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THE ROOSEVELT GOLD PLANS.

NOTES OF THE DAY

FATE OF LEAGUE

HOW SCOTLAND YARD

FIGHTS CRIME.

By HUGH BRADY

18 daily recurring name, ing, examinations, health, finger. "Scotland

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Those who watch the signs of the times in high politics are awaiting with keen interest to learn the re- sults of Sir John Simon's visit to Rome. It if widely left that the the minds of most people visions staffs of which depart each even- whole

future of the League of of the romantic, perhaps sordid, ing at scheduled hours. Nations may depend on the talks story of crime hidden behind the Visitors from everywhere think walls of the great Embankment Scotland Yard is a show place. and building. between Signor Mussolini

Let me tell you it is not. Tom

All you've got to do is join Britain's Foreign Secretary, Lat- In a sonne they are right. But Mix, the film actor, gally dressed

cowboy clothes, once rode the Multiplication Table. terly, there has been talk of nations for the man in a hurry--the crime in

horse to call on the preparing to "go off" the Lengue reporter, for instance-Scotland his white

No more work, no more as many have gone off gold, of.a Yard is the home of loat causea. Commissioner.

It is only when a crime has entered politely by a policeman to go away revival of the old balance of power the realms of history that it finds because he was causing an ou-worry, nothing but wait for

And that was that. the commissions to roll in. to the archives. When struction. In Europe with now groupings. its way

It's this way. The League is sald to be already crime news is fresh It must be

Have you heard of the Black valueless as a means of collective sought farther afñold.

Museum, which contains all kinds security, and many who genuinely

Elght hundred people are em- of curios-criminal and other sympathise with Geneva's ideala ployed in Scotland Yard. And wise? It is in the dungeons of are calling loudly for a move to when I tell you that only about 1 Scotland Yard, and it is a raro abandon the old order and to set in 6 of these is a policeman you privilege for anyone not connected with the police to be admitted. about erecting some new form of are perhaps surprised.

You would be further surprised There is nothing new under the League to take its place. Much of

relica what is said on the League's de- to learn that a far smaller propor- sun, and there you would find f

of Fiction admitted) tion

detectives. ficiencies is unhappily true. Geneva writers have led you to believe criminals. Anything else? attempted to bring pressure to bear that Scotland Yard is crammed second thoughts, yes; upon Japan in the dispute with with detectives, ready at any years-old Invention on somewhat Chinn und, so far as tangible results moment to take a hand in clearing similar lines to the robot controls

The first three you sell are. were concerned, failed. There fol-up baffling mysteries, Hehv dif-of present-day London traffle-

ferent are the facts!

with green, aniber, and red lights

buckshee, because you don't lowed a grave loss of prestige,

sexes complete! Civil Servants of both

But Scotland Yard, after all, in the rake in any commission. which made it easier for Germany abound in the huge eight-storeyed

as also do uniformed public mind is the great institution once you find the fourth mug to withdraw from Geneva and building. will make it still easier for any officers, and it is only here and that handles crime in all its the money commences to pour there you will meet a detective. aspects. So for the momentin. Out of No. 4's ten dollars other dissatisfied nation to do the

It is in a circumscribed space at must forget the people at Scotland you rake in $7.50. Now, No. 4,

Rame.

Scotland Yard that the detective Yard-the vast majority, who to save his money, has to get to

PRACTICAL AGE

a practical one.

Are

stands on his own ground.

work

notorious

On

sixty

A

All you've got to do is to Bend a paltry ten bucks to the Society and you become a Life Member.

Now you're off. Back will come a consignment of little books about multiplication, which you have to sell at ten bucks a time.

compotently carry on their daily work.

Girls, it's a cinch. We ask you? Why, in less than a year, you

China's 400,000,000. (20,000 de- duction to allow for depreciation

in the Fukien war), or India's

35,000,000 (less 11 lost owing to Russia's paltry 100,000,000. Why, Jardine and body-line), or even there's no reason why you couldn't.

There are close upon 1,000 mem-clerical and technical work.

The first three he rakes in are bers of the Criminal Investigation On one floor are to be found the Department--all officially Scotland headquarters of "Central," that is no good to him, but they're Yard detectives-but there are the Criminal Investigation Depart-worth. $5 to you, because you're That an institution at once so

many who seldom visit the police ment. Its total strength is 116, indirectly responsible for selling far-reaching and so experimental headquarters. Their

lies and this number includes a chief them,

five superintendents. And you've only begun. Each should sustain one or two major with the 23 divisions of the Metro-constable,

and four chief-inspectors. Fifty of these three members have to setbacks might not in another agepolitan Police.

