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GAMBLING IN "FUTURES"
MONDAY, JULY
1984
NOTES OF THE DAY PEEPHOLES IN
A HAPPY AUGURY
The agreement between Germany and France on the conditions of the forthcoming plebiscito in the Saar is an encouraging achieve- ment. A declaration in favour of fair play. It demonstrates that it marions to reconcile their divergent possible for two great European. points of view oven on a question which appears to be full of pricks and dynamite. Germany and France have agreed that any one interfering with the freedom of the vote at the time of the ploblacite or indulging in intimida- tions or reprisals against voters may be subjected to heavy ane or Imprisonment, and a special tribun at has been not up to try any such cases. It will continue to function for one year after the vote la taken. Both the German and the French Foreign Ministries have given written assurance that they will abstain from placing pressure upon inhabitants or indulging in reprisaia on voters. In case of any dispute regarding, the interpreta- tion of the regulations, both have agreed to submit the case to the World Court for arbitration.
POPULAR WILL
THE FUTURE
By LEWIS REX MILLER
and the
The Very Idea! COWS AND OTHERS
By George
NATURE STUDIES. (Extracts from Little Ada'a Exorcine Book). THE cow!
THE
The cow is a domestic animal grown formerly for: its own pleasure but now chiefly for home use.
a wild state chewing the cud It used to roam the land in
end of self of the club, the Professor, but I don't see how THE professor and I were having I should like to think so," said. ko playing with the Professor. It can be done, in the face of Not only because we are pretty intrenched nationalism evenly matched, but because of the refusal to linorm
Even after the olghteenth hole, things he says on the way around the course. They make me think the Professor would be no more
do not always agree with him, optimistic,
"I thought over this conversation but we don't mind that. fessor gave me a start. Wo were over some of the books and mate On this particular day, the Pro-in the evening at home. A glance Just tecing up for the second hole zines on my library table acumed when something I said about the confirm the Professor'a apprehen- wherever it pleased but, like stock market led him to remark sions. Most writers об inter- rather casually, "Of course, the national subjects had something to many other animals, the cow. world is heading for a bigger and any about "the next war," has not kept pace with the ""better" war."
did not all agree as to its probable march of progress and has naked. The Professor's subject is denied its possibility, or even its "Do you really think so?" I date, but hardly any of them
allowed Itself to become Political Sefence, so he presumably probability.
beast of burden. ought to know something about In the hope of getting away Buch things.
to
They
from menaces, I started to read a The cow must not be confused No doubt about it," he replied. novel. But the romanco about a with the bull, who can be beat. "Not just now, of course, but a few couple of superbly beautiful, identified by watching his symp years hence,"
supremely talented and amazingly toms when waving a pair of red "I'm glad to hear you don't rich young creatures, set before a think it's imminent," said I, and my background of palmringed beaches, flannel trousers in front of him or drive was a bit straighter and bore such a striking resemblance her, longer than it would have been if to several stories I had read before he had not added this slightly re- that my interest was lagging, when but this job has now passed into Cowa used to be milked by calves assuring comment.
1 suddenly saw the Wise Old Man
1
The Professor sent his ball down altting opposite me. He has a way- Trade Union hands. the fairway very close to mine, and, of dropping in at such times.
remarked.
па we trudged after them he "You can't get away from it by elaborated his thesis. "No, war rending fiction," he isn't imminent," ho declared. with the kindly but wraithlike
I im-
The Saar problem has been one of the knottlest arising out of the Treaty of Versailles. Whether this area, with its 770,000 inhabit ants and its rich coal mines, is to be German territory, or French, or whether it is to continue under the administration of a League com- mission, as at present, is to be de-Nobody is ready for it yet. Onu smile I have seen so often on his
never knows, of course, what the features. elded by popular ballot. It is en-
"What is a man to do?" Japanese are going to do next. couraging that the two nations But there is a limit, presumably, plored him. "Must one be in t most concerned have been able to
even to their ambitions. The fact constant state of alarm with rend- agree to stand aside and permit that Russia has double-tracked the ing these forecasts, and feel utter- a genuine manifestation of the trans-Siberian railroad and built aly helpless in facing them?" popular will. If Germany France can agree on this crucial and point, is it too much to hope that agreement on other points, such as disarmament, will eventually low?
