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THE

OPEN DOOR FOR MARRY YOUNG AND LIVE THE ** JONAH AT CARDS.

GERMANY:

WHY IT MUST BE SHUT.

[BY AIR LEG CHIOZZA MONKY M.P.]

Union of Democratic

of

LONG.

SIR W. CHOOK ES DIAMOND WEDDING

GERMANY FEARING THE WORST

A MYSTERY “Don't blame your luck, my boy EFFORT TO SAVE HER SHIPPING

FROM THE ALLIES. blame your play, sald & well-known bridge player recently to one who was grousing" about his bad cards. "There is no such thing as luck. It all A despatch from Detroit says that Mr. averages itself out, * ********

The diamond wedding the sixtieth The British people having made up anniversary of Sir William Crookes, His remarks set me thinking, especially E. N. Breitung makes the announcement as I had heard them endorsed by others that he is one of a group of capitalists. their minds that Free Trade with Ger- many after the war is out of the ques-O.M., and Lady Crookes, last month, whose opinions are entitled to respect, who are promoting a gigantic shipping to find that the a triumphant confirmation of a favourite But is it truel Is it certain that there corporation to purchase Germad and tion, it is not surpria, control is as theory of the great scientist Married 18 no such thing as luck nt cards? No Austrian ships laid up in American and every regular player other neutral ports, their reports show- utterly opposed to the views of democracy when twenty four-he will be eighty-four one will deny that bad cards and good that 4,800 vessels of the Teutonic

has his rund

ing on that question as with regard to the in July-Sir William Crookes has always cards sometimes lasting over a consider Powers are in haven throughout the origin of the war and the need to pro been an upholder of early marriages us

world, wrote the special Correspon secute it to a successful conclusion. From conducive to longevity, Whatever he able period.

There are days and sometimes even den of the Morning Post, on March a Nonconformist household there reaches once said, tends to increase our hap- me an eight-page pamphlet, which is piness must exercise a very buncivial in weeks when nothing can go right. You 16th Mr. Breitung is the German being circulated throughout the country Ruence upon our health, may call as well as you will and plyne American mining millionaire by the union, in which it e stated that the executive of this body purpose to add The youngest man of his age is, of steadily as you like, but through some bought the Dacic from the Han who apparently diabolical combination of the Amerika Line, and attempted to send a to its platform as an additional plank course, au optimist. Sir William Crookes cards everything goes wrong. And there cargo of cotton to Bremen. The vessel, the Open Door" for Germany does not believe that the world will be are those other times which always seen however, was seized by the French Gov As soon as the Germans have finished worse to live in after its cataclysm, brieferor is it that they bito less deeply ernment, and with the seizure ended Mr. with the torpedoing of merchant vessels have no fears whatever he said about into the memory-When everything Breitung's attempt to furnish Germany and the wholesale butchery by Zeppelin the future. The whole obarvation of my goes right. The deepest finesses come off with contraband.

Your partner has just the right cards to inen, women, and children in these life has been that whatever happens it islands and elsewhere, we are to place is always progress

fit your hand, and you proceed from the riches of the British Empire at their “But the England of the future will triumph to triumph and are able to play disposal in order to enable them to begin have to be a more scientific England, up your luck to your beart's content. It the game again at the earliest posible The British brain is better than the Gor Who Das not seen thorouglily bad

is a queer and fascinating thing moment. Such is the policy commended man brain, but we have let the German to the British people by the Executive make use of our brains. We make the player in one of these runs. He Committee of the Union of Democratic discoveries and he applies thou," throws away trick after trick. He could

have had the rubber again and again. cant Control, which headed by Charles: Tre

It is impossible to believe that he is But he blunders on, and his cards are so velyan, M.P., J. Ramsay MaDonald, nearly eighty-four. He wanted a paper, good that in the end he profits by hit and ran back up the stairs to get it. The mistakes, not in the sense of learning how spore, active figure is still lithe, the deep to avoid them in the future but by win set eyes are strong and alight. The only ning a larger rubber than he otherwise Sir William would have done. The estos are sup faculty whole fulness Crookes complains of losing is memory posed never to forgive "They certain

I can remember faces," he complained,

run. One little slip in calling or in play hut I forget tumen de le Fay never forgive when you are in a bad But Sir William bas a cheering ex- and you never get another chance of win ning the rubber that for one critical planation of even of loss of memory.

