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THE ROOSEVELT GOLD. PLANS.
In the fierce controversy which has arisen in the United States over
NOTES OF THE DAY
FATE OF LEAGUE
Those who watch the signs of the times in high politics are awaiting with keen interest to learn the re- wift of Sir John Simon's visit to Rome. It is widely left that the whole future of the League of Nations may depend on the talks between Signor Mussolini and Britain's Foreign Secretary, Lat- torly, there has been talk of nations preparing to "go off" the League us many have gone off gold, of a revival of the old balance of power in Europe with now groupings. The League is said to be already valueless as
means of collective security, and many who genuinely sympathise with Geneva's ideals are calling loudly for a move to
HOW SCOTLAND YARD FIGHTS CRIME
By HUGH BRADY
IS dally recurring name, ing, examinations, health, fingers "Scotland Yard," stirs up in ante, ma criminal records, the the minds of most people visions staffs of which depart each even- of the romantle, perhaps sordid,ing at scheduled houra. story of crime hidden behind the Visitors from everywhere think walls of the great Embankment Scotland Yard is a show place. building.
Let me tell you it is not. Tom In a songe they are right. But Mix, the film actor, gaily dressed for the man in a hurry the crime in his cowboy clothes, once rode horse to call on the
HC WRS asked reporter, for instance-Scotland his white Yard is the home of lost causes. Commissioner. It is only when a crime has entered politely by a policeman to go away
enusing an ob the realms of history that it finds because he was
to the archives. When struction. And that was that. Its way crime news is fresh it must be sought farther afield.
Have you heard of the Black Museum, which contains all kinds Eight hundred people are um- of curios-criminal and other- ployed In Scotland Yard. And wise? It is in the dungeons of when I tell you that only about 1 Scotland Yard, and it le a rare in G of these is a policeman you privilege for anyone not connected with the police to be admitted. are perhaps surprised.
You would be further surprised There is nothing new undor the relica of notorious to learn that a far smaller propor-nun, and there you would find (if
Fiction admitted) tion
detectivear are writers have led you to believe criminals. Anything else?
a aixty that Scotland Yard is crammed second thoughts. yes;
any years-old invention on somewhat upon Japan in the dispute with with detectives, ready at China and, so far as tangible results moment to take a hand in clearing similar lines to the robot controls dif-of present-day London traffic- with green, amber, and red lights completo!
abandon the old order and to set about erecting some new form of League to take its place. Much of hvhat le said on the League's de- ficiencies is unhapplly true. Geneva attempted to bring pressure to bear
Hame.
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MULTIPLICATION
By
Eddie Kelly XXX
have just heard about a new Society that will make you rich for the rest of your life.
All you've got to do is join the Multiplication Table.
No more work, no more worry, nothing but wait for the commissions to roll in.
It's this way.
All you've got to do is to send a paltry ten bucks to the Society and you become a Life Member.
Now you're off. Back will come a consignment of little books about multiplication, which you have to sell at ten bucks a time.
And you've only begun. Each of these three members have to bag three new 'ung each before they start to rake in the skekcja. but you still draw your bit of squeeze. When they get their three mugs they can start,
Girls, it's a cinch. We ask you? Why, in less than a year, you could earn $10,000 if you sold
The first three you sell are | were concerned, falled. There fol-up baffling mysteries. How
buckshee, because you don't sexes lowed
Cly Servants of both a grave loss of prestige, ferent are the facts!
But Scotland Yard, after all, in the rake in any commission. which made it easier for Germany abound in the huge eight-storeyed to withdraw from Geneva and building, an also do uniformed public mind is the great institution once you find the fourth mug will make it still easier for any officers, and it is only here and that handles crime in all its the money commences to pour there you will meet a detective. aspects. So for the moment Iin. Out of No. 4's ten dollars other dissatisfied nation to do theIt is in a circumscribed space at must forget the people at Scotland you rake in $7.50. Now, No. b-y
Scotland Yard that the detective Yard--the vast majority, who to save his money, has to get to stands on his own ground.
competently carry on their daily work. There are close upon 1,000 mem- clerical and technical work.
The first three he rakes in are bera of the Criminal Investigation On one floor are to be found the Department-all officially Scotland | headquarters of "Centrai," that is no good to him, but they're Yard detectives-but there are the Criminal Investigation Depart-worth 36 to you, because you're That an institution at once so
many who seldom visit the policement. Its total strength is 116, indirectly responsible for selling far-reaching and so experimental headquarters. Their work Hesand this number includes a chief them.
