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NOTES OF THE DAY THE EVER-ROLLING STONE BULLS AND INNERS

MONARCHIST RUMOURS

By E. L. ALLEN.

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It HE old Greeks used to had thought that the proper use of

I tell the story of a man the wealth which had been created boat is only to be expected tha

Naturally they do not like to give away wrinkles.

Rumours of the impending res vival of the monarchy in Austria, or in, Hungary, have been revived by the visit of the ex-Empress Zuta to Rome, reported a day or two ago. Austria is the first guess and with who for his extreme wicked-grandfathers and fathers would be to enable us, their children; to Ur. Dolifusa and Prince von Star- hemborg in combination, the runess in this world was enter into a fuller, richer Ilfo, It mours have been gaining pace punished after a very exas- so in the family. But it fe not so in the nation, we are told. But there are immense practical difficulties in the way of the return perating fashion in the next. The ripe fruit of the vast industrial of Otto. The palaces of the He was set to roll a huge effort of last century is gathered coming out by air mail this year.

in when it is used to promote a

Hofburg and Schonbrunn, wero

We understand that haggis is

built for an Empire. They are marble block up a hill. Toi-ati vaster effort in our day, and We hope this will not cloud the ludicrously out of place in a country, now about two-thirds the size of ling and sweating, he would to secure to every man the privilege issue! England. The expense of keeping manage to get it somewhere children the privilege of working do them up would be insupportable, near the top, when the as to and so on!

Then there would be all tno Royal

relations to be provided for. The weight would prove too Empress 2lta, the mother of Otto, much for him, and the stone

La herself onerof soventeen children.

never-completed.

of working so as to secure for his

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THIS "RECOVERY" QUESTION. What do we mean by 'recovery't

watch to a second-hand shop to have ono put on!

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of things in which all the unemploy-

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A Restoration is really only prac- would come hurtling down Most people mean by that a state

To-day in the garden. Hoc tical politics if the Austro-Hungar again. So that his task wased are absorbed into Industry, as lan Empire were ro-created. But

the phrase has it. But is that the round the colery; trim the privet if that were done the modern

point at which to begin, after all? | hedgo; eut the cackle, but be care- Now Sisyphus was allowed an Is not the first thing to devise Hungary, being larger than the modern Austria, would certainly insist that the capital should be annual holiday on his birthday some means of distributing the ful not to rake up the past.

this, by the way, does not be- wealth which our technical skill has Budapest. Moreover, wie uvisshetiḥ party in Hungary, led by General long to the original story and enabled us to produce, and then to

Wo hear of a local football for Gemboes and the Rogent Admiral on one occasion, feeling specially spread out the amount of work

sore about his treatment, he which would be required to main-ward who saw his best girl in the Horthy, le against a Monarchy..

elipped out of the underworld tain the standard of life, which is

crowd and turned back; DIFFERENT INTERESTS

and found consolation by appear. Judged desirable? May wo Austria and Hungary have quite tig on earth und persuading a need to go through a montal re-

This wook's poner. Do book- different, interests. Hungary con large number of its inhabitantsvolution, so that we shall be able to centrates her whole purpose on to follow his example. For our men work to cat to one in which worms make good bait?

pass over from a socfoty in which revision of treaties. Austria has Industrialism is his invention; it they out to work? Is not that the no hunger for lost territories, ex-is the rolling stone which more natural order, after all? Wo first and get jobs afterwards. It'

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is quite prepared to cede what reaches the top of the hill she has lost there in perpetuity, if There is an economic dogma the looks as though nature intended us but some of our youthful motorists it will secure Italy's friendship.justice of which is generally assum- to have our economic needs mot seem to get plenty of fun at some SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1983.

