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LONG-TERM CREDIT.

others are in the opposite position. There is something wrong with the ayatom which permits such a situation. Long-term credits may be one way of overcoming the dif ficultion, but an even more effec- tive means would by some world. wide move which would increase the purchasing powers of those who now cannot afford to buy.

Youth's Guiding Light. The world conference of the Y.M.C.A. finds after an interest- ing debate that the young people of all countries are dissatisfied and restless, conscious of standing on a new frontier but having no

SEPTEMBER 7. 1931.

DAY BY DAY

PRIDE 18 AT THE BOTTOM OF ALL GREAT MISTAKES.—Ruskin,

To-morrow in the Parsee New Year, 1301.

AN ENGLISHMAN IN: By NEW YORK.

A. J. CUMMINGS.

The Londonor newly-arrived in [barrashment upon any aubject un-

Clever Girls.

It is reported that some members New York instinctively compares der the sun of the Canton Government favour the his own city with the world's cancellation of the export taxes on Second Best. vegetables.

The children's tale of work of the M. C. L. Peak Chlidren's Branch, will be held at the Peak Club on Monday,

Lady Pool at 3.30 p.m.

A homely touch on the very first Some college girls shamed me in day moved me almost to tears. In some intricate question of finance; all parts of the city bronzed navvies and one of them, who had just were digging meaningless holes in graduated, remarked casually that the ground, usually in the middle of in her literary composition test a busy atrest, and throwing the she had chosen as her subject the

notion of what may be ahead of October 12, and will be opened by traffic into exquisite confusion. career of the chairman of the Bank

| Landon all over again only more 80. for International Settlements. Docs

It is an ancient ing that New any London girl know his name? York will be a grand city when it Mr. J. W. Gerard, the former The forthcoming wedding is in- is finished. But to me it looked as Ambassador at Berlin, assured me ounced of Mr. Delfino Edwardo dos if they were rebuilding the place that the American girl is degenera- Santos, No. 221, Wanchal Rond, to The countless excavations, probed ting. The consequential evils of Miss Hexmalita Tonnoehy, of St. by fantastically shaped machines Prohibition, he said, had turned her Francis Convent, Hongkong.

as well ne by the automatie hand-will-power and her moral sense. drills that Loudonors love, resemble

Reckless Criminals. ettorious craters after a blasting The Health Bulletin of Eastern tour de force. Parts for the week ending August 20:

I fancy, however, that he had in gives the following casca of infectious of noble old housea,, once occupied "debutantes," as

A New Yorker showed ine scores mind a limited class of wealthy diseases

the Americans

and deaths

therefrom:

Plague, Alexandria 2 cases, Moulmein by the city's richest and rarest call them. I have yet to meet 1 case, Cholera, Basrah 148 casca 70 families, which are awaiting des-woman cocktall-taker or a drunken deaths, Bombay 27 eases 9 deaths, truction in order to give place to American of either sex Calcutta 10 casen 4 deaths, Madras the modern sky scraper. These

3 cases. Nezapatum 1 death Greater huge buildings to up at an in- Shanghat 21 cases 1 death, Shanghai credible speed. Twelve months and 1 death, Small-pox, Calcutta 2 cases 2 it is all ended but the shouting. deaths, Negapatoma cases. Rangoon

But Prohibition hna undoubted-

given birth to the gangster and glorified his calling. It is incon- ceivable that in the heart of Lon- don a murderous.crow in a motor

1 enac, Vizagapatom 3 cases 3 deaths, They give me sick headaches, be- Pondicherry case 1 death. Saigon cause I can never resist the temp ear could spray a streetful of chil 1 case 1 death, Canton 1 case. Shang-tation to lean back and gaze up dren with machine-gun bullets, get hal 1 death.

ward. But many of them are ex-off scot free and return two doz% tremely beautiful pieces of imagina-afterwards to "bump off" two men tive architecture. It is hard to be in the same way.

FRENCH CASINOS IN DISTRESS.

THREAT TO CLOSE FAILING

TAX REDUCTION.

Paris, Aug. 7. Hard hit by the slump and the

French casinos have once again

[lieve iti the artistic honesty of per- That is what happened in the --

sons who snver dellentely at the Harlem district of New York. American aky-scraper.

Apart from the holes in the ground, New York reminds me of London chiefly in the excellent be haviours of is crowds. You can do anything with a New York crowd, except make it laugh.

Grim Men.

