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A LONDON CONTRAST.

[BY SHAW DESMOND.J.

A purse-proud plutocrat said to last year in Palm Beach, Florida: Reckon we've got a dinch on the liquid gold of this little old earth."

The figures just published that the stock of liquid gold in the United States innow nearly £1,000,000,000, or 55 per cent. of the total gold coinage of the world, and that the incons per head of the American population is £154 against the Englishman's £65, seem prove my plutocratic friend right. They certainly give what is so often referred to in New York

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"the pauper Englishman" furiously to think.

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COMMUNISM IN FRANCE.

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A STRICTER APPLICATION OF

"THE LAW.

PARIS, Nov. 13th.

In view of recent events in Water, splits," to, buttermilk and France, a good deal of attention- cream. Upon their everyday list is being paid to Communism. In there are perhaps five hundred the current number of the Revue dishes from which to choose. Now der Deus Mondes an anonymous for the prices as compared with article appears in which the pro the average middle-cines Loudongress made by Communism in restaurant:

France is dispassionately reviewed and measures for combating it are discussed. The writer appeals for international co-operation, on the ground that the main characteris- tie of Bolshevism is its interes tional appeal. It is asked, for example, "what is the use of expel- Ling Arcos from London when agents can set up "over the way" -at Boulogne or Amsterdam-with a slight postal delay as the only inconvenience.

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and so on, showing, as will be seen, Why is the average American in-n, heavy difference in favour of come double that of the average England. But the English? Does (a) the worker; (b) the middle-class man; and (c) quality is half as much again bet the wealthy man get the same value ter than the English quality in for the maney expended-in ather these foods, the bread being served words, is the cost of living the in sealed bags and the cream

sare?

staled bottles.

England, with over a million of When you reach the middle-class "official" unemployed, and perhaps home, as apart from the middle more nearly three to four millions class restaurant, it may be taken, of actual unemployed, when the roughly, that the cost of living for sium and unregistered" popula the same articles is not more than tion is included, and spending as 25-50 per cent. in America. You she does £458,000,000 per annum can always live at home, anywhere, upon the "dole" presents the specat ene-half what it will cost you tacle of "the pauper Englishman versus the plutocratic American.

50 Par Gent. Hore Work.Done. The reasons of this contrast are fairly obvious to those who, like the writer, have spent a large por tion of the years since the War in America Placed in order of value, they are: (1) the increasel working capacity of the American worker over the English, in a land where ca canny is unknown, being rot much less than fifty per cent. when production, etc., is taken into account; (2) the greater specialsed training of the American; (3) the steady increasE in the 1150 of machinery: and (4) the vast natural resources of the U.S..

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A Workman's Meal Beginning with the workers In my last meal on the East Side, New York, in the house of A workman, we had fresh perfectly dressed salads, spring chicken ten der as any served in a West End restaurant, an ice good enough for a king, and fragrant coffee simply not to be bought in England, for the American makes the best coffee in the world.

I have had excellent meals with British working-friends, but usual ly the clear liness of the food,, its variety, and above all its nutrient quality, was more than fifty per cent, below my average working

The more national aspect of the matter, as affecting France in par ticular, is discussed in the light of the experiences of last August, when the mob was handsomely dis posed of by the Paris police. It has since been widely accepted that tion in Paris to-day is impossible. those events proved that a revolu- The writer declines to accept that view, and appeals for a closer study of the possibilities. The probable effects of a Communist general strike are weighed with a realism it is not necessary to reproduce here, in the course of which it is pointed out that Communiam is now making considerable headway. among the unorganized workers The Paris polics, it is observed, are to be relied upon, but they are insufficient in numbers and not. mobile enough. It is moreover, When we come to the reward of doubtful whether the Paris garri labour, there is simply no comparison or the troops in the surround- ing districts could be counted son.

Last year when I was in San upon, partly because they would be without ordera, or transport. Antonio, Texas, bricklayers were and partly because French troops getting £3 48. a day, with have always shown a marked dis pinsterers in New York at the same like for marching against the time getting to a day. Cooks were people. being recruited in the Chicago back-blocks at £20 a week, The working engineers I met at my cousin's radiator works in Buffalo were carning some of them as much in a day as their fellows in Eng land will earn in a week.

to live in restaurants, and this holds good for America, as, else where.

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Wages.

Their Millions.

In surveying the psychological side of the problem the article re- cognizes that certain underlying discontents have permitted

the growth of Belshevism in France, and that they are no to be cured by the application of bayonets.. Bolshevism in France, it is observ

The great mass of Americans owned, is symptomatic, and it is for their own houses, whilst as regards the Government of the day to take the question of investment of sav

the necessary; measures," ings over the cost of living, it is enough to state that the amount of foreign bands and securitics said in America to date this year from January 1st totals the prodigious sum of £204,000,000..."

Foreign loans alone made during last month totalled more than 50 millions sterling.

Tolerance And The Law. But. apart from that the remedy, it would appear, is a stricter ap plication of the law. It is remark ed that tolerance has been carried ta extreme limits, while the activi ths of the Government have been in the wrong direction. This year 8,500 foreigners have been expelled, about 100 Communist leaders are under lock and key, of whom 14 belong to the Communist staff, and there are 32 prosecutions pending Also 18 seditious newspapers pub lished in foreign languages have been suppressed.

