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JANUARY 18, 1934
NOTES OF THE DAY OUR PETER PAN The Very Idea!
THE DOLLAR
London's only real dissatisfac- tion with President Roosevelt's latest monetary pronouncement is its failure immediately to set a now valúa on the dollar and to open the door for early, negotin- tions for all-round stabilisation. A closer reading of the Message and the subsequent statements by Mr. Morgenthau, however, pro- }vido plenty of room for encourage- ment. The `President's delay neems to be occasioned by como loubts as to the reception likely to be given to his proposals by Con- |greas, and action may be expected
LANGUAGE
Bu "SENTINEL"
concealed,"
ABORIGINALITIES
By Eddie Kelly, Dushranger
The sunburnt-stockman stood In diamal
Ke apostrophised bla This
cuddy'
moko's no-- good
It doesn't earn its
food.
my mind the most interes "the art of concealing that some ting work published in the last thing is
which was six months is the Supplement to seldom used before 1917, is unques- the great Oxford Dictionary com- tionably derived from the FrenchHIS is known as the Great
Australian adjective. monly known as "Murray's" trom | slang camoufler, to disgulec, Dug- the name of its most famous editor-out, as applied to retired officers You see, a team of Aus- in-chief. When the final instal-returning to service was used as tralian Rugby players ar ment of that tremendous treatise early as the Bouth African. War,
appeared most people thought the but not as a synonym for the hid rived in the Colony this English language had been disposed Ing-places below the parapet at morning, and we've got to Boop alter the necessary legisla. of once and for all. No such book first called cupboards or funkholes. give 'em some sort of a wel- hind ever more fulfiled Anatole Tank is itself a claver bit of camou̟-
"beloney dollar" in the United States and ho is not likely to lose the first opportunity of consolidat. ing his position.
NO ALTERNATIVE
Critics of the Administration
order."
*
Beer is one of the most important products made in
Out in the back-blocks
tion has been steered through, provided other factors are favour-France's definition of a dictionary flage, for no enemy hearing it could come. able. President Roosevolt
na "the universe in alphabotical possibly guess the nature of the has
We met them this morning won out in the tremendous con- finish, covers a
It took forty-four years to mechanism meant...
period of twelve
when they arrived. Fine, troversy which has raged about centuries, and contains over 400,- Swing the lead, to malinger, is strapping lads, they were tho "honest dollar" and the 000 words with nearly 2,000,000 the old nautical term employed in Everyone of them stood over
illustrativo quotations.
a figurative sense. Dodge the Column, to evade a dangerous job, six feet, and also stood us It was the little word belonging must have originated during the some Australian beer. to the machinery of the language which took up most time. Sir Peninsular War. Serounge, which James Murray once told Professor has puzzled the commentators, is Weekley that his best assistant nada. North Country dialect word, as Australia. spent six months on the word that! is made clear by the late Joseph But to the amateur in word-collec- Wright's monumental dictionary. have recently learned at lenatting, quite a popular sport now-Grouec, given print by Kipling, they have huge kangaroo ndays, it was the word with a story as early as 1892, may possibly be farms, where they gather in it that most appealed. If some derived from the old French Groth the hops. egends had to be eliminated, a new cher, though a gulf of centuries atory would sometimes come in, intervenes, It may be as old as which had been missed by the early Agincourt, when the English figh-feel for the smell of the old etymologists. Thus Skeat derives ding man's privilege of grumbling, the slang word to slate, from the specially if things are going really town brewery, where the Anglo-Saxon slætan, to cause rend. But it is really an Irish Many of the best-known Army into beer. But why, you already established. kangaroo hops are brewed slang words are derived from Hin- Justani or Arabic, and thinks to ask, brewed over this? Mr. Kipling, the Old Army's Re- It must be six years now since membrancer, they will never be we galloped down the main quite forgotton. But such words street of Sydney town on our as Pozzy, jam, which was already station brumbie. and-apple was issued as part of a current in 1884, before even plum- ration, are of uncertain origin, and still puzzle the etymologists.
four Important - things. In the first place, they have no alterna- tive plan on which half a dozen schools of sound-money advocates can unite. The plan which has drawn most attention, that offered by Mr. James P. Warburg in an- swer to Senator Borah's challenge. is not only extremely similar to the Administration's policy, but frankly declarea against a return to the gold standard as we have known it. It is clear also that the
Hongkong Telegraph. President is not only a
THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1934.
ness
to wall.
vulgarism of Charles Lover's era. which originated from the practice an opponent by of "bonneting" Jamming his slate (or tile, or in Americanesc lid) over his eyes.
*
уда
Ah! How homesick we
odour of the wattle-tree and the We can still smell the sweet yarra as we cast our mind back to those care free days.
mother, sitting below her favourite We can picture our dear old
wattle tree. Wattle she be think ing of us now?
