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THE CAR
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MY 1934
SUCCESS of the YEAR STANDARD SALOON
£210
DE LUXE SALOON
£230
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THURSDAY, MAY 24; 1934.
NOTES OF THE DAY WHERE THE NEW The Very Idea!
THE SILVER `BILL
r
DEAL SUCCEEDS.
By REXFORD G. TUGWELL
SLAPPING · AND
SLOPPING -
By George
We slapped a fellow on the back yesterday and lost a friend..
From the respectable pieces of his conversation afterwards it-sp- cared that he had been to the beach sun-bathing,
It also appeared that we had given him as pain in the neck, back. and aldes: that we were a clumay brute, a senseless ape, and from henceforth as pleasant to erstwhile friend as a perforated maggot to a gorgonzola.
President Roosevelt's now Silver BII follows the predictions almost to the letter. He goes all the way with the silver bloc, except lo the point of committing himself to
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE. action. Further progress fa en-] tirely contingent upon the develou TT 18 my belief that the core of] The Agricultural Adjustment ment of a variety of factors, in- the American Tradition is to Administration has been spoken of cluding negotiations for inter- be found in a kind of dollance to as one of the regimenting agencies. national co-operation and what the fitte We will not do what we do I should like for the moment to Bot want to do and coercion cannot examine this idea. The best com- Administration may regard make un. We can
be fooled, but ment on it is furnished, I think, by being in the public interest. not for long. We have a precious pointing out that it does no more Presidential intentions when the inventiveness which gets us out than make ita machinery available
We have Bila passed by Congress, as it of holes.
a saving ir-
irta co-operators. Its life blood is will be, are deliberately concealed, basic traits determine the struction Control Associations. reverence of authority.
Produc- These furnished by the County
After friend had taken off shirt from which the inference may
we stripped off several layers of ture of our Inwa and of
It is a democratie our
process revised reasonably be drawn that, for the Government. No one, with the to meet the necessities of a work hanging akin and told him to keep present, he intends to do nothing. slightest sense of history, would economic system. It is nut faisacza shirt on. Anyway, we argued, why go to the beach to sunbathe if Mr. Roosevelt's skill in the art of try to fit such a people into a faire, but neither is it anything it makes you into a cantankerous
to else for which try
doctrinal name politica would undoubtedly have regimented scheme, would persuaded him to seek the applauso think for them instead of getting appropriate. Curiously enough this imitation of a nude sausage?
stubborn unwillingness of such of the Inflationists had he had them to think for themselves, nything more tangible than
1
It seems to me ironic that men-practical devices on these to ac-
On which note we parted.
ANNODE TO A BOW
together with the new speelal No-Draught Reneralised statement of policy to Bures which are taken to assure conmodate themselves to literary with ajwiugies to Wull Whitman)
sgelem of ventilation. From Imper to bumper It is every Inch a Vauxhall, with its stylish modern lines backed by thirty years experience of building bich-grade cars.
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L
WEAKENED POSITION
people.
the democratic process throughout terms Infuriates many our industry and our agriculture "Why don't you come out, they should be said to be regimentation. say, "and admit that this is Social- There is a distinction to be madejism oc
I
In
A cow
Like the listless love limerick of
Stood grazing.
She was not chewing the cud (nor as she very well might have boen was she doing anything else).
She was graziu.. The cow!
between people and things, which or somethinism or Communism-lovely nature
I sympathize with is overlooked in this. A part of this impulso because it is a highly Nevertheless, the silver situation the conspicuous victory over academic one, and, as you know, will repay close observation. The nature on this guntinent has been
a professor. But I can't President has already weakened the power which has been exhibit agree that national policies ought his position by temporising with ed in subduing natural materials to be shaped with reference to any the silver blus. The best that can and forces to n will for well-being. dogma just so that detractors can Making her mournful melancho- be said for the compromise is that It is my conception of the New conveniently attach a label to them ly moan mingle mellowly among it may have been the only way to Dent that it shall insure the sub-and find a library full of ready-the mistletoc, (much to the un-
and restore to made criticisms. avoid mandatory remonetisationjugation of things,
mitigated mirth of the merry A flat rejection of the silver men the freedoms they have earn- any process of social experi-mothblown Minnesota magnoline), deniands would have been far ed, together with all the advant-mentation a good deal depends on sho more pleasing to those who be-ages which ought to accrue from who does the experimenting and Stood grazing. lieved the occasion to be one when our victories over nature. Those what it is done for. The objec It seemed that summer's aweet Mr. Roosevelt's courage would who are shouting "regimentation" tions to the process which have soothing simper of soul-stubbing have been a better weapon than now do not recognize the inevita- been made most vociferously up to sickness had gotten the cow by the his charm of personality. The bility of this process; they are now have come from industrialists horns, nonruess of the elections has, how those who have greatly benefited and financiers. This is, of course, ever, to be borne in mind. Silver from the subjection of man to because for the first time they have boosting pressure is not only things. The beneficiaries of pri- been made the subjects of it.
vate industrial regimentation con- Hitherto they have been used to She had not heard the herds- supported by the coterie of Siireet prevall, of course, for it is not experimenting with the rest of us man's hearty horn hovering hollow.
