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Further details of the planned economy scheme outlined by Mr. Child, the American economic peace envoy, will be nwalted with considerable Interest, The Un- derlying principles appear to meet present world conditions Ideally meet and the V Land

should proposals with a ready response both inside Alan

and outside the British Isles. The world having definitely turned its U

back on freedom of international trade along the old chamels, some Xpractical substitute for the former system is inevitable if the trade re-

APRIL it. .1934.

THE ART OF MAKING FRIENDS

By GILBERT FRANKAU

TN the days of my ebullient youth and overy wife told overy husband thinking there hung over my city deak exactly what ale was small picture of a cowboy, Inga- about him at every hour of the day ing from his lonely shack on the und night. mountainside and carrying in his ofther hand a gun. Across this picture was printed, "Livo cach

It may be a little hypocritical to

The Very Idea!

TOOTHSOME RAMBLINGS

By "George"

THE tension was terrific. -we couldn't stand it. We sat down.

It got terrificer and more -eventually we lay down...

That hateful voice-

Hvival now being heralded la not to day so that you can look every man conceal ona's Immediate feelings "Steady, please. Just one

meet with a check after making A slight forward progress.

TRADING UNITS

The scheme evolved is clearly based upon the need for the ad justment of Ideas to the cult of economic nationalism. The nationa

straight in the eye."

But can one rely upon one's im-i

The expression, "uperiority mediate feelings? How many mon more moment." And then complex" had not then been in- and women have you started by

vented. But my youth had it hating and ended by appreciating? five minutes later-"Just one badly. And although Time has Dislike itself is often a prelude to more moment, please.” reduced the cranial swelling, I love.

Nevertheless and although

is reversed.

躯

"Oooouch!"

still prefer it to the inferiority There are men and women whom everybody likes. There are mon complex so prevalent to-day.

"Steady please, just une more Youth, whether male or female, and women who like everybody.

But these “Kims,” should be a little awollen bended: friends of all the world, are rare.

these little moment. There!" to-day are operating, for mat should be convinced of its own. Most of us have to study how to The dentist stood back beam- practical purposes, na trading units, not as collections of indivi-rowess. The "toady" is a lonth become "good mixerg! And that ing with professional pride. He unit, that as Dovernment con- some animal in all places, but this study is detrimental to the held in his bloody paw the crim-

• character I refuse to admit. trol is being made more effective especially at school.

son tusker that had once em- The in every country every day, by

average human being, bellished our jaws. means of quotas and like methods.

School over, men are judged, or especially the average British hu- From our position under the deak Deferred Terms-Repurchase Britain has been for two years in at least they should be judged, by man being, is far more sensitive where the fierce struggle Licence & Insurance Arrangedtograting her trade policy. In Full particulars on application. Russia anul in less degree in Ger their capabilities for doing a job than his or her face betrays. It supremacy had taken since for

many, the government is the sole not by their aptitude for currying may be great fun-nobody has gazed up at him.

enjoyed it more than to ruffle The tooth had been hollow but HONCKONG HOTEL GARAGE importer and exporter. In France, favour.

other people's sensitivities. But

we gazed none the less hollowly. Show Room

M. Doumergue has been hastily

ented with the power of tariff nd-there is much truth in the pool's how we hate it when the process for the lack of this tried and trusty friend was but another reminder Roadjustment for which President exhortation that overy, herring

that our years were beginning to Roosevent has, so far, been ask should hang by its own head--no

number. Ing Congress in vain. Neverthe-man, however great his capabili-

A man is not necessarily a hypo- the United States mentally, if ties, can succeed by work alone. crite because he respects some lesa,

whose The particular molar not actually as yet, has changed There are no lonely shacks in our

scruple, some Inhibition, some parting had been such a wrench its tariff polley. Faced with the modern existence.

Even the artist idiosyncrasy of mine. Why, then, to us had lived for nigh on 30 years problem of

multitude of his fellows.

consider myself the in the rear attle under the roar. is preparing, by re-

You can be the most brilliant Your politics are those of a

hypocrite for not telling him foreign products into the United doctor who ever walked a hospital. tunatic. Your wife dreases like a Statee, through carefully control. But without a good bedside man-harwoman. And why on earth ner" you will never resch Inrley don't you consult a dentist about street. And if you don't happen your teeth?" to possess that bedside manner by nature you must cultivate it by art The same rule applies in every profession and in every business using that word business in its widest sense. You can call it the rule of hypocrisy, if you like. Personally I prefer to call it the

Ghe

surpluses, ng rid of its farm has to live with, by, and through a should I Thongkong Telegraph.ciprocal agreement, to admit more

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1934.