Ave Buperintendents, should sustain one or two major with the 23 divisions of the Metro-constable,
and four chief-inspectors. Fifty setbacks might not in another agepolitan Police.
Who works at Scotland Yard? officers belong to the Flying Squad, have suggested ultimate failure.
The Commissioner is there, so who almost invariably are afoot or But the present age in essentially are his Asslatent-Commissioners, in motor-cars seeking criminals.
It must needs be and along the corridors of gloom a praetical one.
This is the branch that burns so, for it has many changes and the visitor almost tip-toes past the the midnight oil. Night or day much confusion to cope with, and various sections known to the there are detectives there who are mysterious hiero-ready to respond to calls from any many new institutions to set in initiated by
part of the world. In the main, I once heard a facetious police- however, London's divisional de- motion. It cannot afford to tinker glyphics.
which will not
every citizen in Hongkong. We've man say: "A stone thrown through tectivos are not alarmists.
often done worse than this out at the Roosevelt ad-with machinery
"realistic" a Scotland Yard window would divisional crime brings the men Fanling or Happy Valley. ministration's gold policy, the work. According
from the local stations, and they
The population of Hongkong is opposition is certainly getting its thought, therefore, the League of always hit a Civil Servant.?
There is certainly some truth in work with the knowledge that the Nations, having shown itself in- full share of the debate.
amount of reserve men at Scotland Yard can about 900,000, but consider the Which-effective in certain supremely im that statement. The |ever school of thought is right, portant issues, might be discarded clerical work performed at Scot help at any moment with addi-potentialities of the scheme elsc- China's 400,000,000. (20,000 de- open and unrestricted discussion and all the energies and resource-land Yard is prodigious, and it is tional men, perhaps, or by finger-where. Fancy hopping in among
fulness of the age set to work on only the expert who can draw the prints, photographs, or
duction to allow for depreciation of demarcation between descriptions of wanted men. of the country's most conflicting
s new international machine. But line
in the Fullen war), or India's problem is likely to bring about with the League of Nations one is polieeman and Civil Servant.
Why the telephones are control- Any piece of writing about 85,000.000 (less 11 lest owing to a saner and more effective solu- not dealing with a mere political
Rusala's paltry 100,000,000. Why, tion than would consideration of expedient that may be easily chan- led at night by policemen and by Scotland Yard would be incom-arding and body-line), or even ged or scrapped. One is dealing Civil Servante during the day has plete without a reference to the there's no reason why you couldn't
The tele-famous "Back Hall." That is the the difficulty from one angle with an expression of the highest always puzzled me.
Both the sound money hopes, the most sacred Ideals and phone room contains direct lines way into Scotland Yard when the clean up ten or twenty bucks in no advocates and the so-called in-the deepest convictions of humanity. from Buckingham Palace, Welling- main entrance is closed. Alate ton Barracks. the House of caller is always seen first by the The expression of any great ideal flationists have strong reasons to does not stand or fall by a tem- Commens, the Director of Public Back Hall" inspector, a man of
Prosecutions Office, the Admiralty, encyclopedic police knowledge. Anyone interested in the scheme back up their arguments. Each porary setback, by defections
backed by a staff of constables, can send their ten bucks along to failures of individuals, or even of and the War Office. has rallied to its side the sub-
and It is there men who "carry us, c/o this office, nations.
Civil Servants control the Gen-on" in the stillness of the night. The odds are 1,000,000 to one missions of professors of econ-
eral Registry, into which mail,! The reserve detectives are on that it won't go to the promoters omics and other experts to prove
of the schermo. We enbles, and telegrams pour daily duty upstairs. In cases of urgency that it is right. Each, we may
but the uniformed constables re-the "Back Hall" inspector can multiplication table. ceive and despatch everything at speak on the telephone to any of assume, wants to find the best
For the moment the League may Scotland Yard. Chief constables the staff from Lord Trenchard way
out of the depression.
Inok far less attractive than have Civil Service clerks, but downwards. The light in his offiue Difference between the sound "realistic and resurgent nation-superintendents are helped by shines nightly through ̄an-ocean
A well known friend of ours money, men and the inflationists alism. It is natural, perhaps, in
policemen.
of gloom. lies in the difference between a
an age that looks for change, to Some of the motor-drivers at the I have told you that there are entered the Hongkong Hotel with strict adherence to the economic centre Interest upon the drastic Yard are policemen, others
are only 116 detectives in the Central ten cent bit, a silver dollar, and phase of the gold problem and changes made on the reallatie basis civilians; but many of the "Mystery Branch at Scotland Yard. Near three one cents in his pocket. He a consideration of its political and to forget the slow, patient Sections" are composed of detec-by-separated by a bridge in the asked for a Resch's beer, and after significance as well. For, in the structural work in daily progress tives, uniformed men, and Civil quadrangle is Scotland House, qualling it, paid with the dollar,
nt Geneva and The Hague--not Servants,
the home of the Special Branch:adding the small change as cum- shaw. What did he ret in return? broader, humanitarian sense, merely political, but judicial, econ. This is especially true of the strength, 132.
