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NOTES OF THE DAY PROBLEM OF PUBLIC WORKS-II. DANGER OF SPENDING
DISARMAMENT:-
Mr. Baldwin's plain forceful speech at Birmingham' maken it
the more surprising that British commentators on the disarmament
SCHEMES
By SIR ERNEST
BENN
The Very Ideat
A FAIRY TALESKI
By Edward Kellyskl, Bolshio
HAT with Rasputin
Wand the Empress at the
Queen's, and the Soviet and
crisia should still stress the im-The justification of a programme the grounds that the process would Manchukuo at each others portance of the British draft con- of expenditure on public worke, in lead to lower taxation and lower throats we think we can tell vention. No doubt it will be order to relieve unemployment, was rates. No recent polition chica-
given
Ernest
W
some fifty millions, they did not it was the time of the dark conceive it as possible that the
the town of
a second reading, the defended yesterday by Sir Arthurnery is more disgraceful than the a fairy tale, too. Something ordinary rules of procedure will be Salter. In the following article wed in which that prospect, indeed that will bring a sob to your
pledgo, has been Ignored. When, followed, but it lo blind decoption | Sir
to Bonn replies a year ago, our splendid middle throat, and make strong men to suggest that it really matters the arguments put forward by Sir class supported with enthusiasm want to go out for a glass of at this stage: The convention is Arthur.
the reduction of their income by H.K. Beer. technicnt; the trouble le political. TF brains and courage are ade- A fundamental difference has quato substitutes for sense and ariseri between the declared polle-exporience, then Sir Arthur Salter Government, ogged on by the days in Russia. Lydia Cocoatin,
Arthur Salters, would proceed.toogpu-cleaner, to les of France and Germany. The is a force to be reckoned with leave the burden of rates and Novgorod, flung her ikon round lasue is clear for all to see. One is a rulam to say that the poorer taxes untouched and then suggest her thin shoulders and glided
the case, the more the need for or other must give way or there first-class brains to support it, but the piling up of more liabilities. into the night. It was Ivan's can be no convention. Until their the pity is that poor cases seem to
name-day-Ivan Orridkoff, of- rival viewpoints have been ad- have a peculiar fascination for Three-quarters of the space allot-fice-boy to the town commissar justed, all discussion of any con-which the world in recent times has ter is occupied with a catalogue of police. She must get him a groat brains, a circumstance for ed so generously to Sir Arthur Sal- of the dreaded Vodka, or secret
paid a heavy price, as it has given the things he does not desire to do, treatski, or feast. She would go. us that curious affilction known as coupled with an astounding con- to the heaps of muk, or rubbish. the intelligentsels.
vention Is sheer waste of time.
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C.E.R. CRISIS
overthrow the system" they wel-
.....
fession of opportunism. He for
LIA.
►
one
The skill of Sir Arthur's plea sakes the high ground of Dis- Her fingera swiftly alfted the for more public works lies not so covery and descends to mere time-k, and soon closed on a sardine- much in the points he makes as in serving, protesting that his am-, or fish-container. In it wore
several verats of oil, and Mr. Henderson has set out the the careful avoidance of the really bitton la the essence of modesty sarding, or little fish. She hurried vital parts of the argument. He and his suggestions only appro-homeward, furtively concealing it principal points of difficulty in is concerned to promote public printe in present circumstances beneath her (kon, for to withhold admirably concise fashion. His works financed by borrowed money He suggests. that if and when food from the communal stock was analysis places the problems in an and succeeds, except for one little trade revives public axpenditure a counter-revolutionary act. If not order which suggests that the sentence, in keeping the reader's will be reduced; his collongues in actually sabotage. clash will come at the first hurdle, mind absolutely clear of the notion the Civil Service will then come
Sha bolted the door behind her, concerning the duration of the that borrowing involves the reverse forward, and in the pure spirit of and laid the sardinetin under the operation of paying. Sir Arthur public service, insist upon the samovar. A shot rang out. She first stage mentioned in the con- and his associates, If they do not shutting down of work under glided to the door, but no sound. vention. Franco places it at four balleve that we can go on borrow taken for "temporary reasons" broke the stillness save the cry of years, and during that period willing for ever, certainly display no which have then gone. To make a distant monjik. But why was not reduce her forces by a man or 000.000 of existing public debt. that an expansion of public ex from his toil, three weary roubles aign of anxiety about the £10,000,- the point the clearer, he remarks Ivan so late? He had not returned. her armaments by a gun. Inter Some of these people know quite penditure in 1928 "was not the away across the steppes. Had he national súpervision must be well that if the debt can be made appropriate remedy." I can only a shot rang out. She glided. agreed upon, and in such a way large enough, it will have to be re-regret that Sir Arthur does not to the door. A far-off moujile that guarantees can be vouch-pudiated, and being dealrous to appear to have expressed that howled. If Ivan had been arrested sufed that Germany is not re- como Sir, Arthur Salter and his view in 1928, when his opinion he would be sent to the dreaded a shot rang arming secretly. Herr Hitler's spending schemes as means to that might have been very helpful to astrakhan-mines
out. She glided to the door. A policy is equally rigid. He claims end.
