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NOTES OF THE DAY
CURRENCY EXPERIMENT
IRELAND'S THOUGHT
The Very Idea!
An interesting experiment in the THE REPUBLICAN VIEW, By Myles Mordaunt SAY WHEN, MONSTER
Issue of special currency in the form of Labour Notes has been carried out in the small Austrian town of Woorgel. The town has. about 4,000 inhabitants, two-thirds of whom are workers and salaried employees. At the beginning of Whon twenty-two professional 1992 its position was extremely footballers, often of very mixed serious. The principal, under nationality, moet in a competitive takings had been obliged to close way, the placard "England De down, placing the whole popuin- foats Austria" exceeds the facts. tion, including small manufac. When the matter at isava is ocon- turers and peasants, in a positionomics and politics, life and death, of great distress,
bit only exaggerates and obscures | business to talk of troubla, be- LABOUR NOTES
tween "England" and "Ireland."
FOOTBALL teams often aa-vided with sinecures in a North of
sume their country's names, Froland Manchukuo, And I think even in so serious a When your newspapers laud matter as football it is a big as- "Ulster" for loyalty, they are sumption...
praising a lot of professional poli- ticians in whom there was found little to admire when they adorned the London scene, politiciana liko Ronald MacNeill and James Craig. For 12 years such as these have enjoyed a complete range of Cabinot salaries and Civil Service pickings, exceeding in some cases the Imperial equivalents.
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Notoriously the climate When all other dovicos had these islands suits the nativos of failed to improve the situation, the either equally well, and the racial Mayor decided to lesue a special Intermixture is nearly complete. currency in the form of so-called The Imperial Government at this Labour Notes, which were to lose moment has, Scots, Wolah, Jewish 1 per cent. of their value each and Irish components, and the month. The denominations, were | troublesome Dominion Govern- one schilling. Ave achillings and ment has been selected from ten schillings, and were used main hardly narrower compass. ly for payment of the salaries of municipal officials and the wages | of workers employed on public works. They were issued to a total value of 32,000 schillings, and were fully covered by. a deposit in the municipal savings bank, which undertook to exchange them for State banknotes at a discount of 2 per cent. The proceeds of this) discount, together with the sums accruing from the depreciation of the labour notes, were devoted primarily to unemployment relief. By means of those notes, which were issued in July 1932,, a pro- gramme of public works was car ried out, including the building of roads, canals and bridges, and electrification work.
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BANK INTERVENTION
The success exceeded expeeta- tions. Some employers even bought Labour Notes from the savings bank to pay their workers. A revival of trade set in, and tho municipal funds profited as arrenro of rates amounting to 79,000 schillings were paid. When neigh- bouring places showed a tendency to imitate this policy, the National Bank became alarmed and secured an infunction against the issue of such notes, under an Act confer ring on the National Bank a mono- question is at present before the poly of banknoto issue. The Administrative Court:
GESELL'S THEORY
wae.
To subdue any "bandits" who
might domur, this Manchukuo la made by the 1921 Treaty a Major. General's command with full com plement, plus a heavy coast bat tory and other trimmings. Not one of these highly praised joy- alista but has a sporran full of bawbeen na part of his uniform; and the area of territory they mal administer is less than Yorkønire, and less populous.
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By Eddie Kelly, Worm THE monster rogue has caught
the public, fancy, and in addi- tion to Loch Ness, monstern have been sighted near Syracuse, Sidity · and at Tarberry, at the mouth of the river Shannon, Ireland. Scotsmen are indignant at, the
· insinuation ́· that their monater- may be just an ordinary wáirus or alligator.Wewa item.
NYWAY, what's a mon-
AN
ster between friends. - We are so used to being a monster ourself that all this stuff in the newspapers bores us to tears.
The last time our wife called us a monster we bit our fingernails and strode of Into the night.
monsters.
That's what we think of
' In the recent correspondence, Mr. Thomas; doubtless proud to be simply Welsh, signs in the style of England. If Mr. del don is duplicated. But enormous
In the South this expensive bur Valera's nationality is less sim-t as these Bribes must have seemed ple, certain it is that officially he to the small shop keepers, farmers' was regarded as American at the sons, professional novices, and un-petition might be good for the time he escaped the evil conso-employed clerks the Treaty party quences of the 1910 revolt. succeeded in the South by the
narrowest majority.
Nevertheless, there are serious differences between our two coun- tries, and lest the reader get re tive at a recital that might begin with the first ancient infraction of the Brehon Code I shall keep within Mir, Thomas's letter. Simply, where is that letter con- trary to the facts as we in Ire- land experience them? What elso in it is calculated to give offence?
The Roman for it, the country was prostrate Hierarchy wore after the black-and-tan excesses and threatened with an intensified renewal of that. campaign, yet throughout every year of its un- easy life, Mr. Cosgrave's Govern- ment only maintained itself by those violent methods which the British Press readily condemns in Nazi Germany.
