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There is no doubt that John Tranum, who died suddenly when about to drop from a height of five miles, had the art of gently para- chuting worked out to a "t"

MY BUDGET PROPHECY

NO NEW RELIEFS OF

ANY MOMENT

NO FEAR OF NEW BURDENS

(By Collin Brooks)

London, March 24. national purse for the continu He had jumped, in all weathers In

average Engjishman-ance of the best subsidy and the one summer season, at nearly 200m not so sure, about the cattle subsidy Thoe one will towns in Great Britain Scots has a few dates in his cost us about £4,000,000. The Water did not trouble him. He calendar when his sporting in other up to June will be over had many a ducking. He was paratinet is uppermost.

£1,000,000. We may say that: ticularly adept at jumping in rough Derby Day, Boat Race Day, more than £5,000,000, must be weather. When others might have Grand National Day, the Cup added to the total amount to be broken ankles or legs be would fall Final, and the deciding Test found like a cat,

Match Day are the sporting fes- In addition there will be In competitions, however, when the tivals of everybody,

further grants to the distressed aim was to land on the aerodrome With the characteristic incon-areas. What these will amount circle from a given height, he has sequence of his race, the sports to is a matter of guess work- been hopelessly outclassed by less man who is hidden in every All we know is that the first experienced men.

Englishman adds to these as one £2,000,000 was specifically J

£26 A DROP

In 1931 he covered the country on a long air tour with the frat air circus ever organised in this country, by Captain C. D. Bernard.

At that time he was without rival: He could command £25

drop.

of the big days of the year-first allotment only. Budget Day

This year the Chancellor has also account for another increase Unemployment assistance with

fixed it for April 15. ja of nearly £3,000,000.

To some of us, but not, I fancy, very many, Budget Day is some-

All this means that the Chain-

thing more serious than the cellor will have to allow extra holding of a Lucky (or Unlucky) expenditure between £30,000,000 Dip, with the Chancellor of the and £35,000,000 and possibly Exchequer $8 the presiding more.

If we assume that the position:

A year later, when several riyala Curate. were in the field, parachutists could It is the focal point upon in regard to Sinking Fund--that not get more than £10 a drop, in which will turn the whole of our ia, the provision towards debt re- clusive of their travelling expenses, political and economic policy for demption-is not changed in ther By 1933 the fee had fallen to £5, the year. The hours when the coming financial year, we have and even, for a long summer air Chancellor stands on his feet are there the simple problem. tour, to a weekly wage which did not the most significant in the poli- Let me be quite frank. Some average more than £2 a drop. tical year.

of these figures, are estimates" Then the Air Ministry stepped in The Budget is said to be only. I make them with no name access to official figures, and if --rightly, I think-and stopped "opened" because the wing-walking exhibitions on air comes down from the past. I had such access I would still physle which is prescribed for planes. This cut the market still Budget means a bag. When the be only estimating.

might Chancellor makes his statement timid estimate him in illegible Latin as having further, the same kind of efficacy as the

he still opens a mythical bag, and down that £27,000,000 of in potion brewed by a witch-doctor COMIC RELIEF-

what concerns us all is what kind creased spending to around: of cat he lets out of it-purring £15,000,000 or £20,000,000. and comforting or spitting and scratching.

Hong Kong, Monday, April 15, 1835. from unmentionable ingredients.

Another Helpful Trade Agreement

in

What We Know

Tax Yields

A more

bring

If the Chancellor did not alter: the present rate and range of

From the biochemist, as Sir Tranum provided comic relief Walter Langdon Brown points air displays. out, the doctor has now some Dressed rather like Charlie Chap- practical proof that his druga lin, he would suddenly dash out from may play a beneficent part in the the spectators and up to an air llaer This year the task of pro-taxes, what could he expect? body's internal chemistry. It is, about to take off with "joyriders." phesying what kind of Budget We know, from the very use however, a little odd to find this He would cling to the undercar-we are likely to see is easier than ful monthly analysis of The While Mr. Lloyd George was materialist justification coupled riage, and be taken up. Then it has been for some time past. Economist, that industrial pro demanding the "ruthless use" of with approval of a return - to pilot, disguised as a policeman, As a professional soothsayer. fits this year have been well up the tariff weapon, Mr. Runciman"dream analysis and psychologi- would make frantic signs to the pilot, or a kind of fiscal Sherlock-the increase ranging from was putting the finishing touches cal explanation" in the treatment who was apparently, unaware of Holmes, I propose to be quite 83.1/8 per cent.. at the peak of to another of a series of agree-lof our ills.

