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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1934.

NOTES OF THE DAY

CASE FOR SILVER

WHITHER

Such eminent men as Lord Desborough, Lord Greenway, Lord Hunsdon, Sir Henri Deterding and Sir Montagu do P. Webb, have written recently, and exhaustively, of the immediato need to restore silver as a world currency. Their arguments are not new, but they bear repetition under the circum- | stances, coming simultaneously from these men, It seems, they say, that the great economic-strug-X7HAT I am going to say lajkeep up this system we

EUROPE? PEACE OR WAR?

By Sir ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH

.must

The Very Idea!

SHIELA THE SUGAR

By George

WE two love birds.

7E eat at tea yesterday

For years they had been friends of ours; now it's a matter of hours only.

gle of the immediato futuro will be W just what one private, person sacrince everything Parliament, and ordered tea. We took threo

GREAT IMPORTANCE

alone,

PURCHASING POWER

can measure.

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We had sat down quite soberly

sugars as a little concession to the day being the Double Tenth.

Horace took four because, it was free and Alice one so that we should all know she was a lady."

trouble when we were absorbed in But it was Alice who began the

doing the absorbing and the scone. was a passive victim.

"Pass me Berti," quoth Alica

suddenly.

"Eh!"

prompted Alice and enlightenment "He means Sheila the Sugar," dawned.

and Tommy the Tea," added Horace "You better have Millie the Milk

pushing them over.

between East and West. The East thinks in these days; and yet Iberty, leading articles, essays, has a tremendous advantage in its have a notion that, given a lender, eloquence all are good, but they cheap labour and cheap money it could be called up to be echoed are accondary; at all hazards, and weapon. It can manufacture at by millions, irresistibly. If I guess if we.can, mankind must be kept less cost and sell for a consequently rightly, the prayer in the hearts of alive. Six weeks ago society much reduced price. "It will be

these millions is "For God's sake was living from hand to mouth; extremely diffleult to meet this com- not another war!" Then why now she feels sure of her next petition successfully unless Britain should there be another? To this meal. And that in a dezon words and the West employ, in addition find two answers, operating in is the real case-the political ex-a large scene or rather we were to their present monetary weapons, the minds of those who govern us cuse, of Prince Louis Napoleon. the same cheap monetary tools, and and other nations; and it is these, restore silver to the position that

not the peoples, who pllo the ex- it has occupied throughout the plosives against one another-not the reason

That in a fow sentences gives ages," This argument is admitted wickedly but in caution-until nations have stampeded into the why the Continental by an Increasing number of British some one of them loses bankers and business men.

nerve, present refuge of dictatorships. starts a panic, and lets loose a Even a shadow of a like fear drove situation they neither meant nor us, a peculiarly prescient commer- "She means Bertie the Butter," clal nation with an ancestral con- explained. Horace and they slapped traption of safety-valves-possibly each other vigorously on the back Silver is now of greater world Now the root of this is fear; and more serviceable through our faith and roared with laughter, importance than gold, say these to counteract fear (usually dis- in them than of actual efficiency Authorities. Whereas gold cur-guising itself as "caution") the in themselves-to vote as we did

We passed the butter, rency has virtually disappeared, first medicine should be applied; for a National Government in the Alice had a fit of coughing in allver is a necessity in the Far fear being the most dangerous the autumn of 1931. But on the which she lost the best part of an East and other parts of the world. thing in the world, In that it nurses Continent after the War this fear eclair. India, China. Mexico, and the United the double evil of a drug and of was more than a fear: it strodes Then they sat holding their hands States to some extent, are using it an infectious disease. Men who Into men's houses, whisking away and whispering to each other. It more and more. That is to say, give way to fear, though in small their incomer, killing the provid-was all very embarrassing and to approximately 100,000,000 people doses, gradually acquire a habitence of wives, day by day en-keep ourself in the party we asked now accept sliver as legal tender while sipping their courage to feebling the child, agonising the Horace to pass the milk, without limit. The authorities In-break it, and when the breakdown mother. Is there room for won- Horace looked rather stupid nud sist that legalising of silver and comes, loosen their infection as der? Moreover, by a wise, if ap-made no response. gold together as world money would swiftly and fatally as if they had pareatly haphazard, aystem of raise world prices and eventually screamed "Fire" in a theatre. I balances we Britons swing by habit mako amore stable standard of know, to be sure that-there-will-moderately to a throne, and in our value. Such a move would certain-persist a minority of "practical own emergency have been blest in ly give greater stability than gold people"-such as romantle apins- a King who understands his people ters, golf-majors, and a cortain and is understood by them, so that type of clergyman-who will con- we can hardly realise the violence tinue to talk of "human nature," of our neighbours' oscillations, be-

"And here's Jimmy the Jam and. A DASTARDLY DEED

"good for the breed," "loosening tween a popular vote and auto- Socrates the Scone," we retaliated. The argument is supported by of moral fibre in the present-day cracy. I am certain that the vast They both lay back and roared Universal indignation, coupled greater trade with the Far East were raised in their season

the prospect of development of young," etc. All these protests majority of civilised men in Europe again.

on and America hate the idea of war, with a very real feeling of sor- owing to an increase of the puchas- behalf of duelling and the slave and will curse every one of theirnt us a finger on which traces of "Socrates!" yelled Alice pointing row for Yugo-Slavia and France ng power of millions of people trade and the old penal code; none Governments that is found here- Jimmy were easily discernible.

through raising the price of the of which, I imagine, is the heavy loss they have white metal. On the other hand hankered after in this country to-indecision in actively preventing demolishing a couple of Shellas,

much after to have hung back or shown "Socrates!" guffawed Hornee suffered, has been aroused by the danger of depressing the goal day.

it. But "hereafter" may mean the dastardly deed which has fact that, in the past, this netion of "primitive instinct" stand

value of silver is indicated by the In brief, these various invokeral "too late."

"Cynthin the Scone," explained Alice using her handkerchief to plunged the two nations

into has given the East greater compet- (whether they know it or not) for

wipe away a couple of Timothy deep grief. Awaited as a joyousing power, lessened her buying letting back the jungle upon the over

121 crying which were rolling down her. spilt milk: but Home cheeks, event aimed at still further power in Western markets, and pro-architecture of civil society; and of it may yet be mopped up. That

vided the strongest sort of stimulus when fear creeps in on the heels the rulera

The rest of the ton was a night- cementing the friendly relations for the construction of a great Far of the jungle, the two half-brothers favoured the Great War upon Milite, and Tommy to avoid embar of Germany in 1914 mare. We kept ourselves to Sheila, between the two countries, King Eastern Industry which will, in-make short work with the house- Europe admits of no reasoned re-rassment whilst the love birds Alexander's visit was, by the cial houses of the West. "The con-

evitably, challenge, the old commer- beams.

futation: the mass of later evidvoraciously disposed of Democrates assassin's hand, converted into

ence confirms' what was evident Another kind of fear-fent less then. But the mistakes of

the Doughnut, Scylla the Sausage- an occasion of death and terror. in the world's supply of legal tender stupid, more intelligible, and in a sailles lay in fastening the stigma roll, and Irene the Ice cream, At the time of writing, it is not wreck western civilisation," says have taken hold for a while of thej-the old mistake of the Samnites were glad to get outside Demos- money may jeopardise and possibly way more respectable seems to under duress upon a proud nation

We aigned Charlie the Chit and easy to assess the incident in its one of the experts. There is much real significance, but a presump-of truth in his warning, it would peoples of Europe na distinct from at the Caudine Forks and predict thenes the Door.

iheir Governments: and accounts able of M. Clemenceau. Now "Give me a Katla," implored. tion which might be reasonably

(I think) for the rush of dictator-speaking merely as one out of Alice in a parting farewell. We drawn is that the assassin's CHARACTER EDUCATION

ships that has broken out over millions of Englishmen who prob- did Ittle hurried thinking and democracy. To explain this better, ably share my feelings, if punish-fled. primary object was to murder-

In the last few years educators ten by Walter Bagehot, then

jot mo quote a fow sentences-writ-mont were in question I could have the visiting monarch and that have rightly increased the emphasis young observer, from Paris in 1862 (in which panie played

--We-looked-round-at-the-top-of- a forgiven the original "war guilt the street and saw Hornes kissing M. Barthou became an accidental on character education. Knowledge shortly after the coup d'etat of sooner than Germany's deliberate Vehicular Automatom.

part) her in front of Eva the Electric without character is victim of the attack. There is.dividually as preaching world peace later question the morality of that civilised warfare. One has small as futile in-Louis Napoleon. Putting aside for importation of poison gas into however, the bare possibility nationally und increasing warstroke, Bagehot wrote:

moral right to advise France and that the assailunt, a Yugo- armamenta. But character cannot The first duty of society is the Belgium, whose lands were laid Slavian exile, was actuated not cannot be built from the spoken sound

be taught from books. Character preservation of society. By the waste. Nevertheless, and simply

work only by animosity against King word. Both

of old-fashioned on grounds of prudence, Franco A "Frightful" Mistake. help. If the generations by the singular pain-might be warned that the stigmin Ely Culbertson Alexander, but also by resent character along the lines which yards by dull care by stupid in than the new generation of a proud

youth of to-day is to mould its staking of alumberers In church-set upon her neighbour is more Dear Mr. Culbertson: ment against the growing friend-mean a better world to-morrow,dustry, ship between France and Italy adults must assume the responsi-somehow existe. People contrive to endure. And, for a like reason,le that always a mistake?

a certain social fabric and military race can be expected down to bridge, I play from fright.

Sometimes when

which M. Barthou was expected One educator has stated, "All the work to employ them actually until clauses of Versailles will have to bility of setting a worthy example. to go out to their work, and to find when telling France that the to consolidate by his visit to precepts of the printed page and the evening, body and soul are kept be revised we must tell ourselves Rome next month. But what-spoken word go for naught if a together, and this is what mankind that we are ready to hand back ever the motives of the murderer child sees an adult commit an an have to show for their six thou- much colonial

ferritory. (This (Continued on Page 4.)

in

tinued neglect to incorporate silver

seem.

can

our

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worthy act. Imitation is the may have been, his cowardly strongest of all learning procedures sand years of toil and trouble. To crime earns worldwide reproba- Children act as do their elders and tion. Looked at from the angle bibe their philosophy." If

unconsciously and irrevocably im- of possible repercussions on schools are to prepare youth for European affairs, the outrage, good citizenship, adults must terrible as it was, is robbed of by displaying qualities of character sume their share of responsibility any major political significance which are worthy of perpetuation. from the fact that it occurred on friendly soil and was the work latter country, regarded by of a determined political mal Serba, Croats and Slovenes as content who had sworn to kill their enemy, make it possible to the King and had merely laid his appreciate some of the factors plans in France because, as an death of another Balkan mon which have led to the untimely exile, he was precluded from arch. In the early reports of carrying out his fell designs in the outrage there was his own Inad. We have, indeed, position to point a parallel be- a dis- to take account of internal tween the affair and the Sarajevo Balkan politics to get the true plunged Europe into the Great assassination; which indirectly background of the affair. Over War, but the points of similarity a long period of years, King are really very few. Certainly Alexander's policies had aroused there is little fear of the reac the antagonisms of the extreme tions from the earlier outrage Crotian Nationalists, and despite being repeated now. None the fact that latterly he had been

the less, the grim tragedy able to win back the support of the tangled skein of Balkan

have may

its effects on many erstwhile enemies, there politics and thus indirectly naturally remained, and still re-affect the general European mains, a large remnant smarting situation at a time when efforts under the loss of Cratian

are being made to secure some autonomy. These facts, to tacts.

regrouping of international con- gether with the strengthening of at the grim deed and sympathy Meanwhite, abhorrence the ties between France and with those who have been 80 Italy and the avowed aim of King tragically bereaved will be the Alexander to draw his country the story of, the Marseilles dominating sentiments wherever into closer relationships with the

tragedy is read.

There

no nac

"I'm afraid I shouldn't stop now, Mr. Markham. I gotta get

this milk delivered."

Ver-

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́DUMB-BELLES LETTERS

By Juliet Lowell,'

Mrs. Louise B-

(signed)

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I play from fright.

I sit

"Ashamed Ourselves.

Hollywood, Calif.

Lovl, Strauss & Co. San Francisco, Calif. Gentlemen:

We are heartily sorry to the fact that of our carolessness brought your inconvenience and anxious about the shipment of the August 20th concerning the bloomers and the underwears. Upon your representative wo made research in our stock room where one carton of blvomers and under- wears founded, laying beside other many cartons where are contented of shoes. This fact certainly

̈astonished ́ ́us"and" ashamed “our- selves when reflecting upon our manner due to you. Trusting that you will allow our injudicious, to this and preserve our friendship as

ever, we are, des

Very respectfully

yours, Arnold J

(signed)