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co-operation to the Leaguo, and dovoted her best efforts to 'the enhancement of its prestige, la,

By "THE OLD STAGER” unhappily, disproved by her Some of the most venerable simply because American states studied refusal to comply with cliches that come glibly to the men dare not fly in the face of

The Very Idea!

ON PRECEDENT By Edward Kelly.

which has brought the situation mentioned that hoary classic about still more golden tribute from 'Becket was extensively quoted

Bread Queues

The famous caso of Thomas

at the Privy Council during the Cheng Appeal.

the League's wishes in her dislips of party politicians are being American democracy that lacks pute with China. It is this drastically tested by the economie enlightenment on these facts, blizzard. Amongst them may be Washington persiste in demandleg very circumstance, In fact,

vox populi the voz del.] Europe. to its prescat state of extreme At tho present moment it takea gravity. So far from co-operat- | more than a grain of salt to The more Europo pays, the loss Thos. a'B., in caso you don't ing with the League, Japan bus swallow the theory that the volce Europe can spend. The lesa Eur-know it, was Archbishop of Canter- consistently defied it, and still of America's Middle West has in ope can spend the leaa America bury when your great-great-great- · continues to do so.

it the authentic timbre of divine can sell. War Debt payment Ja great-great-grandfather articulation. "

quite outaldo the ordinary ex-more twinkle in your g.g.g-6-8-5- But whilst the stress of cir- changes of international com- father's eye. cumstance is testing acidly some merce. America demanda the em- of the politicians' wise sawa, It{pty counters of commerce. She is breathing a sudden and embar-rigorously excludes all payment rassing reality into others. For in goods, which might at least up at us with those big blua eyes. about two generations we have rollove some part of the heard it proclaimed, with varying gestion of Industry, by raising in. will tell you all about it.

George Moore

con-

was

You all remember the story? What was it? you ask, locking

Sit up here on our knee and we

novels in the English language | dagrees of organ solemnity, that surmountable tariff walls round when Henry the Second (a bad

democracy was on trial. Just now herself.

. It wn's a bright, sunny day Largely waste it te very hard to reject an im-

expenditure King), gazing at all his brave ex-knights armed to the teeth with pression that the process is even though the War Debts were,

that, At more advanced than

and copt in so far as they helped to their bows and arrows, sald ... that democracy, at all events as wards the supreme object of con- revealed by American citizenship, quering Germany's bid for world sunny day, how could he gaze at But, daddy, if it was a bright, ln being found guilty. It might hegemony, they were at least the nights? even be suspected of sentencing squandered on the purchase of (Hush, child. Daddy is tolling itself to death,

commodities. They were not this story, and he doesn't want any Whether the inherent fault lign | hoarded in treasury vaults.

interruptions from wiahy-oyed in democracy itself, or in its payments that American demoe-brats. Get off our knee!)

.....said, "Who will rid me of We bought in kind. We this turbulent so-and-so.," rofer-

The

leaders, must remain a question racy exacts are all in gold or cur-

high debate. Some critica rency. for

Mr. George Moore, who died on Saturday, was the author of some of the finest reallatie

and could, had he chosen, have laid a strong claim to premier rank in English letters after the death of Thomas Hardy. Icast six of his books will live to figure among the cluasica. Several English novelists, not ably Mr. Arnold Bennett, have shown themselves intensely in- terested in tracing the progress of a lengthy illness, preferably with a fatal termination, but no firmly assert that democracy is must pay in tokens. The only one has reached the unpleasant even now expiring of its own inox- result must be that America's in-ring, of course, to Tommy a'B. exactitude achieved by Mr. partneas. Others accuse the leadors dustrial state will gravely worsen, So the brave knights went forth

and riddled the Bishop. Moore in "A Mummer's Wife," of democracy of batraying their and her bread queues multiply.

1884. anered trust.

Until the majority of Ameri- which he published in

It is too soon to decide with can citizens are educated up to This is a powerful and relent-

Irrevocable verdict rests with the unless Europe deliberately defaults, made in the eighties is not easily cold, unimpassioned chisel of his- the position is apparently hopeless. day now, we might see something remarkable as Mr. Moore was epitaph of every epoch. But the cle of imagined now. It was the more tory, which ultimately carves the And we may have the tragic specta like this in the lens interesting

democracy, the greatest in columns of the Telegraph: really doing an exercise in the symptoms of the instant do not the whole world, committing aul-

In the Central Magistracy manner of another writer, Zola, encourage optimiam even in the elde through sheer lack of intelli-

yesterday, William Whatisname, of the gence. his success bearing witness to most stalwart disciples

who was charged with the murder of in It has happened before now that his democratic theory. They are of the receptive powers

ashroff, successfully entered a plea the unhappy position of being an aristocracy haa perished through of not his mind, in addition to

guilty. Producing a certified knifed in the hous0 of their stupidity, but this is the first time copy of the Elizabethian white tural ability as a writer of fic friends.

