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THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1934.

NOTES OF THE DAY OUR PETER PAN The Very Idea!

THE DOLLAR

LANGUAGE

By "SENTINEL"

London's only real dissatisfac tion with President Roosevelt's latest monetary pronouncement is its fallure immediately to set a How valud on the dollar and to open the door for early negotia-

my mind the most interes-, "the art of concealing that some- tions for all-round stabilisation.ting work published in the last thing in concealed," which was

ABORIGINALITIES

By Eddie Kelly, Bushranger The sunburnt stockman stood In diamal

-mood

He apostrophised his This

-moke's no

It doesn't earn ita~~-

-cuddy

Poot

food.

she ment. Oxford Dictionary com- tionably derived from the French THIS is known as the Great

Australian adjective,

great

monly known as "Murray's" trom slang camoufler, to diagulee. Dug.

You see, a team of Aus- the name of its most famous editor-out, as applied to retired officers delay

in-chief. When the final instal- returning to service was used as tralian Rugby players ar mont of that tremendous treatise early as the South African War, appeared most people thought the but not as a synonym for tho hid rived in the Colony this English language had been disposed ing-places below the parapet at morning, and we've got to of once and for all. No such book-first called cupboards or funkholes. give 'em some sort of a wel- had over more fulfilled Anatole Tenk is itself a claver bit of camou France's definition of a dictionary flage, for no enemy hearing it could come. as "the universo in alphabetical possibly guess the nature of the order," It took forty-four years to finish, covera poriod of twelve- centuries, and contains over 400,- 000 words with nearly 2,000,000 Illustrative quotations,

A closer reading of the Message and the subsequent statements by Mr. Morgenthau, however, pro- vide plenty of room for encourage. ment. The President's Reems to be occasioned. by some doubts as to the reception likely to be given to his proposals by Con- gress, and action may be expected Boon atter the necessary legisla- tion has been steared through, provided other factors are favour able. President Roosevelt has won out in the tremendous · con- troversy which has raged about the "honost dollar and the "boloney dollar". In the United States and he is not likely to lose the first opportunity of consolidat- ing his position.

NO ALTERNATIVE

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mechanismi meant.

Swing the lead, to malinger, le the old nautical term employed in a figurative sonse, Dodge the Column, to evade a dangerous job, must have originated during the

:

We met them this morning when they arrived. Fine, strapping lads, they were. Everyone of them stood over six feet,, and also stood us some Australian beer.

It was the little word belonging

Beer is one of the most to the machinery of the language which took up most time. Sir Peninsular War. Scrounge, which James Murray once told Professor has puzzled the commentators, in important products made in Weekley that his best assistant adn North Country dialect word, as Australia. spent six months on the word that! is made clear by the late Joseph Out in the back-blocks Critics of the AdministrationBut to the amateur in word-collee-Wright's monumental dictionary. have recently learned at least ting, quite a popular sport now Grouse, given in print by Kipling, they have huge kangaroo as early as 1892, may possibly be farms, where they gather, four Important things. In the adays, it was the word with a story

in it that most appealed. If some derived from the old French Grou-the hops. first place, they have no alterna-

Ah! How homesick we tive plan on which half a dozen iegends had to be eliminated, a new cher, though a gulf of centuries schools of sound-money advocates story would sometimes come in, intervenes. It may be as old as

which had been missed by the early Agincourt, when the English figh-feel for the smell of the old can unite. The plan which has

etymologists. Thus Skeat derives ting man's privilege of grumbling, town brewery, where the drawn most attention, that offered

the slang word to slate, from the especially if things are going really

to well, was by Mr. James P. Warburg in an-

already established. kangaroo hops are brewed Anglo-Saxon elatan, to cause swer to Senator Borah's challenge,

rend. But it is really an Irish Many of the best-known Army into beer. But why, you la not only extremely similar to vulgarism of Charles Lover's era. slang words are derived from Hin- ask, brewed over this? the Administration's policy, but which originated from the practice Justani or Arabic, and thinks to

It must be six years now since frankly declares against a return

of "bonneting" an opponent by Mr. Kipling, the Old Army's Re-

} to the gold standard as we have known it. It is clear also that the Jamming his alate (or tile, or in membrancer, they will never be we galloped down the main quite forgotten. But auch words street of Sydney town on our. Americanese lid) over his eyes. a. sound- President is not only

as Pozzy, Jam, which was already station brumble.

