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For use of groat and small;

That little fools will drink too much

And big fools none at all."

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1933.

BANK CONTROL

TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18,

1933.

NOTES OF THE DAY IF I HAD A FORTUNE..

FREE STATE POLITICS

́WHERE WOULD I LIVE?

Asks

ERIC LINKLATER

The Very Idea!

EGGSTRAORDINARY

MR.

By Eddio Kelly, Eggspert. There are two ways of looking

R. Wynne Jones admitt- at Mr. de Valera's announcement

ed'in Kowloon court In Cork indicating that an early

the other day that when he Free Stato election has been la- definitely postponed. It momen. of the tarily damps the hopes

ly to your liking. You also hanker United Ireland Party without AUTHORS, uncaptured crimin-you, and the winters you find dull

als, and winners of sweepstako because the neighbours are scarce-Was a kid he used to have a altogether discouraging. being Mr. do Valera has found it ex-prizes are among the few people for the theatre, the restaurant passion for sucking con- pedient to come to terms with the at llborty to choose where they gaieties, and the hearty, bustle of densed milk from a tin. Labour Party, permitting tho exist shall live. For the vast majority London-and you hear of a plea We were the same way

this orderly and sant and opportunely vacant house

when we were a child, only ng Government to survive, a step of people in which can readily and probably civilised world it is external cir-in Hampstead. correctly be interpreted to mean that the political atmosphere to-cumstances that decide the ques- day is anything but strikingly ❘tion,

for the Flanna Fall.

A man may, of course, choose bo-to do, and work, though undoubted-ed cows, and contented eggs propitious Wo have to credit Mr, do Valera

most satisfying of the perversions. with skill as a tactician. His rush tween one suburb and another, and ly a perversion, is the best and from contented hens. Thom's election which took the opposition his wife can easily decide on

TR.A. CONTROL

:

London at first delights you, but by-and-by boredom again descends on you, for now you have no work

eggs were our strong suit. Contented milk from content-

and

That's why we followed with

by surprise last year was a master- third. But except. within these So once more you seek distraction our mottoes.

mind you read widely as you go ly stroke which reaped its due

contemporary about the cruelty reward. To-day he dare not risk arrow limits of selection there is in travel, and to improve your an appeal to the country; he finds little freedom, for the demands of and so collect a vast number of so much interest the letters in a himself Instead compelled to ap-office, shop, factory, foundry, or books.

And as you pass from Egypt to to hens at a recent gymkhana. peal to his supporters to discover professional connections speak in

determined voice that India, from China to Japan and It nearly yolk our heart. common-sense, to refrain a stern,

South America, your wife accumu- We were talking to the Girl from the acts of terrorism which must be obeyed. are losing him cratwhile allies on

supposititious Friend about it when we took her nick-nacka, And so one often hears people lates a huge quantity of curios, All eldes.

wistfully saying, "Oh, if only I works of art. But what is the use out to dinner the other evening.

"Yes," she said, as we handed were independent! If only I were of books unless you have a library, at liberty to live just where or curios unless you can display pleased!" And they think that if them for the delight and envy of her the menu. "I think those are forced to look for a house.

those poor hens. Do you know, If there were a chance of the they had £30,000 in the bank, and your friends? So yet again you beasts wore disgustingly cruel to Eddle, I think I'll have some Irish Republican Army and of the freedom which that sum can

chicken to-night!" Dublin's hooligan gangs respond-bestow, they would live happily

It is, 1 think, regrettable that

Not that chicken has anything ing to the appeal, Mr. de Valera ever after.

majority of roads lead to Lon- might still hope for the future.

a matter of fact they this wrong that London to do with eggs. At least, vory But the I.R.A. has become too ac- customed to dictate to be able to would be faced with an appalling should draw from all other parts rarely. You've got to take the accept meekly any dictation. Post difficulty, especially if they had of the country with a force almost good with the bad when you it more certain that when the any imagination. For so many equal to that of gravity; for what emulate Mr. Wynne Jones' feat. poning the election merely makes mandate of the country is finally and various are the attractions of I have said to authorship applies sought, the Fianna Fail will be the world that It is by no means equally well to many other trades. swept away. That is always pro-easy to decide where to live.

vided General O'Duffy does not

find the delay fretting and make

issue by

But as

ATTRACTIVE LONDON.

