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THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1935.
NOTES OF THE DAY
THE WORK DOLLAR
OIL THE LIFE BLOOD OF NATIONS
By GLYN ROBERTS,
NEWS CHRONICLE FEATURE WRITER
THREE substances, all of them daro-devils. It produces Its own lying originally under the Talleyrands, Cromwells, Napo. earth's soll, control the politics of leons, the modern world, and possibly
The Very Idea!
THAT LAST DOLLAR ·
By Horatio Bogg, Pauper IT was the day after pay- day, but, Allah be prais- ed! we still had that last
the destinies of mankind. Volun- It does not seek the limelight; tarily the human race has given its big men exercise from behind remaining dollar, secreted, tremendous power to gold, to con! the curtains of the diplomatic for additional safety, in our stage an influence which has, some.
tinis affected the destinies of coat-lining.
peoples.
Every novel. Iden for currency reform is studied by America'a experts before it is pigeon-haled or scrapped, because somebody might produce some scheme which would bo of value. That is wladom. The administrators are afraid to laugh at a fool lest they should bo presently proved in error. The latest worry for the big people at the White House is the "work dollar." Somebody brought this idea into the Capitol and Congrean- mon cannot make up their minds whother it is just nonsense or and to oil. something which will prove blessing. The idea of the "work This is, above all, the age of
That was not as it shouki “be, dollar" is something like this: an oil. Gold and coal have both lost hour of standard labour, worth their predominance. Men who
when, by all the rules and tradi $1 to the worker; shall be made have had unique opportunities of Half-trutha and Innuendoes Intions, we should not have retained tho standard measurement of forming judgments worth listen- this terrific story have repeatedly that much wealth so long. The monetary values. The idea of ing. to Presidents, Premiers, found their way into books and Gods would be angry, and when- stabilising money in relation to Foreign Ministers have realised newspapers. The whole truth as they were angry they would find wages judex is old to English this and said so.
never been told, and probably economists, but it is something
a way to accomplish our complete A very
cautious man, altogether new in Washington. Coolidge, the late President of the
Calvin nover will be...
ruination. The world will probably never is a discovery, according to Mr. United States, observed: "It is learn the whole truth of the Premonition of evil which proved E. W. Mason, manager of the even probable that the supremacy diplomatie moves shortly before to be only too true. It was, an- Progressivo Party, which-consists- of the remnants of the La Folette of nations may be determined by King Beisal's death. The full talo other "Flower Day", and, all un-
the possession of available petro-will Presidential Campaign Army oleum and its products.".
nover be revealed of the doings in Russia and the Near East suspecting. we walked into the fof Georges Clemenceau, France'a Rosenblum, of the British Secret
Sidney George Reilly, alias trap.
Futile to have sought escape. ultra-realist national leader, Service.. marked: "A drop of vll is worth
We had hardly dodged down a lane.
1924, sometimes known as the
Mugwumps, the American Inther
of the "work dollar" plan.
IT MEANS THIS:
a drop of blood." He might have The identity of the Secret Ser- when our exit was barred at both two fair vien man who secured a Near ends, and ahead were Eastern oil concession by posing sellers who had beaten us to it.
a priest; the relations between
"Foiled again!" wo snarled. We oll interests, Continental arına. ments arms and the Paris Press: had the hunted look of a quarry the fantastic but plausible storyrus to earth, but our fist was still contained in French Secret Ser-clutched tightly over the dollar.
What does it all mean? some-added that it has usually cost it. body asked Mr. Mason. And· Mr. Lord Curzon, who knew just how Mason said: "Standardisation of and why the Great War happened the work dollar at a value of $1 and ended, commented after the per hour for unskilled Jabour Armistice: "The Allies were carri would be accomplished through aed to victory on a flood of all.” Government offer of employment
Thongkong Telegraph. silding scule, low enough not to
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1935.
