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T. U. C. & TARIFFS

It is said that the change is too bad recent and world conditions are

DAY BY DAY

Castle Peak Rond is again open to trafie, the landslide just beyond the 12 mile stone having been cleared,

HAVE YOU WRITTEN THAT BOOK?

By H.I.S.

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too chaotic to make a prophesy that has any value, but there is] no reason to suppose the results will be any different from thone

OUR DEEDS ARE LIKE CHILDREN THAT ARE BORN TO US; THEY LIVE experienced in other countries.

AND ACT APART FROM OUR OWN

THINK everybody ought to that sort of thing, why-or-well The Anal statement of conclu- WILL. CHILDREN MAY BE STRANGLED,

write #1 bank. Some pub-hum!

Yes, you feel pretty good. The sions sums up the preceding di-BUT DEEDS NEVER; THEY HAVE ANlishers will tell you that every

INDESTRUCTIBLE LIFE BOTH IN AND body has--but they are biased. World has a rosy look to it and the cussion, by urging that the regula-our or OUR CONSCIOUSNESS. They must feel a good deal like impression guthern force that al- tiou of foreign Trade may George Eliot.

goal tenders at hockey games and most everybody is looking at you justifiably be part of the nationalĮ

believe everything is coming their in admiration. Casually you men way.

tion to acquaintances that you and international economic plau-

But even if everybody has'nt have just done & book. "No! ning that is desired. It must be

written a book, everybody has said Really they say and oh, that considered, however, in relation)

at some time, "Why, I could write expression in their oyen. Again The death occurred on June 28, of a book on that!" And the "that" you feel like twirling the ends of to the regulation of other parts Mrs. Gertrude Clarke, wife of Dr. might have been anything from your moustache and Jenning of the economic system, and every law, formerly of Hongkong and Wei-trailic cops! Title of the voluma: picturesque pone

Francis Clarke, M.D. barrister-al- the use of trolley-car transfers to against a huge oak mantel in a case must be judged on its merits. haiwei.

"What I Know About Traffle. Social and political factors must

Cops!"

Admit it now, couldn't But that, dear friends, in the Following a quarrel with her, hus. be taken into account as well as band, Ho To aged 16. committed 10 write that book?

end of your, literary voyage, in The reason I feel that everybody smooth water. From that time on purely economic effects. Where suicide by taking an overdose of foreign trade is regulated it opium. She succumbed immediately should write at least one book is the old craft begins to pitch a bit.

(after admission to hospital.

that such thing is one of the The next step, in case you are major expericnees of his mundane one of those who ACU things existence. It is

to be through, is taken in the direction milestone, too. In later years you of a publishing house. By all will use it as a date to bound pre-means, go in person. Sonding it vious and subsequent events. via the mail is just the same as Imagine saying, "I remember getting somebody to propose for when the Jones's came to live you-and remember what hap Hongkong's newest cinema, the across the street. It was justpened to Myies Standishi Oriental, situate Fleming Rosd, after I wrote my book. No! IL You take the thing under your Finally, the view fappressed that anchai WILH upened yesterday, was just before I wrote my book.arm. For some reason publishers* only by comprehensive planning capacity houses being present to wit-Well, anyway, it was somewhat offices don't look like other offices. and by the fullest internationaless the screening of "One Hout With around the time I wrote my book." They have an air. I know one that Perhaps if I told you how it felt bas narrow passages, darting off co-operation can world recovery

to write a book it would spur you her and there, and you wander Arriving on the President Jackson to do one, too. and prosperity be assured. Failing

Manita from

about in them, hoping to bring toduy

Miss Vรเป this, the collapse not only of the onephine Scripps, daughter of

up in the editor's room. If you take just the right turn you get to industrial system but of civilisa-Newspaper Syndicate. She is en route you is the sudden desire, inclina-shipping room.

Mr. Scripps of the Scripps-Howard

The first thing that happens to him; if you miss it you land in the tion itself, says the report, is a to Shanghui.

tion, spark-whatever you care Editors are invariably pleasant.. very real possibility.

to call it. It may come in the 1 don't know why, but I have never A young Chinese, of 141 Wuhu

middle of the night. It may come met one who didn't give me the Street, was yesterday hitten by a

84, Wahu while you are standing in line to impression that he was about to thebuy stamps at one of the windows invite me to dinner only there was While the outlook is far from Kowloon Hospital, but not detained, the post office bas-for people to a meeting of the guild or some- promising, there is still a remote while the monkey was sent to Matan-stand in front of." Kok for observation.

The next step is the importat offering him a manuscript as you thing. He does not laugh at your chance that the Anglo-Irish dis-

one and where so many people thought he might. pute will be brought to a settle

should not be a mere haphazard step but should form part of a comprehensive plan. The method of regulation employed in any particular ense must, it is said, depend on the circumstances.

in

Britain and Ireland

Arbitration but.

i

1 Cheong, of 49, Staunton Street, was removed to the invernment Civil Hospital yesterday suffering from the effect of opium poisoning stated to have been self-administered.