If it happened in London our be loved little Home Secretary would have been politically scalped; ant the twice-over would have imperill- ed the Government itself.

them. In this fact there is both hope and danger. Considering the sorry mess that their elders have made of the world in the last decade or two, it ennust be any thing hat encouraging to learn that youth is doubting their wig- dont and is preparing to strike out for itself along a new trail. Looking for a new path, is not however, the easlest or the safest task imaginable. The dissatisfie tion of youth since the World War has led to innumerable tragedies. It has caused the destruction of many fine young men and women. It has led to such tezying phenomena as the atheistic "youth movement" of Russia and the un compromising Fascism of restles Germans. young Italians ancl

the Inter- Naturally enough,

can national Y.M.C.A. feels it tackle no more important job than that of trying to get youth moving in the right direction, though just how it is to be done is perplexing. The first thing youth lost when the world's follien disillusioned it, was,

I suppose the police do their beat, But the authorities Rre morally its respect for its elders, 11 hua

helpless. The gangsters are boot- inot. for more than a decade, been

legging gangs, and since public About a deende nga the motorin n mood to take a great deal of decline of the tourist traffic, the

Yet the job can be done appealed against the State tax. I missed here cor industry in the United States advice.

the Londoner's opinion definitely encourages tile habitual cheerfulness and anime-bootleggers to break the law how was in a bad way. The market If only a genius or two will come

The tax is a variable one in pro-tion. The average New Yorker ly can public opinion defend the law whs dwindling. No-one was buy-along to do. Youth is as ready portion to profits, and rises to as rather a solemn fellow. Even when when the good bottleggers go a now as over to follow an ideal, if much as 66 per cent. where the he dances with a beautiful girl he little further and shoot-up a street ing. Everyone who could afford

convinced that it is a worthy one. takings exceed 15,000,000 francs. to buy a motor had one, and the it is chicily because the old ideals On top of this the casinos have sets his face as if he can remem-in a quarrel with rival hostleg-

ber nothing but the fall in stocks, gers?

I am "Held Up." millions of people who wanted held up to youth fell into the mud to pay a 10 per cent. tax to the

municipality.

Everybody dances. In New York. ear had neither cash nor credit that young men and women to-day At a meeting of deputies. re well be dead.

if you can't dance, you might as A few days after the Hartem In- eldent. returning at a late hour to buy them. The makers, there are restless and rebellious. They

of interest. the principal towns

But the recreative gnieties are with some friends from a long have upon, went out and turned these!

idealism, an enormous reservoir of day, it was decided to ask the mechanised, even in the theatres. motoring tour. I was held up on a unselfish faith-and they get little Government to grant temporary There is little gusto and only a dark New Jersey road by the State. chance to use it. The confusion relief in the form of a one-third moderate show of pep. Once at police, who mistook me for n dis When the Depression left the industry, toof. youth is chleßy the fault or reduction of the State tax pending the Zlogfleld Fallies, when shout-uised bootlegger

the passing of new law by ed in spontaneous merriment at a polleo whistle screeched out Ita

turn, knock-about's comic Parliament.

peremptory command we pulled Should this request be refusedowa of grim Americans turned and up on the instant, with a crunch-

stared at me in genuine Rmaze-

Ing of brakes. For we knew that the casinos threaten

the polico have bean Instructed to This would involve a loss to the met. Treasury of over £1,000,000

shoot first and shoot to kill. annually, not to mention the effect,

A well-protected police car dari- on the season.

This was not a conscious act of ed ahead to cut off our advance; The closing of the casinos. It is rudeness. The New Yorkers are and a moment later a magnificent producers of raw materials take a CHURCH REUNION. pointed out, would discourage unaffectedly polite to visitors and young police cyclist, armed to the teeth and enclosed in a brond many foreign tourists anxious to of a boundless kindness. Kamble, who would be driven to There are a large number of body belt of gleaming cartridges, German resorts or to Monte Carlo, lovely women here, even in the thrust his dash lamp into the car where, the tax is only eight per close senson, when society belles and demanded to see our licence are for the most part sun-bathing, and anything else he could think 'The falling off of the number: Like the men they are cast in a

His suspicions had been arous- ing in London in October of formal of visitors to such well-known larger physical mould than English- negotiations for reunion of the places as Le Touquet. Deauville, women. They are also more ele-ed Because our tail-light had gone Anglican and Eastern Orthodox and La Baule, is in fnet ulready gantly dressed, in every social claas, out

marked this year, and the sad and (If I may be permitted the "We can take no chances," he Church have now been made..

The Archbishop of Canterbury case is quoted of now and intimacy) better manicured.

explained with manly pride. "We was recently received from the luxurious hotel, which was recent In New York even the Harlem are after the baby-killers, you propose to deliver to Poland accumerical Patriach of Constan- put up at a famous plage at negress manicures. The New York see."

And that, I predict, is about as year's supply of cotton at the tinople a proposal that the negotia-the cost of half a million pounds, girl knows more about life at an current market price, under terms tions should take place in London, and which, owing to lack of busi-early age than the Londoner. A near, as the armed police will ever

has now intimated his acceptance ness, the proprietors have been girl of sixteen often has the men get to catching the baby-killers." of the Patriarch's proporal, and the forced to offer unsuccessfully for tal poise of a woman of thirty: Doctrinal Commissions of the two £24,000.

discourse without em- Communions will accordingly meet in Lambeth Palace on October 15 and continue in session until Octo- ber, 20.

millions into buyers by adopting a system of long-term credit.

return only when boom times led the manufacturers to overgell even this new and enlarged market.

