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Further detalls of the planned economy acheme outlined by Mr. Child, the American economic peace envoy, will be awaited with considerable Interest. The #11- derlying principles appear to meet present world conditions ideally and the proposals, should moet with a ready response both inside A
and outside the British Isles. The world
having definitely turned its back on freedom of international trade along the old channels, some practical substitute for the former system is inevitable if the trade re- Hvival now being heralded is not to meet with a check after making Aalight forward progress.
TRADING UNITS
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The scheme ovolved is clearly based upon the need for the ad- of justment of ideas to the cult economic nationalism. The nations to-day are operating, for most as trading
units, not as
APRIL
1934.
THE ART OF MAKING FRIENDS
By GILBERT FRANKAU
N the days of my ebullient youth piness itself entails some sacrifice
there hung over my city desk of the individuality."
Imagine a
The Very Idea!
TOOTHSOME RAMBLINGS
By "George" THE tension was terrific. -we couldn't stand it. We sat down.
It got terrificer and more
a small picture of a cowboy lasu-suclety in which every man who ing from his lonely shack on the woke with a furred tongue gave mountainside and carrying in his vent to unbridled self-expression, was thinking
That hateful voice- either hand a gun. Across this and every wife told every husband-eventually we lay down.. picture was printed, "Live each exactly what she
"Steady, please. Just one day so that you can look every man about him at every hour of the day
and night, straight in the eye.”
more moment." And then Tho
five minutes later--"Just one more moment, please."
"Oooouch!"
expression, "superiority complex" had not then been in- It may be a little hypocritical to vented. But my youth had it conceal one's immediato feelings badly. And although Time has But can one rely upon one's im reduced the cranial swelling, mediate feelings? How many men still prefer it to the inferiority and women have you started by hating and ended by appreciating7 complex so provalent to-day.
Youth, whether male or female, Dislike itself is often a prelude to moment. There!" should be a little awollen headed; love.
or
School over, men are judged, at least they should be judged, by their capabilities for doing a job not by their aptitude for currying favour.
The
average
being,
WO
"Steady please, just one more
The dentist stood back beam- There are men and women whoming with professional pride. He practical pections of indivi. should be convinced of its own dual traders. Government con- prowess. The "toudy" la a lonth averybody likes. There are men held in his bloody paw the crim trol, 18 being made more effective some animal in all places, but and women who like everybody. son tusker that had once em
especially at school,
But these "Kima," these little bellished our jaws. in every country every day, by
friends of all the world, are rare, From our position under the desk means of quotas and Bike methoda.
Most of us have to study how to
where the flerce struggle for Deferred Terms-Repurchase-Britain has been for two years in-
become "good mixers." And that supremacy had inken place we Licence & Insurance Arranged tegrating her trade policy. In
The tooth had been hollow but. Full particulars on application. Russia and in less degree in Ger-
this study is detrimental to these had many, the government is the sole
character I refuse to admit.
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Nevertheless - and
man being, is far more sensitive friend was but another reminder Phono 27778-9
for which President Stubbs Road justment
there is much truth in the poet's than his or her face betrays. It that our years, were beginning to
number. Roosevent has, so far, been ak exhortation that every herring may be great fun-nobody has The particular molar whose.. ing Congress in vain. Neverthe-should hang by its own head-no enjoyed it more than to rule parting had been such a wrench leas, the United States mentally, if
to us had lived for nigh on 30 years ita tariff policy. Faced with the tles, can succeed by work alone.) how we hate it when the proccas in the rear attic under the roof. not actually as yet, has changed problem of getting rid of its farm surpluses, it is preparing, by re ciprocal agreement, to admit more, foreign products into the United States, through carefully control- led channels.
the
Hongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1934.
NEW DEAL.
It
The whole trend of the Child a planned scheme Is towards
for the whole of the economy trading nations of the world. fits in with the Roosevelting inter nal programmes. The New Deal means planned national economy, which must be entirely indepen-
man, however great his capabili-other people's sensitivities. There are no lonely shacks in our le reversed. modern existence. Even the artist has to live with, by, and through a multitude of his fellows.
4
But
some
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, wo re- flected.