You."

munkey kept it. Street. The lad was taken

ly refuses to accept an Em-dentis. Smail-pos

gure

takes it

He The health report for the Eastern spoil the thing. We either do or tenderly in both ment. It has been disclosed that I ports ending July 23 shines the follow- do not go across the street to the might be a dozen eggs.

handa na if it Mr. de Valera is placing the landing eases of infectious diseases and stationer's. and buy a ream of that!

And that's deaths therefrom.—Plague, Alexan yellow copy paper! Those of you annuities into a special fund.

dris I case, Beirut case. Cholers, who have failed to do this should haps one of the three high spots Going out of the place is per Calcutta 67 pending the result of arbitration.

enses 48 deaths, Macas 21 deaths, Anuoy 399 enses 181 rieaths, stop reading right here. Mr. de Valera still

of the whole affair. There is the believes Canton 22 cases 2 deaths, Nanking your usual world. That is, you sensation in leaving that place. Your next step is to retire from airiest, importantest, soaringest 104. definite cases 19 deaths, Shanghai 411 cases

Alexandria 3 to some quiet place like the You feel you have done your part. eases, Baghdad 4 cases, Bombay corner of an attic, or the rear end And if that editor is as smart as British Trade Unionists have pire Tribunal and forego bis de cases 8 deaths, Calcutta 6 cases of a houseboat, or some similar he looks-well-more moustache always more or less disagreed on

mand for an international tribunal, deaths, cochin 2 cases, Madras 13 deserted spot.

twirling. the fiscal question. Theré

Great Britain cannot very well cases 2 deaths, Rangoon 1 death, You take several sheets from the

Pondicherry 3 Cases #

I dislike to deaths, ream, square off at them and write step which isn't a step at all, but.

speak of the next are concede this point. One of the Saigon & eases 2 deaths. ardent Free Traders and keen conditions of her signature to the

on the top one, "Chapter One." an interlude. An interlude by don't have to tell you the next mail. It is an interlude in which Protectionists within their camp. Optional Clause, for instance, was in evidence at the King's Theatre veste, because nothing can stop you you can do nothing except sit and

The "House Fall" sign was much For this reason, M than that Britain could not accept com- terday for the first screenings of "One fram leaning back, gazing up into twiddle your thumbs. Regular ordinary interest has been aroused pulsory arbitration in matters" af-Hour With

everybody far corner and muttering. "Now book writers are probably the best You." And in industria), political and econo- fecting only

who saw the film went away delight that's funny. I had that para-thumb-twiddlers in the world. members oť the

ed. With Jennette Maclonald and graph, all arranged. Where's it mic circles over the Investigation | British Commonwealth. The nuan-Maurice Chevalier in

But there comes a day when the leads, gone?" enrried out by the Economic Com- ner in which the land annuities and Round Young also in the cust, first chapter of a book that is the ing to whether he is bringing a Genevieve Tobin, Charlie Ruggles But once started, it isn't the steps or staggers up them, accord- mailman either skipa lightly up the arose cannot too often he repeated- und Ernst Lubitsch producing, hardest to write. Consider the thin envelope or the manuscript. Council into the tariff issue. Tha They represent the repayment of triumphant success was assured, All accomplishment of the chapters as There can be only two results. A. loany raised in England and the ingredients of a really bright and the steps going up Bunker Hill Your manuscript is accepted for detailed conclusions reached have Ireland, and guaranteed by the duction; the result is a regular feast Monument.

peppy film are present in this pre- now been published. It is first British

one can publication. B. It is rejected. Government, to enable of fun and merriment, well spiced up the steps of that. I can of all explained that at the time Irish tenant farmera to buy out throughout. On no necount

Imagine myself doing it, say with 10 be missed... of the financial crisis last autumn, their landlords

A is the an active wild cat just behind me.

ONC we are talking own their

But the usual trip up that grey high spots I mentioned. An inner about. And that is one of the the T. U. C. considered the idea of | holdings. At the time the loans

The variety of opinions expressen

spire is done more or less leisurely glow simmers inside you as if one a revenue tariff, but actually no were made Ireland was an appan- regarding certain details of the British

with frequent stops. decision was taken. The alter-age of the British Crown, a state showed to crowded houses at the that comes when you have serib een touched off. You feel kindly aval picture "Men Like These," which That is quite a delicious feeling of these patent oil burners had native view held by some of the condition, naturally, the mere Queen's Theatre yesterday, cannot bled, "And so Phyllis came run-

towards everybody. leaders was devaluation

basically ning into the outstretched arms,

You already know what that

mittee of the T. V. C. General

ment.