what was happening,

candid about the way in which recovery to something' over 14 ments concluded in a spirit of Orthodox medicine can, no When the machine landed, the this deductive prophecy business per cent lately. mutual consideration. In the doubt, combine the mental and "policeman"" would arrest the is worked.

Income tax and other direct Trade Treaty recently signed physical treatment of disease "tramp.".

There are a few common-taxation will, therefore, yield' more. But how much more?“ with, Poland, Britain reduces her with more knowledge than the Tranum carried out seven Jumps places to be kept in mind. tariff on one article only-a type primitive medicine-man of the in 7 minutes 38 seconds at Heston In the first place we know how Probably between £25,000,000* of rug whose manufacture is Jungle or the veld, But if we aerodrome in 1931,

the Budget of 1934-85 is likely and £26,000,000. peculiar to Poland. This country try to discover what they are Success depended more on the to balance.

Customs and Excise will pro- further extends to Poland the doing to us we are reproved by pilot than an the parachutist The Next, we have to remember bably yield a little more, but not undertaking, already given in Sir Walter for "Tussing about pilot had to get down after dropping that the Budget 1984-35 is not much. The optimist may place-- other treaties with Northern our health," and if we follow Tranum, land, taxt to the spot where the Budget 1935-36, and the the figures at £5,000,000 to European States, not to increase them blindly, are we not trusting he had dropped, and re-embark him surplus or deficit on the one is £8,000,000. the present British dutles on in something like magic? while the engine was still running,

Your Daily Smile !

Stampa may yield? The death and estate". only a rough guide to the, esti-more. foodstuffs and timber. In re- Sceptics will never cease to tilt

mated surplus or deficit on the duties are always a blind guess.. No one can tell how many mil-- other... turn Poland reduces her duties at treatments which the doctors on over 800 articles, the cuts in leave unexplained, and perhaps

We have already knowledge of lionaires will die in the coming many cases amounting to 50`per the strongest weapon in the

what are the spending estimates year. In the North a party of skating cent. We may admit that such hands of their unorthodox rivals enthusiasts recently planned to drive of the various Departments for At worst we can assume that the Budget 1985-86 on present an agreement would not be pos- is an explanation, true or false, coach on the ice but found that if the coming year. sible unless the tide of economic which makes a new "ism" Round was too thin. So the whole thing fell

Finally, we know the type of range and rates would just about nationalism in Europe were be convincing.

mind which is dealing with our balance. At best it would show ginning to ebb But without her

financial position. Wet know some £5,000,000 surplus, and1 tariff Britain would have had to

the psychology of the Chancellor, then only if the paying of our lawhit such concessions as

a certain Sunday there Was which is a great point in debts is ignored for another the most-favoured-nation clause

christening of babies at the morning attempting to forecast his plans year. would have secured her as a re-

Two considerations now enter; sult of commercial treatles be Itween Poland and other Protec-

tionist States.

Full account is taken in the agreement of the conditions un- der which international trade is now conducted. Poland under- takes not to impose her "com-

laws pensation"

British goods so long as the trade balance

MARINERS OF THE OLD STAMP

Two Brave Pacific In Tiny Ship

"ROMANCE" LEAVES TO-DAY

through.

On

Of a Nautical Turn

service. At the dinner, table that day

ļa family was discussing the service,

Let us, with these things in and father and mother said they mind, look at the position.

Uked # The son said that he also liked it.

The

+.

