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АТО
MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1934.
NOTES OF THE DAY THE GREAT
ESILVER IN AMERICA
General business conditions in the United States in the last threa months have not been so good as they were and further summer Binckness in anticipated, the horl- zon being far from clear. Even the devastating drought in the
DROUGHT
By F. W. THOMAS
Middle West has, not stimulated S the late Mark Antony said inj
AS
The Very Idea!
JEEJEEBHOY · GETS. HOME
By George:
"THE GOLDEN ́ CANDAREEN".
To-morrow, if the present dry UDDENLY the silence of wheat prices to the extent that one of his poignant election weather continues, she hopes to the night was dra- might reasonably have been ex-addresses: If you have tears pre-awim back in about ten minutes.
For this! pected. In these circumstances, pare to shed them now.
Mrs. Gurge, whose husband matically broken... hints are being dropped that tho thing quite different from the in nocuous time-gaining measure it was at first supposed to be, and that there is a direct connection seems highly probable, Mr. Mor-
Silver Act may prove to be dome./10 very sob-making and altogether driven a watercart, but is now out You will remember folks
merely did it to get her name in the paper. that that was Wednesday
The Mayor of Wipplesham, who accompanied the swimmer on the night and Jeejeebhoy and flute, sald, "It is such men as you, Madge have been kept in
land and no on and so on."
suspense ever since,
glummish. And while you are at of work, said sho It you may as well woep over the carrots, for they want rain badly.
How and it is to see the phlox, the catmint and the tender pink, with little tongues all
a drink.
genthau has not committed himself and simply dying fo2anging out Mrs. Garge, who have made Eng-
to carrying out the ratio policy of the silver nct within any specified time; he has, indeed, been pur- peacly ambiguous in all his refer- ences to the Troasury polley on silver; but he talks of stimulating general commodity prices by use
The hollyhocks and candytuft, the spinach and the brusecls sprout, are drooping in their little beds, all limp and lifeless through the drought.
So have we for that mätter but wo have decided that it is not fair to our readers to keep these tivo central figures of ro- mance and mystery separated in
our soul-stuffed serini uny longer. So here's to it folks!)
Madge drew herself up (you will
STRANCE PHENOMENON IN THE WEST. Last evening, shortly after As Mobbs, the gardener, said seven, at Little Dubbington In to-day, "The beetroot and the Devon, there fell a most torrentini of the silver lover and steady buy-columbine will soon begin to fade shower which lasted nearly half ing in many markets is rendfly away unless we get a drop of an hour. admitted. How far this policy lerine.
The rain came pouring from the But to be pursued is not clear.
"And look at them carnations,Į clouds, attracting large and curf- It is not unimportant that it has too, the larkapur and the cherry-ous crowds; and people ran from remember that she was cross- been embarked upon and the best pie; you'd hardly think, although house and cot, with jug and pail legged in our last instalment) guess la probably that the prelim- it's true, I've watered them three and gallipot, to gather up the and heaved a nigh which shook her inary results are being made the times to-dic."
glittering boon, with sponge and from stem to stern and burst her subject of a close study. The findings may be marked by inten- sification of buying or the calling of a halt. Time alone can show,
SIGNIFICANT
*
The rapidity with which the Silver Act has been followed up has surprised moat interested quarters though there is no reason why it should have done. The jubilation of the silver advocates
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The water-butt is empty now- but this is not the time to talk. I. think I'd better go and teach my little goldfish how to walk,
Extracts from the newspapers two months hence, if somothing doesn't soon happens
TRAITOR!
Under the recently-passed Act for the Conservation of Water Mr.
saucepan, cap and spoon.
.
And every little weed and flower shoe laces. grew five feet six in half an hour,
At last, Jeejeebhoy, was here! while children who had never seen a shower before said "What's it The shadow on the wall which mean? Can this be what is known had been behaving like a mud? And will there be an-silhouette of a camel doubled up other flood?" In something under with gout became Jeejeebhoy's ' half a minute the village pond had
water in it, and ducks who'd never (well-known profile. ¡ learnt to swim stood stiff with fear upon the brim.
Interviewed by our local repre-
It came nearer. It was real.
