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FRIDAY,
NOTES OF THE DAY
WAR- DEBT LOGIC,
Britain's Intest debt note points the obvious, quite effectively. No- one of responsibility in the United States could have seriously enter- tained the idea that payment in
JUNE 29,
1934.
kind presented fewer difficulties D
NIGHTMARE OF WAR
Bu AN OLD SOLDIER
The Very Idea!
OUR INVENTIONS
By Marchese Eddie "Marcon"",
WE
Kelly, Genius
VE inventors have to put up with a lot of
things.
The asterinks are inserted in order to allow a suitable Interval to pasa. following the uncomplimentary re- ferences by those who have digested the Arst paragraph. paragraph.
ISARMAMENT to me is not a course in life by certain fixed prin- vague abstraction. I cannot ciples, 1 was told I must be than the transfer of gold bars, view it dispassionately and aloofly honest, compasafonate, generous,
All of which is prompted Robbing Peter to pay Paul can only as so many of the so-called arms forgiving. The Golden Rule under- by the thought that we have Hound sense to the ill-informed and experts scam able to do. It seems lay every moral law that was set to visit our doctor this after- uninitiated, which porhaps explains too vital and compelling to bo before me.
noon to have our face X-ray-. treated as a mere vexing inter- I grow to manhood, went out in-ed, why the States Department took national problem.
to the world and then the war. the trouble to raise the subject and
To mo armaments mean but one I was taught in the course of my the British Government to make thing-ravaged lands, belts of de- training and experience to throw a pretence of keeping it open for solution across the face of the overboard every one of those rules, further consideration later. All earth. Six-inch guneeight-inch Murder was legalized, Indeed, I guns-howitzersfield pieces could become a hero in the eyes of the Notes connected with the June naval guns-let the armament ex- my countrymen if my list of mur 15 settlement day" carry the same perts work out their charts to in- dera was long enough. suspicion, that they have been form us which are defensive weap- Tace now that I had really step-modern drawn up primarily to Jull the ons and which offensive. Guns to ped from one plane of existence to should not be confused with pound-of-flesh merchants into the oozy alots of abattered earthly and no less logically, I became the hip-'ray, which is a foot- me mean armica, men cowering in another. Or, to put it more clear- belief that a scrious effort is being ghastly vistas of barbed wire the gripped by the mass hypnotism of bail 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- ous air of unreality pervades them the obscenities of poison gas, had succumbed to a dream phant-
ence about tho "Cult of
The X-ray is really a invention, and
all. Sometimes they seem to have high explosives and bayonets. asmagoria and called it real. And Fashion" in a morning contem-
tion.
AMERICAN ASSENT
Mine in the viewpoint of the old was fooled with the rest. soldier.
porary,
Nor should it be confused with ST-rayed, which generally ends in Police-rald.
been written with an eye to
On different occasions during posterity-carefully phrased logic
For 10 years I have been grap the war I glimpsed this, but not for future generations to pore over pling with the problem of what it until my friend voiced it did I soo nind decido about the rights and the is the world needs to drive home it clearly. I remember one night wrongs, Perhaps, when all is said the lesson if the dianster which in the outskirts of Lens when I was Inventions are always the same. and done, that is the meat in overtook un before is not to over- caught in a barrage laid down by We were only saying to Marconi take us again. I speak as one who the German guns. I hid in an the other day that we inventors telligent way of handling the sitan-has the right to speak. I wore angle of a wall behind the shat don't get any kudos for our in- uniform four years in the last war.tered remains of some miners' col-ventions. And we love kudos. I saw active service in four major offensives. And to-day 1 am below along the roar of the guns ran With a dash of tomato saues they
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 the world within the next few starkly in the ghostly lightning of seized upon by the public, that we inventions have been American oplaton seems to accept years I should be called upon to bursting shells.
have been able to preserve our Britain's plans for an ull-round in- [serve once more.
Then, as I cowered panic-stric-anonymity. '("Invent". Jentsh erease in armaments as a perfectly For 16 years, therefore, I have ken, something touched my face, for "went in.") logical step. All the excuses are watched intently the various and through the stench of high ex- 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 Who, for instance, invented the vanced in justification by British insting peace, I have come to rose. The jingoists and ready nesent has been divide the peace seekers into two flower came to me as a touch of and patted us on the back for it? fragrance of that at night? Has anyone ever come 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 wo If any diffidence was fell about the international conferences and that beauty might bloom. For the patented for beating up the hen programme before the good news agreements to Ilmit the world's moment I forget the drum fire, the in order to get positively fresh camo from Washington, it can be armaments. The other group has guns and the terror, and saw the egg noggs. 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 theso gardens, who had step. What a bust it will be witen
the Western Front," plays like planted rosebushes the perfume it does come.
