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SILVER AND THE

DOLLAR

WEDNESDAY,

NOTES OF THE DAY

SABOTAGE ON MACON

FEBRUARY: 27, 1985.

VIVID FIGURE BACK

IN BATTLE

By AN OLD STAGER

THETHER you are among his, It may elect to dres Its weird: W

admirers or his enemies, Mr. without any help from his dynamic Lloyd Georgó must be conceded personality. Or, on the other hand, one quality. Ils vivid personality, it may sink personal enmities, and "L.G." as a powerful 'new

The Very Idea!

THE WAC CRACK'ER PROCESS

By II, Dogg, Beauty Culturist

GIRLS, don't let others

have all the fun! Why continue to languish, un-

even in his old ago, does enliveneeruit whose personality would loved and unsung, when' wo have any arena. into which he stops andoubtedly ronationaliso the Na. the means of restoring you to the

tional Cabinet to a

divinoly beautiful?

During the hearing of evidence bofore a House of Representatives' committee, ал export witness charged that sabotage was rea- porsible for the loss of the U.S.S. Macon, largest dirigible over built In America. At first he was loth to explain his reasons for suspect- ing that someone, probably one of the crew, was responsible for the dianster which cost, In addition to

Ho has suddenly thrown off the

condition that is the natural herit- the role of the £1,000,000 dead loss in

considerable role of country aquire, immersed

age of all daughters of Eve? Why Macan, the lives of two of her

in bucolic pursuito and auto degree. Much will depend, por continue to go to bed with a home. crew. Someone, this witness de- biography at Churt, and several hapa, on the amount of popularly phis when, overnight, it can be clared anally, had poured acid on the girders of the ship. Bho had years older than was Joo Chamber steam generated by L.G.'A Now restored to something altogether

lain when he launched his famous Deal campaign. crumpled when the strain came on tarif reform campaign, has pranced It is not my intention to intrude

After having buried ourselves in that particular part of her huge back into active polities with his on the delicate ground of discus- our interatory for more than two skeleton, and the girders had part- New Deal.

slon whether one or the other would ed. Tho chairman of the Com- ovidence

the be the wins and proper policy to weeks, we have to-day emerged mittee henring this

ments. startled by the charges, announced merits or demerits of his bold but adopt. What I want to emphasise with the latest in beauty trent-

-It is the Wax Crack'or process. that he would request that the not too adventurous projects, then that, with his astute Beusibility

popular to

tendencies, L.G. probably Navy should

Inexpensive and simple, it la significant "foreigners" in American aircraft is an important and or naval vessels. It is difficult to event. Already he has set the wild tag is played out. It is not Parlia- within sight of the homelient face. ochoes flying. The clubs Andment that is decadent, but the old All you will have to do is to on-

ลอ know who he may mean. Ile can lobbies are filled with rumour and party allgnment that is obsolete. crust your face with ordinary soild not mean the Steins, the Kelly's,

are those who A post-war generation that knows wax, then pass a hot flat iron over the MacPhersons or the Olsons; for prophecy. There they are just as good citizens of hold that the whole enterprise will not Joseph has arisen, to whom the it.

By this means, all wrinkles, how- America as anybody else. This peter out against the via inertia revered shibboleths of twenty or

of political and party circumstance. thirty years ago are less than aver persistent, and all unduly chairman himself is a Sirovich,

A generation, more: large poron and unsightly black- and the expert who testified that There are others who assert just meaningless.

us emphatically that within the over, to whom economics is the southeads will have been filled up or the Macon was wrecked by

next few months we shall see the of politics, and to whom a partizan-flattened out, "foreigner" is a Knabenshuc.

existing National Cabinet drastical-ship which blindly opposes every-

•

Quite apart from elther

no longer employ return of L.G. to the big arenareallses that the old party group-

Mr.

a

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Only one treatment, and you will ly remodelled, and L.G. Installed, in thing the other fellows suggest, have looked many years younger, fact if not in actual form, as its just because they suggest it, and with the complexion of a schoolgirl

irrespective of the merite, is just of 18. ailly.

most vital force.

every

in face of

ming.

J

Are you suffering from

(a.) Double chin?

(b.) Triple chin? or (c.) Any other chin?

Give exact requirements, but in

(n.) eating too

lates; or

many choco.

(b.) sheer cussedness?

Do your legs

(.) deserve the compliment

of Kayser stockings? or (b.) deserve any 7

if (b) state Just how bowed or knocked-kneed they are.

What is your exact weight? Do you smash the scales at 200 lbs? corsets. 300 ba? Also state exact size of

NO JOKING MATTER

Nevertheless, the sabotage theory

With this treatment, we can will attract wide interest and the

wholeheartedly recommend Bogg'e closest, attention of the authoritica My Interest in these new mani- In my opinion that fact was Benefleial Balsam fer Beefy Dipeds, In the United States, because it is festations is chiefly in their prob- demonstrated beyond all doubt or if you are also thinking of slim- no joking matter. A great mindable reactions on the political status challenge by the last General Elec- once conceived that there was no quo. Everybody knows who takes tion. This country was sick and auch thing as coincidence, Is it even the slightest interest in tired of arbitrary party cliques.