We can still smell the aweet money man himself, but that his

The appearance of the Suppple-current in 1884, before even plum- much-criticised adviser, Professor ment with its thousands of new and-apple was issued as part of 3 odour of the wattle-tree and the Warren, is a gold man. And it words and new meanings must have ration, are of uncertain origin, and varra as we cast our mind back may be noted the Administration been a great surprise to those who still puzzle the etymologists. to those care free days. has twice made tentative advances imagined that the Oxford Dic-

"Slang" and "Words, Words, We can picture our dear old to Great Britain for currency tionary had "settled hott's busi THE MONEY-LENDING stabilisation. The fact that Lon-ners, so to speak. But a living Words" by Eric Partridge, to mother, sitting below her favourite don has held back because it has langungo must grow with the which I am indebted for much of wattle tree. Wattle she be think EVIL

been uneasy about American policy culture of which it is the sensitive the preceding Information, deal ating of us now? ';

Pioneers, our old folk were: for control of the dollar does not skin, and the progress of the length with the entertaining sub- Steps being taken in Singa-greatly lesson the amount of wind sciences since the successive instal-jects of French war slang, old and Day and night they tolled on the pore, aiming at the liquidation of this information takes out of the ments of "Murray's" were publish- now. The Poilu (Balzac used the old farm in Central Queensland, to widespread money loan indebted-enile of Mr. Roosevelt's critica.ed, would alone have involved the term) was a prolific inventor of mako four prickly pears grow ness and the restriction of For the whole story tends to show Introduction of a great number of curious synonyms. Thus bread, where only one pair had grown

that he has been seriously striving neologisms. Now scientific terms, the veritable staff of life in the before. further borrowings, might with to solve the dimcult riddle of for the most part formed of Greek war-years, has as many nicknames elements, from the bulk of these as the nose had in the pugilistic advantage be duplicated in Hong- when to stabilisc.

additions to what is actually the slang of Egan's Tom and Jerry. kong. The Government and

nearest to a universal language, There were as many phrases for of Tasmania and can best be several commercial firms are SOUND, MONEY

No other language, neither German fasting, the most elaborate being found on an atlas by looking slight nor French nor Spanish, is anything becqueter des clopes (munching ly towards the left of New calling upon employees to dis-

like as quick as English to provido cigarette-ends) and ae calor des Zealand, close the extent of their in-

It is divided into six States; and Moreover it has not been

for the new necessities of modern briques, sauce caillouz (dining off debtedness and prohibiting, on necessary to follow events very civilisation. Now and again a new bricks, with pebble sauce). Terms the last state is a pretty terrible need has been strangely anticipated. derived from English, some of them one to be in, sa, by, then you pain of dismissal, the contracting closely to have discovered that in of further obligations of this the present political situation in Thus air-sickness was coined by pre-War adaptations, are bizness. generally have to be carried home.

Some of the States are. Souse the United States the President Horace Walpole in 1784 in refer- work; pouleper, to gallop, from character. Here in Hong-stands as the surest bulwark ence to Montgolfier's novel inven- "pull up" uppercut, brandy, a box-tralia, Wetralia, Hictoria, Tap-

must be

Only his kong there

many against wild inflation.

tion of the balloon. But, with ing metaphor for knock-out stuff: mania and so on.

The chief exports from Austra-. thousands of clerks and office strategy in obtaining power over auch acant exceptions, the daily afnaf, not too satisfactory, from

"half and half": oirede, excellent, la are wheat, wool, Reach's beer. from currency

Congress Inst necessities must be met to-day.,.

from "all right"; and ridere, smart, Jack Crawford and Don Bradman. ese, to say nothing of innumer-back movements then rampant.

The chief imports are body line bowlers and beer.

Body line able artisans, who are in the grip Captious criticism is a boomerang

are what minko, the bowlers of money-lenders and-who-have against really sound money. Un- til recently the inflationist fires

Southern-cross, which is the national emblem. not the alightest hope of being have been fed by an unreasoning in- extricated from their plight un- alstence upon continued, deflation less there is intervention on their which offers no compromise and no behalf. In the majority of hope to those who see some men instances, the debtors, fear, to sure of reflation as necessary and disclose their position to their just. Not only are those who employers, with the result that suffer worst from deflation ex- the money-lenders, well aware of asperated by such unfairness:

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There is value' in showing how double the amount they actually the wage earner and the widow are compelled to sign for uncontrolled inflation would hurt receive, added to which they dependent on small Investments. have to bear unconscionably high But it is entirely wrong to imply rates of interest. In this way a that the United States already has man who signs, say, for $400 but experienced any dangerous or un- degree of inflation. The receives only half that amount just may, in course of time, find him- 1932 dollar was worth $1.00 to self in arrears of interest to the $1.70 as compared with the dollar of 1926, both being measured in extent of $100. Then, as like us the terms of what they would buy. not, along will come the money-To-day the dollar is still worth lender and demand that the about $1.00 in the domestic debtor sign a fresh note for market. And there is at least as $1,000, being double the amount much oppression and as much dis- of his supposed indebtedness. honesty in such a dollar as there And so the process goes on, with would be in one inflated to, be anowball effect, the debtor get-worth only 60 centa. It is true ting deeper and deeper in the that nearly every citizen is to-day mire all the time. Borrowers so creditor to some extent. It may be useful to point that out, but it placed have no hope of ever pay is not useful to point It out in a ing off the capital. Often they manner which assumes that credi fear to seek justice in the Courts, tera do not still have much the since this would mean publicity better of the dollar's favouritiam, and possibly jeopardise their unless they are to a urcator extent jobs. The Singapore method of debtors.

dealing with the situation, invit

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with no danger of loss of employ: FAIREST DOLLAR

ment, but at the same time pre-

venting further borrowing, The consideration which decided would appear to be the only President Roosevelt upon a sixty ratisfactory way of dealing with cent dollar was solely the pur the ovil. For this reason, it is chasing power of the dollar inter- thay well worth emulating locally.nally. A sixty-cont dollar, if

commodity prices rise a Once accumulated arrears were should, would rapidly assume the the disposed of, by bankruptcy or same purchasing power ma

1926. The composition with creditors, the 100-cent dollar of future could be placed on a sound argument is that the soundest basis by the simple process of money is the fairest money, that. maldng employees realise that is the fairest money as between the contracting of fresh in- croditor and debtor, enabling the debtedness would lose them their debtor to meet his commitments In jobs. Fear would then operate currency values similar to those to the employee's own advant-existing when the debts accrued. Only then does money best per- age, instead of, as at present, to form its solo function, facilitating his discomfort.

the exchange of goods,"

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The peculiar feature of German

But perhaps you want to know? something about this Australia.

Australia fa just off the coast

are not careful on the beach you

The supplement shows us how from "rider," really a compliment now words have also been pouring to the English cavalryman. Str in from the weedy wilderness of fer, to ill-treat, was taken from the English and American slang, from English soldier's talk, not directly countless trade jargons, from the from the German. *

Swimming and surfing are great terminologica of sport (even body line bordling is there!) and, only occasionally, from our noble dia-war alang is its richness in droll pastimes in Australia, but if you lects. But let us consider the compound terms for the various will get sunburnt and then you words, new or renewed, which have ranks and branches. The colonel will surfer terribly.

was.maggot-breeder, a pun on the The educational ayatem in Aus- come in from the Great War.

double sense of Kaupen, which tralia is a very liberal one. Even Only a very few of the slang means either maggots or the thick the son of a politican can become words and phrases from this source fringes on epaulettes worn by off- a member in a touring Universities have become part of everyday Eng- cora of high rank. The German

Rugby team. lish. And of those which have equivalent of our "brass hat" was been accepted, only one or two brandy-officer. There are nearly were actually produced during the forty nick-names for a chaplain, South Wales and is surrounded by ery for mercy, camouflage, wind up, tuous. Where our men talked of Sydney harbour was placed there war-years. Kamerad, the German most of them worse than contemp a place called Sydney Harbour. over the top, dug-out, eyo-wash, a foot-slegger, the German said go that the Sydney people could and tank seem to be the chief mile-pig or mad-eater. The Jager build a bridge across It.

Of course, you've heard about. the Sydney Harbour specific Inventions of 1914-1918. was n tree-from, the Hussar

(Continued on Page 4.) But camouflage, officially defined as

"Janice is doing-much better since you scolded her.".

Sydney is the capital of New

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It

CRASHI

Bridge?

·ODE TO MACWHIRTER "MacWhirter will die bofore

morning,"

The doctor said, leaving the

tent,

"Let the poor fellow have what..

he wishes."

And the nurses know well

what he meant.

They complied with his only

request,

Just to hear the sweet pibroch

again,`.

And the bagpipes kent playing

for hours

The same old sweet Highland

refrain.

The doctor returned in the

morning,

Expecting to and old. Minc

dead,

Instead, to his great constorna-

tion,

There was Mac, sitting well up

in bed.

Thoy declared they had given

"him nothing,

Nalther medicine, liquor, nor

food,

Just the bagpipes, kept playing

for hours,

For they seemed to bo dolnir

him good,

The doctor was thoroughly puzzl..

ed,

"A remarkable instanco!! he

sald

Then they turned to the rest o

the patients,

And found every one of them

deadl