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TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1933.

THE ETHICS OF MONEY BULLS AND INNERS

By E. L. ALLEN

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the more arguable methods of pulling the world out of the pre- sent slump, The Roosevelt po licy in regard to the Far Eastern

If the Horticultural Society's crisis has not yet been disclosed.

Show had only been held the day but there, again, no marked change is likely to be registered. We usually regard our private to act on it. But the man who reafter one of these boxing tourna The new incumbent of the Waite incomes and what we do with them fuses to direct his power to investments, some fine specimens of House will take office with the as peculiarly our own concern and and so to promote industry into cauliflowers might have been on good wishes not only of his own rather resent the intrusion of any channels except those which view.

the he has reason to believe will be people, but of the whole world. moral considerations. All

Maybe one of the reasons there. A tremendous task. awaits him. same, I am sure that an increas-socially beneficial is rendering a If he can make some real im- ing number of people are becoming real service. And for those who is no Cornish Society in Hongkong pression on the big problems of exercised to-day on the matter. Is want to go farther even than that, la the embarrassment which might his time, his name will long be there nothing that you and I can opportunities are not wanting be caused If an odd pirate or two remembered in the history of do here and now towards helping There are a number of businesses wanted to join up.

the would through its present dis- and societies in England to-day the United States."

tressest I am going to throw out which are not run on a profit-mak one or two suggestions as to lines ing basis but to provide work for of action which we might well the unemployed or to help solving their daughters irritable at night, our big saya a reader. Others can't find adopt and by adopting which we the, housing problem in

as it cities. They can offer only 3 or 4 them at all until the early morning. could play our part, small must of necessity be, towards per cent at most but the satisfac

tion one gets out of knowing that world-recovery.

one's savings are really doing some direct good in the world is worth a

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SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1938.

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Some Hongkong mothers And

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We hear of a Peak lady who

objects to her cold being called a

In the first place, I am not at all sure that thrift can occupy for us the place on the list of virtues great deal. Many municipal loans common one. which it held for our fathers, come under the same head, they Time was when capital was needed go into public health, housing,

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The Australians will only con- cede that England won the bashes.

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Inhabitants of the world getting shorter, says a scientist. Edward Kelly's bank-book proves that.

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"An Armistice has been declared until the next Test series.

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The latest effort to provide mankind with a universal lang- uage departs from the method of its predecessors in that it does not attempt to add one more to the number of languages already

She was only a baker's daugh- spoken. There are said to be about 1500 languages, not count for industrial expansion and capi-education, etc., and to invest in ter, but she wore her hair in a

by bun. ing the Volopuk invented in 1879 tal could then only be obtained by them is a form of service,

Then if there is one thing at by Johann Martin Schleyer, or saving. The successful business

A newcomer wants to know what Esperanto, invented by the Rusman would relate with pride how the present time against which we stan Zamenhof eight years later: as a boy he used to walk to work should set our faces, it is surely we would do if we found a nice- The Russian originator, when he instead of going by tram and how this whole business of making inch centipede inside the mosquito signed his first printed expo- as a family man he limited the money by manipulating money, net. About fifteen miles an hour. The rear compartment of the sition "Dr. Esperanto," gave number of potatoes on the dinner whether in the form of gambling is luxuriously that name to what seemed the table, till he seemed to imply that on the exchanges or share-specula-

we could all have become million- tion. deluxe sedan

most promising. There are now

Anybody who went through the his father miles round the Fanling roomy and richly appointed. To those in different lands who ifaires if we had only been willing

to be as abstemlous!

boom period in the USA, or the golf course. It is presumed, that provide additional comfort,they met could exchange thought

milder epidemic in England which he was anxious to get to know him. A SURFEIT OF SAVING.