So was the Peak but it didn't
when the Silver Bill was drafted/ Theophilus Goodge was charged sentative, Mr. Abel Issfay, the come nearer. was most significant. Although at Tidsbury with secretly washing oldest inhabitant, who can still
WAB
authorisation of silver purchasen was permissive, a promise President that in radition to the acceptance of the principle that gold reserves should be eked out with silver nt the 76:25 ratio, he
himself behind the vars
Det-Set. Bingle said that having hid himself in prisoner's dustbin he saw Goodge with a large bowl of water, actually putting his face In it, and slopping it about ever his head. There liquid in the bowl to have watered
የዕ
eat without his glasses, said "Ay, that be rain all rght. Man and or I've lived in these parts for over two hundred years, and many the time I've seed it coming down like billy-o and old boots. nothing like what we used to have enough "Wunnerful stuff it is, toe, but
Jeefcebhoy braced himself up. He must make a good showing at this long looked for reunion. He must never let Madge have the slightest suspicion With a shriek of well-feigned
would at some time or other im nineteen ears of corn for three in the good old days. Why, when delight he leaped clean over the
banks
plement it. This of course was in line with the President's policy as MONTROSE—In Memory of Marian adumbrated at the World Con- ference last July. The Pittman the resolution, authorised by President, provided that central instead of maintaining alone against their notes and deposits, agree that 30 per cent of the metal cover shall be in gold and 20 per cent shall be optionally in gold or silver" That meant little or nothing, except as an invitation to the world to buy silver and stick it in their vaults as backing for money. But it failed of agreement. Now the United States is apparently creat- Ing a precedent, without waiting for any agreement, or even with out consulting other nations.
EXCESS RESERVES
Will the rest of the world follow suit? It is very doubtful.---Mod- ern nations have never shared the enthusiasm of the United States for silver. They uak why they should go to the expense of adding to what they now regard as a
days. (Senaation.)
dressing prisoner, said that at a throw the water away afterwards.
Mr. Gallop, the magistrale, ad- in it. All over, some of 'em. Andarma
I were a boy people used to wash verandah Into Madge's open time of national crisis such as this Yes, they did! And I'll fight any- who indulged in aur body, who says I'm a liar, in spite any man reptitious and unnecessary ablu-
of my three hundred years. tions why
a traitor to his country.
"But the finest lot of rain I ever Goodge, who offered no defence,
grent old time was sent to prison for three remember was a months, and the court ordered his ago; years and years and donkey's washing licence to be suspended years. My giddy aunt, but her did for two years. Prisoner was hoot ruin then surely. Forty days and forty nights of it without stop- ed as he left the dock.
ping: and even the ducks got drownded.
BOY'S HEROISM.
"And there was old gaffer Ilved up-along, felier named Nore;
At Poppleton Parish Hall instand he got scared, and built him. night Percival Potts, a local Boy self a great old boat, and took his Scout, was presented with a B-flat wife aboard, and all his pigs and mouth-organ, subscribed for by a hosses, and-" number of admirers as a mark off
Unfortunately at this juncture their appreciation of his bravery. Mr. Isafay's mother came to put
Unknown to his parents, Potts him to bed. had put by his small weekly allow- ance of washing water in order to save the life of a pet petunia, the property of his grandmother..
In making the presentation the Mayor of Poppleton safe-But you don't want to hear that. He "It
...And talking of water-But here comes Maud Emil, very urgent, and accompanied by a large culinary small, and please, air, what shall I do with this?
What happens to feajeebhoy when he leaps clean over the verandah into Madgets opsit arme? Does she drop him or. dous he fall short? We will tell you to-morrow whether Madys suspects that Icefcebhoy has been unfaithfid but in the meantime let us leave her re- posing in the blissful trust of that great moment schen Re- ginald shrieked. It seems that
Jeejeobhoy no nearer his de
misc than last week but we may. find the amah poisoning him with pork and locks in our next issue in a fit of jealousy. In any case, folk, Jeefccbhoy has only three mora.inatalments, to go and. then we shall have to leave him at his little deck in the P.W.D.
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LESSONS IN JOURNALISM.
The Public Of course the greatest authority
"You see, sir, I was cooking something special for you, and I was waiting outside for be, be-on journalism is undoubtedly the went upstairs to see if by sister
cause she's going to take bo to the pictures this afternoon, and
MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1934.
