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NOTES OF THE DAY ENGLISH WINGS The Very Idea!
U.S. CREDIT
OVER WASHINGTON
By R. J. CRUIKSHANK
Mat once at punkta,
R. Ramsay MacDonald should Government buildings. Toy bat.
LET'S BE PURE
PURITY
is going to be- come more fashionable
on the highest authority. in Hongkong. We have it
censors.
Almost against their will-it must be believed despite dark rumours of a deliberate policy the Roosevelt Administration moving, step by step, to secure control over the American finan cial and credit structure. Tho private banks, ultra-cautious in
trunks for Washington. Another thanabulation of sticks and pans Our wife was speaking to a the face of the shocks of Ive not reponded to the Frost good-will tour is badly needed. were employed in vain to care friend who had a friend dent's demand for expansion of For Anglo-American relations are the birds. Then Government em- whose brother knows the credit facilities and unless they strained again, and the present ployees were sent out with long chap who knows the film 800n adopt a more progressive
crisis is one that our Prime poles to rout the invaders. It was policy, there may be little business
People who previously left for them. The chief need of Minister is peculiarly fitted to useless. American industry la the moderni- solve. This time it is not a ques
Obviously it was a matter for objected to purity are now sation of plant and the provision tion of sterling, but of starling. the War Department. Generals of new equipment, but the banke
This blithe bird, imported from cogitated, and finally decided that, viewing it tolerantly. We
in tune with modern military still question whether financing for this purpose is good business, England some years ago, has now thought, chemical warfare should were reading only the other day that in Michigan, they with
result that Mr. Joao multiplied like the rabbit in Aus-be employed against the enemy. tho
aim to ban anything that tends Jones has announced that in addi- traliu, and has become as com-
They mapped out a perfect plan to make vice more attractive. of campaign whereby the star and virtue a back number... plete a nuisance.
These,chool English visitors lings should bo destroyed by
It was dis- Films will shortly have no are threatening to disrupt the af- hydrocyanic-gas. foirs of the nation. At the mo- covered in the nick of time, how-bedroom scenes, no bathroom
no ever, that a poison gas attack on scenes,
scanty clothing ment they are Infesting Washing-
to scenes, no demonstrations of Lon. Each afternoon they flock the Capitol would be likely
wipe out half Congress as well as passionate love, and no scenes of into that dignified city, becloud the starlings.
bloodshed or violence. In short, ing the mild, amber light of ita
there will be no films. winter aunacts, and behaving like
conquering army.
tion to the creation of intermediate credit banks, authority will soon be obtained for direct loans to Industry,
BANKS WAKE UP
They are shaken out like black curtains in front of the windows of Congress
from
The War Department was hur- riedly asked to withdraw the campaign and the authorities turned to the Police. That body has been conducting an offensive against the birds by firing rounds marble of blank cartridges at them. As I interrupt the write, a melancholy bulletin comes of Sonators with from the Polico Department to the effect that it has run out of blank their impudent heckling.
shot, and hostilities have been suspended,
They congregate on balustrades and conferences
When Jesse II. Jones, who is chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, declared that if banka did not lend enough money for the needs of responsible harrowers the Government would do it, he commenced a controvery and something more. Nine days later two things happened. Mr. Eugene R. Black, governor of the Federal Reserve Board, announced after a White House conference that plans were being considered
They have not even respect for for the establishment of inter- the lion head, organ voice and mediate credit banks similar to those that lend on livestock and noble sentiments of Senator Borah. MIDDELBURG-At the War the like in agriculture. And Mr.
They flutter and chatter on the; Memorial Nursing
on Francia M. Law, president of the
sills of Government departments,
in the State chorus. March 25th, 1934, to
American Bankers Association, and old gentlemen and Mrs. D. G. E. Middelburg, declared before a bankers' con-
Department shake treaties at them daughter.
ference his confidence that the indignantly. Settling in hordes challenge to the banks for more credit would be met by "judicious"
BIRTII.
Home, Air.
Thongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1934.
CAUSE & EFFECT An excellent text-book for anyone puzzled by the tragic turmoll which is evident in
expansion.
LONG-TERM LOANS
The air seems to be full of the raucous laughter of starlingsl
"Confound these English star-
crick Washington linga!"