"We do not really lose it," he said, moment was within your grasp, but "but as we get older the state is not big while the "good run" was on you could

any pranks you pleased. play enough to hold all the memoranda. ***

Now, of course, no experienced player will attempt to deny the existence of these strange runs of good and bad cards; but what I understand is meant by these players who pride themselves especially upon freedom from any kind of superstition is that they cannot pro- perly be attributed to luck, but that they

laws of chance are regulated by those which have been analysed so learnedly by Professor Karl Pearson and others. These laws of chance it always seems to me paradoxical to speak of laws of chance are said to prove that if you throw up a coin à certain number of times I forget how many) heads and tails are bound to equalise

and Arthur Ponsonby, M.P. upon pamphlet dwells with alarm upon the prospect of Gurman trade being shu out from the British Empire-one-fifth of the globe" and upon German traders being excluded from the whole continent of Africa and from the con

and China. It seeks to show that such an embargo upon German activities would operate against Great Britain and her Allies," and pretends that our own trade with Germany is so essential to us that the movement against German trade is a danger which threatens the Bri tish working classes and their children. CONCEALING FIGURES

tinent of Asin, except: Asiatic Turkey

of goods from Germany, and only £4,000,- 000 worth of goods from the United King Let us examine the grounds, for the redom That is to say, the Germans al presentations advanced by these pamph most entirely monopolised the Swiss foteers.

market, If Germany had not been trau

ng we should have undoubtedly done more business with Switzerland, and it is idle to pretend that that is not the case. The tre nations were each seeking In 1919 the United Kingdom boughtraith in the same markets, and retained merchandise from Germany amounting to over sixty-five millions

It is represented that Great Britain and Germany are economically interde pendent, and in support of this view the following statement is given -

GERMAN FEAR OF OUR POLICY,

aterling, and sold produce and manufac The pamphlet goes on to argue that if tures to Germany amounting to more the British Empire shuts of German than forty millions sterling.

trade German enterprise will be forced. into other channels. The pamphlet

ays

The union might have taken the trouble to give later figures. It is true that in 1912 our imports from Germany were worth £65,000,000, and that our exports of British goods to Germany were worth £40,000,000. I 1913, however, the facts were that our imports from Germany were worth £80,400,000, of which were tained in the United Kingdom £76,200, 000, while our exports of British gouds to Germany were worth £40,700,000. Why does the U.D.C. conceal the 1913 figures The fact that our imports from Germany in 1913 were worth twice as much as out exports to Germany is sufficiently start

but it by no means brings out the ing, most important features of the case.

Our £40,700,000 worth of exports to Germany in the year before the war very largely consisted of coal and half-in factured materials, while our much large imports from Germany consisted as to the greater part of fiurbed mani d'ures, Here are our imports of may UCESTER from Germany

MANUTACTURES IMPORTED INTO ~KSTED, XINGDOM FROM OLDMANY IN 1913.

Cotton goods

Leather and leather goods

Woollen goods

Silk goods

Apparel....

Furs and skina

Chemicals

Motor cars, cycles

Iron and steel w

Machinery

Toys and gamea

All other manufactores

In the first place, Germany will de velop on a very much larger scale than heretofore her owa internal resources, and thereby render herself much less dependent on external aid in the event of war. In the second place, trade will be abnormally stimulated with one countries which are outside the boycott, in particular with Holland, Scandinavia China, South America, and the United States. The effect of both these changes will operate against Great Britain and her Allies? -

The Detroit despatch is interesting: because of its bearing on information received a few days ago. I was then told of her merchant ships laid up in New that Germany was attempting to dispose York and other American ports, and the Germany, according to my in- reason for this attempted sale is signifi- formant, realises that the war can have only one ending, and that when the terms of petce are discussed, while the Allies may not demand a money indemnity. because Germany will have no money, her ships are a substantial asset, which can be taken in lien of cash. My informant's to use his own words, that "something knowledge was vague He only know, was doing," and he suggested that it might be worth while far me to make fur-

The results, ther inquiries.

justify publica not suficiently definite to of these were tion, but the Detroit despatch would now appear to show that there is some founda tion for the report that Germany is at tempting, while there is yet time, to con- vert her shipping either into ergh, or by a bogus transaction, to place her ves sels under a neutral flag.

