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SATURDAY, MAY

1933.

TRUTH OF AMERICA'S GOLD PROBLEM

BRITAIN HELD FREE

FROM BLAME

ECONOMIC DRIVE A MYTH

Searing that the tower might be (By the City Editor of the London preciate to an extent which will

used as a point of attack against the Bank, had it pulled down.

Inside the Bank is a court which was the graveyard of the old church.

have

Rubber Heeled Horses. Successful experiments been carried out by a rubber com- pany to test the practicability of rubber heeled and toed shoes for ||horses.

The majority of accidents to draught horses arise from slipping

Evening Standard.)

the villain of the plece.

deprive the "Sterlingarian" pro- ducers of their advantage over London. American producers.

“Sterlinguria”.

to a

America is of the gold standard. The significance of the step, taken Now there is, let us admit it, such eve of Mr. MacDonald's a thing as "Sterlingarfa," More's on the very e arrival in Washington, can hardly the pity! The pound lost a great advantage when so many other countries tied their currencies to it. be exaggerated.

For Great Britain, with her manufacturers would have had the depreciated currency and, still If we alone had gone off gold, our worse, her Exchange Equalisation manufacturers would have had the equivalent of a bounty which would Fund, le, in many American eye, have gone some way towards re on the wet and greasy surfaces of

moving the handicap from which modern streets, and it has been We and the countries which fol- they suffer in the international mar found that the anti-slip iron studs,lowed us in abandoning the gold ket by reason of the lower wage used as a protection on icy sur standard are supposed to be engag- levels obtaining in such countries an faces accentuate rather than de

ed in what has been called "the Czechoslovakia and Japan. crease the danger.

But those countries followed the The rubber pads are constructed economic drive against America." pound. The Japanese yen, which on metal cogs which can be re- A country with a depreciated cur- forsook gold in December, 1931, not placed without removing the shot rency can undersell in the world's only followed it but passed it. The from the hoof, and the rubber acta as an absorber of the shock of the markets the manufacturers of a advantage it had obtained as com- pared with sterling was about 15 constant pounding on paved country which has kept ita currency per cent. in 1932 and is to-day some streets.

at per with gold. - ';

where in the neighbourhood of 40 The realisation of this simple per cent this in addition Guarding The King. fact has been gaining ground in the much lower standard of living

among Japanese workers. The King's Body Guard is not American mind, and even the econ-

It is true that American experts the Brigade of Guards, but three omists have taken a hand in drivhave fallen. So have, during the jancient corps, the oldest of which! Dr. Goebbela's policy of dis-was formed by Henry VII.

jig it home. The participation of same period, the exports of Great crimination, draws multitudes to The Yeomen of the Guard, the economists might, after their Britain, Germany, France, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, and for that mat- whom music speaks a common founded in 1485, consists of 110 record as givers of advice in all the ter all other countries. British ex- Hong Kong, Saturday, May 20, 1985. language. The list can be pro-officers and men, with a captain phases of the world-crisis, give porta to America have fallen since

longed, and it will be a grievous whose salary is £1,200 a year. Art And Nationality. have an international appeal. In occasions.

misfortune for art if it ceases to They are, employed on all state pause to those inclined to accept the last gold standard year of the that reading of the present situa-pound, and there is no near prospect such an event, it would no long. The Corps of Gentlemen-at tion. But what, they assert is This shrinkage of the whole- There must be many Germansfer be art. What is meant by a Arms was founded in 1509. They usually believed by the sufferers volume of the world exchange of who, confronted with the ap-"national spirit in art? Shake-are in attendance at coronations from their previous ssertions for goods and services is due to no con- speare was a robust patriot, No and levers, The captain's salary some time after they have changed spiracy, but to the fall all over the parent alternative of Nazi-ism one but an Englishman could is £1,000.

their minds and begun to diagnose world of the prices of primary com→ and Communism at the last elec- have written his plays. Yet In Scotland, the King's Body a new cyll and recommend = new tions, voted for the former as German commentators have pro- Guard is the Royal Company of cure. the lesser of two evils. But did duced tomes elucidating his inter- Archers.

What the American economists pretations of human nature, No The Beefeaters, who are warders have been telling the American peo- they suppose that they were giv-lone unfamiliar with conditions in of the Tower of London, are not ple is exemplified in a recent article ing a mandate for a policy which the Aegean 3,000 years ago could included in the Royal Body Guard in the Saturday Evening Post" by reduces the admirable sentiment have written the Homeric poems,

that lively and lucid writer, Mr. but these have been the model

Garet Garrett, of patriotism to the crudest form of all subsequent eqics. Mollere, of chauvinism? Dr. Goebbels, in his "comedy of manners," in-

The China Mail

♫

•

Facts You Did Not Know.

of their increase.

modities. [A

There is good reason for saying that this fall directly resulted from the selfah gold pelley adopt. ed by Franca and America during the post-war years, greyta Further, it must always be re-

Mr. Garrett writes with the ease membered that a depreciated cur- and confidence of one to whom the rency assists us when we are selling, theory of international exchanges in but works against us when we have

a member of the German Cabinet, situted a mode which is imitated and, by the sport of irony, by contemporary writers in Bri- Virtually unbreakable flashlight as familjar. as his pocket. But the to.buy. We buy vast quantities of Minister for Popular Enlighten- elsewhere. Every picture gallery that also makes them avaliable for out which his case and liveliness ton, tobacco, oll, copper, and so tain, America, Germany, and bulbs are being made of a crystal feeling to which he appeals, with raw materials from America, cot- ment, in replying to a protest worth consideration contains surgical purposes as they can be would go for nothing, is better ex. forth, and for all of them we are against the ban upon Jewish examples of foreign work. Dr. sterilized.