I am frankly puzzled by this moufileN but a huge figure that Germany has no desire to re-
Sir Arthur has the courage to descent to self-confessed opportun- dragged her out by the hair, upon arm but insists on the disarms make reference to the. "regular" iam on the part of the greatest of the caviare or step. A voice hissed. ment of other nations. He de-amortisation of old debts. Ho all the planners, one who pro-You were watched; where are the mands full recognition of the would de better to call attention to feases really to know how to vitamins hidden?" Lydia stom- fundamental principle of equality, the farcical inadequacy of such arrange the perfect world: I do mered "Where is Ivan?" "Omsk," which means nothing less than sinking funds as exist, and to the not remember any reference to grunted the commissar, for it was. lack of safeguards against the "present circumstances," when Sir ho. "Liar" she cried, "I heard you War clouds are thickening fast that he claims the right to re-arm misuse of them by local authorities. Arthur, as financial autocrat atehuot. him in three places!" The in the Far East and little at-if France does not come down to Since the war these focal govern Geneva, distributed League of commissar straightened bis bala
laika, "The conconling of food," tempt is now being made to Germany's level. Germany's right ments, which are now urged to Nations loans all over Europe said he, "is counter-revolutionary, not seriously borrow, have, in fact, raised loans ly belief is that every one of if not actually sabotage, and unless conceal international perturba- to equality is tion. For if the storm bursts, challenged, but it must be effected /equal to three times the total of the these disastrous transactions wRS you give me the sardinetin, Ivan'
pre-war National Debt, and the recommended to its investor- there is no saying to what deby a scaling down of otlier arma-sinking funds attached to these victims on the ground that it will not return. It is the sardine or your lover!" "He is dead,” gree it may extend and who ments not by re-armament of huge liabilities amount at present would solve some problem in a sobbed Lydia, "tako it. She may become involved. To-day, Germany. Here it is that the peril to no more than five per cent. of permanent way. Whether how brought out the little ash. The for the first time, the danger lics.
the whole. The ratepayers are in ever, Sir Arthur,, when dealing commissar snatched it greedily, and many cases liable to the extent of with Austria, Greece, Hungary, as he strode away swung the bodies looks real. The fuss being
£60 per head of the population and many other bankrupt States, of the three droskkis, or musk-rats made by Japan over the publica-
(£300 per family), and yet Sir was his own self-a permanent he had just shot for his suppor, tion of the Hishikari documents UNITY
Arthur would have them owe more planner-or merely an apologetic Suddonly a far-away voice called, Much of this money has been raised opportunist does not matter, the "Lydia, I am here." "Ivan," she on the loose modern sixty-year unhappy fact remains that in all breathed. basle, a thoroughly immoral pro- these cases his advice was bad and ceeding, for the roads and other Its results disastrous. been spent will be worn out and wasting assets on which it hng
I have referred to, Sir Arthur's valueless long before the debts have courage, some may prefer to call
it lack of discretion, arising per-i been paid.