Day and night they tolled on the old farm in Central Queensland, to make four prickly pears grow where only one pair had grown before.
Pioneers, our old folk were.
Bound- money man himself, but that his much-criticised adviser, Professor ment with Its thousands of new
The appearance of the Suppple Warren, is a gold man. And it words and new meanings must have may be noted the Administration has twice made tentative advances imagined that the Oxford Dic been a great surprise to those who to Great Britain for THE MONEY-LENDING stabilisation. The fact that Lon-nem, so to speak, But a living Words by Eric Partridge, to currency tionary had "settled hotl's busi- "Slang" and "Words, Words, EVIL
don has held back because it hna language must grow with the which I am indebted for much of been uneasy about American policy culture of which it is the sensitive the preceding information, deal at Steps being taken in Singa- greatly lessen the amount of wind sciences since the successive Instal-jects of French war slang, old and for control of the dollar does not skin, and the progress of the length with the entertaining sub- porc, aiming at the liquidation of this information takes out of the ments of "Murray's" were publish now. The Poilu (Balzac used the widespread money loan indebted-sails of Mr. Roosevelt's critica, ed, would alone have involved the term) was a prolific inventor of and the restriction of For the whole story tends to show introduction of a great number of curious synonyms. Thus bread, further borrowings, might with to solve the difficult riddle of for the most part formed of Greek war-years, has ne many alcknames that he has been seriously striving neologisms. New scientific terms, the veritable staff of life in the advantage be duplicated in Hong-when to stabilise,
But perhaps you want to know elements, from the bulk of these as the nose had in the pugilistic something about this Australia. kong. The Government and
additions to what is actually the slang of Egan's Tom and Jerry." Australia is just off the coast aeveral commercial firms are SOUND MONEY,
nearest to a universal language. There were as many phrases for of Tasmania and can best be No other language, neither German fasting, the most elaborate being found on an atlas by looking slight- calling upon employees to dis-
nor French nor Spanish, is anything becqueter des clopes (mulichingly towards the left of New close the extent of their in-
like as quick as English to provide cigarette-ends) and secaler des Zealand. Moreover It has not
bar for the new necessities of modern briques, sauce cailloux (dining off debtedness and prohibiting, on necessary to follow events very civilisation. Now and again a new bricks, with pebble sauce). Terms the last state is a pretty terrible It is divided into six States, and pain of dismissal, the contracting closely to have diacovered that Inneed has been strangely anticipated, derived from English, some of them ono to be in, as by then you of further obligations of this the present political situation In Thus air-sickness was coined by pre-War adaptations, are bizness, generally have to be carried home. the United States the President Horace Walpole in 1784 in refer-work: pouidper, to gallop, from character. Here in Hong: stands as the surest bulwark ence to Montgolfier's novel inven- "pull up" uppercut, brandy, a box-tralia, Wetralia, Hictoria, Tap- Some of the States are Souse- kong there must be many against wild inflation. Only his tion of the balloon. But, with ing metaphor for knock-out stuff: mania and so on. thousands of clerks and office strategy in obtaining power over such scant exceptions, the daily afnaf, not too satisfactory, from
Congress Inat necessities must be met to-day. assistants, Portuguese and Chin- currency from
"half and half"; olrede, excellent, lia are wheat, wool, Resch's beer, The chief exports from Austra- Spring halted the silver and green- ese, to say nothing of innumer-back movements then rampant.