Who works at Scotland Yard? officers belong to the Flying Squad.bag three new "una cach before have suggested ultimate failure,

The Commissioner is there, so who almost invariably are afoot or they start to rake in the skekels. But the present age is essentially are his Assistant-Commissioners, in motor-cars seeking criminals. but you still draw your bit of It must needs be and along the corridors of gloom This is the branch that burns squeeze. When they get their so, for it has many changes and the visitor almost tip-toes past the the midnight oil. Night or day three mugs they can start, much confusion to cope with, and various sections known to the there are detectives there who are by mysterious hiero-ready to respond to calls from any In the fierce controversy many new institutions to set in initiated

part of the world. In the main. It cannot afford to tinker glyphics. which has arisen in the United motion.

I once heard a facetious police however, London's divisionni de-could earn $10,000 If you sold which will not

man say: "A stone thrown through tectives are not alarmists. A every citizen in Hongkong. We've often dons worse than this out at States over the Roosevelt ad- with machinery

to "realistic" A Scotland Yard window would divisional crime brings the men Fanling or Happy Valley. ministration's gold policy, the work. According

from the local stations, and they

The population of Hongkong is. opposition is certainly getting its thought, therefore, the League of always hit a Civil Servant."

There is certainly some truth in work with the knowledge that the Nations, having shown itself in- full share of the debate. Which-effective in certain supremely im- that statement. The amount of renorve men at Scotland Yard can about 900,000, but consider the ever 'school of thought is right, portant issues, might be discarded clerical work performed at Scot help at any moment with addj-potentialities of the scheme else- open and unrestricted discussion and all the energies and resource-land Yard is prodigious, and it is tional men, perhaps, or by finger where. Fancy hopping in among

only the expert who can draw the prints, photographs, or wireless of demarcation between descriptions of wanted mén. of the country's most conflicting fulness of the age set to work on

a new international machine. But line problem is likely to bring about with the League of Nations one is policeman and Civil Servant.

Why the telephones are control- Any piece of writing about a saner and more effective solp-not dealing with a mere political tion than would consideration of expedient that may be easily chan-led at night by policemen and by Scotland Yard would be incom- ged or scrapped. One is dealing Civil Servants during the day has plete without a reference to the tele famous "Back-Hall." That is the the difficulty from one angle with an expression of the highest always puzzled me. The alone.

Both the sound money hopes, the most sacred ideals and phone room contains direct lines way into Scotland Yard when the clean up ten or twenty bucks in no

A Inte the deepest convictions of humanity. from Buckingham Palace, Welling: main entrance is closed.

the House Barracks, advocates and the so-called in- The expression of any great ideal ton

of caller is always scen first by the flationists have strong reasons to does not stand or fall by a tem- Commons, the Director of Public Back Hall" inspector, a man of

Prosecutions Office, the Admiralty encyclopaedic police knowledge, Anyone interested in the scheme back up their arguments. Each porary setback, by defections or

and the War Office.

backed by R staff of constables, can send their ten bucks along to failures of individuals, or even of has rallied to its side the sub-

and it is these men who "enrry us, c/o this office. nationa

Civil Servants control the Gen-on" in the stillness of the night. The odds are 1,000,000 to one missions of professors of econ-

eral Registry, into which mail, The reserve detectives are on that it won't go to the promoters. omics and other experts to prove

cables, and telegrams pour daily. duty upstairs. In cases of urgency of the scheme. Wo know but the uniformed constables re- the "Back Hall" Inspector can multiplication table. that it is right. Each, wo may

ceive and despatch everything at speak on the telephone to any of assume, wants to find the best

For the moment the League may Scotland Yard: Chief constables the staff from Lord-Trenchard. way out of the depression.

look far less attractive than have Civil Service clerks, but downwards. The light in his office Difference between the sound

"realistic" und resurgent nation- superintendents are helped by shines nightly through an ocean A well known. friend of ours money men and the inflationists aliam. It is natural, perhaps, in policemen. lies in the difference between. a

an age that looks for change, to

Some of the motor-drivers at the I have told you that there are entered the Hongkong Hotel with strict adherence to the economic centre interest upon the drastic Yard are policemen, others are only 116 detectives in the Centrala ten cent bit, a silver dollar, and Near three one cents in his pocket. He phase of the gold problem and changes made on the realistic basis civilians; but many of the "Mystery Branch at Scotland Yard. ir consideration of its political and to forget the slow, patient Sections" are composed of detec by-separated by a bridge in the asked for a Resch's beer, and after significance as well. For, in the structural work in daily progress tives, uniformed men, and Civli quadrangles Scotland House, quaffing it, paid with the dollar,

at Geneva and The Hague-not Servants.

