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an Indian peer. Lord Aria Sinha,

spinning jennys taming out

of the national consumers; but they cannot possibly produce coal, natural oil iron, tin or nickel in countries not possess-

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THE recent stabilisa- England to supply wool for Eng-duce coffee, or can they pro- tion accord between cloth at such unprecedentedly low tropical products in cold Ox not necessarily for insertion, but for the first time in history, by the United States, prices Wool had to be brought No grest industrial nation to- the only Indian peer, is taking the France and Great Bri-from abroad to supply the English day is or can possibly be econo-

Teschines, and soon England was mically independent tain and the still more not an importing wool but ex-economic self-suficiency would be The only other Indian peer that recent action of France, porting woollen cloth as well to set the clock back more than In the same way a large Eng-100 years, to eliminate through ther, whom he succeeded in 1928. Switzerland and Italy!

lish population in Lancashire came suffering and slow starvation a His father was only given his title in substantially relax-to be dependent for their very substantial part of the people of

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necessary steps to be present.

there has ever been was his fa-

in 1919, so this is the first Corning their restrictions subsistence upon the import the world.

tion at the time of which a In-

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cotton

To achieve

Even the United States, probab-

dian peer has even existed on-against imports have increasing quantities of

from the United States and from cially the peerage is the Barony again directed atten-Egypt and upon the sale of their more nearly self-sufficient than

of Raipur.

versations in London between received by King Edward Vill at Mr. de Valera and Mr. Malcolm Buckingham Palace at the begin MacDonald on the delicate sub-uing of December. ject of Anglo-Irish relations:

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any other great nation, could not by any possibility maintain ita Lord Sinha is also the only peer tion to the pressing textiles in foreign markets.

present standard of living on the or ore deposits became centres of basis of self-sufficiency. We need who cannot take his seat in the necessity for securing Localities possessing large coal Prospects of an intelligent House of Lords. He has been in economic stability for feverish industrial activity, depen-rubber for our automobile tires. outcome of the informal con- London for some time, and was

the world if war is to be dent on imports of necessary retin for our containers, antimony materials and foodstuffs and upos

for our telephone equipment, jute averted.

forei markets for the sale In a sense we have been live their products. No two countries for our burlap bags, hemp for our rope. We require large quantities ing through the strangest-the have the same natural resources; of silk, tex, chocolate, bananas and most striking - twenty years no two peoples have the same apother tropical products which we are not lessened by the im- BY HINDU LAW promptu decision of the Free He is in London in an attempt of the world's history. In 1918 titudes. Inevitably specialisation

cannot grow. Our industries re State President to sound out to overcome the technical dificulty we emerged from one of the developed as between the various quire foreign nickel. manganese. British official feeling on re about his seat in the House of bloodiest and most calamitous countries. Some nations came to cent Irish legislation.

Lords, which is now being con-wars of all time. Never before be primarily agricultural, others nssten, newsprint, woodpulp and a long list of goods not produced The issues raised have to be sidered by the Committee of Privi-had there been such a burning

here in sufficient quantity. faced at some time or other leges. It is necessary for a peer and universal desire to end; and, as Mr. de Valera doubtless to prove his descent by the pro- war, to build for peace. Every

With the vast in- If our standard of living and concluded, Why not new?

duction of his birth certificate and people, victor and vanquished,! For months past, the Irish his parents' marriage certificate. wanted a peace that would be crease in wealth and our prosperity are dependent upon President has been engaging Since the first Baron was mar-lasting: and with resolute higher

primarily industrial

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wages which imports, they are no less vitally dependent upon exports. We are in preparations for far-reaching ried according to Hindu law, and hearts all set forward to attain revisions of the Constitution since there was no compulsory re- economic recovery and a world came with cheapened utterly dependent upon foreign The King's abdication gavegistration of births in India at secure against war.

production populations markete

One need not dwell upon the him an opportunity, which he the time of the present peer's birth, To-day, eighteen years later, the increased. An indus-significance of figures Na- seized. of making some of the these essential documents de not world seems further than ever from alterations under cover of the

that goal

The foundations for trial exports, is capable of suptional economy has been geared to special action involved by the It is thought that, if the re-peace have not been built. Full porting a far larger population support millions of workers in oc- change of Sovereign. Other de- tails of his programme must, quirement cannot be overridden, economic recovery has not been at- than if it had remained on an eupations which have come to be

it may be possible for the King tained. Unemployment persists in agricultural basis. In of necessity, an undertaking baving been given, be referred to annul the existing barony and

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By Francis Bowes Sayre

economic isolation,

1800 vitaly dependent upon foreign markets. Strip those industries of their foreign markets and you (drive millions of individuals out to the electorate for a verdict. creste a new one.

