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STOCKINGS

GUYAS WILLIANS

COMES IN TO PARENTS' ROOM TO REPORT THAT HE CAN FIND ONLY ONE STOCKING

RETURNS TO LOOK AGAIN ASSURING THEM IT WONT DO ANY GOOD, HE'S AL- READY LOOKED EVERY WHERE

STANDS BY, WHILE BOTH PUTS IT ON ́AND AN- PARENTS' SEARCH, FINDING NOUNCES NOW HE CANT MISSING STOCKING AT - FIND THE FIRST STOCK LAST UNDER THE BED-ING, HE MUST HAVE CLOTHES

LEFT IT SOMEWHERE

10-20

By GLUYAS WILLIAMS-

LISTENS DUTIFULLY AS DAD COMES IN, EINDS STOCKING AND DELIVERS LECTURE ABOUT USING ONE'S EYES

MOTHER IN DESPERATION GETS OUT CLEAN PAIR OF STOCKINGS FOR HIM

(Copyright, 1930, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)

DO WE WANT DISARMAMENT?

£8,800 FRAUD ON

LORD CECIL'S CHALLENGE.

THE FRAMEWORK COMPLETED.

Do the peoples wish for disarma-

MAN. OF 80.

£18,000 BRACELET RETURNED.

A LITTLE. LATER REPORTS GLEEFULLY, THE STOCKING DADDY FOUND WAS THE ONE HE ALREADY HAD, THE TOE WAB DARNED

CALLS DOWNSTAIRS AFTER A WHILE THAT HE'S FOUND! THE OTHER STOCKING, SHALL HE TAKE OFF THE CLEAN ONES AND PUT ON THE OTHERS, OR WHAT?

KIND HEARTED BRITISH POLICE.

"ALWAYS READY TO DO 4 GOOD TURN."

Owing to a police officer speaking highly of the character of a man who had assaulted him only a 10s.

EMPIRE FREE TRADE DID NOTHING TO

SIR W. BEVERIDGE'S CRITICAL ANALYSIS.

Sir William Beveridge, a stous upholder of Free Trade, made in'a i broadcast, takk the following reply

WIN WAR"

COLONEL DRURY AND- MODERN YOUTH,

"Don't be too ready to dictate

ta. a broadcast address by Lord your elders how the world should. Bonverbrook on the question, al

be run. When you are tempted to trade within the Empire.

do it, remember that you did What Lord Beaverbrook wanted nothing to win the Great War, 'for- the very good reason, it is true,! ultimately, said Sir William, was

to get Empire Free Trade adopted that the eldest of you were babies by the whole of the Empire. What the time, and some of you were ho wanted at once was to get Emot even born. But the generation pire Free Trade lopted by Britaih immediately ahead of you won, it without waiting for the rest of the themselves. Apd, instead of laying for you at a tremendous sacrifice to Empire. The Dominion Premiers down the law and expressing your had said quite plainly that Empire

opinions, it would better become Free Trade was neither desirable nor possible. They shouted it in have given something for all that you to wait until you, in your turn, his ear," said Sir William. "Bat Lord Beaverbrook gees on pretend- ing to be stong deaf. Lord Beaverof Saltash), when addressing par

you have received," je m..

So said Col. W. F. Drury (Mayor

ner-side School' at the prizegiving ents, teachers, and pupils of Gur Plymouth Guildhall

brook' argument is no argument for him at all; it tells against him, not for him. His actual proposal to tax everything, got only manu factures, but all food and all raw, Col. Drury said that to prevqat the At another stage in his specia materials coming to us from a scholars going away too swollen. foreign countries, to tax not only headed" and because it was the wheat and meat and maize, butual thing to do" he ought to timber, cotton; copper, lead, zine, point out some of their faults, Ne- and iron ore—is as wild as his argu- ferring to speaking and writing ho ment. It would rush up the price said they used too many adjectives of everything. It would upset and adverbs-and generally the every wage bargain. It would put wrong ones. Things always seemed

every export trade into Queer Street.

to be terribly amusing"" fright. fully cheery," or "jolly rotten"

Sir William said Lord Beaver

"The best story-writers in all brook argued that we were employ literature, the men who wrote the ing foreigners by purchasing their stories in the Bible," he said, producia, when by taking imports wo could put our own unemployed tiver and adverbs. In their stories "never employ superfluous abjec

back to work.

