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Hong Kong, Monday, May 22, 1938 classed as reactionaries. Some

HERE THERE

EVERYWHERE

Mr. Tillett In Spain.

That most picturesque and popu-

lar of British Labour veterans,

MONDAY, MAY 22, 1933,

AMERICA'S TWO BIG PROBLEMS

THE BURDEN OF DEBT AT HOME

Mr. Ben Tillett, has arrived in HOW TO SECURE FOREIGN TRADE

to

|Madrid, He has been invited

take part in 'the official celebra- tions of the Second Anniversary of the Spanish Revolution.

By H. L. MENCKEN

(America's Most Outspoken Publicist.)

It has always been suspected! that the particular bravura of Mr. Tillett was as much Spanish as Irish. ⠀⠀ At the age of 78 he still

New York That so much money can be rais- wears his black sombrero at the

far as I can ̈make,ed by ordinary devices begins to gallant angle that fascinated and fout, no American of anybe somewhat doubtful: The Ameri- overawed the London dockers on sense expects any | substantial] can up to a year or so ago regarded Tower Hill in the strike of 1912: part of the retaining war debts to Government stocks as impeccable

So

be paid.

There may be some ro- investments. His bank, only too mantica in the Middle West who often, was plainly shaky, and bitter A Peace Safire.

still dream of seizing Canada and experience had taught him to think Miss R.. Lichigaray, a West Ken-holding it for ransom, but, if no. of private securities as speculations sington artist, is the only woman they are no longer heard from. pure and simple, but every bond to execute an oil painting, of the In the great Bayblons of the East, bearing the Washington stamp signing of the Versailles Peace with the lovely languors of the seemed to him to be as good as gold. Treaty in 1919, which includes all beer honeymoon taming the savage But now the threat of inflation con- the seventy delegates from twenty breast, there is # much more fronts him, and pretty soon, eight nations.

philosophical spirit. A few optimists doubt, he will be sayig what a very

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And the has done much of her hold that it may be possible, soon well-informed and moderate paper work with her arms held up by aor late, to collect as much as five was saying recently, to wit, that if bundage which she passed round or ten cents on the dollar, but be- the Roosevelt inflation scheme is her head.

yond that absolutely no one goes. really enrried out its chief affect at The artist has been seven years

Denunciations of the debtor na-home will be to loot the holder of ļat the task, which was' well ad-tions that occasionally adorn debates Government obligations.

Thus he will be reluctant to pour vanced when she met with an acc.in Congress are not to be taken seri- dent which threatened to leave the ously. They emanate from alate-any more of his money into the

men who are

politicians and Washington hopper, as he is already canvas unfinished.

The picture, which measures moralists, not economists. All they reluctant to pour it into State and signify is that it is in accord with City hoppers. The banks, of course, 10ft. by Tit, was too large to go American genius to discover and will be able to absorb the first through the usual entrance of the cherish ain in foreign peoples. But issues, but sooner or later it will be exhibition of the Royal Society of nowhere else in the world is it bet-necessary to make an appeal to the British Artists.

ter apprehended that virtue is public, and when that time comes It depicts a vision of an mainly a relative matter.

the investor may go on strike, as short cut at once attracts a fol-known warrior writing "World" Thus every elegy upon European the taxpayer in many an American lowing. But not all of those Peace" in letters of blood.

wickedness is really only a State has already who are unconvinced can

gona on strike. be

hymn to American rectitude, and It Experience with the striking tax- Your Daily Smile is by singing such humns in payer has shown how impossible it leud, indignant tones that Ameri-is to coerce a man resolved to hold "Man, what's the matter wi̇' can politicians make themselves on to his money. He simply re- a Scots doctor demanded of a popular and keep their hold on their fuses to pay his taxes, and when his |patient. “Yer tongue's as black as jobs. The easiest way, indeed, for property is seized and put up at

ma hat!"

any member of the craft to make auction his neighbours refuse to bid have done so writes in the cur- ́“Aye, Ah split a bolile o' whusky himself solid is to unearth another on it, and any stranger who ven- This is an age of searchings. (rent "School-master," giving the on a new-tarred road”

įvillain. There are times when, one ex-results of an experiment carried

"Dear, dear! pects at any moment to come out in his school, an ordinary What a pity! By the way, did ye

Did ye, now? The Truth About The "Villians ar and feathers. upon some questing soul gravely mixed elementary school of some notice the name of the road?"

