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WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1935.
NOTES OF THE DAY
FAIR ENOUGH
BRITAIN MUST GROW
MORE FOOD
By COLLIN
BROOKS
It is one of the weaknesses of Our need for imported food
The Very Idea!
THIS EFFICIENCY BUSINESS
By Eddie Kelly, Live-Wire
A word in defence of the report. ed decision of Great Britain to allow the exportation of arma to Abyssinia. Up to the present Britain has scrupulously avoided
even satisfy the Free-CINCE last night we have any action which might contribute democracy that Demos is ted by cannot to a stiffening of the Abyssinian easy, vivid catch-phrases. What Trade fanatic who would have become efficient all over. attitudo against Italy and result Bret Harte called "sabro cuts of every part of the globe employed It all came about through In encouraging that country to go Saxon speeck" stir the imagination on its easiest produce, no matter
once,
to war in defence of its independ- and save the mind the trouble of into what terrible straits this reading the advertisements.
Britain has genuinely en-thinking. Most political catch might fling any particular nation in an American magazine.
We get a kick out of any deavoured to prevent the entry phrases serve an excellent pur-In times of crisis. into Africa of any armaments pose, up to a point. Then they It certainly cannot satisfy any modern advertisements that
we see.
treacherous. The
which might be used for war, in become
new body who desires to see a Britain keeping with the undertaking given Primo Minister has found for us defensively and economically set by the British Government jointly the necessary injunction, "Look to above mischance. with
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The area under crops now in England and Wales is only 75 per cent, of the acreage in 1918.
other Interested European your moat!" The days when Bri- nations. But the position becomes tain had a most that could keep
In 1918 the war had compelled somewhat altered when a European out the attacker have passed, but power, which insisted upon do- even if we take the phrase as as to do with our soil what nations liko Holland, Belgium, priving Abyssinia of any 'means of metaphor the warning demands a
Denmark, and France have always It is necessary defence, herself loads transports double thought. with every modern engine of that we see to it that our defences done-make the most of it as s
food producer. destruction and build's up on are atout-but it is also necessary Abyssinia's frontier an enormous that we see to it that behind those andofonces the garrison is well force for the prosecution of offensive campaign. We do not sup- provisioned. pose that any fair-thinking mon would willingly stand by without
According to the census of 1931 interfering if he saw a well-armed there are in Great Britain nearly belligerent about to maim an, un-45,000,000 people. armed neighbour, no matter what
We consume every year food to the colour of his skin. Britain's the value of about £839,000,000..
decision can be justifled, too, by
of this amount we produce no the fact that no other nation, moro than £250,000,000 worth except Italy, has taken any steps from our own soll.
Of the total agricultural acre- to enforce an embargo against
sup-age in 1918, over one-seventh now Abyssinia. At the same time.pliers for £389,000,000 worth of lica fatlow. Britain will show no favouritism. food each year.
We depend on over-seas
More and more land has gone to grass since the end of the war; pasture nereage has risen steadily and without check since 1919,
Wheat, which is our staple food product, has suffered a decline in production of quite 50 per cent. We could, if we wished, double our wheat production.
In fact we got so many kicks out of reading our American magazine last night that we became black and blue all over.
"What? A hundred and eighty years old to-day! My dear, you don't look a day over 170. However do you do it?".
"It's that new Creme de Laichikok Foreshore Mud, darling. I just put it on be- tween
meals. And just fancy! It comes in 57 dif- ferent varieties, to suit any size face!".
"Oo, la, la! I must buy a keg of it immediately!"
Now, that's the stuff to give 'em.
Take the case of our old pal· Whalesteeth.
After the lesson of 1916-18 we If Italy wants to buy British mun- tions she will not be prevented. If we look on ourselves, as we should never have permitted the
fair enough. If it must in troubled times, ns fall back in national-food produc-money. Good looking and of
garrison on these islands, there tion. must be ferried over that moat of ours, this vast quantity of food- stuffs.
