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WEDNESDAY, February 28, 1934.

BRITAIN'S STEADY

PROGRESS

Not only is British trade on the up-grade, but the improve-

ment noteworthy in recent months has come to stay. That is the conclusion reached by Mr. Neville Chamberlain, who, from his position as Chancellor of the Exchequer and by reason of his close contact with trading in- terests, is able to speak with some authority on the subject. The belief is also evidently held by our manufacturers, who are so encouraged by prospects that they feel they can justifiably expand their plant and equip ment. The steady upward trend. has been manifest for some time How, so much so that in the iron

and steel industries there has been so much activity that in some directions difficulty has been experienced in fulfilling re- quirements of consumers. The position in the coal-mining areas is also improving, whilst ship- building is taking a turn for the better. Engineering, metal. goods, the motor industry and distributive trades have also been reporting better conditions, and there has been a marked improvement in the pottery in- dustry. The effect of this activity is seen in a decided in- crease the number of people actually in employment. In re cent months this increase has been most marked; a fact which provides the best possible evid- ence of the revival of trade activity. There is, of course, a tremendous amount of leeway

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY

NOTES OF THE DAY

EUROPEAN MAZE

moves

28, 1931.

REAL LIFE JEKYLLS AND HYDES

By BERNARD FALK

Takes a fantastic picture in veren.

strange detail to gentleman of genius, and vice-

The European political tangle is not rendered lesa of a maze by the hints of better success attending Germany's diplomatie activities.· Â correct appraisal of the situation THOUGH the is, indeed, more dimeult than ever. The precise significance of all the In the game may not appear until much later in the day, but one thing is clear, namely, that Aus tria's lenders are more readily dis posed to listen to the voice of Ber Jin. No definite statement has been forthcoming from either Berlin or Vienna, but there is plenty of clr- cumatantial justification, for the belief, including the statement from Dr. Dollfuss's office declaring that no trouble is expected to-day when, at noon, Herr Habicht's ultimatum expires.

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THE INFERENCE

The inference appears to by ob- vious. No trouble is expected be cause the occasion for quarrel has been removed or negotiations to that end are proceeding satisfac torily. An agreement, according to one source, is expected in the next few days but what will be the end of it all, no-one can foresee. Such a development, following so closely in the wake of Signor Suvitch's trip to Vienna and Budapest, would be surprising. It may mean penes between Austria and Germany, But it would increase the alarm and anxieties in Rome and Paris,

not to mention London.

MUSSOLINI'S PLANS.

In my early days in London no

The Very Idea!

ALWAYS LOOK A HORSE

IN THE FACE

By Eddie Kelly, Horse Follower

HAVE you joined the Buck

to the Horse Movement? In other words, how much did you lose at Happy Valley yesterday?

our minds, we should not be too much surprised by the dual life. fed by "Arthur Leon Castledale, more extravagant form of double dead in a motor-car crash in Lon-life was led than by a Dicitension don, who was a Cambridge watter character, whose ambition was to

What we'd like to see is by day and a aupposed wealthy live at the rate of £10,000 a year. man about town by night in laving been left only £1.000.a something original at the atark truth, an adventurer and a year, he arranged his affairs as races. People are getting criminal.

follows: Eleven months in the

In all great cities there are to year he stayed at one of the Row-tired of the same old thing be found people masquerading as ton Houses, permitting himself in year after year, going out, in the opposites to their real selvar. expenditure of two or three shill taxis, watching the same old Sometimes the deception has an ings a day, and the remaining

There are cases, known to most of us, where an attempt is made

to

escape from the unrelieved

Innocent purpose, and no one is month he moved into the most horses lose their same old imposed upon but the masquera-expensive salto at a fashionable money, and coming home in ders, which is as well.

West End hotel to enjoy the tram-cars,

Let's have a few innovations. luxurious state of a millionaire. hundred and sixty-five he dined off race-goer enters the gate, he

Thirty days out of the three

For instance, as soon as monotony of a humdrum exist. Dover sole, caviare, roast chicken should be presented with a toy enco; in short, to find, in And the Quest dishes procurable;

อย assumed pose, the thri}} the other three, hundred and balloon and carnival cap. Prizes excitement unhappily lacking in thirty-five days he fed mengrely could be given for the best fancy, on the staple foods of the very dress costumes, with special the normal, daily round,

poor-cheese, herrings, atreaky prizes for best impersonation of bacon, etc.

successful punter.

and

The world has many Cinderellas to whose care-haunted natures it

A better Innovation would be to Such extremes of luxury and hand Jockeys who don't come in Is, occasionally, a blessed safety-discomfort were the price this first, second or third over the fence This arrangement valve to behave as though they human oddity gladly paid to be to punters. believed the fairy-sent Prince treated as a millionaire for a few could also be made to apply to the Yet in starter who raised the tape when were actually on his way. If none passing days each year. else be harmed, why should we whatever role he figured, whether the hot favourite was facing in the harshly condemn these imagined the Rowton House lodger of the opposite direction.