Restoring Cats

The total of the Civil and De tence Estimates of expenditure (1) The Chancellor, through When asked what he liked best Induring the coming year and of his own words and those of his all of the services, he replied,

the Revenue Departments 18 colleagues, is virtually pledged launching of the babies." C

£490,400,000. This excludes the to complete the restoration of Post Office.

the 1981 pay cuts and 'the restoration of the income tax fallowances.

Mileage

& Shropshire. farmer his trained' cow to draw his cart to market every {Saturday, ' It would be interesting to

know how many miles she does to

Bon of milk....

*

Involved

Simple Sum

an

FOR VANCOUVER

"Romance," a 25-ton vessel which la in her favour, and to assign was built in the Colony for Captain due quotaa to British products. E. P. Green, ex-master of the R.M.S. A feature of special interest is Empress of Asia, cleared at the the notice taken in the Treaty Harbour Office last week for Van- of purchase agreements con-couver, via ports. Her sailing date cluded between representative was put down as to-day. business groups in the two Captain Green was formerly in "Dear Sir: I do not

This "gives us a simple exer- countries, and of the parallel ar-command of the Empress of Asia dering a sult auch as you mention. Ifcise in elementary arithmetic: rangement to share cargoes be and has now retired. But after 24 made for me. If you did make it,

I did order, it, you certainly nevar 1985-36 tween their respective shipping years with the Canadian Pacific Line never got it. Furthermore, if I got concerns, All these under-Captain. Green just cannot leave the it, I must have paid for it. And takings have the common object nes. He is a mariner of wide ex-I didn't, I can't."

fg. Last year these estimates (2) The Chancellor reached a sum of £461,900,000, orthodox but not a stupid finan but during the year a further cler. £7,600,000 was added It was (Continued on Page 8) Having just received a bill from added to cover the cost of reator- his tailor dated July 1929, and marking salary cuts and unemploy ed, "Please remit by return, 61stment benefit cuts notice," Bill Stoney replicemember or-

of facilitating trade instead of perlence and started his service in obstructing it. It remains for a full rigged: ship: In 1890, making| |British business · men to take a trip in her to Australia to pick up proper advantage of their oppor, wool and passengers. “ Captain tunities. They have in their Green plans to sail direct to Toko- favour the almost legendary re-hama without stopping at any port. nown in Eastern Europe of the On board there are stores sufficient quality of British goods:

for three people for three months and water for four people for 100

Medicine And Magic days.

OLYMPIC GAMES ENTRANTS

Even Larger Than In 1932

1984-35

£490,400,000 469,500,000 Increase in sight 20,900,000

Of this increase the Army |will ́take: "£3,950,000, the Navy £3,500,000, and the Air Force £3,089,000 (with the Fleet Air Arm, taking £535,000 from the Navy's share),

Pensions will take: £2,497,000 more, Housing Grants £138,000 more, and Health and Labour services £8,289,821 more.

Subsidies And Grants

of

|_ With the present, supply of oil on A record number of nations, 46, At a moment when osteopathy, board, too, the ship, if necessary, will take part in the eleventh faith healing and other by-passes could travel to Yokohama without Olympic Games at Berlin in August There is a drop in the Minis- to the orthodox medical road are using the sails at all, though that 1986, reports the Olympic Organistry of Labour's wants under discussion, it is well to be is not what the Captain plansing Committee

£44,889,250, but against this reminded' by the Regius Profes- At Yokohama there is a possibility Even the well attended tenth must be set the provision of

New+1Un sor of Physic at Cambridge that of another man joining the orew, contest at Los Angeles in 1982 had £50,000,000 for the medicine, long ago took official which at present consists of Captain only 42 entrants. The latest ac-employment Assistance Board leave of magicThe layman Is, Green and his son Phillip, who is cessions are Brazil, Egypt, Hon Parliament is still considering (perhapa, too prone to take the only just over 18 years of age, – duras and Portugal

Bill, which will drawn on the

Wife: "I gave you that letter post a month ago, and it la atifi, in your coat pocket." SE

Husband: Yes, I took off the coat at the same time for you to sewa button on," and you have not! done it yet for me to wear ther