from "all right"; and ridere, smart, Jack Crawford and Don Bradman. able artisans, who are in the grip Captious criticism is a boomerang new words have also been pouring to the English cavalryman. Stra- bowlers and beer. Body
The supplement shows us how from "rider" really a compliment The chief imports are body line of money-lenders and who have against really sound money. Un-in-from-the-weedy wilderness-offer, to ill-treat, was taken from the bowlern
line аге til recently the inflationist fires English and American slang, from English soldier's talk, not directly Southern cross, which is the what make the not the slightest hope of being have been fed by an unreasoning in-countless trade jargons, from the from the German. extricated from their plight un-sistance upon continued less there is intervention on their which offers no compromise and no
deflation terminologies of sport (even body-
national emblem. behalf. In the majority
line bowling is there!) and, only
Swimming and surfing are great of hope to those who see some maa-occasionally, from our noble dia-war slang is its richness in droll are not careful on the beach you The peculiar feature of German pastimes in Australia, but if you instances, the debtors fear to sure of reflation as necessary and lucts. But let us consider the compound torms for the various will get sunburnt and then you disclose their position to their just. Not only are those who words, new or renewed, which have ranks and branches. The colonel will surfer terribly. employers, with the result that suffer worst from deflation ex- come in from the Great War. was maggot-breeder, a pun on the the money-lenders, well aware of asperated by such unfairness:
double sense of Raupen, which
The educational system in Aus- this fact, utilise the
moderate opinion le alienated. Only a very few of the slang means either maggots or the thick the son of a politican can become cir-
tralia is very liberal one. · Even cumstance to their own advant-
words and phrases from this source fringes on epaulettes worn by offi- age by further tightening of the DEGREES OF INFLATION
have become part of everyday Eng- cors of high rank. The Germana member in a touring Universities lish. And of those which have equivalent of our "brass hat" was Rugby team, screw. This is why we hear of
been accepted, only one or two brandy-officer. There are nearly Sydney is the capital of New so many cases in which borrow- ers are compelled to sign for uncontrolled inflation would hurt There is value in showing how
were actually produced during the forty nick-names for a chaplain, South Wales and is surrounded by war-years. Kamerad, the German most of them worse than contemp a place called Sydney Harbour. double the amount they actually the wage earner and the widow
cry for mercy, camouflage, wind up, tuous. Where our men talked of Sydney harbour was placed there receive, added to which they dependent on small investments, and at seem to be the chief mile-pio or mud-cater. The Jager build a bridge across it.
over the top, dug-out, eye-wash, a foot-slogger, the German said so that the Sydney people could have to bear unconscionably high But it is entirely wrong to imply specific inventions of 1914-1918. wna rates of interest. In this way a that the United States already has But camouflage, officially defined as
a tree-frog, the Humar & Of course, you've heard about man who signs, say, for $400 but experienced any dangerous or un-
the Sydney Harbour Bridge? receives only half that amount just degree of inflation. The may, in course of time, find him-1932 dollar was worth $1.00 to self in arrears of interest to the $1.70 as compared with the dollar extent of $100. Then, as like as the terms of what they would buy, of 1920, both being measured in not, along will come the money-To-day the dollar is still worth lender and demand that the about $1.60 in tho domeatle debtor sign a fresh note for market. And there is at least as $1,000, being double the amount much oppression and as much dis- of his supposed indebtedness. honesty in such a dollar as there And so the process goes on, with would be in one inflated to he snowball effect, the debtor gut-worth only 60 cents. It is true ting deeper and deeper in the that nearly every citizen is to-day mire all the time. Borrowers BO a creditor to some extent. It may placed have no hope of ever pay is not useful to point it out in a be useful to point that out, but it ing off the capital. Often they manner which assumes that credi- fear to seek justice in the Courts, tors do not still have much the since this would mean publicity better of the dollar's favouritiem and possibly jeopardise their unless they are to a greater extent jobs. The Singapore method of debtors.
dealing with the situation, invit-
ing open disclosure of the facts,
2
with no danger of loss of employ-FAIREST DOLLAR. ment, but at the same time pre-
venting further borrowing, Tho consideration which decided would appear to be the only President Roosevelt upon a sixty ratisfactory way of dealing with cont dollar was solely the "pur- the ovil. For this reason, it is chasing power of the dollar inter- if well worth emulating locally, nally. A sixty-cont dollar, Once accumulated arrears were should, would rapidly assume the commodity prices rise as they disposed of, by bankruptcy or some purchasing power as the composition with creditors, the 100-cent dollar of 1920. The future could be placed on a sound argument is that the roundest basis by the simple process of money is the fgirost money, that making employees realise that is the fairest money as between the contracting of fresh in creditor and debtor, enabling the debtedness would lose them their debtor to meet his commitments in jobs. Fear would then operato currency values afmilar to those to the employee's own advant-Only then does money heat per- oxlating when the dobta accrued. age, instead of, as at present, to form its sole function, facilitating his discomfort.
the oxchange of goods.
*
(Continued on Pago 4-)
"Janica le doing much better since you scolded her,”
It
CRASHI
*
ODE TO MACWHIRTER "MacWhirter will die before
morning,"
The doctor sald, leaving the
tont,
"Let the poor fellow have what
ho wishes,"
And the nursen knew well
what he meant.
They complied with his only
request,
Just to hear the sweet pibroch
again,
And the bagpipes kept playing
for houra
The same old sweet Highland
rofrain.
The doctor returned in the
morning,
Expecting to find old Mac.
dead,
Instead, to his great consterna-
tion,
There was Mac, sitting well up
in bed.
They declared they had given
him nothing,"
Naither medicine, liquor nor
.food,
Just the bagpipea kopt playing
for hours,
For they socmed to be doing
-him good."
The doctor was thoroughly puzzi-
ed,
"A remarkable Instance!" he
Bald
Than they turned to the rest of
the patients,
And found every one of them
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