It is in
in
such an international that the soothing on the snowy dome of the Capitol crisis as this itself, they give Washington the touch of Mr. MacDonald would be eminently helpful. We are told nir of a city in mourning.
that St. Francis often preached Who can see that glorious dome to the birds, and it is felt that if wreathed in dark wings without the Prime Minister were to ad- wanting to weep? The worst dress his compatriot starlings in enemy of the Roosevelt Adminishis most harmonious periods they tration could not contrive a more might be induced to take fight subtle attack on the morale of the forever to the blue hills of Vir- ginin that line so seductively nation.
across the Potomac.
These invaders are cousins of those birds that one seen rising.
Those of us who have had the
We look forward to the times when there will be no bathrooms, or. if there are, when they are hierme- tically sealed and are referred to, whon it is impossible to refrain from mentioning them, as the "D".
Soap, in these happy times, on account of its close association with the naked flesh, will be referred to as "S", and will be sold in packets tabelled "Dog Biscuits",
When retiring to the "B.R."" bedroom), the pure minded man will not clothe himself scantily, but. rather don an overcont, and, having locked the door stand up in the wardrobe and go to sleep.
Demonstrations of passionate love will be confined to hand-chak- ing, and then only under proper supervision.
Violence and bloodshed will not be permitted except in surgeries and dental parlours.
As for women-women will. not be permitted at all.
At the extreme in point
Or perhaps they might be of time is the long-term credit
kept in compounds, wearing which forms the permanent capital
long sacks about their bodies of business. This is the province
and stove-pipes for leggings. of the investor and investment
Anything calculated to arouse the banker rather than of the com-
baser passions, such as a knife and inercial banker, How to get more
on his goodwill tours can easily repute. Square plates, of course. of this money into action involves in clouds from the steeple of St. joy of attending Mr. MacDonald fork, will be used only by people of the whole debate as to whether the Martin-in-the-Fields.
picture him standing on the Wo Federal Securities Act is too In the strong sunshine of marble steps of the Capitol ex- of investment capital. In between their Cockney high spirits to out-good neighbours.
If any reader can think of any the third kind of capital or rageous lengths. credit, the Intermediate loan
almost hear that athor improvements, we will be typified by the financing of a They are as impertinent as a trenchant Scot's voice rising and glad to put them into effect, or ban machinery purchase. This seems hundred thousand juckdawx of falling on the soft air of a Wash them, or burn and prohibit and
necessary to the re-Rheime.
ington twilight. "My feathered disinfect them. covery ciforts just now and may be
friends,"
We get a sensual pleasure out of crles The voice, “can we
eye without blushing at its
Europe nowadays might be savere and is throttling the flow Washington they have carried horting the truculent birda to be the can never look a round plate in
from
one
•
of
The architects of the New Deal do not relish being mocked by a myriad voices from the skies.
How is Congress to complete its task of rebuilding the social order if it is to be subjected to this heavenly heckling?
Something like a hundred and
tary force invaded Washington twenty years ago a British mili and put the White House to flame. But it was far ensler to dislodge the soldiery than it is to rout the sober-clad militia of the air.
One can
On
Of course, if all else failed, Mr. MacDonald might be induced to take the starlings home with him in return for the cancellation of
the debt.
The Fire Brigade was first The starlings could all be en- called to put them out. But the rolled as members of the National birds shrilled thanks for the bath, Labour Party for discipline and and continued to haunt the rations.
curves.
·
If I Should Dio
If I should die to-night,
And you should come to
my cold" corpse and any,
Weeping and heartsick o'er my
lifeless clay,
-If I should die-to-night,
And you should come in deepest
grief and woe,
And say "Here's that ten dollars
that I owe
I might arise in my large white
cravat
And say "What's that"?
If I should dio to-night,
And you should come to my cold
corpac and kneel, Clamping my bier to show the
grief you feel,
And
I say, if I should die to-night,
Rhould come to me and you there and then,
Just even hint of paying me that
ten,
I might arise, the while,
BUT I'D DROP DEAD AGAIN.