They say that every baby costs
A man is not necessarily a hypo- You can be the most brilliant rite because he respects some dector who ever walked a hospital.scruple, some inhibition,
consider But without a good "bedside man-idiosyncrasy of mine. Why, then, myself the ner" you will never reach Harley- should I street. And if you don't happen hypocrite for not telling him: to possess that bedside manner by "Your politics are those of what else it coats. nature you must cultivate it by art, lunatic. Your wife dresson like a charwoman. And why on earth The same rule applies in every don't you consult a dentist about using that word businesa in its profession and in every business your teeth?" widest sense. You can call it the rule of hypocrisy, if you like. Personally I prefer to call it the
rule of tact.
One can, of course, overdo tact. There are times when it becomes positively nauseating.
Such tact is not bypocrisy. A for other people's anne respect opinions, manners, or habits, is
face-
a mother's tooth but they don't suy The advantage of a good display of Ivory in to-day's keen dressing competition may also ex- plain the lack of babies among our wives. (Here the "our" is used.. editorially),
Perhaps the adage of "every baby costs a mother's toothTM let the foundation of that old wisecrack "the woman always. pays,"
"If the mother loses the tooth the father gets the acho • when it comes to footing the bill, and when she's run through her own teeth there's still more expense for hubby. The wedding ring is a vicious
BRITAIN'S FINANCES Britain's financial year has ended with the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the happy position of having a substantial surplus. The extent of the surplus is such
not hypocrisy. Even to go out of that it would be possible to dent of other national economies
your way to make a good im- restore the Civil Servants' pay or it must bo geared to them in de- finite manner. Complete econu-
pression is not hypocrisy. Social cuts, to knock sixpence off the mic nationalism, even for the sup-
amenities are preserved by social Observe, discipline. It is better to be a self-sulfcient Income Tax, to remove the ton posedly
United per cent. increase in surtax, und States, is possible only by a verit- for instance, the young foreign "good chap," even if you have to able revolution. T imports are diplomat effusively kiasing the make yourself into a "good chay," to restore the cuts in unemploy-stopped; exports too must be stop hand of some particularly abhor- than to worship the golden calf, ment benefit, provided now ped. No one now continues to bes
rent female to whom he has only Self-expression.
Self-expression, cultivated over. lieve that American trade can con- just been presented. Or the man arrangements are made for re-eve that one-way passage. And who calls you, "Smith, old boy," much, soon degenerates into more circle at this rule, with daddy demption of the Unemploymenf American industry is organised for after five minutes' acquaintance.
selfishness. Tact, at its best, is running round and round but never unselfishness. Fund debt. It will thus be seen export even to a greater extent
getting nowhere. Anyway he was legally engaged for the job and that the position is remarkably than agriculture. Industrial plants
At twenty-five I still imagined employment of any kind is some- as well as farm lands would have
And yet don't you, in your heart satisfactory; indeed, it is little to lie fallow in a regime of self-of hearts, prefer the boisterous myself going through life with a thing to be thankful for in these
chap who drops the "Mister" from gun in each hand. At thirty-five days. short of amazing that, in times sufficiency.
your surname to the fellow who I put one gun back in its holster, like the present, there should be
drops your proffered fingers a Latterly, I have learned to, sheath the possibility of such wide-
though they were pieces of cold the other as well. spread" relief, in which all-sect-
fish? Of course you do. And why not?
GREAT PROMISE
President Roosevelt, therefore, sending an economic ambassa- dor to Europe to feel the way, is We are gregarious animals.
Of course it's not every women
gets a bargain in the matrimonial lae herself--and then its a case of an eye for_an_eye_and_n_tooth_ for a tooth."