Mr. de Valera cscaped the hor- First for the offences of no sub-rors inflicted on more serious op etance, that is, of course, those Ponents of the Treaty and his which destroy all goodwill and advent to the Dominion Parlia- ment as official Opposition "helped hurt most.
to take the bare look of it," as we say here,
The reiteration of the name Irish Free State.
Suppose for the broadcasting purposes of Armistice Day some officious Scotsman at the B.B.C.
it more. thought
When he took the Dominion Premiership from Mr. Cosgrave he was accepted without excessive conformable enthusiasm as the only alternative with the Statute of Westminster to that Imperial statesman. In to alter the last couplet of Rupert himself could hardly have missed the circumstances Mr. Thomas Brooke's lines:
election,
"There is some, corner of a
foreign field
Which is for ever.
The
There is no affection in Ireland British Free State"?
for any Dominion politician. One I think the least emotional listens to them sceptically and Englishman would feel more than votes for or against with critical metrical objections to this. opportunism. They recognise Throughout Mr. Thomas's letter this and their incursions Into Im- The mayor of the town formerly an engine-driver on the
there is insistence that what the perial politics are only made for State railway, active as a right- Dominions enjoy must satisfy all domestic effect, just as a politician wing Social Democrat, and à mem-
reasonable aspirations for Ira- in the Union of South Africa ber of the town council for 12 land. This is galling even to the might angle for Nationalist senti years. He is a convert to the sort of shoneens' we Republicans ment by making some fuss about theories of monetary reform advo call "Free-Staters." To the most a flag-having all the while no in- cated by Silvio Gesell. The central even the Irish Free State is some- under the Imperial Constitution. venal of Mr. Cosgrave's followers tention of jeopardising his job feature of Gesell's theory was that money should be made to deterior- thing of more ancient lineage In fact, the intent is to defeat a ate in value when hoarded, just na than a nigger-robbing colonial domestic challenger for the em- every other form of wealth must convict-settlement. deteriorate. He proposed notes.
But, seriously, all this com- monster trade, but it's business for us, and the lesser fournalistic fry, who have to write the cables.
Pretty near any time now we monsters appearing on the scone. tan expect to hear of other and then our newspapers will be full of monatorosities like this:
A
Nanking, Jan. 0. terrifying monster, bolchingTM smoke and flames, has made Ita appearance on the outskirts of Nan- king. When Interviewed thla inorning the monster apologetically said that It has Journeyed, overland trom Loch Ness, and, providing there was no objection, intended to take up resid- enco
in China.
"I had to beat It out of Scotland," said the monster, whimpering slightly. "The place was full of Scotsmen, and I would have starved to death, if it hadn't been for the haggis I dug out of the mud banks.”—Trance Ocean Kuo Min.
Foochow, Jan. 10, Interviewed to-day regarding the report that Nanking has discovered a monster, Mr. Eugena Chen, Monster for Foreign Devils in the Fukien Provincial Government, advised. n wide aceptielam In reading all publicity emanating from Nanking.
"The only monster in Nanking is Chaing Kai-shek," declared Mr. Chen Mr. Chen further declared that the Peoples Provincia! -Government had two or three monsters in custody, and they would be placed on exhibition as soon as the affair with Nanklar was settled.--Router.
Hongkong, Jan. 10.
"SAFETY FIRST" Designed for the benefit of pedestrians and motorists alike Hongkong is to have a "safety First" campaign, beginning on the 22nd. instant and continuing for two weeks. The plans al- ready made should ensure the success of the project. They include the flooding of the Colony with handbills and pos- tera, the carrying of "Safety First" emblems on motor-cars, the display of slogans by tram- cars and buses, newspaper pro- paganda, school talks, daily broadcasts, and special cinema features. In this way, it is hoped to reach all sections of the community. Of the need for such a campaign there can
Mr. Cosgrave painted all the be no two opinions. The steady which would-lose-a-percentage-of-Now for the clear differences pillar boxes green and gave that growth of motor traffic, the their value every week, unless a upon facts. Mr. Thomas colour also the honours of the narrow and congested charac-keep cach note up to its face-value, tion, an honourable
stamp was attached which would the 1921 Treaty a free associa penny stamp, degrading red to
the halfpenny. attempt to ter of many of our streets, the lack of any real traffic sense TAX ON MONEY
end the long period of bitterness. between two countries; the years The annuitics are real. And by so many pedestrians, and
since are described as filled with the economic consequences of the friendliness and growing.co-opera-dispute thereupon are clearly un it away, the monster gazed at him derstood in Ireland. All the emo-pathetically out of its twelve brown As a fact the deal was as ras- tional rhetoric seems to come from oyes and, breaking down, wopt cally a one as over came out of a England on this question. What huddle of politicians, and the ten are annuities? Briefly the vari yoare, of its vigorous enforcementous Irish land wars, waged to able only to the Machado regime recovor lands forcibly alienated in Southern Ireland are compar "undo the conquest," that is, to
from the natives, ended in this familiar political subterfuge.