Iu a-recent fasue of the Magazine of Wall Street, an indus- trialist proposes that American

leaf from the motor industry's

hoak and create new markets for themselves—not nt home, this tine, but overseas. He shows that Poland, for example, needs

raw cotton badly but lacks the credit with which to buy it: why, he asks, should not an American cotton growers' co-operative group

by which payment could be made

China.

find enormous

their elders; and If youth fails to find on objective on which to lavish faith and hope that, too, will be largely the fault of their elders,

ANGLICAN AND ORTHODOX NEGOTIATIONS.

Final arrangements for the open-

The Commissions comprise many of the greatest scholars of the Eas- tern and Western Churches. The Bishop of Nort Indiana, Dr. Gray, is to serve on the Anglican Com- mission as a representative of the American Church,

in one to 10 or even 20 years? What is true of Poland is true of The advocate of this plan predicts that such action would boost cotton prices, open new markets and bring prosperity back to the cotton grower. Th same thing, he adds, could be done with other raw materials such as wheat, copper and corn. In the

The Commissions, end he believes that the risks inherent in such a process would,

The following are the members of the Commissions: be overcome and the way back to

Anglican. The Bishop of Glouces world prosperity would be found. ter, Dr. Headlam (Chairman); the Dr. J. A, F. of Dubli Much attention has been Archbishop Gregg the

Gibraltar, attracted-to-the-plan-suggested Dr.-CN--Hicks: Canon-I-L

Divi- some standpoints Goudge, Regius Professor

the Bishop of seems thoroughly sound, although aty. Oxford:

North Indiana, Dr. Gray and the there are critles who doubt its Rev. F. Usher (Secretary),

the wisdom. One

Eastern thing which

Orthodox-For Ecumentent Patriarchate of Con- apparent about the present depres- stantinople: the Metropolitan sion throughout the world, how Thynteira and Exarch

in Western ever, is that it is caused, not by man). For the Jerusalem, Archbishop Germanos scarcity, but by surpluses. There Rumanian, and Cerb Patriar undoubtedly exist plenty of chates: the Archbishop of Jordan, potential customers .for the Mgr. Timotheon; the Archbishop of Cernnutz nud Metropolitan of the world's surplus goods, but the Bukowint, Mgr. Noktarle, and the grent problem at the moment le to Bishop of Novi Sad. Mgr. Irenay- make it possible for them to buy. For Cyprus: the

Paphos. Mgr. Leontios.

the Metropolitan of We hear much talk of over-pro- The Metropolitan of Ermopolla, duction, but when the whole facts Mgr. Nicolas (Patriarchate of are analysed it becomes clear that Alexandria); Professor N. Arso- nley (Orthodox Church of Fo

which from

Is

of

in rospect of many commodities an

land); the Metropolitan of Tyre the avil just now is not so much and Sidon, Mgr. Theodosios (Patri- over-production as under-con-archate of Antioch); and the Metropolitan of Trikka and Sta sumption. Whilst some countries goris, Mgr. Polycarpoe (Church of I have far more than they noed, Grecco).

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Lovely Women.

"If I don't waste a minute, I ought to have this place fixed very comfortably by the time I have to go back to work!

three

or.

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A few more superficial compari- sone to whet the curiosity, of my fellow-Londonera and then I have

New York hotel life is much mora Impersonal than our own and decidedly dreary. Thoro are no communal cooms and there is no communal life. If you are with- out friends you will flee from the chill solitariness of a big New York hotel na from the plague. Contrusty-New York and London.

The traffic in New York is much faster than ours and much noi- sler: it goes on, without a mo- ment's cessation, through the night.

The taxi-cabs are more comfort- able and no doarer. There are fower tramcars and buses-and-

they are absurdly, antiquated.

There are more street loafers in New York, and, more beggers. I was furtively accosted twenty times in less than a week. And... London, to my eyes, though a leng spectacular, is the more opulent city:

Park-avenue, which has taken the place of Fifth-avenue as the rendezvous of fashion, is fizer thon any London Street.

There is no station building in London-or, Indeed, in England.

to match the pillared magn!...... ficence of the Grand Central ter- minal; and the Thanics Embank ment la garden toytown affair compared with the great Riverside Drive which runs for sovan miles parallel with the Hudson and past the mightiest of all suspension bridges, now nearing completion.

Greenwich Village, the Chalsen of New York, is a poor imitation: of London's vanishing Bohemim It has B stricken air of Italian! (Continued on Page 7.) -