*
•
FOR THE YOUNG HOUSEWIFE-
that Turuing
Carlyle's "French Revolution." It is true that Carlyle wrote it something like 100 years ago. But it is not out of date, even 80. For the same lesson which he drew from his study of the feld in which bankers will not Congressmen suspect them French Revolution can be drawn resent government intrusion. Un satirical intent. Elso why should not all of us work together to banning thinge, and pure minds
for man and bird? I see you less and until the banks find a they flock to the Capitol when make this worrld a better place are full of things to ban. the confused conditions type of time deposits to be match both Houses are in session? They flying together in and out of this prevailing in Europe to-day-ed against such loans, the inter-perch on the roof of Congress and city as one bird, and that in itself Indulge in einborate choruses. In is a symbol of national unity verry The French Revolution had mediate eredit agency in which the
the manner of those very wise refreshing to my heart. Let us R.F.C. plays the banker will find many causes and many effects real work to do, while the new
birds in Arlatophanes.
seek together a new orientation, of and it was accompanied by some proposal will cause the banks to
let us explore fresh avenues very horrible happenings, but it think-oven-maro-furiously
approach. We need commit our- selves to nothing, but surely there illustrated, said Carlyle,
must be some larger generalisa- grent truth-that a lie cannot❘ POET OF MANY STATUES
tions on which we can agree.
of our conference endure forever. It showed, in
the outcome On the 175th anniversary of
depends the happiness not only other words, that if men get Robert Burns, which fell in the
of ourselves, but of our childrron, of our aye, and
childrren's their affairs into a hopelessly early part of this year, upwards of
childrren." unsound and unjust tangle, and 100 Burns clubs in various parts fail to muster the intelligence the same time it was recalled that of the world observed the day. At
and the unselfishness necessary the Prince of Wales had said that to straighten them out. forces in his travels he had seen more beyond human control eventual-statues erected to the memory of Burns than to any other man. ly will break loose in a kind of Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton explosion, an explosion which de-are greator-perhaps much greater stroys good and bad things alikepocte than Burns, but apparently they do not evoke such widespread and visits catastrophe upon and spontaneous tribute. What is saint as well as upon sinner. the explanation of this enduring All of this seems to apply to the popularity? Mr. John Drinkwater has probably given the right an- current tension in Europe. Riot-swer in saying that Burns the ing, rumours of war and revolu- simplest of the "world's supremo tion, massing of troops along poets." As such he had a peculiar value today. The present age has boundary lines these things picnty of greatness without sim- have not happened because menplicity and plenty of simplicity have suddenly become perverse without greatness, but a combina and irritable over nothing. They tion of the two la very rare. have occurred, just as in the French Revolution, because hu- man affairs have got into £ mess, and because masses of Hr. Epstein's sculptures may be people have come to belleve that very fine, but their beauty is not nothing but violence will immediately apparent to the man in straighten them .out. The the street; the relativity theory of supreme folly of the World War, Dr. Einstein is doubtless a wonder- he almost equal folly of the ful achievement, but it is distinctly multip peace treaties, the stubborn in- more complicated than the
table; and lication ability of men in high places to poons of Mr. T. S. Eliot are as see that repression and injustice epoch-making as they are conaldor- never can pave the way for anyod to be in Cambridge, the fact that thing but trouble-these are the their admirers say that they ro- direct and logical causes of the quire an acquaintance with ancient medieval literature before they present turmoil. There still is
can be understood puts them some- time to avoid the worst
con- what outside the pale theme songs Treaty revisions. On the other hand,
of simplicity sequences, removal of the artificial economic of the mu
musical fims, the plaintive barriers which condemn men to dittles of the popular crooners, and starvation in the midst of plenty, jazz lyrics do not orr upon the side liquidation of oppressive dieta- of complexity. There is indeed an torships and a rearrangement element of fact in the rather along equitable Unes of national cavaller statement that most of boundaries, would make possible to-day's poetry is incomprehensible, a poaceable solution of Europe's and that "what isn't, ought to be."
What Burns had to say was worth troubles. But if the statesmen anying, and, although his beat work of Europe lack the courage and | is in a dialect which is a natural the vision to apply auch mea- form of expression to comparatively sures, one only can remember few people, ho said it with unique Carlyle's warning.
directness, force, and beauty,
WORTH SAYING.
oven
the
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Awkward
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