Of The Piece" examining the question whether 170 children, in a mining village.

In the present case the villainy feet are really better for walking There, for a year, with the bead- He was a member of the Royal that is condemned is generally For these reasons, and I could on than hands. In former days, master and staff doing nothing Air Force band engaged to play understood to be a good deal more cite many that are quite as opposite, if the world rushed from one ex-but the teaching, the whole man during the season at a pepular re-theatrical than' real..

No one is most thoughtful Americans treme to the other-for example, agement of "discipline was left in art.

In his heart; dubious about the effects of In At his lodginga he noticed really shocked by it. from a Puritan Commonwealth the hands of a boys and girls' that his batter seemed to get less every true American believes that flation at home. If it is kept to a libertine Restoration--the committee. At the end of the and leas; the more he bought, the the debtor nations would be foolish under prudent control it can make process was largely unthinking year it was found that, although worse it got.

to pay a cent more than they little impression upon immense load

Education And Discipline.

of them have given thought, and even a trial, to the "new" me-i thods--and, after all, if tradition must be inspected, shall not in novation? One of those who

tures to do so is threatened with

InflationTM Effects At Home And Abroad

Are

and impulsive. Nowadays, it is several of the expected draw. One morning, before leaving for have to pay, and if they manage to of debt which now staggers the Jusually self-conscious and deli-backs had not been experienced, the bandstand, he stamped the but wipe out the whole account he will country, and if it is permitted to berate, not often spontaneous. two great weaknesses were apter with one of his regimental but admire them as he denounces them run amuck there will be, as Ameri- That inheritance of experience parent. The teaching staff had tons, thinking to detect tampering American reaction to Germany'a cans say, hell to pay.**

which

we call tradition is, by nearly ceased to count as an in-during his absence. The landlady refusal to go on with reparations There are pessimists who believe many, rejected on principle. Let fluence, while the members of the saw the trap, helped herself to the was completely favourable. Even that hell would be preferable to the everyone start again for himself, children's committee were in a butter and, with a grim smile, the most extreme Germanophobes painful uncertainties now prevail. Joined by the Is the doctrine, and he will soon state of nervous tension, border-stamped it again with a regimental agreed it was a smart thing to do, ing, and they are find out if he is going wrong. Ing on breakdown. The experi- button she happened to possess. and if there was any criticism, it farmers and other habitual debtors, The possibility of his continuing ment was therefore pronounced On his return, the musician took was only to the effect that it should who want money to be made as to go wrong is apparently over-a failure, and the old middle one look at the butter, and sum-have been done long before. looked, as is also the shortness course preferred, the well-tried moned his landlady.

the

cheap as possible. But it is not the "Go" rn- At the moment..I believe that to such persons that

more ment will, or can, look when friendly view of France, which time comes to borrow in the greed has boldly refused to pay, than manner.

most Americans take a said,

of time which a single lifetime prefect system. No special dr-

"Very good, missus," he gives for experiment. Studying cumstances had existed to pre- cynically. "And how long have the methods of that eminent no-vent success. The school was a been transferred to the Royal bleman who prefers to be representative one of its kind, Fusiliers?" known as plain Bertrand Russell, and the staff of a fairly average and who knows so much about the sandard. It is for the average] higher mathematics and so little that rules have to be worked. “We are going 50 miles an hour. about ordinary human nature, Here we touch the real cruz Are you game for another ten!" Jany man who still possesses some Exceptionally gifted individuals eald a motorist to his fair com

sense of humour is tempted can, in teaching as in other panion.

EATING IT

to apply these principles of un-spheres, achieve extraordinary "Yes," she replied, as she swal aided go-as-you-please, trial and success by systems considered lawed another mouthful of dust; error,, to some such everyday ad-Junorthodox.. But it does not ne-"I'm full of grit.” venture as,, say, a skating lesson cessarily follow that their wand

of England, which in their view A Dream Of World Financial has paid only under moral dureza and with a bad grace.

