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RETURN OF OLD FAVOURITES ON COLUMBIA

Carroll Gibbons And Savoy Orpheans, Mantovani Orch.

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ied for it is only natural that the skill of the maker should enter into the price, but in that case the bar- gain will be made beforehand. buk One of the big questions of the day is how to encourage the raftsman in his fight with the machine. The boredom of ma- chine tending is the root of so- cial discontent. But the battle is still going in favour of the ma- chine because the craftsman bargains too highly for his ser- vices. Professional men are in ́ the same difficulty. The client Amongst the most beneficent never knows what the bill will of “labour-saving" devices is the be. Fees are not too high for the liberation of the purchaser from training and skill required, but the tedious and worrisome pro- they are an unknown amount, cess of bargaining, by means of and the tendency of a generation the fixed price. We do not al that likes to calculate outgoings ways appreciate how

exactly often postpones the pro cess of fixation gone. In fuses consultation with results the old days travel was one long that in the end are far more negotiation. If a traveller was costly and even disastrous. rich enough and sufficiently lei-

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sured to have his own coach he Minor Services- was limited by the necessity of resting his horses at easy stages, topics to the minor services that To revert from these high and that meant that he had to are anything but professional, pay whatever the innkeepers, de- manded, unless he was prepared fact that first impressions-- †

every port should take note of the for a negotiation in which he was at the great disadvantage or a ship where all is regulation, long way. Stepping off a train that “mine host” knew from the the traveller is plunged into a beginning that the guest could vortex of claimants for the pri- not go on another stage. If he vilege of performing the small was in a hurry the traveller was at an even greater disadvantage

services that he requires in the in bargaining for fresh horses, way of porterage and transport. and he was entirely in the hands that ensues is the most vivid re- Very frequently the scrummage of his driver. From all that the fixed railway fare delivered collection he carries away from us. And when the motor car

a place that imagines it has done once more brought custom

all it can to attract visitors. to scores of picturesque but long Beggars mix themselves up in deserted country inns the the crowd, and the confusion is guest who was not satisfied with overwhelming to a man who does the terms offered, terms usual-not know his way and is employ- This ly fixed-by agreement with the ing a strange coinage. Automobile Association, he strange method of prejudicing could simply start his engine visitors against a place is prac

tically worldwide. Perhaps and go on to the next stage. The Railway traveller, arrived at his Naples is the worst, and Colombo destination, then comes under is the runner up. The first port the protection of the taximeter, to abolish it would win a great and the amount of money that is name, and the suggestion might to change hands is automatically be laid before the Conference of arbitrated by an impartial mas Tourist Associations to be held in chine. On the water a man can Hong Kong towards the end of drop into an office before he sails the year. UGG DII and pay for a trip round the

world. There are, of course, a Economic Well-being

few routes still on which

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monopoly enables a company

The trend towards abandon- charge an exorbitant - price::

ment of the traditional economic and the poor service, but even the mea policy of laissez faire sure of exorbitancy is fixed, and substitution therefore of effec- know to the victim beforehnad. tive Government control of pro- There is no need to go beduction and distribution spreada yond the costs of travel into the world-wide. It takes every guise general commerce of life, but it from communism to fascism, and is obvious that the practice of in the United States just now, it making goods with their sale is marked by a furious effort to price is a big labour-saver. Often reconcile democracy to the new the price leaves a big profit to economic environment.. But the The Old Timers. the seller, and when the whole tendency is to go too far and too Mantovani Örch sale price drops there should be fast-to rush from laissez-faire Carroll Gibbons And an earlier concession made, but (regulate nothing),

to national Savoy Orpheans.the saving of time and temper regimentation (regulate every Albert Sandler "And Orch.outweighs all the possible gain thing). Mr. Baruch, the well- that could be had by entering into known New York financier has Rode And His Tziganes. long, arguments, Arab fashion, offered his own remedy.*

It is "Wilson's No doubt the old Arab who sits summed up in Wo

wartime regi- all day in the corner of his shop, instructions for and bargaina by reductions from mentation: "Leave alone what is. an impossible price, does some being well done, administer only scoop.” But the that which is ill. The common customer knows from the start sense inherent in such a conclu- that that price has no relation to sion will reach farther than value, and real business only scholars or students. In fact, it gins when thirty or forty per contains the elements of a grand cent. Has been knocked off. The ommencement for many an în- prelimin ry sparring has been dividual-the. nencement sheer waste of time. The pro-calm, intelligent thinking

Mantovani And-Orch.

Mantovani And Orch. Albert Sandler, And Orch.ef times make

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