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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1933,

AN IMPRACTICABLE

IDEA

NOTES OF THE DAY GIVE US BACK THE CADS! The Very Idea!

SOMETHING MUST BE DONE

By: JOHN BARRINGTON

It matters little what measures TB it too much to ask of our You don't realise, I suppose, that are taken to minimise the effects novelists and dramatists that I have the power to ruin your of Japanese competition upon they restore to us our right to lover, have him turned out of British trade. It is plain that villains? Real, noisy, thoroughly decent society,, And, I would not

hesitate powerful pressure will be exerted nasty villains,

May we not onco again shiver "No, no, not that-anything but until the inroads are chocked. Mr. Hammersley put the situation in our stalls or our armchairs as

truly detestable persons are por- “Then come-kiss me. Ha, little in a nutshell in saying that Japan'strayed for our righteous loathing apitro, you would, would you?

present industrial policy and the Empire's economic security are incompatible. Mr. Runciman coun. sels patience, but sounds a warn ing in the same breath. Japan must come to terms or nothing will stop a trade war, with per- hape worse to, follow,

MAIN FACTORS

that."

nre

in plays or novels? Persons at Then scream, away, little bird, for whom-although we know them to you're crgod, enged. Wo Vo figures of fiction-we involun-alone, quite alone." "Oh, you end, you!" tarily clench our flats and mutter:

аго

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 cad with the riding brecehes, the horsewhip, and the paid thug who is probably the hero's valet, is, alas, no more. Two main factors stand out in

Call him banal and overdono, a justification for Government sc- comical figure of melodrama If you tion. Again and again it has been will, but I would rather a hundred proved that Japanese industri-timea huve thie villain than the alists do not play even their own weedy apologin for him we

naked to gaze on to-day. under-cutting game within the or dinary rules of commerco. Bri- tish trade-marks in the textile field are flagrantly copied and Japanese goods misrepresented as those of British make. And there is a suspicion that no attempt in made to achieve anything like the Rame quality of material, the pur- onse apparently being to destroy confidence

"Oh-I hate you, hate you. And ao, full-bloodedly, on.

sprawling object of modern fiction But to-day-really, is this ausve

and drama a true villain, this really not very objectionable per- son, this rather negative entity who is just a tedious bore?

marry me. I mean life's not quite "But, Diana darilng, you must

bearable without mo, and you rather adore me, don't you?"

"No, Ronnie, I don't." "You do. My sweet, you can't deny it."

did, "But, darling, even if I there's Tommy.

"But Tommy's a bore, one of those tiresomely decent fellows."

TOO POLITE.

"Yes, I know. I do love you, I

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The hallmarks of villainy have gone. Onco, whenever thin sallow man with a dark moustache and an eyeglass appeared on the; stage we know him for a "wrong 'un" and deplored him with thrill- Ing shivers. His wretched char suppose, though you're such actor stood out of him a mile. Awine. Still, there's something His. "Hn, ha'a," his "Ho, ho's," his horribly engaging about you,

must twirling of silky moustache, all

Bay." "Oh, I know all that. I'm just these marked the blackguard,

made that way. Virtue's so pre-: We ahuddered as he approached dynuatie, darling.

And so, quality by old-established British the heroine, booed as he locked feebly on manufacturers, Add to such hints the door, cheered as he went fist from a straight left of the hero'a, of dishonesty the growing convic-hissed enthusiastically as he ne- 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 rise of feeling in Britain is easily worth.. understood.

In maintenance of

A SPECULATION

It would be interesting wore it possible to estimate how much better Britain's economic position would be to-day but for the In- tensity of Japan'a competition. Ever since - July, British move- ment of goods has been steadily improving at home and abroad. How much better would the figures appear but for Japan?

UPWARD TURN

the

Call that a villain? Not a bit of It! Ho

nover locks n door, brandishes a riding crop, of twirls a moustachecouldn't even grow one to twirl. He is invariably polito 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 miss Possibly the new recalcitrant is him. How we devoured the dia cleverer creation, a better study, logue with the heraine: "And a more artistic character. Who now. Lady Sylvia, will you marry cares? Let us have those blood- mo?"

curdling "Ha, ha's again, the "Never, never. So long as I dastardly plot, the shrinking hero- have breath left I shall hate you."ine, the aquare-jawed hero, and

"We'll soon alter that, ha, hal; the wicked, alinking villain.

SAYO-NARA—SEZU!

by Robert Kelvin

The Fleet has recently returned in evidence among the Naval por-i from a cruise la Japanese waters.jsonnel.

We are glad that they have come Instead of the familiar cry of back after all, since from the ac-Boy" one sometimes hears "Boy- counts one hears it seems that the san"; "Snyo-nara" has begun to English seafaring men" in Japan is rumoured that a Naval Omeer welcome accorded the "blue-eyed take the place of "So-long" and it was auch that there was talk of a calling at his Captain's residence movement to bribe the Engineer- aahore the other day was observed ing branch to throw spanners into removing his shoes before entering the works, thus postponing return the house. indefinitely.

