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NOTES OF THE DAY FASCINATION OF The Very Idea!
SHIPPING PROBLEMS
Proof of a bitter international struggle, challenging "Britannia rules the waves" in the ocean carrying trade is given in a Longue study on the morchant shipping crisis. Great Britain's share of the world's steam
FIGURES
By ROBERT LYND
BRING 'EM : BACK ANYHOW
By George
HAVING a good appetite and HE Prince of Wales, sponking; thusfastic statistician from ble and being especially motor tonnage has now been re- THE duced to 28.6 per cent, while in the other day at the conten- childhood up. Ho is not content, fond of meat, our reputation
wore dull
ages
la
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entary meeting of the Royal Statis- for example, to look at the stair WOO over 56 per cent. Each maritime power, big and
and tical Society, observed that in the case in his house as a mere as a naturalist has gone be- small, is racing to build larger Victorian era most people thought apoctacle. The first thing he fore us and we were not sur- and better ships dospite the fact all statistics dull and some statis- does, when he has learned to prised therefore when Jones that the world's tonnage is far in ticiana impious.
count, is to count the stairs. It excess of world traffic require- I doubt, however, whether the not in their design, that he finds that he had a new and the number of the stairs, rang us up yesterday to say manta. This curious uneconomic
carilor objection of aftuation is explained by League statistics was so much that they knew a child whose first action, the Colony water which he was to their deepest aesthetic appeal. authentic fish captured in. experts as partly because 370
ab that they were when he visited a house, was to many cases the Merchant Marine dangerous. It is said that even count the number of the windows, anxious to show us. provides the Navy with extremely to-day in remote parts of India the If you had taken him to York valuable and frequently
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WEDNESDAY MAY, 16, 1934,
THE EXPLOSION DISASTER
親
English taxpayer hates the look of whem, I confess, I am one are In the same way the prosperous Those who dislike arithmetic- of the figures relating to his in-apt to undervalue the aesthetic come as he writes them down on quality of numbers. When we
we shouted and rushed for a bus
"Fins, you ass, not propellers"
When we arrived there the fish
the place y turned over to show us his
summer frock.
Our first impression was that it North Ses but Jones took our sug-..
bloater escaped from the gestion so much to heart that we' eventually withdrew it.
was
more than 20 years old; formation knows that this is only a part of many charming phrases would by a group of admiring coolles and of an international shipping cartel a Government plot to appropriate lase half their charm with the dis- the important personality of Jones, with
power to apportion sailings large share of his fl-or well-
number-the it was still putting up a feeble and control building; temporary gotten gains. He would, if rich "Seven Champlons of Christen pretence of being alive.
appearance of laying up of a number of vessels enough, love the look of those dom," the "Seven Stars, the including tramp steamers; forma: figures anywhere else say, in "Seven Sisters," the "Seven Seas," Under Jonce Instructions one of tion of a new international ship would move him to the depths like "Seven Dials"-n name ininitely the armpit and the New Fish slow- his private diary. There they the "Seveu Sleepers," and even the boys tickled it gently under ping association to act In сод- junction
a beautiful poem. He hates the more attractive than with the League of Nations, Nothing short of inter- statistician, or official collector of named. national action, comprising all facts, not as a bore, but as a Noscy Take the prithmetic out of the principal countries concerned Parker.
"Four-and-twenty blackbirda bak in merchant shipping and ship-
Nobody, I am sure, over thought ed in a pic," or out of "Fifteen building seems likely to remedy a census boring; but millions of men on the dead man's chest," or the altuation brought about by the people in the past have thought "Lars Persona of Clusium, by the existence of superfluous to usually was.
there was a catch in it, as there nine gods he swore," or "Then Meanwhile, part of Great Britain's
Rulers did not
come kiss me, sweet and twenty," Robinson, who came up then maritime traffic, between British usually number their people for and all that remains is beauty in opined that it
Was a garoupa Empire ports, is now in the hands fun; they wanted to find out how ruins..
which had swallowed a butterfly. of foreign vessels, thus to some
many Gghting-men they could get This leads me to believe that He added that it was dying. extent endangering communica.
or how much money. Hepce the the origin of statistice la to bd tions with her Empire in the event ordinary man had an uneasy feel- raund in poetry rather than in interest in the unidentified visitor-
By this time we wore gaining ing that, if he were numbered to science. The very appearance day, his number would be up to and sound of numbers quicken and decided to acquire it If we
the imagination. That is why we could keep it alive. are not content to say, "the "Gospels,"
Jones thought that we ought to is," "the Commandments,"
keep it in ginger ale but Robinson In England the objection to "the Apostles," but prefer to say, was of the opinion that it would numbering the people was re- "the Four Gospels, the Ten show more
life in a tumble
of war.