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The cow is a very careful animal and brings everything up twice before passing it OK.. and this habit of constant rumination brings the animal into the philosophic class of: High Brows.
B- A REPLY
Some cowe still show their 'Inde- effect on the Nipponese. And the ponded, "that the best way is to catching a cold so that the milk strong air fleet has had a sobering "I have always found," he respondence by refusing to give milk or Japanese are beginning to realize overcome the alarm in advance, will go bad. Others are hardy Miliza Korjus.
that If the British and the Ameri- We all have courage, moral cour. enough to run about and turn their folcans shut out their goods it will age, but we sometimes fail to culti-milk into cheese so that it won't Miliza Korjus,
The new Ordinance directed
be hard going for them. There is vate it in a preparatory way. If come out but others of the black- always u possibility that some frre we Beniamino Gigli, against gambling in "futures" in
form the habit of viewing leg class go to the trouble of grow- sponsible warrior will precipitate things courageously, we are not so ing a hump so that they can be Beniamino Gigli, respect of metals, currencies and MINORITIES GENERALLY
a conflict, but I like to believe that dismayed by the suggestion that harnessed to a plough, commodities generally, of which This achievement prepares the the Japanese have weighed the evil is Imminent. When we hear Tito Schipa. the draft has now been issued, way for a second possible demon- cost of further warfare, and de-a threat of war, we are not alarm-
But cows nowadays are working` Tito Schripa.is, when looked into closely, astration. If the plans laid down cided against it.”
ed to the point of being either splendidly in co-operation with somewhat innocuous measure. for the plebiscite are successfully "You feel that the situation is merely inactive or bitterly aggres ambition of every cow is to turn man towards alvilisation and the So widespread are the provisions carried out-and it seems they can pretty stable in Europe, too?" sive. Mero fear of war will never exempting certain types of trans-be then the world may have its asked.
overcome war, but a calm convic out. Grade "A" milk straight from. actions from the operation of the confidence restored in the plebiscite
"For the moment, yes. The lion of war's futility will readily the bag before the cows from the next farm achieve that distinction. Ordinance that the new law as un instrument of self-determi- whole European problem, as in the drive it out of existence.
nation. An orderly, convincing 40 years proceding the World "You mean we have to think a Before they were tame DOWN would not appear to interfere expression of the popular desire in War, centres around Germany. stop or two ahead of events, so used to make their own shoes from greatly with prevailing condi- the Sanr region on January 13, Russia, from being a revolutionary that we can shaper them, instead hide, mix their own glue from tions. The main section of the 1935, would prove that, under the and disturbing element, has revert of merely letting them shape us?" spare hooves, and turn out their Ordinance makes it illegal to supervision of the League of fed to its traditional role of "Exactly. To read the gloomy own butter, milk, and cheese. enter into forward contracts in Nations, it is actually possible to stabilizer of the Continent. Ger- prophets and shudder at them is respect of precious metals, cur- obtain a fearless and authentic re many is freeing itself from the simply not good enough. We have The origin of the cow has been- rencies or commodities of any gistration of the wishes of the shackles of the Versailles Treaty, to reach the point where we can traced back to Grimm Fairy Tales kind where there is no bona fide populace in a disputed area. Pre- one by one. Almost the only ones say to ourselves, 'I do not fear when one jumped over the moon vious to the establishment of the that romain are the territorial war, but I see its uselessness. If but we don't really believe that intent to make or take delivery. League, the results of plebiscites ones. Reparations and disarma-everybody felt that way. there story because it would certainly Were the Ordinance to end here, were not always of such a nature ment have already been wholly or would be no war, for fear is the have broken leg. it would strike a deadly blow at na to inspire confidence. It is in part shaken off. Hitler says cause of every war."
modities, but the exemptive pro-ternational administration has Not yet, perhaps, but when Ger the best way to prevent war is to visions render the law in-changed that. A first step toward many is ready to demand frontier frighten people, by depicting Ita applicable to exchange trans. the solution of difficult minority rectifications in the East she will horrors 7" actions effected by or with bank-problems has been taken when do so. That, I think, will mean
"Do you think," countered the ing companies and corporations, to keep their seats along the touch-
France and Germany have agreed | war."