Little wonder, therefore, that Sirhaps from a desire to appear Arthur does not think it worth thoroughly up-to-date. while to trouble your readers with great an authority ought really to his views on the ethics of borrow possess the patience necessary to ing and paying. His reference to wait for facts to be facts before the lower rates of interest, and the using them in argament. He has, saving to the Government and to imagine, never ceased to regret the local authorities by reason of a sentence in "Recovery" in which the numerous conversion opera-ho commended "good constructivo tions, comes painfully near to the loans like those arranged by the dishonest. Without referring to League, or a man of such creative the records, I hazard the statement vision as Mr. Ivar Krouter." This that Sir Arthur Salter used his unhappy lapse should make him powerful influence to perenade us more careful of adopting danger
(Continued on Page 9.) to make "conversion" a success on
is ominous in itself. Threats of sternor action against the All is not over and finished yet, Soviet can hardly be justified however, unpleasant as
are the by the facts, unless cause_for_ action is being sought. "Intense and Herr Nadolny has urged that prospects. The Bureau--haamet. indignation" at their publication in Japan looks a trifle thin the Conference should get down when the rigidity of the een-to an examination of the British sorship is borne in mind. Had draft convention. The parties there been any desire to pre-mean business and there should be vent the revelations from ap-quick decisions. The one ground pearing in the Japanese press, for hope lies in the fact that none nothing could have been easier.of the loading participants will Ample warning had been given welcome being saddled with the of the Soviet's intention to responsibility for causing a col- publish the documents. If they lapse. It always remains possible, were suspected to be spurious, therefore, that the outlook will there was opportunity for early alter. The deadlock may be less perusal and denisl of 30-
it looks. The complete than thenticity. But Japan waits, permits the documents to to strength of the combination in the printed throughout the country, spirit of faith and peace and the and then threatens the severance impression that that unity makes of diplomatic relations, and upon Germany will be the deciding sterner action. What is to come factor, in which connexion the next? How far is Japan pre-good contacts between France and pared to go? These are vital Italy may be regarded as highly questions. The answers may favourable. The United States mean peace or war. The most and Britain are already solidly likely interpretation of yester- day's developments is that a trial behind. France on this issue. of strength, in some form, is And Germany could hardly expect about to take place. If the things to be otherwise when she Soviet climbs down on this issue, teaches the glorification of war for she may as well surrender all its own sake in Nazi-doctrinaire along the line because Japanese schools.
pressure will be uncensing. There
seems little room for a half-
way house. And the Soviet's BRITISH TRADE
prestigo demands that Bhe
should not climb down. There
A further reduction in Septem-
it is that the danger lies. Theer of 14,000 in the number of relative positions of the parties
to the dispute have changed unemployed in Britain is proof, if markedly in the last few months. proof were needed, that the un-, The Soviet six months ago had deniable expansion of industry in her anxieties in the West as Britain continues, and at a hearten- well as in the East. M. Litvinoff's ing pace. Seasonal changes have activities in London have re-been in the strength of the general There aro moved all peril on the Western upward movement. frontier and Moscow is able to 700,000 to 800,000 more people at turn to the East: with greater work than there were a year ago; confidence. The seriouness of
the outlook in these circumstand there are few trades that have ances cannot be ignored. It not shared in the increase. We was always too much to expect gather that the buoyancy of Lon- the constant bickering and fric-don is an important factor and that tion over the Chinese Eastern North le recovering much more Railway to continue indefinitely, slowly. But there is hope for it in Russia was bound to make a the fact that the world cannot go stand and has chosen to make on much longer without now, stool it now. Japan's readiness to while a crowd of 18,000 at a Cardiff make a case looks alarmingly football match is unofficial evidence like the first stage of a grave of the greatly inproved situation crista
In South Wales.
But Bo
"First they broke me of sucking my thumb and now.
they're trying to make me stop dating rocks."
In the distance a moujik howled.
THE ETERNAL FEMININE
At 15: I'm a woman." At 16: "I'm wonderful." At 20: "How can they resist
At 21: "I don't look a day over
me?"
10.
At 25: "I'd pass for 21 caally." At 35: "I've still got that school- girl complexion,"
At 46: "We women don't age so early these days."
At 55: "I'm glad I'm not old like same people."
At 65: "There's plenty worse than me."
At 75: "Another ten years and I'll have to give up jazzing."
TO OUR SON.
The world is in a dilemma. Wo don't know, what the heck that meuns, but there you are-take. It or leave it. If the people of the world suffer as much in the next two years as they have suffered in the last two years, then they will have suffered four years. In that same fashion, which is ridiculous. If Shakespeare had been living to-day he would have been about 400 years old; but don't let that worry you, for it just goes to show- that when the Darwinian theory combined with the Einstein theory you have to pay your ac edunts Just the same.
If there is going to be an earth- quake In Japan in two years' time, then that in just two years from now. The barest things we have seen this year have been the Nude Cult and our breakfast, dinner, and ten plates. We have also. seen many beautiful things in our life, including one policeman with bare feet.
The rate of exchange is still 1/4, but we don't know what it is. The Pank is still in the samo place, but it won't be if somebody shifts in the next couple "or, years you mark our words, but don't mark them hard, for they're not very strong,
In conclusion wo wish to utata that we, havo contracted indigen tion from chewing over the pre- sont unfinancial problems, and if all the razor blades in Hongkong ware taken outside the harbour. and dumped, it would be rathor silly, because there would be nono Bleft. And no hay all of un