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NOTES OF THE DAY H. G. WELLS PEERS INTO The Very Idea!
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NAVAL STRATEGY,
THE FUTURE
The Increasing part which tor- UNCHING in a London club third, the great pestilence." pedo-carrying machines arg.likely
fleet,
NO CHANCES
creditor."
**The
DOMESTIC BLISS By Edward Kelly, Worm.
NAGGING wife is one of the greatest causes of man's failure, said he," smirking at himself.
think it best to say firmly, "Now, now! That's enough! Back to your bridge part- ies."
We always think that is the best attitude to adopt, and while we're sitting there thinking about it and wondering, it anyone had ever been game to try it, she says to us:
to play. In naval strategy is sugitarris, the editor of the Spectator, to say, is economic and not bel- gested by the decision to send an- other squadron of the Wildebeeste Always much in the public oye,
we were joined by H. G. Wells. Ligerent, and it was strangled by A machines to Singapore. The model Mr. Wells is to-day more so than To me, a peculiarly interesting destined for Singapore is the first usual because of his effort to peor featurs of Mr. Wells's discussion of specially designed for the combined into the economic and political existing evils and the results which functions of torpedo-carrying and future of the world, with results will inevitably follow for years to
Bht why, you ask, do hus- bomb-dropping and as such are like set forth in his book. The Shape come is his insistence upon a faulty bands allow themselves to be ly to prove an extremely valuable of Things to Come," just publlah- theory of money ne a fundamental factor in the remote event of a naval ed. This sort of essay in prophecy reason for world-wide diatrces. nagged? If our wife starts threat of the Singapore Baad. The is no novelty to this author, who only the creation of an internation- any nagging, we always opinion of some of the experts who | indeed begon his literary career as al monetary system can make the had an opportunity of witnessing
a writer of what his publishers world's business stable in times of their performance in the North Sea call "fantastic and imaginative unrest, he wisely argues. If one recently is that a single squadron romances. Perhaps those chrifor doubts that, let him read chaptor in a combined attack, could wreak tales, notably "Gods, Like Men," five of Lloyd George's "War Mom- greater havoc among an enemy and The Sleeper, Wakea," wara cries" Just published. Mr. Wells, Battle Fleet than, in ordinary cir- more readable than this Inter having the fictionlat's license to do cumstance a ship, for ship rival ponderous volumo in which he just what he wants to with the predicts a century of chaos. and world, does not, however, attempt to persuade existing states.to distress out of which finally establish an International currency. emerges "the modernized world le merely sweeps them all into state, socialistic, cosmopolitan and chaos and erects the "world state | creative."
"Say something, for heaven's Indeed I am not certain that militant," with, of course, a menc-
Bako! Sitting there like their fantasies are not quite as tary unit that serves all mankind. easily accepted as will be the
stuffed owl..... That's right, processes through which
The old states wont down in a author, quite logically, conducts red welter, of war, pestilence, drop your cigarette aah all over his readers to the world-wide re-bankruptcy and revolution. How the floor! As if the amah construction which he foreseea of these anarchic fragments? The you post my letter, no, of course was the new world state built out hasn't got enough to do-did But in this latest endeavour to expedient Mr. Wella chooses is you didn't! Too much trouble, I gaze Into the future further than mortal eye can see, Mr. Wells has clever and not whelly illogical. The supposo. All you can think, avoided the supernatural which some extent survived the world one public function which had to played so large a part in his wide collapse was transportation by
rer romances, and build his, air and sea. At a conference of parties because it might upset her. structure wholly of materials now
a comparatively few lenders theSo we make for the bathroom. lying ready for use.
Air Control" was formed. It It must be terrible for husbands quickly acquired monopoly power who have no bathrooms where over air routes, ports, airdromes they can lock themselves in and coal mines, oil wella, mines. It turn on the bath heater real loud and then sit on the edge of the bath and read.
the
The accuracy of such opinion enn, of course, only be tested in the event of an actual conflict, although there is no gainsaying that if any anxiety has been felt among British naval circles in the Far East, it will be eased somewhat by the ar- rival of the new air squadron, giving Singapore two squadrons of torpedo-bombers. Stress is laid in the oficial announėzment con cerning the despatch of this new addition to British air strength in the East that it was decided upon some months ago. The object is to allay any feeling that the de- velopment is the result of increa- It is not precisely easy reading, sing naval tension, and can be ac- this tract of 430 packed pages cepted at its face value. It is The writer. indeed, has worked obvious, novertheless, that noout his theories with an infinitude was not a government, but a mono- chances are being taken.
THE AUTOGIRO
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AND OUR IMITATORS
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And then wo think to ourself that perhaps wo'd better not tell. her to go back to her bridge
It's a bit awkward If you forgot your cigarettes, and it is a good idea to have a couple of tins stow-
Solomon was a wise man, and if you remember your history, "Ho caused three hundred and sixty and five bathrooms to be hullded, with Iron bars very couningly wrought, barring the portals."
Wo fall to see, however, how m woman's nagging can cause a man to be a failure. We know men, who, before marriage, could not nurse babies, mow lawns, take poodle-dogs for walks or buy chemises. After marriage they become huge successes at it.
a hard day's work......" etc.
"Did you get the amah to sow the buttons on my waistcoat? No, I thought not! If you'd pay a little attention to ma instead of scandal- monging with
and so forth.
of detail. a lavish citation of poly so powerful that none of the authorities and a logical mar: weakened states could copo with it. shalling of evidence. Of course Its enemies could go nowhere-for the support of a proposition is all means of transport were in Its rendered simple if one can manu- control; they could not press pro-ed away for emergency. The Air Ministry is now experi- facture his own evidence, and paganda against it for it held the menting with autogiro machines create his own authorities out of wires, the wireless and the mails with exceedingly gratifying resuits. a lively imagination. As prae- subject. As it became more power- The big airports dotted all over tically all of the action of his book ful, it created allied but subordinato England, as envisaged by the Prince is in the future, the reader ruba "controls" covering of Wales, will not become so neces his eyes at the matter-of-fact
In brief, instead of building the sary. If the autogiro principle can juxtaposition of quotations from every branch of human endeavour. be rolled upon. A new era in fly Cordell Hull and Upton Sinclair world state on a political founda Ing cannot be very far away. In with others from "Aubrey Wilkin- tion, an all-embracing economic NATIONALISM the Air Ministry trials, a special son," published in 1991, or "Fuller-combination, a trust was built up type of autogiro proved itself cap Metsch" in 2001. Incidentally, which in turn established the state One effect of the failure of the able of taking off in fifteen yards, the view of the Intter authorities for its own protection. But at recent World Economic Con- hovering atationary in the air and seem much more Intelligent,
all times the economic power was ference has
making a gentle perpendicular been that the
frankly the master of the political landing. Such a machine would Briefly the scheme of the book aim of government-even as it is conception of
Of course, a husband with any Economic Na- make airports of extensive uerenge te this: A professor-who really to-day secretly,
brains can always gain the upper tionalism is gaining some superfluous, while a pilot losing ought to be part of the famous I shall not attempt to give with hand simply by goading his wife his way in unknown country would Technocracy group-finds himself in the space of this article any until she passes the nagging stage, ground in England. Its advo-be relieved of half his anxieties. strangely gifted with the power of comprehensive or adequate sum- becomes mad with rage, then cates are still in a decided i
Prophecy. He bequeathes to the mary of this ponderous and meaty hysterical, and finally unconscious. minority, however; the Govern-
writer a mass of papers in cipher volume, any more than I should This is much more humane than ment still pins its faith in inter-
from which fragmentary accounts attempt to report the author's con- striking them with the fire shovel, of the progress of the world are versation at the Reform Club. national treatment of the world
There is no doubt that the trade drawn. The
and they enjoy it more. opening chapters Enough to say of both that they To be quite fair, it mus, be ad- depression, and it carries with it of Britain has taken a definito turn mingle so shrawdly comment upon showed a "popular" novelist transmitted that there are men naggers.
for the better. The Chancellor of the bulk of public opinion. The the Exchequer, credited with being all men, with grave accounts. of quits true that the transformation
the actual happenings known to formed into a political-gcer. It is They come home and sit down to tuo table and nay, 'What's this? protagonists of Economic Na- among the most pessimistic of men,
the occurrencOB in the early has not been sudden. Nearly all of Stow? You know don't like tionalism say the movement is is quite certain of it; it must be future--"the days after
Bo. The elements are present for marrow" the author calls the period been shot through with a thread of cook something else?
to-Mr. Wells's novela since 1914 have stew! Can't you tell the boy to due to the economic consequences speedler forward progress in the that
Gadding of the development of power-Spring. Confidence le rapidly ropuzzled-to-tell-where the factual complain that they are often more Damitall, a man comes home" from
is sometimes political philosophy. Critica indeed about all day with other hens production side by side, with the ful factor in helping to reatore begins. The story is so up to date
turning and that is the most power-narrative enda and the fiction tracts than romances. attempt to maintain a monetary markets.
Indeed, in, the last paragraph of as to draw lessons from the failure this, his latest volume, the author system suited only, at best, to
of the London Economic Confer- throws romantic pretence to the hand labour production. A point
ency, and even to comment on the winds, and, casting off the mask to be borne in mind in this con-
Inadequacy of the efforts of "Roo- of the An Indian Brm has been success-sevelt 11"
prescient professor, and nexion is that the technique of fully sued for holding stocks of
speaking in his own proper person, As a result of these, and other says: modern power-production is no gramophone records manufactured failures of the governing classes of longer the monopoly of any given in Japan and issued with the trade to-day seeking a remedy for exlat- mark of "His Master's Volca.” If Ing ille, chaos overwhelms the nation or even of any given en- it were not for the damage even- { world. A ndw war halves the vironment. Rising output and tually done to British commercial civilized population, brings bank- falling wages, taken in conjunctics for nine times out of ten the society, and sprends pestilence and interests by such fraudulent tac-ruptcy and disorganization upon tion with the universalisution of commodity is Inferior in quality famine upon mankind. As Mr. power technique, have produced and the purchaser believes he Is Wells puts it: "The Immediate two results. The first is the being let down by the manufacturer causes of the world collapse in
whose mark is imitated-we might the twentieth century wero
first creation of a greater and greater look upon the imitatione as a com- monetary indaptability; secondly, "surplus" of goods that cannot pliment to the high reputation the disorganization of society be consumed at home and must which British goods enjoy.
through increased productivity, and therefore be exported; the second is the progressive closing of foreign outicts. When the fr-
In the interminable discussions resistible meets the impene which have been going on in the trable, something new is bound French Press over the problem of to happen. This "something reconciling the necessity for balanc- new," it is being argued, is tion of individuals to pay taxes and ing the Budget with the disinclina- Economic Nationalism, which is civil servants to reduce salaries, the joint work of irresistible there f frequent reference to the domestic production and im-desirability of abandoning the in- penetrable foreign consumption. come tax, and returning to the The reconciliation of these two four taxes which were the principal "Quatro Vielles." They are the factors, it is contended, must forms of direct taxation until the take the form of an expansion income tax was introduced-the of home consumption side by taxes on land carrying bulldings, on side with a contraction of im-land without buildings, on doors ported production - national | and windows, and the personal tax dividends and the "just prico" on rent. The principle of the side by side with regulatory "Quartrg Visilica is one which is tariffs and embargoes. These constantly being advanced by the are some of the submissions Parties of the Right, and can be mado to appeal to almost any which are beginning to make Frenchman--that it is not fair to their force felt in England at make inquisitorial examination of the present moment. There is, the private affairs of anyone to find however, fairly general agree out how rich he is, but quite fair ment that, provided nations to tax him on the outward signa could agree among themselves, of his wealth. the world crisis would best be
solved by International Co-
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FRENCH INCOME TAX
operation. Advocates of Econ- the various nations.to attempt omic Nationalism argue that to work out their own salvation, just as Britain, though convinced just as the United States
Russia that world free trade is the ideal and
are doing. Tho state, has, in the absence of any contention is not without In- serious movement in that direc- toreat, and may possibly have in tlon, deemed it wise the adopt It germs of real value, though tariffs, so, with world economic the thought does obtrude itself co-operation still unattainable, that it runs contrary to prin the better course, for the time, ciples which have been nisidu being at any rate, would be for ously fostered in recent years.
When the existing govern- nients and ruling theories of life, the decaying religions and the decaying forms of to-day have sufficiently lost prestige through failure and catastrophe, then, and then only, will world-wide recon- struction be possible. And it must needs be the work, first of all, of an aggressive order of re- ligiously devoted men and women who will try out, and establish and impose a new pattern of living upon our race—W.J.A.
Bee, David, it you will practice hard you will be like him BOND
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Of course, these mon don't last long. Sooner or later they finish with aknife through the shoulder blades and the sobbing little widow explains to the coroner, "He. was scratching his back with the bread knife when he sud- denly fell over backwards;” The most maddening of all hus- bands, we have discovered, is the non-talking one.
His wife says, "Did you see any- one in town to-day 7""No." "Did you see Mr. Jones?"- "Yeah."
"How's his wife?"———"Dunno" "I believe sho'n very l "Hmmmph."
"Can't you put that Telegraph down for a minute?""Mph"
And that's the end of that con- verantion.
We have made a very close study of marriage, and we find that all that is necessary to make a woman happy is tact on the part of the huaband,
Husbands are the cause of all the strife in the house. The trouble is that they will answer. back.
Then there are the sulky worms. who won't answar back.. Worse still are the ones who moon about the house, getting in the way and. picking things up and putting them down again. And if you nak thom why they don't go out for a walk somewhere, what do the selfish brutes do but go out-and leave you all by yourself?
We don't know how some poor"; wameh can put up with their hus- bands.
We suppose it'll be safe enough for us to come out of the bathroom,
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