W. O. M., "that the best way to You must admit, Professor," heal a man of cancer is to paint a in addition to excluding agents lines and let the players and the said I as we approached another picture for him of its destructive or brokers operating in the umpire settle the Snar question.
tee, that the whole International power?" Colony for exchange concerns
To-morrow's "Very Iden" seems situation is less alarming now than "Well, I never thought of it in to be a matter of conjecture unless outside the Colony. The possi
it appeared last winter."
just that way. Last evening I anw It is, indeed. Deliberate dip motion picture, prepared by n lomatic steps have been taken in peace society, which was designed walls. A well-known · London weekly several quarters to relieve a ten- to show the horrors of war. paper recently offered a consider-slon which was becoming almost I eame диду Tooling pretty a very necessary function in able prize for the best original unbearable, To-day's horizon la creepy.
B-A-have cortainly got their back up now. It Was the handling and facilitating legipoom that might serve as a nation-brighter than many of us could} "No doubt the picture made you wife's fault again--she would go timato exchange transactions, ital anthem for Great Britain If she have hoped late laat autumn. But turn from war, or its possibility, slanging them about Beepo, our is equally true that they are should unexpectedly become a re-I assure you it's only temporary." with shudders," said the W. O. M.little poodle, which (or who) was utilised as media in contracts public. With subtle flattery to its "Well, we can at least be grate with a sympathetic smilo. "I ns-discovered (or made itself known) where there is no intention to readers, this journal insisted that ful for the blessings of the mo-sume, however, that before you in the hardware department of B-- take delivery of the currency in the poems sent in should be burles-ment," said I. "And since there went to the theatre you were A-and was summarily removed. volved. This has again and ques, and not on any account pootle has been a temporary turn for the already averse to organized mur- again been demonstrated in cases honourably observed. This, in its made permanent?"
masterpieces. The stipulation was better, don't you diftuk it might boder. The film Intensified your where speculators unable to meet, way, was a tribute to the care with
(Continued on Page 4.) their commitments have fled which the entrants had read the from the Colony and have heavily conditions of the competition, but, involved the banks and other in a larger view, it has caused sor interests. A further harmful row to the discriminating. For it aspect of this type of gambling indicates that one of the oldest is to be seen in the influence and most respected of British oc- which it plays on the exchange cupations is now to be reckoned a value of our local currency. Un-decayed industry. happily, the new law will not
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thus remains, within certain limits. Whilst the banks fulfil
touch this evil to any marked MASTERPIECES BY ERROR extent. The main object of the law, it is stated, is to make The occupation raferred to, of illegal such concerns as the course, is the production of master- It is a highly Chinese Produce Exchanges, pieces by mistake. feature of the local market in skilled job. One would not con- 1921, and the Gold Bar Ex-masterpiece deliberately is actually tend that to produce a literary changes which have been
easy, but to produce a masterpiece operated recently in the Colony, as it were in error, to hit the bull's-
Whether the former still play eye when aiming in the ove
any appreciable part in gambling direction, that is indeed an
in "futures," we do not know, but ment. Fielding brought it...olf so far as the Gold Bar Exchanges when he started burlesque of are concerned, these have been Richardson's "Pamela," and saw it already voluntarily closed down.
devel
of
under his hand into
Andrew," ⚫oria greatest early novels. did
Donn Swift, who,
In any case, gambling both in the produce and in gold bars, would so appear to be still possible and designing a piece of political satire, quite legal so long as it is done produced In "Gulliver's Travels" through agents of concerns out one of the immortal children's side the Colony. When the books of the world. Government issued its warning
to the Gold Bar Exchanges, It
stated that they served no useful truth to many exchange and purpose and merely afforded share transactions which will not facilities for speculations which be affected by the now law now were seriously prejudicial to the being introduced: The problem interests of genuine business is a difficult one, admittedly, but within the Colony. What was it would soom that the new then said of gambling in gold Ordinance only touches the bars applies with equal force and fringe of it.
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