Meanwhile Irish opinion in LAWRENCE'S LETTERS

Ideness and disillu-Europe's population totalled of the only forms of employment every land the main is intensely critical of

sionment are eating into the heart 180 million; to-day it is 450 by which many of them can live the absurd position into which

and seriously affect the prosperity There is talk of another Law of youth. The gladness of life is million.

Once the population of an in- of millions of other people Anglo-Irish relations have been rence of Arabia book, to come out

being destroyed by pessimism and permitted to drift, the attitude in the Spring, one containing let fear. Security, which must form dustrialised State thus grows through the curtailment of domes

which tic markets. being well represented by theters from Lawrence to correspon- the foundation of all progress, of beyond the numbers

its "Irish Times" when it says dents many and various. It will all civilisation, is waning fest.

agriculture could sup Lowered standards of living, 'as that the Irish people demand, have in it at least one reference

Nations are preparing for war. port, a cessation of its foreign a result of first, an end to the mischievous to "The Mint," of which only ten They are spending far more for de must mean catastrophe would cause intense suffering and economic war and secondly, a copies have been printed in Ameri- armaments to-day than they were for its economic and social life. acute "social disorders in the permanent agreement with Bri-ca for sale at $100,000 a piece in 1914. In spite of the fact that It means forcing down the na- United States; in Europe, where no nation wants war, that all peo- tion's standard of living to a nations lack the rich diversity of REDUCTION OFF tain which will safeguard their order to findtect the copyright

position as citizens of the Bri- The messages from Washington tish Commonwealth.

speak of "The Mint" as being deple yearn for economic stability disastrous level even actual resources which we enjoy thor- to starvation by slow processes oughgoing economic isolation would and enduring peace, we seem Conditions, then, are not dis dicated to Mr. Edward

entail in many countries actual Garnett, be driven as if by an irresistible for many of its people..

The twentieth century has at-starvation. tinctly favourable to Mr. de Mr. Garnett, who lives in Fond-fate nearer and nearer the brink

world

If, therefore, we look life in Valera in the coming elections place, Chelsea, is an elderly man of catastrophe. Why? How can celerated the pace of this

transformation. Were England the face, we cannot escape the un- unless he can present the peo-now. He did not himself know these things be? ple with a solid achievement by whether the book was dedicated way of an understanding with formally to him. England which would serve him as a tacit endorsement of the constitutional changes that! he has in mind, a fact which is clearly realised by no one bet- ter than by Mr. de Valera.

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It is not a problem which con- to-day suddenly cut off from the deniable fact that as a result of cerns the Old World alone. Ameri-importation of foodstuffs her peo-the Industrial Revolution the ma- ca is as vitally concerned

as ple must face starvation within a tional independence of former days Europe. If another great war few months. Were Italy suddenly has ceased to exist. A nation by of suddenly raising its tarif rates, by tears across the world, the United ent off from the importation States can no more escape the con- coal and oil Italian industry must reducing its quota allowances or A chet confesses that he will pever sequences, economie or otherwise, cease operation. Were Germany by granting a commercial prefer attain first-class rank because he is than a carefully barricaded house-suddenly cut off from the importa-ence to another nation may menace It is not insignificant that unable to concoct a certain sweet. He holder could escape the consequen-tion of all foodstuffs for her peo- the very existence of populations Mr.

de Valera initiated the can't make ist

ple and raw materials for her fac-on the other side of the world. London conversations, for we

tories, the German people must face We still think in terms of national must suppose, from all the cir- Top Hat, White Tie and Tales

The floor was absolutely crowded The World Transformation of the 2. serious rise in living costs with independence and sovereignty curastances, that he did. He

with saperbly gowned women," writes!

Past Hundred Years.

correspondingly reduced standards formulated over a hundred years wants peace with Whitehall at Society gossip. Dancing chic, to

ago; but in truth national inde this time as much as Whitehall chic, as it were.

We are confronting a of living. -

Daily life in each great nation pendence so far as a nation's econo- itself wishes to clear the air of

problem which will not

has come to depend upon commo-mic needs are concerned is an out- Wherein the "Irish problem.”

