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THE

VAUXHALL

SYNCHRO-MESH

FAULTLESS GEAR

CHANGING

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WORLD CRISIS The Very Idea!

ARE WE TO WAIT FOR THE HALF-BAKED ARMCHAIR IDEALISM

HEART ACHE DAY

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ties. The attempt has been re- sisted, with varying success. With the Peking area also large- ly independent of Nanking, the policy of the government had VI:

By Eddie Kelly, Writer. necessarily to be unification with

BOUT once every three the co-operation of Canton.

or four months, we That vital factor in the altua-

manage, by dint of hercul- · tion having been removed, co-

BY FREDERICK COPE, A.M.I.EE.

ean effort, going without a operation censes to be of great provided importance, always

(This is the concluding article of Evil consequences of unknown an understanding can be achiev-Afr. Cone's interesting series on the density lay ahead. Tons of millions shave, and working day and world's economie and monetary pro- of Gold Reserves were sacrificed in night, to get ahead of the

order to avert the fearful step. work that is piled on us. ed by which the northern and blems to-day.)

On such occasions we sit southern governments will work The object of these Artic-Finally decision was taken for her.

Sho had no option. She was push back in our swivel chair, in their own spheres without attempting to usurp the authori-les, has not really been to ad off. But what was the result?

the contrary, any unfavourable relax, and tell the boy to bring ty of the other in the territory suggest a scheme, but simply Were all the fears realised? On light a fire on the end of a cigar accepted as under its control. to attempt to open up the consequences were more than out in the baskets of correspondenco

in from our public. fact has been reallaed, and not a Scented and perfumed letters - If we could be sure of the mo- subject to the average man welghed. A substantial gain tives governing the recent ac- who, so far, seems to have loss as was anticipated. Britain are laid aside, to be read at the position she fought so dearly back into the basket, and other leisure, accounts are thrown tions of the South-West group, given little thought to the has now no inclination to return to

to retain. we should be prepared to agree [matter.

There are those who believe correspondence is passed on to that the separatist tendency It will be interesting to ob that a similar happy result would our secretary. could, finally, only have a good serve the progress of the pre-emerge by some sensible, but As this is the middle of tho effect. Provided friction ceases sent World Economic Confer drastic, alteration to our present month, we haven't got enough money for stamps to reply to those with recognition of Canton's once. Can a scheme be devised economic system.

In these times we cannot afford correspondents who noed our autonomy, provided the Can- whereby constant world pro- tonese are content to continue aperity can be procured, and nt to refer cynically to Idealism. fatherly advice, so we're going to.

the same time, the principles of Thought and its physical expres- print them in this column.

80 quickly Hore are a few sample letters; the development, of their own our financial system, as we know Bions are advancing

received that the Idealism of yesterday is typical of those

(and territory, as they have done for them to-day, be retained?

grappled with) by us: Speaking with reference to this, becoming the Realism of to-day.

The Prince of Wales, in a recent Stubbs Road. Phone 23124, the last two years, if the Nank-

ing faction confines itself to the such an authority as Mir, Montague speech, made reference to the fact Norman, the Governor of the Bank that our wealth. to-day exceeds in considerable task of unifying of England, recently said that "the abundance the extravagant visions North China, real progress be-difficulties are so vast and so un-of the Dreamers of only a few comes more likely. The wasto limited, that I approach the subject, not only in ignorance, but in humili- of civil conflict will be avoided, ". and in the apparent division there may be a greater hope for the ultimate real unification of the country. A great respon-

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the

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THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1938.

י.

Dear Mr. KellyMy hand trem- bles, and I can scarco forbear gnaw- ing the end of my ponholder, as I zot down the hideous enigma which leers. mo in the face to-day, blighting my care my young life down

corroding my very Boul years ago.

and Man has unlimited purchasing power in terms of goods and ser- down, through the cankering qung- An endeavour to solve a problem vices. If gold is demanded, just mires of calamity to the uttermost and retain a basic error is an im- as in the case of War debtors, his maw of abysmal ruin itself, possible job, and will always have capacity to pay is limited. to be approached in this manner.!

President Roosevelt might per We have been accustomed

CARDINAL ERROR.

ERRONEOUS THOUGHT.

Twenty-four hours ago I was happy, romping

boy, light-heartedly

to grand the halle of the

in

trolled, the most efficient go- They may have an insignificant inbred, is one of life's hardest

Central British Bchool, which I attend. To-day, I

am

empty husk of a man, one who has gazed on the hollowness of life and who finds it in his broken heart to fling a mirthless and bitter, "Ha, hal” at the taunting miserica of the uni- verse.