MORE SHIPS FOR LESS TRADE
The race for vessels of
the
ships
morrow.
UTILITY OF FIGURES.
оде
whisky.
of
We dispatched a boy for some grubs and he returned peeling a shrimp which cost us 15 cents before we could offer it to the
At this point Robinson wanted
18 whether this
Hongkong has been moved, as seldom before, by Monday's
con- terrible calamity, which resulted stantly increasing dimensiona in a heavy toll of life, untold which was discontinued on the Inforced by the belief that it was Commandments, the "Twelve suffering, and considerable des- outbreak of war has, in the last forbidden in the last chapter of Apostles." This sorves no utili truction of property. A point few years, been revived and, in the Second Book of Samuel. tarlan end after childhood, but it which immediately rises into spite of the depression, with re- When a proposal to take a census gives us pleasure. prominence is the close proximi-newed Intesity: Mercantile was brought before the House of
USE OF FIGURES. by of dwelling-houses to the gas-tonnuge since the world war has Commons in the middle of the works,
risen from 45,500,000 cons to eighteenth century, a member of matter which will 68,600,000 tona, and increased by Parliament, remembering the Old tion of figures in the nursery, we
Having come under the fascina-fish.. doubtless figure in the proceed-six millions between 1923 and Testament, declared that hla con-romain slaves to it all through our to christen the thing Gladys and ings of the official inquiry into 1932. Countries such as "Poland stituents believed that, if a consus lives. That is why everybody dispute arose the disaster. The question of never before classed among mari-were taken, it would be followed enjoyed the Tarift Reform con- nomenclature would suit Its sex. responsibility for the explosion time powers, are now placing by, a terrible epidemic or some troversy so much. It gave
the is of even greater importance, steam and motor ships on
the other national disaster ax controversialists on both sides
Meanwhile Gladys had allowed and it is to be presumed that principal sea routes and generally punishment.
bulld
unprecedented opportunities to her under jaw. to sag sufficiently this also will be gone into very There appears to be a surplus of astonishment that "there was any heads statistics about steel and the taste of the sea denizen scored ́
themselves.
Another member expressed his hurl statistics at each other's for the shrimp to be poloed in but fully by the Coroner and jury. considerably over 50 per cent. of set of men, or indeed any intin and coal and every kind of to be the last straw. Already a special jury has been ocean going world tonnage at the dividual of the human species, so import and export imaginable. empanelled, and its members, same time as there has been a presumptuous or abandoned as to When one
She rolled her eyes, gave a little together with the Coroner, have total failing off of well over 25 make the proposal," and declared feels like a boxer hitting his kick with her loft rear foot and
quotea figures visited the scene wise pre-million tons in the volume of rhetorically that it was "aub- opponent a terrific blow on the changed down into bottom gear, liminary step which should trade handled by merchant ship- veraive of the last remains of law. There is no such joy of faighing up by standing on her prove of the greatest value in ping throughout the world,
English liberty." The growth of battle as in a battle of statistics, nock at the bottom of the tank. getting down to the precise
statistics has undoubtedly been Though statistics originated in
This was a moment calling for origin of the disaster. Of more REPRISALS?
