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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1933.

JAPANESE TRADE COMPETITION

NOTES OF THE DAY ON THE MILLIONAIRES The Very Idea!

BUS ROYALTIES

Bus service complaints are be- coming more frequent. A clear pointer to one of the principal reasons is to be found in the Budget Estimates. Royalties to Govern- mont from the bus services are

HIGHWAY

By TOM CLARKE

the golden days of real mil-day-France, Italy, Dalmatian Honaires. It was called their Coast, Austria. Don't you think I've earned It Now can I help highway.

you with your car trouble?"

It starts almost on the cobbled

it becomes Route Nationale 7; that

"

millionairo.

OUR OPERATION-

By Ed. "Kibitzor" Kolly WE are all at sea to-day

and have spent most of the time indignantly re- fusing to have our breath smelt.

What we mean

to say is

estimated to provide ravonuo to the stones of Calais Quay and makes a extent of $240,000 in 1934. Thero nearly straight-through drive to I had another forced stoppage are fow commercial enterprises in the Riviera, 600 miles away to the further down south. This time a this Colony of the same financial south. At firet it la known German, nieo in trouble near-by that we are all askew. We |standing which could possibly bear Route Nationale 1, but after Paris strolled over and asked m

supplementary overhead to this ex (which you dodge vin Versailles) share his bottle of wine. Ho con- are not the man we were tent and (a) pay its way or (b) is to say, an John Prioleau puts it, feased, too, that he was not since Saturday when we were

maltreated by a specialist. provide an efficient service. It is "the finest rend in nil France." A In the hotels, too, they bemoan- perfectly true that the Government proud rond, a great road, an ta taking no more than was offered, historie road. Not one of those ed the absence of millionaires. but it is probably equally true to elusive feminine roads which need assert that the Government was watching all the time. A man's venturers on the road. Hero aad the outstanding feature of road. More than 1,000 sentinels couple of young women from Eng- bent upon taking all it could get. keep him from wandering. They land, school-teachers, I surmised, our face and played such a tune. It seems bad business all round, are those little "kilometro stones" trundling along in their baby 2 on that organ that we are always with the rogulor passenger the of white, with their red cape: All senter and waving a hand at us being taken for an American now

the way to the Riviera theso know as we passed and repassed.

except of course when we are primary sufferer.

Ing fellows nod a friendly "N 7" Here a noisy sports car, back-not being taken to quod. at you. The millionaires' guard firing into its "G.B." plato and con- of honour.

taining no doubt the two Oxford

CURFEW HOUR

Ho operated on our nose, . Yet there were lots of other ad-(which we have rightly consider-

a

You see wo can't go straight

been at cross purposes.

It all bogan with a yawn in

front of a medical friend (oid and.

so on) who was talking to us. He stopped in the middle of trying to pass one of our jokes on to us and darted a finger into our mouth.

We

When the choking fit had passed saw that he was already making out a prescription.

undergraduates who (1 heard now because our noso doesn't later) ran out of ensh and slept indicate the way we ought to go The midnight curfew for local No map is needed for "N 7"-under haystacks till they could and our difficulties are increased. cabarots is embodied in the regula- that is no ordinary map. The one raise a remittance from home. because our Byes have always tions Just issued, a Iact which the millionaires use has le to Still further south I ran into suggests, we are afraid, that it do with the road itself or with director of a Bond-street store on must be regarded as permanent.topography. Nothing so dull. It the way with his wife to Nice. He

is called the "Map of the Gour-denied he was a millionaire, Provision is mado for an extension mots." It shows you not so much A little further on, taking of hours on special occasions, but, where to go motoring but where to picnic lunch on a river bank, thankful as proprietors may be forgo enting and drinking.

father and daughter with a little small mercies, the concession is Old historic "N 7" may figure grten car. From somewhere like small. It probably means an extra incidentally in the map-not for Surbiton, I guessed.

himself but for the keys he holds) hour twice in a month at the most, to blue trout and mellow wines its baggage labelled as I have Once a car stopped near us with after a good deal of trouble, scarce and all the special table delicacles never seen baggage labelled be- ly worth the while. Hongkong's which are hold in reverence in fore. All the hotel labels in aninted reputation for dullness in this valley or on that hill, Europe were plastered on. thus to be preserved so far DA authority can guarantee. Bright Young Things being unknown to Legislative Council, rio word of pro- tost is likely to be raised. At the same time, when it is felt that every other possible source of diaqulet is sewn up so tightly, the removal of all liberty in hours of harmless amusement is not easy to appreciate.

balance Artificial interference, in the long run, can only provide further bar riers to a resumption of the normal movement of goods.