"Journey's End," pictorial records from which should be showing war in all its gruesome than the stench of war. horror such 18 the collection
Tony 1 see that it was ironically titled "The First World reality. The terror that surround- peel went one way, the eyes went War. And, watching, 1 have gradually been forced to numit me was the nightmare, the un- another way, pieces of your finger- reality from which men must ons 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 do was to find the the new defence programme would successfu).
not as the exporleucu of actuality, potato, be 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 discovered. One is the extent of fully realize why this was 30 reality than the nightmare holds best inventions while hunting the influence exerted upon the Then the chance remark of a war for us in the morning when we grisly bears in the Rockies for Cabinet by the campaign of cor- time friend gave me the answer, awake.
away. tain London newspapers for in- We two were talking of the war. Because I now know this I can creased armaments. And the other We were surrounded by the com-understand the failure of all our cause it is very sinewy. It has a The grisly bear is so called be- is the extent of the influence of forts of this modern world,
efforts to establish pence. We had habit of sinew armaments interests behind the Around us the tide of industry was missed through a nightmare. But him. (Oh, Mr. Kelly!)
before you see campaigns. It is acknowledged on flowing, great natural scientists upon waking we had accepted it Yes, we invented a robot for all hands, of course, that no British were solving the secrets that as reality. And, instead of ban- taking the
blame Government in recent history has should bring us wider understand-ishing the fear that induced it, we burns in carpeta.
for cigarette had a worse press-as far as the ing, increased enlightenment. Yet, had sought strenger bars for our popular press is concerned-than we talked I saw again the valley doors, thicker shutters for our win retorts-a test tube is a thing.
Here among our test tubes and the MacDonald National Govern of the Somme in 1916, that chalk-down and put fierce dogs on watch used by international cricketers ment in the last twelve months. flecked, shattered segment 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 nalurally remained in opposition. the shadow of war seemed to rest
carange and terror. And again from our dwellings. And the traditionally Conservative
We carry out experiments which stagger the imagination. And if. journals have had nothing but upon the world around us.
you've ever had an imagination cirlicism to offer, have been
with the staggers, you more reckless anel spiteful
sympathise with us.
ARMS AND THE PRESS
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There was another machine · which cried for you when you peeled the onions." stronger Then there was' our
notato peeler. The potatoes were simply the inserted one at a time and the
Then my friend stopped sudden in reference to certain Ministersly in his talk. "You know," he than frankly opposition journals, daid, "that was not in the samo Even so, it would be almost tragic world that we know. It was on and such circumstances should the to think that new armaments have been served up on a sliver platter to gain the support of these journals in the next election.
SILVER MYSTERY
From this premise we sought to work out satisfactory conclusion, We attempted. to make pacts with our neighbours who had experi- enced the same nightmare. We desired to joht kands under such another plane of exlatonce." nightmare threaten again. Or we The more I pondered that re-imagined that someone had been mark the clearer and stronger the cause of our experiencing the grew the conviction that my friend nightmare. And we sought to de- had voiced a great truth, that he fend ourselves against him. had voiced for me something that Our war literature pinyed its I had known for a long time. parts in the scheme. Men return look back at my experience and sceled from the nightmare. From the plainly the verity of his reasoning, depths of their revulsion they I was brought up to steer my (Continued on Page 10.)
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 constructivé 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 specifle proposals have already been forwarded to the Government by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, whilst Intterly 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- vealed latterly in the periodical statistics issued by the Govern- ment, indicating in actual 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 mission every branch of trade. It will tbc be the task of the Commission to and,
50, what, FCW analyse the causes of the decline
avenues can
he 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 | aituation, 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 mom- Currency and banking considera-hers of the Commission will be tions canot be overlooked, as carefully chosen. Hopes of a these are vital matters when it really usoful contribution being comes to smoothing the path for made will be strengthened if commercial progress. It may be there is evidence that found also that reforms are need- Government is disposed to go outside the customary `channels
ed in current busincas practice,
The silver plot thickens. Senator Dies nude some very plain statenients about the policy of the United States Treasury. declaring that 1.254.600,000 ounces of allver will be purchased by the end of the year. The picture of journalists swarming round the Treasury Department with de- mands from their newspapers for fresh and authoritative informa- tion can easily be conjured up. They seem to have gone empty nway but it cannot lack signifi- cance than no denial was Issued, and the local dollar is still going up, although it sill trailing bohind its silver parity value. A prediction that the steady riso will continuo seems to bo as safe as any.
to
will undoubtedly ascertain whether,
if
But the main task of the Com-in selecting the personnel:-
the
"Now take this guy he had the lucky bronka, that's all."
can
an
We recently perfected electric rat catcher. It ringe 2 bell and wakes the headache, who rushes into the kitchen.
While wife is in kitchen won- dering why no rat in trap, hus- band who has rung bell from front gate has gone to bed and ta so asleep that he has been there for hours to grent astonishment of wife of the first part, heretofore mentioned.
We were the first mon to prove that perpetual commotion in a home was not only possible, but almost unavoidable,
For the past eleven years.we havo been working on ди пр paratus to shut the wife up when we come home late. We think wo have over-estimated our Invon- tive powera. There are some things which are above human ingenuity.
Excuse us for a week. Pete, our laboratory assistant, has just call- cd us on the 'phone to come across and test out our new invention. for taking corks out of bottles..
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Mdamn the Mdivanis
We notice in a morning puper that Princess Mdivani hus separated from the Prince and has.. gono back to America with hor poppa.
Was Princess Mdivani (who, na everybody ought to know by now, was formerly Miss Barbara Hutton, the Woolworth hairess) in a London nursing home because there - WAS discord in the Mdivani mnent? Or was everything in the Mdivani v mnest too mdivino and WITH ¡Princess Málvaill marely.· ́in_a maurelng home with the mncasles. or an attack of measles:or an attack of mnorves; enumtimes called maneuraathenia?
How many snoopless maighta have we spent with the Mdivanis on our mind Instead of, 'sminoring smugly In our snoven and dalne, ponny daightshirt? There were dimes, (and we do not deny it). when we shouted 'Mdazan the
"
Then onuddenly the truth was told and we snept, Sho waA OG-A- enimming malet.
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