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France's Financial Experiments

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of wines are produced and stored each year. Some of the wine one carrying a bunch of poppies, casks, or tuns are bigger than or another with only one poppy houses. Out in the vineyard of but wearing a blue cloak over the valley floor is what appears to dirty fiannels, attracted little at- be a huge barrel, but in reality it tention.

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A Limit

Introduces

AMONG POLITICAL LEADERS

(By Capt. H. C. Armstrong)

WHILE the Englishmen in he joined & oughtangainst the

exclusively Dutch.

South Africa will not Hertzog and fought against the is a church.

One girl had the works of a watch trouble to go round the corner British in the Boer War. From Asti is an Italian-Swiss colony, fastened in her hair, another a to named after the city of Asti, Italy: necklet of teeth, but the "Sur-Dutchmen,

political meeting, the that moment he blindly follow- and even more ed Hertzog in his long struggle famous for its sparkling wines.

realist Phantom" disappointed by vigorously the Dutch women, to power. abandoning her pork chop' in far-will go 100 miles to hear their In 1924 a period of financial

and our of a dummy phantom leg álled leaders.

agricultural depression with. roses.

Hence for the last 26 years, came to a climax and Smuts since the formation of the with his Government fell with M. Vincent-Auriol expounded

One commentator gave his!

Union of South Africa, thela crash. Hertzog became the new French Government's A new minister was about to preach fourth dimensional palm to Max government has been almost Prime Minister for the first financial policy in the Chamber his first sermen in a Scottish church.

Ernst's "Loplop It is The beadle asked him: "Are you a of Deputies last month.

And the time and partly because he "paper" minister*n

Young Girl."

political history of South Africa) had, no one else, for no one of in no sense a Socialist policy. The clergyman replied that he 3. Blum himself declared that usually read his discourse.

This was a mixed composition. has consisted of one continuous his Cabinet besides himself had before-he his aim at this juncture. was “Oh, that's a' richt, then. When On the lady were hung: (a) A and bitter battle between two ever held office

and made his devoted follower and not to create the Socialist State a mon has a paper, we ken that he small crab, (b) a watch case with Dutchmen. Gen. Smuts

a fish-kook inside, (c) a

Gen. Hertzog.

personal friend Havenga, once but to preserve the franc and end where the paper ends.” restore economic and industrial.

painted red and brown, and

These two have fought part-his private secretary, into his Ambition prosperity. In purpose he dif

perforated metal

ly for personal power and part-Minister of Finance. "We must go to Stratford," fers little from his predeces- American on a visit to England said whose centre depended a long ed all the white peoples of ly for principles. Smuts want- sors, though his methods are to his wife. framed on very different lines. "What's the use of that?" asked

cards in London.”

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black tassel.

cover

As for the financial heritage to she. "We can buy Stratford post- { One art critic's motto for exhibition seemed apt. It which M. Vincent-Auriol has y dear, one travels for some-Anything goes." succeeded it is about as unen-thing more than to send post cards. viable as can be imagined, but I want to write my name on Shake- the Cabinet was resolved to let speare's tomb** the country know the worst. ·

ม

stone (d) a;

from

Settled Down

South Africa united into one high finance. Hitherto he had Havenga knew nothing of the country which would take its been known only for his volu was part in greater things, the bility and his infinite capacity British Empire and the League for making mistakes. But the of Nations.

minute he became a Cabinet Hertzog feared and disliked Minister he changed. PEER'S ROBES 90 GUINEAS.

all outside commitments and

He ceased to talk, and he The question of the cost of complications. He had

the settled down solidly to learn The famous detective arrived at Coronation robes is already begin- Dutch mentality. He wanted his work with. the deliberate, ning to exercise the minds of some South Africa small isolated, obstinate plodding which is self-contained. ruled by the characteristic of the Dutchman of the less affluent peers.

Dutch for the Dutch and from the Free State. A peer's robes with the best necessary, though of this he luck came to him. The finan- quality ermine, velvet and silk was never quite convinced. decial depression changed almost

Ah! Mystery Tae 1935 Budget, though supposed to be balanced, show-the scene of the crime.

Perfect Chesterfield

And

The

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ed a deficit of some £125,000,- "Gracious," he said, “this is more 1000. An additional £105,000.-serious than I thought. This window 1000 will be wanted by

has been broken on both sides." next January 1, together with

Nothing To Brag About £40,000,000 due to English

Does this village boast of a choral cost 90 guineas. This is an advance clared

a republic. bankers, and advances of £50,-society?" inquired the new resident of 10 guineas or se on the last

at once to prosperity. Quarrel Buried. |000,000 will be required by the

farmers had bumper crops after "Well" said the postmaster, I Coronation, largely due to the in-

To-day Smuts and Hertzog lean years of drought.