Our

Coll-

We used to be very fond of This tendency, however, is not poultry once.. They used to oven new. Both Queen Elizabeth and call us the Poult Laurette where COMPANIONSHIP PROBLEM,

King James I., if I remember right-we had our Inst chicken farm. But we had to give it up. a romanticily, realised its existence and an attempt to force an

Perhaps you nurse exploiting the Blue Shirts In political manoeuvres. That poor nostalgia for the South Seas? deciding that it was contrary to

on their own standing up. This was the origin imitation of Continental Fascism But which of ten thousand islands, the welfare of the country decreed hens learnt all about birth

of scrambled egga. upon were you to win a fortune? periods of time A rather startling interpreta-were better allowed to fade quiet-all unfamiliar, would you decide that their nobility must spend long trol, and used to lay their eggs

And unless you propose to live estates. tion is now being given to thely away, unmourned.

like Crusoe in solitude, whom] Now there are still in existence to accompany territorial magnates and moneyed would you chooso announcement at the end of last week that the Reconstruction

you and how would you persuade people with country residences, them that, for example, the Society and it would be no bad thing. If Finance Corporation is propos ing to lend $1,000,000,000 to There is something to be grate lelands are preferable to the Mar- those Tudor and Stuart ordinances

country can have Its Al. Capon. Theful for in the admission of the quesas, or that the amenities of were revived and they were com-

are superior pelled to live in their Bound American banks.

of Bali, Honolulu, and homes, not merely to own them

At the place where we hava banks are expected to re-lend Kowloon Bus Company. that the Norfolk Island

from a distance. They could' the money at a slightly higher services It is providing are not those

of foster local life, industrially, been staying since our creditors interest rate, the step being de- the laat word in Miciency. Such Tahiti?

an admission does at least offer assurance that an signed ostensibly to encourage some sort of

more attempt will be made to improve debate and two years of explorn-socially, and even intellectually chased us out of our flat, we have financial houses to lend freely to business, and to in-matters and the Company's letter tion, when eventually you had and so provide rival centres of been fed nothing but bacon and

BUS SERVICES

And at last, after a year

to

There were so many bad eggs In our hen house, too. Most of those ended by becoming hard

bolled.

Even a hen house, like Chicago,

In fact, our opinion of bacon

think it is.

eggs for breakfast: We're so sick But perhaps it is impractical to of. Bacon that we profer even to the K.R.A. makes certain discovered some green paradise interest to London, dustry and thus promote the re-promises and outlines definite beside a lagoon of heaven's blue, covery programme. It is never-lines of attack upon the problem. would not the bliss of your exist expect legislation on such lince, Robert Burns now.. And even theless also being interpreted as The solution is by no means easy, ence be shattered by the reallea-and the problem of where to live, Bacon Bu

It-is-one thing to arrange perfect tion that you were 800 miles from when it exists, must be answered!

individually. a révolutionary movement de-schedules and another to maintain the nearest dentist?

But, you say, you have no in- It may not be so important, after and eggs is eggsactly what you signed to give the government them when buses are constantly virtual control of the banking breaking down. The maintenance clination for tropic islands. You all, as the companion question,

a villa at be answered together: to my mind "I wonder," waks "Vinjar"" in system. The loan is reported of discipline among the staff would have heard of the charms of how to live? And perhaps they!

appear to be less difficult to tackle Continental life, and

a dozen places there is a great deal to be said for the South China Morning Post, as likely to be "floated" by the until consideration is given to

the cowboy fashion, the gold "what the average realdent would would suit you very well.

were suddenly eon- war-time think if he the seeker fashion, purchase of $1,000,000,000 worth the low wage scale prevailing, if any one of half

COUNTRY DRAWBACKS. fashion of six months on activo fronted by a lizard-like reptile?" of stock in banks throughout we are correctly informed. Low wages do not attract the right type

Alast when you have settled service and six days of magnificent BAR! the country, thus giving, the of man and are false economy in

What's a mere lizard or two? government 25 per cent. of the the end, when buses are run to ownership of bank capital. This pieces years before their time. down, there is a fall in aterling, abandon to luxury. Hard work Government Royalty greediness, the, exchange goes villainously and comparative solitude produce huge government holding of which comes into this issue, has against you, and the income from a Gargantuan appetite for plea-What's a dragon? We've seen living may be expiated in more "Vinjar" mentioned the monitor hard work.

lizard scen on Lugard Road in bank shares would be sufficient undoubtedly played its part in the evon £30,000 shrinks like a cheap sure, and then the sins of riotous thousands of 'em.