Hed channela.

NEW DEAL

It

rule of tact.

However, the best of teeth must depart and others, false though they be, must take their place. It was one less tooth to clean anyway, we re- flected.

Such tact is not hypocrisy. A They say that every baby costs sane respect for other people's a mother's tooth but they don't any BRITAIN'S FINANCES

opinions, manners, or habits, Ja what else it costs. The whole trend of the Child'

planned

not hypocrisy. Even to go out of The advantage of a good display Britain's financial year has scheme in towards il

your way to make a for the whole of

good im of Ivory in to-day's keen face- ended with the Chancellor of the economy

pression is not hypocrisy. Social dressing competition may alas ex- trading nations of the world. Exchequer in the happy position nts in with the Rooseveltian inter-

amenities are preserved by social plain the lack of bables among our used of having a substantial surplus. nal programmes. The New Deni

discipline. It is better to be a wives. (Here the "our" is "good chap," even if you have to editorially). The extent of the surplus is such means planned national economy,

One can, of course, overdo tnet. make yourself into a "good chap" which must be entirely indepen-

Perhaps the adage of “every that it would be possible to dent of other national economies There are times when it becomes than to worship the golden calf,

baby costs a mother's tooth" Observe, Self-expression,

is the foundation of that old restore the Civil Servants pay for it must be geared to them in de-positively nauseating.

Self-expression, cultivated over- Anite manner. Complete econo- for instance, the young foreign

wisecrack "the woman always cuts, to knock sixpence off the mic nationalism, even for the aup diplomat elfusively kissing the much, soon degenerates into mere

jinyo." Income Tax, to remove the ten

self-sufficient United hand of some particularly abhor-selfishness. Taet, at its best, is

If the mother losen the posedly per cent. increase in surtax, and States, is possible only by a verit-rent female to whom he has only unselfishness.

tooth the father gets the acho able revolution. If imports are just bean presented.

Or the man At twenty-five I still imagined

when it comes to footing the to restore the cuts in unemploy stopped, exports too must be stop who calls you, "Smith, old boy," myself going through life with a bit, and when sho's run ment benefit. provided new ped. No one now continues to be after five minutes' acquaintance. gun in each hand. At thirty-five

through her own teeth thero'u arrangements are made for relieve that American trade enn co

I put one gun back in its holster.

sill more expense for hubby, Latterly, I have learned to sheath demption of the Unemployment tinue on a one-way passage. And

The wedding ring is a vicious And yet don't you, in your heart the other as well. American industry is organised for

circle Fund debt. It will thus be seen export even

at this rate, with daddy to greater extent of hearts, prefer the boisterous

running round and round but never that the position is remarkably than agriculture. Industrial plants chap who drops the "Mister" from

Nobody has ever enjoyed "shoot-getting nowhere. Anyway he was satisfactory: Indeed, it is little as well as farm lands would have your surname to the fellow who short of amazing that, in times e fallow in n regime of self-drops your proffered Angers asing up the town" as much as 1 legally engaged for the job and though they were pieces of cold have. Even Whistler nover x-employment of any kind is some- like the present, there should be

lish? Of course you do. And tracted more satisfaction from the thing to be thankful for in these

tinys. why not?.

"gentle art of making anemies." the possibility of such wide-

Of course it's not every woman We are gregarious animais. But that satisfaction, I have found, spread relief, in which all acct-

gets a bargain in the matrimonial Even before we learned to kiss, we does not last. ions of the community.may.

used to rub noses and to recognise It is dificult enough to be a line herself and then its a caso share. The cuts in unemployment

the tattoo-marks of our own tribe. good lover. But to be a good hater fan-ayo-for-an-eye-and-n-tooth-

for a tooth." This persists-even in an age is almost impossible for anyone benefit have naturally aroused

which suffers a little from invert with a little common sense and considerable resentment amongst

sufficiency.