*
vice File No. 28,779-these are
"Mr. Bong, you have not bought a flower from us." "Mr. Boos this one should go well with that nier auit of yours."
to anyone seeking it, thereby com- polling an eternal rotation of new The daily life of a modern State likely to remain in the ambiguous and sinister background of ru- wealth. The Government, as an would be atrophied, with immour, true or falso. employer, would pay wages on a mediate food shortage, outbreaks,
of disease, civil dissension and compete with industry privately univeral panic, if the supplies of The great known oil-fields of the
Who could have resisted those owned, but progresalvely high petroleum came to an end. As for world are roughly divided into two enough to force industry to pay war, it cannot be contemplated areas-the Caucasus and thedears? Our resolution melted like $1 an hour minimum wages. The without enormous reserves of this Caribbean. It was in the Cau- wax, and we surrendered that last money priceless liquid fuel. Not then now one of the dollar. Once again we were broke, WORKLESS MILLIONS on would be put into circula- prison could move, not one lorry, richest areas in the whole world, The Gode had found a way!
work without any limit to its not one seroplane, without petro- that the first Oil Magnate of the
It was a new kind of flower by A graphic indication of the volume. The Government employ-leum.
modern type appeared.
which we were sold, extent of unemployment in ment agency would be in a posi- The same is true of most navies, This was Haasan Kouli Khan,
Whether the flower was a rose of subject of the Shah of Persia, Europe was provided by figures to similar to that of the post Since Lord Fisher's tenure
office. If an individual goes to issued yesterday to the effect the post office and pays three power, the British Navy, theland of no one else, whom we find fra geranium, we don't know. The point is unimportant beslile the the the last Prince of Baku, exporting fact that it had to be a now kind that Germany has 2,764,000 cents the Government must give rentest in the world and
Empire's time-honoured guard 2,000 bourdiouts, or sheepskins, of of flower every time a Flower Day workless, Britain 2,272,000 and him a postage stamp. Similarly,
become petroleum a month in the first uguinst aggression, has If An individual Italy well over a million. Other Government and
went to tho
was held. entirely off-burning. There is not years of the last century. By tax- tendered his countries, notably
It is a sad story, mateys, going Belgium, services, the Government would be an important ship in the whole ing the sales of this oil the Persian
Fleet to-day burning coal.
Shah found himself a rich man. back to a number of Flower Days. France, the Irish Free State, and obliged to put him on the payroll,
It is a technique subsequent Shahs We recall that, in an attempt to Holland, report a marked in-him with new money. This money come about suddenly. It is the
within forty-eight hours and pay This condition of things has not have perfected.
economise, on an occasion we had crease in the number of
saved a rose, anticipating that roses un- would be redeemed systematically, result of the gradual changes of One day in 1806 the Princo would again be sold on the next employed last year. The prob- through the sale of products manu- the last seventy years. To-day Taltsianoy, with a handful of men, Flower Day to come. lem is one which is causing great factured by the workers, or taxes the Governments of the world are presented himself at the Palace of
Our anticipation turned out to levied against valuable publie im- deeply involved in the polities of, Hassan Kouli Khan and demanded concern to peoples and Govern- provements, Buck us highways, oil,
the sovereignty of the Khanate of be quite correct, but because we ments alike, and at the moment
Baku in the name of his master, bungled over the job, wearing our the Tsar of All the Russins. The rose before these flowers were there seems little prospect of a solution along orthodox lines. It Mr. Mason, "that the Government
a printing press. Assume," says Oil polities are world politics in Khan invited the Prince into the actually out on the streets, the B very real sense, for he who Palace, smiled amiably at him, and Committee became suspicious, and is of interest to note; however, would give emergency employment controls petroleum for the next swept of his Insolent head with started an 'Inquiry, that as from the present month to 10,000,000 unskilled workers two decades could put himself in one mighty blow of his scimitar the German Government is put-hour. Three hundred million dol- cards skilfully, that it would need Shah. S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. ting into force a scheme which lurs of new money would be put a great many revolutions and con-
for 50 hours each week, at $1 an such a position, if he played his and sent It by caravan to the
will make all young persons into circulation and the purchas-vulsions to remove him from But he himself very soon fellow-human breast, and as this hope is unita in a rigid State-controlled power of the nation would put power.
up 'help wanted signs. A ma-
ed the gift to Persia, and the about our only possession at the plan. Under this plan, young jority of these workers for the
The secret war for oil has never Tear's Cossacks entered Baku. moment, we are still holding on to people will be required to place work dollar would soon
find
atopped since it broke out half a The Russians at that time knew that rose. Maybe we may outlive their services at the disposal of employment in regular industries, century ago. It will not stop for nothing of petroleum. The In- the whole range of flowers! Then, The when they have to come back to In a short time only the relatively some time yet. It actuates and dustry fell into a decline. the State Labour Service. This unfit and short-time workers would explains the behaviour offen Tear's nominee for the post of the-rose-that-last-laugh-which we organisation will have power to be left in the emergency labour otherwise Inexplicable of the Commandant at Baku-regarded still hope to have on the Committee
Governments of the world's Great at St. Petersburg as virtual exile-will be ours. send them to. work
thought he would recover the Im- perial approval with a detailed ac-
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of a new flower for each sale.
The upshot of it was this decreo
There again we were folled. But as hope springs eternal in the
Empire-builder
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ary onough, and needing no com- ment), three orange-tinted camela with five (count them-five) humps apiego, and a snake with legs.
As he invariably carries a hunt- ing-crop. he gets little trouble from liis pets until he gets to the corner of Pall Mall and St. James's Square. Here, for some reason, they refuse, more often than not, to keep in line. He does not condescend to argue or bully them. He merely observes, In an icy tenor which once put the fear of Allah into the aboriginals of the M'Bongo hinterland:
class, and their support would cost on the people very much less than Powers, farms, to toll on construction at present." It seems that all projects, or to enrol in a labour that is needed is new money. Why tlons in-to us-obscure South Khanate. In his report figured
Science from an Armchair. It is the cause of bloody revolu- count of the resources of the We heard this week of an aged camp. Thus the young worker make a man work for it? we ask. American and Near Eastern coun- this thick black liquid.
(retired) who, will pass under the sway of a Why not give it away? and bring tries. It attracts men of genius,
every morning, as he makes his prosperity back that much faster. and men, too, whose acquisitive
slow, dignified way from bar to centralised, disciplined authority
"Very Interesting," said the bar, is followed by the following quite as rigid and strict as that HOLLYWOOD'S "SAVIOUR"
instinct is developed to the stature Tear, "Send a scientific expedi-animals-a mauve elephant (ordin- of military conscription. Such a controlled plan is the logical
Dickens in Hollywood's “saviour.", result of any nation-wide, au- The long queues at the ticket offices thoritarian control of labour by picture theatre managers as "David must gladden the hearts of motion the central Government. It Copperfield pulls in such crowds marks a definite departure from as have not been seen since the a free, fluid labour market, casy-come-easy-go free spending There have been many proposals days of live years ago. Just
what fa put forward in various countries whi
the secret of this for absorption of the unemploy-enthusiastic seclaim by se large a section of the American public? ed, but the great majority of It cannot lle altogether in the in- these carry with them manifold telligent casting of the parts, or imperfections. Some of these in the sympathetic handling of the defects are inherent in any at-subject. Other screen attractions tempt to put people back to work have been cleverly cast and well bofore the slow
of directed. Excellently portrayed us process recovery becomes uncoiled; are all the roles in "David Copper- others arise from the fact that, lese successful films have included field" the feminine personac of as in the United States, attempts' names more "glamorous," to uso are being made to solve the the current, and rather overwork- problem through voluntary ed, Hollywood!sm. Grappling with methods. Whilst it may be every-day problems; weary and possible to effect the desired end seared with a pseudo-sophistica- more quickly by completa State tion that scoffs at sentiment and control of labour, it is question-brushes virtuo by, many are find able whether in the long run the g something more near reality outcome will be to the benefit of simple virtues inimitably depicted in the unashamed sentiment and the country choosing such by England's foremost novellat. method. The real task lying before economists and statesmen
is to endeavour to fit re-employ-which at the moment happen to ment plans into the existing in-be inactive. One point which dustrial framework. It may be has been made plain in recent that such a process will be slow years is that small hopes can be in its results, but there does not entertained of the efficacy of seem any royal road to economic national action; the issue is one recovery. In the final resort, for co-ordinated international: practically everything dependa treatment. Until the various on the overcoming of the con- countries most affected come to Linued worldTM depression. But a full realisation of this point, this cannot well be hastened; it it is unlikely that any material must eventually come from the improvement will bo brought operation of economic factors about,
“I'll bo glad when our crowd gets a bit older and slope having
birthdays."
"Any more trouble from you, by Gad, and I'll take a couple of aspir- In and get rid of the whole ruddy | lot of you!"
tion to see what use can be made of the stuff." Some of Russia's greatest savants wore in the Cau casus for many weeks. Their vordlet was:
"Petroleum is a liquid which has no use whatsoever. As for its nature, it is a sticky liquid with an unpleasant amoll. It cannot be employed in any pro- ductive fashion."
But history has judged other wise. Several hundred thousand mon and women and children have dled since then for the Oll of CAUCARUS. To-day, more than ever, the city of Baku and the in- calculably rich potroleum fields of the Near East are the centre of a ruthless secret war.
In this otherwise unimportant fathmus between two large Asiatic lakes is concentrated billions of dollars' worth of the liquid which makes and breaks Governmenté.