Then there is Czecho-Slovakia, ed, but which demands to bo called first, so that we might be ready carved out of the old Austro- in question. The assumption is after that to embark on the adven-of our parks. DANZIG

Hungarian Empire, which has no that. In an industrial country,ture, of really living. It is we who intention of surrendering its in while a certain number of its have reversed the order and 80

"Generally speaking" states Danzig, the queen city of the dependence. Sentiment as a basis people may legitimately draw reduced living for most people to Baltic, may well prove to be the of government is not enough dividends or own land and others the business of earning a livelihood. London writer "cata are not in- heart of the European problem. There has to be some economic ad-

We follow at present two conflict- may enter professions, the major That it recently voted for the vantage and that is singularly lack portion of them can only expect to ing purposes, and we must choose telligent." We've noticed the same National Socialists in the muni-ing in the question of a restoration get a living as they find jobs some between them. If we believe that about hons.

e: Kingship to Austria. cipal elections is merely a re-

where in the Industrial process.man was set on this planet to work That may have been the case a eight hours a day in a factory or minder that, whatever statesmen AND IN CERMANY ?

Mon who wear. clasy-collarüd century or more ago, whon industry seven and a half in a mine and determine, it is essentially a German city, and that by sen- Hints of a German restoration, was straining every nerve to meet that any departure from this is shirts may not have any home ties. timent, by historic ties, and by while more credible, seem equally the large-scale demands of a conducive to laziness and moral political necessity, it must attach unlikely to be translated into action rapidly growing population, and degeneration, let us break up our

A man many accept a girl at her itself to Berlin rather than to at this time. The temper of the when human sinows were still the machines and carry on. If, on the

But other hand, wo hold that industry own valuation-if her figuro is a Warsaw or to Geneva. Yet the German people is such that the remain source of energy. peace-makers of Paris did not turn of the Hohenzollerns would whether this law "If you want to is not life itself but a means to lifa,

probably prove highly popular, but consume, you must first produce, and that life consists in such things reasonable one. act without some reason. They the decision does not rest with the tempored as it is by insurance and as an intelligent interest in human had promised Poland free access people as a whole; it is a matter charity, can any longer hold the destiny, an appreciation of art, worship and fellowship, let us to the sea. A new great country for Herr Hitler, and he is nearer field, is a matter for doubt..

thank God for machines and get could hardly be created in the to the Presidency of the Reich to-

down to the real business of exis interior of Europe without assurday than at any time before. The

tence. P ing to it a natural outlet. Thus man is such a mixture that it is It came about that the port at difficult to estimate, what part am bition plays in his tactical moves, the mouth of the Vistula was, If compelled to decido, he will despite its German character, probably come to the conclusion allocated to the newborn state. that his chances of pushing his Good observers believe that in programme through to triumph are another generation Poland will better as President of the Reich have a population of forty thin as His Imperial Majesty's millions. The great European Chancellor. powers do not, speaking general,

the machines: they can work har Human nature is compounded, I From this week's mail bag. "I ly, greatly exceed that figüre,

der and better than we can, and imagine, of activity and inertia in France, Italy and Great Britain Dominds for the strengthening ask for very little reward into the about equal amounts. Our wage would like to start work in the have populations of between of the British Navy are becoming bargain! A man may rise early stem is a scheme to overcome Telegraph office. Too late, it forty and fifty millions. Other more insistent. First Sir Ernle and retire late, he may scorn de human inertia; what we have not started years ago1 elements than mere mags are Chatfield and then Lord Beatty lights and live laborious days in ur as the mass of the Inceded to constitute a first-class have pointed to the dangerously order to persuade the community to people, is concerned, is an appeal to

The only voice some husbands. power, but it is obvious that weakened level to which our naval buy a patent medicine which does that in them which is craving to do

forces have been permitted to fail. more harm than good. He is something really worth while. Poland had a right to demand a Those famous naval chiefs go be model of industry, efficiency, and Among the millions who work to get in running the home is the port of its own. The com-yond the issue of whether Britain painstaking labour, but he is a day, the real meaning of work is invoice.

hidden from most. To be able to

⭑ promise that was made in the can afford it, and insist that new social danger all the same! case of Danzig was not satisfac- construction is essential to safety. What is prosperity ? I heard put one's whole: soul into some→