Bogg's Balsam (the formula for coincidence,

Knabenahue political affairs that for a consider It loudly called a curse on both which is n deadly secret) has been argues, that one of the two fatali-able time there has been a grow the Montagues and the Capulets of better to be dead than to waddle evolved on the principle that it la ties aboard the Macon was D ing conviction on the part of the party Filipino mess boy, known to be of great many people that Parliament take a serious interest in the House allegiances. It will never

through an uncomfortablo exist- Japanese "extraction"? Is it coin- played out,

or at all events, of Commons again until that as- ence, cidence that every single experi- decadent. Its debates no longer

We are always anxious to help ment in America with lighter than engross pubile attention to the embly reasserts its ancient status

as a real deliberative body, to which those whom we can. Your case, air craft of any considerable size extent they used to do even later each constituency returns

its however serious, cannot be so far old and potency ax fighting units hasthan. Gindstone's time. The

the party rame, too, seems played out. Ing to the crack of a party whip, troubles. All your confidences will chcsen member, not to vote necard gone that it cannot be successfully ended in disaster? When

Consult us on your trented by uR. Senandoah crashed there was the Traditional political enaigns no but to discuss and decide

Below be respected.

We have same hint of treachery, When the longer have their old meaning or problem on its strict merits. We drawn up a chart for your guld- Akron plunged into the Atlantic appeal. Behind it all Jurks, no often hear the parrot phrase used there was a whisper of more than matter how we may try to blink that it is the duty of na Opposition nce: accident behind the fate of that the fact, a grim spectre of Dictator-to oppose. Nothing could be more proud ship. It is a startling theory | ship.

monstrously untrue of any real which Mr. Knabenshue advances: The latter apparition, though Parliament. If there is one question more

that a mess boy in the Macon, obviously hostile tô all our inherited It Is the duty of an Opposition than another which is agitating his fathers, poured aeid upon the ened by the imminence of another vigilant. But Procrustenn methods, all cases stating, whether you have because he so loved the country of insular instincts, is much strength to be critically alert and ceaselessly local business men at the me-girders of the great dirigible while General Election, which must come however applicable to ald-time ncquired it from ment it is the future of silver she flew through a storm, and either this year or next, by the questions that agitated mon's minds und its likely effect On the plunged with her to denth. It was huge dimensions of our modern thirty years ago, all of which have Hongkong dollar. The continu- not the fault of the guilty man electorate and its consequent in long since settled themselves, can

that a

hundred lives were not lost.creased tendency to swing the led rise in exchange is, without the sort of theory which will pendulum from one extreme to the Ave no logical'or Intelligent place!

question, creating a feeling of stir the press, and the public, oven other, and by the declared policy

in economics. It is futile and uncertainty which is obviously though it may not be true. Some of Sir Stafferd Crippa and the dangerous to strive, not good for trade; no-one cun times it might be wise to keep auch more advanced and Influentialdera sentiment, and modern prob- tell whether even higher rates allegations for the private cars of Socialists, If they accure au nderem, took back into seeming realism the obsolete party divisions are to be registered, or whether Government. But, then, that would quate majority in the House

which, in fact, have no longer any some circumstanco may occur to scarcely be democratic.

Commons, to put the Constitution true basis of existence. cause a sudden drop in the ster-

Into commission, and press through revolutionary changes free from M.P'a for that matter, could define How many electors, or how many ling value of the dollar. It is TOO MUCH OF A MIXTURE the hampering apron-strings of the the precise difference between this unknown factor which is in- ducing a measure of nervousness variety of nations or races that are

Comment has been made on the Mother of Parlaments.

Conservative to-day, a Simonite and which leads to hesitancy ulent in the population of the

Liberal, Samuelito Liberal, à Na- both in commercial and financial United States. A Harley Street

tional Labourite. or

Lloyd Many shrewd and unexcitable on- Georgian? These badges circles. Bankers, merchants, authority who has been discussing lookers believe, if that happens, we lost to-day as are the old divisional and retail dealers alike are all this question of race mixtures finds shall forthwith see something like badges of the. Eritish Armies in conscious of the uncertainty of in it an explanation of the in-Mussolini or Hitler regimes estab-France. the future, which is bad for all stability of family life in America.lished in this country. It might A rough estimate is that one-third be a Dictatorship of the Left or

