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BAD ECONOMICS
MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1933,
time
now that he chose the tree for BERNARD SHAW'S QUEST The Very Idea!
the Dissolution with astute sight. The result means two things, at least, that the econo- mic war will continue and that the social revolution taking shape in the Irish Free State will become intensified. It is now several months since · Mr.
1
OF THE OTHER WONDERS
By ROBERT LYND
a
week-end
NEW YEAR RITES
By Uncle Edward Kelly.
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food. Or is it that Englishmen exag-peaca in comparison is St. Ives, gorated the discomforts and di-with its brood of fishingsmacks
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It was the most exclamatory" New Year we have over spent. Mr. Bernard Shaw is now out for distant placos afford the best In order to frighten away VAUXHALL da Valora trailed the coat of tin-
at possible example to the younger some evil spirits we had hidden on a voyage round the world paid Irish land annuities for the age of 76. In the 18th cen- generation. Ono must not judge in a white label bottle, someone Great Britain to tread on. tury Dr. Johnson made a tour of the present age, however, by the lot off a string of crackers outside. Since then both countries Scotland at the age of 62. Dr. standards of its predecessors. our bedroom door at 4 a.. have been busy with the Johnson has been regarded over Everything le changing. and It completely ruined the spir- tariff war.
But whereas Grent since as a marvellous old man with young and old alike are changing its, and, our reputation.
We couldn't sleep again, so we Britain has been concern- almost superhuman powers of en-with it.
I have myself comparatively changed out of our pyjamas and durance, while Mr. Shaw's enter. ed merely to wield an economic prie at much greater age creates little of this craving for distant spent the rest of the night huddled bludgeon in an effort to compel ttle more astonishment than if be places. I do not like what I hear over the radiator.
Valera has had gone Cor payment, Mr. de
aro two to about them, and the news about been deliberately using the Brighton.
them in the papers gets worso people who let off crackers out- tariff to transform the wholo Can it be that it is easier to go every day. Most of them seem alde bedroom windows at 4 a.m. chloroforming 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 Skyo in the seem to be in an extraordinarily and those who need chloroform- its natural resources to
build second half of the 18th century? bad temper. What a haven
Pagan rites, we call it. up an abundance of the
Speaking of rites.... stuffs it is so well fitted to pro-culties of Scotland' before they in the harbour and in the dis-
Wa have a friend
Wright never WE WANT THIS CAR TO duce and to export them to dincovered what excellent shoot-tance the lime-white gannets Wright. BECOME
thoru Dr. closing their black-tipped wings with his right hand. Ho's KNOWN.
England, in return for manu- ing was to be had JUSTfactured articles. COME IN AND ASK US FOR A State has been, and to
The Free Johnson would certainly have to as they plunge into the stormy handed.
de- perform a greater foat to-day to wavest How charming, for that Which makes Wright left and RUN. WE SHALL NOT EVEN creasing extent still is, an ex- win so much praise.
matter, to stand in Kon Wood and right wrong. watch a gold-created 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 and butter, and an importer of
know is why should Wright be Possibly, the invention of the the brambles! boots, clothing, coal, machinery train, the motor-ear and the aero- Temperamentally, I suppose, I'wrong when he's Wright? And and so forth. It was the aim plane has made it more difficult am a man who would rather see if Wright were right instead of of Mr. William Cosgrave's party to surprise our neigbours by mere one place a hundred times than n left why should he be wrong? to develop and improve Irish ty travelling. In an age in which hundred placen once. I like being When in Wright right? When productivity along these tradi- solitary women By through the air at places, but I do not much like he writes with his right or with
places. Most people, hia loft? Sounds funny to us. tional lines to raise more and to the ends of the earth it does going to
What with all this noiso going better bacon, eggs, cattle
not seem to require any out-of- when they fall in love with and
"We must on, we think we will insist that horses with a view to bigger and better exports and imports sunny port to sunny port with do not mean it in their hearts. to the exhausts of all crackers. now Then the Chinese can make 38 thus bringing about a higher auch an abundance of good food Next year the craving for atandard of living. Mr. Eamon that one could easily occupy one's pinces is too strong for them, and much noise as a St. Pat'e day 1, on procession, and we won't hoar de Valera's political philosophy entire time with eating. Profes- they go somewhere else.
"We them. has an entirely different focus, aor Piccard's voyage among the the contrary, when I say:
his must come back here again," real.. And now, children, Everything that the Free State snows of the upper air in
would leave you. There balloon makes even a voyage to ly mean what I say. I has been buying abroad Mr. the South Seas a prosaic achieve- rather go back to the West Coast noise going on outside our win- de Valera would have it produ- ment by comparison.
of Scotland than visit Manchukuo, dow that we can't hear duce at home. Wheat, for Apart from this, we expect men I would rather go back to Florence, write. instance, which the Irish farmer to-day to go on being lively till and Rome than see all Africa, And, besides, Pete has The United States, like many has been in the habit of im-a much greater oge than was from the Cape to Catre. Nothing evil spirits in his room.
So Bunky-doo, littlo other countries, is finding out to porting because he thought it usual in previous centuries. We would appat me more than to be its cost that wage-cutting in paid better to leave his
compelled to accept an invitation bunnkydoo, while Uncle Eddie land are mildly astonished when
world. goes out and buys himself a nice Turk, claiming to be 156 years to travel round the the name of economy, is only under grass, is to be grown on a old, turns globetrotter, and even would rather spend the time in long string of bombat.
This ZBW closing down.. serving to aggravate the un-large enough scale to provide when he tells us how he fought in Wiltshire. I sincerely hope I employment problem. Recent all the bread the country needs
against the Russians shall not have act eyes on most. You have just been listening toʻ ja running commentary on Chinese atatistics show that wage rates always supposing the climate when he was only 100. But we of the globe before I die.
New Year. The noleo in the which have been built up over will oblige. Similarly, Irish are gradually getting accustomed
A World Too Big For Me background was the voice of the a long period of time have been citizens will be tariffed into to the notion that it is perfectly
commentator. G-oo-d-night. lia- ruthlessly lowered in the past wearing Irish clothes, eating natural for anybody who has not It is a good world, but there lateners, g-o-oo-d-night. 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 millions of workers have beeneign goods in every possible
driving life-time. playing violent 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 standards upon a lower level. have received Ireland's approval before breakfast,
travel, however, and looking on 'we heard that ono of Dr. The loss in wages and salaries Nevertheless, the cards are
large mountains, eternal shows, Herklot's little pets had had an resulting from unemployment not all in favour of Mr. de
and auch things with dislike, I accident. We went to extend our and wage reductions for the Valera. He is bound to find "I don't believe in letting my cannot help admiring the herole condolences. past two years amounted to over that in the long run economic age stand between me and any-optimism with which Mr. Shaw "The patient," said Dr. Herk- seven millions sterling. The nationalism does not pay-that thing I want to do," anid a wo-sets out to see a world which at lots, "is going on as well as can 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 belleves to expected." such vast buying power can terms with your neighbour and crossed the Atlantic for the first be worth seeing. Up till now he We could not ask whether he
itsolfhad Turned the Cornor, as time; and that sentence and that has not thought America very well be imagined. The freely exchange the things you exploit seem to represent a grow worth seeing, but now he is going had already turned about eight, argument upon which wage re-jare best Atted to produce for ing tendency in modern old age, to look for an hour or two even The patient is a python, and if duction is mainly based is that the things he is best able to or what used to be called old at America. I doubt whether it had not been for Dr. Herklots.
lettere of equal he would probably bo of the cost of manufactured goods supply, than to waste time and age. Chater Road.
will be reduced, the price of energy trying to become self-
We talk about the restlessness eminence over made Journey python. We saw him yesterday commodities will be less, and, as sufficient.