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It all seemin were possible to prevent both of
Even had we lacked that lesson, the antagonistic nations from ob-
forethought and caro for the taining weapons, Britain, we be
benent and future of our race The fact that the Ministry of leve, would be the first to deny If the supplies fail for only a should have taught us that the Transport in London is circulat them the opportunity. But under bare three weeks, our lives are in more food we produce by our own ing. fifteen million copies of the the circumstances it would seem chaos. Trade
know it hands from our own soil the better n people for us. "Highway Code" to all house-not only unjust, but deliberately ceases, and we become
Au- encouraging to Italy's plan of precariously rationed by holders in Great Britain in-
There is no graver error in conquest, to forbid the export of thority, as we were in the grim dicates the importance which defensive weapons to the
middle and later years of the war statecraft than to try to view any Ethio-
when enemy submarines the authorities place on
were question as a matter of economics ac-plane.
holding up the ferriea of food. Jonly. The economic cost of o quainting the public with rules which are considered necessary | RULERS VS. REASON for the safety of users of the roads. The Code is a summary,
Wealthy, he is, with pots of noble birth, he had a luxurious steam yacht and a steam train and railway station. Yet every- body avoided him.
When he walked into a theatre the whole audience made a dive for the fire exits. He couldn't make it out. Even his best friends wouldn't tell him.
As soon as they saw him com-- ing they stepped on it and aimed for the nearest horizon. But at last one of his enemies told him -by letter.
Whatever else we do or don't, policy may be amply repaid by the do, unless we ensure that these political and social benefits.
You guessed it-he had hall- supply ships reach us regularly Ban and banishment appear to and safely wa starve. In war, Industria!
One of the secrets of Britain's tosis. Ninety per cent. of our
greatness has been their failure to arrive means de-that the urban communities been unhappy marriages in Hongkong been constantly refreshed with rural are due solely to this ravaging
disease. stock. One of the symptoms of national decadence is the rapid
That makes you sit up, doesn't diminution of rural stock.
which
over
That is one side of the question.
This is the other!
Every year we pay out nearly £400,000,000 for foreign food.
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There is yet another aspect which cannot be overlooked.
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Sit down again and we'll tell you about another fellow,
Ho thought: "Holy Mike! An-
..
in simple language, of such the best answers a dictatorship
can make to newspapers and font. rules, affecting the pedestrian as writers whose treatment of the well as the motorist. Hong-regime is considered inexpedicht. kong, some little time back, had For evidence, there's the New York n "Safety First" campaign, ex-Tribune reporter, banished; from Times, banned, and a Chicago tending over a period of two Italy for sayings unpleasant to the weeks, and general opinion was Fascist fancy. Probably it should
Men and women flourish more other second of this and I'm that it proved of value. The be put more seriously than that.
Dictators are not dilettante about In theory the people from whom when they are fed on the foods asphyxiated!" But, just to be that are traditional polite, he said: "You stick here. effort, however, was too circums-these matters. They do not follow wo buy should be taking our and drinka
I'm going to throw myself into the harbour." cribed to be really lasting in its the press closely merely for enter-manufactures in exchange or pay-and native to their beings.
on our foreign
That ought to be enough to make effects, and the thought docs tainment, and mete out rebuke inng us interest arise whether or not the authori-Behind the strict watch
any we-are-not-amused attitude. loans.
One need not be a particularly any self-respecting girl go and wash ties here should not take steps Mussolini's agents keep
--In practice the return bargain hazy mystic to agree that jangled herself all over with Lifer's Soap. may not be made, or the Interest nerves and a wearied mind can be Take our own case. We received" somewhat similar to those now foreign periodicals in Italy is a
payments may fall into default, steadied and refreshed by a re-a letter saying, "Are you an un- being put into effect at Home, compulsion that citizens of more
turn to the land in which one was employed journalist? WHY NOT an democratic countries may find hardl We must have their produce: bred and to one's native air.. BECOME AN The suggestion comes at
UNEMPLOYED appropriate moment, seeing that to appreciate. Dictatorships walk they need not have our goods in
Still less need one be a mystic ARCHITECT?" We could have there has just been issued a full tight ropes. They are not balanced, exchange, and they may fail to to realise that the fresh native boen anything; electrical engineer. and completely revised set of an are representative governments, reciprocate in any other way, food of one's own land has a virtue Hft-driver, doep-sea diver; all by traffic regulations. So far, how. They do not thrive on opposition, needs the food orders that go out exotic foods
Because of various political that is lacking in allen and signing the dotted line and sending
transported under no money ever, the only publicity given to that acknowledged requisite factor
We became an architect in three to the various nationa which artificial conditions of storage |these regulations has been their welcome in the representative sys-
weeks. Our wife, who read all the 115. aupply
both British appearance in the Government tem. They dare not depend on foreign, are subjected to various
and from the ends of the earth.
