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SOMETHING MUST BE DONE
By JOHN BARRINGTON
TS too much to ask of our novelists and dramatists that they restore to us our right to villains? Roal, noley, thoroughly nasty villains,
You don't realise, I suppose, that I have the power to ruin your him turned out of ocent society, And I would not
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It matters little what measures are taken to minimise the effects of Japanese competition upon British trade, it is plain that powerful pressure will be exertod
"No, no, not that-anything but until the inroads are checked. May we not once again shiver
in our stalls or our armehairs as that." Mr. Hammersley put the situation
truly detestable persons are por-
"Then come-kiss me. Ha, littlo in a nutshell in saying that Japan's trayed for our righteous loathing spitfire, you would, would you? present industrial policy and the in plays or hovels? Persons at Then scream away, little bird, for
caged, caged! We Empire's economic security are whom-although we know them to you're
be figures of fiction-we involun-alone, quite alone." incompatible. Mr. Runelman coun-
tarily clench our fists and mutter: "Oh I hate you, hate you. sela patience, but sounds a warnOh, you end, you!" ing in the same breath. Japan must come to terms or nothing will stop a trade war, with per- hapa worse to follow,
MAIN FACTORS
Two main factors stand out in justification for Government ac tion. Again and again it has been proved that Japanese Industri- alists do not play even their own | under-cutting game within the or- dinary rules of commerco. Bri- tish trade-marks in the textile feld are flagrantly copied and Japanese goods misrepresented as those of British make. And there Is a suspicion that no attempt is made to achieve anything like the same quality of material, the pur- 008 apparently being to destroy confidenco In maintenance quality by old-established British manufacturers. Add to such hints
of
I am sure we should all welcome such a restoration, for, except for one or two "thrillers" of stage or book, the villain is a pretty puny specimen to-day. The really of fensive end with the riding breeches, the horsewhip, and the paid thug who is probably the hero's valet, is, nins, no more.
Call him banal and overdone, a comical figure of melodrama if you will, but I would rather a hundred times have this villain than the weedy apologia for him we are asked to gaze on to-day.
And so, full-bloodedly, on.
aro
But to-day really, in this auave sprawling object of modern fiction and drama a true villain, this really not very objectionable per- son, this rather negative entity who is just a tedious bore?.
"But, Diana darling, you must marry me. I mean life's not quite bearable without me, and you rather adore me, don't you?”
"No, Ronnie, I don't
"You do. My sweet, you can't deny it."
"But, darling, oven if I did, there's Tommy."
one of
"But Tommy's a bore, those tiresomely decont fellows."
TOO POLITE.
A
The hallmarks of villainy have gone. Onco, whenever a thin,
allow man with a dark moustache. and an eyeglass appeared on the stage we knew him for a "wrong
"Yes, I know. I do love you, I 'un", and deplored him with thrill- ing shivers. His wretched char-suppose, though you're such
Bomothing acter stood out of him a mile. swine. Still, there's His "Ha, ha'e." his "Ho, ho's," his horribly engaging about you, I twirling of allky moustache, all must say."
"Oh, I know all that. I'm justi these marked the blackguard,
And so, made that way. Virtue's no pre- feebly. on. dynastic, darling....
We shuddered as he approached the heroine,, booed as he locked the door, cheered as he went flat from a straight left of the hero's of dishonesty the growing convic-hissed enthusiastically as he ac tion that a "dead set" has been complished coup after coup in the made at British markets and the cause of evil against virtue and rine of feeling in Britain is exelly understood,
AN IMPRACTICABLE |A SPECULATION
IDEA
It would be interesting were it estimate how much possible to better Britain's economic position would be to-day but, for the in- tensity of Japan's competition. Ever since July, British ment of goods has been steadily improving at home and abroad. How much better would the figures' appear but for Japan?
•
UPWARD TURN.....
move-
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ona
Call that a villain? Not a bit of It! He never locks 3 door, brandishes a riding crop, of twirls to twirl. He is invariably a moustache-couldn't even grow polite to the hero, and quite often "HA, LITTLE SPITFIRE!" becomes the hero himself before
the end of the book or play Good old villain! How we mnisa' Fossibly the new recalcitrant is him. How we devoured the dia- a cleverer creation, a better study. Who logue with the heroine: "And a more artistic character. now, Lady Sylvia, will you marry cares? Let us have those blood- curdling "Ha, ha'st" again, the me?"
"Never, never. So long an Idastardly plot, the shrinking hero- have breath left I shall hate you."ine, the square-jawed here, and
"We'll soon alter that, ha, hal, the wicked, slinking villain.
SAYO-NARA-SEZU!
by Robert Kelvin
The Flect has recently returned; in evidence among the Naval per- from a cruise in Japanese waters. sonnel.
