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HOME POLITICS
NOTES OF THE DAY
RUINING THE FARMER
д
JULY 18, 1935.
THE COST OF BEING SMART
By JANE CORDON,
The richest mine yields a poor
minster.
The Very Idea!
LOONEY LINES
Scraps From The Scrapbook Of-Eddie-Kelly
Edited By Eddie
BOUT bread.
A Bread is a large number of small. holes entirely surrounded
by bread.
To say that a waterfront strike can bankrupt a good many farmers may seem a trifle disconnected or far-fetched, but such is precisely the position in at least one part of
A cocktail party on a small scale Canada. Apart altogether, from HOSE gentlemen in Throg- the question of justice or injustice morton Street cannot be near-will cost anything from £25 to £35. of strikes as a weapon of labour, ly an elever as they think they are: Dinners at the best hotels cost 158, and whether the benefits they bring are worth the price, it must be otherwise they would have long ago Gd, a head, excluding wine. The admitted that when they work formed a pool and launched a public debutante may even do right by her Shares. parents and announce her engage- grave hardship upon an innocent issue of London Season and far-removed section of society. They would be more than gilt-ment at the end of one season, in contemptible. edged; they would be practically which case there will be a grand they will appear Recently the small fruit growers
finale at St. Margaret's, West- of Gordon Head (Vancouver encrusted with gold. Island) have had to contend with
This will cost, at its cheapest: drought. Their strawberries and other early fruit ripened result compared to the London speedily, and they were foroad to Season, which every year during Organist alone, 6 gna, add choir ship a lower grade of produce than May, June and July nets millions of boys but deduct organisi, £13; take la customary. They already faced pounds for London. The attrac full choir plus organist, £23; peal serious losses. Their fruit was tions offered affect the pockets of all the church bells, £5; provide an packed, however, and rushed to kinds and conditions of mon. awning for your guests, £4; allow palatable dish if you have the Victoria for shipment in cold
butter. on a blue carpet storage by atenmer, to Vancouver Consider first of all the well-to-do them to walk
Speaking of recipes, a good one and the prairle provinces, the
man with a daughter whose mother instead of a red one and it will cost Eastern American States and Eng decides that she must be a debutante £1 more; policemen to control the for bread is: Take 1 16. of land. They discovered, when they
anob. An flour, 1⁄2 lb. baking powder, 3 reached the dockside that there was a longshoremen's strike. They roughly these. Starting with the economical trousseau, will coat two eggs, 1 grated prawn, and suffi Eat scones, Stir remainder could not load their fruit. Or if presentation at Court, her dress or three hundred pounds, and the clent scones for nine people.
well. they did load it in Victoria, they with train and feathers, gloves and wedding reception half a guinea a could not obtain any guarantee that
can comfort himself with the head; and the debutante's father
thought that he will probably be treated with the greatest sympathy at Carey
at
all costs: and the costs are
onlookers,
nine bab
it would be unloaded in Vancouver. fou or flowers can hardly come to And a few hours' delay would menn less than £30, the polling of the refrigerated
The most inexpensive train costs cargo. There were not more than two alternatives; either they must three to five guineas; gloves from by the kind gentlemen
or flowers a Street. form their own longshore gang, 25s. to 358.; fan load the fruit, travel with it to pound; feathers, 35s.; and dress
about ten guineas. If her mother presents her, you can double the
east.
A simple recipe for using it is to lay down a slice and put butter on top of same. If you have enough money left with this cursed two-shilling dollar to buy a loaf of bread this makes a
Keeping stirring. These are stirring times.
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Torrors of Wealth
Half a million germs lurk on i $10 tote.
This has been discovered by a You must remember that the
scientist at the Hongkong Univer- debutante is only part of the Londensity. Probably he borrowed the
Wimbledon, $10. Senson. There
Vancouver, unload it there, move it to the railroad yards and load It again for its destination; or they must take it back to the farms and let it rot. They had to choose After this she must have at least which will cost you anything for This means 250,000 worms stroll between two courses each of which five dance dresses (including her centre court seats: polo at Ranelagh about a $5 note, and 50,000 germs entalled a certain loss. To attempt
are waiting to pounce from a silver to lond the fruit would have Court dress) and these will cost and Hurlingham, for which you dollar! lenyens, do you realize what
three to thirty brought them up against the long-anything from
must get a member's toucher, and peril you live in? shoremen's union and would have guineas apiece. She must also have you pay Gis. on each one of these humanity in his soul lend a man five Could any man with a spark of mennt fighting. The farmers went at least two afternoon dresses for if you are a polo playing chap your-bucks, knowing that it carried with
cocktail parties,
self your ponies may cost you 160 it 250,000 Forms, mostly unclassified. Every citizen of this Colony who or 500 guiness apiece, and you canis in possession of a $10 noto is a hardly do with less than three,
home, muttering.
are
Her Ascot clothes are another expense. She will go in the Royal Enclosure, of course. This will rost four guineas for her voucher
еласе.