On every count wo must con. Instructions, became an architect, Gazette, an organ which very reason for support. They must
and |arrangements-quotes
the domn the national habit of relying too. If young Eddie had been old fact few members of the general meet slander, argument or like.
more and more on supplies of less enough to read he'd have been an. public ever have occasion to con- An effective
with one clumsy weapon-force.
architect. excellent food from over-seas. weapon, yes, tem-
Our These arrangements mann that
national safety, Our sult. These regulations, which porarily. But still a clumsy one. neither the prices we pay nor the national progress, and our in- other.
We used to practice on each
number close on two hundred. For it thoroughly perauades no-goods we get follow anything like Individual welfare demand that occupy about fifty pages of the body, not even the users, of the a "natural" trend. Gazette. They apply, of course, soundness of the cause in which to all types of vehicles, whether it is wielded. And loyalty to be
on the broad base of public opinion.
lasting must be of the head as well
privately-owned or public motor- as of the heart. Dictators may
EQUITABLE ARRANGEMENTS
cars, buses, lorries, rickshaw, Imagine they can think for all those public chairs, or trucks, and de- under their rule, that they can tails are given of the various prevent their subjects from think- parking stands for motor-cars.ing any but officially prescribed So far as motorists are concern- thoughts. But can dictators pre- ed, the information given is of vent men from thinking? Per-
haps. But only for a while, the greatest value; indeed, every motorist is supposed to acquaint himself with the regulations. Very few, however, will be likely to order the Gazette for this pur The fact of the matter is that in pose, and although the rules are order to keep her export markets usually also published and sold in such countries as the republics of South America, Britain must in booklet form, it would appear offer that territory some quid pro that those concerned could be que, and at the present juncture much better served by being sup- the "most favoured nation" clauses plied with pamphlets setting out and various other economic ar- those regulations which directly rangements seem to be the only affect them. In this way, the means of guaranteeing an companies operating public, ser-door to British products in such vices and the individual. car-Conference, the export trade of the areas. As a result of the Ottawa owner could be separately serv Dominions to the United Kingdom ed, with only those parts of the has been materially increased. regulations which directly con- Aad at the same time, although cern them. There would then restrictions and embargoes may be no excuse for anyone not cause hoart-burnings, the policy of knowing the exact requirements the British Government in arrang- of the law. At the same time, Ing trade agreements with foreign. the authorities might consider sible for the increase of $14,300,000
Countries has been largely respon the desirability of issuing free of Great Britain's export trade charge similar circulars for for the first five months of 1935- pedestrians, setting forth the as compared with the total for that obligations required of them in period of 1934. Simultaneously,
open
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. co-operating in safety on the Britain's imports rose £4,000,000
"PERFUMERY DEPT.
roads. Measures such as these in the same period. Britain might would be far more effective and do worse than follow the present lasting in their results than system, which, though it may ro- quire adjustment in detall, seems, spasmodic Safety First" cam. to be based upon a' reasonably paigns.
sound and practical foundation
we grow more food.
*Never mind reading all that stuff about your parents.
does it say about how I was dressed 7"
The wife would fall through the front door and say:
"I got that there raise, Eddiel That brings me up to $11,559.59 per, an' next week they're going to make me managing director!"
And we'd say:
"And it's all due to the Inter- changeable Correspondence School Now we'll be able to get that yellow and red blanket for next winter." When wo sit down and strap our- self into a chair and think of how on earth we got on before there | were any advertisements, when we didn't have phorrhoea or halitosis, or unsightly hairs, skin blemishes, no ambition, couldn't play music on a saw, couldn't hold board meetings spellbound, and were never offered the opportunity to earn $1,000 a week giving away packets of giant beans... well, it makes us feel Borry for us, when we look back on ourself.
Picture of young Hongkong wife proving to husband fat how much she invaded dosrk to keep up appearances),