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MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1934..

NOTES OF THE DAY ENGLISH WINGS

U.S. CREDIT

OVER WASHINGTON

By R. J. CRUIKSHANK

The Very Idea!

LET'S BE PURE

PURITY is going to be-

come more fashionable

Almost against their will-it must be believed despits dark rumours of a deliberate policy the Roosevelt Administration is moving, step by step, to mocuro control over the American finan

MR. Donating loves, mont the tin on the highest authority. TR. Ramsay MacDonald should¡ Government buildings. Toy bai. in Hongkong. We have it cial and credit structure. The private banks, ultra-cautious in

trunks for Washington, Another tinnabulation of sticks and pans Our wife was speaking to a the face of the shocks of last year, have not responded to the Freni-good-will tour is badly needed. wore employed in vain to scare 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

that our Prime poles to rout the invaders. It was censors. soon adopt a more progressive

People who previously policy, there may be little business crisis is one

for them, The chief need of Minister is peculiarly fitted to useless.

Obviously it was a matter for objected to purity are now American industry is the moderni solve. This time it fe not a ques

the War Department. Generala sation of plant and the provision tion of sterling, but of starling. of new equipment, but the banks

This blithe bird, imported from cogitated, and finally decided that, viewing it tolerantly. We in tune with modern military were reading only the other still question whether financing for this purpose is good business, England some years ago, and now thought, chemical warfare should day that in Michigan, they with the result that Mr. Jesse multiplied like the rabbit in, Aus-be employed against the enemy. Jones has announced that in sildi- tralia, and has become as com

They mapped out a perfect plan tion to the creation of intermediate plete a nuisance.

of campaign whoreby the star credit banks, authority will soon

It waa These checky English visitors Inge should be destroyed by dis- be obtained for direct loans to

hydrocyanie-gay. industry.

are threatening to disrupt the af- covered in the nick of time, how. bedroom scenes, no bathroom. fairs of the nation. At the moover, that a poison gas attack on scenés, ment they are infesting Washing the Capitol would be likely to scenes, ton. Each afternoon they flock

BANKS WAKE UP

When Jesse H. Jones, who is chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, declared that if banka did not lend enough money for the needs of responsible borrowers the Government would do it, he commenced a controvery and something more. Nine days later two things happened. Mr. Eugene H. Black, governor of the Federal Reserve Board, announced after a White House conference that plans were being considered for the establishment of inter- medinte credit banks similar, to those that lend on Hvestock and the War the ilke in agriculture. And Mr. MIDDELDURG—A

on Francis M. Law, president of the Memorial Nursing Home, March 25th, 1934, to Mr. and American Bankers' Association, Mrs. D. G. E, Middelburg. declared before a bankers' con- daughter.

ference his confidence that the challenge to the banks for more credit would be met by "judicious" expansion.

BIRTH.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDA, March 26, 1984.

CAUSE & EFFECT An excellent text-book for anyone puzzled by the tragic turmoil which is evident in Europe nowadays Carlyle's "French

40.

.

LONG-TERM LOANS

AL the extreme point

in of time is the long-term credit which forms the permanent capital of business. This la the province of the investor and investment banker rather than of the com-

into that dignified city, occloud ng the mild, amber light of its winter sunsets, and behaving, like

conquering army.

They are shaken out liks black curtains in front of the windows of Congress.

on marble They congregate

tho balustrades and interrupt

of Senators with conferences their Impudent heckling.

They have not even respect for the llon head, organ voice and noble sentiments of Senator Borah.

the atarlings. wipe out half Congress as well as

The War Department was hur- riedly asked to withdraw from the campaign and the authorities turned to the Police. That body has been conducting an offensive against the birds by firing rounds of blank cartridges at them. As I write, a melancholy bulletin comes from the Police Department to the effect that it has run out of blank shot, and hostilities have been suspended.

The air seems to be full of the raucous laughter of starlingel

Confound those English stor cries Washington in lingal"

It is in such an international

They flutter and chatter on the silly of Government departments, and old gentlemen in the State chorus. Department shake trentien at them indignantly. Settling in hordes crisis as this that the soothing on the snowy dome of the Capitol

eminently helpful. We are told itself, they give Washington the touch of Mr. MacDonald would be preached air of a city in mourning.

that St. Francis often 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 hla compatriot starlings in enemy of the Roosevelt Adminis his most harmonious periods they tration could not contrive a more might be induced to take flight subtle attack on the morale of the forever, to the blue hills of Vir- ginia that shine so seductively nation.

across the Potomac.