AID FOR BRITISH. SHIPPING The question of Government assistance for British shipping is one which is being followed with deep interest here in Hongkong by reason of the hope that it may be possible to evolvo some scheme which will lead to better times for an industry which has been badly hit by the depression, There is prospect of an inter- national conference of
the superfluity of standard money always says the same thing. principal maritime nations, to Certain Americans ask the same consider laying-up schemes and question. For the superfluity of have made England and all
is such men as you, Mr. Potts, who other proposals. In the mean-standard money is more patent in sort of poppycock.' time, it is interesting 10 the United States than elsewhere. note that opposition an anyIt is notorious that never before
anowapaper for the organised laying-up scheme in American history has there heen
Joo, and I think it's simply lovely satisfaction of assuring himself Jas
the way he crrrruahoa them to his that it contains all the news ha been voiced by theoo much idle money awaiting em-
Mrs. Euphemia Gurge, the well-shirt front before he kisses them, already knows. British Mercantile Marine Ser-ployment. Every week the Feder-known Channel swimmer, swam and when I got down stairs agade vice Association, which holds the item
al Reserve System makes public an the well-known Channel last night, the thig I was cooking for you
called **excess
Journalism seems to be peculiar- view that such a method of meaning the funds in the banks had to walk seven miles before she thing special, a dish of by own attract the people who would malte Owing to the water shortage she was all od fire, and it was some-ly unfortunate in that it does not handling the problem may prove over and above those required for could get out of her depth. The cremation, and now even the cat good at the profession by reason Injurious rather than otherwise their deposit requirements. For swimming part of her journey won't loog at it to British interests. The sug- months past this excess, which is took. her just under half-an-hour.
so you'll have of their outstanding ability and gestion on which the Association available for loans up to more than
to do with the gold button instead, natural forte for the work. Thus wo find that none of the born bases its opposition is that the ten times its amount, has been
$1,500,000,000. Governments of the countries around
journalists have anything to do with newspapers and that these who become party to the scheme purchases that Treasury buying of argued by opponents of silver
are produced by a set of incompot-. should pay shipowners a bounty silver will simply increase this
eat scribblers who cannot earn an for the tonnage they lay up, and surplus without providing any
existence in any other line, that 26 per cent. of the British means for using it, tonnage should be temporarily
reserves,
It
is
not likely to make much difference Immediate silver purchases are to business activity. In fact, they might make for some disturbance
disposed of in this way. Objec- COMPROMISE AGAIN tion to this plan rests on the. belief that only a portion of the world's maritime countries would adopt it, and that any effort along these lines to create an
of condence. It was in order to artificial shortage and force upgive investment confidence a chance freights would only be the signal to revive that the Prealdent, for those outside the agreement through his Secretary of the to bring out their laid-up ships. Treasury, pleaded a short while There is the further contention 80 for a breathing spell from new He has that the move would put Britain monetary legislation.
succumbed to a politient agitation
of
B
an
on a par with certain countries which has been without parallel in whose merchant fleets have its driving force. Even Prof. grown enormously by the pur-Raymond Moler calls it "a most chase of obsolete tonnage, much destructive and dangerous" agita- which is at present idle, tion. But it gained an impetus Certain countries can even now from the President's own com- show an augmented service, promising. In December Inst he even with 25 per cent. or more
agreed to the purchase of all car- out of action, while Britain. has United States at 64% conta
rent production of silver in the experienced a big decline since
ounce. The purchases, compared the war. The Association dons with current prices in the market, not object to British action by represented a bonus of 60 per cent. means of subsidies to protect its to the silver purchasers. Appar shipping, but it is auspicious ently the President imagined that of international arrangements silver advocates. But the ngita- the windfall would endefy tho which may do more harm than tion has prospered on what it has good to British Interests. The fed upon, and the December com whole problem is, of course, one promiso has led the White House of considerable complexity, but to another compromise, which In the last resort batter promises to put into" operation A days for the Industry must de-nilver programme in a most pend on trade expansion..
claborate regalla.
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The infallibility of newspapers has become almost a byword. nowadays, People say: Well it's in the papers, so it must be true. That is all very well, but we won- dor If the public over realise to what measures we had to go to gain this reputation of integrity. Have they heard of the reporter who inadvertently said that three Instead of two men were shot, and was then instructed by the News Editor to go out and make the story correct?
Or the paper which, after being. royally, reprimanded for saying that a society leader had been seen walking through Soho at midnight, ran a series of speciala proving that most society folk were either llars or somnambullatą.
It is this spirit of enterpriac which has got the newspaper on to the breakfast table of every healthy scandal seeker in the com- munity, the reason being that the aforesaid reader can collect a whole lot of gossip without giving anything away himself.
Of course there are people who don't like nowspapers but general ly their main reason for saying so is to get their vlows published. And then there are people who go to great pains to tell the editor. how passtonately davotal they are to the paper and generally they want something kept outf-