pressed by the pictures, which obliged to pay more since we went

off the gold standard. ... musicians, sald that "all art that Berlin, Dresden,

Goebbels is presumably aware

accompany his article. and Compressed air blown from slota These pictures are souvenire of Indisputable Facts. must be inspired by a national Stuttgart house wonderful col- under the stern of a shallow draft Washington, sold to plous pilgrims As for the famous Exchange spirit." This pronouncement lections. The painters who made boat of French invention propels to the national capital, but, alas! Equalisation Fund, it is absurd to

& was in keeping with Herr Hitler's these picture were not obsessed the craft at a speed of nearly 40 made in Japan, and of other objects suppose that it could be used to.

by ukase that Germans must be capital of the empire of art is

a "hational spirit." The miles an hour.

made in Germany and Czecho- maintain the pound permanently at slovakia and exported to the United an artificially low level as compared ruled by Aryans, and that, there- named Cosmopolis. The Ger- A new desk thermometer resem States. (It is a curious fact that with the dollar, fore, the Civil Service is to be man plan is equivalent to building bles a clock, a hand being moved no Illustration to this article repre closed to Jews. This revives the national spirit" in art is im-as a piece of thermostatic rueta tain). The profusion of such ob wall around one suburb. A backward and forward over a dia sents anything made in Great Bri Nordic superstition which has plicit but should it become ex-contracts or expands. been exploded long ago. The plicit it contribution of other stocks to parochialism. From that de-

him wonder how they have come Since 1924 the German govern through what he supposed to be an our civilisation is recognised, and Spontaneous manifestations of or single dwellings, designed

clension there is no escapement has built 1,751,688 apartment!

impenetrable tariff-wall many ethnologists, describing the this spirit can be very fine. The pecially to house the poorer popula Nordic type, say that, had it been Marseillaise." "Henry V." and tion of cities. unresponsive to the impact of out- Gaunt's speech in "Richard IL

soon lapses into

dide influences, it would have of a bugle-call, Tschaikowsky's nurseryman, a motor truck has been stir the blood with the summons The invention of a Nebrasks been conspicuous for brawn "1812, with its triumphant constructed to pick up and carry rather than brain, Realising climax of chimes, celebrates the whole trees to new locations where their Imitations, the Nordics

deliverance of a country from an they are to be transplanted. linvader. had the sense to enlarge their these, if sustained, inevitably But efforts such as boundaries. At a very early lead to propaganda, which is the

Personal Pars.

¡jects has struck the mind of the -made average American, and has

Depreciated Currencies. The economists have been explain ing to the average American that it] is all due to depreciated currencies

They go farther and draw is attention to the Exchange Equal mation Fund, the instrument by which, in their interpretation, Great Britain keeps her currency depreciated to her own advantage and to the detriment of America.

of

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BEGGAR BANKS £7

PER MONTH,

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Vienna. Adolf Anders, aged 57 years, arrested for begging-in Vienna's Bond Street, the

aerntnerstrasse,

At the police station, how- ever, his savings-bank.... book showed a credit of £100 and the this" withdrawal of £300 a year main-iago,

t it was accepted that art, as toe of art, a deity sexless, Mr. S. D. Begy, of Messrs. John They point to the..

science, is not national but tionless, and remote from the petty strifes and strafes of the

Thornycroft Co., Ltd., left the£150.000.000 devoted international. Anyone who ex-politician. It is almost "in

used to Colony by the sa, Empress of purpose.

tain

pound at a level Anders explained that he had tended the horizons of beauty or credible that Germany should be Canada, yesterday.

which will benefit- our manu-lived by begging for 15 years, learning was given a free char willing to discard traditions which

turers in the world mark

y go further still and allere there is a block of nat

hateverything over - his bare: needs went to religious rities. -The: £300: had gone

enable her to claim an honoured Mr. G. H. Potts, Chairman of the ter, irrespective of his race rank in letters, philosophy, and Hong Kong Stock Exchange, was Holbein came from Germany to music. Next to Goethe, and passenger on the Empress -lo a phrase “horrowed "from" Sir that way. He added that he England to paint the portrait of Schiller, Heine Is perhaps Ger. Canada, which sailed from Hong Baell Blackett, Bir” Garrett *King

VIL Walle Eng many's greatest poet. He was Kong, yesterday, land was at war with France, La A Jew Will he be placed on Ferou

ment in do the

and members of his ex the index expurgatorius": party were hospitably Will the reports of the

In the Infant settle of Nations be prohibited:

New Holland Why ground that their aim is to foster and

rage.

generationa

his vision

attemp

to pro

"STERLINGARIA? and whi fengaged in a de forthcoming marriage : has capture Americ

Sullivan, d'a trade and

depression and burden of chá

up an international as opposed to a Terrace, Hong Kong,

strictly national spirit

process of insulation. intellectual princi

phere agree to

alls was banking £7 a month; 3

· He has now been prosecuted for begging. Reuter

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