It has behind it the In common with people in Senators;
nature of Americans to without other penalties than finan-ly hover the hill, many lands and climes owing whole power of the Inflationary in the
She was still dammed well allegiance to the same Crown, sentiment in the United States. permit it. But it offers an excel- cial ones. Some of the expert-
particularly strong throughout the fent illustration of the confusionments turned out well, some badly. grazing. Hongkong to-day joins in re-farming industry and the debtor of thought into which we fall in it was, and still is, important that membering the unity and loyalty classes.
trying to sort out those purposes such experimentation should take
Love WIH Find A Way which bind the component parts
and plans which we shall ultimate- place.
We see by the papers that. ly want from those which we shall But It is equally important that Tiddles, a Kowloon Tong ent, walk- altimately reject.
when the holding company beed a hundred miles in 270 days, comes a factor of importance, when What do you think he did that for?
Sally the Cat: prices are manipulated by a mono- Social change in America cannot paly, or when new machines or know?
How should I that the Silver Bill will come go on any faster than the people processes displace workers, public Wo: You are more familiar through both branches of Congress who are affected want it to go on. hodies should also make their with the habits of Tom cats than in precisely the form an drafted by That is one of the assurances accommodations to these new we are. Do you think it was 'a the Treasury Department. Amend- against any danger that it may go devices in our social life. What is love affair? ments to move the Administration too fast in this country. Thuse needed is to try new devices. from
THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1934.
EMPIRE DAY
of the Empire together. Tang-
It would not be safe to suppose|
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For
As
If
ter than it desires to go may who are favoured under present the publle side, to adopt them if Sally Possibly.
manoeuvre.
programme
veto
or
do not lack skill
of
in
•
We: But a hundred miles seems
long way to keep an appointment,.. especially if you have to walk.
Sally, romantically: Love knows neither time nor distance.
We: What is the longest dis- iance any of your boy friends have walked ?
ible evidence of the Colony's CONCRESS ACTIVITY concern and interest in a problem affecting every part of the Empire has been provided by the effort made on behalf of the cancer campaign, a cause worthy of all possible support. On Empire Day, it is well that we remember that our inheritance 1
compet the President to wonder arrangements have the ready a they succeed or reject them if they a is a living thing-not merely a ve desirability of exercis-remedy against excessive speed. fail. But I do not see how there
the ayer tradition, a finished structure, in his right of
it. for the present, must be can be objection to a method which] tale that has been told. As the knuckling
under. The baltie remembered that we suffer from was forced on the Government by Prime Minister has said, "ours is neither aver, nor won until the years of blocking. Changes can the effects which were felt from an illogical structure, but logie proposed legislation reaches the come slowly if progress is not al- the same method used elsewhere. in Constitutien-making proves res
President for signature, The together stopped. But when it is
stopped, an accumulation of desir the bankruptcy of statesmen silver bloc
Sally: They have walked from Meanwhile, London able policles is ready to be let The two essential features, then, the ends of the earth over the face the dry by spital, not by for comments concerning fears of up- use and much more rapid changes of the Rooseveltian method are the of the world. the diverse races and nationali- setting trade with the Orient if the result. The resistance mechan- modernized democratic processes We: Swimming the seven seas Lies who owe with us a common price of silver rises too abruptly isms are almost tou perfect. which it fosters and the experi- and limping across the five contin- allegiance are happy because merely reveal old prejudices, people in the real source of this and its handling of
If
The sovereignty of the American mental nature of its approach to cats? that allegiance is no yoke." We President Roosevelt has any idea Administration's power, there in ought to be obvious that a certain suffering hunger and thirst, climb-
problems. It are not living in placid times, and of attempting a sky-rocket boost. at a man among you who does atmosphere is important to these ing snow-capped racuntains, toll- Sally: Indifferent to danger, although the kind of grip which or even if he has mapped out any
not recognize this, though there processes-one which is not so un-ing through burning descris. at all to meet cir- keeps the Empire together maycunstances as they arise, he has are some who appear to resent It.friendly as to confuse all the
We: Ranancking the dustbina change, it would be a calamity doubtless been guided by the study for one, do not wish to supplant issues and to misrepresent all the of east and west, eadging milk lose that of the China situation undertaken this sovereignty with another kind results. Freedom of speech means from the doorsteps of Babylon and grip altogether,
freedom for every opinion 80 that by Professor Rogers, from whom whose theory is that for some
and the Peak. Cats must be great the great
Commonwealth he has been receiving constant Krops and interests there should every group, whether or not there enthusiasts. should fall away into a group of reports.