This argument the lions roar and the birds sing "bears no relation to the tragic they never roar horribly' or sing facts of our unemployment." Sir beautifully." " William argued that the bulk of our unemployed were in industries which depceded on export or in

one of those mouldy back num Colonel Drury denied he was

bers," who imagined that they

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are rather apt to forget," he said, generation always wrong,

Arrested on a warrant issued a year ago, William Morrison (40), an The world can be disarmed if the American, was, at Bow Street sen- fine was imposed on William Morris sheltered industries unaffected by were always right and the younger peoples wish.

tenced to 18 months' imprisonment son (23), of Walmer-road, Notting export. Therefore tariffs would not and recommended for deportation Hill, who pleaded guilty at West help most of our unemployed, while for obtaining £3,800 by false pre- London to assaulting Police-can-they would tend to reduce the pur- tences from Mr. John P. M. Wat-stable Mortoni ters; a Scot, of Saltash, Cornwall. There were other charges of steal

a bracelet valued at £18,000 and obtaining hills of exchange for

ment?..

Only they can answer, This was the challenge thrown out by Viscount. Cecil when the Pre- paratory Disarmament Commissioning

concluded its work.

The Commission has been sitting | 10,000 by falar pretences, but ho since November 11 to draw up, pleaded guilty to the £8,600-charge, after four years preliminary work, and that was accepted. a skeleton conventión in which the

World Disarmament Conference, when it meets-probably early in 1933 may insert figures for the limitation and reduction of arma

ments.

Lord Cecil, who has had a large share in bringing about the mea sure of agreement which has been reached, was described as the archi-

tact of disarmament.

The officer said that he told some men to be quiet and go home, where upon Morrison dealt him a violent blow on the chin.

"I should like to say," added the officer, that I have known the defendant for six years. He beare

"that some of us in our youth lived chasing power of those who bought from us. To make foreigners poor the present one." He added that in a totally different world from er by ceasing to employ them would be the short way to make things bewildered him, but that he had the present generation "utierly

At the same time, he believed a secret admiration for them.

that had Queen Boadicea lived to- day, she would have been able to

Amy Johnson had done,

worse for ourselves, Fine in Theory, but Impracticable. "I believe that the ultimate truth Mr. Fulton (prosecuting) said that agt, met Morrison at a boarding old mother, who has a small market doesn't work in practice. Or rather Mr. Wattors, who was 80 years of wonderful charreter and helps his about Imperial Preference is that Ay to Australia the same as Miss

it is really rather fine in theory and house in Brighton. Morrison told round."

that it won't work beyond very him that he was a bauker in Mon

narrow limits; if you press it be 330,000 Canadian Pacific Railway treal, and had bought in a pool

yond those limits it works badly harmony in the Empire." badly for trade and Eadly for

shares.

He said that his portion was more than he cared to carry, and Mr.. Watters agreed to take up share to the amount of £11,000. Morrison said that this would leave himself with £18,000 in the pool.

"Bubstantial Restitution.!

Morrison expressed regret for what had happened, and the magis. trate told him: "I should like you to remember. adways that the man you assaulted is the man who has pleaded for you hero. Police officers havo to do their duty, bub they are extromaly fair and niways do a good

Mr. Watters went with Morrison turn if they possible can." to London and withdrew from his

combank a bracelet worth £18,500 and large sums in cash. He also gave

First Steps Takan.. The only function of this mittee," said the British delegate, "was to draw up the framework of a Treaty in which afterwards could be inserted effective proposals for disarmament."

He went on

"Consider what had been done! We have provided for limitations of numbers of per- sonnel; we have not said how much --that is for the conference. But

Morrison hills of exchange for MOLTEN SLAG EXPLOSION. £10,000. Both the bracelet and the bills were returned in December and January. It was later discovered HUNDREDS FLEE IN TERROR. that Morrison's story about being a banker in Montreal was untrue. He left the country and was arrested on his return.

NOVELIST'S HEIR.

SON FOR MICHAEL ARLEN.

Countee Atalanta Mercati, wife. known novelist, has given birth to of Mr. Michael Arlen, the well- a son and heir at.4, Stanhope Place, Hyde Parki

example. If Canada and Austra Sir Willin took wheat ap 30 lia, he said, under a preferential all the wheat which now comes to system came to supply to Britain

Britain from elsewhere, Canada and Australia would still in all normal years have to find a market for a large part of their crop outside Britain in foreign markets. Mr. Arlen was married two years "So long as they competed with ago at the Russian Church in one another they couldn't be better birth, and changed his game several Cannes. He is an Armenian. by off; not one of them could get a years ago from Dikran Kouyaund- penny more in Britain than thean. He is a naturalised British world price in the foreign market;

Mother and son are progressing. favourably.

if he began doing so other Domi subject, and was educated in Eng- nion farmers would send to Britain Countess Adalanta Mereal's

land. Irlam (Lancashire).-When molten till the price in Britain came down father, Count Mercati, was Cham Mr. Myers, for Morrison, said slag from the furnaces of the Lanca to world level. If the Dominionberlain to the late King Constar 300 was found upon him, and heshire Steel Corporation was being another, and formed a ring they.