GRAVE INTERNAL CONDITIONA

The London correspondent of the New York Times says that from most trustworthy informant, who cannot be more specifically designated than to say he is the Consul of a neutral country in one of Germany's largest cities, a man born of a German mother," he learnt that recent reports of conditions in Germany published in the foreign Press understate rather than exaggerate the case, This correspondent's informant says he has personal Knowledge of rioting on an e- lentive scale in Munich, Dusseldorf, and Frankfort. The spirit of the people had completely changed. In the early days of war women in a fervour of pairiotism exchanged their gold rings for iron ones. Now they try Give us back cur hus bands and sans. There is no doubt, this Consul said, that German people generally craved for peace,

But even supposing that it is establish- ed that luck averages itself out, and that in the long run every player of cards holds an equal number of good hands and bad hands, it is impossible to put a time limit upon it. Fiewing every time you sit down to the card table as a fresh transac tion when you start de noun, there is no reason why because you held bad cards yesterday you should hold good cares to day cannot pay particular turn You cannot pas any particular term upon the period when your luck is bound When told of the report that Colonel to equalise. You might average bad House had informed President Wilson cards for one, two, three, four or five that Germany wanted to make peace, but years just as easily as you might average that the Alles terms would nerve her bad cards for one, two, three, four, or to still further efforts, the Consul seid The "in the first place is quite five days or weeks. The experience of Colonel House probably derived his in- conical. We are asked to fear that Ger the majority probably shows that if formation from German officials, who many will by internal development render accurate observation be kept, the cards naturally wished to convey this impres herself less dependent ou external aid in do equalise themselves within a certain sion in the hope of obtaining President. time of war, as though Germany needed definite period.

Wilson's intervention on Germany's any further encouragement in that direc-

But to me, at any rate, this does not belialf. · Germany is in agony; it is tion. This argument, that after Ger- seem to finish the argument. There exist only a question bow long the agony will rhany is cut off from trade with a large in almost every club a certain number of last, the correspondent quotes his part of the world she will become more men, not always by any means had play formant as saying. powerful by reason of internal developers, who have a settled reputation as bad ment, and that we should hesitate thus card-holders. They are the Jonalis to make her more powerful, is so delight and everyone fights shy of them. How 7,400,000 ful that we should like to know the name often do you hear the remark, Oh, Kamera. So-and-sovis not a bad player, 2,600,000 of its actual authorit £400,000

but he is a shocking card holder. The in the second place seeks to No one can ever wins rubber with him. 1,300,000

make us fear that although we shut of He's a regular Jonah." And there are 3,200,000

German trade with a large part of the others who are snch" notoriously good 1,300,000 world, we shall and German competition card-holders that they seem to think 1,900,000 the hercer in other part of the what, they have a divina, right to good cards, notably the United States, and that, who, on the rare occasions when they therefore, we shall lose on balance. We do hold thoroughly bad hands, resent it wonder if the publishers of this pamphlet

of Providence know what the Germans think about this, as an inexplicable oversight on the part We are in a position to inform them. So

Granted that some players blame their little faith have the Germans that they ill-luck often when they should blame can make up in existing neutral countries their own calling or play, the converse is what they would lose in the British Em likewise true, and players frequently pire and Allied markets that they are attribute to their own skill what is really mortally, afraid of cur adopting the due to the luck of the game. For, when policy which the Union, of Democratic all is said and done, I refuse to believe Control, fously circularising their agente to lac You may try to prove to me

denounces

are eagerly that is a matter that can be reduced

on the subject. There is no possibility of that the club Jonah is merely pasS- the Germans gaining in neutral countries ing through an unlucky stage and that a fraction of what they stand to lose in if we followed his career long enough we 1,700,000 the markets of their present enemies.

should see matters equalising themselves. 1,900,000 7,200,0 Without the materials produced in that large area of the world controlled by the British Empire and ite Allies German trade could never in our time reach the dimensions which it had attained in the year 1913 Possessing those materials, and possessing markets infinitely superior to those at the command of Germany, we

-7,500,000 2,300,000 1,200,000 19,700,000

£56,100,000 Compare this extraordinary list with our meagre exports of manufactures to Germany

Total

MANUFACTURES EXPORTED FROM UNITED RINGDON TO GERMANY IN 1913.