the home of the Special Branch; adding the small change as cum- ahaw. What did he get in return? broader, humanitarian sense, merely political, but judicial, econ-

This is especially true of the strength, 132,

ANSWER: A thick car (the politics has much to do with the omic, social and cultural, reaching Ideas Section, which sifts all kinds | This is the branch that caught matter. While Wall Street looks into all phases of the life of the

of suggestions.

spies during the war, watches dollar was chopped). upon the subject from a cold,nations and welding them into this

The Pay Department at Scotland foreign revolutionaries, keeps its matter of fact, dollars and dents League idea that shall stand for the Yard is a huge section, and there eye on the wild dreamers of new viewpoint, President Roosevelt is varying forms of unity of interest

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forced to consider it not only in in all nations. If some of the are others dealing with printing, worlds. All its men are linguists that light, but from the angle of nations, owing to political excite-traffic, wireless, promotions, dis- and well travelled; their secrets the tradesman and the consumer ment and changes, are not yet ready ciplinary boards, awards, recruit are the nation

as well. This naturally compli- to take share in this great organisa-

tion that has brought fifty-seven

cates the problem much more nations into a single membership, for the Government than it does the

Ideal remains, and

for the financiers. Conceivably, machinery.

if the sound money

advocates

had not arisen to criticise the

Roosevelt policies, the more con- SPIRIT OF GENEVA servative phase of the discussion

the

Gonova

might have been overlooked. It is sometimes said that the Had there been a disposition to League, after all, is 'no more than swallow all the President's nos-the nations that compose it, and of the trums without question, the that all the self-interest country might by this time have nations is merely reproduced at the experienced actual inflation, with Geneva conferences. Nothing could

be more misleading. At all its accompanying dangers.there is far more than the con- Reasoned analysis of the Pre-stituent nations. The "spirit of sident's policies may therefore Geneva" and its effect upon the dele- have a very real value. Mr. Hates who enter its halls is one of Roosevelt's task is assuredly one the first things that impresses of great magnitude, presenting everyone who has attended its meet- almost innumerable pitfalls for inge. Even in the purely political Faspect of Geneva, where nation- the unwary. He is finding, also, alisin necessarily is still much in that there are big interests to evidence, something of the new be fought, the latest opposition spirit, assiduously developed by coming from the Federal Reserve the Secretariat, is usually apparent, Banks, which bitterly resent the and in course, of time will become so. The work of drawing decree placing control of their more gold holdings under the Tren-fifty-seven nations together cannot sury. How his plans will work be lightly undone and done over out in practice is a matter for again. Even if it were, the new form would incur the same attacks speculation, but he is obviously as the old and would be morally the type of man who, having less well equipped to resist them. once made up his mind, is not It is the task of this generation to enaily deflected from the course hold what has been set up-to which he sets. The next few modify where necessary, but always months will be a crucial time for to hold, to keep its gaze fixed firm the President and his advisers, y on the ideal and to preserve for Well-wishers will pray that he is, successors, through all trials may succeed in the task to which and setbacks, one of the greatest Achievements the post-war age ho has put his hand.

has to ita crèdit.

"And while he is laughing at the story about the Scotsman you be getting out your samplos and order blanks."

time.

And ten or twenty bucka is ten or twenty bucks these days.

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The Worm Through the Ages

When Sir Worm, Crusader, is safely buckled up in armour, he opens vizor and finds courage to tell wife he is going on crusade for five years to fight Saracens,

Oh, so after giving worm best years of her life worm is going to leave wife for five years while worm goes gallivanting off on crusades, is he?

That is nice way to treat hard- working wife who has worked fingers to bone to make worm's home comfortable.

Castle with 100 rooma and 500 men-at-arms, cooks, scullions and grooms not good enough for pampered worm who is merely finding excuse to go abroad with witty worm friends,

And if worm thinks he is going to frighten Saracons in his silly tin-pot armour and foolish plume. he is greatly mistaken.

Saracene will roar with laughter when they see worm galloping about, waving lance like little boy playing at soldiers,

or

But probably cunning, eox-mail worm has no Intention of fighting Saracons. More likely he is going all the way to Palestino, where Saracens live, to oglo shame- Jess blonde princess. If that is worm's intention ho had better look out, as Saracens have short. ahrift with Christian worms who ogle Saracen women,

Probably worm will lose hond, and wife will bo left with castle on hands and end days ns beggar, As dinner la ready worm had better take off silly armour and stop showing off..

Sir Worm calls pages to remove armour and decides to go on next crusado,

Hi