If you marry the right woman, tory. The city was given a The layman wonders. He agrees one of our economists describe thing, to be able to stand back from

85 con-it and to say "This la mine, I did it, there's nothing like it. If you complicated regime. It and its that no-one can be certain exactly prosperity for Britain surrounding area are nominally what attitude the United States dition in which we should not spend and the world is richer for my marry the wrong woman, there's independent under the protection would adopt in a crisis. It is the interest we received from our deed!' is the privilege of only a of the League of Nations, it has doubtful whether the President overseas investments, but would faw. A Machine Age is the nothing like it, too.

could give a definite answer on that re-invest it, so keeping our whole heaven-sout opportunity to make an economic union with Poland score to-day. At the same time, population at work! Some of us this the birthright of all. though the city administers the precipitaney may do more harm customs within its boundaries, than good. Britain has set Poles and Danzigers sit under example in the way of disarmament, the presidency of a Swiss on the oven at the cost as Admiral Beatty special port authority. Foreign alleges of a deplorable blunder in relations are under Polish con- agreeing to a maximum of fifty trol. Yet Danzig possesses a

cruisers. A move in the other government which it is allowed direction might be fatal all round. to elect indirectly for the Presi-THE RISKS dent and Senate are appointed

We tend at times to speak as

REAL MEANING OF WORK. though work were a virtue, and the harder one worked, the greater the virtue. But work is of value It is anid, of course, that men will

According to a recent visitor," only as a means to an end; it is not work except under pressure of good if done for a good reason and need, and that to say 'IIere is your a great deal of Hongkong's charm to achieve something which can be daily bread, now go out and work!' lies in its many shopa. Counter considered worth while. If work would mean that everybody would

attractions. were a virtue in itself, then we stay at home and there would be no

口 must yield the prize for morality to bread for anyone. I doubt it.

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by the Volkstag-the Danzig Even at a risk, it may be neces Parliament. This is a crazy-status of the world's sheet-anchor sary for Britain to preserve the quilt arrangement, and unless with the air so full of talk of war. there is the greatest good will We must at least carry on until the machinery. is far too the last possible moment. There | cumbersome to work well. Un-are going to be difficulties enough happily, good will has not been at the naval conference of 1035 shown. The Danzigers believe without all three of the principal that the object of Poland inalons in a spirit of "We Must Have Powers embarking on the discus- building a new port, Gdynia, out More," instead of "Cannot We All of a little village of fishermen's Do With. Leas." The new regula- huts, was to ruin Danzig. It tions approved in Japan give to the seemed inevitable, therefore, chiefs of the Japanese Navy the that Danzig would vote for the power to veto any proposed reduc- National Socialist, and thus tion in the Japanese, naval forces sentimentally at least join up even if the Japanese Cabinet is in with Germany. The movement favour of It. Only Viscount Tahli for a more formal return to has come out openly to point to the dangers of such wide powers, and Germany must, it would seem he is to be congratulated upon his develop. It is not proposed to courage. And it is well-known that alter the constitution forcibly, the Japanese naval authorities are but if it is represented at moro disposed to increases than Geneva that the whole purpose decreases. That is where the of Danzig is working toward a United States has made a fatal radical change, It will be difficult mistake in authorising such a huge, eventually, to refuse revision of programme of construction. If statutes made fourteen years Britain thought of following the ago. Present conditions. can example, nothing could save a

menacing.race, not endure without provoking friction. It is impossible to colonize Danzig. But it should sea, and Danzig will be able to surely be possible to come to an exercise the famous right of agreement, by which the Poles self-determination," if only cool will be assured of access to the heads are kept.

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Some doctora believe that people

will soon live to be 100. They have always been fond of making patients any 991

Some of our bachelorets

Boem more concerned number of gale por mile.

A London authority asserts that prima donnas sing loudest when nearing fifty years of age. What about the Roaring Forties t

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falled to pay, sufic altaatian. to the smacks factor

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