be immunity from politiea! control. is consent or States foreign to each other. It
That way lies economic oligarchy.
or the It involves the can be said without the least boasting that the British Commonwealth has gone further and with greater success than any other alliance of Self-govern ing States in securing freedom for nationality within a union. while avoiding the danger of satellite States grouped round a powerful and controlling centre This last form is a danger to peace and individuality at the same time. The British Com- monwealth is, on the other hand, not only a security to internal peace, but a powerful world in- fluence for universal concord. Its present structure is designed the purchasing power of the dollar .would be a great hoon in the to promote liberty and fellow-present period of acute depression ship-the two great needs of the and economic and social distress. world to-day. It is, indeed, not
were We to
too much to say that only by a
!
CHINA'S INTEREST
The democracement. creation of
auto-experimental
method never cratic institutions which are alien threaten the rent freedom of the to the American spirit. We were press. That would be a contradic-) drifting toward them in the post-tion in terms, for neither
can
It has already been shown fairly war years. Our present return to succeed without the fullest and convincingly that China is not the Democracy constitutes, as I be freest discussion of every proposal. debtor nation she is generally believe, their final repudiation inThere is no other way in which
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lleved to be. Her exports, visible this nation. balance her imports and to leave a and invisible, are claimed to margin in her favour One aspect of the argument of those who have China's financial position so much at heart, ostensibly, thus dis- Shanghai's appears completely. interests may not be those China as 4
whole. In Hongkong, is
ndeniable that surely increase in the value of silver and
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general extension of the ideas TAXPAYERS AROUSED
upon which the Empire is main-
tained will the world find solu-
of
an
Mob violence is a thing no-one tious for its present troubles both can reasonably condone, of course, in political and economic policy. Yet the recent incident at Potts- Over against the nationalist in-ville, in Pennsylvania, where more dividualism and separatism or than a thousand rate taxpayers the end of the eighteenth and
stormed the City Hall, dragged much of the nineteenth century force, and demanded explanations two county commissioners out by polities can be placed the nation of recent county tax increases, is at co-operation and fellowship a thing which one could deplore reflected by the Empire in the altogether too much. The tax- twentieth. So we can to-day payer is ordinarily a pretty docile regard the British Common- sort of specimen. Ho paya and wealth of Nations, not merely as pays and pays. Government and
creation of the past, but a
municipal officials squander his structure also of the future. It money for him and raise his still has a great destiny to full and seldom grumbles. That very taxes, and he goes on paying In the preservation of the basic docility, when one gets right down principles on which it has been to root cause, is one reason he built. In a changing world, the continues to be misused. If of British Empire stands firm and ficials everywhere knew that tax- undivided, conscious of the great blood in their eyes, demanding ext payers would visit the office with ness of its past and determined planations, when the rates went to contribute its maximum of up, we might have a little more forts to world concord and care and economy in the sponding, prosperity.
of public funda,
rates
"Mama is going to queer everything. Keeps telling him a man
shouldn't marry a woman with an exponoivo family,"
Sally: I beg your pardon? We: You know what I mean. great lovers?
Sally: You mean they must bo
We: Yes. Or,
Frent liars.
London, May 2. England and Australia if Jar- Will there be a war between
dine (beg his pardon, Mr. Jar- dine) captains the English cricket team in the Testa?
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*
Why did I apologise and write "Mr. Jardine"?
Because, as Mr. Jardine la not a paid professional cricketer, he is therefore a gentleman and en- titled to the prefix "Mr."
Paid professionals are always referred to s plain Smith or Brown Ike convicted eriminals and authors.
Anyway, is it war or pence? In the clubs and pubs and, at the street corners this question was being freely discussed last week by mon in evening clothes and fashionably dressed women.
As soon Se was reported that the Australians were really there' at last thousands of young mch rushed to the recruiting offices, and hundreds of Irre- sponsible youths marched round the West End of London shou- ting: "a Canberra, a Canber-ra" and smashing bottles of Austra lian wine.
Hystorical women woro dis-
tributing white feathers In Piccadilly.
斷
Although a national newspa- por (which takes everything sor- lously) has stated that "the English public intends to give the Australiana the kindest of walcomes," understand that the Home Fleet ware accrotly mobi Ilsed, and that machine gun nests, by sandbags, had been hurryllt at Southampton Docks where the invading Team will arrive. Our Own Corres..
pondent.