Individual landlords were often found indefensible by reason of (Continued o* Page 4.)
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tion.
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the reckless driving indulged In Woergel, each note contained in by some of our motorists A space divided into twelve sec- all these are factors contributions, each section marked with the name of a month, At the begin- ting to the accidents reported almost every day of the week.ning of each month a stamp had to Statistics show that for 1932, ensure the continuation in value of be bought from the municipality to the latest year for which the note. This stump cost one per figures are available, no fewer. cent. of the note's value, represent-in Cuba. than 1,134 traffic accidents ing an "unorthodox" tax of money By this cynical expedient the were reported to the police, an of 12 per cent. per annum. In wolf-beset Coalition Government average of over twenty per addition, when the "work-notes"
got rid of its greediest attackers: week, while over sixty people
were changed. back into national
a whole Tory Party bloc was pro- lost their lives in such mishaps. levied on the amount exchanged.
money a two per cent, tax These figures, if not startling Gesell argued that by a device of are at least impressive, the this kind money would be driven more so when he consider that, into circulation instead of being with ordinary care and pru hoarded, and would circulate with dence, many of these accidents much greater speed. might have been avoided. Ob. viously, it is in the common in- | SPENDING MONEY terest that efforts should be
The Woergel expériment seeme made to bring down the toll of
to have confirmed this. This traffic casualties. Not all the Labour Notes passed from hand to fault, of course, lies with the hand with such rapidity that the motorist; in many cases, the Grat sauc of 1,800 schillings re- pedestrian is equally to blame, turned to the municipal coffers in if, indeed, not more so. At the payment of taxes within a few same time, there can be no days and went out again to pay
point questioning the
public debts. Within three months, that many of our public car and cd 12,000 schillings, public works although the issue had not exceed lorry drivers take amazing to the value of over 100,000 risks to themselves and other schillings had been pald for with users of the roads by their reck- the Notes. The succoss of this lessness. The police wage a experiment with the Gesell theory dally war against these pests, will recall to mind the special but it is becoming apparent that articles published in the Telegraph only the severest penalties have about eight months ago when Mr. any effect on the evil. In this tackling the world industrial de- Cope advanced 靄 schemo for connexion, we cannot help feel-pression by the creation of.Spend- ing that the magistrates should, ing Money, notes whose value as at Home, have the power of would lapse after a period of time ordering the suspension of unless renewed. licences when dealing with seri-
ous
in
cases, instead of merely- making recommendations to the successful. We welcome, police authorities. In this way, particular, the invitation to the greater and prompter publicity public to: send in suggestions to would be given to suspen- the Divisional Superintendent slons, thus serving as of Police, Kowloon. All such warning
Mean-will be given the most careful while, it behoves residenta consideration; the sooner they to.co-operate in every way pos- are..sent in, tho better. Let sible with the police, in order
us all unite in a movement do- to make the coming campaign aigned for the common good.
to others.
GARS
oluments of office.
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"I'm through with just staying home alone all day.".
From no less an authoritive source than Mr. Edward Kolly, a well-known and highly respected local citizon, It is learnt that several monsters were een roaming the streets of Hongkong last night. In an interview Mr. Kelly states that he saw the first monster shortly after leaving the Hongkong Hotel. As far as he could remember, Mr. Kelly declared, the monster had hand. When Mr. Kelly tried to shoo six heads, and insisted on licking his
bitterly.
Bir. Kelly's subeoquent encounters with monsters were made while he was crossing the harbour en route to Kowloon. In the resultant con- Cusion, Mr. Kelly was badly injured and had to be led away to the hospital in a straight jacket.
Latest reports indicate that Mr. Kelly is medical advising favourably. His otate that he passed a fairly comfortable night, all bis. mensters have-disappeared, with the exception of a pink and vermillion armadillo, which was altting on the foot of his bed, tickling his toes. Our Own Correspondent.
Washington, Jan. 10.
The United States has made plans to secure the largest monster in the world and thus end, once and for alt, the financial blizzard that is sweep- ing the country...
"None of your pikinh prehistoric monsters for us, either," declared President Roosevelt, in announcing
his now polley. "When we got our monster it will be the most modern in the world."
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When the President's policy was made public this morning, Herrings. And Bardines crashed to a new low level on Wall Street. There was, howover, an upward trend in wines, and spirits.-United Deprosh.
London, Jan, 11, "Unfair discrimination
against British monstern must stop, otherwise we may be forced to take retaliatory action." declared the Prime Minister Mr. Ramsay MacDonald - yesterday. referring to reports that a certain Power is attempting to comior the monster market,
Mr. MacDonald added that any attempt to disparage the Loch Nosa monster would be construed by the British government as a reflection upon the qualities of Scotch whiskey.
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