"What should I do with a telescope admit of solution until afties from almost every ather lived myth. lies the reason for the high left behind by a patron?" asks

The ko- (Part II of this Article will hopes now centred upon the cinema attendant. Look into it we are more willing to country of the world.

portant electrical industry, for in-l appear in Monday's discussions

seems to be the obvious answer.

issue of the face living realities. stance, could not operate a

"China Mail**) It does not follow by any

Life has been completely re-without basic A Bad Blow means that Britain will gain "Do a job well, and it never wantsvolutionised during the last come from some seventeen separate acceptance

her point of doing again," maintains reader. view. But conditions are ripe Evidently he has never looked over three generations. The world comtries. Druggists make a daily for give and take, and on the his lawn fiv. minutes after he has of the early nineteenth century call upon every continent of the

was largely agricultural Peoworld. The bakery and confection-` whole, if the British Govern- picked every lead off it. ment is prepared to face up to

greater part of the farmer's materials, such as exotic nuts,

LADY CALDECOTT the realities of the situation, trating, as canvassers do, into ple's needs were simple; the ery-industries use more than a do- and, to use a bridge term, is regions where the ordinary food and clothing could be propices, flavourings and fruits, from

DISTRIBUTES PRIZES prepared to shade its bidding moral would normally fear to duced on his own farm. Such twenty-eight-countries. It has been tread, have come across a num village industries as existed estimated that the materials ne

Yesterday was the occasion of tract, there is not the slightest ber of peasant communities were small and undertook toessary for making a radio travel

BOTE 250,000 the distribution of prizes and cer- reason why Dublin and London who have never heard of the supply the needs only of the agegate of

tificates at the Diocesan Girls' October Revolution, of the Soilage or surrounding district miles. Even beauty shops use ma- should not be associated on

School There was little organised terials from seventeen countries.

Lady Caldecott, who waS ACCOM- terras of frank and open friend- viet Government, of Stalin!

It is surely an eloquent com trade. Nations indeed, ever ship.

panied by Mr. H. J. Cruttwell, Pri- districts Were in There is room for the Free mentary that one needs to go small

of Nations State within the British Com to Soviet Russia to discover a fact economically self-sufficient The Fresent Day Isterdependence vate Secretary to His Excellency the Governor, gave away the |prizes, and many friends "and pa- monwealth, an effective and spot on the globe where Com-units

munist tentacles, or an alarm- useful place, just so long as ist fear of them, have failed to

Thus, as a result of reats of the pupils were present. there is no disposition to fuss

- In the course of her report, Miss

of

to secure an invulnerable con-

advantages that membership of

&

With the supplanting of hand labour by the machine exme pro-

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day which

DIOCESAN GIRLS' SCHOOL

over "labels". The Free State spread.

Incidentally, judging by the found transformation. The out the transformation of Sawyer, the Headmistress, has no desire to surrender the purging of eclogical fats put per worker was multiplied five the past century, the ferred to the big increase in the

ticism in Europe of late, one ten, twenty fold and more, Rail- the British group of nations might

almost believe that ways and steamships were built, life and the needs of number of pupils, and added that the Nazis and the Fascisti will providing for cheap, and wides nations have been re-for children of mixed parentage, Granted that.. spirit, the

now on, regard those pread transportation. Corporate

were accommodation, and provid-

contere.

from

although the School was founded

great expectations aroused by giberian steppe-dwellers who organisation made possible hagevolutionised: Under the all would be accepted, if there

the

London conversations should not be falsified.

A Lesson in

Communism

A NG WAY A money-

have never heard of Commun- Investments of capital and opera- conditions of modern of they could benent trumm.

tions on a gigantic scale. Through life it is as impossible education given "We are dedne ism with a deep respect.

tely a Church School and, Yet, in all probability, were machinery and mass production it possible to examine these the costs of manufactured goods for each of some fifty ready to help our pourer sistach, people's ways, we should find dropped, to a small fraction of for- nations to be a self and we are in

to added

**Miss Sawyer making concern," them living a simple Commun-mer costs. New Hey bus sufficing unit as

Miss Sawyer alao asid that it Jistic existence without having ners, new and higher standards of

in Moscow has been taught an experienced the imperative living, a new world, resulted make bread out of air. interesting lesson in the pro- necessity of b pwsing in Karl Out of the Industrial Revola-Chinese walls and strangull was hoped to start a course cess of taking a national censua. Mazz or Leninism to discover tion grew an age of specialisation. tion tarins can foster hot business training for girls who

There were not enough sheep in 'house Industries at the expense were not going to the University. Indefatigable cinysssers, pene- the way of accomplishment.