Not Alarmed. At Adding To The Burden

The fact that the virtual wiping

burden

Leadership

as to believe that once the dollar

The general feeling is that infa- tion will improve foreign trade, and this feeling is encouraged by Mac ference to lower tariff walls. There Donald's proposal of a world. con- out of war debts, "if it is affected are, indeed, dreamers who go so far will greatly increase the flying on the American taxpayer is has sunk to its old parity with the

causing no visible concern." He is already burdened: so appallingly, the U.S. will be able to upset Eng pound, and maybe gone a bit below that the prospect of shoulderingland's financial hegemony and be few more millions cannot alarms come the banker for the whole "I feel that I shouldn't leave him. Ever since the war every world. But those who think that Governmental agency in the United way are brought up with a start

**THE RIGHT IDEA.

-if "lesson" be not too formal alçın be wielded by ordinary per- [term. (As for swimming, one sona, though to think that it "Say, don't you ever take a draws the line there, in face of a can is a very common error. vacation?" probable fatality). That "royal The "Montessori method"----of road" to success which former which the modern "free discip my job."!! generations were unable to die-line" is but a revival--can operate "Why can't the company cern is in these latter days de- well enough when a Montessori without you?"

clared to be found in unfettered is in charge, and only then, So "Yes; that's just what I don't

Facts You Did Not Know,

do States has been busily piling up every time they reflect upon the debts. Most of the individual States present mephitic reputation of now owe far more than any. Euro-American bankers in other coun rean country of like population, tries, to say nothing of their o

'OWIŁ and some of the cities owe so much that they are hopelessly bankrupt, In not a few of them even most of the essential" public services have bad to be suspended...

OLD RESIDENT'S DEATH:

Mr. W. A. Stopani,

The National Government, Im- mediately after the war, made an sort to reduce its debt, and during [Mellon's days at the Trezaury there. Mr. William Alexander Stopani,

self-expression by the child as to-day, a Russell or a Neill can want them to find out." well as by the artist. Rarely in accomplish things that are quite any consideration given to the beyond the ken of the average need of making sure that the self shcoolmaster, and the real secret is worth expressing. All those of such magicians will perish who venture to hesitate before with them.::. Wa also find, as a

The handle of a new refillable such a creed, or confess them-rule, that these daring experi- selves perplexed by it, are dub-menters are not only singular pencil includes a Falfe blade and

nall Ale, {bed "dled-hards,” and so dismiss. beings in themselves, but their ed: Would not "live softs” be a classes, not usually too large for fitting designation for many of personal contacts of a special Playing cards marked with a sys- was come, progress in that direction of East Point Terrace, who has tem of dots on the Braille system But now the tide is running strong been in ill-health for some time, has their opposites, the supreme self-kind, are formed by a process of have been invented for blind perly the other way. All of Mellon's died at the age of 57.14 expressionists 2 Better, how-natural selection. They thus sona, who call the cards as they reductions have been matched and Deceased was born in the Colony, ever, to seek a middle course, have facilities which can never play them. both of phrasing and of thinking, come within reach of the normal

surpassed by mounting deficits, and and joining, Mesara, Sheyan Tomes 38 soon as -- Roosevelt's" "grandiose at an early age, remained in their

That is what enthusiasts are teacher and his pupils. Their Netherlanda, built airplanes equip-programme of succour for sick employ - for 85 years, retiring in often so unwilling to do. From achievements, therefore, while ped with American motors are being banks, dying, farmers, and dead 1920. He is surved by three nis- severe penal laws we passed in interesting enough↑ in them-used in the air lines, connecting allroads in under way there will tors, one being Mrs. Mailland, of little more than a lifetime to al selves, can scarcely be regarded various parts of the Netherland have to be new sad enormous bor May Road; the others residing most excessive leniency; similar, as offering practical lessons.

wowings

London and Liverpool. A brother ly in education. Just because those who

und

„No one seems to know how much is in Australia. there have been in the past poda- average,

vill cost, I bave et

son of aim!

the cramming hava

"classes" and

which

thods

trom five

school