He says "Ayo" in response to her eye, and while she drops occasional tooth per baby, he wen. ¿
the working classes, and they posals do, nevertheless, offer great the tattoo-marks of our own tribe, tracted more satisfaction from the his out biting his tongue,
RELIEF IN U.S.
ions of the community may
Nobody has ever enjoyed "shoot- share. The cuts in unemployment bonefit have naturally aroused not really exercising a choice; heEven before we learned to kiss, we ing up the town" as much as
Even Whistler never ex considerable resontment amongst is pursuing a path marked out for used to rub noses and to recognise have.
him by circumstances. The pro-
"gentle art of making enemies." This persists even in an age But that satisfaction, I have found, have niso come in. for criticism promise of a new era of worldwide
It may which suffers a little from invert- does not last. economic co-operation. not only by opposition M.P.'s, but mean, for a time, that definite ed snobbery. The cheapest of h It is difficult enough to be a by Conservative members also. limits will be set to the volume of modern laughs is the laughs at the
But to be a good hater It remains a moot point, how-international trade. But it should "old school colours." Sneer at the good lover, ever, whether the cuts will be also be an assurance of better tribal tattoo-marks na much as you is almost impossible for anyone
little sense of humour. restored. The new Unemploy-balanced world trading conditions. like. But can you play, can you with a little common sense and 2 ment Insurance Act not only If it prevents an artificial boom even work, all by yourself?
whon recovery is well established,
Making enemies, I have found, places the system on
From personal experience I have a self-it should also prohibit the develop supporting basis, but provides ment of a depression of the dis- found that you can't. You can't is a sport that palls. As one gets even "be yourself" (youth's mostjolder, one gets a little shaken in
(Continued on Page 7.) for surpluses which it is intend-astrous character from which com-
forvent wish) and be happy. Inp. 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 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 is Homething ters,
the Administration notably amongst Labourites, that the best method more than just another plan to of dealing with the matter would meet an emergency. The C.W.A. was put into operation to supply be to add the burden to the relief where it was desperately National Debt, and thus make needed. In a measure it met this possible a resumption of the old need; but, 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 now view of the fact that it was'in-plan recently outlined by Presi dent Roosevelt shows that those curred during a period of emer- lessons have been learned, and 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 viewpoint, especially since the restoration of the cuts under this
It not only shows an intelligent basis could evidently be made grasp of the present situation, but without again jeopardising the also explains the C.W.A. solvency of the Fund. The Gov- therefore, should be free of some crament will doubtless take all of the evils that attached them- the factors into account and en-solves to the original measuro. deavour to distribute the The strongest point in the new relief plan is that, while much "plus" in such a way as to offset some of the recent critic money la involved, there is not to ke the same outpouring of direct isms of its general policies. But aid. I approaches 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 a stable society. magnificent manner in which the permanently in Government has handled the The encouraging aspect of the nation's finances and produced and courageous approach to
whole movement is in its orderly the results which might well be the fundamental problem of wasted onvy of the whole world.
labour and faulty distribution.
INTELLIGENT GRASP
and,
"Let's finish up those caramels so we can concontrate on the show."
Marriage seems to be a constant wear, wear, wear, except when its being tear, teur, and tear. A little "ware!" would save a lot of tear.
Morringe, like business, in one of the things that drive a man to voluntary liquidation in which state de is too often, prone to font a lo(a)ne, and depress further his sinking fund.
Carried forward from day to day he fails to achieve a balance and develops a lonning to other figures, The exchange is not favourable to stabilisation and with th sleeping partner inaleting on h pound of flesh and failing to subs scribe her share, the only resource left for the other partner is to
le his petition.
His creditors remain while his credit goes and whoh matrimony has been awallowed up in alimony he can wind up his affairs.
·UPHEAVAL IN BABY-BALLYHOO
A revolution in the baby-ballyhoo indulged in by proud parents may result from the findings of a French commission on schoolchildren.
The commission has found that plain children are the most Intelli gent. So it may become quit usual to hear the fond mother crooning, Van oo
mama's
precious ickle eyesore, den? purring over visitors who describe the infant as "the quaintest little blat."
As one who has inspected a good many contemporary Infants (with the usual imbeellé comments), {. can only say that, if the commis- slon's finding is correct, the next generation will bo abeslutely rid- died with genius,
One thing, callers on Poak re- sidents can in future be, at once candid and complimentary:
"Well, well, Mrs. Jones, so thie is Alee. Growing more of a nuisance every
isn't ho? And so like
his fatho
1 regard it on distinctly; fick unate, though that the commission did not extend its theory to adults, because I'm afraid most, fim stars: would never recover.
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