0:0 few that they are unilkely to But it is more, than probable that preceded the Hatry crash knows meet. The universal language, all the needs of industry for fresh that this sort of thing does not dustry nasty jar, its disastrous with which anybody could con- capital can be met nowadays simply merely give the machinery of in- veniently supplement his native by setting aside a proportion of its results seriously undermine the tongue, was still unprovided. profits or by the Investments which whole business world, so that an

Stated that there is still Traffic in Chinese ports, to be the rich are only too glad to make orgy of optimism is followed by a

paralysing depression. What fortune awaiting the faventor of a sure, long ago invented Pidgin in order to find a use for their English, which has continued surplus Income. It looks indeed as money I have is my share in the perfect non-refillable bottle. Ed-. though we are suffering at the purchasing power of the com- ward Kelly considera a greater useful within its limits, but is present time from a surfeit of rather too fantastic, as well as saving and a shortage of expendi-munity, it has come to me more fortune awaits the inventor of a

because I am a member of a society too limited, to invite adoption turc. Of course, the obligation re-that has earned it than because I as a universal form of speech. mains to provide sufficient to pre-have earned it myself, and I have The latest effort, Basic English, vent one from being a burden on no right to, uae it except under a seems more promising in that it one's friends in old age, sickness, sense of responsibility. takes its words from the languor unemployment. But it may be age now most widely spoken and seriously questioned whether we has compiled a vocabulary of 850 have a right to save beyond that words, which, with the rules point. Our warehouses are chok- AMERICA'S NEW

governing their use, can be masing with goods and there is dire need for people to come forward GOVERNMENT

tered by the earnest student in with money to buy them. In spite

Recently I paid a visit to "The a short time. Dr. Vizetelly, the of so much that is being said,

Britain has instituted in arms Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt, lexicographer, has estimated the economy for economy's sake is not Anchor," the famous public-house embargo, but thank Heaven. we're only the third Democrat since number of reputable words in

a virtue but a menace. It only in Somer's Town, London, run by

ឆ. 1856 to be elected President of the English language at about serves to make matters worse, for Father Jellicoe of the Magdalen not prudes in Hongkong, the United States, is to be in- 700,000. For the past ten years my refusal to by is in effect a College Mission.

"The Anchor" is situated in a She

talpan's stalled in office to-day. He as- Mr. C. K. Ogden, sponsor of refusal to give men

Was daughter, but how the lads liked sumes his high position at a Basic English, and his assistants thrift but wisely-regulated ex- dreary slum street, and

pleasantly surprised when I push to Peak! moment when depression still in the Orthological Institute of penditure is the Ideal.

But how are we to regulate curled open the swing door and stepped hangs heavily over America, Cambridge, have been picking

Three bangmen in succession in aggravated as it now is by the out the smallest number of words expenditure? For one thing, it out of the wet and cold into the

No one took any notice of me, so Warsaw have been dismissed for banking crisis. In the circum- with which, when two strong is better to buy a hand-made than warm, well-lighted saloon bar,

a machine-made article. If the stances, his task is not an en-men stand face of face; though result of my expenditure over a I was able to take stock of my sur- drunkenness. Naturally, a hang- viable one. Obviously if the they come from the ends of the given period is that I have put a roundings. Everything was bright man works better if allowed an new Administration is to escape earth, they could carry on an machine out of work and put a man and shining. There was the usual occasional drop.

a solid and bar, very spick and span, with rows the unpopularity of the old, it easy and intelligible conversa in, I have rendered

us pur- of clean glasses, and plates of must be through some improve-tion. The astonishing thing, as permanent service. Let

Sixty ton whale passes through buna ment in the world situation. Basic English now comes to chase where most money goes in tempting sandwiches and The question naturally suggests public knowledge, is that this wages. That is why, for example, Colourful pictures (not advertise Hongkong. Where were our local Itself whether Mr. Roosevelt can can actually be done with 850 It is batter,apart from ether con- ments of somebody'y beer) were anglers? make good where Mr. Hoover words, and that the two strong siderations, to lay one's money out hung around the walls; a cheerful failed. The critical aspects of men could chat companionably on furniture than on whisky. So American policy are all concern about any subject that occurred much more is paid out in wages ed with finance war debts, to them. Such, it appears, is the in the one industry than in

other.