These invaders are cousins of those birds that one sees rising

merelal banker. How to get more in clouds from the steeple of St. joy of attending Mr. MacDonald

Is

·

POET OF MANY STATUES

Martin-in-the-Fields.

in

the

The architects of the New Deal do not relish being mocked by a myriad voices from the skies.

How is Congress to complete its Lask of rebuilding the social order if it is to be subjected to this heavenly heckling?

Something like a hundred and twenty years ago a British mili tary force invaded Washington and put the White House to flame. But it was far easier to dislodge the soldiery than it le-to rout the Aober-clad militia of the air.

orientation, let us explore- fresh avenues-of- approach. We need commit our- selves to nothing, but surely there must be some larger generalisa- 011 tions on which we can agree.

of our conference the outcome depends the happiness not only of ourselves, but of our childrren, childrren's and of our nye.

childrren,"

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 starlings could all be en- was first The Fire Brigade

But the rolled as members of the National called to put them out. birds shrilled thanks for the bath, Labour Party for discipline and and continued to haunt the rations.

aim to ban anything that tends to make vice more attractiveTM and virtue a back number.

Films will shortly have no

no scanty

clothing

no demonstrations of

bloodshed or violence. In short, passionate love, and no scenes of there will be no films.

We look forward to the times when there will be no bathrooms, or If there are, when they are herme tically sealed and are referred to, when it is Impossible to refrain from mentioning them, as the "B".

Soap, in these happy times, on account of its close association with the naked fleah, will be referred to na "S", and will be sold in pockets labelled "Dog Biscuits".

When retiring to the "B.R." (bedroom), the pure minded man will not clothe himself scantily, but rather don an overcoat, and, having locked the door stand up in the wardrobe and go to sleep.

Demonstrations of passionate love will be confined to hand-shak- supervision..

Violonce and bloodshed will not ing, and then only under proper be permitted except in surgeries and dontal parlours.

As for women-women will not be permitted at all.

Or perhaps they might be kept in compounds, wearing long sacks about their bodies and stove-pipes for leggings. Anything calculated to arouse the baser passions, such as a knife and fork, will be used only by people of repute. Square plates, of course. We can naver look a round plate in the oye without blushing at its

curves.

*

•

If I Should Dic

TI should die to-night;"

And you should come to my coll

corpao and any,

Weeping and heartsick o'er mý

lifeless clay,TM

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

eravat,

And say "What's that"?

If I should die to-night, And you should come to my cold

corpao and kneel,

Clasping my bier to show the.

grief you feel,

I say, if I should die to-night, And you should come to me and

there and then,

Just even hint of paying me that.

to

I might arise the while,

BUT I'D DROP DEAD AGAIN.

Those of us who have had the on his goodwill tours can easily of this money into action involves

picture him standing on the the whole debate as to whether the Loo is

of marble steps of the Capitol ex Federal Securities Act

sunshine strong might be severe and is throttling the flow Washington they have carried horting the truculent birds to bo

If any render can think of any will be Revolution."of investment capital. In between their Cockney high spirits to out-good neighbours.

the third kind of capital or

rageous lengths.

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that other improvements, we can almost hear It is true that Carlyle wrote credit, the intermediate loan

They are as Impertinent as a trenchant Scot's voice rising and glad to put them into effect, or bani something like 100 years ago. typified by the financing of a But it is not out of date, even machinery purchase. This seems hundred thousand jackdaws of falling on the soft air of a Wash them, or burn and prohibit and

ington twilight. "My feathered disinfect them.