Parliament can reassert itself, as buying, whether of commodities birth, while another third have one Right, but one or the other, if a far more ngacious and safer of the population are of foreign it might be a Dictatorship of the or of exchange, the difficulty of foreign parent. Ilence it would events were pushed to this pass, it system than any form of dictator- deciding on the appropriate mo- seem to be Increasingly difficult to must almost inevitably be, ship, if it adjusts itself to the new ment at which to close the deal find partners for life with similar It is at this picture that the ern. But it must cut out all the becomes greater with every ideala, tastes, and outlook, with the Squire of Churt essays to resume outworn traditions, cease to regard passing day. It is at times like result that many marriages must his mantle as the Welsh Wizard of politics as a narty game, seize the the present that there is an be based mainly or wholly on sex

la your name old. Mr. Lloyd George's gesture is, imagination of the new post-war attraction. This, the speaker sug-contrary to what many people anti-electorate by being in deadly in business and exchange con- ever-present danger of defaultsgested, may explain the poor per- cipated, away from the Left and earnest, and adjust its outlook to tracts. This danger is inherent centage of durability in America towards the Right flask of our the urgent and pressing needs of

The National the moment: compared with other countries. political sectors. where there is, as in Hongkong, The capacity of the United States Ministry may reject his overtures. (Continued on next column) a fluctuating currency; it be for absorbing large foreign ele comes emphasised when

ments into its population marked rise

astonishing. By some magical pro- fall or experienced.

With conditions Cess, it seems, they become 300 per AN they

cent. Americans in a very short arc, therefore, it

time or do they? But we know is not to be wondered at from the that there should be fresh Great War how many of America's experience during the yearnings locally for a stabilised German immigrants remained Ger dollar. This sentiment is even mun at heart, and this suggests to be encountered amongst some that the process of conversion is of those people who, when the not so rapid as some would have issue was to the

us belleve. Blood is thicker than fore some

the Atlantic. That, indeed, is the years ago, ranged themselves on the side of the anti-stabilisation- and emphnalaen the force of what commonsense view of the position. ists. At that time, the dollar has been sold of the folly of cling- was low in terms of sterling, and ing to the "cousinly" theory in dis one of the arguments adduced cussions of British-American rela- against stabilisation was that iftions. the level were to be fixed at a

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rate appreciably higher than as between the two centres have that prevailing, the problem as become even more emphasised to who would make up the loss than in normal times. Looking would have to be faced. That at the situation on broad lines, consideration does not apply at it is difficult to resist the argu- present, since the current rate ment that benefit to the Colony is within reasonable approach to would accrue if at least one un- what was then regarded as a certain factor were removed by generally convenient standard the process of stabilisation. The for normal trading purposes.question is certainly again ripe Another argument which has for consideration, although past lost much of its potency is that experience hardly suggests that Hongkong is economically a part it is likely to be reopened. Per- of China, and, as such, her haps some consolation may be currency must bear some de-found in the possibility that, if finito relation to that of her near Hongkong does not act of her neighbour. China latterly has own accord, the time may soon been pursuing her own currency come when she will be brought policy, applying restrictive mea into somo international scheme. sures to the outflow of allver, of currpacy stabilisation. whereas Hongkong has more or Meanwhile, it would be all to the lesa kopt pace with the trend of good if responsible business men the white metal. As - 4 con- and others interested would air sequence,.,currency disparities their views on the question.

Are 88

It is fatal to fiddle

"Now, what I want to do is curtain my entire house without spending any money.""

Is your complexion

(a.) fair?

(b.) dark?

(c.) mottled? or (c.)) simply made-up?

-Are-you-

(a.), a peroxide blonde? or (b.) a dyspeptle one?..

in your face

(u.) oval?

(b.) square? or (e) just round and flat like a full-flushed moon?

If the last, it would simply look fascinating behind a veil, the less transparent tlie better.

(a.) Cynthia?

(b) Patricia?. Or any other pretty name terminating with the last two lettera?. As for ourself, we have christen- ed our latest-born Neuralgin, be-. cause we know she is going to give ts a headache.

with artificialities whilst there are blazing grim realities signalling for prompt attention. When the ahip is in peril of foundering, it is all hands to the pumps, and to quarrel over either classification of pampers or the kind of pumps to be used would be stark lunacy. An electorate of whom not one per cent. ever reads a Parliamentary report la not likely to be responsive to partizan subtleties.

In fact we have, unless I Ам completely mistaken, now come to a pitch when for the majority of people, the people whose votes will settle future elections, there is but one broad, blunt political issue. And that issue is whether we are to

carry

on under our existing economic and parliamentary system or to try something new instead. Any iner distinction than that, am afraid, is no longer feasible.

In this supreme emergency the victory may very well go to the side which first discovers some lender of adéquato weight of per sonality and power of oratory to sway the popular Imagination..

At over seventy it may be doubt- ful whether Mr. Lloyd George haa either the strength or the time to play the part. But it seems to me that it is from this point of view his sudden return to active political propaganda must be important. The National party has nchloved moderate rather than. any brilliant. Success, as was perhaps inevitable in the existing situation, but the time is at hand when it will andly need a real spell-binder."