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THURSDAY, Oct. 11, 1931.

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Such eminent men .113 Lard Desborough, Lord Greenway, Lord Hunsdon, Sir Henri Deterding and have Sir Montagu do P. Webb, written recently, and exhaustively, of the immediate need to restore silver as a world currency. Their arguments are not new, but they benr repetition under the circum- coming simultaneously stancos, from these men. It seems, they say, that the great economic strug- gle of the Immediate future will be between East and West. The East has a tremendous advantage In its cheap labour and cheap money weapon.. It can manufacture at less cost and sell for consequently much reduced price. "It will be extremely difficult to meet this com- petition successfully unless Britain and the West employ, in addition to their present monetary weapons, the same cheap monetary tools, and restore silver to the position that It has occupied throughout the ages."

This argument is admitted by an increasing number of British bankers and business men.

GREAT IMPORTANCE

alone.

OCTOBER 11, 1934.

WHITHER

EUROPE? PEACE

OR

WAR?

must

By Sir ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH THAT' I am going to say is keep up this system we

Just what one private person ancrifice everything. Parliaments, thinks in these days; and yet liberty, leading articles, essays, have a notion that, given a leader, eloquence-all are good, but they it could be called up to be echoed are secondary; at.ali hazards, and by millions, irresistibly. If I guess if we can, mankind must be kept Six weeks ago society rightly, the prayer in the hearts of alive. thone millions is "For God's sake was living from hand to mouth; not another war?" Then why now she feels sure of her next And that in a dozen words should there be another? To this meal.

find two answers, operating in is the real case-the political ex- the minds of those who govern us cuse, of Prince Louis Napolean. and other nations; and it is these.

1.

The Very Idea!

SHIELA .THE SUGAR

By George

We sat at ten yesterday

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

We had sat down quite soberly and ordered tea. We took three 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 indy,

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

a large stone--or rather we were doing the absorbing and the scane was a passive victim.

"Pass me Berti," quoth Alice

not the peoples, who pile the ex-, That in a few sentences given plosives against one another-not the reason why the Continental wickedly but in caution-untilantions have stampeded into the suddenly. some one of them loses nerve, present refuge of dictatorships. "Eh1"

can measure.

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as "caution") the in themselves-to vote as we did

But on the

courage

Alice had a fit of coughing in

eclair.

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

"You better have Millie the Milk and Tommy the Ten," added Hornce~ pushing them over.

starts a panic, and lets loose Even a shadow of a like fear drove situation they neither meant norus, a peculiarly prescient commer- "She means Bertle the Butter," cial nation with an ancestral con-explained Horace and they slapped traption of safety-valves possibly each other vigorously on the back Now the root of this is fear; and more serviceable through our faith and roared with laughter. Silver is now of greater world

din in them than of actual efficiency

We passed the butter. importance than gold, say these to counteract fear (usually nuthorities. Whereas gold eur-gulsing itself rency has virtually disappeared, first medicine should be appiled; for a National Government in the which she lost the best part of an silver la a necessity in the Far fear being the most dangerous the autumn of 1931. East and other parts of the world. thing in the world, in that it nurses Continent after the War this fear

Then they sat holding their hands India, China, Mexico, and the United the double evil of a drug and of was more than a fear: it atroden 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 any, give way to fear, though in small their incomes, killing the provid- was all very embarrassing and to en-keep ourself in the party we asked approximately 100,000,000 people doses, gradually acquire a kabitlence of wives, day by day

to feebling the child, agonising the Horace to pass the milk. now necept silver as legal tender while sapping their

Is there room for won-' Horace looked rather stupid and without limit. The authorities in-break it, and when the breakdown mother.

as der? Moreover, by a wise, if ap made no response. slat that legalising of silver and comes, loosen their infection gold together as world money would swiftly and futally as if they hadparently haphazard, system of raise world prices and eventually screamed "Fire" in a theatre. I balances we Britons swing by habit make a more stable standard of know, to be sure, that there will moderately to a throng, and in our value. Such move would certain persista minority of "practical own emergency have been blest in romantic spinsa King who understands his people ly give greater stability, than gold people"-such as

tera, golf-majors, and a certain 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 "good for the breed," "loosening tween a popular vote and nuto-Socrates the Scone," we retaliated, A DASTARDLY DEED

The argument in supported by of moral fibre In the present-day eracy. I am certain that the vast young.' ele. All these protests | majority of civilised men in Europe the prospect of development of

on and Amerten hate the iden of war, Universal indignation, coupled

greater trade with the Far East were raised in their season with a very real feeling of sor-wing to an increase of the puchas- behalf of duelling and the slave, and will curse every one of their people trade and the old penal code; cone Governments that is found here row for Yugo-Slavia and France ing power of millions of

which, imaging, is much after to have hung back or shown through raising the price of the of in the heavy loss they Bave

white metal. On the other hand hankered after in this country to-Indovision in actively preventing it. But "hereafter" may mean suffered, has been aroused by the danger of depressing the good day.

In brief, these various Invokera "too late." value of silver is indiented by the the dastardly deed which has

"primitive instinet" stand fact that, in the past, this action br plunged the two nations

into has given the Enst greater compet- (whether they know it or not) for! buying letting back the jungle upon the deep grief. Awaited as a joyous | ing power, lessened her

The rest of the tea was a night- event aimed at still further power in Western markets, and pro-architecture of civil society; and of it may yet be mopped up.

of Germany in 1911 vided the strongest sort of stimulus when fear creeps in on the heels the rulers

mare. We kept ourselves to Shelin, cumenting the friendly relations for the construction of a great Far) of the jungle, the two half-brothers favoured the Great War upon Millie, and Tommy to avoid embar- 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 futation; the mass of later evidvoraciously disposed of Democrates evitably, challenge, the old cummerbeams. Alexander's visit was, by the cial houses of the West. "The con-

ence confirms what was evident the Doughnut, Scylla the Sausage-

the mistakes of Ver- assassin's hand. converted into

roll, and Irene the Ice cream, an occasion of death and terror

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There

Lover

IN 20 URC spilt milk:

In crying but some That

into

"And here's Jimmy the Jam and

again.