The people who control the rate of The best racing in the world is the dollar have done their best. They to be found during the London havo lopped off at least 20,000,000
enough? Lat Sandown, Kempton, Hurst, No (Applauso). Season. A member's annual badge germs from our salary. But is it Gatwick and Lingfield costs twelve to Afteen guineas for each man, and this includes two women's hadges. A day's racing at Kempton will cost man £2 88, to get into the mem- berg' enclosure, and 25s. for his female companion.
No significance need be attach- ed to the result of the bye-GETTING DESPERATE election in the West Toxteth But that is not all the story. division of Liverpool, where Sooner or later, if the longshore- Labour has registered a gain at men persist in their refusal to the expense of the Government. handle farmers' produce the farm- The seat is traditionally Labourers will take drastic action. They and her mother'a voucher; six a hardy lot. those Western guinens for her father's voucher; in complexion, and the success- Canadian "bay-seeds," slow to anything from five to twenty ful candidate had been its mem-
anger as a rule, but dangerous if guincns a day for her frock; one ber for seven years prior to the provoked. More than half of them to three guinens for her hat; 268. last General Election. Public are ex-soldiers. They have plough-
for her shoes; every time she apathy was shown in the small-ed hard ground for the past few ness of the total poll, an apathy years, the prices have been so low lunches, the club tent voucher will for general crops that in some in- be 10s. to 25s.; and every time she which gives point to the sugges-
stances the harvest was not worth sips a cup of tea, half a crown to tion frequently made that voters
the gathering, and when they have 64, who do not exercise their pri- an early crop and an opportunity vilege ought to 'suffer
If she goes by train with her dis of obtaining the high prices which enfranchisement. The Labour prevall on the early markat, they mother, that will cost them another poll was well up to the level of are, not likely to lat a longshore- 158. a day upiece; so that those four hair must be shampoord, set, and The General Election figures, but men's pleket stand in the way of days racing alone economically waved at least once every ten days Isand fewer Conservative elector-gested that they organise to break done will put father's bank account at a cost of 15s. to a guineu; her it is amazing that eleven thou- their shipping. It has been sug-
strike.
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work.
Remember that every single func- tion during the crowded Season calls for the woman's party looks. Hor
have been nearer or
on ita
or
the
the strike. If they do they will back at least £60.
face must be massaged at 108, 6d. should have abstained from vol- not lack for sympathisers. And if There must
rails must be a guinen; her ing. Turning from this parti- the longshoremen prove trouble: five thousand than three thousand manicured At half a crown cular bye-election to the general some it will be interesting to see political situation at Home, in- the farmers swing into action.people on Gold Cup day alone at 3e. Gd.; her cosmetics alone will cost dications now ure that the Gov. For ship they will. strike or ne
Ascot, quite apart from the other her about 4 or during
Season. three days. You can add all this Jernment will not go to the
up for yourself to discover how Henley, the Aldershot Tufton, the country until early next year. ART FOR COMPETITION'S SAKE much money floated over the lawns International Horse Show, the Chel- Circumstances may arise justify-
apart from the Tote earnings | sea Flower Show, the Theatrical an earlier appeal, but it A Russian ballet dancer has during that week.
Garden Party, are all comparatively seems more than probable that recently won a prize of £1,000
If the girl is given a dance. It
inexpensive. the Government will produce offered by a publishing firm for the will cost her parents roughly eighty I am not much of a mathematician
manuscript another "Prosperity Budget" best
autobiography.