We get a sensual pleasure out of friends," cries the voice, "can we For the same lesson which especially necessary to the re-Rheims.

covery efforts just now and may be

Congressmen suspect them of not all of us work together to banning things, and pure minds he drew from his study of the a feld in which bankers will not

and bird? I see you French Revolution can be drawn resent government intrusion. Un. satirical Intent. Else why should make this wurrid a better place are full of things to ban.

less and until the banks find a they flock to the Capitol when for man from 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 The French Revolution had mediate credit agency in which the indulge in elaborate choruses in is a symbol of national unity verry R.F.C. plays the banker will and the manner of those very wine refreshing to my heart. Let us

Lacck together a new | many causes-and-many effects real works to do, while the new birds in Aristophanes.

and it was accompanied by some proposal will cause the banks to very horrible happenings; but it think even more furiously, illustrated, said Carlyle, one a lie cannot great truth--that endure forever. It showed, in

On the 175th anniversary of other words, that if men get Robert Burns, which fell in the their affairs into a hopelessly early part of this year, upwards of unsound and unjust tangle, and 400 Burns clubs in various parts of the world observed the day. At fail to muster the intelligence the same time it was recalled that and the unselfishness necessary the Prince of Wales had said that in his travels he had seen more to straighten them out, forces

statues erected to the memory of beyond human control eventual 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 alike poets than Burns, but apparently they do not evoke such widespread and visits catastrophe upon and spontaneous tribute. What is

well saint us

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 is the ing, rumours of war and revolusimplest of the world's supreme poeta." As such he had a peculiar tion, massing of troops along

value today. The present age has boundary lines--these things plenty of greatness without sim- have not happened because men plicity, and plenty of simplicity have suddenly become perverse without greatness, but a combina- and irritable over nothing. They tion of the two is very rare. have occurred, just as in the French Revolution, because hu- man affairs have got into mess, and because masses

Mr. Epstein's sculptures may be people have come to believe that vory Ane, but their beauty is not but violence will immediately apparent to the man in nothing

The the street; the relativity theory of them straighten

out: supreme folly of the World War, Dr. Einstela is doubtless a wonder. he almost equal folly of the ful achievement, but it is distinctly peace treaties, the stubborn in- more complicated than the multip

Hention table; and oven

if the ability of men in high places to poems of Mr. T. S. Eliot are as see that repression and injustice epoch-making as they are consider never can pave the way for any-ed to bo in Cambridge, the fact that thing but trouble-these are the

acquaintance with unclent direct and logical causes of the quire an nerus, any that they re- present turmoil. There still is and medieval literature before they can be understood puts them some- sequences. Treaty revisions,

On the other hand, the theme songs removal of the artificial economic of the musical films, the plaintivo and barriers which condemn men todittles of the popular crooners, the starvation in the midst of plenty, Jazz lyrics do not err upon

side liquidation of oppressive dicta of complexity. There is indeed an rather torships and a rearrangement olement of fact in the along equitable lines of national cavalier statement that most of boundaries, would make possible and that "what isn't, ought to be." to-day's poetry is Incomprehensible, a.penceable solution of Europe's What Burns had to say was worth troubles. But if the statesmen saying, and, although his best work of Europe lack the courage and|le in a dialect which is a natural the vision to apply such men form of expression to comparatively aurea, one only can remember few people, he said it with unique Carlylo's warning.

dirocinese, force, and beauty.

a

of

*

WORTH SAYING

their

time to avoid the worst con- what outside the pale of simplicity.

"Say this ski jumping looks like a lot of fun."

*

FOR THE YOUNG HOUSEWIFE Turning that Awkward

Cornc

First

How to Keep "Him" Guessing- What little Bridey ought to know. Marriage is a Great Adventure, but the wise Adventuress has a Plan. "Can't you

help me?"

seom

writes "Girl-Wife" from Kowloon, "I sort of

to have got into a jam. For about a year after our marriage everything went swimmingly; now, we seem kinda stuck. It's not that Ronnie says anything, but he seems bored, sort of a this a usual exper- ience? Is it my fault? Can't you think of something I can do?"

Poor little "Girl-Wite"! don't worry. The

your questions are;

(1) Yos.

answera

(2) Partly. (3). Sure,

But to

What has begun to pall, "Giri- Wife," is the sameness of overyday. life. "Rounio," like the rest of us wante variety. Getting engajjed was a delightful novelty; en was getting married; so was the fun of feathering the little nost. Now, he's getting used to it; and that, in where you gotta look dear, Яlippy.

Men are like inbios, only a'great deal more an. Yes, "Girl-Wife," you've gotta think up now waya of keoping 'em amused,

Bond me a stamped-addrossed". envelope and only five dollars for a few concrete suggestions.