farmers stopped competing with one time of Greece. was willing that this abould be re-tipped on a heap in the Corpora could be better off; they could get turned to Mr. Watters, and, further. remained, which the British Govern-made. Civil proceedings were pend-occurred, a mass of slug, weighing the lower world price in foreign It was true that conscription still substantial restitution would be tion's ground a terrific explosion a monopoly price under preference in Britain and sell their surplus, at ment would like to see abolished, ing.

hundreds of tone. being shot high countries. into the air,

we have created the possibility of limitation of all three arma,"

but by providing for limitation of Chief Inspector Helby said that the period of gervice limitation Morrison's real name was believed which might go to any length-they to be Walter Leslie Marks, and had automatically provided for there was no doubt that he was limitation of trained reserves. connected with share-pushing. Most of the cash obtained was in E1,000 notes, and these were changed in Paris by a poman. Morrison had never been convicted, but finger- He insisted that there was no prints revealed that he was "want Bnality about the convention. The ed" in the United States. first advance was only the prelude to greater advances later on. “We

Within that framework" said Lord Cecil, the conference will be able to carry out any degree of limitation whatever."

They do not propose to lower Dominions' Policy in the Way.

Any tariffa for us, but only to raise "Just a Bad Joke."?

still mor some of their tariffs surroundings with cerio effect, and to Empire unity is just a bad joke. further against us. Indeed, they

Sheets of flame lit up the dark"But to suggest this as a means

against foreign countries. They do not even promise not to raise tariffe the explosion was heard ten milea It means that Canadian and Austell us frankly that they will raite away."

tralian farmers. would exploit a tariffs and shut us out still more es monopoly given them by Britain in they develop their industrica: still Peolpo living in Whitfield-street, order to dump abroad; the British further. a stone's throw from the scene, consumer in the name of Empire" The protective policy of the rashed from the rocking houses, order that foreigners might get it narrows the scope for Imperial Pre would pay more for his food in Dominions more than anything else carrying their children.

cheaper than he did...

ference. If and when they freely. are to have revisions every five or falls far short of our hopes and houses in the street was blown out. Iference on a grand scule without Imperial Preference will be widen Nearly every window of the 50One craft have Imperial Pre changs that policy the scope for ten years, be raid. "Even if the expectations," he said: It does. first step is disappointing, in five not hold out the promise of immedi- Showers of glass fell on the heads food of the people. Is our British Till then there is little doing. In taxing food--not luxuries only-hated, and I for one will welcome this. or ten years we can advance still ate reductions of armaments, but of passers-by. Along the Liverpool abjection to taxing food just mouldy theory there is a good deal to be further

we can at least foresce stabilisa rond 14 shops and one house had prejudice, or has it a solid basis in said for Imperial Preference In Lord Chell concluded with an api.tion," peal to the peoples of the world, Count Bornstorg (Germany) said Vindows shattered:

economics? It has a very solid practice, with the fiscal policy of They have," he said, "the op-fail to observe the absence of the the peoples of the world would not

·basis, indeed,” A tax on food the Dominions as it is, there is not The general manager of the com- graduated the wrong way round, much that can wisely be done, about portunity of carrying forward the most important feature the will to

pany, Mr. J. Pharetou, afterwards like an income tax of ten shillings it perhaps a little more than nowie disarmament of the world. What will they do 1 The world can be

dieirm.

gave the following statement to a on the first £500 of income, and five perhaps not." Ho concluded: "Therefore 7 ad-reporter,

shillings above that one q

That answer carried with it n disarmed if the peoples wish. The dress & final and most earnest ap-

Sir William added: "This argu judgment on the project of a Free question wo have to solve in the neal to the peoples of the world to slag being poured on to the slag never be taxed at all. "But it does ago. & Free Trade Empiro might next few months is: Do the peoples do their utmost to influence their heap which had some water at the moan that no plan which involves time for tearing up by the reole the “The explosion was due to molten ment does not mean that food mus! Trade Empire. A hundred years wish for disarmament! Only they Governments and compel them to bottom. The impact caused an oxning food should he tried unless economic life of Britain and, the have been possible. To 1030 the tan answer that question,"

fecornisa the greatness of the task plosion of what is technically known it offers us in compensation over

The Danger of Failure?

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which lies before them and not to ne piss Clare Rathancient Tommy HOWEVER angerjaminiana has såne by the anks

sukenges to a crusade that onÇ

pain is that it would have fitted much better into an earlier century than it does into this one. It is just trying to put back Big Be

the United here i words en hora The molter sing way drawn to the Thir, however, 18 What to Do see in Lord Beaverbrook's cam-

heap by tank engine, the driver and fireman of which, although abanding close to the heap, were un injured.

States representative, was in less warning-but to recognise the optimistic mood. I should not be dangers which lurk of the horizon frank i did not say that the draft if they fail to progress towards this

Cantinued at font of next column.. sim

alone can't or don't offer us. The interest in High Protection for their industries blocks the way. (Continued at foot of next column)