guinens for the band, and one myself, but if you care to add these before dissolving. Views differ The practice of stimulating the pro-
duction of masterpieces by the includes slightly Inferior
guinca a head for guests, which various suma fogether and multiply as to the likely outcome of the offer of big cash rewards has been
cham- them all correctly by a few thou- election, but at the moment growing of late years, and people to give their girl a chance they will much the London Season is worth. |pagne. If the parents cannot afford sand, you will discover exactly how there seems little reason to think are now beginning to wonder whe then take parties to a selected num-The fact that the streets are not that the Government will suffer ther its effect upon literature is ber of charity dances, the tickets actually paved with gold only goes defent. The only fear is that altogether beneficial. Experience ranging from two to three guineas to show that London is holding out the Labour Party muy, in the has shown that only comparatively &-head event of no very marked im-rarely do modern literary competi
tions produce first-class provement being recorded in the Ruskin, Matthew Arnold and Ten- unemployment situation, snatch nyson all wrote winning prize a victory by a narrow majority: poems at Oxford and Cambridge: if it did, however, it would be but not one of these efforts as in a precarious position, insecure compared with the writers' other in office, since a clear majority works-is really worth remember- over all other factions is not to ing; and it is a chastening thought be expected. Mr. Oliver Baldwin, that when, for the Newdigate
Prize at Oxford, the Socialist son. of the Prime memorable poem got itself written a genuinely Minister, in the article which we in Myers's "St. Paul," the exam- published yesterday, foresees a iners awarded the palm elsewhere. large increase in the Labour | Nevertheless, the habit of offering [vote, but he does not believe that prices for works of literature is the Government will have any one that goes back into furthest difficulty in retaining a comfort-festivals that the great Greek antiquity. It was for competitive able majority over opposing dramatists chiefly wrote.
To this parties. A new factor will be fact has been ascribed one of the the appearance of the Lloyd least desirable features that has George "New Deal" candidates, run.through_literary criticism for but it will be surprising if this many ages, the practice of evaluat new campaign makes any real ing one work in terms of another, impression on the electorate, than that, of judging works of art of saying that this novel is better There are aspects of the Lloyds if they were rivals on the athle George plan which will admitted-tic field, instead of trying to get ly make an appeal to the more from each the appropriate pleasure progressive element amongst the that it has to give. voters, but, in general, the "New
Deal" follows closely some of the Party; in other words, the have stolen the main features of the Labour Labourites programme. Indeed, it is more
Liberal thunder. However, des- pite relatively innocu-
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finitely, better chance of staging doubt that its return to power an effective, come-back had he would produce something up-
financial linked up with the Labourites.proaching a
panic, Under existing conditions, whether justified or not. Weigh. Liberalism, whatever its preciso ing all the factors, the Govern brand. would appear to have ment would appear to have little small prospects of an effective cause to fear the next election, revival. That is mainly so be- always provided conditions do cause, as Mr. Oliver Baldwin not become worse and the appro- rightly says, the Labour Party priate moment is chosen for test- is evolving into another, Liberal ling public opinion,
"I don't remember his name.
He's a pink-faced Bittle vice president with a sparkle în his eye."
It has come to our notice that a well-known citizen has been walking about our city, defying our Govern- mont and laughing in the faces of the police, carrying a $50 note in his left- hand pocket.
This man is a carrier, Hold him! Stop himi
Tell the LG.P.!
Do something. Hooray!
Edward Kelly this week ilus- trates the young Hongkong gold- digger, who has discovered that the only difference between "typ- ing" and "taipan" is in the spell- ing. She spells it "$$$$$$"..
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A Rhyme in Thyme
Since our usual source of verse has dried up to-day, we've had to fill out this column with some of our own doggerel:
"A bright spark who lived in How- loon
Returned home one night for too
non.
When he saw his young Mrs. Being covered with Kre.
He rolled up his sleeves and tore into that other. bloke, and believe you and me what ho did to him was
shame.
We had it all worked out to end that last line in moon. boon, June. tune, ruin, moon, tune or wooin', but excitement ret the better of us.
Silvar
One of thoga· gol-darned Yanks horns in on the argument:
HANK L. BONE: Say, you big stif, lay off that stabilisation stuff, will ya now? What's the big iden hornin' in of the U.S. silver racket? Get wine to 'self, Big Boy, and don't kid y'self you're a big shot in the Treasury or sumpin.
Gee, kid, when I read all about this stabilisation dope, is my face red What are
y' goin' to stabilise, Buddy, the Hongkong dollar?, For crystler sixt
I'm giving you the low-down now, Eddie. Listen, pal, just specto a bit, and when you can buy a whole lot of brand new dollars at around eighteen pence and then out of the blue sky comes chance to clean up on them at about three bob, a, amacker woll, you're gonna say I'm swoll guy.
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I ain't no UP. guy runnin' around spillin' thebeana about Senator Thomas and his gang. No, siri But I'm a wise enough guy to know what when that gang wanta sumpin, | they get it, and it's $1.29 an eunico,
they're wantin' right now."
Bay, an' get this, Ed. Just lay of my pål. Dave, will ya? Davés à (Continued on Page 7.).