Lord Beaverbrook's favourite scheme for an economic union between the United Kingdom and what is known as the Colonial Empire Ims again been trotted out, this time in con- nexion with the protests which have arisen concerning Japanese trade competition in British pos- sessions. Those who have been following the Beaverbrook cam- paign will recall that, failing in
We are gind that they havo.come Instead of the familiar cry of his major object of securing
back after all, since from the ac- "Boy" one sometimes hears "Boy- complete Free Trade between Meanwhile, Britain has cause to counts one hears it seems that the xan"; "Sayo-nara" has begun to the Mother Country and the congratulate herself and the welcome accorded the "blue-oyed take the place of "So-long" and It Dominions, he has long been stimulus to strive still harder. English seafaring men" in Japan is rumoured that a Naval Omcor obsessed with the idea that a It is true that there is no marked was such that there was talk of a calling at his Captain's residence beginning might be made with improvement yet in the wholesale ing branch to throw spannera into removing his shoes before entering movement to bribe the Engineer- ashore the other day was observed the Crown Colonies and depen- dencies. Month after month in price level, but exports of manu- the works, thus postponing return the house.
It is not known whether it has the organs under his control, factured goods are. Increasing indefinitely.
They have fed the sacred horse become the general habit alang-with imports.of_raw_materi- he has been pegging away at this topic, undeterred by lack of als for our industries, always an at Miyajima, fought (in the boxing Officers on board ship to remove official response. Recently, when encouraging sign. Reports from ring) at Kobe, visited. Yokohama the mattressed from their bunks and sleep on the deck, or whether the peculiar position of Hong- the chief industries also indicate and taken the cure at Beppu.
They have come back laden with "Sukyak!" now forms an item on kong, as a distributing centre, that the tendency towards expan- crystal necklaces, inlaid cigarette the General Mess menu, but de- aion is still present. One of the cases, hand-painted teasets, lae- mands for Sake are not unknown was put to him, all that he could most welcome signs is an improve- quer-ware, kimonos and cockatoos at at least one popular bar in reply was that "Hongkong will, ment in shipbuilding, which has which they say were pressed on Hongkong. of course, have to come in with had a more appalling record dur- them for purely nominal sums by
One wonders how for the in- the rest. Now the London ing the depression than any other the Japanese shop-keepere and fluence has spread. At dinner
and steel Morning Post enters the fleld by industry. "Iron
and they vow that if they can't go und suggesting a cordon of tariffe coal present some encouraging live in Japan they will at least parties on board ship, will the round the Colonial Empire. features, too, and in particular import as many pieces of that guests now be offered bathe and to be pre-: Fortunately, the Imperial Gov- the recent announcement that the country as they can to Hongkong entertained by geisha?
In any case, 80 ns Guest, Keen, Baldwin concern is and live amongst those.
for ernment is not so shortsighted to restart with a large now plant. It is to be hoped that they will pared, it would be as well as to be inveigled into any such in South Wales must make that not entirely foranke their Hong-them just to make quite sure when dressing that the toes of their foolish experiments. Sir Philip distressed area feel that perhaps kong friends. Cunliffe-Lister, Secretary for there is some hope of recovery
The language and customs of socks really are as hole-free as Japan are already to some extent the heels,
the Colonies, has plainly in- after all, timated that the idea is quite im- practicable. It is possible, as
other
we pointed out yesterday, to COST OF LIVING envlenge a closer co-operation between the Mother Country and Despite the quota and the Dominions which would be schemes affecting foodstuffa, the mutually beneficial, but that is below the level at the correspond- cost of living in general remains quite another matter from this ing period last year. The record- concept of a Customs Union be- ed percentage of unemployment in tween Britain and the Crown still falling to quite a substantial Colonies. A caso can be made degree. All these facts have led out for the former; none for the some observers to be more optimis- latter. Wo have only to take tie about the future, however, than Hongkong as an example of what is really warranted. There would occur were n system of good reason for thinking that the
improvement has a greater tariffs instituted. As a clear-ment of permanence than the fit- Ing-house for the South China ful bursts of activity that havo markets, our position would been known from time to time be irretrievably undermined. during the depression, bat, on the Tariffs, imposed with the idea of other hand, we cannot get away assisting the Empire's com from the paramount importanco of merce, would in practice actually world conditione,
drive trade from the Colony,
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causing importers into the South AMERICAN SCENE China market to seek other chan- nels. It was a recognition of
In particular, the American this circumstance which made it situation is still very doubtful. impossible for Hongkong, fol- There are many signs, not only of lowing the Ottawa deliberations, a Blackening in the improvement to make anything but the mefest previously recorded in the United gesturo in the direction of fa-Staten, but of the definite reaction voured treatment for Empire against President Roosevelt's gold is keen dis- products. The whole future of programme. There Hongkong is bound up in the appointment because purchasing preservation of its free port power has not kept pace with prices, and in some quartera this status. It is circumstances such disappointment in intensified by as these of which the advocates the Government's refusal to em- of the Beaverbrook scheme fall bark upon a policy of inflation. to take account, and which The fate of the Roosevelt ad- prompts the thought that in the ministration is still in the balance. realm of economics, as in all and either success or failure will affect the people "of 'Europe: as others, a little knowledge is wall as the American people them- dangerous thing
selvast
"But, Henry, you'll just look funny. Americans can't wear whiskors."
for
EDWARD
KELLY
WENT
TO
THE
BALL
(It is understood that Mr. Edward Kelly led the rush to the ice department of the Dairy Farm Company this morning.
His comments on the festivi
tics at St. Andrew's Ball last night are therefore, unavoidably, held over.)
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