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WEDNESDAY,
AUGUST 1, 1934.
NOTES OF THE DAY THE STORY OF JAPANESE The Very Idea!
BRITAIN AND IRELAND
COMPETITION
By SIR HARRY MCGOWAN, K.B.E.
JURIES AND BLOOMERS. By George THE selection of a local THERE has probably never been
a trade phenomenon where makes for Japan's succoge, and jury is always a matter has developed so rapidly as Japan-that is her realisation that the of considerable anxiety, to exo competition. Four years ago needs of the present age are for
Thoro la one more factor which T
Every few months or son now effort is made to bring reason to Anglo-Irish relations. The latest the McDermott letter, reflected widely held vfaws on both sides of the Irish Channel, but he might have saved himaolf the time and trouble. The discussion aroused it was hardly showing above the goods where price is more import the court they never know merely served to show that neither Eastern horizon, a little cloud no ant than quality. In a time of when they are getting a party la
but now world depression, prica is the de band of brains or a neck of to budge an inch bigger than a man's preparell from the position taken up two
two it has covered practically all the clsive factor in purchasing. Japan bands years ago, and while that spirit markets of the world."
has realised this more than any
#
BRITAIN'S "LAPSE"
lower.
to undercut older give each customer what he wants
Her
BB
•
had
I wish I was a lily, To-day's beautiful thought
A-blushing in Wanchai,
I'd smell my very sweetest And I'd never never cry!
diclates policy there can be no It may be interesting to consider other nation. Hor manufacturers We remember once on a his hope of progress. Promise has, in
in for a moment what lies behind this and merchants have also realisedtoric occasion when we were on fact, diminished If anything in the past Low weeks. Great Britain's development, and what has en- the necessity of studying the noods a jury in a murder trial and
abled Japan to develop a trade of individual markets,
and have default on her war debt instalment offenstva with such amazing been at considerable pains to were elected foreman. to the United States has been
Showing a thorough” grusti" or " readily seized upon by the irrecon-speed and
established trada rivala so at the time and place that it is the case from the first wo sovers- cilables among de Valera's sub- porters as a new and cogent argu- drastically. The driving force in wanted, and patterned, designed ly cross-examined the counsel for ment in support of continued re-supplied by Japan's need to sell and packed in a manner to please the defence on his birth and up. the goods abrond in order to maintain his particular fancy. The Japan-qualifications, summed fusal to pay the land annulties.
some equilibrium in her trade one doserve credit. pioneers.ovidence in a brilliant and scintil
found the court.. balance,
rapidly-growing They study the customer's demand lating style, on, and her growing ex- for prompt and even immediate interpreter guilty of the,erime and un armaments, make it delivery; they quote in his own censured the judge for complicity imperative for her to sell more language and not Japanese, and after the fact.
The fate of great things really It is argued that Great Britain, goods abroad. The second factor express units of quantity and price having committed herself to a is the depreciation of the yen. in the measurements of his coun-hang on very small issues. Had
political Originally forced on her by try and not their own. policy of default on a
we drawn a queen Instead of a The strength of Japanese com knave in the little game we hnd debt, is no longer entitled to take necessity, a depreciated currency
high moral line with her own has advantages which Japan has potition lies in the Inter-dopend- during the waiting period which deblors. The land annuities, on not been slow to recognise.. As enor of these factora. It is im the best juries impose before, pasa- which the Irish Free State has we know in Great Britain, the possible to say which of theming sentence, we doubt very much been in default are regarded as depreciation of the sterling, counts most, since they are all co-whether we would have been so hard coming in this category. Although following the abandonment of the ordinated to produce the desired on the judge, but the guilt of WAR established this parallel,
which is regarded by gold standard, enabled us to re- result How far they have suc- the interpreter
from the moment he began repeat- government circles, in Great Bri- cover a substantial part of the ceeded we already know. tain as far fetched in the extreme, international trade we had lost There is an impression that the ing himself, hab not been drawn by Mr. De during the preceding year when growing cultivation of athletics After that we were exonerated Valera himself. It has undoubtedly the & was over-valued. Itoughly and outdoor exercise among the from jury service permanently influenced a
considerable body of speaking, the £ was depreciated in Japanese will result in an im- opinion in
in South Ireland and even those days by about 36 per cent.,, provensent of physique and lead of just when we thought we
the found a little way of killing time. found expression in Britain also. but Japan has outbid us in com- necessity to a change in The New Statesman in a article on the war debts
recent petitive exchange depreciation, national diet, and eventually to a arti
question and declared: "It will be impossible and the yen now stands at a gold turnover from rice to whent. My for us in future, in our capacity discount of 63 per cent, without own feeling is that the wish is an a creditor power, to maintain any guarantee that it will not go here father to the thought. So far ля 1 am able to judge, there is.no the old stiff attitude, at all events The next important factor is the likelihood of the Japanese stand- In regard to political debts. Ger- many's
case for defaulting on the fcient organisation of those, ard of living being materially im-
Japanese industries around which proved in the near future. Dawes and Young loans actuni-
Then there is a disposition to Intrusion of the 1 stronger than ours, and Mr. De competition principally centres,
and the deliberate planning of her think that the Valera, If he deigned to use an export campaign. Japan la re- Japanese into markets so far away argument so pedestrian, would have a triumphant answer to Mr.latively to ourselves, and even to as our African colonies, the South
the U.S.A., a new country, which American
itseif, is due to a into the industrial arena. She falling off in the demand of the has
therefore, been able to build Far Eastern and peculiarly in the factories on the latest plan, in-Chinese market; but this is only mont modern partially true. The Chinese mar
ADULT BLOOMERS' It is noteworthy that despite the
morating the
and in short, to pick ket, with its population of over
What they told boys at school deftant altitude still maintained by and choose among International four hundred million, is an enct- World attention is being Mr. De Valera's Flanna Fail party
The Head of Malvern College,. directed to the investigations be-in the land annuities dispute, the industrial practices, and adopt mous one, but it could only at
Frank Preston: "Parents destruction of the Irish needs. She has shown great wisher energies if it developed a de- Mr.
dom in buying only the finest and mand more rapidly than Japan should not make life too comfor trade with England have most up-to-date types of machi-was able to supply,
table for their sons. They should mittee Into the munitions in increased criticism in Ireland of
Another ill-founded belief is not fet boys think that the luxur dustry. This body, known as the
nery. She has organised her in- trade policy. In
dustries in large-scalo units. that Japan's present competitive ics of one generation are the the Nye Committee, has had its government Further, she has evolved a system activity la merely an effort to get necessities of the next. duties clearly defined by the Sen-spokesmon have been very ate, its chief Lask being to in the defensive. President De of industrial and Government co-rid of surplus production while In these days" of spoilt parents. vestigate the activities of in-Valera attempted to justify him. operation in the conduct of export she builds up her manufacturing boys should not make life too com dividuals, firms, associations,
self in a recent speech in which he campaigns, by which means the industries ready to meet the de-fortable for mumma and poppa. declared that the payments de tion ad efficient production are tain that Japan will develop Man- that the luxuries of their first corporations, and all other agen-manded by Great Britain were al
advantages of exchange deprecia-mand from Manchuria. It is car They should not let parents think cies in the United States engaged together beyond Ireland's capacity translated into concerted efforts churia as energetically as she is childhood are going to be repeated
able, but for many years Man in their second. S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.in the manufacture, sale, dis to pay, and that the £5,000,000
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There has been-much-loose talk churia-must-be-looked upon as.8 export of year owed to Britain, represented, of long hours and low wages in source from which Japan will The Head of Sherborne, Mr. arma, munitions, or other imple-in proportion to the resources ments of war.
One of its terms of the two countries, an amount Japanese Industry. It is true the draw certain raw materials, rather In any of reference, also, is to enquire ten times as heavy as the British Japanese work long hours. It is than a market which will absorb A. E. Wallace: "Notions of mo
payments to the United States true that they live on less wages. her manufactured goods. into the desirability of creating under the Baldwin settlement of It is truc also that their standard event it will be a market which the English public schools unrecognis
Government monopoly of arms 1923 and heavier than Germany's of living is lower, to our Western will take care to restrict to her and munitions. It is easy, to total roparation payments under eyes. Hut while I was in Japan; own nationals as far as possible, Thank God for the fdantification see that whilst only concerns the Young plan. The answer, of last winter, I made a tour through especially since Japan already of our public school accent! Re- within the United States come course, is that the money whe ad- Japanese factories and was able produces so many of the commodi formors can take the 'err' out of vanced to enable Irish farmers to to And no outward signs of ties for its development. Certain after dinner speeches but they within the purview of the in- buy their own land.. Dublin's task malnutrition, lack of physical articles, however, she does not yet can't take the 'haw' out of Bozzled
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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 1, 1934,
PROBING THE ARMS
TRAFFIC
ing made in the United States
Thomas,"
ON THE DEFENSIVE
has aprung. almost fully armed, United Kinglies, and even thei
by a specially-appointed com-raped gronomic war and the that which was best suited to her tract Japan's attention and absorb.
governam
on
overseas.
I'd open up my little heart And peep into the sky
..
And put my seent upon the
feet
Of all the passers-by.
And if they should o'er-
power me
I'd just lay down and die.
*
speech days at Home:-
dorn reformera will soon make.
*
The Head of Rossall, Mr. such H. G. M. Clarke: "Five years at a
Field-Marshal Lord Milne at Shrewsbury School: "Character is more, Important than genius. Every schoolboy should; cultivate character, courtesy, and manners." Character is certainly to be preferred to genius when it comes to cashing a crossed cheque after the banks are closed in a Jow's shop in a strange town. This would appear to be one of those rare CAHES whero xenius and character go kand. In hand.
vestigation, the activities of other nations are likely to be to treat a Innd purchase scheme as
is to act as a collecting agent not energy or discontent among the produce as efficiently as Western sycophanta.
workers, which might be expected rivals-motor-cars, for example disclosed from the fact that im- a politica! Ionu.
to be evident were they really and it may be possible for com-
in port as well as export of war
overworked or ander-nourished, peting manufacturers material is affected. At the mo
As the Japanese Ambassador said lines to do business. So far as public school constitute the great- ment, the Committee is studying DAVIS CUP
the other day, though the Japaness chemicals are concerned, Japan is cst endowment that can be given A public school helps the issue behind closed doors,
worker does not eat roast beef and almost in a position to supply the to youth, hut public hearings are to be
potatoes, he would not choose nords of the Manchurian market to fashion a boy so that he may Britain may have taken a long them were he able to afford them right away, nor is it likely that become a man."
Given held in the autumn. Whilst it time to win the Davis Cup in post- The Japanese worker keeps, fit the further development of Man-
this opportunity
the is conjectural where the in- war encounter, but it was wrested and happy on his-to our minds churian demand will overtax public school men learn the de vestigation may lead, there will from France in the grand manner, inadequate ration of fish, rice and Japanese capacity to supply. The cipline of obedience so that in the. be widespread agreement that and Austin have indicated in the
and in the grand manner, Perry vegetables.
(Continied on Page 5).
end a little child can lead them. the primary requisite is more last few days that it will pro- knowledge of the present organi-bably be a long time before the sation of munitions companies, trophy leaves England's shores. the extent of their trade, their Perry was, of course, the popular international affiliations and hero, though curiously enough their profits. There is not In Austin won both his matches by existence any satisfactory com- more convincing nargins. His pendium of such Information, responsibility yesterday, however. and the League of Nations was lifted, the result having al- itself 3108
ready been decided by Perry's been greatly victory over Shielda. That came handicapped in dealing
this only after
tromendous struggic munitions question owing to which must have been worth go- this lack of intelligence. The ing a long way to see. All con- inquiry may. well give a gratuliens to Shields. No Aner new factual foundation to effort has been seen in similar the ethical movement against circumstances for many yours. Warfare which has suffered Against anyone but Perry it must in recent years through the have succeeded. general lack of knowleuge of cause and effect in the recurring international crises, such ns is seriously calculated, is that that, for example, in the Gran the inquiry may reveal the in- Chaco region, concerning which dustry to be so non-national în it has been deemed advisable to character as to require inter- endeavour to apply an embargo national remedies. This would on-countries exporting arms. it strengthen the demand often is also felt that the investiga-made in League of Nations tion may reveal that United circles that the private manu- Stutes! wealth and tochnical facture of war materials should akill are creating and exporting bo deemed illegal. There can be quantities of war materials no doubt that private gain from which in a future, emergency the manufacture of munitions is might be used against the direct inducement to the en- country of origin. If 80, the couragement of war and rumours national defence question would of war. In the common in- naturally come to the forefront, terests of humanity, the issue and the possible nationalisation will have to be faced sooner or of munitions manufacture would later. The United States. in- become a practical issue. Avestigation is a step in the right third possibility, and one which direction,
"We are going to stay here till mother's nervos, quiet downi
Sir Ernest Wild, K.C., at Worth- ing Girls' School: "Women have a koener sense of duty than men. That is why we have found women a great halp on juries."
"He's a likely looking lad and the girl looks a bit of á hussy but if he must hang, he must. bàng, poor lamb
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