this fate has threatened a great

paper on the Voyage of Sir Francen tion. One in inclined to think

Harmful to Both

democracy. The suicide of an an-

Drake, Whatisname proved that that his final fame wilt lie with

It is merely casulstry to blink cient aristocracy is a tragedy.. But

Hongkong did not exist. Epro facto, nil desperendum, and et tu Brutus, it was impossible for a British court of law to pass judg ment on a British subject outside British territory, and, anyway, ho plended precedence and provocation on the ground that no less an authority than Charlon the. First had at one time, lost his head. “A King- Can Do No Wrong," quoted Whatianame.

Really, there is no telling where

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1930,

Bes

de-

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which are fictional in design. peril. Woll-informed and edu- democracy is a calamity. to make "Confessions of a Young Man,' cated Americans, unfortunately the gods weep. In America at this "Memoirs of My Dead Life," only a relatively small minority of moment we do in truth and the trilogy. "Hail and Fare-realise that to exact payment of its own hanging judge in the ab- the total population of U.S.A., | mocracy on its trial, and acting as well" are, in their own way, these huge financial obligations is sence of adequate instruction from almost as revelatory as is Mr. not only unjust to the European the democratic leaders who should Pepys' Diary, The limpid easy debtors but fatal to the American inform the jury. A heavy weight prose flows on, and with it pour creditors,

of responsibility rests on those who A great many of the best people are accountable for such all the likes and dislikes, the

mia. A foibles and affectations, that go

In America regard insistence on carriage of democracy.

A LEG BREAK. to the making of a man. Mr. payment of moneys loaned for the

The Morni

Much consternation has been The moral seems to be tolerably caused throughout England by the mutual purpose of prosecuting the Chesterton remarked on the

war, and almost wholly expended plain. If we look around the de- decision of the Australian Board author's pleasure in the in America, as almost a monstrous macratic States of the world to of Control to prohibit Larwood'a "Memoirs," in looking upon "the policy. It was in America the day, we see much the same symp leg theory. The Board has taken ruins of George Moore by moon-word Shylock was first applied to tome everywhere. But there 20 light." This book is often do this attitude. But, leaving aside this vital difference. Where the the stand that the theory la uncon- stitutional, "Frances Drake was licious, and almost as often, all ethical counts of that kind, in-national democracy has not lacked bowling when the Spanish Armada silly, but the trilogy shows him telligent Americans perceive that strong, sagacious leadership, it is was sighted," said the Chairman of at his best. He has never done payment, without disastrous re-functioning more or less efficiently, the Board in an interview yester- anything more delightful than sulta to both parties, le under pre- Where no such firm guidance has day. The famous admiral did not. sent conditions an impossibility. been forthcoming, the results are leg it. Calmly finishing his game, this intimate picture of the

America is in the throes of the threatening to be disastrous. vicissitudes that attended the worst economic depression it has The price of freedom we are told, he went out and met the enemy." "We also have another authority Irish literary revival at the be- ever experienced. Its wonderful is eternal vigilance. The price of ginning of the century. What factories are in a state of semi- democracy. It seems, is vigilant to justify the stand we have his friends thought of their ap- paralysis, its gigantle system of leadership. It is, always and every taken," he added. "Napoleon was pearance in his portrait gallery hire-purchase built up in times where, the moral force and intellec- the bitterest opponent to the leg of piping hot prosperity in collap tual elan of the fow that must theory. Was it not the famous does not greatly matter. If he sing like a punctured balloon, and leaven the mass of the electorate. French generalissimo who said that was frank to a fault in depict its streets are lined with gaunt The demagogue is still the enemy "An Army Moves On ing them, he was equally out-bread queues, whilst hunger-mar- of true democracy as

the tyrant Stomach?" spoken about himself.

chers debouch on its famous capi- was the foo of ancient liberty. tal.

Laissez faire is a fatal doctrine at

JAPAN'S POLICY In his speech in the Japanese Diet, on foreign policy, Count Uchida plainly intimates that Japan not only intends to hold on to the virtual control of Manchuria, but is bent on ex- tending her influence so as to embrace Jchol as well. Indeed, the submission is made that Jehol is part and parcel of the new State of Manchukuo, to the defence of which Japan is com- mitted by Treaty obligations. Whilst it is true that the special province of Jehol, carved out of part of the former province of Chibli and a portion of Mon- golin, was, for administrative purposes, brought within the borders of Manchuria in 1928, the fact remains that to-day it is administered by China and is in the hands of general owing allegiance to Nanking. Japan may choose to claim that it is an integral part of the new State, but

Will there be no foresight neither Jehol itself nor Nanking

to rain does. In any event, Chins still until bombs begin

ua? Mr. H. G. Wells rightly regards Manchuria as wonders. Many of the radio

Brotherhood or Bombs

on

audience to whom he put

Its

SCRAPS OF PAPER. This state of affairs, deplorable all times, but even more where the to contemplate and fear-provoking right working of democracy Is There are occasions, we admit, to ponder, le due mainly if not concerned than under other forms when precedence might be a handy entirely to virtual cessation of of human government. Perhaps thing to have in the hip pocket. business with Europe. It needs it all boils down to saying that For Instance: little more than horse sensa to democracy would be all right if it see that, the more money America ware not for the democrats.