and

aitor the

the

fact that

the

Of course

#

of the memory of which is anathema to film is a fine piece of work, pre-/of Gordon. Silently they turned third high spot is! It is when pound, and the Committee now

the present Fianna Fail Govern-senting with pleasing lack of sensa- to look at the sunset, bathing the the publisher hands you several declares that once the country

That Government's prede. tionalism and melodrama, a fair and old ranch with gold. At last they now, ink-smelly copies of the most had departed from the gold stand agreed to pay Britain the full Admiralty has been invaluable in im-your moustache if you have one, cluster around and you have

cessor, under the Cosgrave regime, accurate pictorial study of the Posei

wonderful book in the world. don disaster. The co-operation of the were alone! The End!"

You rise from the desk, stroke The members of the family ard, tariffs were not necessary as amount at stated intervals. Now parling to

a rentism which the picture a a means of curtailing imports.

Mr. de Valera takes the stand diretor would probably have missed. done. And if you ask me, it's easy and matter of fact. Really an imaginative but uninformed layman and murmur, "Well, well, that's frightful time trying to appear Dealing with the general case that the Free State had every it is a picture which is well worth good. Maybe Kipling could have you would like to leap and dance. for or against interference with right to the land, anyway, and seeing, for it sustains interest rough-one better, but dash it, Kipling is not published, the affort will No matter if the book you write the free course of industry and insists that any repayments be to the advance made by the British thing." And somehow

out and is, many respects, a tribute doesn't go in for that sort of trade, the Committee concludes made not to Britain, but to the cinema industry.

you feel bear fruit. Think of the marvel- that even if Kipling did go in for lous topic of conversation it will that while in general such inter. Treasury of the Free State itself.

be in the future. If my advice ference is unsound in the narrow submit the matter to arbitration, He has expressed willingness to

should be universally followed think of what a different place this economic sense, it may be justi-

world would be. an proposed by the British Gov- fied on social grounds, and in ernfent, but posits the condition some cases it is even wise econo- that any auch arbitration tribunal mically. In any case, it is said, must be composed partially of the choice is not between complete members outside the British Em- freedom and complete control of pire. This proposal was emphati- trade. It is rather between cally rejected by Mr. Thomas on haphazard interference of public and private kind and com- prehensive planning of the whole economic system. The T. U. C.

Land

aubsidies

21

are discussed.

the ground that the land annuitics are a legal and moral obligation

toward Britain twice accepted by the Irish Free State's representa tives. The case of Britain seems of the

Hound, but intensification

unhesitatingly supports the latter and demands rent planned conflict between the two countries economy. Having dealt with the by tariff barriers is discouraging, general question the report goes at a time when stateamon every- on to consider specifie expedients where are preparing to urge their for controlling trade. The advan-abolition or modification at the tages and disadvantages of tariffs, | forthcoming World Economic Con- import boards, quotas, licences ference. Retaliatory measures can be countered by retaliatory measures and the Free State is à Empire Free Trade le dimissed as buyer as well as a seller when it being not worth serious, con comes to trade with Britain. But sideration by anyone in Louch the Irish Free State must be the with realities. At the same time greater loser. Unless a much-to- the policy Inid down by the bo-desired compromise can be T. U. C. in 1930, having as its roached between the two countries object the development of trade it means thut ten years of peaceful within the British Commonwealth government and friendly relations of Nations, is reaffirmed. On the between Britain and the Free State which marked the Cosgrave new tariff polley which Britain

Administration are to be thrown

has adopted, the report declines away and the Free State's to express an opinion an regarda economic dimculties rendered the probable effects on our trade.

more acute.

+"Como, darling-say thank you, Mr. Rauschenstravch."

Imagine the driver of the ice wagon saluting the gentleman who pries up manhole covers for the Department of Public Works of a morning. The ice man pulls up under a tree and the public works man leans one of his manhole covers against the curb and they begin.

man.

"Well, old fellow," says the ice "Are you still having trou- ble with that chapter? The one where you and the fireman were both trying to win the same girl." "There's still something wrong with it." answers the manhole man. "Most elusive thing imagin- able. Written it seven times NOW,"

"It will come," cheers the ice man. "I had the same trouble with the autobiography I did sum- mer before last. Solved it by sleeping in the ice house one night and it all came to me in the dark." I maintain thin sort of thing would be much more intercating and constructive than devoting the same amount of time to the standing of the bassball clubs. There is nothing anybody can do about the standing of the ball teams and hence all conversation regarding them is utterly futile.

But when one talks about one's book, whether published or un- published, there is meat in the conversation. Not only meat, but electricity. In fact, I don't know of a moro electric conversation than that of two authors talking about their own books, Anything Tean happen in such a talk.

By all means, write that book!