ANSWER: A thick car(the polities has much to do with the mic, social and cultural, reaching Idens Section, which aifts all kinds This is the branch that enought
dollar was chopped). matter. While Wall Street looks into all phases of the life of the
spies during the war, watches upon the subject from a cold, nations and welding them into this
The Pay Department at Scotland foreign revolutionarica, keeps its matter of fact, dollars and centsLeague idea that shall stand for the Yard is a huge section, and there eye on the wild dreamers of new viewpoint, President Roosevelt is varying forms of unity of interest
are others dealing with printing, worlds. All its men are linguista in all nations. If Bore of the
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nations, owing to political excite
ment and changes, are not yet ready to take share in this great organisa. tion that has brought fifty-seven nationg into a single membership.. Ident remains, and the
the
the tradesman and the consumer as well. This naturally compli- cates the problem much more for the Government than it does for the financiers. Conceivably, machinery. if the sound money advocates had not arisen to criticise the Roosevelt-policies, the more con- SPIRIT OF GENEVA servative phase of the discussion might have been overlooked. It is sometimes said that the Had there been a disposition to League, after all, is no more than the nations that compose it, and awallow all the President's nos- trums without question, the that all the self-interest of the country might by this time have nations is merely reproduced at the Geneva conferences. Nothing could experienced actual inflation, with
Geneva be more misleading. At all its accompanying dangers. there is far more than the con- Reasoned analysis of the Pre-stituent, nations. The "spirit of sident's policies may therefore Geneva" and its effect upon the dele- gates who enter its hails is one of have
a very real value, Mr.
the first things that impresses Roosevelt's task is assuredly one of great magnitude, presenting everyone who has attended its meet- almost innumerable pitfalls for inge. Even in the purely political aspect of Geneva, where nation- the unwary. He is finding, also, aliam necessarily is still much in that there are big interests to evidence, something of the now be fought, the latest opposition spirit, assiduously developed by coming from the Federal Reserve the Secretariat, is usually apparent, Banks, which bliterly resent the und in course of time will become decree placing control of their more so. The work' of drawing gold holdings under the Trea- fifty-seven nations together cannot sury. How his plans will work be lightly undone and done over out in practice is a matter for again. Even If it were,, the now form would incur the same attacks speculation, but he is obviously as the old and would be morally the type of man who, having lene well equipped to resist them. once made up his mind, is not It is the task of this generation to easily deflected from the course hold what has been set up-to which he sets. The next few modify where necessary, but always months will be a crucial time for to hold, to icep its gaze fixed firm- the President and his advisers, ly on the ideal and to preserve for its successor, through all trials Well-wishers will pray that he and setbacks, one of the greatest may succeed in the task to which achievements the post-war he has put his hand.
has to its credit.
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The Worm Through the Ages
When Sir Worm, Crusader, is safely buckled up in armour, he opens vizor and finds courage to tell wife he is going on crusade for five years to fight Saracens,
Oh, so after giving worm best years of her life worm is going to leave wife for five years while worm goes gallivanting off on crusades, is he?
That is nice way to treat hard- working wife who has worked fingers to bone to make worm's home comfortable.
Castle with 100 rooms and 500 men-at-arms, cooks, scullions and Krooms not good enough for pampered worm who is merely finding excuse to go abroad with witty worm friends,
And if worm thinks he is going to frighten Saracens in his silly tin-pot armour and foolish plume he is greatly mistaken,
Saracona will roar with laughter when they seo worm galloping about, waving lance like little boy playing at soldiers.
But probably cunning, sex-mad worm has no intention of fighting Saracens. More likely he is going all the way to Palestine, or where Saracens live, to ogle shame- Jess. blondu princess. If that is worm's intention he had better look out, as 'Saracens have short shrift with Christian worms who agle Saracon women,
Probably worm will lose head, and wife will be left with castle on hands and end days na beggar. As dinner is ready worm had better take off silly armour and stop showing off...
Sir Worm cails pages to remove armour and decides to go on next crusade.