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FRIDAY, JUNE 29,
NOTES OF THE DAY
WAR DEBT LOGIC
tion.
AMERICAN ASSENT
· 1934.
NIGHTMARE
OF WAR
explosives and bayonets:
The Very Idea!
OUR INVENTIONS
By Marchese Eddie "Marcon!" -Kelly, Gentur .
WE
E inventors have to -put up. with a lot of things.
All of which is prompted by the thought that we have to visit our doctor this after- noon to have our face X-ray-
The asterisks are Inserted in order to allow a suitable interval to pass, following the uncomplimentary ro ferences by those who have digested the first paragraph.
Mine is the viewpoint of the old Demagoria and called li real. And Fashion" in a morning contem-
soldier.
porary.
Britain's Intest debt note points the obvious quite effectively. No- ane of responsibility in the United
By AN OLD SOLDIER: States could have seriously enter- tained the idea that payment In
ISARMAMENT to me Is not a course in life by certain fixed prin- kind presented fewer difficulties"
vague abstraction. I cannot ciples. I was told I must bo than the transfer of gold barn. view it dispassionately and aloolly honest, compassionate, generous, Robbing Foter to pay Paul can only no so many of the so-called arms forgiving. The Golden Rule under sound sense, to the ill-informed and experts seem able to do. It seema lay every moral law that was set uninitiated, which perhaps explains too vital and compelling to be before me.
I grew to manhood, went out in-ed. why the States Department took treated as a mere vexing inter
national problem.
to the world and then the war. To me armamenta menn but one I was taught in the course of my the trouble to raise the subject and the. British Government to make thing-ravaged lands, belts of de- training and experience to throw a pretence of keeping It open for solation across the face of the overboard every one of those rules. further consideration later. All earth. Six-inch guns-eight-inch Murder. was legalized. Indeed, I guns-howitzers-Add places could become a hero in the eyes of the Notes connected with the Junaaval guns-let the armament ex-my countrymen if my list of mur
The X-ray is really a 15 "settlement day" carry the same nerts work out their charts to in-ders was long enough.
weep- I see now that I had really step-modern invention, and suspicion, that they have bean form us which are defensive drawn up primarib to full the ons and which offensive. Guns to ped from one plane of existence to should not be confused with. me mean armies, men cowering in another. Or, to put it more clear- pound-of-flesh merchants into the oozy slots of shattered earthly and no less logically, I became the hip-'ray, which is a foot- belief that a serious effort is being ghastly vistas of barbed wire the gripped by the masa hypnotism of ball term, and has nothing". made to obtain payment. A curi- broken shards of homes and cities a universal nightmare. The world to do with all this correspond- ence about the "Cult of ous air of unreality pervades them the obscenities of poison gas, had succumbed to a dream phant-
high ail. Sometimes they seem to have
was fooled with the rest. been written with an ero to
On different occasions during
Nor should it be confused posterity-carefully phrased logic
For 10 years I have boon grap the war Iglimpeed this, but not for future generations to pore over pling with the problem of what it until my friend voiced it did I see with ST-rayed, which generally. and decido about the rights and the is the world needs to drive home it clearly. I remember one night ends in Police-raid.
Inventions are always the same. wrongs. Perhaps, when all is said the lesson if the disaster which in the outskirts of Lens when I was
is the most in overtook us before is not to over caught in a barrage laid down by We were only saying to Marconi and done, that telligent way of handling the situa. take us again. I speak as one who the German, guns. I hid in anthe other day that we inventora has the right to speak, I wore a angle of a wall behind the shat don't get any kudos for our in- uniform four years in the last war. tored remains of some miners' cat-ventions. And we love kudos. I saw active service in four major tages. The roar of the guns ran With a dash of tomato sauce they offensives. And to-day I am below along the whole front in a rippling are delicious, the age limit for active service. crescendo of madness. The skele It's amazing, considering the If another war should break upon tons of houses about me gleamed way our inventions have been the world within the next few starkly in the ghostly lightning of seized upon,by the pubile, that we
have been able to preserva our. American opinion seems to accept years I should be called upon to bursting shells. Britain's plans for an all-round in serve once more.
Then, as I cowered panic-stric-anonymity. "C"Invent"-Jewish For 16 years, therefore, I have ken, something touched my face, for "went in.")" crease in armaments as a perfectly logical step. All the excuses are watched intently varlous and through the stench of high ex-- Who, for instance, invented the found before they have been ad-phases of the effort to establish plosives I smelled the perfume of a catapult for putting the cat out vanced in justification by British lasting peace. I have come to rose. The fragrance. of that at night? Has anyong ever come jingoists and rendy assent has been divide the peace seekers into two lower came to me as a touch of and patted us on the back for it? given. Whitehall could hardly schools. On the one hand are reality. In this place men had No! have expected such encouragement. those who have sought through laboured with love and patience Then there was the machine we
conferences. and If any difdence was felt about the International programme before the good news agreements to limit the world's that beauty might bloom. For the patented for beating up the hen came from Washington, it can be armaments. The other group has ment I forgot the drum fire, the in order to get positively fresh
guns and the terror, and saw the discarded now. Others can be left turned out a flood of war litera-village as it was, the home of men to speculate upon the next logical ture, novels such as "All Quiet on who loved these gardens, who had which cried. for you when you step. What a bust it will be when the Western Front, plays like planted rosebushes the perfume pealed the onions.
"Journey's End," pictorial records from which should be stronger It does come.
Then there was
potato showing war in all its gruesome than the stench of war.
peeler. The potatoes were simply horror such As the collection
To-day I see that it was the inserted one at a time and the Ironically titled "The First World reality. The terror that surround peel went one way, the eyes went War. And, watching, I
ed me was the nightmare, the un- another way, pieces of your finger- gradually been forced to admit reality from which men must one nails went another way, and all Two things in connection with that neither group has been very day wake, and, waking, recognize it you had to de was to find the the new defence programme would successful.
not as the experience of actuailty, potato. he interesting if the truth could be Until a few days ago I did not but as having no more part in We got the idea for one of our
why this discovered: One is the extent of fully realize
while hunting was reality than the nightmare holds best the Influence exerted upon the Then the chance remark of a war for us in the morning when we grisly bears in the Rockies far Cabinet by the campaign of cer- time friend gave me the answer. awake.
Because now know this I can' The grisly bear is so called be- tain London newspapers for in. We two were talking of the war. creased armaments. And the other We were surrounded by the com- understand the failure of all our cause it is very sinowy. It has a is the extent of the influence of forts of this modern world.
orid efforts to establish peace. We had habit of sinew before you sec armaments interests behind the Around us the tide of industry was passed through a nightmare. But him. (Oh. Mr. Kelly!).
Yes, we invented A robot for campaigns. It is acknowledged on flowing, great natural scientists
for cigarette all hands, of course, that no British were solving the secrets that upon waking we had accepted It
reality. And, instead of ban-taking the blame Government in recent history hus should bring us wider understandishing the fear that induced it, we burns in carpets.
Hero among our, test tubes and had a worse pres--as far as the ing, Increased enlightenment. Yet, had sought stronger bars for our popular press is concerned-than as we talked I saw again the valley doors, thicker shutters for our win. retorts--a test tube is a thing the MacDonald National Govern of the Somme in 1916, that chalk-tows and put fierce dogs on watch used by international cricketers ment in the last twelve months. flecked, alitered nogment of the outside. Thus, we blindly reason- and a retort-is-a-back-answer-we The opposition newspapers have western front, with its harvest ofed, we should keep the nightmare won't be so technical in future-
And again from our dwellings,
we carry out experiments which naturally remained in opposition, carnage and terror. And the traditionally Conservative the shadow of war seemed to reat
From this premise we sought to stagger the imagination. And If journals have had nothing but upon the world around us.
work out a satisfactory conelusion, you've ever had an Imagination cirticlum
We attempted to make pacts with | with the staggers, offer, to
have been more reckless and spiteful
our neighbours who had expert sympathise with us.
We onced the same nightmare. We
recently perfected
ARMS AND THE PRESS
SILVER MYSTERY
TRADE COMMISSION
General satisfaction will be felt at the announcement that the Government has decided to appoint a Commission which is to be charged with the task of studying the present position of trade in the Colony and making recommendations designed to improve the existing situation. The personnel of the Commission has not yet been announced, but it will be representative of the commercial, banking and ship- ping interests of the Colony and, if wisely chosen, it should be able to make really constructive pro- posals for effecting a much needed improvement in the pre- sent state of affairs. The pre sumption is that the terms of reference will be widely drawn, so as to cover all relevant aspects of the problem, and that no re- strictions will be imposed con- cerning the subject matter of the inquiry. Many specific proposals. have already been forwarded to the Government by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, whilst latterly the question of the Colony's free port status has come in for considerable discus- sion. All these issues will doubt- less be taken into account by the Commissioners, and it is to be assumed that a general invitation will be extended to all sections of the community to lay their views before the investigating body. Evidence of the decline in the Colony's trade has been re- ,vented lätterly in the periodical statistics issued by the Govern- ment, indicating in retual figures the slump which practically every business here has experi enced and is still unhappily feel. ing. The depression may have taken a long time to hit the Colony, but its existence is now a matter of concern to almost every branch of trade. It will bo to ascertain whether, be the task of the Commission to and, if 50, what, new analyse the causes of the decline
avenues can be opened up and to put forward concrete for improving the internal econ- ideas for overcoming it. The omic position of the Colony. greatly-increased tariffs in China The moment is certainly most are undoubtedly a factor in the propitious for the carrying out || situation, but, serious as these, of a thorough investigation of are, they obviously do not wholly the whole situation. Above all,. account for the present position, it is to be hoped that the mem- Currency and banking considera-bers of the Commission will bo tions cannot be overlooked, us carefully chosen. Hopes of a these are vital matters when it really useful contribution being comes to smoothing the path for made will be strengthened if commercial progress. It may be
there is evidence that the found also that reforms are need-. Government is disposed to go eu in current business practico.. outside the customary channels But the main task of the Com-in selecting the personnel.
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We were the Arst man to prove that perpetual commotion in a home was not only possible, but almost unavoidable."
Then my friend stopped sudden in reference to certain Ministers ly in his talk. "You know," he than frankly opposition journals. said, "that was not in the same desired to join hands under such electric rat catcher. Even so, it would be almost tragic world that we know. It was on and such circumstances should the bell and wakes the headache, who
nightmare threaten again. Or we rushes into the kitchen. to think that new armaments have another plane of existence." been served up on a silver platter The more I pondered that re-imagined that someone had been While wife is in kitchen won- to gain the support of these mark the clearer and stronger the cause of our experiencing the dering why no rat in trap, hus- journals in the next election,
grew the conviction that my friend nightmare. And we sought to de- band who rung bell from had voiced a great truth, that he fend ourselves against him.
front gate has gone to bed and is had voiced for me something that Our war literature played its so asleep that he has been there for I had known for a long time. parts in the scheme. Men return-hours to great astonishment of look back at my experience and sceed from the nightmare. From the wife of the first part, heretofore plainly the verity of his reasoning. donths of their revulsion they mentioned. The silver plot thickens. I was brought up to Senator Dies made some very plain statements about the policy of the United States Treasury, declaring that 1,254,000,000 ounces of silver will be purchased by the end of the year. The picture of the journalists swarming round Treasury Department with de- mands from their newspapera for fresh and authoritative Informa- tion can easily bo conjured up. They seem to have gone. empty away but it cannot lack signif cance then no denial was issued, and the local dollar is still going up, although it is still trailing behind its silver parity value. A prediction that the steady rlac will continue seems to be as anfe na any.
mission will
undoubtedly
"Now take this guy-ho had the lucky breaks, that's all.
оп
For the past, eleven years we have been working
an ap- paratus to shut the wife up, when we come home late. We think wo have over-estimated our invon- tive powera. There are · Soma things which aro above human ingenuity.
Excuse us for a week. Pote, our laboratory naaistant, has just call- ed us on the phone to come across and test out our new invention for taking.corks out of bottles.
*
Mdamn the Mdivanis
We notice in a morning · paper that Princess Mdivani hua separated from the Prince and has gous back to America with her рорра..
Was Princesa Mdivani (who, as everybody ought to know by now, was formerly Misa Barbara Hutton, the Woolworth heiress) in a London nursing home because there WAR discord in the Mdivani manest? Or was everything in the Mdivani mnest too mdivino and Princess Mdivanli merely in a maursing home with the mnenales or an attack of mnensles or attack of mnerves, enumtimes called mneumathenia?
."
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How many sneoploss maights have we spent with the Mdivania an our mind instead of amnoring arunugly in our snevon and ·dnine- penny dnightshirt? There word times (and wo do not mdeny. It) where we shouted -- "Mdamn the Mdivanis,"
Then suddenly the truth was told and we snopt,She was on 'A' sninming mdleti.
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