"Must bo millionaires," unid

The millionaire of yore would say to the chauffeur of his multi-someone. powered car, not "Where do stop to-night?" but "What do we eat to-night?"

We

And the "Map of The Gourmets" would supply the answer.

"No," replied our wiau man, that's too ostentatious for any millionaire,"

"Waffor?" we gurgled. your nose is all to pieces."

"Operation," he said briefly.

We took a look at the dear old. faco in a mirror. The nose was standing erect in its usual place, quivering a little at the end where

piece points upward to the way One car passed us with a "C.D." We ought to go. At least where we would be going If we were a identification plate. We got out missionary or a steeplejack. our A.A. book to solve the mystery. "Corps Diplomatique." Very

The doctor without warning

But where are the millionaires grand to be an ambassador, we dealt us a sharp blow on the nose

exclusive with a handy paper weight. to-day? Is France too expensive thought, with such an for them? -

plate. There were a large nunt-

It did.

•

We were standing outside the hotel from which we had just been

At Dover as I shipped my car ber of "I's" (Italy)-the nearest "You see," said the doctor, "it I saw a notice. "Fill up here with approach to anything millionaire hurt." petrol. It is cheaper than on the fsh. There is no doubt these other Bide." The charge in Itallans have their thumbs up. France averaged about half-a- There was something confident and crown A gallon. Millionaires ascendont-oven ostentatious — don't care to spend money at that about their cars, their speedy expelled for using bad language. driving and their forceful rond and we still holding the proboscis

In both hands..

We felt that matters were get- ting out of our control. The nose

"Writing a book?"

*

politicians, we talked with pon- The butcher aquaezod our nose

corkscrew.

Of America! They showed us It seemed hours later when we

a Paris paper with a picture of woke to find the nurse and the the magnificent new American doctor engaged in a keen game of Embassy In the Place de la Con- draughts.

The severity of Japanese com- petition with Empire industries even within the borders of the Empire hardly requires emphasis. We do not require to go farther afield than Hong- kong to discover illustrations of how disastrous ita effects can and are likely to be unicas TRADE AGREEMENT emergency measures are taken

Britain's trade agreement with to enable the storm to be with-

Finland contains little to distin- stood. Protests will undoubted-guish it from similar agreements rate. ly be raised in Tokyo. At the with other countries in Northern Well down on the millionaires' manners.

Europe. same time, it is more than likely objective seems to have been

Mr. Runciman's chief highway my engine. suffered a to little breakdown. Now and then that Japan will respect Britain's stimulate British coal exports and a car whizzed past. I put my

We stopped for refreshment at was awelling so much it would difficulties provided blind pre-it is computed that the aggregate head further into the bonnet and a wayside cafe. It cost us Gd. for Boon be too heavy for us and

increase as the result of the judice is not the controlling negotiations of the last few months wondered at the lack of chivalry a glass of red wine of the State meanwhile the doc. was running factor. The Simla negotiations, will be in the region of 6,000,000 on this lonely foreign road of the for five of us. The buxom house- an affectionate finger along his

millionaires. Then a big car pull-wife revelled in a chat. British Ponknife.

We gave in. for instance, are a hopeful sign, tons. It seems to have been worthed up. At last a millionaire, I soldiers had been encamped near-

while, though it is a littlo un-

She was only showing that both sides are

fortunate that the stress of the thought. There was good cheer by during the war. prepared to deal with realities. times should compel Britain to hold in the sight of his "G.B." plate. 10 then. She remembered our Stretched out on the surgical I looked up into the face of a soldiers showing her how to fry slab like a tender doe wo felt our Consideration will be given there out any sort of ultimatum, commer- to the long-term effects of policy cial or otherwise. Balance of trade man I had mot at lunch at the bacon and eggs because they got courage oozing steadily from us.

two so tired of her mother's eternal "We are too young to die, Doc.," seems to have become a sort of Savoy, London, a week or

we murmured dreamily. "There and possibly lead Britain to fetish for economic faddists. And, previously Gilbert Frankau, the omelettes.