Cotton goods (largely yarn) £9,100,00

Woollen and worsted goods"

(largely yarn, combed wool,

and waste)

Iran and steel

Mashinery

All other manufactures,

(8,100,000

Total ka £27,000,000 Examination of the British figures shows that the £27,000,000 worth of manu factured exports of 1913 consisted as to nearly £12,000,000 of cotton and woollen yarn, combed wool, cotton waste, etc.,

UNHAPPY THIN FOLKS:

One of the readers of a popular health But personally I do not believe it. So journal wrote to the editor, asking why long as the element of luck exists in she was peevish, blue and disconted,

interest everyday life, and some men get more or and his answer will

entiren why should not the same prin "My dear reader," he said, hen

their deserts in their daily ad people. ventures, ciple apply in cards? I hold that there you write that you are thin and do not are consistently lucky and consistently weigh what you should, you have given are in there the real cause of your anhappy feel- unlucky players.

Ings. If you only had a reserve of fat influence to the vital forces, and you would then be happy, contented optimistic.

and

and observe the curious contrast betw.com and our Allies, without the German minority, but they exist. landed his would give a quieting and reassuring.

British and German iron figures, markers, our trade In view of these farts, it in idle to pre-meusly beyond the pre-war dimensions tend that the stoppage of trade relations between Great Britain and Germany after the war would be as disadvantage ous to ourselves as it would be to Ger

many d

The whip hand is with Great Britain and her Allies, and the attempt of this pamphlet to show that economic pressure upon Germany would injure our own wealth production is false

It is also represented by the pamphlet The Union of Democratic Control ac that, Brigad wealth bangs upon. Comme indes, the nation, which Larbours les mom wealth, if either the United bore of contemplating" war of revenge" Kingdon or the British Empire cuts off

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The majority of card players are this superstitious. They may not admit it, but they are. The man who moves into the winning seats or who takes the win ning pack of cards is only obeying Then, too, you realize that the pro- superstitious instinct, although he may per distribution of fat on the body, and try to disguise the fact to himself by say limbs makes all the difference between ing he is following the run of the beauty and ugliness, and you envy your cards which, in his quaint idea, is not plump friends. As a liberal allowance superstition. The superstitious of card of Inable us to bear wine of the trials of IoE HOUSE STREET. TEL 230-155, trade relations with the Germanic Em-false Why are the great majority of life, and 1 cultivate them, although I get fat I know nothing, so valuable

squally I like them, as adding colour to life, you should do all in your power to pires after war, we shall be injuring people making up their minds that after should not be prepared to go to the stake make people fat as a preparation of ourselves because we profit by German

the war Germany cannot be restored to prosperity.

the old trade terms? The answer is not for any one of them. I know several men Bargul, prepared by The Bargol Co. of who, when called upon to choose their

England The answer to this representation is out of revenge bat because of common seat, will only move the way of the sun From the standpoint of health, fat rige of German export trade in the last of German military domination and its Another will never accepta

reserve force, and saves the other tissues: thirty years has been for the good of this object would not be secured if at its from bis opponents. Yet another will from destruction. Ea, by all means try country. No man of bense, whether Free termination Germany were allowed once always look at the last card dealt to him to get fat Trader or Protectionist, has ever seen more to accumulate the means of waging Bro and derive inspiration for his Call in German competition a thing which a second war. It is not a question of therefrom. Another again, will only has not to be contended with

What are the facts! fermany has been ons in the present and hereafter of con- know can only win, according to his own haben eternal punishment, but of taking precau play at a certain table, while one man 1 gaining wealth by selling in the marketa kaning to be cautious for such time as account, when he carries a certain mascot of the world in competition with our- selves. In market Efter market she has circumstances may show to be necessary in his waistcoat pocket. To drop a card besten us in many lines of articles, and And, as we need hardly say, the U.D.C. on the floor when playing is a bad omen. thereby deprived British traders of trade completely ignores the plain fact that You will not win if you abuse your cards and

British workmen of work,

Germany, y when war broke out, was mono- or play with a cross-eyed man. How in a world where, after all, we know - polising certain British imperial pro- very childish Perhaps, and yet how little for certain and least of all the ducts, and that we found ourselves de- very human And surely there is some workings of that capricious thing we call prived of materials essential alike thing to be said for this childish attitude | peace and, in wai

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Take the Swiss market, for example In the last year for which we have record Switzerland imported £28,000,000 worth (Continued on mazs Column)

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