accompanied by the decline of our love of pleasure, however, this
kaste. immediate concern, however, is
liberty - over large areas of does not mean that they cannot be the matter of securing prompt
The seriousness of the situation modern Europe, but I doubt if the put to workaday uses. But, even
We immediately began negotia- relief for the needy. This will from Britain's point of view in blame for this can be laid entirely in this case, they must appeal not tions for the purchase of Gladys not be an easy task, as the trar, Lobvious without a further recita- at the door of statist
only to the intellect, but to the from her captor. Much as we dis Apart from the It must not, how-
this and imagination. For purpose liked beating down the price of a ing of many who have been dis-tion of facts,
be supposed that any vital religious objection to statistien, is the modern propagandist pub-fish which had not yet been classi- possessed of house and home is shortcoming in England has con- there any evidence that the lishes his statistics in the form fled by scientists wo found that necessarily attended with diffi-tributed in any important fashion them? I do not think there is. will stir the imagination of many at 43. We fought her price down natural human being dislikes of attractive little drawings that our naturallat inclinations wavered culty. Some have gone to re- to the setback in her shipping I am sure that most of the people people who would look on a full to one dollar but found that wo latives, and others are being predominance. In the face cared for temporarily at various fiercest competition, Britain has who quote the. Baying that "there page of statistics in a blue-book still had to purchase the tank in
Are three kinds of les--lies, with a gaze of blank dismay. institutions, Steps are being built her ships without any assist-
which Gladys was drawing her last This is good work. It is a watery breaths. triken, however, to gain contact for them the smarter, and it is people who have been defeated to recognition of the fact that the
anco from State. The luan damned lies, and statistics" with an who stand in need of merely a lean, is the first depar- an argument by somebody who future of the world largely de- assistance, and there can be turo from this principle since pre could quote figure
pends on a creatively imaginative little doubt that these will war days. All other countries,
is an en-use of figures. eventually be successful. It notably the United States, France will be readily realised that the and Italy have literally poured necessity for help is great, alike money into shipping subsidies, from the fact that the greater and Germany and Japan have not proportion of the victims are of it If the British Government, to lagged far behind. It would be a the poorer class Chinese and pity also because the calamity came
protect a vital industry-vital be- upon them with such suddenness supplies from abroad, were com- cause of our dependence on food that it was impossible for them pelfed also to abandon the' tradi to save any of their belongings. tion of honest competition.
Eye-witnesses of the disaster, ns
well as others who were carly on
ever,
the scene, testify to the state of, UPTON RESULT.
distress of those whose homes
of the
There is nothing particularly were destroyed impressions significant about the Upton bye- were left which will not easily election resuit. The
Labour
jary refuge with relatives will mons in the House of Com-
seat,
be banished from memory. It candidate was a loent man, popu- is obvious, alsó, that even those lar in the neighbourhood, and had who may have found a tempor- twice before represented the con- need help, since it is more than
The Conservatives hardly likely that their kith and kin are despite their 5,000 odd majority
expected to retnin tho
in aone too well blessed with this 1931. It cannot, however, bo con- world's goods. These are some cealed that they put up a pour of the reasons which have in-ight. Not a single feature of the duced us to comply with the re-poll furnishes a crumb of comfort. quest to open a fund for the reto rally oven half the number who Even a Prospority Budget falled of of the sufferors. Already, the response has been most en-bootbs on this occasion.
voted Conservative in 1931 to the couraging, in which connection another warning of over-much Is it the kindly thought of the complacency? ofcials of the Rotary Club in
making an immediate appeal on
behalf of the Fund, with the will be in good hands. Above admirable result that over $260 all, contributors mny rest
was collected at yesterday's assured that the necessity of tima, is greatly appreciated. prompt assistance to the needy Thanks to the good offices of the is the basic idea on which the St. John Ambulanco Brigade, money will bo utilised. He who the administration of the Fund gives quickly gives, twice.
The truth is, man
are
"Ho's one of the new member wo had to lot in to help balance
the budget.
The boy solved his problem by tipping Gladys into one of the company's buckets but we were loft with the choice of carrying a bucket. back to the office or putting the fish into our pocket.
Finally we stuffed Gladys head first into a glass jar of water, dropped the peeled shrimp near her hend and bont her tafl under suf- ficiently to allow a lid to go on tho top.
In the bus we were the object of many curlaus glances: With. what must have been her last kick, Gladys sent a trickle of water down the front of our pants.
Across the ferry sho remained mouth open and dead to the world. It was evident that she was go- ing to pass out on our hands.
The question occurred to us, would hor colours change when sho returned to the hands of her Maker?
We feverishly dotted down the blue and cobalt colours wo could detect and shoved the dying amphibian under the coat.
Summoning a ricksha we noticed that the only sign of life in the far displayed by the shrimp which. after being boiled, peeled, and half caten was restoring its circulation by artificial respiration against⠀ the side of the jar.
Gladys was quita dead. At tho offico door wo took out hor recum- bent frame and cast it on the streot.
Inside we proudly displayed our captivo under the labol "Bring 'em back alive.
It is a large, limbless, skinless.“ shrimp, sprouting butterfly wings.
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