticle 19 of the League Covenant constitute the market is de sets up methods for revision of This machinery for stroyed. Obviously, such an treaties. economic theory is unsound and positive and continuing peace- contradictory. It will only be making is far from perfect. when an enlarged buying power But it is too advanced for na is placed in the hands of the tionalist thinking. Consequent- people that prosperity will re-ly the nations so far have re- turn. The less demand there is fused to use it. And in the last for manufactured goods, the fifteen months they have shown fewer workers will be employ in Manchuria that they are un- ed. There can be no demand for willing to use the more drastic manufactured goods where there sections of the merely negative. The recent is no market. There can be no peace machinery. market when those who consti- recognition of that fact has Others tute, the market are unable to damped many hopes. buy. But an increase of buy bave been chilled by the inability ing power will not alone suffice. of governments so far to agree It must be accompanied by the upon any general disarmament. creation of jobs for idle men In addition the nations have and women. This can be ac-made less progress than had complished through a better ul- been expected in the amellora location of the amount of work tion of economie strife and the available among those who are lowering of trade barriers, In- able and willing to work. So deed, there has been retrogres- clety must determine whether sion on this score and a tend- it will be menaced by a permaency to divide the world into nent army of unemployed creat-ever tighter trade compart- ed by a mechanised industry, or menta during recent months. whether, through better plan- This view should not engender It should. galvanize the ning, the amount of work avail fear. able is to be more equitably dis-i peoples of the world into more tributed. This is the real pro- earnest and timely efforta blem whichi has grown out of overcome the dangers now dis- machine-equipped industry and closed. Humanity commands mass production.
The Irish Problem
to
ample supplies of the intel- ligence and good will required. The question is whether it will become sufficiently aroused to use them, or drift on the eur- Mr. de Valora has secured a rents of apathy and selfishness triumph frankly astonishing to which have hitherto always car his adversaries and it fa evident ried it into war.
"Somebody called up and wanted to rent a baby to take
part in his New Year's party?
1.8.
Yesterday a spectator moved an a competitor was addressing his ball. The latter showed that he could also address, a spactnt-
or.
(Future golfing phrase: "Ho hits a long spectator.").
Well, these gallery-Ites may have deserved censure, but it must be remembered that the soul of a spectator is exceedingly intricate, a positive labyrinth of fragile emotions, repressions, and other psychological bric-a-brac.
There was a period when we our
from selves suffered agonies
Spectator's Jiftor" (Galleryitla Ditherans), a complaint which consists of an irresistible desire to ahout some comment which is al- ways the wrong ina).
We were cured, however. It was on the green. He needed a four-footer for a half and, a B. and 2. We could see his stanco was The threo ' Kelly all - fwrong... principles word forgotten. We did not know how to contain our solves. We didn't. Nolthor, did ho.. When we woke up in the in- firmary we swore we'd never help him again. The bad-tempered eusa!.