They both lay back and roared

"Socrates!" yelled Alice pointing at us a finger on which traces of Jimmy were easily discernible.

"Socrates!" guffawed demolishing a couple of Sheilas.

Horace

"Cynthin the Scone," explained Alice using her handkerchief to wipe away a couple of Timothys her which were rolling down checka,

We signed Charlie the Chit and

thenes the Door.

tinued neglect to incorporate silver Another kind of fear-fear less then.. But in the work's supply of legal tender stupid, more intelligible, and in a sailles lay in fastening the stigma money may jeopardise and possibly way more respectable seems to under duress upon a proud nation At the time of writing, it is not wreek western civilisation," says have taken hold for a while of the|the old mistake of the Samnites were glad to get outside Demon-

There is much easy to assess the incident in its one of the experts.

implored "Give me a Katic," Clemencenu. Now their Governments; and accounts able of M. {real significance, but a presump-of truth in his warning, it would ples of Europe as distinct from at the Caudine Forks and predict-

one out of Alice in a parting farewell. We (I think) for the rush of dictator-speaking merely as Lion which might be reasonably

ships that has broken out over millions of Englishmen who prodid a little hurried thinking and democracy. To explain this better, ably share my feelings, if punished.

We looked round at the top of let me quote a few sentences writment were in question I could have primary object was to murder

In the st few years educators ten by Walter Bagehot, then aforgiven the original "war guilt" the street and saw Horace kissing the visiting monarch and that have rightly increased the emphasis young observer, from Paris in 1862 (in which panic played a part) her in front of Eva the Electric M. Barthou became an accidental on character education. Knowledge shortly after the coup d'etat of sooner than Germany's deliberate Vehicular Automatom.

without character is as futile in-Louis Napoleon," Putting aside for importation of poison gua victim of the attack.

One has small There is dividually as preaching world peace later question the morality of that civilised warfare.

DUMB-BELLES LETTERS however.

moral right to advise France and The bare possibility ↑ nationally and Increasing warstroke, Bagebot wrote:

were laid that life

By Juliet Lowell, assailant,

The first duty of society is the Belgium, whose lands Yugo-armaments, a

be taught from books. Character preservation of society. By the waste. Nevertheless, and simply Slavian exile, was actuated not cannot be built from the spoken sound work of old-fashioned on grounds of prudence, Franco A "Frightful" Mistake. only by animosity against King word. Both Can help. If the generations--by the singular pain-might be warned that the stigma Ely Culbertson Alexander, but also by resent-youth of to-day is to mould ite staking of slumberers in church-set upon her neighbour is more Dear Mr. Culbertson:

character along the lines which yards-by dull care-by stupid in-than the new generation of a proud

Sometimes when I sit |ment against the growing friend- mean a better world to-morrow,dustry. a certain social fabric and military race can be expected down to bridge, I play from fright. ship between France and Italy adults must assume the responsi-somehow exists. People contrive to endure. And, for a like renson, Is that always a mistake?

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

worthy acl. Imitation is the sand years of toil and trouble. To (Continued on Page 4) may have been, his cowardly strongest of all learning procedures, crime earns worldwide repraha-Children act as do their elders and consciously and irrevocably im- tion. Looked at from the angle bibe their philosophy." If our of possible repercussions un schools are to prepare youth for European affairs, the outrage, Food citizenship, adults must.

sume their share of responsibility terrible as it was, is robbed of by diaplaying qualities of character any major political significance which are worthy of perpetuation. from the fact that it occurred on

to

to

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friendly soil and was the work latter country, regarded by lof a determined politicul mal-Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes as content who had sworn to kill their enemy, make it possible to of the factors the King and had merely laid his appreciate some

which have led to the untimely plans in France because, as a death of another Balkan mon- exile, he was precluded from arch. In the early reports of carrying out his fell designs in the outrage there was a dis- his own land. We have, indeed, Įposition to point a parallel be- take account of internal tween the affair and the Sarajevo. assassination, which indirectly Balkan polities to get the true plunged Europe into the Great background of the affair. Over War, but the points of similarity, long period of years, King are really very few. Certainly |Alexander's policies had aroused there is little fear of the renc- the antagonisms of the extréme tions from the earlier outrage

repeated

None Crotian Nationalists, and despite being the fact that latterly he had been the less, the grim tragedy may have Its effects On able to win back the support of the tangled skein of Balkan many erstwhile enemies, there politics and thus indirectly naturally remained, and still re-affect the general European mains, a large rehnant smarting situation at a time when efforia under the loss of

Crotian are being made to secure some autonomy. These facts, to regrouping of international con- tacts. Meanwhile, abhorrence gether with the strengthening of at the grim deed and sympathy the ties between France and with those who have been Italy and the avowed aim of King tragically bereaved will be the Alexander to draw his country dominating sentiments wherever into closer relationships with the the story of the Marseilles

tragedy is read.

now.

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

this milk delivered."

Mrs. Louise B-

(signed)

I play' from fright.

Ashamed Ourselves,

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