As the annual races are so well golden hours, when castles in the long spring, summer and autumn patronised by ladies, a number of air seem to stretch to earth? months, or the honoured "million-

Alus that what is begun with aire" hotel guest of the one June huge mat-sheds should be erected to no ulterior object in vlow, and no month (the London season), he park them in. This would prevent That Signor Mussolini's instruc-avil in contemplation, should, from conducted himself as to the man then from cramping betting ar

rangements. tions to Signor Suvitch had nothing time to time, end miserably and ner born. He might expressly have been cut out for his in to do with Austrin's change of disastrously in war

society. front is quite certain. If Hitler Then malde pose fraudulently as credible double life.

to Discussing the strange fellow satisfies Major Fey, the Italian mistresses; "fake" heiresses renction will be far from favour-mythien! thousands are born of with the hotel manager who had able. Signer Mussolini has other once innocently-dreaming work-pledged me to secrecy, I asked my ideas and other plans and believes girl; and, sad that it should be self whether the spirit of J.M.W. that Dr. Dollfuss is with him. Theo, clerks who at the menside affect Turner, the most famous land Austrian Chancellor may, however, the manner of lords of crantion, scape painter, had not, by some find himself caught up by a strong finish up at the Old Bailey.

with current and must go stream. A year in office has made him a realist. If the Heimwehr goes Nazi he must follow or quit."

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GERMANY AND PRAGUE

the

Equally interesting are the Ger- man overtures to Czecho-Slovakia. Dr. Benes may well wonder which way to turn. A close friendship between Austria and Germany, hemming his country in between two Nazi States, will not be viewed by the Czech Foreign Minister with any complacency. And the Italian alternative, an Italo-Austro-Hun- garian alliance, is politicaly almost as displeasing, thrusting, as it does, a wedge between the Little Entente Powers, Germany's Non-Aggres sion Pact offer cannot lightly be dismissed in these circumstances and there would be no hesitation If other considerations did not enter into the question. But France looms very large and M. Benes is not likely to be stumpeded into any move that threatens Czecho- Slovakia relations with France. Herr Hitler has wefined Poland away from French influence. Prague offers a much more feult proposition.

OPEN-BOOK EXAMINATIONS

comes

be an

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to

Pass-out checks should be issued

In conclusion, there should be a Suggestion Box at each entrance.

No more than one sugges tion should, however, be ac- cepted from each punter us to what should happen to the rank outsider that beats the favourite in the last race.··

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HORSEFEATHERS

We refuse to mention names, but here is the story about the local racehorse owner who told off his

High,"

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at the tifin interval, in order to enable race-goora living in Kowloon go home, have tiffin, mow the fawn, do odd jobs around the house, dress again, bile finger-nalla and return to the course long before the offeint time party had gulped down its frankfurter and beer. magical means, passed into him.

To save innocent men from per- for in the reverse sense that great secution, Ladies Enquiry Offices man was inclined to almost the should be established throughout When they started out in life same kind of eccentric behaviour. the course, Ladies wishing to they had not

meant to be Though he had a fortune rapidly know "What Price Glory?" etcetera, criminals. Vanity, that grew to mounting towards £160,000, Tur-would then have to apply to their overmastering passion, her loved to take nocturnal rambles own offices, where the attendants in Limehouse and Wapping, find- can be relieved from their exacting proved. their undoing. They nought, of pleasing fancles, pureling pleasure in the people met in duties every five minutes. phantoms of the mind, to make the lowliest side streets. concrete realities. Without the means to command, they· csanyed In the inst phase of his life, to live, in practice, the kind of life when his offelal address was of which they had fondly dreamt. Queen Anne-street, he developed Far They were weak-willed people who, a mania for disappearing. us a famous London magistrate days at a time he vanished, with- for his absences. remarked to me, just before the out venturing to offer the slightest war, persuaded themselves that explanation wishing was a reasonable excuse for When his friends pressed him to taking.