Mr. Kelly, I am approaching man's estate. I have known what it is to shave. I shall be 16 years of age in. a few short weeks. Yet the beings.. who call themselves my parents have refused to let me wear trousers. me to face the world in rt pants.

Despised and outcast, I

sibility Jes upon General Chan suade the nations definitely to ac- think, erroneously, of wealth

numerous terms of money, wherease wealth Chai-tong and the Canton lead-cept Bimetallism, or

other developments of that nature consists of goods and services. But even with such The greatest dificulty which con- ers. They are well organised, may occur. are doing excellent work in the alterations of the present system, fronts us is to sacrifice and change we are still among the leaves and this standard of wealth, which has been with us all our lives. We have South-west and represent pro-twigs of the question.

known no other. To change a men- tal standard which is inherited and

vernment in the country. If

influence in diminishing the effect tasks. In this case, however much continuing their good work, of the error, but a complete solu- we may dislike it and desire other securing the best out of their tion is what is desired, and so long wise, "the writing is on the Woll".

to as an erroneous factor is retained, We are faced with that task. The life's thoroughfare clad in THE CANTON

territory, is satisfactory

to the quicker we can change the errone- my humiliation, doomed to the con- there will be no solution

ous thought, the sooner we shall their ambitions, the independ- Equation.

tempt of my fellows, and the insulting SEPARATIST

ence movement should cause no Pitch out the error contained in divest ourselves of its consequent familiarity of my juniors.

Shall I go on with my life, Mr. Kelly, or shall put an end to it? MOVEMENT. alarm. And if Chiang Kai- the Money System, what I have penalties, our present troubles,

called the third property of money, The question is "Can we do iti 1

"AN ACHING SOUL" Open the sluice gates of present shek, noted for his realism, can and out goes with it the myriad

• A The shiftings of Chinese poli-recognise and accept the reali-of puzzling complications and the financo and let Wealth flow. So-

Dear "Aching Soul"-We would. arguments. Let us finally clety need be little altered, except tics have not been so subtle in ties of this situation, he should cternal a physical wealth aspect of by a general increase all round in strongly advise you to go besides

us rid Bo-clad in something else the past eighteen months that be only too willing to share the existence and get nearer to other physical wealth. Let the growing cleavage between responsibilities of controlling jobs of which the World has plen-ciety of the unpleasant feeling of humiliation, or you may be mis- uncertainty. Lot us make dally understood. Why not compromise. ty waiting for us. Nanking and Cantori has passed this continent of a country po

work for the world a thing of plea by wearing gaiters. Despite the of the

Destruction of Wealth cannot sure, not of anxiety. Under exist-objection on the part of the Bishop, unnoticed. Largely upon Can-pulated by a quarter

be right.

ing conditions, business, ability, there is no gainsaying their six people of the globe.

Suppression of ton's initiative, the breach has

Productive hard work, honest endeavour and appeal. EDWARD KELLY. Capacity cannot be right. productivity-the things that mat- been rapidly widening and

Dear "Edward Kelly-On' a Repression of Man's natural ter are all at a discount.

Rewards are on the knees of the point of etiquette, should I ac- complete rupture now appears

and supreme desire to expand, imminent. The leaders, of the

and progress, cannot be right. money manipulators, the deflators cept the offer of my brother's tai- and pan to teach me how to play. the Any scheme which counten. and the inflators of Credit

yo-yo?-ROSIE GOLD-DIGGER. South-West Political Council,

must values. these

The business man the World over No analysis of the slum pro- ultimately be doomed to failure. which is really a government blem can be finally satisfactory

has no effectual control over his

Dear Rosia. Yo-yoing is simply Some useful scheme might be business. If he manages to escape not done with taipena. Why not independent of Nanking in every that does not recognize that the evolved by the right type of dele- the direct consequences of man!- get him to teach you how to play important respect, barely paying question is individual and moral, gate, and it is hoped that the Con-pulators, he is in daily danger of Ring, a Ring, for Roste"-ED- lip service to the central authori- as well as economic. If slums forence consists of men who will being caught by the indirect.

WARD KELLY. Let us rid the employed man from prove themselves to know ties, has seized upon the con-make slum dwellers, slum dwell-about things that can, and must, the fear of the "axe," reductions in

Dear Eddle-I am crazy about. clusion of the truce agreement ers also make slums. Many be done, than about things which salary, and the fasone cry of econ- two young men, one in the ship. to challenge Chiang Kai-shek municipalities in Britain have cannot be done. Drastic changes omy. openly before the world at large. found that when the physical cannot be completely argued out. Chiang Kai-shek has responded slums have been pulled down and in the customary way, attempt their inhabitants housed in bet

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England Looks to Holland

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Let us immediately remove indus-ping business and the other a bank. try and commerce from the sphere clerk, but two other boys, one BRITAIN AND COLD. of gambling. Can any man, how living on the Peak and the other Before Britain wont off the Gold over he may twist his logic, honest at Kowloon enjoy my company. I Standard, there wore thousands of ly explain to himself why the price see another man, who is third.

ing to buy off hostility with anter places, only the fringe of the academic reasons why she should of a share in a 100% plant is $20 officer on a Dollar boat, every time. offer of an additional $300,000 problem has been touched. Ha-avert the catastrophe at all costs. (Continued on Next Column8.) monthly for military expenses. bits formed through years of

He is also sending down General

living in undesirable surround- Wang Shao-hung, the Minister

ings are not easily lost. It is of the Interior, whose long as- sociations with Kwangsi make being suggested in Britain that him persona grata in Canton, in countries with slum problems an effort to come to an under-might find much to imitate in standing. How far Wang Shao- certain experiments that have hung, or the $300,000, will suc- been carried out with consider- cced, depends largely upon what able success in recent years in General Wang has to offer. In Holland. In Amsterdam and the present mood of the Canton The Hague the inhabitants of leaders, it is fairly certain that slums marked out for destruc- they will demand Nanking re- tion are not moved immediately cognition of the autonomy of the into normal houses. They aro South-West Provinces definitely given a' period of training in in- allled with Kwangtung who are termediate dwelling places under cooperating in the establishment the supervision of people special- of Cantonese control. Mean-ly educated for this purpose. At while, Chiang Kai-shek, it is The Hague there is a centre of Important to note, has been 106 houses of two storeys on the rapidly consolidating his po- outskirts of the city; at Amster- sition in North China. When dam there are two centrca, one Chang Hauch-liang handed over of 66 and the other of 189 his armies to the Generalissimo, houses. These houses have a he made a strong northern go-clubroom for social purposes, vernment ruled from Nanking whore religious services are held a practical possibility for the and instruction is given in hand!-| first time, and the signs are that crafts and needlework. If Bri- Chiang is now prepared to actain should adopt some form of cept an independent Canton as the Dutch idon, It will be an in- an accomplished fact. Tho tercating case of reciprocity, for Cantonese played a large part in the supervisors who are so im- the creation of the government portant a part of the Dutch at Nanking in 1927 and hava scheme are all trained in the attempted to dominato Nanking Tundamentals established by the ever since, generally to the de- English social reformer, Octavia triment of the central authorl-Hill.

TIXA

Sure you're crazy about her! But you'd have a fit, if I used

half that make-up,

the ship is in port, and I would. like your help to tell me which gentleman friend I should have,- ANGELINA.

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Dear Angelina.-Take oùr advice and leave them all alone. Take to gin instead. ́ ́

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Dear Mr. Kelly,-Are you really and truly married, or do you Bay.80 in your column just for a joka- CURIOUS.

Dear Curious--Ask the wife, EDWARD KELLY.

to-day, rises to $120, and dropa. down to $8 a short time after. It gamble we must, and if we have not sufficient methods already, let: us invent some more, but do not lot one man gamble on another man's legitimate daily bread and existence.

Even the super-financier will. benefit under a new system. The vory system they champion, "Uke somo vicious brute, has savagely turned on them. Some of the most important world" financiers are to- day experiencing the agonizing. ordeal of being under suspicion and.. are facing Enquiry after Enquiry. AS THE ALTERNATIVE.

Alternatively, are we to delay too long in putting our house in. order? Are we to wait until the patience of the world is exhausted, whon in desperation it will accept an experiment, based on some half- baked armchaft idealiam, where we ;. shall all probably move by numbers and have the freakish moral stand- ards of a few air-brained oranks and: lop-sided fanatics pushed down our: throats. Even tho Shirt Organisa tions under a condition of a waning: economic life cannot be expected to stave it off indefinitely,

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