Lord Beaverbrook's favourite scheme for an economic union between the United Kingdom and what is known as the Colonial- Empire has again been trotted out, this time in con- nexion with the protests-which have arisen concerning Japanese trade competition in British pos- scasions. Those who have been following the Beaverbrook cam-` paign will recall that, failing in his major object of securing complete Free Trade between Meanwhile, Britain has cause to the Mother Country and the

herself and congratulate Dominions, he has long been stimulus, to strive still harder. obsessed with the idea that a beginning might be made with is true that there is no marked the Crown Colonies and depen-improvement yet in the wholesale dencies. Month after month in price level, but exports, of manu- factured goods are increasing the-organs-under-hla-control, he has been pegging away at along with imports of raw materi-

They have fed the sacred horse it is not known whether it has

become the general habit 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 mattresses from their bunks the peculiar position of Hong- the chief industries also Indicato and taken the cure at Beppu. and sleep on the deck, or whether They have come back laden with "Sukyak!" now forms an item on kong, as a distributing centre, that the tendency towards expan was put to him, all that he could aion is still present. One of the crystal necklaces, inlaid elgarette the General Mess menu, but de- most welcome signs is an improve cases, hand-painted teasets, lae- mands for Sake are not unknown reply was that "Hongkong will, ment in shipbuilding, which has quer-ware, kimonos and cockatoos at at least one popular bar in of course, have to come in with had a more appalling record dur which they say were pressed on Hongkong. the rest." Now the Londoning the depression than any other them for purely nominal bums by One wonders how for the in- Morning Post enters the field by industry. Trop and steel and the Japanese shop-keepers suggesting a cordon of tariffs coal present some encouraging they yow that if they can't go and fluence has spread. At dinner round the Colonial Empire. features, too, and in particular live in Japan they will at least parties on board ship, will the Fortunately, the Imperial Gov- the recent announcement that the import as many pieces of that guests now be offered bathe and to be pre- ernment is not so shortsighted to restart with a large new plant and live amongst those.

Guest, Keen, Baldwin concern is country as they can to Hongkong entertained by geisha?

In any case, so an as to be inveigled into any such In South Wales must make that

It. ls to be hoped that they will pared, it would be as well for foolish experiments. Sir Philip distressed area feel that perhaps not entirely forsake their Hong-them just to make quite sure when

kong friends.

drossing that the toes of their Cunliffe-Lister, Secretary for there is some hope of recovery

The language and customs of socks really are as hole-free as the Colonies, has plainly in- after all.

Japan are already to some extent the heels. timated that the idea is quite im- practicable. It is possible, as

other

we pointed out yesterday, to COST OF LIVING envisage a closer co-operation between the Mother Country and Despite the quota and the Dominions which would be schemes affecting foodstuffs, the mutually beneficial, but that is cost of living in general remains quite another matter from this below the level at the correspond- ing period last year. The record- concept of a Customs Union be-ed percentage of unemployment is tween Britain and the Crown still falling to quite a substantial Colonies. A case can be made degree. All these facts have led out for the former; none for the some observers to be more optimis- latter. We have only to take tle about the future, however, than warranted. There is Hongkong as an example of what is really would occur were a system of good reason for thinking that the Improvement has a greater ele- tariffs instituted. As a clear-ment of permanence than the fit ing-house for the South China ful bursta of activity that have markets, our position would been known from time to time: be irretrievably undermined. during the depression, but, on the Tariffs, imposed with the iden of other hand, we cannot get away assisting the Empire's com- from the paramount importance of

world conditions. merce, would in practicemctually drive trade from the Colony,

causing importers into the South AMERICAN SCENE China market to seek other chân- nels. It was a recognition of this circumstance which made it situation is still very doubtful. In particular, the American Impossible for Hongkong, fol: There are many signs, not only of lowing the Ottawa deliberations, a sluckoning in the improvement to make anything but the mercat creviously recorded in the United gesture in the direction of fa- States, but of the definite reaction voured treatment for Empire against President Roosevelt's gold products. The whole future of programmo. Thero is keen dis- Hongkong is bound up in the appointment because purchasing power has not kept pace with preservation of its free port prices, and in some quarters this status. It is circumstances such disappointment is intensified by as these of which. the advocates the Government's refusal to em- bark upon a policy of Inflation. The fate of the Roosevelt ad- ministration is still in the balanco. and elther success or fallure will affect the people of Europa As well an the American people them.

of the Beaverbrook scheme fall to take account, and which prompts the thought that in the realm of economics, as in all others, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

selves.

and

enry, you'll just look funny. Americans can't wear

whiskers.

for

EDWARD

KELLY

WENT

ΤΟ

THE

BALL

(It is understood that Mr. Edward Kelly led the rush to the leo department of the Dairy Farm Company this morning.

His comments on the festivi- ties at St.. Androw's Ball Ins night are therefore, unavoidably,

held over):