You return to England and take to give virtual control of bank deterioration of the bus services woollen bathing suit.

It is a good thing to live in the January, 1980. We were one of ing activities. The administra-on both sides of the Harbour, and

a cottage in Devonshire, and de- the K.B.A. polley, of suspending time being is

cide that home is best. But after backwoods and at intervals des- the group of people who saw it. plains everything. The Heard judgment for the

now as a cowboy or a soldier on leave ambled up to da, breathing fire.

a motto. probably the fairest in all the cir- your foreign travels, and because cend on the city hungry and eager It was on January 1, which ex-

of your independence, you

We fixed it by breathing our adopt a critical attitude to your "Live dangerously," is

breath. fellow-countrymen, and in summer for heroes, but "Live variously," the multitude of trippers offends is good advice for most people.

tion has disclaimed any inten- tion of operating the banks, and asserts it is only interested in making the banks foolproof.

cumstances.

KOWLOON AMENITIES

It is believed however that if the plan now under considera- tion in high government councils

The Colonial Secretary seems is adopted, it must be recognized destined to be deluged with letters as one of the most revolutionary from the K.R.A. on various matters steps in what is already being involving the community welfare on the mainland. Offensive amells, described as the greatest econo- the Salisbury Road bottle-neck, the mic revolution ever known, al-provision of a typhoon signal at though its fate is still uncertain, Kowloon City, the supervision of the children's playground and the The object would be to gain again postponed covered way In control of banking policy, and the Forry traffic circus word the suggestion, whether true among Issues cqualdered at the of them, of or not, lends added interest monthly meeting and it might well

be asked why some proposala of the comparatively trifling coat, have British Labour Party outlined not been removed from the sphere last week. The fact is that of correspondence long, before to build quarters and none but bankers, and not this. Government finds money to all of them, defend the existing residences for public servanto, banking system. It works too great and small; and an amenity conspicuously in the financial like a typhoon signal must walf. Interests of the fow. It provides

to

the

bparo

too frugally for the welfare of THE BOTTLE-NECK the whole industrial community. Production may, and does,

Government is on safer ground languish. The dividends of the when it declares that the cost of Salisbury Road le no longer justi Banks many, and do, flourish. In the removal of the bottleneck at dustry cuts wages and salaries, fed. The KR.A meeting wonder- sacke men, silences its machinesied what factors have so changed as The Big Five in Britain pay from to lessen the urgency an im- provement considered necessary 14 to 18 per cont. In dividends. some years ago. It seems Leaders of industry, politicians, very simple. The allotment newspapers and economists ex to motor usare of the large park-

Into the

There are several lizards and. roptiles inhabiting the swampa of Hongkong. We were in the Peninsula swamp one day when Wo wore accosted by a couple. Wo are so inured to them that wo took no notice, so they eventually wont away and ardorod their own drinks.

We never did care for leárds with watery eyes.

DANGEROUS

Ho first met her at the Hotel Roof Garden one Saturday.. even- Ing, and noticed hor expensivo frock and the other things, that went with it. But when she con-. feased a little later that she enjoy ed cigarettes and cocktails " he made up his mind to have nothing. further to do with her. So it was, not until Monday evening that ho 'phoned her to go on a car ride with him.

RECIPE

Take one white sandy beach, three or four children, a couple of small dogs, a handful of spades and buckets, unlimited quantity; of non-water, and a piach of sea- nhells,

Mix the children, the dogs, tho spades, and buckets torether, and add to the beach, silering-con- stantly. Pour the oor water over the beach, sprinkle with arhi place under a clear blus aky, and bake the whole mixture in the hot