Then I peeped into the public tariffs, foreign investments, and comprehensiveness of his small

bar, which was larger and more b.metallism. On the first. of vocabulary that a savant could

But as regards what one does crowded. I was told that beer these, there is not likely to be address savants in Basic English, any marked change recorded. or an author could write a novel, save, where le one to invest it? costs a halfpenny a pint lesa in the We should do well to develop more public bar, and there are facilities Mr.. Roosevelt owed his nomina-

of a conscience in this respect. Infor playing dominoes, draughts, tion largely to the support of

these days of investment trusts&c., which are greatly appreciated. Mr. Hearst, and the Hearst..pa-

and joint-stock companies and Yet three years ago, when "The pers have been violent in, their

Even while the dismal giant of dividends coming in" through the Anchor" was bought by the Magda- apposition to war debt revision, technocracy has been striding post without the ordinary man len College Mission, it was consider- or even to serious downward the American stage, in Canada knowing much about how they have cd one of the worst public-houses revision. The new President another group, less conspicuous, been earned, it is perhaps more in London, and was regarded by the may be able to win popular sup has been making a deeper stir difficult to get information than police with grave suspicion. port for a reduction of the Bri-end a much more hopeful one. tish debt, since there is a grow- Organised last August, the ing feeling that the terms made

Co-operative Commonwealth with Britain are unfairly one-

of Federation.

Canada rous, compared with those made

rapidly spreading throughout with other debtor nations. But

the country. In contradis he will need to be careful as to

tinction to the how far he goes in this direction,

ments of the inasmuch as the other debtors the Federation seems to be ad- would naturally seize the op- portunity to ask for revision also. Vancing on the assumption that On the tariff question, the De-man is an intelligent being and mocrats are said to be planning galvation without discarding can work out his own economic downward revision, in the hope

Industry's Future

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pronounce. technocrats,

humanities.

of reciprocal agreements with freedom or the other countries which will help While the technocrat is apparent- to revive foreign trade. But ily to large extent concerned with past history is to be taken as a lack and social discorder, the the negatives of unemployment, guide, it is quite possible that

co-operator sces about him these plans may not be realised. The Democratic Party, since the abounding plenty, vast stretches Civil War, has never been unit of untouched work waiting to ed in favour of tariff reduction, be done. Having seen this. the as both Cleveland and Wood-co-operator has, set himself the row Wilson found when they task of building up a system that will insure to every consumer attempted to persuade. De- mocratic Congresses to lower a share of the bounty that exists tariff: One possible and a portion of the work that contribution to world finan-must be done. Co-operation, he ical revival is a return to bimetal tells his fellow men, will solve all lism. Mr. Roosevelt is known social and economic problems. to favour this; it is in line with The movement aims at an early nationalisation of bank-

the

the historic tendency of his paring. currency and credit as ty, and it is a popular programa first step toward a full em- me in the rural South and among ployment and exchange of goods the remaining Bryan Democrats of the West. At the World and services. It is pointing to results of Economic Conference, America the constructive may urge the remonetisation of co-operation throughout Europe silver, and since bimetallism as but a hint of what is possible. provides a fairly safe form of when co-operation is more widely

known and applied. inflation, it offers at least one of

work. Not

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fire blazed costly; the oak mantel- the of golden chrysanthemums and

piece was adorned with large vases fine statue of St George.

TELEGRAMS

"That makes too many words. Can't you leave out the

Never mind if you can't spare that much??

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No jokes are left to write about, We've drained the moment dry: Dance-halls and chits have

petered out,

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And no more grins supply. No pala tell funny talos to-day, No joker, does appear,

Police Court skies are dull and

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With humour scarce as beer. As scarce as beer? Well no:

"Not quite;

For what's this in the ads?· Free samples cari be had to-day, Oh! What a time tonight!

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"Natural Lines Return to Fa- vour-Waistline Only Hirted" reads a headline. Somo appear to be pretty broad hints!,

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There is no truth in the rumour that the serious shortage of white roses compelled the Yorkshire- men's Society to use a bowl of red ones at last night's function.

Some people complain that there are too many obstacles in the way of University education. That's the worst of adversity!

"Indignant."--Do not worry, "Grayeblocks" does not roter Bome human headpieces..

There is no truth in the rumour that during the hand concert at the -Flower Show, a gentlemen in the Colonial Secretariat actually. achieved the impossible by sleeping through a trombone.

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We hate to say it, but some of the exhibitors at the Horticultural Show did know their oni..kypara- nips!

We liked the table decorations, especially the motif depicting picotees defending their young,

The explanation of that beauti- ful cabbage lying outside the lower Peak Tram Station, Is, we are reliably informed, that a Peak exhibitor lost his head.