And railways. In all, the Minister can't just say that we boast of it creased value of the fur..

have, for the good of South Havenga was carried up will have to find £200,000,000 if We just suffer in sïence.”

The fur much more than the Africa, buried their quarrel, this tide of prosperity to sue- he is to make good his pledge;

velvet is the deciding factor in the combined into one party, and cess but he was carried of honest and sound finance. |

"I desire no remuneration for this cost A famous

Chancery-lane formed a joint Government almost to destruction, for he How is he going to find it? poem," said the office visitor. firm who specialise in peers' robes, which has the policy of Smuts put South Africa back on the Deflation is to be stopped at merely submit it as a compliment with the experience of 10 Corona-and the mentality of Hertzog. Gold Standard. once It has failed, because Then, my dear sir, allow me to tions since William and Mary be Both Smuts and Hertzog are for all the efforts of previous return the compliment" replied the hind them, supply robes from 60 too well known to

Other countries began to Governments prices could not editor with true journalistic courtesy.

make it change their financial policies. to 90 guineas,

necessary for me to describe England came be brought down and. the in-

MEN KILLED BY velvet and silk of a less high grouped all the most capable South Africa felt the change. off the Gold The lower price means ermine, them, but under them are Standard, and others followed. quality. Peers who would not mind men. Among these I searched Depression returned, and be- EXPLOSION imitation far would be able to for the future leaders and came so acute that even

halve this cost, though even 30 rulers in South Africa

| dullesa, clerk in a counting- for robes which are only likely to N. C. Havenga. guiness is a considerable outlay The Minister of Finance is house could see that the coun- He was born try was rapidly going bankrupt. lise. Therefore, since inflation]

be used once.

in the Free State, a Boer of But Havenga went obstinately is a word of fear to all parties

So far the demand for new the back-velt, which is synony-on his way and refused to con- in France, there remain only A Home Office inspector of ex-irobes, which has been brisk. Has mous with the "back of sider any change. devaluation. against which M. plosives said that the presence of been entirely for the top quality beyond," but when only a youth! Blum sternly set his face, and sea water at

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based maxes and salary and

wage cuts of the decree-laws simply left the French taxpayer so much the worse off when the hoped-for reliefs in the

cost of living did not materia

Theory Of Sea Water

As Cause

the bottom of an

the mixed and assorted pro- empty petrol tank might have con- gramme of financial experiment tributed to an explosion at Holl and expedients which his In which three men were killed, Minister of Finance introduced when the inquest on the men was last month.

resumed at Hull last month.

Those who had been export- The three victims were Alan ing French gold and French Gillies, a plant engineer, and money to the amount of 338, Charles Kirman Dickinson, a 000,000 since January of lastbourer, employed by the Anglo- year were threatened after American Oil Co. and Herbert July 15 with severe pains and Henry Capell, a labourer, employ- penalties if they did not make a clean breast of it. An issue

ed by the Whessoe "Foundry and was to be made of short-dated Engineering Co., Darlington.

Special Test

national savings bonds of smalli amounts, and to promote con-

A new top had been construct- fidence the Government actualled on the tank, and it was being ly promised 2 Bill to secure subjected to a compressed air test strict "public accountancy." It at the time. It was stated that: was hoped that this might un- the tank had been steamed out seal the mass of hoarded francs before the new top was construct- and banknotes estimated toed by the foundry workmen. reach a total of £500,000,000| The jury, returning a verdict of and bring them back into cir- accidental death, expressed the culation.

M opinion that the explosive mixture Large stocks of, gold ingots got into the tank by pumping com- and gold coins have also accu-pressed air into it through · a mulated in private hands. To petrol pipe, but stated that they relieve the Treasury a liquida-were not satisfied as to how the tion and consolidation loan will gas became ignited. be necessary, and to meet the

Treasury deficits recourse was tions. All without the deva to be had to the Bank of luation without which its módel| France, which is to be nation- would not have gone very far. alised in such a way as not to But the question is whether leave it in a condition of de-devaluation can be dispensed pendency on the State but so with, whether it is not in fact that it shall be "permeated essential to the success of the with the economic interests of experiment. It is estimated the_country.” That is a that the new social laws will smooth phrase which may tum entail a 25 per cent. increase in away wrath more successfully costs and it seems unduly than it disarms fears. Tares optimistic. to suppose that this on consumption were to be re-will-only involve a 5 per cent. duced, taxes on income with increase in selling prices. De- the British distinction between valuation is winning converts earned and earned were to daily among all ranks of French be increased.

industrialists in the belief that Obviously the programme is they will not be able to carry based to a large degree on the on without it, and the handicap American New Deal The is undeniably heavy on those State is to spend freelyon from whom most is pected. public works, to encourage The hoarders, meanwhile, will general expenditure and the probably wait and payment of higher wages and may even clap: promote circulation in all direc-Ion their hoards.

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