But what a historic catastrophe takes from Europe, whether in

money America's European cus- Great War, with all its miracle of

Chinese territory, so that to; concede that Jehol is part of the question recently must have gold or currency token, the less it is that the immortal epic of the Manchuria does not imply any right on the part of Japan to mentally echoed his inquiry.tomers will be able spend on Amer- devotion and comradeship, ahould take it under her particular His talk was entitled "A Warn- lean products. The mills of Amer end in a sordid, soul-destroying theme fean industry have already been wrangle over the mere tokens of care. Count Uchida still per ing to Humanity"; Its

sists in maintaining the myth of was the abolition of distance. choked with European gold. Yet, trade.

the fact that

Mr.

that

a genuinely-created independent In broad, telling strokes State of Manchukuo, and, de Wells painted a picture spite

this arrests attention: For good or been done Japanese-manoeuvred develop evil, distance has ment has aroused the ire of away with. This problem of China, claims that it provides communications rushes upon us a sound basis for pence in the to-day-it rushes upon us like It East. Actually, of course, it, Jehu, the son of Nimshi.

driveth furiously. And it has had a precisely opposite

Is it effect. It is, however, when the evokes the question: Japanese Foreign Minister peace? Beenuse if it is not to comes to deal with the wider be peace foreseen and planned implications of Japan's policy and established, then it will be Mr. Wells In regard to China that he disaster and death. shows a disposition to ignore advocates the establishment of the realities. In particular, the "whole Faculties and Depart- plea for some elasticity in the ments for Foresight" for application of the League study and solution of the issues Covenant to the Sino-Japanese that are arising with increasing dispute indicates an outlook and clamorous insistence as dis- which strikes at the very roots tances melt in the crucible of of the principles of which that velocity. The proposal is per-

Shall a world desir Covenant is an expression. By tinent. subscribing to the Covenant, ing, above all things peace,

Btand aside Japan has solemnly undertaken supinely

the

and

the

round

to respect the territorial in- let the warmongers ride

earth? tegrity and political indepen-skics and desolate the dence of China. By her ac- Such a premise is out of tune tions in Manchurin, ahe has with the times. There is en- violated that undertaking; that ough right thinking in the na- Imuch is made definitely clear intions that, translated into prac- the Lytton Report. How, it tical purpose and action, could may well be asked, can there be easily sweep the whole an elasticity permitted on the world, in the words of Mr. Wells, cardinal principles

the "into one brotherhood, into one of Covenant? These have either communion, one closeknit free- to be respected or ignored; there ly communicating citizenship" is no halfway house. Finally, whero no bombs could ever rain. Count Uchida's claim that Japan What are we going to do about

it?

"If every member would pay her back duce, our club could make the down payment on an ermine wrap right now.”

Airily tearing up Exhibit 1, which consisted of a number of chita, 1.0.0/8., final" notices, summonaca, bills, invoices, solici- tors lettera and statements of accounts, Edward Kelly caused a hearty laugh in the Bankruptcy Court yesterday by remarking, "There are mare acraps of paper."

Kelly announced that, following the precident established by practically every nation in the world, he had decided to repudiate his debts. Likening the court to the League of Nations, Kelly said that if they didn't like the stand he was taking they could jolly well lump it, and he would resign. The case has been adjourned sine dic.

MAKE THEM SLIM.

Having bean converted into a temporary nursemaid by Mrs. Kelly, who we thought said "Will you have a beer" instead of "Vill you hold the little dear, it seems to us that what the world needs to-day is smaller and still smaller babies-and fewer of them.

Instead of overfeeding thor offspring until they look like gigantic, grotesque toy balloons, proud mothers need to put them on @hort rations and let them under- stand that any unnecessary ex. panaloniam that they may show will be sharply dealt with and brought to the notice of the League of Nationa.. Wo malo members of the population are tired of accing boblea that are shapeless, Epstein-like masses of superfluous fat. When we were young we could chow our toes and be proud of it. What baby to-day can do this? Even the politican's baby, when it opens its mouth, cannot put it's foot in it.

Truly things are not as they were in our day.