of modern youth. But what round the globe at the age of in his specially heated, ward un- about the restlessness of modern 76. Perhaps Mr. Shaw thought der the doctor's bed. a result, more goods will be
He became a patient on Thurs- septuagenarianism, octogerarlan-it just as well, some time in his Hold. But statistics of big in-
ism and nonagenarianism? The life, to seo as much as possible of day. One of his companions, dustries in which wages have
old people of to-day seem to have that extraordinary world of who, we understand, has some- fallen do not support that
lost their gift for settling down. which he is the eighth wonder. Whatever the final outcome. Their grandfathers and theory. It is, indeed, a strange the League's handling of the mothers, if they had foreseen it, grand- economic philosophy which per- Manchuria dispute has made would have thought them positive-THO mits the assumption that buying 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 struction of the power to pur-
come from movement, the age of 80 for Gaza, with tho chase. How can more goods be from progressive adjustments intention of living seven months sold when people are compelled required to maintain justice in in the desert, though hinted
had ordered him to remain to buy leas? How can the mar-a changing world. The peace till he had recovered from a chill. ket for the sale of goods con- treaties made some provision sume and use more when the for such readjustments. purchasing power of those who ticle 19 of the League Covenant
It is questionable whether this constitute the market is de-sets up methods for revision of headstrongness and this craving
treaties. stroyed.
This machinery for Obviously, such an 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-i 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 mèroly 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-have 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. have creation of jobs for idle men In addition the nations and women. This can be ac-made less progress than had complished through a better al-been expected in the ameliora- location of the amount of work tion of economic strife and the available among those who are lowering of trade barriers. In- able and willing to work. So-deed, there has been retrogres- tend- ciety must determine whether Bion on this score and
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ligence and good will required. The question is whether it will become sufficiently aroused use them, or drift on the cur- Mr. de Valera has secured rents of apathy and selfishness triumph frankly astonishing to which have hitherto always car- his adversaries and it is evident ried it into war.
The Irish Problem
to
games,
Restlessness of Modern Age.
Think of the Example
month
any man
A THOUGHT "FOR TO-DAY
A snake fancler of no mean
an
he
CX-
thing of a reputation for anti- social conduct, bit him right along the dotted line, though whether this misdemeanour was
whimsical prompted by a
ap- patito or should be consigned to the category of crime passionel IT IS A HARD AND NICE SUBJECT is still uncertain. At any rate, thoro WAS 蟲 12ft, ratlculated FOR A MAN TO WRITE OF HIMSELF; python in danger of becoming IT GRATES HIS OWN DEART TO SAY acries of instalments, ANYTHING OF Disparagement, AND Herklots put 88 stitches in the THE READER'S EARS TO HEAR ANY-patient's damaged bodywork. We OF PRAISE FROM HIM. Would have given him the grapes we THING
took up but he threatened to get Cowley.
friendly so we ate 'em ourselves.
"Somebody called up and wanted to rent a baby to take
part in his Now Year's party."
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BO Dr.
SPECTATOR'S JITTER. Several "incidenta" 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 ane instance a member of the gallery shouted "Go on" as |a player's ball bounded across the stated green. It has not been whore the player told the member of the gallery to go.
Yesterday a spectator moved as a competitor was addressing his ball. The latter showed that he could also address a spectat-
or.
(Future golfing phrase: "Ho hita a long apoctator.")
Well, these gallory-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 paychological bric-a-brac.
There was a period when we our- pelves suffered
from (Galleryitis Spectator's Jitteronles Ditherans), a complaint which consists of an irresistible desire to shout nome comment which is al ways the wrong one).
We were cured, however. IL was on the green. He needed a four-footer for a half and a 3 and 2. We could see his stanco was all wrong. The three Kelly principles were forgotten. We did not know how to contain our- solvca. We didn't. Noither did he. When we woke up in the In- Armary we swore we'd nover help him again. The bad-tempered cusa!