Sometimes, right in the heart of are so many things we wanted to avoid action which will prejudice of course, it is nonsense ultimately. famous novelist, whom every wo

France, remote from Paris and the j do? Bilateral balances have no meaning man reads. the future. What chiefly must at all in a world economy; lack of

"What are you doing here?"

sants and workmen about Germany firmly. The nurse squeezed our be realised-is-that Japanese.com-balance nt one point enables we both sold at once...

and-America-and things-like-that. to be struck elsewhere.!

haut tenderly "As for me," I said, "I'm in petition, though severe, cannot

search of millionaires-this is with typical French realism, "Yes, "It will not be long."

Of Germany, they would say,

"Courage, my boy," he boomed. justly, be described as unfair,

their highway, isn't it?-and now Hitler is very good for Germany, except in perhaps one or two

I suppost I've found one."

We dozed off with a vision in no doubt, but very bad for France. isolated Instances. The recent

"No, you are wrong," he laugh- So we are ready-we do not want our mind of the doctor approach- report by the British Commer-

ed, "just a hard-working story-more fighting, but we must be ing us with a pair of pliers and a teller off for a prowl round the ready." cial Attache in Tokyo gave the HOPEFUL SIGNS

Continent after ton months hard assurance that Japanese pro-

work." ducts were being sold abroad at a fair trade profit. It is pointed out that Japanese wages have always been lower than British, but hours of labour have im- proved. In 1916 the average working day was 16 hours. By 1926 it had fallen to just over 9 hours. By 1980- it was down to almost 9 hours. The cheapness of Japanese goods in terms of other currencies can only be temporary. The sug- gestion that Japan will continue GERMAN EDISONS to pour cheap goods upon the

German state railways lose no world's markets cannot be

opportunity of encouraging their sustained. The depreciation of employees not only to take greater the yen cannot legitimately be intereat In their work, but also used as an argument in favour to make any suggestions they may have for improvements in general of shutting out Japanese goods. work. A special fund has been set The yen went off gold only after aside for the "Edisons of the the pound depreciated. The Reichsbahn" to reward all useful Ideas of their employees which fact that the Japanese currency may later lead to the patenting is at a discount proves that of profitable inventions or to Japan has not been exporting better working conditions. abnormally. If she is exporting 1982, 126,000 marka (nearly $30,- 000) was allocated for inventions abnormally, the yen will rise to which had been applied in the tech. a level which will so rafse. thenient branches, and for new ideas price of her exports that further in malters concerning transport, organisation and general control. expanglon will be impossible. Patented machines for cleaning Nor should it be forgotten that express trains which operate quic- to shut out Japanese goods from ker and faster than those formerly our home or Colonial markets in use, and a device for preventing fraud by placing worthless nickel because of Japan's depreciated coins in automatic machines were curreny just now would justify among the many Inventions France in taking action against warded: Of the 445 Inventora, British goods entering her forty-five came from the Berlin aron, so, that the capital-was-pro- Colonial Empire.

portionately 'well' représented.

The only justification is that it though that appears to be nothing for two months. This is my holi- servos its immediate purpose, al-

"I shall not put pon to paper more or less than economic nation- allem, itself a deterrent to world recovery. We have reason to be thankful that ordinary 'economic forces are at laat beginning to exert themselves and that League of Nations' experts are able to point to encouraging signs of better times ahead. If recovery was en- tirely dependent upon the wit of men and statesmen, the outlook

would be sad,

In

re-

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"Wasting my life on arithmetio when I was meant to be

a cow boy!!

"How are we, Doc.?" we shouted. Operating made easy, we thought, stretching out a careful feelor for the nose,

The. Doc removed a king from the board and took his pliers out of his pocket.

"We haven't started yet," he announced. "You fainted."

DEAN INGE CRITICISES MODERN NOVELS

No Nobility About Their Characters

Dean Inge, speaking at St. Mary's, Wootton, Oxford, whore ho spent his holiday, criticised the tone of the modern novel

"National charector," he said, “is. reflected pretty accurately in its imaginativa literature. It seems to mo that most of our popular ( writers give us a very gray world, painting sordid vice and moan con- duct ne nothing out of the ordinary. There is no nobility about any of their characters. The whole effect gives us a much poorer picture of life than most of us have seen.

The effect of much of the pre- sent day. Iltorature is to make young readers hold themselves and others cheap-one of the worst- disservices imaginable. Human naturo is capable of rising to great! heights and sinking to profound depths, but it is not truly presented in drab colours."