In a corresponding meal which

Enough has been said to prove I had in this country in the house the unbounded prosperity of the of a northern skilled art we nited Statesman. Now I should had fried fish, fried in petroleum like to ask three or four more per- jelly, served upon a newspapermt, perhaps impertinent, ques. clad table, pasty white bread with loss of our American friends in out nourishment, strong good tea, view of this prosperity':- and tinned corned beef made into

The writer of the article "asks First, how long is this gold-glut what is the good of suppressing a very vile stew.

the end really hurt, America that Rumanian, Italian, or German, or going to last, and if it will not in few newspapers published she has "cornered" the gold of the expelling a few foreigners, when world, as was hinted to me by to French citizens are being, corrupt- of her leading bankers when. I wased by the thousand is pointed out last across! Secondly, what will that besides L'Humanité, the off- happen. to what is potentially the einl argan of the Communist Party richest country in the world (except in France, there are dozens of sub- Russia) when it has wasted, as it aidized local factory journals of doing, its raw material at an the type which, according to the unexampled rate (the fury at the directions of the Third Interna- reast of American finance, se tional, is the best instrument for great banker once said to me) special instruction." And lastly, when the Machine bas

From a study of the Communist But the bigher I rise in the dominated the Man, as it is fast Press in France it is inferred that social scale the greater is the petting to do, what is going to the creation of Communist "cella" difference between the cost of happen to the American citizen in has made considerable progress. living in America and in England, tellectually and spiritually? ... They are to be found in all the save in the very wealthiest classes In a word, may it not be that į railways, distributing contres, and The best middle-class restaurant pauper England" has perhaps arsenals, and they are being de on this planet is Henrici's of lost the world but kept something.veloped among the municipal Chicago. In the menu which more previous her soul? For workers, especially in those com stands before the I can get my what shall it profit a man if he munes where the Communists have choice of 12 “relishes," 22 different gain the whole world and lose his secured a majority on the council. ways of cooking chops and steaks, soul

class meal in the United States.

I can live quite well on the East Side of New York or in the Chicago blocks lying down by the river in the district where labour is recruited for £2 a wook, it have to do Bu

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20 methods of cooking eggs, nearly Nor do I suggest that the Ameri- the same number of ways of cook can has lost his soul-not as yet, ing potatoes, and a dazzling selec-I am only asking a question. tion of beverages, from " Člysmic | Evening Standard,

FRENCH TAX GATHERER'S

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The writer quotes a recent state- ment in the Chamber, only half- heartedly, contradicted, that there were or had been cells in 179 infantry regiments, 40 in artillery regiments, 67 in special regimenta, and 52 in the Navy, and that schools of Communist agitation had been set up in Cherbourg and A friend recommended him to Toulon. He complain that the consult a taxpayers' agent" who Government has taken no action, had tris office near one of the great perhaps being unwilling to resort railway termini and who had been to the manufacture of martyrs by successful in many similar cases legal moans. But he suggests that PARIS.

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from the tax authorities, vendor. these activities more di- French income-tax authorities are

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Further reviewing the work of pursuing their demands and the low rate of pay allocated to Frenchgent When he was ushered the youth and teachers of France, indicated and asked to see the the Communist agitators among

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HOW SERGEANT DISPROVED DRUNKENNESS CHARGE

Possibly for the first time in martial was relieved at Aldershot

Did you form the opinion that he was drunk simply because ho was making faces1" asked Mr. J. T. Coggins, for the defence, and Sergeant Major Henry · answered, Sergeant Olewer, Royal Horse Artillery, said he sang The Old Sow Teaches ber Little Pigs to Grunt" in the Ulsters mese, with

At counsel's request Sergt. Clewer

collectors in particular, are despour site tied to discover that his ad- bility of the public, which in ita history the solemnity of a court appropriate grunts and grimaces.

VIELDSWas none other than the 'cons | fear of reaction" has gone too by the singing of the chorus of annng the chorus of the song, accom-- According to M. Gustave Tery,

troller who had refused to listen far to the other extreme. He old Irish comic song during the Panying it with the requisite grunte - the editor of the Guere, & tax

thinks French public opinion ought trial of Sergt. William Alfred and facial contortions, and the payer in Passy recently had The explanation given is that not to be led away by words which Burden, 1st Battalion Royal Ulster court became convulsed with serious conflict with the local, con- the tax-gatherers and controllers have largely lost their meaning Rides, who was charged with being laughter troller of income tax as to the are so badly paid by the State that In conclusion he observes that in drunk in the col geants uncas sober and was simply inntating dis Bergt, Burden said he was quite. amount be should pay. Official they are forced to spend their spare the last resort the real weapon Regt. Sergt. Major R. Berry said singer's actions while humming the notices continued to stil the tax- time an advising taxpayere how to against the march of CommunÍRNA payer, and a visit to the controller evade the rules and regulations is a counter agitation having the he was in the mess and saw Sergt. song to himself.

The court found: Sergt. Burders did not produce any satisfactory that they themselves are appointed support of public opinion. The Burden, who was, in his opinion,

drunk Times.

agan not guilty. result.

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