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ARE MONOPOLIES A MENACE?

PRESS, BEER, AND HATS.

A lively audience filed the Essex Hall, London, recently for the debate arranged by the League for the Restoration of Liberty and the Distribution of Property on the question, "Is Monopoly a Menace" The method adopted was for cach of seven speakers, including Mr. G. K. Chesterton, who is pre- sident of the League, to speak for Afteen minutes on one aspect of the subject. The only real de bato was between Mr. Chesterton and Mr. Gordon Selfridge.

he said, because the great groups of newspapers were used to foment industrial strife. But even that was not such a great danger na the onormous power the Press to misrepresent what was happening

In other countries.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30,

HOTEL CHINA:

WHY IS FOREIGN WARE USED.

The statements made at the pottery "safeguarding inquiry by Sir Francis, Towle, managing dl rector of Gordon Hotels, Limited, that felspar china of Continental manufacture was the most valun- blotype for first-class hotel uso and that at present no earthen ware made in Great Britain could compare with it were discussed by several mon connected with the

trade..

WHEN THE BAKER SWEARS.

A JUDGE WHO WAS NOT

SURPRISED..

Commenting on an allegation that strong language was used in a bakehouse, Mr. Justice Eve, in the Chancery Division, London, recently, remarked, amid laugh- ter: I hope I do not move, amung persons who are accustomed to use bad language to excesa, but I do not believe that any congregu ting of men unless they are mem bars of a Christian Association. working at night in a place, the, temperature of which is over 80 dogs., and under circumstances. when they are likely to burn thole fingers and experience other in- conveniences, would not occasion- ally use strong language.

One has only to listen, he added to any body of working men en- gaged in, any undertaking to learn that there are certain words and adjectives applicable almost to any animato or inanimate need, not necessarily used as a term of repronch but often as a term of affection."

',

One of thom told a Manchester Guardian representative that the complaint was a very old one and there was something in it, but if English bone china was rather more expensive than foreign fels- Mr. Arnold Dawson led off on the theme of the menace of news par, it was better than anything puper trustification. The trustin-raade in either France or Germany. The head of Messrs. Harrods' gation of the Press was a menace,

china department said that, the foreign manufacturers made chinu expressly for hotel use, and that British manufacturers did not cater expressly for that trade, The foreign felspár chino was made from a natural composition which was not found in this coun-

The case was an application for Mr Leon A Lion, who had beentry, and British china was made

an injunction by the Freemason's asked to speak about the theatres, from a mixture of Cornish clay Hospital and Nursing Home, Ful- talked reassuringly about the in- and Staffordshire ball clay with 38 ham koad, to restrain A. B. 1lem- vasion by American syndicates, 1-3rd per cent.of calcined bons, ming from carrying on his bakery and declared he did not believe which was used to give it its beau-in such a way as to cause a nuis- in the trustification of the Eng-tiful translucenty. This chins lish theatre." The alternative to did not chip black, but Sir Francia once by noise to the nurses in the

nursing home." the monopolist theatre would be a Towle seemed to be comparing

His Lordship granted the in- national theatre and a Ministry felspar china with English earth-junction, but suspended it for of Arts, which would be a much onware, which would blacken be-three months in order to give the more dangerous monopoly than cause it was softer and more por-defendant an opportunity to effect the present system under which ous than any china.

structural alterations. the test can and does, survive. Referring to the complaint

Francis by Sir

that Mr. Hilaire Belloe spoke vehe-made.

had mently on the only methods by he

failed to persuado to which the liquor monopoly could any. British manufacturers be attacked. Mr. Belloc said that start a factory for the manufhe- there was a liquor monopoly, but ture of felspar China, or to dis- the restrictions in connexten with cover any satisfactory reason why it were those of the liquor arone the manufacture could not be pro- polists themselves. It was im-filably carried on in this country, possible to do anything with the this expert said that such an en- Press in this respect, and all that terprise would "not pay. It had could be done was to draw up been tried; at least English manu questions for Earliamentary can-facturers had made the experi didates and see that they answer. ment of using félspur in place of calcined bene.. with Staffordshire ed them.

clay but it did not pay because of the cost of importing the fels- rar, which-with the increased

sive now.

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Mr. Selfridge's Methods.

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Mr. Gordon Selfridge said he rates would be even more expen- Reiss, Massey & Co., Ltd.

had been given fifteen minutes to defend something, that hardly existed. There were very few monopolies in England except those that were essential, such as the telephones,

ness

A War-Time Incident. He recalled the incident" that occurred at one of the big restau- rants during the war when Lord' The qualities that were the Charles Beresford, who was din- foundations of all success in busi- ing there, turned up his plate, and, wore judgment, energy, discovering that it had been made strength of purpose, imagination, in Germany, promptly smashed it and ambition. A man with a com- to pieces, an example that was fol- bination of these qualities was lowed by several other guests. independent of almost any mono-The restaurant proprietors said poly.

then, as they all say now, that they would prefer to use British There was no reason why any made china instead of foreign. if man should not start a newspaper they could get it on the same or a shop, at any time. There terms... They had to restock them- was no monopoly in a great dis-selves with British china during tributing business, there was no the war, and he thought they single patent, or copyright, or any should continue to do so, because kind of thing that could not be with the huge profits they made in used by anyone else. It was not other directions they could afford, fair to call it a monopoly.

to. The loss in breakages was, We arb trying with all the effort after all, an inconsiderable part of which we are capable, he said, of the whole expenses of hotels to leave the impression that the or restaurante; twentieth-century merchant and man of affairs is broader minded and bigger minded than the mor chants of the Inst three centuries:

Why is it that several businesses are for sale? Because their own ers are so easily satisfied. I think the two greatest crimes are lazi ness and the self-satisfaction which allows a man to lean back

eduntry.

Another mag with an extensive knowledge of the pottery trade said he had never been able to understand why British manu- of china that the hotel proprietors facturers, did to make the type required, but I was a fact thay importers of hotel china could not get what they wanted in this, Our manufacturers were not competing with the for- in his chair and be satisfied with eign manufacturers in this line, what he has achieved.

and it looked as if they were, not Mr. Selfridge compared, this inclined to do so, though there was country to a boat competing in a no real reason as far as he could race. If everybody is going to be see why they should not make the satisfied so easily, this boat is not attempt. He showed a piece of going, very far in the race forfelspar china euch as is used in supremacy.

the dining-cars of Continental trains, a piece that had been sub- Mr. G. K. Chesteron's Reply. jected to intense heat in the making and that could stand a Mr. G. K. Chesterton congratu- great deal of knocking about. He lated Mr. Solfridge on being so thought that if the English manu- handsome and sportsmanlike as tu facturers undertook the necessary take part in the debate, but sug-trouble and research they should gested that his speech would have be able to compete with the for- came with sincerity from the eign trado. He had no political young individualists at the be-bias for or against Free Trade, but ginning of last century who believ

'did not believe

that

ed that the industrious apprentice | safeguarding an industry by tax- would not only become a Lording foreign stuff did it any good. Mayor but that all the other in- The way to help an industry was dustrious apprentices would be to stimulate the manufacturers to come Lord Mayors at the same surpass their foreign competitora in the quality of their goods. He

moment.

He seemed to think that the har- was glad to see that no attempt was being made to safeguard Bri- der a man rowed the more room he would take up in a boat., Mr. tish earthenware..

Chesterton did not think the ....... Cambridge boat would win if one

Cambridge man took up as much. Sir Sidney Harmer, who was. 65 of it as Mr. Selfridge took up off on March 9, retired on that date tho London streets.

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