GREAT PROMISE

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ed snobbery. The cheapest of all little sense of humour.

her eye, and while she drops un Ho says "Aye" In response to

occasional tooth per baby, he wears Marringe seems to be a constaut wear,

wear, wear, except when its

"ware" would save a lot of tear. marriage is a pleture of the time The only thing you save after

President Roosevelt, therefore, in sending an economic ambassa dor to Europe to feel the way, is not really exercising a choice; he is pursuing a path marked out for the working classes, and they posals do, nevertheless, offer great "old school colours." Sneer at the is a sport that palls. As one gets his out biting his tongue.

him by circumstances. The pro-modern laughs is the laughs at the Making enemics, I have found, have also come in for criticism promise of a new era of worldwide tribal tattoo-marks as much as you older, one gets a little shaken in

It may like. But can you play, can you the belief that the other fellow being tear, tear, and tear. A little not only by opposition M.P.'s, but economic co-operation, by Conservative members also. mean, for a time, that definite even work, all by yourself? is always wrong.

limits will be set to the volume of It remains a moot point, how international trade. But it should found that you can't. You can't if only of superficial friends, a From personal experience I have] But the making of friends, even ever, whether the cuts will be also be an assurance of better even "be yourself" (youth's most an enduring pastime. And the restored. The new Unemploy-balanced world trading conditions. fervent wish) and be happy, Hap- more one practises it, the easter it you could have spent.

Now, instead of spending the ment Insurance Act not only If it prevents an artificial boom piness itself entails some sacrifice becothes. Social discipline, like time you could have saved, you are places. the system on self- when recovery is well established. of the individuality. Imagine a military discipline, soon develops doing time, supporting basis, but provides it should also prohibit the develop society in which every man who into second nature. Practise it:

Marriage is very much like A for surpluses which it is intendment of a depression of the diawoke with a furred tongue gavej and you will find that smiles, like business except that its produc-

vent to unbridled self-expression, (Continued on Next Column.)

tions are Its abilities and its assets are kept in the dark.

astrous character from which com- ed to apply, over a period of merce and Industry is now slowly years, to the extinction of the emerging. Fund debt. Obviously, if the benefit cuts are restored, the problem of wiping out the old RELIEF IN U.S.

it

debt will again have to be faced. The new U.S. relief plan which The view is held in some quar-is to follow the Civil Works ters, notably amongst the Administration 1s something Labourites, that the best method more than just another plan to of dealing with the matter would meet an emergency, The CW.A. be to add the burden to the reller whore it was desperately was put into operation to supply National Debt, and thus make needed. In a measure it met this possible a resumption of the old need; bat, more Important, rates of benefit. Supporters of taught the Administration those this idea contend that the Un-lessons which could only be learn. employment Fund debt could, ined through experience. The new view of the fact that it was in-plan recently outlined by Presi curred during a period of emer lessons have been learned,

dent Roosevelt shows that those geney, be far more appropriate that present and future plans are ly given a place under the being built on the foundation of National Debt than many items experience. which figure therein. There is

something to be said for this

and

It not only shows an intelligent

and,

viewpoint, especially since the INTELLIGENT GRASP restoration of the cuts under this basis could evidently be made without again jeopardising the rasp of the present situation, but

also explains the CW.A. solvency of the Fund. The Gov- therefore, should be free of some. ernment will doubtless take all of the evils that attached them- the factors into account and en-selves to the original mensure. deavour to distribute

The strongest point in the now the "plums" in such a way as to relief plan is that, while much offset some of the recent critic-

Involved, there is not to money

the same outpouring of direct isms of Its general policies. But ald. It appronchas the more com- whatever grounds there may be plicated and important aspects of for such criticisms, there cannot helping distressed wage earners but be general admiration for the to plant themselves firmly and magnificent manner in which the permanently in a stable society. Government has handled the Tho encouraging aspect of the nation's finances and produced whole movement is in its orderly.

and courageous approach to

the results which might well be the fundamental problem of wasted envy of the whole world.

labour and faulty distribution.

"Let's finish up those caramels so wo can concentrate on the show,"

You start off with capital pro- apocis from a sleeping partner but she depreciates so much annually that you often have to write her off altogether or call in your reserves.

Morringe, like business, is one of the things that drive n man to voluntary liquidation in which

state he is too often prone to float a lo(a)ne, and depress further his sinking

fund.

Carried forward from day to day. he falla to achieve a balance and develops a leaning to other figures, The exchange is not favourable to stabilisation and with the sleeping partner insisting on her pound of flesh and falling to sub- scribe her share, the only resource left for the other partnor is to file his petition.

His creditors remain while his credit goes and when matrimony has been swallowed up in alimony he can, wind up his affairs.

salutes, are inevitably returned.

an

*

The stern, strong, silent man fa admirable figure in fiction. But oven in flction he only, suc cccds when the final chapter nd- miniatore ita rearward shock to his self-esteem,

Tact, even if only a cultivated tact, is an almost certain cure.for too much self-esteem. Cultivato "Good chapa," unlike poots, are made as well as born.

Meanwhile, however, deem him

it.

for her lucky for whom one man and one woman truly weep, whom they pass on.

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