disclose bis new retreat he put Not infrequently it will happen them off with all sorts of subter that a genuine duality of nature fuges and adroit evasions. Final- is present to account for startlingly a letter found in an old coat contradictions in a man's conduct. gave his housekeeper the neces- chemist., Dr. Jekyll, honourable gentleman sary clus, and she tracked him "Wattinell," he boomed, "wat- and philanthropist, who, by means down. He had taken a house at tinell's the idea. When I ask for of a drug, could be transformed Chelsea, near Cremorne Gardens. embracation for a pony's legs I into Mr. Hyde, the personification There Turner, the greatest-lands-want embrocation net lavender of evil, was a creature of Robert cape painter in England, if not in water, like the last bottle you sold Loule Stevenson's dreaming brain, the world, had become Admiral me. I rubbed it on my griffen the Yet what was thore in the Booth or, in moments of fami-day before yesterday, and ever since the- has done nothing but look novelist's phantasy, that had bean Harits. "Puggy" Booth. based on sleeping vision, to exceed Mild in comparison is the dist herself in the water trough and in actual wonder the astonishing simulation of Haroun al Raschid, dual personality of Francols the famous Caliph of the Arabian A NEW COMPETITION Villon? Think of him, one part Nights, who, indistinguishable thlof and murderous ruffan, other from an ordinary citizen, would part marvellous poet; who for a wander, unrecognised about the From the University of Chicago month should play with consum streets of Bagdad, in order to hear common people were the announcement that male case the gentleman in some what the students in the "humanities" princely castle in Blois, and the saying.

cane to match course will be allowed to bring next month be on the road, Joyous- Perhaps for u their textbooks, notes and what ly consorting with beggars and that of Turner's we must fall back ever other reference material they vagabonds! There is your Jekyll on the instance of the Scottish wish when they take their finnland Hyde in real life, without need king who, weary of his crown, and examinations next June. The of novelist's magic drug to explain the heavy responsibilities of questions will be designed not the miracle of change from rogue (Continued on Page 7), merely to test the student's knowledge of facts but his ability to find and correlate them and draw conclusions therefrom. The idoa деств meritorious. It much more nearly approximates the ordinary conditions in which the students will do his later work and apply his intellectual equip ment. There he would be consi- dered silpshod in his methods if to be made up, but it is reassur-meertainly what can be checked he wasted time trying to remember ing to feel that the trend is at with certainty in reference man- any rate in the right direction. uals. Of course, certain The world position is still for amount of ready information is [from being composed, and the nuccanary for, quickness in every

innumerable barriers to expan-

voention or avocation, but this sion provided by tariff walls and will implant itself with use, other obstructions make the task of complete recovery extremely difficult. Yet, in spite of these

Manufacturers in Illinois wore obstacles, British business men

responsible for an Interesting ex- are adapting themselves to the periment a week or two ago when circumstances in A manner they met their entire weekly pay- which proves that the old spirit roll with silver dollars. Instead of of quiet determination is still getting envelopes containing bank- very much alive. Neither in the notes, the workers got little canvas renim of commerce nor of finance sacks filled with dollars-heavy,

clinking,

and

somehow exceedingly has Britain plunged into experi-satisfying to handle. The step was Iments of doubtful value. Her taken, it is explained, to popularise position to-day is the result of silver currency and to bring more wise and patient action alongressure on the administration in

kilver policy. So far as

as it went sound lines. The measure of its progress already recorded is all thing solid and comforting about

It was a good idea. There is some the more satisfying when we the feeling of a silver dollar. It bear in mlad the immensity of cela like more money than a dollar the dimeulties which have had to bill, for some reason; it ringa in be faced. It is, in fact, little an authoritative manner when short of miraculous that at a thrown down on a counter. Ob. time when so many other nations viously if silver can be made more are still in the depths of de-n the United States and other popular, as a medium of exchange pression, Britain should bo

parts of the world, there would be showing definito algna of-por-little need for artificial price Imanent recovery.

Patirgulation.

THE 'CARTWHEEL' RETURNS

"Seriously. Emil, when can you drop out to the house and

teach my wife something about cooking?"

Just in case, it was too difficult, Ramon here is the solution. Novarro, Greta Garbo, Kay Fran- cis, Owen Noarea. And if any of you little squiba complain that the last name is spelt wrongly, all we can any is that even at your age you should know that there is an O-in Nares.

LOCH, NESS Dogberry disputes Gubbins' claim:

Nathaniel

Funny that only one journalist and that journalist me- should- hold the secret of Loch Nesa, he anye.

The "monster" is none other (as we say In the children's magazines)-fy none other than Col. D.H.L wr*nce, the uncrowned King of Arabin, He is doing "hush-hush" work for the Gov- ernment, planning altes for nero- plane hangars,

A self-sacrificing piece of work, especially when the Loch freezes. My Interview with the. Mons- ter was necessarily a guarded. one. In accordance with War Office Instructions: (handod to me, at a West End restaurant, in the form of a potato rissaole) I visited the Loch disguised us a | ticket-inspector.

After giving the password, the... head of Col, L*wr*nce appeared cautiously above the surface. then sot up a red and groen Veroy light, in accordance with: Instructions.

"Is that Colonel Lewr*nce?" I now inquired in a hoarse whisper

replied the "Monster" "Are you Bhay?!" said

"NOT

There was a cackle of girlsh laughter and the "Monster-dis appeared below.the.surface: